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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-04-03, Page 7SMOKES FOR CANADIAN MILITARY PERSONNEL serving with the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle fast $12 sends 400 EXPORT' . CIGARETTES or any otherMacdonald Brand Postage included Mail order and remittance tot OVERSEAS DEPARTMENT MACDONALD TOBACCO INC. P.O. Box 490, Place d'Armes, Montreal, Que. This offer Is subject to any change In Government Regulations. SLEEP TO-NITE SEDICIN tablets taken according tp directions is a safe way to induce sleep or quiet the nerves when tense. SI.Q0 All Dreg Stores or Aclrem Lid., Toronto 5. GREEN IrlitIMIS PERSONAL GARDENING SUPPLIES i'KEHT trees, strawberry plants, a Spara• into, shrubs, roses, hedge plants, shade trees, LOW Mail order prices. Cita• Logue free, Norfolk Nursery, Shricop, . Ontario,: ADULTS Onlyi Free catalogue Hooke, Jokes, Tricks, Hyglente Supplies; Novelty Fun Centre, 290A Parllanierit St., Toronto. Please state age, SWINE TlfE three high rico, in. leg peers. Just teeeivee teem eettancl '.are eiktstand- ing• one bes rrowed web A /Ater' of eleven fine pip. These are .14-,Na the sew that • sobt for $3,400; And her litter mate sold fOr $3.4oe Seetland. We knOW mitiroy new hioott 11fii wili 'be weicenieo canatia, a -limited number of this .new' blood. Will .he offered Or sale. We anus ereve Evveaniingse four and six montlr Old. tiows and boars, serViceable beats end guaranteed in - plk ems, eat gram lime ported, stree. cat#loglig, FERGUS XeeNteR4e4 aWIM eeeese reaerts$ feleTAttio CHILD'S PLAY—By way of proving that it's child's play to handle these new water scooters, unveiled at the Frankfurt, Germany, spring fair, these youngefers stage a race• on the Main River, The scooters, steered by, handlelears, which also contain the gas lever, are designed to travel in circles It the skipper should fall off. MERRY MENAGERIE 'That? Oh, that's a trust fund my granddad left met" , Fortunes in Stamps A postage stamp is not just something to stick on an envel- ope. It often represents, an in- vestment; sometimes a fortune! A man recently left as a pert of his estate ten books of Ameri- can commemorative stamps ac- cumulated over a period of some 30 years — the type of estamps anyone can buy. They were val- ued at $30,000. A "growth" investment, they might be called. Their Value in- creases with, the years. Many who -start stamp collections as e hobby wind up with a good in- vestment. Stamps are big business, not only to the post office, but to collectors,., of whom there are 12,000,000 in the United States. The Post Office Department does a $2,000,000 annual business sup- plying commemorative stamps to collectors, As a matter of. fact, the de- partment has a stamp collection of its own worth many millions of dollars ire a little publicized stamp exhibition room on the first floor. It includes, one set of stamps alone worth $2,000,000! This comprises ten sheets of what are known as the "blue paper" stamps — that is, stamps that were printed on an experi- mental "blue" paper supposed to prevent curling. The experi- If all the carpets manufactured in Canada last year were made into one continuous runner, three feet wide, it twould make a gi- gantic carpet more than 1,000 miles long. Sound Advice To Young Pitchers Mike 11,eta, who appreciatee the advantages oe bone a ball player a little more than the average, since he Pine into the game right out oe.the coal mines around Scranton, Pa,, was down In the right field corner of Al Lang Park, The Cardinals, training in St. Petersburg, have one of those pitching machines and, uee it to brush the boys up On dragging and bunting. Ryba, now a scout for' the Cardinal organization, was back in the St, Louis uni- form he once wore as a player, working with those assigned to the mechanical moundsman. Asked what he looks for in a young pitcher and some of the things he does e to try and Improve a boy, Ryba replied; "Well, I guess it's a little like asking a telegrapher to write out the Morse code. He knows It by instinct, but has trouble putting the alphabet down on paper. 'You can usually tell when • young pitcher has a chance In pro ranks by just watching the way he throws and moves around the mound. Of course, you want to see him throw hard. That's the primary need in a young prospect. But even that Lsret always necessary. "Most kids need changing in their delivery," Mike continued. "Either they stride too far for- ward or not far enough, or are away off balance when they finish up. "The way I have it figured, the eyes, legs and arm all work together. They must be co- ordinated if a pitcher is going to have good control. When you're rolling a bowling ball down the alley you concentrate on the pin you're trying to hit. It's the same in pitching. If you glue your eyes to the catcher's mit or the spot on the catcher that you want to hit, you're going to be a lot closer tlean if you look somewhere else. 'Take notice sometime of a pitcher who walks a lot of bat- ters. The, chances are he takes his eyes off his target while deliverying the ball. "I tell my boys not to throw the ball across the chest. You can't get anything on it that wayeeAnd it hurts your control. I -tell them to let the ball go out in front of them and not up around the ears. But if you keep your eyes on a target, you just naturally let the ball go out in front of you. "Most young pitchers haven't yet found a set pattern," said the man who could either pitch of catch in the big leagues and did. ' They throw one pitch freest up here, another from, out here. When you try to throw a curve ball sidearm, it's flat. There's no snap to it. I tell them to come overhand with both the fast ball arid curve. ,You not only get more on the ball, you control it better. It's the only way to pitch. Pew sidearm pitchers get any- where. "But, of course, you can tell sortie of these boys everything you know and it just goes right on through. It never sticks." Ryba, you're on one of my pet subjects," he said, still looking In shape to stop the hitters with his 34mous screwball. "I've al- ways,• said that a pitcher can win a§ many as five or six more games . a season if he can just bunt a. runner into scoring posi- t= Once in a while. If he can do that, he won't be taken, out • so often for a pinch hitter and* will bo around in the late in- ningeoeshen his team comes from behind to win. But all these kids ;.want to do is swing for home runs. They don't like' to bunt." CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING . Something Will Like It Almost regardless of location, there are some flowers which will grow. For rough spots or slopes .one can Make, 0, rode gar- den and grow the special little plants that are listed in any seed catalogue. As a rule these tiny rock garden plants like shallow and clryish Many of them originally came from mountain slopes. For dark shady corners there are things like begonias, lily of the valley, pansies, and such, that will thrive there. At the opposite end of the scale are porttelaea, poppies, alyssum and so on 'that delight in the hottest sunshine, will, stand drought and are not particular at all whether the soil is rich. There are certain things that must be in a dry location and others that don't mind get- ting their feet wet, There are some- that are exceptionally hardy and bloom after the frost. And, there is, of course, a wide rangeein colour and height and thee of blooming. Any seed catalogue will ,Iist all these preferences and differ- ences and, with such information one can go ahead and fit plants to any location and also create a .garden that will be interesting and full.of bloom from June un- til October. Lawn Needs Attention, Too! Not even a hay field will thrive without some care and for a really good lawn, soft and thick like a piece of broadloom, the same attention must ' be given as with a flower bed or a prize patch of vegetables. Good seed is of " vital impor- tance. Except for special pur- poses such as putting or bowl- .ing greens, mixtures of several fine gresses are used. Some of these grasses come along quick- 'ly, some do best late in the sea- son, some have richer colour and so on. These are blended together to produce uniformity of texture and colour ;thorough- out' the season and for various xegions of Canada. Seeding should be done early, before the hot weaeher, or after it in the fall. Before sowing, Cf course, the ground must be made level and fine. If possible, it is best to cultivate several times at inter- vals of a week or ten days so that any filled in portions of the ground will get a chance to set- tle. This pre-seeding cultivation will also encourage any weeds to sprout and the more of these destroyed before the grass goes in the easier the care afterwards. Grass seed prefers a fine rich, well drained, soil. Sowing is best done on a day without wind and to make sure the seed goes in evenly, experts sow both ways, once up and down and once across. Seed is covered by rak- ing lightly one way only. To keep birds away one may cover with some light brush. In a month to six weeks the new lawn is usually ready for its first mowing. This should be done with a sheep machine which will cut clean and not pull put the tender grass. An annual application of commercial ferti- lizer, rich in nitrogen, will us- ually keep a lawn healthy and able to crowd out most weeds. The rest can be removed with a spudder or by spraying with one of the chemical weed killers applied carefully according to directions, To build and maintain a good lawn requires care but it is more than worth any effort and the moderate expense. Without a centrepiece of fine lawn as fore- ground for shrubbery, flower gardens, trees, and the home it- self, no garden layout, no mate ter how costly, will be a real success. HONOR WRITER __.' In a new series of four stamps, Portugal honors one of the ,immortals of Portuguese 'literature, Joao Bap- tista de Almeida Garrett, who Heed from 1790 to 1854. The one-escudo stamp, shown above, is dark sepia. The others are in violet, green and red.' soared with the years. ,One alone recently sold for $4,000'. A "cen- ter line block" from the original sheet` went for $25,000. A "plate block" of four is valued at $3b,- 000. The "plate block" is com- prised of the four stamps in the corner which carried the serial number of the sheet. Unique but of no special value is the sheet of two-cent stamos in which several are labelled "5 cents." When the or- iginal "2 cents" imprint was found to be imperfect on these ' particular stamps, 'the s2 cents" was chiseled or burned off the plate, and in making the new' impress the, engraver replaced it with a- "5" instead of a "2." 'Thousands of- these sheets were issued to post offices all over the country. Not being a rarity, they have no value to collectors. It is' the - commemorative, or memorial stamps, which attract most collectors today. 'The Phila- telic Division of the. Post Office has 2,600 standing' orders for` new issues. It is easy to under- stand why. The "Graf Zeppelin" air-mail issue of 1930 is of- great ,value' today. A set of three sheets re- cently ,brought $8,000. It generally takes 15 to 20 years for a special issue stamp to, attain high value. Much depends, also on quantity issued. The Alexander Grahpm Bell 10-cent stamp series, of 1940, for instance;', would yield $1,400 on a $100 in- vestment. Some 12 to 15' special issues are printed each year. When a new stamp series is issued, it is placed on sale first in a selected •city. leer one day it available only in that place. This is of great interest to cellectOrs who make e specialty of collecting "first-day covers" — that is, com- memorative envelopes on which the stamp appears with the post- mark of the city of issue. These envelopes are printed by commercial dealers. Collec- 'tors. send the$e"to the postmaster there with remittance covering postage for return mailing on the first day of sale. The depart- ment has between 300,000 and 400.000' requests of this kind. A,, collection Of "first-day eov- ere is: among the fabulous dia.- play.,in the department's e)thi- bition tootle Also to be seen is the fanieus Columbian EXposie tion issue, of 1893, containing the only $1, $2, $3, $4, and $5,stanes Ever issued in the Wise' series. Today Only' $1 and $5 stamps are printed in these high de- lidertinatidne, Before the'days of postage stamps, money for •postage was ,collected and the amount starrip- ed or written on the envelope. It eva§- hot until July 1, 1847, that adhesive postage stamps Weed available. Prepaid poetage in the form Of starrips was riot made obligatory until 1856. To- day the Post- Office Departfrient issues more than 1.,000,000,000 stamps yearly, at a face' value Of abOut $800,000,000. -Not only does it sell stein/AS but also a "bestseller" Booklet• called "Postage Stamps of the United StateSi"' at 75 cents —ti veritable riaecleclier' for the eo1=', teeter, Hy letiSePliirie Ripley hi The Christian Science ter: merit was not considered a suc- cess, however, and was prompt- ly discontinued. The Post Office Department has, the only collec- tion of full sheets in ,existence. Of the most fabulous rarity in United States stamps, the de, partment has not one- — only a few dye proofs for, exhibition purposes. That is the historic 24scent air-mail stamp of 1908, It pictured an airplane — up- side. down! - • The mistake was not diScov- ered" until the' first sheet, of 100 was issued. This original and only sheet was ,pu-rchased by a Washington man for $24 — its face value. He promptly sold it to a stamp dealer for $15,000. 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