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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-10-02, Page 7IFAIIM FRONT worry lest a shift in wind cur- rents would even bring this pest to Europe's southern Mediter- ranean littoral. C' • * The full extent of the locust plague can be seen from the fact that, two years ago, when an infestation occurred which was regarded then as the worst in history, the cost of combating its spread was $1,000,000 and took 1,700 tons of HCH powder. Thus far, the cost has been $2,000,000 and it has taken 3,500 tons. According to Mustapha, Filali, Tunisia's young Minister of Agriculture, the red locusts have destroyed 50,000 •date, olive and almond trees and wiped out 40 per cent of the date harvest, writes Arnold Beichman in The Christian Science Monitor. * * To get an idea of what billions and billions of locusts means, it was recalled that during a minor plague last year, locust-eating inhabitants of a village in south- ern Tunisia sacked and dried three thousand tons, estimated to be 740,000,000 insects.' And this in one small area alone. * * Mr. Filali blames the war in „ Algeria for the locust plague which has threatened a country where every bit of food counts. Locust control is a year-round job and control measures can never be eased for a moment. But the struggle in neighboring Algeria between the French and Algerians has made it impos- sible to wipe out the locusts in their breeding stages. * 0 The Tunisian Government is undertaking the development of an antilocust research center at" Sidi Buzid where it already runs an entomological laboratory and agricultural schools. 4, 4, 4, In the meantime, throughout the western and southwestern regions of Tunisia bordering on Algeria, a round-the-clock war against insects goes on. From Le TCef south through Thala Gafsa to Tozeur and Sbeitla and Tebessa, Piper Cub planes with spray equipment and land spray equipment on trucks are coating the land with powdery insecti- cide. For weeks it seemed as if nothing could stop the invasion from Algeria as billions and bil- lions of the insects kept flying in, driven by a wind from the west. But there is, hope now that the pest will be eliminated be- fore the wheat and other crops turn green, since locusts eat and kill only what is green, A young man had just got hack from Hollywood, lie had been dazzled by the' film colony'. "Everything is done on a tre- inendous scale," he enthused to his friends. "I attended dinner at a producer's home one eve- ning and, instead of using lin- ger bowls at the end of the meal, all the guests took shower baths!" Upsidedown to Prevent Peek tig 0@mue UMW= MUM= WU HUM [JUNO OW MOUE EMU MUM MUUU WU ©0 1x10 OMEMMUM UU W OOU OUOU M OU g U HUM00 PUO0 MOD MOD MUM UW UU00 [AMU OWM GOMM WOOWIDU [MEMO MaalUO S §):3317is Lie FAIRY TALE—This is a ',lived happily ever after" story from. Nice, France. The deg was separ- ated from her pups at birth. The kitten apparently was abandoned by its mother, So their common woe was enough to make them forget the traditional-cat-dog hatred. Looks like "all's well that ends well. , Some People should never :urn to crime, for they are just ,naturally jinxed from the start —would *be crooks, like the one who recently broke into the aorne of a wealthy Johannesburg fold-mining magnate. The burglar had cased the louse Carefully and had assured himself that this was really a push,overr, He even welt .so far Rs to spend a shilling on a piece of raw meat for the dog.. Then while he was busy in the drawing-room, a budgerigar began to chatter furiously from under the black cloth covering Its cage. He ignored the budgie and continued his effertS to open the small wall safe which he be- lieved contained plenty of cash Ind jewels, He was still hard at it When the light in the room was snap- ped on and the householder stood there, in dressing-gown snd holding a revolver. In prison to-day, the burglar Is doubtless ruminating over the budgie. For it was the little bird's chattering unusal in the middle of the night — that brought the householder down to find out what had disturbed his pet. Robert C. Elkin, an elederly New Yorker, parked his new car in busy Fulton Street in Brooklyn while he hurried into a bank, Two men who were loi- tering near by moved casually over to the car and glanced in. Elkin had left the keys! While one stood by and then climbed casually in behind the steering whel, the other slipped into a restaurant, held it up, grabbed what cash he could and made a dash for the car. To all intents and purposes the theft of the car and the hold-up was like taking money from a blind man's hat, But as the busy thieves sped from the scene, the car lurched drunken- ly in a wild curve. As the driver tried to brake he became more and more confused, and he final- ly piled up against a lamp standard where obliging police assisted the two dazed thieves out. Mr. Elkins arrived minutes later to stare disconsolately at his battered new car. "I couldn't see where I was going!" the bandit moaned. "I'm not surprised," retorted the short-sighted car owner, "My windscreen's made of spe- cial glass, ground to my own prescription so that I don't need spectacles when I drive!" In Paris police quickly found the man who had broken into a 1-Luse and stolen some articles. had dropped his prison o dis- PUZZLE 7, Poles 1 3, Equilateral roc tan 13, Center t,t a 'wheel. 16, Low voice 18, Dry 12. Chin, Measure 20 More coal- potent 21, Tear s Pa rt 22. Oral or war 24. Mut Satarth (comb.. .form) 27. Forgive 211 More rtgorottS az. 31, SW 35 Became , exhausted 11-8-, Plower of forgetf nlneSs. 41, Thigh rellviqty 42. Part of a plant 44, (iambi log gains 45. Levee 48. Comb ,yob' 60. NOtc of the settle. IL Sour 52, Co, in. State • 63. flail' 64, Iteruata tong 66.111 will 63, rhargerit 42. 1 i Pi tted , DOWN 1. Squared steno charge form on the the floor while burgling the place! In Sydney, police were just as quickly on the trail of a petty thief who broke into a house and stole two watches, The nest morning he walked into a pawn- shop and tried to "pop"' them. He was arrested on the spot. The pawnbroker owned the house which was burgled, The watches were his and his wife's! Bad luck? Don't talk to, one forger about it. In 1935 he forged a cheque in New York and walked into a bank with it only to be arrested right there, for by one of those freak chances the man whose signa- ture he had forged was stand- ing right behind him as he pre- sented the cheque! He got two years and was deported to his native England, Here he cashed three dud cheques and a few days later walked into a shop to cash the third. Talking to the shopkeeper at that moment was one of 'the men who had pashed one of the other duds for him, Fpr that he got twelve months. Out of prison again, he de- cided to give Canada a try and to get his fare swindled a num- ber of dealers in Sussex and Kent. He slipped off to South- ampton and obtained • work as a ship's steward. On the day when the ship was due to sail he went up on deck for one last look at Blighty — and found himself staring into the face of one of the shopkeepers who had cash- ed one of his bad cheques for him, He got three years this time. What happened to him during the war is not known, but in 1947 in Cape Town he once again appeared before a judge, this time on a cat burglary charge, At his trial even the judge had to smile at the manner in which the little man was caught. Then he slapped him into prison for four years. He had broken into a rich home and was helping himself quite liberally when he began to make his exit and tripped over something, which kicked up such a row that the house- holder came charging down fir- ing a shotgun. The housebreaker decided to give himself up ra- ther than face another blast from the gun. What had trapped him with its squawking? A black cat dozing near the door. A polythene bag over the head gives good protection when put- ting on a dress. The bag pre- vents lipstick and poWder from , marking the dress. Across the vast alkaline flats of the Chott el Djerld, from the strange underground dwellings .near Foum. Tatahouine, Erg, and from the date groves of Homer's Land of the. Lotus-Eaters the men and. women of Tunisia have watched gigantic black clouds come whirring and crackling out of the Algerian desert to the west. And today this newly inde- pendent land is fighting one of the bitterest battles in its near- ly 30 centuries of recorded his- tory, C This struggle whose outcome will determine the food supply for several million individuals, is against a rose-hued insect only three inches long. For,-de- spite its size, this insect—the red locust—is one of the most_ voracious eaters of which we have knowledge. And so severe is this afl-d slaught that six countries, sev- eral of Whom are in bitter politi- cal opposition to each other, have temporarily suspended their disagreements to prevent a widespread natural disaster. • • • Locusts first made their ap- pearance in Tunisia this year, several weeks ago whet, by the uncountable billions, they were borne in vast clouds to this land by hot winds from the west and at once began devouring every- thing in sight. Trees, plants, grains, shrubs — even the un- appetizing cactus — were strip- ped or even consumed before the eyes of farmers and vil- lagers. * Since locusts know nothing about national boundaries and fly where the wind takes them, there was every probability that Libya and Morocco would soon be drowned in a sea of locusts,. Entomologists here began to Dave Garroway Extolled Merits Ontario Fruits Dave Garroway's morning T.V. show "To-day" emanating from the fountain at the Cana- dian National Exhibition on Thursday, September 5th, ,did not miss showing Ontario grown fruits and vegetables and sing- ing their praises to some 16,000,- 000 viewers, The Fruit Branch, Ontario De- partment of Agriculture, realiz- ing the potential impact of such a program, quickly agreed to set up two floats, one of fruit and one of vegetables, when given the opportunity by Sack Perdue, Agricultural Manager of the C.N.E. Ken Hunter, Lew Howe, and • George Benson of the Fruit Branch *worked through the night to have the displays on wheels and ready for the show- ing, Doug Williams, Associate Director of the Branch, visited the early morning show, gained the ear of lovely Helen O'Con- nell, to-star of "To-day", and Made a few suggestions as to the dialogue which Might be used in connection with the produce. As a result, Miss O'Connell and the Calla] Dave Garraway? eath eatingNiagara groWn plans andenjoying them, stead iii front of the attractively an, ranged fruits and vegetables and for two Minutes /Mincing of Americans frdin coast to toast were able to appreciate that Oil- tario can grow feints kid v'ege, tables secetid to nen& Heating Houses Without Fuel How would you like to heat your house without fuel? And without chimneys, flues, and various other bulky equipment? The electric heat pump will do it, or at least it is doing it for thousands of families through- out the United States. Heat pump installations in that country have reached a. total of approximately 10,000, But this year, heat pump sales are ex- pected to more than equal the figure for all previous years. And by the end of 1959, the in- dustry anticipates a minimum of 100,000 heat pumps in operation. But what is a heat pump? Es- sentially, it's a device for ex- tracting heat from one place and discharging it into another. It doesn't care where it gets the heat. But the pump has the amazing faculty of pulling heat out of the soil, out of water, and even out of the air when the thermometer registers zero, Heat is everywhere. If it weren't, water would freeze solid from top to bottom. And in winter, there is plenty of heat in the outside air. Heat also lies deep in the ground. From these sources of "free" heat, the elec- tric heat pump gets its fuel and pulls it into the house. The heat pump could be termed a conventional air con- ditioner with a built-ill prree.gz., runt :for reversing the direction of the flow of heat, So that the machine serves at different times as an air cooler and air heater. The major cost of the heat pump, of ceurses is the price of electricity, Which in some lo- calities is higher • than other types of heating. But major economies lie in the savings in construction and home equipment costs, as well as in maintenance — which is negligible with heat pumps. A heat pump system is op- erated entirely as electricity and 'contains exactly the same equipment you would mnid in your home refrigerator—a mo- tor, compressor, evaporator, and condenser. Just as this equip- ment removes heat from 'your refrigerator, a heat pump re- moves heat frOrn.water, soil, or air and brings this heat into the home or commercial building writes W. Clifford Harvey in The Christian Science Monitor. In the summer, the heat pump takes the heat froLn inside the building and discharges it out- side. And in the winter a heat pump system turns itself around and takes heat from outside the space and discharges it into the room to be warmed. Heat pumps UNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. IL, BOrclay Worrell B,D. Raul Writes to the Verinthiams 1, Corinthians 1;14, 1045, 31,-35, Memory $elleetiont S. deter- mined not, to know any thing among- you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified- I Corin., thians 3:3, During this quarter we shall study three of Paul's letters; 1 Corinthians, Philippians a n d Philemon, An article in. the Saturday Re- are about the same size as the standard warm air furnace. They operate all year long, au- tomatically. The principle of the heat pump was first announced more than 100 years ago, but until 25 years ago, the heat pump re- rnatned essentially of laboratory interest, Today, there are 15 firms in the U.S.A. making units for use in homes and small com- mercial buildings. The least ex- pensive is about $1,000. While the initial cost of the heat pump is somewhat greater than that of a standard heating unit, it compares 'favorably with a /year-round, heating-air con- ditioning system, in addition to permitting several important cost-saving building techniques. Heat pumps use no combus- tible materials and thus elim- inate the need for chimneys, flues, and fuel lines. Screens are not needed, for homes condi- tioned by the heat pump need never have their windows opened. Heat pumps generally require less floor space than conven- tional heating-cooling systems. Some models can be installed in "unused" areas such as in attics, crawl spaces, in the bottom of a closet, or suspended from the basement ceiling. Many regulations which exist with flame-type heating and cooling units are eliminated with the heat pump. view entitled! "What4Malces Genius?" lists Paul among thg thirty-three persons from all history whom the writer Cotta sidered to be qualified to hgf termed geniuses'. Tlrilliant intellect, skilled in logic, trainsll in all the subtleties of lien* tradition, endowed with, maste1 4 ly powers Of oratory and rhetP orle, capable of exnerienc ••••ini heart-bursting emotion ••! this Saul possessed even Worst the light of heaven blinded him on the Damascus road, There. after, to his human endowments came the empowerment of Om One who had singled him Out Mr a chosen vessel to bear his nani$ before the Gentiles and kingli and the Children of Israel, We shall profit from studying MS inspired writings, In Paul's first letters to this Corinthians he deals delieetelY but forcefully with some Inv, wholesome existing conditiena. There was a divisive spirit 14 the church. Some said, "I an!l of Paul"; others, "I of Apollos"f others, "I of Cephas"; and stilt ,others "I of Christ." Paul asked, "Is. Christ divided?" There are things to be said Tor and against the divisions In, Christendom, A study of churcli history reveals that individuals{ and groups have been expelled from churches because they con- tended for some sacred truth„ Refusing to compromise they had no alternative but to organ- ize a new body. That clod has blessed those who have thus done forth has been illustrated o'er and o'er. Jesus and Paul were both cast out of the places of worship by the religionists of their day. On the other hand some divi- sions have stemmed from pride and stubbornness rather than from a holy desire to preserve the truth of the Gospel. Heresy, too, always finds a following. When division results for any of these reasons the devil its gleeful, Christ is not divided. If we are to be Christian we must love our fellown#.. We may dis- agree with 'their doctrine but •we must manifest the Spirit et Christ. 'If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." Romans 8:9. Black Cat Trips •Cat Burglar. • . TOURISTS INKED CHINA ".22:1:ouring American youths get a first- hand look at 'some aritiquatg'd farm methods and implements during a visit to a collective farm near Peiping, China. Coolie in foreground is -carrying his produce in baskets suspended from a pole carried over the shoulder. — 3. Tellurium 33. Epistles CROSSWORD 9. TialtiV 35. Parts worked with the feet seaweed 26, Bring to light 10. Shoot 37. Game animal It. Margin 39. Unfasten 12. Moro unhappy 40. Flew high 17. Social affairs 93. Cripples ACROSS" 2. Knight's 20. To one side. 1, Wandering attendant 23 Send out 2, Wash v;eSsel 211:7,1eiced 23. Rocky 4, Sun god pinnacles 6. Asiatic native ;in, Ca ll f or th 4. Shouts 31. Nerve 7. Not so 100g network 96. Cattle 47. Brink 411 Location 33. Large receptacle 06 Short for a hi an's 111,171 e 67. Beholt ti 15 •:',$ 1•.',.\,',. i 0 ‘ 10 17 ,t...: , le 19 ;,,,. .i,.....,....i. 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