HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-03-05, Page 3PRICELESS GIFT - Richard Bello, 13, gazes at Mrs. Eisenhower
in the White House through donated eyes. Richard's lost vision
was regained through the work of National Eye-Bank for Sight
Restoration,
well before starting his mom,
big's round of chores at the .harm,
1-10,, and his cows tlrinic..frqm tho•
liquid purity ofthe elopes, Thg.)T
share the nectar of the throh,,
bing
When winter streams,. on the.
surface of the siepes,. are sealed
in Joe and snow, the vein that
throbs and trickles deep within
the ground, below the .frostiine
and the freeze, pours on, And On,
The song must be soft and Al*,
On a zero morning of biting
winds, one sort .ef wishes lie
could .cup his ears to listen to
the gentle And muffled song of ,a.
stream, pouring softly •under,
ground, in the warmth of soil
and stone. • .
It is little wonder that one
cherishes so deeply . the well-
worn handle of the barnyard
pump. It is little wonder that it
seems so vital a part of living
in the country, It yields a liquid
song, a splashing rhythn'lic mel-
ody drawn from the flowing
chords of the seasons and the
slopes. Fed by springs, and by
the thaws and singing rains, a
lot of songs must have poured
into the hills, like the gurgling
of water flowing gently over
.stones, • bubbling through the
throbbing veins of the land, flow-
log through the coolness of an
endless shade, deep within the
ground, and fresh as a wood-
land spring that yields its cooling
moisture to the roots of ferns.
Monkey Tricks
A murderous monkey in Accra,
West Africa, attacked a •laborer,
and injured him so severely that
he died. The police arrested the
monkey and jailed him.
Something similar happened
'in Bogota, Colombia, when at
monkey bit his owner not long
ago. The owner thirsted for
Jacko's blood, but a local animal
protection society intervened and
brought the culprit before the
magistrates. •
It was pleaded on his behalf
that he had never bitten any-
one before so he got• off lightly
with a sentence of six months.
A cynic knows the price of
everything and the value of
nothing.
Twelve Dollar
Gamble Paid Off
Things were e little dull at
Miami's Fire Station No, g last
December, and two of the boys-
Joe Farrell and Jim Conway by
name- whiled away the time
writing a song on a beat-up ste-,
tion-house piano. They called it
"Tomboy," Painted the Words
and music on a 3-by 5-foot sheet
of plywood, And talked the post
office into accepting it as a post-
card, Off it went to Perry Como
in New York City - a $12 in-
vestment, including the cost of
postage.
Then the impossible happen
ed. The stunt of the giant post.
card appealed to Como, and he
featured "Tomboy" on his Jan.
10 TV show. Response was so
terrific that he recorded the song
for RCA Victor and sang it again
on television. Last month, the
brash and bouncy "Tomboy" -
sung against a background of the
prevailing cha-cha beat, inci-
dentally - was well on its way
to bec'oming a hit. Disk jockeys
were giving the one-week-old
recording a big ride, and RCA
cheerfully predicted it would
provide another million-selling
record for Como. For his part,
the quiet man had only one
worry. "I just hope," Como said
warily, "that this won't start an
avalanche of plywood."
PAUL BUNYAN - Giant's foot-
prints on grounds of the Grosse
Isle Air Station are each 15
feet long and 6 feet wide. It
would have taken a man 90
feet tall to make the prints. In-
stead three normal-size Marines
made tracks to a coffee shop
for a break in snow-shoveling
detail.
Devilish Weed
Halts Steamers
War to the death is being
waged on the beautilul strangler
-the fast-growing plant with
blue-purple flowers, known to
botanists as the Devil's Weed or
water hyacinth,
It has been spreading so rap-
idly recently that it has choked
rivers in the Belgian Congo,
Florida and in its native Brazil
where its gorgeous floating
blooms have for centuries pro-
vided a riot of colour on the
waters of the Amazon.
Now comes news from the
Sudan that water hyacinths are
forming dense and heavy mats
at such speed in the upper
reaches of the Nile that some
entrances of the irrigation canals
of the Gezira cotton scheme,
the Sudan's principal source of
Wealth, have been completely
blocked.
Water hyacinths have long
been a dreaded menace to hun-
dreds of thousands of people
A dozen of these exotic plants
have been known to increase
less than a year to More than
half a million, forming an acre
of solid, suffocating vegetation.
Flame - throwers have been
used against these lovely flew-
ete, often withent much suedes's.
They Make a great blaze of
color`wherever they flotitish o.
but are now such a menace that
they must be dealt with nth,-
lessly,
Attempts have also been made
to control therri with a hormone
derivative of ascetic and eat.
bolic deidS.
Old residents along the banks
of St. John's River, 'Florida, re,
call. the year 1800 when water
hyacinths infested the elver for
a distance of 20(i miles. The
tiltOing choked the. river so ef-
fectively that steamers were
blocked Specially pow arf ul
tugs had 'to be sent to tow the
steamer! . 010o-
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Winter's land was created re-
cently when foliage in the yard
of the H. P. Collins Jr. family
was deliberately sprayed with
Water during a cold snap.
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BIG BOYS' BUILDING BLOCKS Covered 91h0 about 1822, arches once a useful part of the
Washington Capitol Ore revealed during extenslaii of the east froth of the building. They had
been bidden by et stair well. Edell block of Marie has been nUrfiloereer tiecOrding to 0' intiSter
plan, Artitei May be set up.elsewhere some time, perhaps as a historical monument,
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LESSON ,
By Rev. It. Barclay Warzen,
!fops Faces the Cress
• Marx. .14;33-43.
Memory Selection, Net what X
wino but what thou, wttL, -Mark
14:30,
Creepers Helped
On Icy Roads
We've had a cote* of good
lee storms this winter, after
several seasons without. bade
me think pf the old "creepers",
,and perhaps e few words won't
be too many, The ereeter was
a device you strapped around
your instep, to help make you
sure-footed on glare ice, and
they were common enough so
almost everybody wore them
when needed.
I suppose it would be hard to
buy a pair today. They were in
vogue before the days of salt
and sand, and in a time when
sleighs and sleds needed smooth
going. The blacksmith would
sharpen the calks on horseshoes
so an animal could go as well
as in summer, Indeed, harness
racing on ponds and rivers was
common, and is far from extinct
even now in 'some sections, On
ice that is almost too slippery
for a man to stand on, horses
with sharp points on their shoes
,can skim along faster than en
dirt. The creeper was eupposea
to give a man, something of the
same security.
The ice storm is a peculiar
thing, in that it rides the ther-
mometer somewhere around 28
degrees. At that temperature,
we'll get an old he snowstorm
at times, and at other times we'll
get a rain that freezes when it
'hits. ,Otir proximity to the coast,
and our own weather belt, per-
-haps give us ice storms mole
often than .not at that tempera-
ture. I suppose the dominant
-thing is the air upstairs
A really bad ice storm cripples
us, breaking trees across power
lines, and doing all manner of
damage to farm buildings. But
even though they are fairly fre-
quent in our winters, an ice
storm always seems to have a
-faculty for sneaking up on you,
and you find yourself flat off the
steps and astonished. ,
Many times, now mostly in
the past, I have stepped blithely
from the kitchen door, bound
on a bleak winter morning just
prior to daylight to feed a calf
in the barn, and hit the frozen
dooryard some 30 feet from the
house. I'm sure,many have shar-
ed this glad surprise in • other
dooryards. The night before I
had come in and the snow creak-
ed under my boots and all was
Mt FARM FRONT
Jo69usseil
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Travellers to Palestine visit
the. Garden of Gethsemane, 71t is
just three-quarters of a mile from
the wall of Jerusalem and. is
situated near the foot of the
western slope of the Mount of
Olives, It was to this beautiful
garden that Jesus went with the
eleven disciples after they had
Partaken of The Last Supper.
After entering the garden he left
the eight disciples at one point
and took the favorite three, Peter,
James and John, farther into the
garden, Then he asked them to
'watch and pray while he went
a little farther,
None of use can know the
agony of Jesus in that time of
prayer alone.
"It was alone the Saviour
prayed
In dark Gethsemane;
Alone He drained the bitter
cup
And suffered there for me."
Jesus knew that he would be
crucified the next morning. But
it was not the abuse and torture
of the hours that lay ahead that
troubled him most, It was the cup
of sorrow pf that very hour th&
brought Him near to death. Os
Him our sins were laid. He wet
to make the complete and perfect
atonement. No wonder there wan
a shrinking from this cup.
"There was no other good
enough
To pay the• price of sin;
He only could unlock the
gate
Of heaven, and let us in."
There was disappointment, too
The three disciples, instead of
watching and praying, fell asleep
How they must have mourned it
later! They failed Him when H4
needed them most. •It is Luke the
physician who records of that
hour in the Garden, "And being
in an ' agony he prayed more
earnestly; and his sweat was it
were great drops of blood falling
down to the ground." This des-
cription indicates something of
the intensity of His suffering.
Since Jesus loves us so, we
ought to forsake our sins and love
Him.
The fur coat season is begin-
ning when a wife reminds her
husband that he spent $100 fur
fishing gear early in 'the summer.
ISSUE 10 - 1959
Upsidedown to ;Prevent. Peeking,
is partly due to the development
of by - products. Edgings, trims,
and waste • are now made into
chips for the pulp mills or
ground up into fibrous or flaked
material for use in hardboard,
pressed board, or other patented
wall boards. These various
boards are sold under some 200
trade names, but all 'of them
are basically the same, a sheet
formed under compression with
a binder to 'hold the. material
together. * *
In many industries it is con-
sidered cheaper to transport raw
material to the market for fabri-
cation or processing, because
freight rates are higher on the
finished product. Logs, however,
have to be trucked in some cases
as far as 50 miles over special
roads built by the users of the
timber, with grades, as high as
30 per cent. This is obviously a
costly operation.
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J. a 0 7 O 0 V a Freshness From
The Old Farm Pump
Few .of the old farm's imple-
ments can be more endearing, or
more conducive to contemplation
and reflection, than the barnyard
pump, a pulsing link that draws
a liquid nourishment from the
throbbing veins of the earth, to
bring to the surface a silvered
stream that had found its way
through gravel and soil, and
through the seams between the
great pressing layers of stone
deep within the ground. One
never pumps water from the well
without giving thought to the
precious endless flow that has
gurgled its way thorugh the earth
for far more generations than
those of a century's farm inhabit-
ants.
Watching the Holsteins and
Guernseys nudge their way up
to the watering trough on a
winter's morning, one tries to
contemplate the generations of
cows that have found thirst-
quenching delight in the bub-
bling and sparking flow. A man
knows how satisfying and good
the water is. He had,tasted that
same delight minutes before
when he took into the house a
pail of water from the dooryard
well. But an ice storm had filled
the night.
I would like to speak about
calf mash. It is composed of
warm skimmed milk, into whion
a lacing of special grow-quick
meal has been stirred, and it is
a most friendly solution, It sitoc,
eth closer than a brother. It has
a penetrating power so it will
go through whistle-britches and
red flannel ' underwear instan-
taneously, and it has a rich, tasty
complexion as it embraces Your
thigh and runs down inside your
hi-cut boots,
When you skid on an icy door-
step and the pail shoots into the,
darkness, it has an unerring ca-
pacity for 'finding you out there
in the lonesome dawn, and it
comes down to snuggle close and
comfort you. You can hear the
calf in the barn blatting like a
tugboat afire, and you are late
for school, and there is calf mash
in your ears, and nothing to grab
holt of and get up.
So you crawl on all fours back
to the house, take off your
clothes, bathe off the sticky goo,
and ready another pail, You also
tie on your creepers, and after
that everything is all Tight. This
last storm, a sedate and upright
neighbor lady backed her auto-
mobile out of the barn, and slid
neatly down the driveway and
into the pines across the high-
way. She didn't know it was icy.
She couldn't crawl up her own
driveway, so she crawled down
the road to the next house. What
she needed most was creepers.
But creepers require some
skill in their use. You need to
believe in them, first. You -need
confidence. They come up under
your foot so they give you a
teetery feeling, and there is a
tendency to mistrust them. You
overcompensate at first. This is
almost as bad as not having any,
and you can take an old h'ister
of a dump if you aren't careful,
coming down all askew and oPI-
center.
I saw a chain reaction once on
this account. One of our busi-
oiessmen put on some creepers
end started to cross the street,
but balanced himself too fat
astern. He clawed at the air
a while, but went down, and
then several other businessmen
tried to help him up. They all
went down. They sat there in
the street a time, and then
crawled on hands and knees
back to the barber shop, where•
they got holt of the pipes of the
awning and drew themselves up.
They stood there quite a time,
all holding the awning.
Their trouble had been lack
of confidence. They should have
believed. So they discussed it,
and having convinced them-
selves they all suddenly let go
and walked off in different di-
rections as certain and safe as
you please. One little tinge of
doubt and you're down.
The other day I asked about
the house if anybody knew
where the old creepers had gone.
We've got some, somewhere.
Little diamond - shaped steel
pieces with straps, and four
corners bent down. They're on
'a shelf in the barn, probably,
or in a box under something.
I wouldn't know. They're an-
tiques, not needed much in our
sanded, salted, and enlightened
age. Ice storms bring out the
.highway trucks, and if you wait
a few minutes you can drive
with snow-treads,
I remember taking that second
pail of mash out, and then going
to school with a note that said
"Please excuse John, he had
extra barn work," The ice storm
often kept half the teachers and
most of the pupils at home, but
I'd come running in with my
note, eager to embrace the day's
assignments, often with a tell-
tale touch of calf meal on the
sides of my boots.
-by John Gould in
The Christian Science Monitor.
Simple Celia thinks a natural-
ist is a guy who rolls nothing
but sevens.
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Logging today in the U.S. West
is a decision-making job.. Not
just whether to cut the tree
down. What to do with it after-
ward is the question.
Should the whole log go to a
sawmill, to be made into lumber,
or cut into 81/2 -foot lengths,
from which sheets of veneer can
be "peeled" off and made into
.plYwood? Or can a few "peeler
blocks", be cut off for plywood
and the rest used for lumber?
• • •
Plywood sells for about four
times the price of lumber. This
is roughly true, although the fact
is not immediately apparent
from any price list, 'as lumber is
measured in terms of board feet
and plyviood in surface feet of a
given thickness.
Also, material constitutes about
40 per cent of' the cost of manu-
facturing plywood. Consequently
the decisions in the woods can
easily mean the, difference be-
tween prosperity and penalty
for the user of the timber.
If you take a typical Douglas
fir tree 120 feet in height, the
first 251/2 feet might make three
good peeler blocks suitable for
plywood. The balance- would be
two 32-foot logs suitable for the
sawmill.
• Blocks must be 81/2 feet long,
or multiples of that figure, be-
cause the normal plywood lathe
peels off a ribbon of veneer eight
feet wide, to be made into the
common 4-feet-by-8-feet sheets
of plywood. The extra six inches
allows for trimming during the
process. „ *
For lumber, however, logs
should be from 20 feet to 32 feet
in length, in order to get more
economical and profitable use of
the wood. But with demand for
plywood becoming greater, the,
temptation is to cut more low-
grade logs primarily for that
purpose, and the result is likely
to be that the rest of the log
will be too short for economical
use by the sawmill.
As mills cut deeper into the
forests, quality of the trees di-
minishes, and lower-grade lum-
ber is required. Consequently
there has developed a sort of
competition between sawmills
and plywood plants, to see which
parts of the tree can be most
profitably used for each purpose.
* *
The consulting firm of Pro-
duction Management Engineering
Associates, Inc., has worked
extensively in this field to de-
velop practical controls as an aid
to better log utilization, They
have collaborated with the
United States Forest Service in
producing such reports as the
latter's Research Paper No, 23,
"Veneer Recovery from Douglas
Fir Logs," published in 1957, S *
In earlier yeare it was as-
alined that labor waS they main
item of cost in lumber and ply-
wood production. Consequently,
it was difficult: for mills to ac-
cept the concept that in some
cases adding more employees for
the purpOse . of gaining greater
recovery of materials Wand pay
off. Plant tests of logs, however,
disclosed the importance Of con,
trolling the use of the wood.
Research to determine how to
get the greatest amount of usable
wood but of a log 10 the mill it,
self it hot hew, For many years,
everyone his 'kept close watch
on the recovery of usable mater-
ial, from the little "pecker-wood"'
niills to tike biggest esteblish-
Mettle. *,
In the last 10 years, recovery
has increased from about 5b per
tent th :115 bee tone nt better. nit Answer else*hr