HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-04-02, Page 3Winter Hoseiirie
f3eeet-iSe, the telephone beg
rang the other morning while he
was haying breakfast, my long-
time friend, Eugene T, Wakely,
answered it, Tie thought it was
going to be another oil Gusto-
timer, because Gene is in the fuel
business: but it wasn't. I was
calling him,
"Nice cold morning," I said,
to which he agreed with the
glee that goes with being a fuel
dealer on, a cold morning, It
was, indeed, 22 degrees below'
zero, Or .64 degrees of frost, and
the sort of seeming on which
'Gene oils his cash register be-
lore he tackles his eggs. This
has been a wonderful winter
for Gene, and he has not been
seen without a smile since some-
time in September when it was
'quite warm.
"It's a beautiful day!" he said.
I said, "Have you got a gar-
den hose?"
"Sure," he said. •
I said, "Are you planning to
use it today?"
A considerable pause ensued,
during which Gene digested the
oddity of this query, and prob-
ably measured my 'sanity down
to the last quarter inch. Unlike
'Gene, he didn't come up with
anything memorable, but simply
,said, "No."
"Can I borry it?" I asked.
After another pause he said I
might, •
"Good!" I said. "I'll be right
.down to get it,"
I didn't hang up at once, for
I could sense that Gene was
meditating, and probably would
like to say more as soon as he
'coul'd figure out what he would
say.
"What aresyou going to wa-
ter?", he asked.
"My wife," I :said. •
So this has been my project,
arid of course Gene came around
afterward to fill himself in on
the details. The continued cold,
with little snow cover, has ele-
vated Gene into the Morgan and
;AWING A619 - Talk 1about
housing shortage, Even these.
raccoons al the Swope Park
Coo are hard putf to find a s:pot
for thir itifternon' Siesta. Sort
, 1f":c free rifuniP' ''dp&ctrnent''
;Ifotise, '7 • 7
QUICK WAY TO PLANT A FOREST - Loblolly pine seed is loaded
in hopper of a specially equipped helicopter, prior to a large-
scale forestry direct-seeding project. One 'copter seeded almost
6,000 acres in three days' work with the aid of a ground crew
to murk out 90-foot swaths coyered by distributor shown be-
neath helicopter's framework. Because the 'copter could land
anywhere a supply truck could go, turn-around for fuel and
seed was reduced to a minimum. The protect is billed as the
world's biggest direct-seeding operation.
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SPARE TO SPARE -This 'Continental spare tire' Is really a mobile billboard or a farm tire
dealers He rigged if op to The rear of his'pickup trucks In the cab thes'e's d spare that fits.
Vanderbilt elasS, but it ;-,it
the frost deep into the gratula
until my waterline froze 414
lapsed Into deSuetAlde. Peep nn-
der the ground it congealed arid
lay still, The pump, one morn,
ing, was churning without a
gurgle, and the sink tap said,
"Ahl"
Out here, I am my on water
commissioner, with fun author-
ity, I knew just what to do. I
went below, closed valve A anti
opened valve B, This threw our
system off the spring line arid
onto the well line, and I was
glad for two sources. The pump
pinked up, and we had water
again. We bathed and laved, and
the frozen springline froze sense.
more,
But a well and a spring are
two different things, and whild'
the spring bubbles on with mole
water than we can use, the well
has a limited feed, and after
about a week the pump begae
to swish-swish again when it
should knock-knock, and my
pink, apron informed me, "We're
dry again!" We were, and in
trouble,
So I called An Ivan Walling-
ford, who has a 200-amp, arc ,
welding machine in the back of
his truck, and he came and
hooked cables to each end Of my
frozen pipe and surged his AC
with the idea of thawing it out.
put he gave up,after two days
and said if June and July didn't
come*off hot, to let him know.
"I don't see," said my pink
apron, ". . . why you don't run
-a ,hese out to the spring and
hook it on the pump!"
It wasn't quite that easy, but
:the idea was sound. I broke the
intake line, screwed on an ordi-
nary faticet, and attached the
end of my garden hose. All I
needed now ,was 350 feet more
garden -hose o complete the dis-
tance to the hillside spring. I
hope somebody smiles a bit at
the neighborhood thoughts and
inquiries that prevailed when I
went out to borrow 350 feet of
garden hose on a -22 morning.
It is also possible my answers
would make gems of whimsey if
anybody had collected them.
Gene's hose completed 'my
needs, and I Washered them,
tightened the joints, and thrust
the nether end into the clear,
cold, sparkling liquid of my
lovely spring. The ;hoseline was
stretched upon the bosom of the
snow; through ,the Yellow `plas-
tic length I could' see the:water
moving, toward the; house. When
I came in my Yellow apron had
the laundry going, and was run-
ning the tub for ablutions. (She "
had changed aprons, was goink-
to wash the pink one.)
'The .,'trouble with my
system is that I can't shut it off
or* nly ficiseline will freeze up
instantly. I've had to suspend
the 'automatic pressure shutoff
to keep the motor going, and
as this gives 'us surplus water,
'had. to run the excess into
the well. The well is now fuller
than- ever before. We use what
we can, and, run the rest off
deive the valley. I'm bathing
't 'four and live times a day, and
ism.the cleanest farmer in Maine.
But 'it's kind of comical us-
ing' Gene's hose. If the power
goes "off," or a fuse blows, or a
pressure valve goes, I'm going to
400.,feet of the frozenest,
garden hose you ever saw, with'
Gene's right- • in the
Meantime, I'm bending all ef-
forts with the authorities to have
an early spring and a quick re-
turn`of warm weather-when I
can return Gene's hose.
". But Gene smiles• and smiles.
end is delighted to be of service,
and, keeps telling me not to
hurry tile' least bit about re-
turning his property. "Keep lit"
he fsays; :and ,he'lneans it. When,, ,
-he gsets it back, the oil busineiss
will, be, over. Neighborlines is a
fine "thing.,-,I3y John Gould in
The' Christian Science Monitor.
Au 7tort7
Fire fighters
Space technologists have open,
ed up a revolutionary new way
to detect and to fight forest fires.
The technique includes using in,
frared sensing devices, such as
are found in air-to-air missiles,
and the missiles themselves.,
loaded with fire-suppressing
chemicals.
An infrared sensing device in
fro detection saves precious time.
Such a device on a hilltop vant-
age point can pick up a heat
Source within a range of 20 miles,
It is capable of detecting heat
without telling smoke. Once a
fire is detected, the infrared
mechanism transmits an alarm
from a small transistorized radio,
powered by a combination of
solar and storage batteries.
The infrared sensing device
would scan a critical fire area
24 hours a day. Not only would
it locate a fire, but the device
would then direct and trigger a
fire-suppressing missile .
Already the Forest Service has
discovered the feasibility of using
the Navy's Sidewinder missile to
fight •fires. In tests, it was launch
ed •from a hovering helicopter,
and, armed with an infrared
senser, it unerringly, sought out
hot spota of fire. Future use, will
see the Sidewinder carrying fire-
suppressing chemicals to, spray
over the flames. Some of these
chemicals are available now and
other more potent one are being "
developed.
The changing concept in fighting
forest fires is one of automation.
The automatic forest fire sentry
of the future will be backed up
with' jet planes and helicopters
carrying anti-fire bombs whose
payload is made up of powerful
chemicals... -SUN-TELEGRAM
(San Bernardino, Calif.)
6biii 'A FEET - "Walking
John" Frey, above, hotfooted it
from Alaska to Florida in 5128
days.'
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ShoWn In Miami after the
11,396-Mile 'stroll, he: walked
at an average three miles per
hour, used four pair of, hig,h-
'Mop ishoes,,-.24 pair of ,heels,
crassedi.:31 ; states, pass'ed
through some 1,200 cities. Trod '
underfoot as the photographer
Waded tliroug ' the -statistics:
just where Frey started from
in Alaska::
Wanted Stoeks TO
Carry Propaganda'
Dr. Gerhard Weinberg,. history
professor of Kentucky Univers
sity, has to date filmed Uwe
million pages of Nazi party do-
' '&sitSents: In Order to%taVe a botn-
'f trete' record .'of •tHitleris Trion
strous regime, he and his assist-
ants must photograph another
eight million pages: The micro-
' film will then be deposited in
-the U.S. national e arc hiy
: Among this l'enass of; details,
„every kind Of plot'is i.selareseritecil
"Ope scheme, which involved:
using migrating' storks as pro-
paganda carriers, shows how
'Nazism was prepared to exploit'
any kind of cruelty fer its gain.
, As the storks flew away from
their nesting sites on German
farinhouses to winter' South
Africa, they Would, the plotters _•
Schemed, carry Nazi leaflets at-
taCheci to their legs..
Hinunler thought it a grand
idea until a German stork ex-
pert disilltisioned him, It would
mean, Afe explained, blowing up
the storks to release the leaflets.
"What of that?" asked Hint-
viler, "The Boers," said the eX-
Pert; "do hot like the British,
but they Ore deVoted to their
atorieS, And if they tee a lot Of
dead storks lying around, and
Mind our leaflets beside them,
they Will hate us," SO the
scheme Was drepped,
Those Who believe that only
a xiiitierity of dernialts kite* of
the Horrors df Nazism edinrisit-
ted Shahid have heard what. Dr.
Weinberg had to say recently
when' addressing the Anieridart
Historical. Association. He Mind
the "scale of villainy, as discieSed
by the doettineritS, quite terrify
Canada's policy of stamping
out certain diseases before they
can get a strangle-hold on the,
country's livestock industry has
saved farmers thousands of dol-
laPi.
Canadian agriculture ,runs 'the
'risk of losing valuable export
markets if contagious animal
diseases are allofred to become
'established, and federal veterin-
arians agree it is cheaper to the
prbducer and 'the "entire industry
to; eliminate these diseases.
I * *
Foot-andsmouth disease is an
example of, how it pays to wipe
out certain dreaded diseases.
Only once 'did this killer get a
toe 'hold in Canada, but the re-
sults were costly. „
Direct loges 'from "the foqt-
and-mouth outbreak in Saskat-
cheWan seven 'Years ago amount-
ed -to" $1;000,000. Markets to
which ,Canadian livestock and
agriculture `• products normally
moved. were immediately closed,
and it was estimated that the
:lcirop in potential value was
$648,278,000. *
There are other costs to be
considered. ."-Health of Animals,
cena,sle Department of Agricul-
ture, esttinates a vaccination pro-
sgrerryforehpg :cholera would cost
swine producers, 0,800m0 a year.
ThiS Is based' oethe fact that
in, the United ,States it cost $1
per hog up to market age .to con-
jtrol.cholere, and,on the fact that
Canada'S SWine population is
about 6,800,000.. s
* * •
Instead of living with the dis-
ease and depending on vaccine-
`tion, Canada halts any outbreak
. by. Slaughtering ,s diseased hogs
and compensating the owners,-
Cvessthe pasts decade, -there have
tieen ,seven distbreaka: in which
3,459 pigS wre victimized. Corn-.
Is:sensation costs Were $96,590.
. -The, worst cholera epidemic
since, the turn of the century
occurred in 1940-41, When $204,-
176 was paici•out in compensation
' tb farmers..
Cost of completely driving out,
this disease, though,, is ' only a
shadow of whet if watilcl' be to
live with It. •
Canadian. sheep‘producers have
been told that-any' relaxation in
this country's scrapie eradication
prograth could jeopardize the ex-
port of purebred breeding" Stock
and feeder lambs to the"United
States.
In fact, it is felt that certain
segments of ,the' 1 .'S. sheep in-
dustry will press for more rigid
control on import and on inter-
state movement.
• *, *
Veterinarians of the Health of
Animals Division, Canada' De-
partment of Agriculture; sounded
this note of warning at meetings
of Western Canada and Ontario
sheep growers.
Seraple, IS a chronic diaease of
sheep involving the central derv-
our 6y6telli and characterized by
nervous SyriiPtoma, 'such as itch-,
ing, and lack of co-Ordination,
ending in paralysis and death.
It was lira identified in Can-
ada in a Suffolk ewe imported
from Scotland in 1938. Since
1945; there have been 14 Out-
' breaks in Which i,510 sheep Were
ordered destroyed arid their
owners terimensated. * 4
VOW' years ago, a Ministerial
Order was 'signed prohibiting
further importations of sheep
from the United Kingdom.
Under the • present. Canadian
-control program, an entire flock
is slaughtered after a case of
scrapie has been discoVered, Sales
from the flock for the preced-
ing 42 month are .tracked down
and kept under scrutiny. The
premises are ordered cleaned and
the.'owner is advised not to re-
stock for 90 days.
The U.S. control program is
similar to that of Canada but
more;Win. Up to November last
year, 118fpositive cases of scrapie
had been diagnosed in 70 flocks,
and 38,611 sheep in 1,101 flocks
destroyed.
A Canadian observer accom-
Tallying a- U.S: fact-finding, com-
mittee studying the scrapie con-
trol program- reported that the
majority of the American sheep
industry supported the present
eradication program, and that
some segments may urge more
rigid. controls. • .
Antarctic Wait
On April "17th we see the sup
"for the last time, a thin painted
fngernail t h a,t scratches the
northern horizon ler a few 'min-
. utes and then is gone, not to
appear again until the end of
August. Now little America,
settles down for the long winter'
wait, The men start growing
Whiskers according to their own
ideas of how an Antarctic ex-
plorer'should look, the' chins of
the youngsters sprouting peach
fuzz in assorted -.pastel shades";
and the older men cultivating
Dundreaeys and black spade
beards and pointed Vandykes.
Gummy, „thet cook, is the envy
of the camp with his flaming
led beard that looks like the
rear end a a mandrill,'"A'feW "
of ;the smart :ones remain iclean-
shaven, for a man's brehth in
sub-zero cold Will frost the wltis
kers and frritate'his face.s•-
We, are, entombed in a glacier
at the bottom of the world, hi
a total silence broken only . by
the occasional. rumble of an ice-
quake as the Ross Shelf shifts;
and settles. Most of the life in
camp is under the snow. The
men pop corn over the stoves
in their barrackS, and play end-
less games They =imp
bits of material, robbing one pix,
other like a colony of pack
rats, to make . . bookshelves
rver their bunks. Old .Martin
Ronne is busy at his sewing
machine day after day, stitching
parkas and sleeping-bag covers,
and we work out together a
new type of barren-land Shelter,
(It came to be called the 1341,
then-Ronne tent, and was used
by the United States. Army in
Greenland during World War
II.) One of the scientists brings
Ronne a sensational pattern he
has just invented for a trial
• mask, with slits for eyes. Bonne
inspects his design, and shrugs:
“ja, I make one like that for
captain Amundsen once, He said
no good,"
We show movies now and
then .to pass .the time, and .every
Saturday night we have a two-
way broadcast with the United
States, in which the men can
talk directly with their families
and friends at home. - From
"Come North With. Me," "by
Bernt Balc.hen.
Oceans to Drink?
Water, water everywhere
Nor any drop to drink.
The Ancient Mariner's classic
lament suggests the ironic di-
lemma facing the United States.
On the one hand, supplies of
fresh water in lakes, reservoirs,
and rivers are barely able to
satisfy the current national con-
sumption, an amazing 140 gal-
lons a day for each American,
The future expansion of the na-
tion's industry and population
can easily lead to a critical
shortage. On the other hand,
there is an almost unlimited sup-
ply of water in the oceans and,
surprisingly, inside the earth it-
self: Deep beneath the dry, dusty
surface of the Great Plains
states, for example, enough wa-
ter. lies in rockbound pools to
meet all the nation's current
agricultural, industrial, and
home-consumption needs. But
this liquid is so contaminated
with salt and minerals that it
is unfit -for human use.
Last month, however, a major
step was taken -toward convert-
ing this promising supply of
water into purer form when the
Interior Department 'announced
plans to build 'the nation's first
large-scale plant to remove . the
salt from sea water. A $1.5 mil-
:lion array of tanks and, pipes
covering not more than an acre,
the new plant will distill a mil=
lion gallons of water a day, at
a cost of- about $1 per thousand
gallons-one-seventh of the old
cost of desalting sea water.
However, even $1 a thousand
gallons hardly seems a bargain.
' Most U.S. 'communities pay an
average of 30 cents. But in many
water-impoverished areas, the
Interior Department's new still
would be, immediately welcome.
even without the additional im-
provements which, department
experts sgy,-should further cut
the price of desalting sea water
in half. Already, 80 cities around
the nation have asked to be kons
Mend as posSible plant sites.
Although the location will not
be. announced until next sum-
' riser, it Will prObably be in south-
` ern Califbrnia, where the water
sitUation• is -often desperate,
The Interior Department's new
plant is the first of five which
will be built under a recent $10
'Million authorization from. Con
gress. It is based on an idea
submitted four years ago by the
late Walter Lucius Badger, pro-
fessor of chemical engineering
at the University of Michigan,
who was for years a top consul-
tant for the salt industry. Like
any nther, still, Badger's boils
water which turns to steam,
leaving impurities behind. It is
then condensed into pure, rather
flat-tasting water. By ingenious
use of long tubes in the evapor-
ation process, Badger, was able
to slash the price of desalting
tea water:
Badger's most important epn-
tribution, however, was a trick
.he 'borrowed from the salt In-
dustry to lick his plant's big- .
Samuel as Judge
1 Samuel 7:546
Memory Selection: God fer1114
that I should sin against the
Lord In ceasing to pray for you;
but I Will teach .yott the good and
the right way. f Samuel 12:43,
In the lessons of this quarter
we resume the history of Israel,
beginning at the time of Samuel,
and consider the united kingdom
under Saul, David, and Solomoa,
and then the first 25 years of
the division.
Samuel was the last of the
judges. Like so many of God's
great servants during the cen-
turies, be had yielded himself to
God's will in his youth, His, pro,.
phetic career was probably the
longest of any Hebrew prophet
that ever lived, He guided the
nation through the transition
pexiod from government by
judge to government by mon-
archs. Under, God's direction he
chose and anointed the first two
of the kings, Saul and David.
Our lesson is a record of his pro-
motion of a religious revival dur-
ing a dark period when the Israel-
ites were largely dominated by
the Philistines, In obedience to
Samuel the people of Israel put
away their idols, Then as a
priest, Samuel led them in sac-
rifices and worship. The Phili-
stines came toward them to bat-
tle but the Lord thundered with
a great thunder on that day
upon the Philistines and discom-
fited thesis; and they were smit-
ten before Israel, It was on that
memorable day that Samuel set
up a stone and called it Eben-
ezer, saying Hitherto hath the
LORD helped us: This incident
has been an encouragement to
many people. If we put away our
idols and serve the Lord, He will
fully guide and direct our lives.
He will bear our burden and
sustain us. So the psahnist ex-
horts us. "Cast they z burden
upon the LORD, and he shall
sustain thee." 55:22.
A man shows how great he is,
Or how small he is, by 'his atti-
tude when someone else is pre-
' ferred before Ishii' and steps into
his place Of leadership. The me-
mory selection demonstrates that
Samuel was truly a great man.
He cared for the people. That
'love continued even when the
people wanted and gained a king
in' Samuel's place. They wanted
to be• like the nations round about
them.'The story of Samuel's life
and devotion to God will always
be an inspiration to thpse who
want God's best in their lives.
gest, Most expensive problem:
_ Cleaning, gut the salt scale which
'frequently gnmrised up his pipes.
Since 'salt scale tends to deposit
on other salt crystals instead of
a Metal Stirface, Badger simply
injected:. -salt crystals into the
tubes' as haft. The result, accord-
ing to Interior Secretary Fred
Seaton, was "a remarkable
"break-through•In saline water
conversion," From NEWS-
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