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The Brussels Post, 1959-06-18, Page 94 Visiting Was Different Then! An old friend telephoned from Miles away theother and Said if we'd pielc him up at the airport he'd spend the week- end. It Was easy as,that; hardly Moments later we had scooted hirn home, And we had a won- clerftll visit rehashing the times that were. The times that were! The auto, the plane, the 'phone, the good roads! All of it in so few years, Isn't that a phase of today we seldom ponder? Take fifty year from any other time 0 in history, and When aid E) much happen to amaze? I can remember the first aeroplane I ever saw, the first radio I ever heard, I remember picking up televisien •experimental signals on the SW, long before there was any television, andI recall ' watching a televised ball game in ...New,,, York in the -'30?s, Some' people don't believe it was that lont 4a'go ! ;1'• 'h 1 When I was a lad and Grand- father was living alone here on thedarrsk the,kfamilyi would icon, trive to come and see him by times, •to check on his happi- nesS, and also to enjoy his com- pany Aatothe,rwell-springsao0 tneas. tribe, If nobody had come re- cently, they4ncempare 4130te.P.,,, and one of Ithen-rl-WOuld Ntilltf-,,, teer. And twice that I ber in particular I camg-alorte" for thejlfie.Atqwas; not like step- anqyferk mo ping from a plane and being He pushed a •pung out, and whisked to the fireside. hitched in a wooly horse with meal eyew, e .argigglestaander great robes, luxurious with use, rapthi-kited Ivy the7Adet with a gre4t jingling, l'Ife'mhorse tossed „„ snowballs „a...k-us. People looked I frAiStore'slifd see who had got Eddie out, And, in about five Ilhiniderd -ych`ras 'fiiy 'bail and I were stiff with frost, blue and - drafty- the backs of our necks tight as fiddlestrings.• "Hold it!" said Dad, and Eddie drew up '''anilthe' jingling stopped. 6' "-bad and•I climbed out, grasp - e41 ,ttie basic of the pung, and Vile'n,Jtcldie drove on again we ; rt4n along ,behind. Our feet Would touch the road about every ten rods, and we would bonncetip..and sail along. But shortlt,We *Are warm as toast, xcegt for our fingers frozen f., ,,• o the pung. We bounced into the dooryard, and found Grand- • father loading logs behind-th' barn, because it was such a gcs(1day to work. •Irve,*;ekily moral I can think of tO,attaTo to this reminiscence .,,visitortioWa ,Fs than Grand- father :.eVer2did:43 John Gould . • LARCENY-AN10( ROMANCE • ,, , Giovanni Prateit, f Alessen- dria,'Italy, is in trouble with the police. Pratesi erijored nothing better than to take liigirl friend for a drive. The facf4hat he did not own a car made little differ- ence -he merely stole' one for the occasion. When tile police caught up with him thy learned that he' had taken.Mrfewer than ,,- eighteen cars hi one month. p., wagon and drove US backQ,th.0 But the other time 1 renlern hared in particular was just the OPPOsRe. My Pad and I got ,,111 old .Calvin Austin at Buten, and landed at Bath the next morning, life„tboarded the "steamcars," and rode up here in eoalsrnake. It VS1;$2 44413,7, and the rigors of a Maine win- ter were on every hand. We descended from the train into the sharPest, bone -piercing cold imaginable, with a brisk wild whipping off the river. The atationmaSter stood be- hind his window, beside his red-hot coal stove, and wasn't going out on the platform Pist .becatise 4 train came in. My father waved at him, because they'd been to school together, and he still didn't come out, We walked across the street, snow crunching ,under Okla heels, and found' Eddie 'hi a buffalo coat sitting in a „leatiker,hehair • by anotier stave, with about halfa the available) men In town assisting him in the wor- thy project 6f afie.ndmi at'vviiifer in Maine without going out- •doprs.1 We,steppecroin;and were overwhelmed by the r i c steamy joy of a,“pititaty-tliqry stable - an olfactory event which I passed „:.afrorao‘ the scene, probably just as well, Eddi$ .1cn,ew „iimio, father * and sait•-,441rOiretionRapl-n to go p r d out hornet do you?" It was hope- f/illPiiiforded, but he knew the 4h -aunt- and 1 caniewithce b3i' trolley, on a blazing summer day wriZn.14ext4 "‘" hot and' the smell of electricity could be cut wIth ▪ jqife. descended gladljr 'trod' the 6on- veyanee, Ing heat waves walked 'across the unpaved street to' Eddie'?:* Livery Stable. Thell,Fliad beeti no telephone; nobody knewre.i. were coming. • ,,,„, Auntie was going to higeoEc1.7; • die to drive us up to the farm. Eddie was droopett i detac ed wagon seat lee' in tile 'shade,' where he .hadPeollabseit aftef sweeping out the wide dors andthe stable broom was lean- ing againsbehim.;;a4hef LictropPtd?` He watched' bi'• a'rri've; 'curious as to who we might's.bel?.aftd alarmed at the thought of • what we might want. Auntie 4r.- led me by the hand, and I re- member how hot that'street wa under my Ir dale • Eddie hpst,e ..4-iimself up to. clicker, an' ,aunt called him by namefirtrecause-ehe'd known him froalchildhoed. He couldn't". place hetlat first, but did...when,: she toldNm where he was' to take us.fl remember his sus- penders, iistore-bright once but no longer, and, how the sweat worked ifP his, shirt under Them. My own !'ilttle• shirt was,sticking• to me, ;tdo. It was a record - setter. Eddie went into the stable and pulled out an open buggy by the • shafters,'and soon brought out a roader who had not been sired by Action out of Get -up -arid -go. Then we bug- gied out the long road - dusty, shimmering, blistering - a n d turned up the hill. The horse belied an illusion of immobility, for while you thought he was standing still, you would look and lo! he was moving a little. Locusts hummed us along, and• birds sat on bushes with their beaks open, panting. We found Grandfather in the field, hoeing, for it was such a lovely day to work, and we had a wonderful visit „with him. In the evening a breeze stirred, and we sat under the dooryard trees until bedtime. The next day he hitched Tanty into, a' His usual practice was to aban- don each car when it had•served his pu4pose, after selling the spare tire to cover the cost of 2. gas for 'his next trip. Three scouts reported to their scoutmaster that they had done a good deed that day. "We • helped an old lady across the street," they told him. "That., was good of you," he ' replied. "But why did it take E three. of „yqu for a simple job like 'that?" "Because,"t one of the scouts 4. explained, "she didn't want to go." • • - CROSSWORD PUZZLE AaltOSS ' 61 Small engine i ti.ova iti/ut 82 'Pagoda 11. zarape wooed ornament WILO 1.11i (00 63 Watch Sl5e,o1 paper 64 NohIernen bowil 1. Native of a (1r island 2.Capital of Montana 8 Dwell, 3,..U141,1ove 33. Untruth 19 ttaillati kitty tweets. 10. las.olUde • 17. attach 1, 1 b 111. SV ai it; Picts or cloth 20 uvil Spirit 22. 24. Firearrit, 26. t2urowlnt all ilnai 21, Uf eve* • 23. Ooddess - o (JAW ti 81 DeSeiStidti 32. Deviate froth . '- the dUUtie" 34 111,oly haft ughto, 26 Itodttit 39, '1.10..1111t4 t, pad 41. !Itchman 46. Steady 47, C1eoff-1)1Loti4 49. Miniterot 02.Rothe 06. modt.Oefiaid. 6 2.•Str1013 64. 1.1fid(36k64 66. „ 66. ComPliiikte4i, 69, Gro6Ve 60, AtiaWeii'diaeWlited Intoxicating.' 36 Have liquor . recourse to 5. Pothet 37. Thoroughfare 6. Nuisance , 7, River Wand 38. Cylindrical '8. Noklops plant 40. Vitiate 9 Complete systen1 10 Interstice 11 Deposited •tts security 16. Find fault 21 Type Fionaee 23 Manner 27 army sleepy 28. Statute 30. Crime 33. Pale 35 Prohibit 42. Scold 43 Skilled speaker 44 'My() highest cad s In efllhre 46 Or: letter 48, Fiat 51 (Tirtwd.1160 07. Theposli 68 Red deer 12 15 2 3- 4 5 16 13 7.2 10 14 17 21 22 27 34 [3.• ,4. 23 " 22 ' 32 33 .; 37 3,- 3, 43 44' 45 SO • 6S: 54 61; 51 47 60 63; 52 • 63 oN 64 •,, 5,12 ........................................................... -.^.144Wiltabo. 'r'W•0 •44 , ;• 4 .,,e • '3, v/' • '' '' 'MOTORING was•.a <Tugged gusiness when these two Model T Fords ra'n•iwith four other cars )n 'ffle-V,,YOrkt-CagSeattle endu"fo'nce race in the spring of 1909. They're shown pounding a dirt Toad into Cleveland, June' . Winner of the race was No 2,- leff;-W`i`friliWeri`t. S."Smith and r- ,,,.., A. W. -Scott (at the'wheel),„ aking the trip in 22 days. Cur N50.,1,b4r1g,h4tAniirt„ ie in third. A cara -..van of. old, new and futuristic cars will retrace the route iri it:no to dramatize changes that fhave,taken place in motortg in 50 years. - - -91:"-:.-,it ""ei: t; :. ., ''', : 4 'it,L,k ' I:. 1 ' , 4 i..,, .,',. :••• „..7 iMs. P. 050K Mrs,. Kathryn F. Cook of Boston was recently named PresicIent „Motner. CI:wrcn, -•the' ,,Fiest •Chcist, 4,§cijentist, fiostong Massocgusetts, A native` of South "Bentr, dicyi,,,she has devoted her, tirelime ta:liteproccite of eNrris- tian'''SC'rence 'liecding'-for 'many IWS4(anci Shaw Cook. A former Christian Science leoturer, teacher, and editor, he served as President of The Mother Church just twenty years ago. Dangerous Pets Beautiful but fierce ocelots, three-foot long jungle cats from Central America, are among ex- otic pets which some people at Princeton, New Jersey, have been buying lately, ancl „taking Ant° t• their homes:I O. '444 So potentiAlly- dangel•ods ,1/44 - ocelots that a Bronx Zoo official has warnn tha0 they/COI ) fatal. AlthOgkli`it enjoy* itarsid- ing popurarity in several metro- politan cities, the ocelot can kill a full-grown police dog, he says. • Other animal experts suggest that -the richlr•ornainehted fur, of die 'odelot; 'with 'its wonderful eye -spots on' a ground: tit: of I smoky pearl, so fascinate pet - lovers that they, forgethow fierce this `lovely cat is In its wild ,state: . M. Lescot, who took a male and female -ocelot to- Paris, 'reported that even in captivity they. did not lose "much of their natural ferocity, although they have rarely been known to attack • man. . = An . ocelot sometimes awaits 'the approach of its prey conceal- ed in a tree and then springs • upon it uherrnigly, later Sucking the blood of its victim. The craze for exotic pets in the • United States - has, greatly creased. • Shakes' have long been favinir- . its pets with, many people. Al- th&igh'.-they 'are 661d -blooded reptiles apparently incapableof • affection, lots of women like • them. A smart young North of Eng- land typist once kept a python and two boa -constrictors in her kitchen ea „nets. She, said ,they ' kept "I` t A tWo7foot grass snake found in a London street Waa „clahned 'AY ything 'man who said it had escaped from his pocket., TOOTHSOME TOT • Arrested for drunken drivirig, the Offender; Curtis Thomas, of Knoxville, Tenn., pleaded that he had been suffering violent toothache and took a sip or two of Whiskey' to dull the nagtrig .,He was fined $50. Part of the • „fine was for Making- a falser state- - Merit, ThonlaS.litidn't a teak iii his leadi • Drive WIth Care • -••••••• ' • •itaigL".• Fot,!fikl".4.1.14ffr •=.1.1*,•It•lk.sa �t =1 The average Canadian last year brakes, Canada is headed for an- ' consumed 300 egg,s.ABut At/ the, same time, producers aerop the • country maricetat' 348 eigganpreg capita. '4. Production is currently setting . a torricktpace.ftegisteted stations received 1q4,828 cases (30 dozen to a case)qor`-dhelisieekt • May 2 -the highest numbe,rasince,t, the United Kingdom contr-act 'ran odier.Lyearletlinget surpluses of eggs. 0 8 4.; Canadian consumers are being • wartiestt ieck carefully when making purchases of maple "wsyrift`'': • hkusewif,e• ;hiving maple ' syrup anywhere, PArtidtilrly at Iteroloor,,should be wary of un- labelled or mis-labelled products, out in 1949. For the same wee„.K.ko ••s1':1', Armstrong of the Fruit • year ago, marketings were 141,- aneclitof toieg:rtttaboll Agriculture.Division, Cnada , 254 cases. . What is behind this healyy,-„prg7 4•'4,!•4":0 duction? Factors include:, ;ing come on the heels of. a Pgoutettion under the Maple ;Todunts kndu,a$ry ACt,,1 0A. ilrecacqounty;.QueYaee, man •ieaded guilty .44,4Matheson, „Qnt., ilow selling•'.?d,..tcoldratife.,;imitation of a maple product which was tificially maple flavored" and to , product. He:paid A total of $30 ffriear and 'coati on.,. the tw* O „, • ` r; 1;alle. 'Act stipulatei...that cOmmon namecit a maple prnA anct than appear on the rnairi libel; together with' the name and address of the' manufacturing or flicking' plant or cd the sugat bOsh arid, if licensed; the licence number. •„ 1kgr. Armstrong points out a great 'deal of artificially map* favored ,table syrup is Sold le- gally in Canada each year, but "artificial flavor" is required to be marked' on the product and, it is sold at a price caminenlier.;-4, ate with its value-inuch than the price of maple syrup. Stranger k selling maple syrup from door to • door should be cialced; for identification -for ex - 'ample; their car or • driver's 11- ..cence.. . • Says My Armstrong "A little care on the part of consumers Will 'do i:611 to curtail the mis- representation of imitation or • adtilteratecimaple- preducts," • -That July Morning? What Happened ,l <TheanurderanysOry that won't dLee17 lastat i`freCimonth.wi"fOhnpetitionai e gslat,olv: s .rugged Cyril Stevenson, vitrliof ' • editor•of-The Nassau Herald, the assembly -voted- unanimously to • reppen. the investigation of the , lemons 1,943,,murd.er of ,Sir Harry, Oakes, the aggressive 'Canadian gold millionaire who was bltid- geoned to death in his_luxurious oceanside,, by a still offici- ally unidentified assailant. Sixteen years after it happen- ed, Sir Harry's slaying is still a lively topic conversation in Nassau, palm:fringed touriat par- < • (1) Technological advancek,thar. have resulted in the same liens laying Mcirefelggat ancif,41,f't, (2) EncliNers retaining* their', old hen,"1,`.1:ts,,,s, Canada Department of Agri- - the number of eggs gat in incu- bators for layers this year was down 4.4 per ceat over the same period a year age, the trend could easily be reversed later this year. • With fowl selling for ix to eight cents a pound less than it did at this time in 1958, farmers are keeping their hens for lay- ing. It is estimated there were an additional 250,000 old hens in production this year to the end of April, which could mean as much as 100,000 dozen more eggs a week. „ * * 4"Aj while the 202,058,000 Jao eggs • marketed through registered stations last year con- "stituted the second highest num- er tince 1949, they represented only .44.9 per cent of the total production. The percentage de- ' cline has been steady since nine years ago when eggs delivered . at gzeding stations amounted to 54.414er cent of the national tota1.1 Incirther words, more and more producers are selling direct to markets. ' With floor price of 44 cents a dozen, Grade A Large, Montreal (graded and packed in new wooden cases), the Agricultural Stabilization Board has been a big Aurchaser of surplus 'eggs. As Much as possible is exported and the balance is stored, al- thongb storage facilities are be- coming limited. * * Over -production ih not an iso- lated problem. Each province except Newfoundland and New Brunswick is producing surplus- - es thii year. Added evidence of the accel- erated; pace of egg production is the fact that for the first time, dliriadli's per capita production last year was higher than that e -the United States. It was 29.5 dozen per capit compared with the U.S.'s 28.7 zen. Unless pro cers apply the ' adise In the Bahamas. Cab -driv- ers and bellhops in the plushy hotels all have their own private theories as to why the name of the killer has never come to light. ,Possipy storekeepers stress the t'olitical angles, Some blame the fiasco cif the investigation on the decision ef the Duke of Windstar,, then wivernor of the Bahamas, Call in American detectives 1?.e- Lore cOnstliting local police, The bare bones of witat hap- pened, according to the gory story that, was unfolded in the courtroem, added up to this; Early on the morning of July 8, • 1943, Harold Christie, wealthy Nassau businessman, wandered in pajamas down the hall of ramb- ling Westbourne to the room of his hest, Sir Harry Oakes. Chris- tie knocked on Sir Harry's door, he told the jury, And when there was no answer he opened it and peered in. Smoke was curling up frornIfour deep cuts. 11.e was Very head; was covered with blood dfreoamd: Sir Harry's mattress. His . The murder and the investiga- tion land trial that followed were an jnternationai sensation. Siry. Harfy Oakes had made millione- uot f Canada's gold mines. Then, he lad moved to Nassau, where; the were no income taxes, and maje 4 more millions. He Was ilh,4-' ' porful, socially prominent, and a nn with manylleffelitlk •Y,tel• ".. I' orn the start, everything.that could go wrong with the case' cild,' wli bifficinoe.Christief;.coursemllivevi•fotr4-b74otter he sus ect but police quickly drop- pe4 that becansepAtheV said, of lact of evidence against him. Th y wound4m,.arrpqaCont,Al red de Maritily,'3, I 'darkly' ' ha dsome twice -divorced French pl Yboy frozn6MauritiusnWho.4ads : el pecl with Sir Harry's 18-year- old dao 1 g114.tvrer4,5"NalIC7theRef 51.721a-vlon bad teq .-' The count- was'%acquitted aster-. a sensational trial, but the jury $ . recommended his "Immediate de- pcirtatia'' 4fil mage toWildcy FAsjater annulled. He now lives modestly in a suburb of'Havana, Cuba, werehe sonerateei ili litlifi- giaph cdintany4 1,0; ,..In reviewing. the case before the tiSseinlibulast month, Cyril iSteyefisnodeplared*.drarnatically • 1th afle,c*Mild 'point . his" thigei at:, -,,,Htheamark.?responsible.",,,Ile,„;said, the man was a "prominent Nas- 'feu businessman?,13344-kvotaldn',t name him. "I ail• tireid f ar'Eta say," he weriVphier, at lfir - 'of Oakes was lill 'ed bY One of his own close friendprwhnna „. , the had no reason to suspice, ana 4 that he drank with him seye,p1,„4 hours before the murder." • Those whiMadieriirlect- ' Ing the case fegata42.19/4y42110t berm! % Apolitical toOtbalL They pouiLeu. euy Lilac aLevenson is a --• -.A.. /...a L t. Al !IA ...... -- • - : leaden Of the Probessive Lib- eral ., gromPeavir7e,r92,1allisasv,fliznop:Irtiylstlit- -,,, odds withqh# "Bay 'StreeflIoys,".' the rich and powerfa businessl• clique that controls the islands. • Harold Christie is a rnembir'Of the group and so was the at Sir Harry. Difference. 'between '..' the two groups erupted!into a . bitter strike of Negro workers last year and feeling? still run high. If Stevensen „pould pin the murder of Oakes oh a prominent businessman it would clearly be a score for his side. Local insiders doubted any- thing would come of it. -The Et Legilsative Council Zdominated by the Bay Street Bpys) would : have to °act first, they said, and l' then the Crown must decide. Somewhere silting 'the ;line, the resolution would probably, diel - From NEWSWEEK. NMY SCI1001 LESSON By Hey 11, Barclay VifaileR . H,Az pp. • Nations Need Religious 'Leaden, 2 Kings 11:4,942, 17-19; 12:2 '• Memory Selection; The priest's lips shall seek the law at his ofthe'Lh; foroeciof osta-laZa hebiatiesegYr7...: These were bloody days in Is, rael, Jehu killed the wicked Queen Jezebel and all that re- In4ained of the, children of her and the late King Ahab. Thu, Ingthe th Predestructionoi4thecyogof all iJllae01:1crhil seed was fulfilled, When peop .sin agisinat God and His holy , conunanchnenti they invite da. StrUCt1011.. Theirapparent _pros* ' PelastiltYlav;aarhd!rL t41YeCI; God ha thell Jehu alho slew 'kin "of "iiiiiiish.lAhaziaked, ,inother, sister' of the late king Ahab, th • destroyed all the seedfroyaR cept titn,jnfant JOash.,,,411,,,aut .,, -his nurse were hidden by ask. aunt., Meanwhile .Teholda •ty, his iriitriictor. Eveti'aftec A • grew to manhood he lean heavily' :oh Jehoida for advice0,4:4, --,JoaPh, W.8,4,-,YerY 4.0.ft.sattetl,.. ...,,,, 4he spiritual life of 'the poop' *Ho suggested that JehoicierO. i the other priests undertake 10 the LORD: and the priesti i repair the Lord's house. 'Vehei •,. the priest took a chest, and bo a hole in the lid of it, angia4 , beside the altar, on the rightai 'as one cometh inte,„thailieme , Iseptlhe'door put thereirr-all th+t,t cim ,y,,thlitrm.s4,bropgqvinti46 ,, „to s‘en, f the LOltD: ' viii'mbItty IliOatlitSert to buy material and -Aay the „....yerkmen for-. repAiriNk "-"the licitaeof7tbir-tdR15) g1.1, • If people -practised tithing now:, as they did in those days, there iiihte*liPiesitiling ofileGoapetitoni Aviiuld4ili nil lackliif inonek 3o, can we give less under, grACIKQ than the Jews were reqiiired'IV - . icjiri Aide4;51,lift..',,c-Olieralbv4:7 Speililciiig,',iiofle'lati? mit ' dog Iiriteir'llu-or and cent.s Ter re- • ligiont ,74 •=.11.tlersin g&ieinnienttAnd re- iigitcircirottrlielrVilitMmilr.., nated by the other. The Ontario Department of Highways is ask. ;.iiiig%leaders in religion to assist Iii-laressing nfonthe people -that tafedriving .is ii goral re- it,ap011aibility,, 4t,,.tAs all do our t; otrnoproveeolitn rile r. oral c7. cletistonf., ill: r'4".: itdstIsfiksli . Thidlitiditity''o`f atorinfi-eltino-.1 ..0_1irie slips without crushing and still -save valuable space may be remedied easily. Merely roll the crinoline, insteadlof folding, and "pull- into,tt -hylOrtstocking from which4he7foot has been cut off. ISSUE 25-- 1959 Upsidedown ,to Prevent Peeking kiffi€JM MI ENE tERCID EAA EIZIn EBUDUMINU MUD GOO MWOU0 MUMONMN DOOM COU !LU MO WM WON MUM MUM OW@ MOO IMMO MD UM INMOODUOWN IJJ UOM MYR r " -'--'-billlk • tre.41 ;IC44.1. COULD BE - Pictured, above, is an artist's concepti,on of what one of the Big Three's small -cars will look like wAn it is put in the market this fall Tne high top bears a faint r!esernblance to that on the mcinufettnirerer famous in lizzie of a couple generations ago., Sketch first appeared in the magazine, Motor Life. L7 1018 Itsatka""42 ''1 44 10 PIE IN tilt Skt - • *ch the cars go under ores e gea 0',13 • . - 4 mers can r an cmheyitiettobilly 'sealed grii§§,,efia- th'is'neW'-idita'Orcint dittide' the 1 -Stale follway west of Lake ClOgufes that keeps out 4•uhieli and nilike frcint 4