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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-01-21, Page 3OLD HOUSE IS NEW Under Construction in CharfOttetA Ville-, Pa., it a ,replica of the house cdtfed ,Sheidwell Where Thomas' Jefferson was born, The site is not far frorn Monti cello, Jefferson's faMout home, Built in the 17364 the Originat Shadwell burned down hi 17664 MONSTER CONGA LINE? — What seems to be the high point of an outdoor party is cos- turned girls performing a ritual culled the "long finger dance." Scene was the opening of the SAEP (Southeast Asia Peninsula) games in Bangkok, Thoiiand. illE FARM FRONT J06,9., • 0 0 a O a 9 N 3 3 O V UNDAY LESSON .1$. Ito; it. ,tlarrhq tV,krten The Cop venting Power of the Gospel Acts 1643-1.1, 2544 Memory Selection: BelieVe 041 the Lord Jesus Christ, and thott shalt be saved,, and thy hquse. Acts. 16:31, Nest to the scene of Paul's conversion, perhaps the next most fascinating scene in the story of his life is that of his night in the Philippian jail and the conversion ,of the jailer, It was no pretty sight as Paul and Silas lay with their feet fasten- ed in the stocks with their backs bruised and bleeding. The beat- ing had broken some of the blood vessels, Some of the blood had clotted, These men were no criminals. They were God's messengers of the. Good News of the Gospel, In the name of Tesus 'Christ they had cast the demon out of a young lady who was a sooth- sayer or, as we would say to- day, a fortune teller. The men who made money from the girl's work wereangry and instigated an uprising against Paul and Silas. They should have rejoiced that another had been freed from the.clutches of Satan but their greed for money blinded their eyes to the glories of the Gospel. Missionaries still meet with this type of violent opposition, In our own land the opposition is more subtle. Bid the forces that make money on the weaknesses and, sins of others are well or- ganized and can fight back with vigor when disturbed, If on. emerges from one of the more desperate gangs, his life may be in -jeopardy. .for a time, at least. The prayer and praise of Paul and Silas Were heard by the prisoners. How unusual it wast Then God intervened with an eaithquake. The prisoners were loosed. The convicted jailer ask- ed that most important ques- tion, "What must I do to bet saved?" The answer, which is our memory selections, was a simple one. We are saved, not by what we in our strength can do, but by trusting in Jesus Christ and what He has done for us. We are saved by grace through faith. The jailer was a new man. After he was baptized he washed the blood off the stripes that had been laid upon them. How ten- derly he must have done it! Then he fed them. It was a happy home, Jesus Christ had corn. into their lives. And it came about through the faithful wit- nessing of two of God's children, while enduring suffering for Jesus' sake. ISSUE 4 — 1960 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking S 0 S 9 3 d 9 0 S 9 3 9d S .L 3 7 V S .4 N 8 0 Q a) 3 -9 I al 1. ad 0 I"/ 8. I S N O A cl a J. • / tf d S P li tir3 a N I? W7Vd ay / iT'S REALLY HERE You' knout Winler is here for goo whelp the Stria nrieS dreg Sleds trtotihd vvherevet they ga. thlti youngster torn/516A the white Stuff telt changing directionS .twice a year, to help .mariners on their way. Qn their way to what? What lay in the WestA beyond all that bitter Aga" In the . Vast WOrre. silks, spices, jewels, geld. The Old Worlds, turned east. The long spiee and rich silk roads led. 'there, And the p.zropean .em., poriums 'for both centered on the Mediterranean, India, PPP- sia, Araby "The Blest," were the sources of riches and of trade, What point was there then ,in sailing out Into the Atlantic, bound for nowhere? 'European• seamen had M. incentive to make bold transoceanic voyages, So the Atlantic was not crossed by Ships for centuries and, in the. end, its opening was a chance by-product of the quest for a sea route to the Dee. Scholars had long theorized that to sail west would bring ships east, if they sailed far enough, and, it was the East they sought.—From, "Wild Ocean" by AWri Saving Water By Treatment Municipal water systems and their customers, the citizens of larger United States municipal], ties, are overlooking a ready water supply through waste wa- ter treatment, according to Mark N. Hollis of the Federal Public Health Service. Mr. Hollis said that, some six or eight years ago, the Ameri- can pulalic was• spending $200 million a year for waste water treatment plants, but it had re- cently jumped this figure to $400 million a year. But he thinks the rate should be "above $500 mil- lion." He did not say "$500 mil- lion"; he said "above $500 mil- lion." Members of the great bureaucracy at Washington are cagy about putting a limit on any estimate of any future spending. If Mr Hollis said how much water was being conserved' by these treatment processes, the news story did not quote him, Possibly the reason that we are making' slow ,progress in this field, comes from the fact that we talk too much about the cost and too little about thee amount of water we will derive from it. The, treatment of contaminated water for reuse by the public has been fully demonstrated. It was in wide use in Germany before World War I. But there is an obstinate popular prejudice against turning to it in. America. Waste water conservation at any such figures is not good campaign material. This treament of waste water is going to be especially import- ant in Texas as time goes on. Our surface water comes pri- marily from a number of rather small parellel rivers, nearly all of which are contaminated with various forms of waste materials. The time is not far distant when we will be consuming the total capacity of these rivers to pro- duce fresh water. We should adopt, first, a much stricter pro- gram of prevention of water con- tamination in these streams and, second, a •program of condition- ing this water for reuse, The two progra'rns will supplement each other because the less coon tamination, the „cheaper •the re- conditioning Dallas Neivs. "And what's your 'name?" 0;1 ; teacher asked the little bey. "Julie," was the reply. "Ah, you mean Julius. We; never use abbreviations in my class. Now, little boy, what's your name?" Artswer ilseeihere On this 'page, Ran Ambulance, on Stolen Gas A wet evening in Guernsey, Reg Blanchford, a youth of nine- teen, took his girl to her door, kissed .her .good-night, remount- ed his matey-bike, and roared Off Into ille-tOlght. Two minutes later a taxi sWung out of a minor crossroad and flung him and his Machine with terrific force against a house. Ile was se badly injured that the surgeon who later attended him said that he was "theoreti- cally dead," For eight days he was unconscious, for three months on the critical list, but he recovered. That grave mishap inspired him to dedicate his life to re- lieving the sufferenigs of others, In the 1930s Guernsey's 40,0 00 people were served by only one ill-equipped ambulance with a spare time driver. Prompt first- aid, Blanchford realized, would have minimized his injuries and suffering. He joined the island's newly formed. St, John Ambulance unit, bought a second-hand ambulance with voluntary subscriptions and started a rival service based in a small shed. How he developed this into a first-class land, sea and air serv- ice and earned the G.M,, M.13,E,, and the, Life-Saving medals by his bravery and resotirce, Don Everitt relates graphically in "Samaritan of the Islands", Suspended on a rope he made many hazardous, rescues from Guernsey's perilous cliffs. In wartime this meant running the gauntlet of hidden minefields, One fisher-lad, climbing a cliff, had trodden on a mine. It blew him on to a narrow ledge twenty feet below. To reach him, Blanchford and his four helpers had to slither down the cliff, grasping for hand-holds, fearing that each piece of grass and , jut- ting rock concealed a mine. Rain soaked th'ein;' a cold' wind lashed their faces and numbed their fingers. When they reached the body it took twenty minutes to get it off the ledge and strap- ped to the stretcher. Several times on the way up, with darkness falling, one or ,other of them slipped, nearly dragging the rest down the cliff. •On top.at last they had to thread their way thrOugh a minefield 'overgrown with gorse and find gaps in the brabed wire. Then they collapsed, utterly beaten. Ill with worry and overwork In 1950, Blanchford went to Petit )3ot Bay for a week's hard- earned holiday with his wife. While sitting on the beach he noticed a boy climbing a near-by .cliff. "Rona," h e said, "I'm sorry, but we'd better go back., Sooner or later that boy will get stuck up there, and the way I feel: I ,just couldn't face having to bring him down."' * The boy did get stuck, on a tiny ledge seventy-five feet up. Blanchford- phoned the ambul- ance control room, guided. the •crew to the cliff top, and, despite protests, donned a canvas har- ness attached to a 250 foot rope and swung down. As he sighted the boy, clinging to a sheer slab of rock by toes and fingers, the rope dislodged a large piece of rock above Blanchford's head. It fell between his face and the 'cliff, hit his stomach, knocked him unconscious and sent him swinging and spinning across the •cliff-face. When he.regainecnhis senses he swung himself towards the boy, grabbed him by the waist, pulled him off the ledge, and lowered hilri foot b3% foot to the cliff bot- tom. Then he collapsed, bruised and bleeding, into a rock pool. After rescuing a boy scout who had fallen into a Cliff gully, he went down a second time to re- trieve the lad's wallet contain- adnOes (I'raXiS 4 glintteetm* twee Ill Orn 111 tintlej 0, 09 12 Pnrt to tt rnntineot jA Prport of ring It T'rotnntIn.re jC nnfr.rr, 12 Pninn by P 0 Prot,)0,6,0,i fOntg, mire tCnYc. rilfrlo P2 17,trrt 21 "T',.§tP Ai ,00e shn r^ tan neoneht*s. lenee, rrn016 6, •31. `",nt. fnrtP. Intltro 99 Y110.1-)1•666ii 40 `fabler '41 nnintn1 14,"1 PorInd ;45 g(11rn 0(11(1 r,etie -eatre hem eletaatiote, Se. ample eserhereV Kt, i1 itits,tiF ifeeetara 9. 're the. etteotion of 94 neatn ss.'reantienni R. -Rilttif(k `oral 9. neat, no Wt4 Ve1asereteea. , tte aflete ee log his money and return rail and steamer tickets, "It's all part of the service,,' Blanchford told the scoutmaster, During the German occupation he kept his ambulance ping on stolen or smuggled gas, char- coal or horSes, Once he and his assistant, Charles rroorne, re- solved 'to :raid a locked German gaseline'. ;drum store not f00 Yardslrom a German billet, The Malaga if they were caught would be a long prison sentence and maybe a concentration camp. They drove up with their van under a cloudy threeelnarter moon and unscrewed the rusty hinges from the door, They grunted and heaved to roll one of the heavy drums up a ramp of two planks into the van. Then they heard a car approaching rapidly. "It's the 'greenfly' (Germans) all right," Froome whispered. "They look like officers," The vehicle came down the middle of the road, Blanchford knew that its masked headlights would pick out the lower half of the van. The moon suddenly broke through clouds. It was .as if a spotlight had been turned' on them. He closed his eyes in despair. Then he heard Froome whispering: "They're turning off. They're going to the house over there," Climbing •noisily from the car, the Germans vanished into the house, The night was silent again. The two men heaved the drum into the van and rolled out a second. It was halfway up the ramp when one plank snapped with a crack like a rifle-shot. The drum thumped to the ground. Both froze as an up- stairs window in the German billet opened and someone peer- ed out. Another window opened and there was a conversation in German. Then the windows closed. No search party emerged. Desperately, the two men jam- med a piece of the broken plank under the intact one, heaved the drum into the van, shut the store doors, rescrewed the hinges -and drove off at full throttle. The ambulance would have gas for some time to come. Once when a gang of thugs blocked the path of the ambul- ance, Blanchford accelerated and forced a way through. A man leapt on the running, board and tried to grab the wheel but Blanchford swerved and flung ,him off. The ambulance *forged on, picked up the patient and took another route back, to the hospital. By 1954 the land-sea-air serv- ice, run on subscriptions, had eleven men and two secretary- nurses on the permanent staff. It also had a deficit' of almost £2,500 before the States author- ity came to its support. Last year the men worked 10,800 hours of voluntary overtime, an average ofntwenty"hours. a week on top of (heir routine forty-four. Blanchford himself has been• continuously "on call" for nearly twenty-five years. This splendid story of his pluck and determina- tion is a monument to the Order of St: Jcihn motto; Pro Utilitate Hoinioum, "For the service of mankind.", Service, indeed, and enough drama)or twenty novels! FLAINTIFF BECOMES .DEFENDANT William; Shaw, 58, called Rochester, N.Y,, police to report that someone claineing to be • Policeman had snatched his wan -let containing $80.. Detectives who 'arrived on the scene atn rested Shaw for public intoxica- tion. I won't say that Inn unlucky But let me tell you something, Jack, If I started on a shoestring Button shoes would soon come back. MR BOMBER? — Richard Latta, 19, stands in Detroit, Mich., po- lice headquorters after being accused of threatening persoris with bombing from the air 'If they did not pay him money. for one farm enterprise. This means that all hogs from a farm unit or enterprise must be marketed under one registration pletely separate operation is necessary to qualify for regis- necessary to qqualify for regis- tration as a farmer producer. That Forbidding North Atlantic In Europe, seamen have always known the North Atlantic as the Western Ocean, In the early days the untamable and little- sailed sea, which sent its vio- lent storms to lash at them and — beset their seaports and their beaches With the noisy, fearful challenge of its gales, seemed un- conquerable. The march of these wild Atlantic gales against all Europe is most severe in those areas where men are the best seamen, and yet seafaring pro- grest here was slow at first, as compared with that made in kinder seas. Arab, Persian, and Indian dhows crisscrossed the monsoonel waters of the Indian Ocean at least two thousand years before European - seamen could manage anything other than coastwise passages in the oPen waters of the North M- lantic, and the Mediterranean was at least a galley-filled sea while only the Sargasso weed drifted on the surface at the, broad Atlantic. The Conditions were Very dif- ferent. In the trepid waters of the Indian Ocean there wets clearly defined seasons which brought their own Winds tha good north-eager, with clear visibility and ideal sailing con- ditions; the turbulent seuth- Weger, Whith could blow hard but at least provided easy means to sail home again. There was Wind to go out with and and abeaer to return With, and, the northeast season, there was a reasonable asstitance of con. tinned good Weather, Fishernien working front open beaches child develop craft suited to their ptirpeSee, arid Mariners Could' learn 10 extend coastwise passages' to ocean wenderin0 at far as the Monsoon blew, I'rirtiitiVe ships, could sulfite, in such conditions, end did. Even in .10d, many shah ships con, Wined to sail Eastern seas. But in EuroPe it Wit not O. The North Atlantic, beyond the tfapic'd edge, detild bloW galeN at any seasbn, and there Were no seasonal Windt, Obligingly Shipping amides to British Columbia is like carrying,, coals to Newcastle. Yet that's what happened last year. Apple production in British Columbia last season was the smallest in many years. About 4.2 million bushels were •har- vested, compared 'with six mil- lion 'bushels the previous, ,year. To take up the slack, Ontario and Quebec producers shipped McIntosh apples to the west ccest for the first time in the mem- ory of veteran officials of the Fruit and Vegetable Division, Canada Department of Agricul- ture. Normally, B.C. ships apples eastward — especially later var- ieties and varieties not produc- ed by growers in the east. * * The sudden reversal in this trend has brought a warning from -the Plant Protection Di- vision of the federal. agriculture department that eastern ship- pers must live up to regulations laid down under the Destructive Insect and Pest Act. W. A. Fowler, chief of the division's plant inspection sec- tion, points out that the move- ment of apples from Ontario to British Columbia is prohibited unless fumigated under the supervision of an officer of the cliviSion. This is because of the Oriental fruit moth. * * Further, since the apple mag- got is known to exist in eastern apple growing areas and not in B.C., apples may be exported Only from orchards shown by inspections to be apparently free of the maggot. * * 4, Economists with .the Canada Department of Agriculture have revised an October quarterly forecast of hog marketings, in the face of a marked slowdown in production. They now predict an October- to-December marketing of 2,2 Million hogs, an increase of about seven per cent over the same period in 1958. The earlier forecast called for a boost of 19 per cent. * * A spokesman for the market- ing, section of the Economies Di- vision said he looked for a 15 Per cent increase in eastern Canada- 'during the last three months• last year, and a two per cent decline in western Can- ada. -are * * This year? Indications are for a decline of roughly 15 per cent over last year's booming hog market. The total output in 1959 is ex- pected to be 8.6 million, where- as this year it may fall to 7.5 million or lower. In revising their figures, the economists predicted a decline of four to five per cent in the first quarter of 1960 instead of 'the two per cent mentioned in the October prognosis. * The Agricultural Stabilization Board's support of the price of hogs by outright purchase ended January 9, and after that date support was to -take the form of deficiency payments. * * Producers who have not regis- tered for participation in the de- ficiency payment program should apply immediately. Forms may be obtained by writing the Ag- ricultural Stabilization Board, Canada Department of Agricul- ture, Confederation Building, Ot- tawa, or from the nearest office of the federal department's live- stock division. * 4, Application cards• for„ regis- tration are being mailednfo pro- ducers. 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