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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-05-26, Page 5ANYBODY IN THERE? - Nicky the parakeet takes a peek inside his master's mouth. it's the bird's favorite trick and 7-year-old Richard Maurel is proud of Micky. NDAY50001 LESSON BIG BUNNIES Will rabbit farmers soon be as common as pig and sheep farm- ers? And will the rabbits them- selves rival pigs in size? They could - if an idea originated in. Australia progresses much far- ther. A highly successful line in breeding rabbit giants for com- mercial markets has been open- ed in Sydney by Peter Pike and Peter Cox. The 15,000 rabbits on their farm, giant whites, are three times the size of ordinary wild bunnies. They began with a "herd':onlyefgur dozen strong. By intensive feeding and• skill- ed breeding,othese pioneers have built up first-class stock. Good pelts.Jfetch .twenty-five shillings each, and 'a recent consignment of carcases shipped to European, markets • averaged forty-nine shillihgt - Per rabbit. THE BIG WALK - Dr. Barbara Moore intends to walk across the United States on U.S. Rt. 40. The Russian:Born English- woman, 56, says she'll make it in410-50 days, wear out 13 pairs of shoes and exist on a raw fruit - vegetable - grass juice diet. Dr. Moore recently walked the length of Scotland and Eng- land - 1,028 miles. 61111111111g111111111ii11111111111111 1111 II 11111 1111111111111111111 1111111111114111111111111iiin ii11111111111i1M1111111111Milili iiiIII1161111111111111iiiii1111 gill IN Milli 1111 i§iiiiii1111111111111 111111111111i1111111111111111 aill111111111111111M11111111111ta 14111111111111111%11111111111111111141111 aiNI 11111% ®MINI ainalain 1111111fili11111111111 20 TAE FARM FRONT, ittaa.k.161:te WHAT AN EGG I - Coming across this i egg IS' lust too much for Marilyn Moncrief, 4, left and her sister Carol, 6. They came upon the relic in the museum of University of Michigan. It is a reconstruction of the egg, of an extinct Aepyornis, a bird which lived in Madagascar. LIGHT LIVES LEFT AftOr 13 days burled .oridetgronna, cat riarned ktify,, left, clawed way if 'Weii• .6-'044 when . bulldozers dumped apt the borne of thn J61)1136ii fa'64ilY'it of bovi points to her' 441f,th4sdei ostiapet hate 1 • 4 • 44 I I 4 I I Nobody Actually Breaks The Bank The man who broke the hank et Monte Carlo has about as much foundation in fact as the man in the moon. The hero of the popular song was it notorious cheat named Charles Welts,. If he "strolled around the town with an inde- pendent air" it was for twenty, four hours only. By then he was 'broke, Wells used other people's money for his adventures on the black and red and in 1893 he went to jail for eight years, It's true that he won from the Ceti- no the equivalent of $250,000 in titre days, but, like almost every other winner in history, he lost it again, The croupiers admit, when they're off duty, that the only man who wins money and keeps it is he who must leave Monte Carlo within the hour. The Casino's architecture is modelled on a wedding cake, but in the ornate gold and stucco gaming rooms there is no honey- moon atmosphere. Many of the customers are tourists, happily risking ten shillings or two dol- lars, but they are easy to dis- tinguish from the professionals, whose whole being is centred on the gaming table, Armed with notbooks and pencils they troop in when the Casino opens at ten each morn- ' ing and sit around their favour- ite table. They are addicts-and a frightening study they make with their sunken eyes, restless bands and nervous lips. 'They play for small stakes, but they play constantly, up to sixteen hours a day. Some of them claim that they can make a living. But they won't reveal their system-and most of them have a system. Francois Blanc, found- er of the Casino, once offered 20Q,000 francs to anybody who could demonstrate a foolproof system. Nobody ever claimed the prize. The trouble is that sroulette has no connection with matherna- ' tics or the law of averages. , The croupiers 'day' ''.'that, one * system does work. It consists ,of doubling your 'ttake :srcat ';s win. In practice this.. theory has two obstacles. The firit is that you may be forced to double your stake, say 100 times before you win. If your original stake was for 209 francs, you would need to be a millionaire for your 100th bet, The second obstacle is created by the management, which pro- tects itself by invoking "the maximum." For instance, at • a table where the minimum bet is 200 francs the maximum'might be 51,200-reached by doubling the stake eight times. Roulette is a game of few rules and no skill, The player places his bet on the table and chooses a number between nought and 36, The winning number pays about 3,500 francs for a 200-franc chip.' ,As a new game starts every three minutes it is possible to lose money at an alarming rate. The Casino made a profit of $18,000,000 in one recent year. One man who did win a mil- lion francs, and kept them, was an Italian Air Force pilot. Just as the pilot's winning break ended a dispatch rider arrived 'with an order for him to rejoin his squadron immediately. Each table has its bank of about 500,000 francs and it is possible for a gambler to win all this money before it can be re- plenished. " But as 200 million francs in chips are always on hand the chances of breaking a table are remote. For sixty years the Casino has provided a free ticket home, plus expenses, to any customer Who loses all his funds in the Casino. The money is ealled a viaticum. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Partners 5. Fleet even tnnes', 9. HardetS 12, Elijah (Ttal,) 13. Attehtitin 14..06 an histori cal period, 15. Letterer 17. Ipttff up 18. Seines 19. stylish • (ColltitiO" 20. Book of the. Bible 24. Multitudes 26, The herb dill 27. Depart .29, Before 80. Tall iitiright stick s 82. Legume $3,`Sho*,Me State WO' 24. Aet, In..tbrit, place 87. CklitidrIcal U. Units '40. Shatter 12. 014 Mali coins O. City on 'the Seine , 45. Collect 'Into it volume 48. Rtibber trees 49, Drain 60. Malignant 1111.'PlOiVer 52, Uncles." (tsriet.)' 3. Consld r' • It is noted in a card index which contains some of ,Furope's most illustrious names, together with the Harries of improviderit tourists, None is allowed to re, turn until the viaticum is paid, and most loans are repaid. First-time visitors think that the eroupier isn't carefully. watching their 200-frane chip, but his eyes miss nothing, He has. been thoroughly trained for his work, . which he .does in six hour sessions, Uncannily he can toss chips on to the correct num- bers with never a mistake, make rapid-fire monetary calculations. in .his bead and settle arguments. among customers, For all this he is paid only about $35 a Week, The professional gamblers say that to be quite sure of winning, the gambler, no matter how geod • his system, must invoke some good luck, A. German professional fondles a piece. of rope when things are going badly. According to the German, it was used by a stu- dent who hanged himself from a tree in Casino. Square after losing the family fortune! • Anybody in the world aged sixteen or over may enter the Casino and gamble theree-with the interesting exception of the 12,000 Monaco nationals. Prince Rainier protects his own citizens. He knows that nobody' breaks the bank at Monte Carlo. Five Montreal meat packing firms have been fined for mis- branding meat. Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture officials have disclosed. Hoehelaga Western Beef Co Ltd., , Palace Meat Co, Inc,, . Prairie Packing Co. Ltd., East- ern Beef 'Packers Ltd., and A. Pesner and •Co. Inc., all pleaded guilty before the Hon. Justice !Guy. Guilbault in Montreal. • ..They were chaxged ewith, vio- lating sections of the .Canada ''Agricultural Products Standards Act, which prohibit the improper ' use of, the' national grade names for ' agricultural products, and the sale, or the offer, to sell, 'of snisbranded products. Officials said' the firms brand- ed low grade beef, some of it cow beef, with Canada Choice and Canada Good grade names, .which indicate high quality. Some of the meat had not been graded by government graders, it was charged, while other meat had been up-graded after having come under official scrutiny: '" * * * It is probable that the people of Montreal eat more fresh ap- ples per person than those of any ether large Canadian city. Their consumption rate is al- most double the Canadian aver- age. * * In 1957-58 the Economics Di- vision conducted a survey of "Consumer Preference for Ap- ples in Greater Montreal" for the Quebec Agricultural.Market- ing Board. The interviews taken would indicate that during the season of peak consumption, October and November, Montrealers buy about seven pounds of apples per person per month, provided that there is an abundant local supply of good quality apples. * 4, During this period almost a third of the apples used were bought at roadside stands and the farmers' markets. By March, when those outlets were used to a very limited extent, the purchase rate had halved. Major factors in this drop in purchase rate. would be increase in price, deoline in quality and an ele- ment of consumers becoming less eager to eat apples alter a period a heavy usage. * * Apple consumption does not appear to' be affected much by income among families with an income over $2,500 pet annum. Likewise' sinall price changes probably have very little effect on purchases of apples. Ott the Other hand, extension of the Season during which high quality apples are available at Moderate prices would probably increase apple' eoristitiiptien, * With respect to processed ap , pie products there would appear to be considerable Petsibilitiet of developing increased demand in Montreal Most of'these pro- ducts Were used by only a min, otity a the families interview- ed /t is PrObable that increased awareness Of the merits : Of Vitae thized apple jilted and apple pie filler in particular' would Create doritttniptien.- A report ditetissirig thete and Haler findings a this study Is ,available on requeSt froth the ' iteonoMicS Division of the Cartee cla lieportinen e t Of AicultUte. postal note for safety) lot this Canadian apple growers today are confronted with a problem that has received little attention in the past - lack, of zinc in orchards. Zinc is one of the minor, nu- trients required for normal growth of plants. Its lack has been reported in the Okanagan Valley and in ,eastern Clitoris), reports H. B. 'Beene's?, Plant Re- search Institutes Canada-Departe ment of Agriculture. . Zinc deficiency tee leaf" or "rosette',,, after'. its' most characteristic symptom'. The rosette is fgrmed by, 'a dense- cluster of small narrOw leaves at the end of , aelarandh. Jug' below the rosette,' the branch is usually leafless. Branch teeminals are oftenaf- fected first, the symptoms be- ing most noticeable early 'in the season and less obvious as the season progresSes. The affected growth is more'subject to winter injury and is frequently pruned out of the tree. * 4. * Mild cases of zinc deficiency are difficult to detect since a recognizable rosette is not al- ways formed, Some yellow is often present in mold cases and may be confused with chlorosis caused by iron, manganese, or magnesium deficiencies. Symptoms of zinc deficiency should be referred to a local agricultural representative or a horticultural specialist, warns Mr. Heeney. Only after defi- ciency is confirmed by some one familiar with the problem, should an attempt be made to apply a corrective foliage spray. Instructions for treating zinc deficiency may be obtained from experimental farm staffs when required. Which Is Worse - Frogs Or Verse? What is the issue of the hour on. Genessee Avenue? Taxes? Inflation? Defense? Unemployment? Foreign affairs? Nope. Frogs. It seems Mrs. Martha M. Durnerin, who lives on Genes- see Avenue on the Los Angeles west side, has a garden full of croaking tree frogs. They croak in the springtinie and in the early summer, They croak all night long arid they keep the neighbors awake. They have been creaking from the garden each spring for about• five years now, So there has sprung up in the neighborhood an antifrog face tien. It is led by Melvin E. LevY, an apartment house owner, and several, of hi's= sleepless tenants. Mumbling about the "noise cre- ated by multitudes of frogs," Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking p 5 0 3dO 39 O2t ElamElam 3 rig a, ©g oo n nun wobj 9 I1JVd b3A El l H9 1 s 3 H© 3 2J op d SEI Cla 13 El C10 A El El v v -,1E1Elella MEIN! IMOD MEND El 0 E1 ISO , - MIE1 1011111ilE1 010 Ell Ellinnl OIDEDDID El 19 they took the matter up recently with the Los Angeles city at- torney. Their complaint: Mrs. Dur- nerin was maintaining a public nuisance with those frogs. Mrs, Durnerin pleaded not guilty. She had no control over all those frogs, said she. They came to her garden naturally. She never brought any. of, them in or encouraged them to come, writes John C. Waugh in the Christian Science Monitor. Nor did Mrs, Durnerin stand Alone in the office of the city attorney. She was joined there by a pro-frog faction,. which tes- tified that it enjoyed "the coun- try atmosphere the frogs brings to the garden." "I ..enjoy,, the.. singing - ef the frogs," said one. "Visitors come r-4frenrio all -rarotrri'd to enjoy the.. song." tee, "sprig', of "'roe," another. "Ilea've my ,,window,, open to hears them." "I' qike the' qrog's night,"" said;still another.. "It' Is a relief front television." s• -Mrs. Dora Bell, enraptured by , 'the sweet frog song, even wrote po.em. It, goes• like this: "0 happy frogs • In your little bogs You• know it's spring And so you sing! "All summer .long You doze away With not a song To cheer the way- "All winter sleep In caverns deep, And dream always Of better days. "But comes the spring! Oh how you sing, Fearless and gay - On that happy day." She volunteered to recite her poem in full, but a voice from the crowd complained: "If there is anything I hate more than frogs, it's poems about frogs." Caught in the middle was assistant city attorney; Cyrus A. Davis. He finally said he didn't believe Mrs. Durnerin' could be held responsible for the singing of the frogs. Besides, said he, spring is the mating season for tree frogs. They stop 'croaking after that. Mr. Davis even threw' his head back and croaked in eispert imi- tation of the tree frog. He later waxed nostalgic. "I like the song, myself," he said, "I grew up among the tree frogs in Pennsylvania. Make me kind of homesick." And so, the song of the frog is still heard on , Genessee Avenue.' fay Rev. It. 11, Warren, IS..., B.G, The Peacemakers Matthew 59, 21-22, 38-48 Memory Selection: Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God, Matthew 5:9 ,Since 1914 we have been hear- ing, almost daily, of war and rumour of war. It's wearisome. It's terrifying for those more directly involved. We spend bit, lions of dollars to prepare new weapons of defense, only to 'find that they are outmoded by the time we have them completed. We have more communications with other nations than ever be- fore, by cable, telephone and face to face conferences, and the main topic is war, The sayings of the angels on the morning of Jesus' birth, "On earth peace," is almost drowned out amid the din. Jesus said the peacemakers are happy, A man had separated from his wife and daughter over a disagreement concerning pro- perty, separately owned. One of the lawyers said, "This is a case whore I think you can do more than we can." I talked with each party separately but both thought they were entirely in the right. Then sickness came and hospitalization. Hard hearts became tender. Tears of recon- ciliation flowed. When the hos- pitalization was over I was ask- ed to go with them as they joined together in their home. They were happy and it was one of the happiest days of my life. I have a policeman friend who acts as a peacemaker. One night he had to take to jail a drunken husband who had become vio- lent. Then he talked to the wife about the power of Jesus Christ to save from sin. She started to pray, and started to church, taking her The husband has realized his folly 'and- is starting- to chumh.4.Com-lu lag to church, in .144 nOit, sufficient, They must come. to Christ. We believe they When we forsake our sins anc4 believe on, Jesus Christ as Li.04 and Saviour we find poop within. .Then we shall, be work- ers i for peace n our .homes, communities, the church and the nation. The effect of happiness!. pills is, very temporaq. But we are peacemakers, we have God's favour and. blessing, Let us seek those things which make. for peace, Snakes And Rubies Rubies and, royalty. They have a 1ways been associated, And Pfarsiliiicoenss Margarethia.uabityenetnigna tghee. merit ring given to her by Antony Armstrong-Jones. Rubies, "gems of the sun" as people in Far Eastern countries call them, are said to be lucky, Some Orientals believe that a good spirit dwells within each one. Weight for weight, some of the gems found in the great ruby mines of Burma are more valu- able than diamonds, A native legend in the Far East says that one cobra in every twenty possesses a flaming, blood-red ruby, "The snake is in the habit of carrying, the 'stone in its mouth, regarding the ruby pasreativls anal guardswith treasure carefullyitsers life," states a student of myth- ology. "We're told that at night the cobra watches it for hours, fas- cinated. The stone is semi-trans- parent and emits a faint but dis- tinct red glow in the dark. "The cobras are said to find the rubies in dried up river beds. Hunters in search of these snake stones sometimes see one gleam- ing in the night, but never know exactly where the reptile lies. The cobra, on hearing the slight- est sound, escapes with the ruby and the legend adds that if the snake loses the stone it will either commit suicide or die of erief." . • 8. Choose 27. Triangular 9. Expunge inset 10. Loops and 28. Poems knots 31. 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