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The Brussels Post, 1960-06-16, Page 3TELEVISION PERSONALITIES MEET — Soprano Marion Anderson meets Cuban Premier Fidel Castro in a Havana television station. 'Miss Anderson was presented in a concert prior to Castro's political telecast. fe,bile was taut in the looking, for Au thi's recorder) to say that Sandra is not going to, kindergarten today.; so we won't stop at the .grity, shingled himee Ibis morning, I check up. "LaMar, Water- ford, Carson, Briggs, Sandra absent and we don't take Tony Page in the mornings." (Tony is • in the afternoon kindergarten.) We travel two blocks and then Dora 1'0011s something she for- got — her lunch money, I don't have my purse with me and so we go back to Dora's. She earrica her violin case in with her, lier mother is up in the attic and takes some time coming to the door, MeanWhile, the other chil- dren are speculating, rather un- graciously, _about whether the last .1)011. has rung. Dora steams back. to the- ear. Theater door slams, We move oaf, "I left my violin!" Dora bleats. At this point I try to count, my blessings, I'm sure I must have some, But even the fact that I've lost eight pounds and two inches and you can again see my earrings from front-face seems insignificant. When they noisily clamber out at school, I shout, "Watch 'fin- gers!" Two doors slam, I go home and face my day, • On the return trip I must re- member that Sandra is absent, Dora stays for Scouts, and Jim- mie has been excused early for a piano lesson, But I do pick up Tony. His mother has brought him at neon. She's in a noon pool with another woman, whose child goes home in still another afternoon pool. The neighbourhood is simply riddled with car pools. I myself in four pools and a puddle, all with differing personnels, course. There's the regular grade-school pool, the Friday night danping-class pool, the pool for the Girl &outs after school on Mondays, the Satur- day morning concert puddle (this witty designation is due to the fact that there are only two mothers in it), and the pool on Tuesday aacernoons for the girls who take swimming les- sons at the Y. Naturally we call this swimming arrangement the pool pool. Might as well get what fun we can out of it! At a PTA meeting last month I heard Dorothy Page talking withstwo of the car-pool fathers. "Tomorrow is my regular day to drive the school pool," she said, "but Rosalie is driving instead, because I drove the pool pool. last week for Lola, and Rosalie is going to be out .of town next week and Lola will drive • for her. So Rosalie wants to make it up in advance and she's go- ing to take Lola's trip for me, tomorrow." The husbands sank aghast on two of those PTA folding chairs, congratulating themselves that all they have to do is to pay for the gasoline. NAMED PRESIDENT — Arthur W. Eckman of Cambiedge, Magee was named President of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ; Scientist, in Boston, Mass., at the June ii Annual Meeting. -r........,...",:, Dz_filip,i ii.tR NORAy.: ,,,,,. :23 ki. K.. H2.3 mi. NAPLES .:i•.: ' SWEDEN': . 25 DEN, ,., er eeseeneeezeree. MI FOL#ifell• • 27 .1,41, MEXICO • ' ::37 mi. .,:t...i... :PERU ....: ' 46.iii a- ' 7•=!,2:!•:;?mtz:AqXi.:. CHINA . • " 4mi. SEE THE WORLD — The world really is shrinking if these signs are accurate. They are but don't worry, They're all towns in Maine. She Bathed In Strawberries! Have you ever wondered why strawberries are red? Scientists can now tell us. They have isolated the red pig- ment and discovered that it is anthocyanin. Very little of it is needed to give strawberries their colour; one-hundredth of an ounce to a pound of berries is enough. There's health in strawberries, says nutrition experts. A Ger- man doctor made himself fam- ous by his strawberry cures for cases of acute rheumatism. An- other doctor who opened a nurs- ing home surrounded by straw- berry fields in Saxony, Germany, claimed to have treated success- fully hundreds of sufferers from- gout, A famous French beauty, Madame Tallien, was convinced that strawberries were a great factor in keeping her beautiful. She was reputed to take every morning a bath in which twenty pounds of strawberries were • crushed. She would emerge with a skin "freshly perfumed," soft as vel- vet and tinted with a delicate pink," Strawberries are among the fruits which have been greatly improved in the past few cen- turies. The earliest strawberries were known as wildings and from them, with the introduction of other strains from abroad, have been evolved the large and luscious berries we know to-day. One of the Oldest of London's almost, forgotten street cries was "Strawberry ripe!" The famous wit Sydney Smith, once said "What is true piety? What is true attachment to the Church? Sending strawberries to a clergy- man." But taste in strawberries dif- fers in various parts of the world. In South America the sourest strawberries are the most sought after. They are eaten unsweetened, served with a sufficient quantity of cream to conceal the fruit 'completely cent for one strawberry placed alluringly oh top of the cream like the Cherry oh a cocktail, NOW Long MO A Seed 'Live? Botanists are laughing at a story that wheat taken from AP Egyptian tomb thousands of years old began to grow again When put hi a flower-pot, "I t's impossible," they say, Like the tales of sea-serperits, these storiet of "Mummy wheat," as it is delled, Crop up every year, especially in spring, During the forty years that Sir Ernest Wallis Budge Was at the British ..Mtteetint (thittY of Canada's prairie farmers have 'their hopes fixed on export mar- kets in France, Japan, and Italy as they prepare to raise the larg- est crop of rapeseed ever at- tempted in the country. Encouraged by prospects that foreign markets will absorb all the rapeseed Canada can pro- duce in 1960, farmers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are planning to devote up to 1,000,- 000 acres to the oil-yielding crop this year, compared with the 218,000 acres they had in rape- seed last year. These three provinces are the only parts of Canada where rapeseed is grown commercially. (In the 'United States, production of rapeseed has become so in- significant commercially that the United States Marketing. Serv- ice, since 1953, has kept no rec- ord of it.) 'Conntless numbers of prairie farmers are planning in seeking an escape from producing more surplus wheat and to capitalize on the demand for a crop which now offers them better returns than cereal grains. They expect to pocket an average of between $50 and $60 per acre from rape- seed this year. Despite an extremely dry spring, which reduced both the planted acreage and yields har- vested, Western Canada's farmers last year garnered 180,000,000 pounds of rapeseed and obtained $7,200,000 for that production. The farm price for the crop averaged four cents a pound, and , many growers harvested yields averaging 1,500 pounds of rape- seed an acre. Lesser numbers had yields of 2,000 pounds an them as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities) he re- ceived an average of three let- ters e week from men and Wo- men, including keen gardeners, who asked whether seeds known to be as old as the Pharaohs could be made to germinate. "No" was always his emphatic answer. At last, to prove that the idea was nonsense, he took some seed which he himself had seen excavated from an eighteenth- dynasty tomb near Western Thebes, Egypt, twenty-eight years earlier, and had it tested. It refused to grow, But a Japanese horticulturist who found the 2,000-year-old seed of a lotus flower buried ten feet deep in an ancient canoe, claimed that it grew after he had planted it. Other claims have been made that seeds from granaries and tombs in overwhelmed cities such as Pompeii sprouted• when planted in pots on the table in a London dining-room. Investi- gating experts agreed that the seeds they were shown were sprouting, but said they were from wheat grown in Britian two years earlier. How long, then, can a seed live? The French botanist, Bee- querel, experimented with some 500 kinds in the collections of the National History Museum in Paris. He got twenty tproutingt from dry and, to all detWard appear- ances, "deed and gone" seeds, specimens ranging from twenty- tight to eighty-seven years old. All Other seeds more than eighty- seven Yeats old failed to germin- ate, ISSUE 25....1964 .13Y goy, 11, WAFTM NEARING GOOD 111,DITS Matthew 7;15.24:1,tike 15i6.9 Memory Selection: Abide lilt. Me, and 1 in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, rept it abide in, the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide tt Me, •Iolin 15;4, There have always been hypo- crites. When they get into the ranks of the ministry, they are more dangerous, Jesus said, "Be. ware of false prophets, which. come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are „ravening; wolves, Ye shall know them by their fruits." But the fruit is not immediately apparent, Hour can we know? Here are two Scriptures which are good indi- cators, "Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His," Romans 8:9, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy. peace, long suKering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, tem- perance." Galatians 5 22,23, The final doom of the false prophet is set forth in the words, "Every tree that bringeth not forth good, fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire." A profession of religion may pass with men. But Jesus says that even prophesying in His name, casting out devils and do- ing wonderful works are not sufficient, Workers of iniquity may do these things. Satan is a deceiver and his followers fol- low his example. The parable of the fig tree em- phasizes the requirement for all of us to bear fruit. The Lord. is very patient but if we con- tinue to be barren and unfruit- ful we shall be cut off. We have been saved at great cost. We can never repay. At our best we are unprofitable servants. But we must show forth the fruit of the Spirit in our daily walk. If we think and talk and walk like the devil we are certainly not on our way to heaven — our church standing or past religious experience notwithstanding. A drunken man was telling me of the high offices he held in his church. I asked, "Do you think God is pleased with you in that condition?" Drunkenness is one of the work of the flesh of those of whom it is said, "They 'which. do such things shall no inherit the kingdom of God: Galatians 5:21, We are saved by faith and not by works. But out of gratitude to God for His marvellous grace we should be diligent in good. works. ON HIND FEET — Two vehicles which 'collided tri a Chicago street ended Up doing the cha cha. fer to "wildcat' with rapeseed — that is,. growing the crop on their own and then search •.Ant the highest-paying markets themselves. In some years "wild. cutters" have obtained double the contract prices but were bur- timed with more problems than contract 'growers. '5 0, Rapeseed was introduced to the- Canadian prairies in 1942 on an experimental basis, and for the rest of World War II was grown mainly to provide for- ming a base for marine lubri- cants. After the war it WAS raised for kts edible oil And provide livestock .feeding meal. During the past year rapeseed oil, was proven to have superior lubricating qualities for pre- mium oils and standard greases, and its use for these purposes is increasing in western. Canada, An extensive survey of the prairie provinces the other day revealed farmers were almost falling over each other in the rush to grow rapeseed. Hundreds of wheat farmers who had never seen rapeseed were signing con- tracts to raise the crop this year. Those who grew it in past years were contracting substantially larger acreages. Making estimates of rapeseed acreages for this year, various agricultural authorities placed the minimums at 200,000 acres for Alberta, 450,000 acres for Saskatchewan, and 50,000 acres for Manitoba, Last year's acre- ages for these provinces were 30,800, 171,000, and 16,000 respec- tively. (//vE 1IN6AY SCHOOL LESSON THE FAIIN FRON Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking Possum Plague In New Zealand A plague of opossums in New Zealand is causing almost as much anxiety to the authorities as that of rabbits in Australia. Schemes are now being launched to wipe out this small animal which was introduced from Aus- tralia about a century ago. Possessing fifty teeth apiece and terrific appetites, opossums are causing, widespread havoc. They eat the leaves, stalk and bark of shrubs, destroy crops and orchards and make off with all the eggs they can find. There are about 25,000,000 opossums in New Zealand. They vary considerably in size, some being as big as a cat, others as small as a mouse. Half a crown is paid for each opossum caught, in New Zealand, which accounts for about a mil- lion a year. Another million are trapped each year for their fur, In tropical America there is a species called crab-eating opos- sums, which live on crabs, as their name indicates, They fre- quent marshy places in order to catch their prey. Many species of opossum carry their young on their backs, as they have no pouch•. Hunting opossums with dogs at night is very popular in the au- tumn in the southern states of the United States. At this time the animals make excellent food, as they have a layer of fat all over them. The opossum hides in a tree and is either shaken down or shot as it hangs by its tail. When caught they try to feign death and it is this habit which gives rise to the expression "playing possum." 3N d ill S DOWOOMOMMEM MUD,A2MUM Eigazitionmu Arians LEM= AEIMEIE/I1 IMOLRE MEM ummoromin um 3d 3 IcIS N Oilliv ;;1 ofd -i tiril."T 530V 3.1-V21031d 1 I 1 SSVigo VI 21 21 3i o[At N 11 H surn DUB DOM acre, In most cases rapeseed doubled the monetary returns from wheat, the biggest single crop 'for the prairie provinces. Practically the entire 1959 pro- duction of rapeseed now has been exported to Japan, and that country has been joined by France and Italy in seeking large volumes of the grain this year from Canada. Only recently a purchasing mission from France toured western Canada nego- tiating purchases of more than $12,000,000 worth of rapeseed. • Rapeseed, which resembles wild mustard and is a drought- resistant crop, yields a vegetable oil that is edible and one which also can be used as an oil base for highgrade lubricants. Although a relatively new crop on the Canadian prairies, it has suddenly become exceedingly popular with • western farmers because it provided them with handsome returns last year, is assured of a guaranteed cash market by firm contracts, and now is in great demand for the export trade. Another important and attrace tive factor is the short growing period required by the crop. Even the most northern agricul- tural regions of Canada can plant rapeseed in May and have it harvested by the middle of August, writes George A. Yacku- lie in the Christian Science Monitor. Rapeseed also appeals to fat- mers because it is not subject to restricted grain delivery quo- tas such as apply to wheat, bar- ley, and oats. When these limited quotas are filled, the oereal grains back up onto farms. Many prairie farmers still have wheat to-market from the past three or four crops. A contract-signing stampede for rapeseed developed across the prairies as soon as the French puchasing mission disclosed its needs, farmers and seed firms staging an outright rush to cash in on proepect of expanded fore- ign markets for the crop. Rapeseed contracts for this year guarantees farmers initial. payments ranging from two to three cents per pound of rape- seed. Additional payments will be determined by the market price of the crop after it is liar. vested. While the bulk of the rape- seed acreage is aimed directly at markets in France, Japan, and Italy, not all of Canadas 1960 rapeseed crop will be raised un- der contracts guaranteeing mar- kets and prices, Many independ- ent-minded prairie farmers pre- A .5.topr.ing,Wbool In • Vert' Hconti For a woman who can't swain ek 'stroke, I spend an incredible amount of time in peak. And when I think of all the oppor- tunities I had for being a spin- elm': But no — I got marriecll And what does mete k'ge lead to? Children, And what do chil- dren lead to? The educational process. And What does the edu- cational proms 'lead to? Car pools, The next time I have to x111 out one of these blanks that ask im- pertinent, questions such as "Date of birth," "Weight.;" etc., I shall certeinly w r i t et 'Occupation: chauffeur." Chauffeuse, I suppose it should be, although it really is a man-sized job, For anyone wishing to make e serious study 04 pool procedure, here are some directions, Let us begin at the* moment breakfast is over,. teeth are brushed (what there is of them); coats are but- toned (such as they are); and lunch money deposited in wallet and purse respectively. I advance to the big kitchen calendar. I look for the pencil. I say, "Today I am going to tie, that pencil to the calendar." When the pencil is found (up in. Juliet's room acting as a perch for the parakeet, or down in the basement impersonating a log in the gondola of Austin's elec- tric train), I write beside the date everything that each child is wearing cr carrying — every- thing losable, in feet. (Some af- ternoons I .even remember to check it when they coma home.) We insert ourselves into the car (a very essential ingredient for a car pool). We stop two doors down the street and honk delicately for 'fourth-grade. Jimmie. I am always in a quan- dary at this point if Jimmie and his little sister, Karen, do not emerge promptly. To honk again sounds peremptory. Yet, if they didn't hear it the first time—. Jimmie comes out; immaculate, with hair *parted geometrically perfectly and brushed back in an enchanting swirl. He still reeks pleasantly of hair-stick 'urn and peppermint toothpaste: His sweater is handmade. He looks like the Hope of America. Kar- en's coat is a new school coat, not an old "good" coat. We proceed down the street to the little colonial cottage. Dora is always late and so I have no delicacy about multiple honks here. Dora holds up the car pool after school, also, because she has a teacher who is a keeper- in. Every car pool has one, There are now four children in the back seat. "Buttons down," I carol, "two middle children, sit forward; two outside children, sit back." This is the ritual to be used after each new child ent- ers the car. Next is small Carlie. His mother has two younger boys and a baby. He arrives with sticky crumbs on his dimpled cheeks and usually — like the Mad Hatter — a piece of bitten toast in his hand. I Forgot to say that this is Orchestra Day (it is always some Day) and Juliet has her violin with her; and Carlie a large air- plane model he is carrying for show-and-tell. Juliet has also her Glee Club surplice and Dora has_ her violin, Austin has his re- corder, and Dora is bringing her pet turtle in a large bowl. rather unnecessarily. full of very liquid water. Karen is bearing a large iced cake for her class party. And Jimmie has his cornet and case. How thankful I am none of them takes tuba lessons! On rainy days, of course, there are raincoats, helmets, goloshes, end end Umbrellae besides. And that damp, wooly smell, writes Ne- dra Nevakirk Lamar in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. Mrs. Briggs has telephoned aerleatta 4 12 16 •44.: 21 22 CROSSWORD PUZZLE 2. Danish coin 3. Admitted to the ministry 4, intertwine • 5. Alack 6, Pose as a mode 7. Moving brisk y. 15 2 18 3 13 B. Contracted 30. Slide 9. Hurt 33. Sprinkle 10. Otherwise with flour 11. Action 34, Deep affection 16. Worthless *36. Military 20, Cereal student 21. FelloW 37. Long for (colloq,1 (colloct.) 22. 1-6xpect 38, Applaud 23, GloW 80. 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Cyclist Ovei 1 undiri on the outside wen the tire-idling hate. AnaVver elsewhere on this page". a