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WATCHFUL EYE-TV cam-
era silently scans movement
of copper ore deep in an Ari-
zona mine. Device enables,
one operator to control sev-
eral moving belts.
bring the total to 400,000 copies.
Fallout on the Farm offers ad-
vice to farmers on 'how to avoid
the immediate dangers of fall-
out from an atomic attack. It. does
not go into the long-range prob-
lems or the effects on future
generations, it describes a nu-
clear blast only to make the rec-
ommendations understandable,
and it emphasizes what can be
done to pro tee; family and live-
stock during the first :few days
after an attack.
Waiting For Moon
To Do Its Stuff
The great total eclipse of Feb.
5 has answered the prayers of
American solar physicists. While
millions of Asians sought to fore-
stall the end of the world with
offerings and sacrifices, an eight-
man scientific team from the
Hight Altitude Observatory at
Boulder, Colo., the Sacramento
Peak' (N.M.) Observatory, and
the National Bureau of Stand-
ards hoped to record it photo-
graphically from a seashore at
Lae, New Guinea.
Twice before in the last five
years, the U.S. team had traveled
thousands of miles to record the
totality and capture an unparal-
leled view of the solar thromes-
pher e, the little - Understood
boundary between the visible
disk of the sun and the encirc-
ling corona. In 1958, rain wash,-,
ed out the attempt from Danger
Island in the South. Pacific;' a
Year later in the Canary Islands,
clouds masked the sun seconds
before totality occurred.
This time the heavens parted:
"When we went out to the cam-
eras after breakfast," Dr. -John
Firor of Colorado eepotted, "it'
was raining, At 8 A.M. the rain
stopped but there were several
layers of cloude. We were feel-
ing terrible."
Then, at 8'48 two minutes
before the 162 seconds of total-
ity were to begin -7.- the clouds
cledred. The day became night.
The pearly White corona leaped
out around the black of the moon,
Why all the interest i n.
eclipses? Firor gives three eeae
sons, First, the moon blocks out
the Mein light of the sun, and
petmits detailed investigations
impossible at other tithes, Sec
shied the moon is travelling
across the face of the sen at 300
miles per second, the catneraS can
be set to take thtee pictures a
second and give Phetegeaplis of
100-mile areas. Finally, with thiS
good, detail and fine resolution,
the physical processes that go on
in the eine:6'10'0116re can be anal-
yzed.
""We,have enough material for
decade of studY," Firer Celielticle
ed
Brown Rats Cost
Britain Billions
Wanted - a pied piper to
charm the legions of brown rats,
infesting country areas in. Bri-
tain today, Fenland, in particu-
lar, is suffering from the worst
rat invasion within living mem-
ory.
In 1960, one of its professional
rat catchers, Mr. W. A. Evans,
put down eight tons of poison
bait. Last year he laid an even
heavier trail of rat killer.
But still they come, the brown,
disease-bearing, hungry hordes,
roving over fields and pastures,
settling in dykes and penetrating
farmyards, potato fields, gran-
aries and store houses.
Immense, almost incalculable,
damage results.
These wily thieves devour
thousands of tons of pig, chicken
and duck food annually. Some
Norfolk duck breeders, on the
open field system, also suffer
heavy losses of young ducks.
When in the brooder stage
shortly after their artificial
hatching, the ducklings are kept
for a fortnight behind wire
mesh. Rats crawl or burrow un-
derneath and sometimes drag the
ducklings through the meshes,
piece by piece, feasting on them
in the process.
Some Fen rats, giants of their
species, bite cows, as they lie in
their stalls on winter nights.
This interferes with milk yields,
so decreasing dairy supplies.
Authorities say that these rat
plagues occur in waves. They
can. only be combated if every-
one in the countryside keeps
animal foodstuffs tidy and in
ratproof containers or buildings.
Wasted foodstuffs on Britain's
farms are said to turn in an
annual bill of $350,000,000 a
year. Rats account for the bulk
of it, and in addition they spread
deadly diseases among stock.
Discount Houses
Going. High Hat?
Discount houses, which began
in vast Sheds littered with. Army
surplus goods, are far from mori-
bund, They, grossed an estimated
$4.2 billion last year, expect to
hit $5 billion this year. Nonethe-
less, there is evidence that the
mushrooming industry is increas-
ingly weighted down with the
props and circumstances of r-
espectability. Items:
The nation's discount operators
held their first trade fair last
month in Chicago.
"Plain pipe racks," the symbol
of loev overhead, are vanishing
from many of the 3,300 discount
houses across the U.S.A. And new
outlets in the works-aboUt 1,000
are scheduled to be built this
year will be indistinguishable
from suburban department stores,
with wide aisles, attractive, dis-
plays, and earpeting.
Bidding for ever more of the
rival department stores' custom,'
ers, discounters are offering ever
more services. Shoppers can now
ge,t clothing fitted and appliances
serviced,. In many stores, they
can even buy on time.
Perhaps most telling, E. J, Kor-
vette, Inc., the discount giant
whose $180 million sales led the
field last year, 'will opeti a store
lie Match on New York's fancy
Fifth Avenue-in the very build-
ing long occupied and just vacat-
ed, by that arbiter of furniture
fashions, W. & S. Sloane, which
has moved farther downtown,
What of Korvette'S application to
join the protective Fifth Avenue
"Association? "KorVette intends
to run this store like any other
department stote," ehetigged
spekesinan„ One leceird riteniber
added; "I'd• rather hava tiler!!.
With tie than against tii."
i§gt* o 1962
Harvesting Ice
From. The River
Icing, day came as a welcome
break in the drab monotony of
these dark days. lea was a neees-
eitY, not a luxury, with us. My
father was a wholesale beefdealer
long before the days of the big
Chicago packers, Every Menday
he drove to Reading, a Matter of
five miles, boarded a train for
Boston, took a horse-ear to Brian,
ton and there at the stockyards
bought a bunch of wild Texas
steers, Drovers brought them on
the hoof over country roads
every Tuesday in the safety of the
night, reaching our place Wed-
nesday morning,
With January my father kept
Close tabs on the river for all the
ice he would need. "The, Old
Farmer's Ahnanac" was carefully
read and weather signs were
studied, I think I can quote more
weather ere rhymes than any
superstitious old Yankee living,
They really weren't superstitions,
They were compiled observatiOns
of years of New England weather
patterns,
For our purposes we liked best
An ice cake of twelve by four-
teen inches, We had no equip-
ment for planing, so we watched
the formation of ice on the cove
in the Ipswitch River for the
proper thickness. The ice had to
be piled tier on tier in the tall
icehouse and must be, of uniform
thickness to pack well, to pre-
serve an even balance and pre-
vent sliding. As the tiers got
beyond a man's reach a horse
drawn pulley was used. The job
of handling the horse fell to my
brother,
It sometimes went into Febru-
ary before we could get sufficient
thickness to harvest. Once it went
into March. That year the river
failed to produce ice thick enough
to bear the weight of horses and
the necessary machinery, We had
to harvest in Swan Pond-that
little jewel of a lake secreted in
the deep pine woods a mile back
of our house, There in the se-
cluded shade of the tall forest
trees we harvested 29-inch ice-
a difficult thickness to handle
and a long hard pull over rough
wood roads for the horses. But
'January was the usual month for
icing,
The ice house itself packed 150
tons, the dry storage at one end
of the long barn cellar took about
50 tons, and the refrigerator box
held 23. So, as a matter of simple
arithmetic, our harvest was 228
tons. And it was handled in a
night and a day.
Preparations at the cove began
the day before harvesting the
ice, If snow had fallen on top of
the clear crystal,, it had to be
scraped. This was done with
horses and scrapers in the after-
noon. The horse-shoes all had to
be sharpened at the blacksmith
shop three miles away. It needed,
sharp calks to prevent them from
slipping on the pond ice and to
give them purchase on the slip-
pery snow-packed road from the
cove to the hill - a pod half
mile.
At midnight the ice plows
started work scoring the pond.
By morning the 24-inch blocks
were plowed, ready'to be broken
up into 12-inch cakes and floated
by pike pole down the channel
and lifted or skidded into the sleds
backed down to the river bank.
Each sled carried a load of 20
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blecke., about two tons to the
trip. We usually had six two-
horse sleds, seven if we could
get them. And It was steady
procession all day long of horses
with proudly tossing heads cone
SOWS of their gleaming buckles
and polished harness, 0910red
plumes On their bridles blowing
in the brisk air hauling the load-
ed sleds, the, teamsters shouting,
encouragement, gay bells jang-
ling, Strange as it may seem,
every string of bells Is distinctive '
yet all chime and blend harmoni-
ously. What magic there is in a
string of sleigh bells! With cold
white winter in the sky!
The colder the day the better
men and horses liked it, When the
thermometer registered around
zero the ice dried as soon as it
left the water. It could be han-
dled all day without the men
even dampening their clothing,
It slid well and, presented no
problem. But if the mercury, as
sometimes leapPened, ' climbed
above the freezing point it spell-
,: ed tremble, eA theewater
would leave two Or three feet
of thin ice near shore to be bridg-
ed with planks, clothing get wet
and sogy, and men got thilly and
morose, writes Elizabeth Hay-
ward Gardner in the Christian
Science Monitor.
The high point of the day was
reached at. 12 o'clock, The men
knocked off work; bits were re-
moved from the horse's mouths
and feed bags tied on, Man and
beast alike needed respite.
The men trooped somewhat
self-consciously into the old kit-
chen where my mother had been
busily at work all morning, A
little sheepishly they dipped hot
water from the copper broiler
built into the back of the big
stove, washed at the old iron
sink and made a stab with a comb
or a brush at the mirrored wall
pocket. Bashfully they filed into
the Middle Room where the long
table waited.
Martin Hayward never had
any trouble getting men to har-
vest the ice (though it was a
job not well liked by teamsters).
His wife always had a dinner
they remembered from. year to
year. I can smell now the mouth-
watering odors, see the long table
with its snow white cloth, the
English china with its brown
Chinese pagoda pattern, and live
over again the pleasure my
mother took in feeding twenty-
five hungry men.
Four big chines of fresh pork
came from the oven, roasted to a
tender golden brown perfection,
quarts of good golden gravy for
the snowy potatoes bursting their
brown jackets, winter- squash,
savory onions, fresh-baked bread
or, better still, raised biscuits
with generous slabs of butter,
pickles sweet and pickles sour,
chili sauce, piccalilli, apple, grape
and barberry jelly from the cel-
lar shelves. And for dessert the
old New England standby no one
could make better than my moth-
er-berry slump, a steamed pud-
ding swimming in blue-berries,
drowned in vanilla sauce. To bal-
ance the sweet a glass of cold
apple cider from the barrel in
the cellar. No man got up from
that table hungry.
The bells- again began their
gay chimes as the endless pro-
cession of iceladen sleds moved
once more.
As the evening star blossomed
forth in the sunset sky the men
once more trooped into the
kitchen for the final act in the
icing day parade-the pay. Then
the crew of tired but happy men
followed their bells down the
hill and homeward,
The great day we had all been
waiting for was over. The ice
crop was housed, for another year.
We were assured of the means to
preserve the meat, the milk, and
the vegetables' which would feed
a vast number of people in the
city r of Salem for twelve months
more.
DRIVE WITH CARE !
WI:. Avenue was in agreement
With one old-line die:cow:ter at
last month's Chicago convention,
'The word discount has been mu-
tilated,' he grumbled, "it doesn't
mean. what it did before, Now
It's just a newer mode of retail-
ing."
The mode is spreading, more-
over, to the hard-pressed depart-
ment stores, Monroe JaS,StS, pres-
ident of the trade fair, said: "In
department stores where they
never had bargain basements he,
fore, they now have them, Where
they had them before, they now
advertise them." "You know,"
said Larry Goodman, Chicago
discounter who is trying to or-
ganize a discounters' trade asso-
ciation, "some department stores
operate on less overhead than
discount stores."
There can't be many, Dun &
Bradstreet, surveying 154 dis.,
count houses, found the median
rate of return on capital was 19,6
Per cent-nearly doeble the rate
for department stores-although
the discounters' 1.3-cent profit on
a $1 sale is slightly less than
their rivals' 1,7-cent profit,
But as overhead edges up and
competition stiffens, discounters
can look for some tougher times.
Many agree with Edward J.
Kleckner, who runs the Bell Dis-
count Department Store in. Wau-
kegan, Ill. He noted: "There's
going to be a shakeout . . Only
the best, the real merchants, will
remain." Mrs, Helen Webb, New
York management consultant
specializing in discount retailing,
observed that the field's "main
flaw . . is lack of professional-
ism," She has been asked to help
discounters who jumped into the
field from such occupations as
chicken plucking, pharmacy, and
scrap-metal dealing.
"The discounters are going to
need experienced personnel,"
agreed Irving Mills, president of
the Govco discount house in In-
dianapolis. "But they have to
stay lean and hungry. If they be-
come too much like department
stores, top-heavy in executives,
there will be another round of
retailing - discounters discount-
ing discounters."
This "Game" Could
Kill Millions
It is no secret that U.S. Stra-
tegic Air Command crews - and
no doubt their Soviet counter-
parts - constantly rehearse their
deadly roles: Scrambling upon
a simulated alarm, flying 36-
hour missions, and "bombing" an
assigned objective.
Every element is as realistic as
possible, with one obvious ex-
ception: There is no practice
over the real targets.
Now, the Air Force's deadly
game has been given an added
refinement, Within the last fif-
teen months, the Air Force has
quietly planted two fields of tele-
phone poles in Isolated prairies in
the Western United States. One
is 70 miles southeast of Rapid
City, S.D., and the other is
25 miles northeast of Glasgow,
Mont. Each field contains 180
poles and covers 4 square miles.
Each pole is topped by prism-
shaped aluminum sheets 4 feet
square. By adjusting the reflec-
tor angles in a carefully calcu-
lated pattern, ground teams can
duplicate the "radar image" of
any city in the world. The trick is
not unlike the flashcard patterns
of college football cheering sec-
tions; instead of a school insig-
nia, however, the SAC patterns
show rivers, factories, and entire
cities.
Which cities are the pilots and
bombardiers practicing on? "Pro-
tocol wouldn't allow me to be
specific," a public-relations of-
ficer answered, "but you can use
your imagination,"
Children are wonderful mimics.
They'll act exactly like their pa-
rents, no matter how hard you
try to teach them manners.
Rev. R, 15. Warren, B.A.? B,*
The Obligation to be .Trotitto1.
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Memory Seleetion: thy,
words.thoo.shatt he Justified, and
by thy words thou ebelt be con,.
doomed,. Matthew P:07,
The nin t h commandment is
often disregarded; sometimes
carelessly, sometimes deliberate-
ly, We have heeome so accus-
tomed to blurring the truth to
suit ourselves that the white of
truth and the black of falsehood
have intermingled to form a
grey,
Let us consider a few ex-
amples. A man who has just ta-
ken some heavy drink, tells his
wife that ifthey call him to go
to work, say that he is out. Now,
he is 'out' alright, 'knocked gut%
But he is giving instructions that
are intended to •deceive, and that
is lying.
A call comes from the hospital
to come, that the sick one has
taken a turn for the worse. The
next-of-kin arrives to find that
the loved-one died half an hour
before the call was made. Now
what is gained by telling half
the truth, and holding back the
most significant part, We know
there are circumstances when
such information should not be
delivered by phone, Why not
just summon the person to the
hospital without any misrepre-
sentation.
Authorities are try▪ ing to check
misrepresentations in advertis-
ing. Claims for the product are
so often made that are contrary
to fact. Many people are de-
ceived, In the United States some
tobacco companies have had to
make drastic changes. Liquor
companies are very wary. They
do not make such claims as:
"Guaranteed not to lead toward
alcoholism," "Will make you a
better driver," "Will improve
your morals," "Will make you
save your money for things you
need." They do not make such
claims. They just urge people
to buy their brand.
Propaganda is often a type of
lying. Many people are gullible,
prior to an election. But the ma-
jority don't go to political meet-
ings any more because of the
frequent presentation of half-
truths. Promises, yes; but little
emphasis on th cost. Each party
is conceited about their own
ability. I would like to see an
election run, keeping the ninth
commandment in mind, and also
the Golden Rule. Undoubtedly
some individual politicians en-
deavour to do this, But the over-
all -picture is not a good one.
SPRUCING UP-M i ha i lovitch,
a Russian wolfhound or borzoi,
gets the brush from Mrs. M.
Malone, his owner, in Windles-
ham, England Dog was en-
tered in London show.
END OF THE ROAD--The main highway between Areo and Blackfoot, Idaho, was cut ay
flood waters, The Northern Rocky Mountain's worst floods in memory have left 6,000
persons homeless in six Western states. Idaho, where 4,000 have been driven from their
homes, has been hit the hardest.
In thie nuclear age strontium
90 has o.nome a household term
and its possible contamination o',
milk has been the subject of
widespread speculation,
Is there a danger? With each
glass of milk that we drink, are
we running the risk of radio-
active contamination?
The answer is an emphatic no!
The safety of our milk supply is
not in jeopardy,
Why, then, have scientists
teamed up to determine methods
of removing strontium 90 from
milk? And why focus attention
on milk, rather than other foods?
One reason for using milk as
a measure of strontium 90 is
that samples can be taken
throUghout the year representa-
tive of a large volume of pro-
duction over a wide area. Thus,
it is common to see figures about
the ,strontium 90 level in milk.
a 4, 11.
There is another important
consideration. People are dis-
turbed about strontium 90 in
milk because of the large con-
sumption of milk by children.
Actually, milk is one of the
safest foods so far as strontium.
90 is concerned. Cows take into
their systems only five per cent
of the strontium 90 they ingest
and secrete only a fifth of that
five per cent in their milk.
The danger of humans getting
strontium 90 from milk produced
by cows eating contaminated
grass is infinitesimal compared
with the danger from humans
eating leafy' vegetables which
have had the same amount of
contamination.
* * *
Furthermore, strontium 90 is
depcisited in the bones, as is cal-
cium. The more calcium one eats,
the less strontium 90 will be
taken up by the bones, Since
milk is high in calcium, this is
a further safety factor as far as
humans are concerned. * * *
Canada pioneered research in
the removal of strontium 90 ftom
milk. Three year's ago, Dr. B. B.
Migicovsky, a scientist on the
staff of the agriculture depart-
ment's research branch, discov-
ered a method of removing this
long-lasting contaminant. T h e
United States Department of Ag-
riculture became interested in
this Canadian research and car-
ried it through the pilot plant
stage.
Under,Dr. Migicovsky's system,
upwards of 98 per cent of the
strontium 90 that gets into milk
can be removed. It is a highly
teclutical filtering process whiCh
leaVes treated milk relatively un-
changed with respect to compo-
sition and flavor. The method in-
volves the use of certain Chemi-
cals known technically as ion-
exchange resins.
Preseht levels of strontium 90
in the world are so minute they
can hardly be measured. The
need to remove it from any food
product does not exist today.
It is :still comforting to khoW
that should the need ever arise,.
Dr. Migicovsky's technique for'
ridding. Milk of this component
Of radioactive fallatt could be
quickleeput into effect on ft coin-
therbial beets,
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Valhi* ein the, taint is to be
reprinted:
This "beet free book-
let, prepated bysthe Canada lie-
Pertinent of Agriculture et the
request of the Emergency
tires Organization, has been ih
steady derriatiel
cation, in APril f 1961. The' first
200,000 copies' have been Tdise
tribute& arid English, and Erendet
editierie will be reprinted
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