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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-06-21, Page 7PARK SITE — Fort Rock, natural rock formation towering 325 feet above the central Ore- gon plateau, has been authorized for acquisition, and may become a state park, hard detective work, Hundreda of persons believed to have come In contact 'with the Pakistanis were traced-1)Y mail, radio Tv, and World fealth Organize- lien alarms, Then came an out- break In Bradford, a teNtile city of some 279,000 in 'Yorkshire and a mystifying turn of events. Jack Crossley, a slaughterhouse worker, was stricken and died, Jan. 10, No connection could, be found between Crossley and the two Pakistanis, ,Suddenly, smallpox struck in the worst possible place—a pe- diatric hospital, Bettie Whetlock, 40, a cook at Bradford Children's Hospital, died Jan, 12. A student nurse and four young patients were seriously ill, Bradford's medical officer Dr, John Douglas learned that Crossley had visited his daughter while a patient at the hospital. But this was before Crossley's Illness, The mystery was at last resolv- ed when Dr. Norman Ainley, pa- thologist at the hospital, fell vic- tim. Douglas remembered that Dr, Ainley had performed an au- topsy on a 9-year-old Pakistani girl named Anayat Degum on Dec. 30, The cause of her death was thought to be malaria, At postmortem, Dr. Ainley found a suspicious rash on the body, but it wasn't enough for a smallpox diagnosis. Now Drs. Ainley and Douglas knew. They also realized that this youngster, not Khan, was the first to bring smallpox to Britain; she had arrived earl- ier. Meanwhile, unreasoning fear, a disorder potentially as dangerous as smallpox itself, gripped much of the country. "We want our children vaccinated," screamed a mob of women outside a clinic in Leeds. To quiet similar clamor throughout the country, the Min- istry repeatedly stated that vac- ctnation of those in contact with smaljpox victims would be suf- ficient to quell the outbreak. Inevitably, the outbreak be- came a political issue, Tory M.P.'s cried for stricter control of Pakistani immigration and chided the Laborites for blocking the government's immigration bill. One provision: No admission for immigrants unable to show a clean bill of health. —From NEWSSWEEK Q. How can I prevent eggs from bursting when hard-boiling them? ' A. The eggs will not burst if one end of each egg is pricked with a needle before placing in the water. This makes an outlet for air and prevents the shell from cracking, Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking O 3 a 3 V 8 0 5 I 0 H N S 318 ein 3 S 3 d 3 MO INN" 3213 V V di' d N V 1 S d 1 I A 8 1 O S 0 V d O 9 C z V 8 V 53 1 P a B A O V S 0 N d 8 N 3 0 3 V SS 3 a 3 2.1.vdnaN1 35c1V 001( A V She .Raispd An Orphan Hummingbird: t The Cooleye home is about 20 miles from gugene, near Leas: burg, Ore., where they have an ere of ground on the McKenzie River, with flowers, • trees, and bushes which provide practically a bird. sanctuary, for they permit no eats on their premises, There are usually many hummingbirds about getting nectar from their • flowers, and Mrs. Copley had al- ways watched them with keen Interest, She learned that on dull days, when the flowers did not yield enough nectar to sustain their swift flight, the tiny hummers went into a kind of torpor, con- serving their energy for another try at the flowers. Early one morning she found one on a wire sitting quietly, his eyes closed, Although he seemed aware of her • as she approached him he did not move but, as she barely touched him, he opened his eyes and flew to nearby flowers. She wished then that she might .sometime get one to light on her hand, On a Sunday afternoon two seasons later, she had her wish, Her next-door neighbor came over holding something out to her. "Do you want this? See what I ;found," she said, placing in the palm of Betty Cooley's hand the tiniest almost featherless little bird - she had ever seen. It was a baby hummingbird which had faller., from its nest From what she later learned about hum- mingbirds, she entimated it must have been about 10 days old, She knew baby birds must be fed every 15 minutes and de- cided this one's first meal should be sugar and water as the near- est thing to flower nectar, It accepted this eagerly from an eye dropper. Then she called Dr. Ralph R. Huestis, professor of biology at the University of Ore- gon in E•urgene, who advised that some protein should be ad- ded, So she pressed out the juice of a little hamburger, combining it with the sugar and water to make an acceptable baby-bird soup. Apparently. no mother bird could have provided better meals, for the little fellow, less than an inch long when she got him, grew amazingly that first Week. She made a soft little nest for him of cleaning tissue and got a little cage in which he could move about safely. His feet and legs were so slender you could hardly see them, she said, and he used his wings and bill like little walking sticks, She devised his bath from the shallow base of a butter dish such as is used to hold a quarter- pound of butter. It was too slip- pery for him to light on, so she put adhesive tape on sides and • BUILDING ANGLES — Novel apartment houses in ,Laht, West Germany, will house French soldiers *and families stationed in the area. 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Wings are of first importance to baby birds, When he started to fly from his cage he would go as far as be could and then just drop onto whatever' was beneath him, He learned to light on .Betty's shoal- der, or on one finger: If, in the morning, she bad her hair in curlers, he made for thorn as though they were intended eepe- cially for him to perch on. The intelligence of this feath- ered mite was always a wonder to the Cooleys, He expressed his pleasure when there was music on the hi-fi by delighted little chirps, After being fed he ,al- ways chirped a satisfied "thank you," Betty had a small bell which she rang et feeding time and he quickly learned to re- spond to the call. He also 'discovered around the fireplace tiny little spiders, the size of a pinhead, of which there are many in that part of the country, When lie could find no more, Betty, using one of the tiny feathers be had dropped, got on her bends and knees and brushed minute spiders out of the corners, putting them hi a small bottle. Then, when he wanted one she would shake it out on her finger and brush it off. As it dropped down at the end of a slender thread of web, the bird would dart from the lampshade or cur- tain rod and have it in an instant. They called him Smidge be- cause he was so small. rn the morning when Betty greeted him with, "Good morning. Smidge," he held his wings close to his side, mouth wide, and swayed rib fill frem_side to side, always acknowledeing' the greeting the same way, He had his little games, too. When her husband was at the table and she rang the bell for Smidge he was apt to head straight for Phil's head like a little dive bomber, then swerve just in time to whir past his ear, • When he flew toward a wall, it always looked as though he would go -right into it, •but he banked like a plane,. turned, and was headed the other way before you knew it. Fruit flies, like little spiders, were a favorite food. Betty lieu- ally. cut a peach in half and let it lie on a saucer till the fruit flies appeared, Smidge knew right where to go for them but the flies, warned by the whir of his wings, crawled underneath where he couldn't get them. He then flew to Betty, hovered in front of her and flew back to his, perch, going back and forth until she turned it over for him so the flies were on top or scattered so he could. get them in flight: Big flies lie would chase—not to catch, but to drive out of his ter- ritory, Then came a September day when a door was open for a mo- ment and little Smidge ventured. into the wide world with the: hummingbirds outside, Although he had learned how to take nec- tar from a dropper, he had no. experience getting it from flow,. etc, but Betty and ,Phil feel - sure he learned from his brother birds. and they hopefully await his re- turn • when the huhereirigbirds come back. in the spring from - Mexico, to Which. they. Migrate.— By Jessie Ash Arndt in the Miele., tian Science MonitOr, Q. How can I quickly make my own "sour milk" for sour-milk recipes? A. Two tablespoonfuls: of lemon juice,. added_to One pup of sweet milk, sours it to the acidity de- sired fat recipee, Through its own long-standing and burdensome wheat surplus is rapidly dissolving under the attrition of inclement weather, poor crop s, and increased ex- ports, Canada watches with anxiety the development of agri- cultural policy in the United States. A survey of the Canadian wheat situation by Prof. David. L. MaeFerlane of McGill Uni- versity, a leading authority, con- cludes that Canada's sudden spurt of exports to. Communist China has hardly begun to solve the prairie .farmer's prob- lems. An end of the Canadian wheat surplus is in sight, but, this, says Professor MacFarlane, • "implies little further price or income im- provement." * Only when the United States can reduce its massive surplus and modify its policy of dumping wheat, he charges, "is there a chance for optimism , about the world situation." For that reason Canadian agri- culture is intensely interested in the recent statement of two Re- publican spokesmen, Sen. Pres- cott B u s le of Connecticut and Rep. Thomas B, Curtis of Mis- souri, who suggest a radical change in United States f,ar m policy. Their proposal that the United State should not confine a policy of tariff reduction to industrial goods but should begin to dis- mantle the high walls of pro- tectionism around its farms is highly relevant to Canada's agri- cultural problem. • At present, says Professor MacFarlane, "U n.it'e d S t a t e s dumping of wheat in otherwise commercial Western European markets is hurting Canadian ex- ports. ' "In the last crop y ear the United States exported 140,000,- 000 bushels to western Europe. This compared with about 60,- 000,000 bushels the previous year. Inquiries a b out the me- chanics of the pricing formula used by the United. States Gov- ernment in these sales go unan- swered," B u t, Professor MacFarlane asserts, "the gigantic United States (wheat) surplus is affect- ed only slightly by a vast- scale of ,give-sways and 'dumping. Ex- perts from that country in the 1960-61 crop year were 669,000,- 000 bushels, b u t supplies still stand at nearly 2,000,000,000 shels," * As the United States surplus overhangs the world market, Ca- nada finds its own wheat situa- tion drastically changed. The .great Canadian surplus built Up since 1952 probably will disape Pear this year; 'Professor Mac- Farlane says. In the peat deoade the annual carryOver of unsold wheat aver, aged More than a 1,000,000,000 bushels but InOthe present crop year it dipped to 788,500,000 bu- shels, This was the result of two.fac- tore: 1. A sharp increase of exports to 354,000,000 bushels, including exports of 60,000,000 bushels to Communist China, a new cus- tomer, and a drop of only 262,- 000,000 btishele in 1961, the low- est since. 1031. 2. Moisture conditions oil the Pealeiee this wititet.theeaten an- other light crepe All these factors combined, Professor MacFarlane warns, do not Mean that the disappearance of the. wheat surplus Will cure the' farmer's' tedtible& His riet income. "remains relatively loW and "grain prices at the 'farm have lost ground in relation to ' cost of gdods earnieit-iiittat buy, "Nor is all bright on iv o r Markets. Supplies still exceed commercial needs; United States. dttitiPitig .policies hurt, Britain'S entry into the COMmon Mailtef inay bite into our btisiness." , it the Wheat 'industry Genii ONLY A ROSE — Trailing a full-blown organza rose, a high - crowned miller's cap perches precariously atop a high hairdo in Paris, France, Clan governments have refused, so far, to consider anything like the United States's price-sup- port policies, though the farmer has been assisted by a crop-in- surance program and by grain storage at state expense, writes Bruce Hutchison in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. *. * Without direct government support, wheat prices have been edging upward in the last year to a new high of over $1,80 a bushel for the best grade. Over the last five years the farmer received between $1,25 and $1,30 a bushel at the farm as an average for all grades. This compares with a price of $1.50 to $1.60 ten years ago. Even an increased price re- cently is not enough to compen- sate the farmer foe his rising costs. "Considering that the things farmers buy have risen by 25 per cent in the • last 10 years," Professor MacFarlane argues, "the financial squeeze on wheat producers has been se- vere," Under these conditions a Ca- nadian government • concerned with the political as well as the economic facts of wheat will fol- low closely the agricultural de- bate developing' in Washington as part of President Kennedy's tariff initiative. Grace's Husband Gets Hot' and Bothered Monaco's Prince Rainier III. drew himself up to his full 5 feet 9 inches, his brown eyes blazing in singer. As Europe's last ab- solute monarch and as the man who three years ago suspended his country's constitution, he was not, accustomed either ,to being told off, or told what to do. 'But this time he had to take it—be- fore giving it back. Laying down the law, Ensile Pelletier, Franceee Minister of State to the park-size principal- ity, demanded that Rainier re - yoke his recent decree restricting free trading on the Paris Bourse of stock in. Radio Europe No. 1,— a privately owned Monaco-based station in which the French Gov- eminent wants to buy a control- ling interest because it considers its news broadcasts "too inde- pendent." If trade in the com- pany's shares was forbidden, Pel- letier indicated, the French Gov- ernment could,retaliate by turn- ing off Monaco's electricity, halt- ing all rail service, and closing the border to tourists, Rainier capitulated but he was furious. The dialogue between the two omen "as somewhat free- ly reported in the Parisian preSS —is said to have gone like this: RAINIER: "1 used to be a Fraticophile but I damn Sure regret it now.," PELLETIER: "Sir!" RAINIER : uYett are a salaud, (s,o.b,)." PELLETIER: (With dignity), "J cannot tolerate your speaking of France such fashion. I a'th going to Withdraw." RAINIER : "Darn right you are ,—;?bif i re fired." At that; the first 'r en Min= ister ever Ricked Out of Motiado huffed off to Paris. DRIVE WITH CARE I Dread Smallpox Invades Europe Across Europe last month a terrible cry of the Middle Ages was heard: Smallpox, In England six persons were dead and at least sixteen others seriously ill, A nurse caring for a quarantined family he Dussel- dorf, Germany, died, and several other smallpox eases were re- corded in that,city. A 24-year-old German on his way to Copenha- gen was ushered off a train hi the Netherlands, when he showed signs of smallpox. Seven Portu- guese refugees from Goa who had arrived in Lisbon with early symptoms of the disease—high fever, aches in the back, legs, and arms, and the beginnings of a pus-filled rash—were isolated. In the United States, which has not had a single smallpox case since 1953, the Public Health Service urged anyone who came in contact with an international traveler to be revaccinated if last inoculated more than a year ago. By vaccination, the disease has been kept well under control in most Western countries. But with the jet age, infected trav- elers can carry the virus halfway around the world before falling sick, This was, made dramatical- ly clear by events of the past three weeks. Except for the German cases —involving a Dusseldorf engi- neer who contracted smallpox in Liberia—the source of the Euro- pean outbreak was Pakistan. Since last November, Pakistan has been swept by an epidemic which so far has killed 332 per- sons. Sometime in December, some Pakistani travelers unwit- tingly carried the disease to Eng- land. What followed was an epidemiologic nightrAre for the Health Ministry. The first Eng- lish smallpox report came a few days after Christmas when esmat Khan, 24, stagged into a London hospital, He died Jan, 7, Khan, fona time, seemed to be the one who had introduced smallpox to Britain, Then, on Dec. 28, Mohammed Siddique Akhtar, 33, came to a clinic near Birmingham with the telltale rash. Each of, these cases called for By Rev, R, Barclay liVarren 1341). No Stealing Exodus 30:15; Joshua 7: 1945, Memory Selection: Toet hint that stole steal no more; but re- liter. let Aim labour, working with his hands the thing will* is good, that lie Ma)' have to give to him that needeth, Ephesiam 4:28. Stores give fantastic figures about losses from stealing by customers and, employees. A friend who is a store detective says, "You'd be surprised at some of the people I find slipping ar- ticles into their clothes. It isn't just the poor by any means," Stealing usually begins with little things, Just as the person will be faithful over a few things, he will likely be faithful over many things, so the person that will steal a little, will like- ly steal a lot If he has the oppor- tunity. Many steal from the govern- ment unabashed. But in the eyes of God, it is still stealing, 'We shall give account of it some day, One person said, "The person gave me too much by mistake. I didn't steal it, Should I take it back?" I said, "If by error, I received fifty dollars of your money, what would you expect me to do about it?" You can guess the answer. A ten-year- old boy asked his father for a definition of ethics. His father said, "I cannot define ethics, but I can give you an illustration. It's this way. Your Uncle Henry and, I are in business together. Now suppose a man comes into the store and buys a five-dollar ar- ticle. He gives me a ten-dollar bill thinking it's a five, and leaves the store. 1 am thinking of something -else at the time and do not notice the mistake until he's gone. Then I find the ten-dollar bill, and I say, 'That man gave me five dollars too much.' That, my son, raises a question in ethics. Shall I put that five-spot in my pocket or split it fifty-fifty with your uncle?" An evangelist bought a street car ticket. He 'noticed that he had received ten cents too much. He went back to the conductor, and reported it, "i knew it," said the conductor, "I heard you preach last night, I wanted to see if you practised what you preached." People steal from God, too. Joshua took of the silver and gold consecrated to God. So, many rob God of the tithes and offerings. No wonder there is so much more money for liquor than for the cause of the King- dom. We need a spiritual awake- ning. ISSUE 8 — 1962 7, Small fish 27. Happinese 8, Brilliance 30. Chord 9, Periodical 31. Chevrons 10. DevOured 93. Percenter 11. Thing (Law) 34. Salt 14. Shotver 35, Corrosion' 18, Masculine 37. Fragment name 89. Commotion 21, Cudgel • 40. Promontory 22. Scent 4L Baking 23. Rounded chamber appendage ' 4M Exigency ‘24, Arct c 43, Jap.- measure explorer 44. Rise 25. Heroic.. (old 'Eng%) , 28. State of bliss 45. COnstellation