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, etekee. eke). X Itad Jut exeeeted
to own :t hooting ealfery, at
least' with sileh ksfi
dickering, but there we wort,
and we took up our burdtai.evith
a will, First we shot off 4,1116.
Prins, There was a tricefo
because the cork stoppereeillNnee ,
fly true. But if you >et them
into the muzzle as tquarely
possible, and walloped the prize
just below its center of gravity,
it would fall off. I.f you hit the
prize high it would mereketptiP
over on the shelf, and if you hit
it low it would rust push hack a
half-inch and not do anything.
Having mastered the car:deal'
secret we set the prizes all back
up again, loaded the artillery
and began to bark.
Business didn't get brisk at
any time, but we had flurriee,'
We decided one obstacle to high
success was the slight worth of .
the prizes, Tin rings and paste-
board watch fobs weren't worth
10 cents if you won them, So we
upped the ,shots to six for a clime.
Somebody would put down a
dime, we'd count out six stop-
pers, and the game was On, Be-
cause of the trick nobody won
much, and if anybody argued
that it couldn't be done Pokey or —
I would up with a Daisy-, and e
show that it could. We kept the
money we took in a shoe box out
of reach. of the public, an& We
found boxes of prizes in baek 'to
fill the shelf with when we
needed to,
Well,. I didn't want to keep
you in suspense, so I'd better
explain that the lady was having
police trouble, Eager to protect
the gullible public against flim-
flam, the local deputy had alert-
ed a posse, and half the farmers
on the fair-grounds were legally
qualified to make arrests. Their
rectitude was unyielding and.
-they showed no mercy. If ,they
thought a couple of "rasslers"
were faking a bout, they filled in
a, surrnriorA with a pencil and
served it. If the ball didn't camel
badk and- knock the pin down,
they hauled the culprit in.
The vcareeiyair 'ien, whose chic-
anery and. shenaniganswere a
challenge to the citizens, were
having a rough day, The deputy
insisted on honesty and decency,
and a fair shake, Even the
merry-go-round was in trouble,
for after giving„,,12 trips around
On one ticket, it clipped one ride
down to, only Ii circuits. And
this lady I speak of had a hus-
band Who wore a tall hat and
guessed your weight. He woulde
look you all over t and write his .
gi.teev,on.rxpact .94 paper for ev-
erybody, to see, and. then make
you; sit in a chair-scales. If he
migsed, you got box of choc-
olates. Unfortunately, he, bad
-neglected to have his scales cer-
. titled by the • local sealer of
weights and measures, and froM
her shooting gallery the lady had
seen a rough delegation remover
her husband to the pokey in
' handcuffs. She felt her place was
by his side in his hour of need,
hence she drafted Pokey and me
and took off.
While she was gone a .man
came up and said he wanted 'to
shoot and would pay us after-
wards. He shot six times, and
said he would shoot again, Then
he shot and shot, and he owed
us $1.30, at which Pokey and I
demanded a settlement. At this,
he whipped • open his coat-front
to reveal a badge that looked as
'big as a barn door, and said we
were under arrest for running a
crooked game. "Them things
must be glued down,". he said.
I was speechless, but Pokey was
equal to it. He let out a yell that
frightened race horses over' be-
yond the grandstand and .began
to cry that this big bully was
cheating us little chaps and we
needed help, This 'attracted quite
a crowd, who _looked at the man
aghast, so he dug out .$1,30 and
paid us and then went away.
When the lady came back soon
after she was pleased arid stir-
prised at how well we'd done,
and thanked us and gave us a
five dollar bill.—liy John Gould
in the Christian Science Monitor,
e PI 'rg hed $p.
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Treeeure hoarditme Waiting to
be dievevereci all• over Britain
but tuseatte :they ttre only found
014/1S:O.
One Of the lucky finders re-
cently was Mr. John. Bee, a Stain-
tonlev-Laneworili, Lines, farmer.
While deep-ploughing one of his ,
fields, lie glanced over his shout-
den and saw a hoard of silver
coirli'lts:.re were so- mtuky that he
rushed back to- the farrnhouse
and ietehecl both Ms wife and
a bucket to collect them.
When they had picked up all
they could see, their bucket was
almost overflowing with silver
half-crowns,lns shillings and six- iee
This line haul, since declared
treasure trove at 'a coroner's in-
quest., has been seized on the
Crown's behalf, -
There were 661 coins in all, in-
cluding 228 pieces minted in the
reign of Elizabeth 1, eighty-one
pieces of James 1, and 336 of.
Charles L Mr, Bee can expect te
receive a generous cheque from
the Treasury,
Some of this undiscovered
wealth is many hundreds ,of
years old, The Roman; when oc-
cupying Britain, built temples
dedicated to lVfithras and other
gods.
At these shrines, their priests
often buried money to earn fav-
ours from their all-powerful deit-
ies.
A burial circle at Lower Beed-
ing, near Horsham, Sussex, is ac-
tually called "Money" Mound."
Here, recent excavation has
uncovered 150 coins, all pieces of
Roman silver.
This number, experts say,
clearly shows that the site Was
sacred to the Romans.
Some say King John's treasure
may be retrieved from the Wash.
Its excavation, will confound
those historians who say that the
loss of this treasure was simply a
cover story put out by those 'Who'
looted it,
King John died very conven-
iently for etheir plot at Newark,
within a week of the disappear-
ance of his baggage train.
But a seventy-eight-year-old
Wisbech man, Mr. Lewis Haver-
son, believes the treasure is still
intact, and he 'knows the exact
spot — at Walpole Marsh, Lin-
colnshire.
He says an old lady told him
,there was only one survivor — a.
remote ancestor of her husband
— when the raft carrying the
king's treasure across the marsh
capsized, All the other retainers
were drowned, and the treasure
slid into the mire.
But through that escape her
family's link with the long-lost
treasure was never broken, she
claimed.
Crooke: t Work
ThP. FtljrFairl
It ,1114Y J,14,St be that I never
happened to mention. the time I
ten a crooked game at the fair
and made $2.50, It was really $5,.
but Pokey Feeler helped me and
I had to. split, We were all of 10.
or 12 at the time, and $2.00
sweating in the pocket of an
odventnresenie lad Was a rich
1 am sorry to say we frit-
tered it away for spun sugar,
Merry- gob rounds and oyster
stews, for if I had it now I could
Use it. But we did win a few
Sack-knives, tie-clips end teddy
bears before we were poor again.
Pokey and I bad been saving
up, but we didn't have much
over the price at the gate, so we
were spending slowly, We'd
seen the cattle, swine and. sheen,
had ridden the Terris wheel, had
paid a dinie apiece to see a etuff-
ed whale, and now we- were
Chewing on a hotdog and ponder-
ing the next splurge.
So. we approached a booth
Where a lady was running a
shoOting gallery. Little prizes,
clipped to wooden blocks, were
standing on a shelf, and at three
shots for, cents .the sporty
customer equld take home what.-
6Ver' he shot off,„, Pokey and
. were a little diSaPPOinfed to find
the weapons were Daisy " air
rifles; which a country boy,L con-
sidered a .eity-kid 'toy and hardly. -
for us, Instead of shot, these air
gum. took cork stoppers which
fitted somehow into the muzzles,
Popguns, The lady didn't seem.
to notice us mosey up. and • paid
no heed to our snide comments
On h tiler arsenal. Instead, She was
straining to peer over our heads
at the crowds, and seemed oee
cupied withr.soMethieg at a ;t;lis;.
.tance.• Being discreet little gen-
tlemen, we naturally didn't pry
into her affairs, and were about
to
1St yelted "Hey, you, core here!"
/urn way when she sudden
The next thing We. knew W.e
were inside the little booth, hav-
,„ing seoeehed ,under a counter, „
- Ad' as slie, seloOehed under" it ire',
get out she said, "Now, you hear
me, you stay right 'here and run
this place 'till I get back, l'noW
mind met" And off she went into
the crowd.
housing developmet t and the,
spread of towns coven over the
pathways and bridle patlie.
On • 'tile other, the spreed ,of•
rambling, c'a`mping, and horse-
riding make it snore necessary
than ever to preserve right of
footpaths, access to beaches,
mountains, and moorland;
. The footpaths are mm' tit Eng-
land's .oldest libertie,•; tied their,'
extent still far exceeds the road.
ways. The figures are 300,000.
miles of footpaths compared with
180,000 miles of roads.
Local record; of footpaths; are
often sketchy. In May 1900 the
Ordnance Survey took a decision
which may have far-reaching ef-
fect on the preservation of these
country ways. It published for
the first time a map showing
public rights of way, covering
the Southampton, Portsmouth,
and Isle of Wight area. As more.
information becomes available:
the Ordnance Survey hopes to
mark on all its maps the rights
Of way established 'under the
National Parks and Access to the
Countryside Act of 1949,
Linder this act it is the duty of
county councils in England and
Wales to survey public eights of
way along footpaths, bridleways,
and other. roads used. as public
paths, writes Melite. Knowles. in
the Christian Science Monitor,
In every parish local people.
are asked to help in the plotting.
of all 'known and remembered
"Tights of way, so that these may
be. dedicated, for all time for the
use of the public.
The Commons and Footpaths
Preservation Society is watchdog
'for the liberty of the walker.
Each Wit the society deals with
some .1,200 cases. of attempted in-
terference with footpaths in
many parts of the country.
The ancient privilege of walk-
ing across fields is being whittled
away by the. 'use of the internal
combustion engine.
With buses. connecting village
to village in rural areas country
people are apt to hop aboard and
the short cuts from one farm to•
another, or from farm to shop;
or parish to 'parish become dis-
used, finally they are obliterated
and the farmer blows -them up,
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LESSON
geN i; ti Aarree Bp),
1ohn Keralde Use' Christ
Lake 3: 14, 14$.. •
Ater tory 'Scripture: Indeed
baptize you with water; , Ito
will baptize you with the Holy
Ghost and with fire. Lake et" i.e. -
The inter - testainenl Period,
from Malachi. to Jelin the flap-
tilt, was n difficult one for the
Jewish nation. With the exeePe
lien of 100 'years elf indepenci-
Klee, the period was lived under
the rule of foreign powers, SiIhre.
three years before the birth of
Christ the 'Roman. armies .overi.
ran. Palestine. Antipater, an
gclOrnite, was appointed ruler of.
Judea, His son, later known as
Herod the Great, was the king
of Judea when .Jesus was born..
Iris son, Road Antipase • was re-
sponsible for the death.i of John
the Baptist and mocked Christ
at his trial. Herod the ..Oreatt.s
grandson, Herod Agrippa T,
killed the disciple, James. 'These
puppet kings, taken froe' the
Edomites, left a reeerd of blood
and 'intern] e.
John the Baptist. stands .-on the
bridge between •the Old ,areci,pew
Testaments, Re ,had in
common with the Old Testament
prophets, Hut whereas' they pre-
dicted the coming of Messiah,
John proclaimed and 'heralded
His coming. He fulfilled the pro-
phecy of Isaiah and others, as.
he preached, "Prepare ye the.
.way of the Lord, make his paths
straight." He called the people
to repentance. When they asked
what they should do, he said,
"The men with two shirts must
,sh•are with him Who has none,
aad - anyone Who has food, must
de the same." To the taxilg.ath-
eters he said, "Exatt no more
than the assessment;" to the sol-
diers, "No bullying: no black-
. mane make do with your pay,"
The people wondered if John
."were the Messiah. ;.In humility
he declared himself unworthy to
undo . the. lachet of Messiah's
JOhn,baptfeed with wa-
ter' but Messiah ''would baptize
with''= 'ire • Holy Spirit and with
fire... The gteater baptism would.
purify the' hearts of the people.
God, the Holy Spirit, would
abide in them. When Jesus came.
John pointed him out to his dis-
ciples, saying, "Behold the Lamb
of Cod who taketh .away the sill •
of the world.' He was a laithAil
Herald ..of Jesus.
FAIR FARRIER — To earn money to study veterinary medi-
cine in college Miss Kietera Baker, 16, a high school sopho-
more, shoes horses professionally, The 101-pound lass first
learned by shoeing 'her own horse, and soon she was in busi-
ness for herself. Here, she shoes a mare belonging to Karen
IliFARM FROM
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A little.» time spent training
picking ,crews pays off in fewer
bruises and stem punctures of
apples. '7
Most of the worst , offenders
do not realize 'they are damag-
ing the apples until the' need for
careful pigking is pointed out to
' Studies in the 'Okanagan Val-
ley have shown that some pick-
ers damage twice as'inany apples
as others in the same crew,
• *
Most frequent causes of dam- r
4 age are: 'squeezing' the apples
when picking, dropping the ap-
ples into the picking bag, press-
ing the apples in the bag against
the ladder by reaching too far,
walking too far with a full bag
"and not emptying it carefully
'enough into the bin or box,
Checks on picking speed re-
vealed that slow pickers are not
necessarily careful pickers and
fast pickers are not necessarily
careless,
The need for instructing pick-
ing crews is especially important
for McIntosh apples, which are
very susceptible to damage.
*
To thousands of Canadians,
*Mushrooms add an epicurean
touch. to a meal,
But much as they find this
food, titillating to, the palate the
majority of them shy away from.
gathering Wild forms of mush-
MOMS,
Why? Because they can't tell
the, edible ones from poisonous'
ones—often called toadstools,
Where field mushrooms are
common, it's easy to find some-
one who can recognize them, and
instruct others. But where they
are scarce, people who know
them aren't so willing to hand
out information to would-be
competitors,
This is the observation of IC,
A, Harrison, specialist with the
Canada Department of Agri-
culture.
poisonous mushroom. M u s h-
rooms and toadstools belong to
the same family. Some mush-
roorni are edible, many are net,
while a 'few' are deadly poison-
ous.
Here's what- to look for in,the
Destroying Angel; a rather tall
mushroom growing under or
near trees, White underneath
(gills), and a ring (veil) hanging
'on the stem: Perhaps the most
important point to look for is
swollen (bulbous) stem base
growing out of a sheath (death
cup), This can be deeply buried
in 'the soil and is easily broken.
off When the species is gathered.
* *
The common edible mushroom
is rather squad, grows in open
pastures, is pink underneath but
soon, turns black, has a ring on
the stem, but the stem is not
swollen and there is never any
trace of a death cup.
Harrison advises all mushroom
lovers to keep this rule in mind
— mushrooms gathered in Open
fields and pastures are not dead-
ly poisonous, Just remember
that the. Destroying Angel is as-
sociated with roots of trees ,and
may be found on lawns near
trees, And, at the same time,
don't overlook the fact that many
mushrooms grow under trees and
in forests.
How can I remove some
mildew that, has formed wide
patches on some of my leather-
bound books, travelling bags,
and other leather articles?
A, Ruib some clear petroleum
jelly liberally over the mildew-
ed areas, allow to remain on for
awhile, and then wipe off thor-
oughly with a dry cloth, This
treatment also tends to, pres,erve
the leather by renewing Its oil
content.
Britons Defend
Right To Walk
Footipaths, like liberty, can be
retained only at the price of eter-
nal vigilance.
While there is increasing em-
phasis on pedestrian ways In
planning Britain's new towns,
country footpaths are in danger
of decreasing in number or even
disappearing,
With traffic roaring along
motorways at high speeds and
crowding other roads at low
speeds dictated by volume, the
walker needs more than ever
these quiet; safe, secluded by-
ways across fields.
On the one hand, motorways,
4;
Coral fungi are edible, but
there is one kind that will cause
some people discomfort while
Others can eat it without any
reaction.
While puff balls are good eat-
ing when pure white inside,
there is a similar group. that are
dark' inside and these are' mildly
poisonous. * *
There are also yellow chari-
terelles growing quite common,
ly in Canadian woods and the
edible Boletus can be gathered
by the hundreds' in their season
in' mank. pine forests,
Further inforination may be
'Obtained from illustrated bulle-
tins:- One is availablefrom the
Information Division of the Can-
ada Department, of Agriculture
at Ottawa,
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
>I 9 7 21 3 a 1 1 N ICE MAID—Anna Geirsdottir,,
Miss Iceland and runner-up
in recent Miss Universe pag-
eant feels right at home with
some big cakes of ice in sun-
shiny Tallahassee,
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AIR-CONDITIONED — Space-age feed yard worker wears
air-conditioned helmet while driving scoop shovel in Thermal,
Calif., where the temperature sometimes soars to 120 'de-
grees, With the helmet, workers are able to work continu-
ously. Previously, heat forced them to rest at frequent inter-
vals Thermal often is the U.S nation's hottest city.
3 a d
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$ 3
* *
Harrison notes that inanyenew
citizens from Europe are expett
recognizing t. e different
mushrooms and are finding Can-
ada' a rich hunting gtound for
these delieeciee,
Most Canadians who enjoy
mushrooms know only the tom-
moil field species, he adds, wh_tie
there are many other forms that
are edible and make fine addi-
tions to• the menu.
There are a succession of speci-
es that may be gathered throttgh-
out The year. Battiest kinds are
found doting May mid others
appear' during summer and fall
although, the fall is the season
of greatest abundanece
* ur *
Researcher Harrison offers this
tip:
Don't depend on so-called tests,
euch as peeling or blackening a
silver coin or spoon. The Dose
titying Angel, most deadly
mushroom known, can be peeled
and any material containing set-
'phut' will blacken
a
The word toadstool, Harrison
is used, erroneously for a
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tAsrmo NTH:7 IN HISTORY •. •
Hijackers
rob moil truck of
record $1,5 million
near Plymouth, Moss.
AUG. 17' eeittal.anie Maj, Andrian
NikolciyeV becornes third'
Soviet cosmonaut.
West Berliners
riot over shouting of
refugee of the Wall, AUG, 29 Labor Sedrefitty
Goldberg-named to Seareme
Court to replace retiring
Felix Frankfurter.
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"A ll(44.2 f-Zt Lt, Col. Pavel
Popotich joins hitrriri
adjacent
Russia removes
its Berlin commandent,
font office over to
E. Germans.
Russia
resumes nuclear 'tits
with 40-megaton blast,
s 6 7 II B 9 10 3 I Z
14 12 4 ,AUG:, 5 Both cosmonauts •
return safely to earth after
setting records. Is 0 15
19
Marilyn
Monroe diet from
leopio pill overdose,
sntifiit
Strultier
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23 25 26
AUG' 27 U.S,
successfully
launches Nioriher,
II toward Venus,
32 27 28 2? 30 lip,
33 36 Te egrapilereStrike shots
down Chicago and leorthWesteee
nation's th'rd largest railroad.
35
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President Kennedy
addresses nation; says no
tax cut right now. MS' 4 5 7 AUG, 22 Machine
gun assassination
attempt on be Gaulle 5I 53 6; Cuban exile itudents
shell Havana hotel from boats.
28 Rebellious military leade rs
oust Deputy Premier Ben Bella
from Algiers.
Civil Vidr looms as regular
troop* Mare/ion Algiers.
55. 5-6 57 .58
Netherlands
signs. agreenient handing
over West New Guinea
to Indonesia, .
AUG1 30 Cuban toots fire on
U.S, Navy plater; U.S. wares it
will thoef Wee in fatal*.
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