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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-10-02, Page 7yotsr, `ca r..;' checked reageh?rly STEERING • 1111111111 1111111111111111„41111.11.01111111:ifil,:111;:k1111m zo Immo Mill111111kitil1111111111111111 ii111111111111111 ...., 1111111111111111111 ii1111111111iii. ii1111111111" lill11111 amnia! WllIl MAY Sai001 LESSON SPUD. NOSE - Gory Foster, 8, inspects a potato which bears a striking resemblance to famed ,comedian Jimmy Durante, SpUd was dug from his parents' garden. STANDING PROBLEM - Massive monument of Stalin in Prague, Czechoslovakia, leading o worker, former, woman qnd soldier, was e;ected to stand for centuries, Because of anti- Stalinism in the Communist world, Stalin's statue is scheduled to come down now and Czech Communists haven't yet decided what to do with the rest of the monument. Tougher Tests For British Drivers FttHinz in Love With. A Wilderness . Vsu don't -just haul 41-if.and go particulars:- with wit* r vomitus on. We simmered Ittwn from our firsts urge to pack up sod get going: we sat. on the tru ed;huu.csteps and began to lay astult, plans. • . rlayd • a-called •that ht' had 111-.u;ts or bass .prentised to. go. back fOr the winter to his father's fetus in the Willamette Valley, In heln • with winter and spring plantutg. "I'll stay here,' I de- cided "Maybe I can save my nickels and dimes." We made. a pact to meet in exactly six months, on the first of May, at the Hamilton Hotel in Portland. In the bunkhouse that winter I pored over all the maps of Alaska and theYukon. I could get hold of, guess I talked about nothing but Alaska, I be- gan to be called "Admiral Peary." I- didn't mind a bit, On the morning of May 1st, 194 I walked into the lobby of the Hamilton Hotel and • there, relaxed in a leather chair, was Floyd, cardboard suitcase at his feet. • We stocked up with bread and bologna, picked up our suitcases and headed out along the fire- weed-lined railroad track, The country we began to hike through had a strange look to• it, and I finally figured gut what it was, There were absciliitely no farms, no houses, na signs of humanity. And the trees were different from any I'd seen be- fore, They were mostly cotton- woo, which I knew, and spruce, but these trees not only grew wide apart and a scant thirty to' forty feet high, The spruce branches were short and stubby, making every tree look as if it had been trimmed with a hedge sheap. , , (I found out later it was the weight ' of snow, not hedge shears, that kept . the tree branches short. 'Longer branches would simply be snapped off. This is the way most evergreens look north of the AlaskaPaa-; handle.) • We hiked the railroad ties six- teen hours a day, and after three days a couple of log cabins loom- ed up alongside the tracks to tell us. we had arrived at Chitina, „ After I'd got myself settled, bed roll spread out and other equipment stashed on-a box that served as a buseati, I sat on my bunk to read the sheet Harry Karstens. had given me. "A Na- tional Park," it shegan solemnly, "is an area with certain scenic, biological or other natisral.•fea- tures, to be kept in as natural a condition as possible for this and all litture generations," I began, to get a glimmering of what thy job was to be. I was one of ,,the cUstodians- of the place; it waS'g up"to me, not to civilize this wilderness, but ac- tually to defend it "againSe the encroachments of civilization. This was a new.idea. The smores I thought about it, the more it. seemed. likesa good one , • Ninety miles long! I, hadn't realized I was .going to be tak- ing care of so huge an area. --From "My Life of High. Ad- venture," by Grant H, Pearson with Philip Newill, list Rev. It. O. Warren, IL,- to, What Is God Like? raaltn. 8.2 0; john 1.: 1414 Acts 1„1:; 32 ,29; Acts 10; 1.35 „ Memory Scripture: Of lX 'truth perceive that ClOft ti Po re,, species of persons, Acts 101 4 A crippled boy sold papers and oranges on. the street corner, One day a bully deliberately ran his bicycle, into the box of oranges, scattering them along the side- walk and 11140 the muddy street. The crippled boy began to cry. -.Tust, then a well - dressed man came along and saw the boy's, plight. He stepped out into the mud, picked up the oranges and cleaning them off with a clean handkerchief, placed them again in order. The boy watched in silence, his eyes big -with won- der. Then, looking into the face of the kind man, he asked, "Be you Jesus?"' The man in his kindness had reflected something. of the nature of Jesus,. Mrs, C. H. Morris asks in one of her beautiful songs: "Can the world see Jesus in you?. Does your love to Him ring true, And your life and service, too? Can the world see •Jesus in you?" Jesus, Himself, is the revela- tion of God. He said, "He that hath seen zrue hath seen the Fa-. then" Father, Son and Holy Ghost are three persons in one God, God is eternal. The Son. took. flesh and dwelt among meal, BecaUse he was a Man, we are better able bo understand His na- ture, and thils. the nature of God. For He was as much man as though He were not God at all, • and as much God as though He were not man at ail.. In today's lesson we see that God is almighty, righteous and holy, the Great Provider, gra-, cious and loving, He upholdetk • all who. fall and preserv•eth those Who love Him. He will destroy the wielted.'lle is •near 'to those who call upon Him. The .:revela-• tion of God's. nature reaches its climax at Calvary. He-loved us; .- enough to die for us. At the very centre of man's life you will discover his god. • Happy is that man whose God is :the Lord. American, but American cars in some states must be tested twice yearly. Mr. Marples claims a success for compulsory testing. Two years ago when it began on cars 10 years old he says more 'than 40 per cent failed. Now, with six- year-old cars being tested, fail- ures were down to 30 per cent. Till FARM FRONT kulawell acres are lost annually through- out the United States to airports, tract houses, highways, and in- dustrial groWth. 4 • The primary ceunterargtunents,. are these: 1, Saving farm land in the sub- urbs will only cause developers to leapfrog into deeper country where unzoned towns are less prepared for the problems of mushroom growth. 2„-Wealthy farmers.,and specu- lators would profit from the tax shield while waiting for enor- mous capital gains, While small home owners would be over- taxed, : - 3. There is plenty of good farm land left in the country, and improved yields make less land necessary. * On the whole, the pro-tax-con- cession arguments are the more impressive. Cities will have a hard time ever buying back green space it is built on, and if *hold-out farms preserve sbrne future park land. until towns are aware of 'the need they will have perform- ed a real service. The profiteering argument has brought about a section in the proposed. California law which would require, back payment for seven years (plus 6 per cent in- terest) on the difference between a low farm'assessmeht and com- mercial valuation whenever ,a profitable,sale is made, In California as in other rap- idly urbanizing areas citizens would be wise to support the aim's of the pro-conserVation forces - but only when suffi- cient safeguards have been writ- .° ten into new laws to prevent profiteering and deter leapfrog- ging. This is a complex business, but it is worth unusual attention if the grandchildren of today's voters are to escape the dangers of anti-hill city living, Lombardo Makes A Second Big Move Tougher times are coming for the British motorist-at least if minister of Transport Ernest Marples has his way. He wants to adopt the system employed in some American states, and in other countries, in which autos - even late models -undergo regular tests for road- worthiness. But many a British motorist these days loves his car only a little bit less than his castle. And the. Marples suggestion of things to came, made this week during his visit to the official testing station at Hendon to get his own car tested, has roused a storm of 4controversy. In terms of the Marples plan, after a deadline all cars would be called up for testing at an average of one age group every • seven months until only"-new cars would be able to get a road fund license without a current test certificate. Mr. Marples has # given a hint lie may even bring new cars into the testing scheme. The age at which cars are test- ed for safety and road-worthi- ness at present is six years old, Mr. Marples hopes to reduce this to five years by early 1963. "One-year tests would bring Britain into line with many other countries," an official of the So- Sciety of Motor. Manufacturers and Traders said, Any move to- ward greater safety was welcom- ed bsi his association. The Motorist Protection So- ciety, on the other hand, called the measure "bureaucracy gone 'mad" and said it would congest the garages, The 'big motoring associations were skeptical. They felt there was no proof that testing al- ready carried out had reduced the accident rate, The Royal Automobile Club was in favor of spot checks rather than checks at stated intervals. Leading motor manufacturers were critical of the move, feel- ing it cast aspersions on their skill to make reliable cars, A colleague who knows both British and American forms of car testing says the British test is more searching than the • Could large-scale participation in the Freedom From Hunger campaign forestall the necessity for sharp cutbacks in. American wheat production? This is the question raised in a report by Murray R, Benedict, which has just been released by the National Planning Associa- tion. In this report, "The Wheat Problem: Which Road. Shall We Take?" Professor Benedict, who is professor of , agricultural eco- nomics at the University of Cali- fornia and the author of several scholarly books on agriculture, cautions', Americans: "If national and international food aid programs develop, as now seems possible, there will apparently be need and use for 'most, if not all, of the supplies available, or likely to become available, over the next five years." ARRESTED --- Mrs. Iva Kroe- ger, 44, was turned over to Son t'Francisco police by the FBI in Sari Diego, Calif., on a fugitive. ,warrant. She dis- claimed knowledge as fa how the bodies of a man and his wife 'came to be -buried inside her basement garage. Some people are like owls. The more light you shine in their eyes, the blinder they get. For 33 years, bandleader Guy Lombardo and New York's Hotel Roosevelt were linked as insepa- rably as. Lombardo and his theme song-"Auld Lang Syne," which he ladled out an estimated 6,600 times for the hotel's Grill Room patrons. It was at the Roosevelt that Lombardo and his orchestra annually played out the old year and played in the new over the nation's networks, and it was there that they introduced such songs as "Boo-Hoo," "You're Driving Me, Crazy," "I'm Con- fessin'i (That I Love You)," "Dancing in the Dark," and "Seems Like Old Times," Last week, boat-lover Lombardo an- nounced , that he ,is leaving ,the old stand to hold forth at a Florida "Yachter - In Tierra Verde, near St. Petersburg in which he owns stock. The Cana- dian-born maestro, now 60, said of the move: "It's our second big decision. The first was when we left London, Ont., with a little high-school band in 1924." ISSUE 40 `7-- 1963 4 Two can live as cheaply as one s-they usually have to. We Have Stations Like This Too! The Federal Communications Commission has done what it's been threatening to do -- refuse to renew a radio station's license because it wasn't doing, a good job. Actually, there was something a little more specific involved in the failure of station. WDKD of Kingstree, S.C., to stay on the air, A disc jockey was getting too much double-entendre into his jokes. But the FCC backed up its hearing examiner who also found the station was generally deficient in programming - too little meat in the way of news and information and too much "Grits and Gravy" (the name of the slightly-blue disc jockey's program of records arid spot 'Com- mercials). Surely the FCC's ruling must be hailed as progress. Without some enforcement of standards, licensing becomes meaningless. We consider in this nation that -Lie public owns the airways,. arid permission to broadcast over them is not merely a license to Make money, but carries With it a. responsibility to operate in the public interest, It is interesting to note that the FCC examiner, while casti- gating WDKD for its low quality Of programming, also said the station served its community "little better or little worse than most other standard broadeast- ing stations operating. under like conditions," Thivshotild Make other broads casters take a hard leok at their operations. For it appears that the FCC is going to make ,good On its declared intention to rev, 4' it higher standards of service, -Evening Eagle and eacon (Wichita, Kansas)` CROSSWORD 1. R as gifts, "can be done practically, with only modest additional out- lay," declares the NPA report "the arguments in favor of a constructive and positive ap- proach rather than a negative one, are skry compelling." Such a ,program would prob- ably not entirely solve the prob- lem of American surpluses, the report conceded, and sonic tem- porary cutbacks might be requir- ed - preferably in the hard red winter wheat area of the 'South- 'ern Great Plains which has pro- duced much of th,e surplus wheat, writes Helen Henley in, the Christian Science Monitor, * * Californians are to vote this November on an issue that' is conflictingly described as: (1) fruit trees and open space versus urban sprawl, or (2) the poor suburbanite taxpayers ver- sus the wealthy farm speculatons, What, the voters of the Golden State are asked to decide is whether California should permit local communities to reduce tax assessments on suburban • farm land in certain instances. 4' t' * Currently such land must be taxed at full market value, This usually means it is assessed not for' its relatively low commercial value as a farm, but for its po- tential value as subdivision lots or, industrial sites. The issue is far more,complex than the mere one-Akin of hull- Bred-acre ranches versus quar- ter-acre ranch-house develop- ments, Like most matters affect- ing the future shape of our urban civilization it has no clear, simple answer, * 5 * The primary reasons for grant- ing land tax concessions to city- threatened farmers are these: 1. Aesthetic - sardine-packed city dwellers need the relief of "green belt" parks arid rural scenery. Financial -farmers engulfed in the city should not be taxed on profits that assessors say they might Make' by using the land for some other purpose, but on the basis of what they actually are using it for. FurtherMore, the extra tax revenue gained from assessing farms as subdivi- sion land (Which inevitably turns them into subdivisions) is Often More than eaten up by the coat of ileW stheola, 1•041c18 sew- ers, and public. services, 1. Agricultural.- some 05,006 litres of priine farm land are reportedly being gobbled each Year by City growth An Callfbr lila alone. AboUt a riiilliori faith * * * At a time when the Kennedy administration is urging tighter controls on production of grains, Professor Benedict .declares that. a positive and large-scale pro- gram of joint aid in co-operation with other countries, designed to raise living -standards in many of the less - developed countries, would be "little, if at all, more expensive" than paying farmers for extensive curtailment of their wheat production. The roads open to Americans , offer three approaches, says this report; (1) a full-scale effort to cut babIt production . drastically, possibly to as low a. point as an .800,000,000 or 900,000,000 bushel level; (2) continuance of approx- imately the current program; `and (3) sizable contributions to an international and national ' Freedom From Hunger program. 4, 4. 4, Favoring the third approach, the NPA report states: "It would seem unwarranted and shorts 'sighted to ?hove strongly at this time to reduce United States wheat production to what the commercial markets will absorb." The United states already is committed to participating with other nations: in the Freedbms From Hunger program launched by the Food and. Agriculture Or- . ganization of the. United. Na- tions. 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