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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-10-11, Page 3Will The Wheel, e Outdated.? Win4By Noodling: . iridg Opponents damaged trees and41' ,for °ravel Of the woolly Fungieldal sprays .4000 to the fruit before infection has occurred also are helpful. • Apples on the trees may be infected any time during the sea- son when spores are washed onto . them from. eankers, SPOres enter cracks in the skin or lodge in Ientieles and remain unaffected by ferigieldal, dips applied after harvest, Encouraging results in contrel- ling the disease have been ob- tained with controlled atmo- sphere storage, Although raising the percentage of carbon dioxide - alone in the storage increased the amount of rot, control was obe tained when the amount of oxy- gen was lowered simultaneously. 1.ty 1107 U. ::.'orcdll;r Warren. Ti 1.. 'BO Suzy Scratches High Society PICKET YUGOSLAV SHIP - In Houston, Tex., pickets, including Cuban refugees, dem- onstrate against the loading of surplus U,S, flour aboard a Yugoslav freighter which had carded. Russian grain to Cuba, Longshoremen honored the picket line and refused to load the flpur, 1, that is expected to do 100 knots and will be tested next year, The Navy also has a 320-ton hydrofoil research ship (that won't be completed until 1965) but will then do 60 knots, may- be 100, As for air cushion Vehicles, the Navy is working on some 20-ton 70-knot skimmers. Actually the. Maritime Admin- istration has the first large Unit- ed States hydrofoil to. get off the water - the H. S. Denison'' It weighs 60 tons and .can do 60 knots. It is obvious that at the mo- ment the cost of these vehicles makes them prohibitive for com- merical competition, at least in the United StateS. But where speed is important and where military necessity demands such craft the price will undoubtedly be met. I wouldn't, after the brief en- counter with hydrofoils and GEMs, agree that I have actually seen the replacement for the wheel. But, then, possibly a lot of cavemen, back in the first days of the 'wheel, scoffed at the en- gineers of that day who thought they had something. What Must We. Believe About Christ? 30)111 6: 30-40; Philippians 2; 5-11; Matthew 16: 1341, Memory Scripture: For even the Son of man came not to be ministered UltiP, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many, mark 10: 45, What must we believe about Christ? Everything that is clear- ly set forth in the Holy Scrip- tures, of course, The Scripture portions for this lesson cite cer- tain basic truths which may be thus summarized, Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the Son of the liv- ing God, He was God, equal with the Father, before his coming to earth in the likeness of men, It was a great condescension to be- came man and become obedient unto the death of the cross, But now He is greatly exalted above all. In the final day every knee shall bow to him and confess that He, Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Because of what Jesus has ac- complished through His life and death here, He is the Bread of Life, We may come to Him and find complete soul satisfaction. He will not turn us away. He will raise us up in the last day to be with Him forever. * e * These are great foundation truths. Of course there is much more about Jesus Christ in the Scriptures, Some teachers say it isn't necessary to believe that Jesus was born of a virgin. But the records by Matthew and Luke say that he was. Some have discounted the records of some of the miracles performed by our Saviour. But why? If we assume an authority whereby we decide what portions of Scrip- ture we will believe and which we will deny, we have under- mined our belief in the whole. We are putting ourselves above the Holy Spirit, by whose inspir- ation the writers wrote the Sa- cred Scriptures. If we reject what God has thus .written, we are really rejecting God Himself, and making little gods of our- selves. Hudson Taylor once said, con- cerning Christ, "If we do not crown Him Lord of all in our lives He will not be Lord at all." Trying to be partly Christian is just as disappointing as accept- ing part of the Scriptures. Life will only yield its best as we yield our all to Jesus Christ and make Him Lord of all^ .Anything billed as possibly "the first major breakthrough in stIrface travel since the wheel" just can't be ignored. That is the reason I took the day off the ether day to go out to the Shoreham Hotel, overlook- ing .Bock Creek Park, and see what was up, After all, the wheel has been will us tor millennia. A chance to see something that just might outdate the wheel doesn't come in everyone's life- time, What I found was a group of over 500 scientists, engineers, and Navy braid and scrambled eggs, in convention assembled, There could be no doubt this was big stuff, These men were solid eiti-, zees, possibly dreamers, but dreamers with their feet on the ground. It was immediately obvious they were not chasing visions or Pursuing will-of-the-wisps. They had charts and graphs and form- ,. ulas and diagrams and blue- prints, also some pictures and movies to prove they had hold of something real. They were catching up with hydrofoils and air cushion vehi- cles. These are vehicles that skim over the water or land - though at the moment I would not say they would soon put the wheel out of business or into the category of the Dodo bird. They very kindly gave me the primer course in what this was all about. (The slides and form- ulas were way beyond the tri- gonometry I had had in college.) An air cushion vehicle-which some call "ground effect ma- chine" and abbreviate with pride into GEM-flies on a cushion of air that permits it to skim above the surface of the land or water at very high speeds as compared with other surface craft. Hydrofoil vehicles, on the other hand, get their lift from airfoil- shaped surfaces that extend beneath the water. These airfoil- shaped surfaces may look like fins, stilts, or paddles, Some are triangular. Some look like Vene- tian blinds, The rest of the world has push- ed‘far ahead of the United States in this 20th century challenger to the wheel, I learned from Rear Admiral Ralph James, of the Navy's Bu- reau of Ships, that hydrofoils are in use-even if not too common -in Europe, and by the Russians. Hydrofoils are, supposed to be plying the Volga, the Don, the Dnieper, and even sailing on the open Soviet seas. Britain has a hydrofoil hauling passengers in the Irish Sea. Hy- drofoils are sailing-or I guess one should say, "flying," on Lake Geneva, Also Italy has some of these new contraptions. Hydrofoils and GEMS are sup- posed to be able to do between 40 to 100 knots. There are re- porte Governor Rockefeller is eying some of these vehicles for ferry duty betWeen Port Chester (in Westchester County) and Bayville, (in Nassau County.) The Navy ie,quite.seld, on these new vehicles, It is building a 65- foot hydro-skimmer that can do 70 knots, The Navy's' primary interest in these new craft lies in the possibility they have for landings from ',transports, high- speed patrol work, antisubmarine warfare, and mine countermeas- ures, writes Neal Stanford in the Christian Science Monitor. Vice-Admiral William Reborn (the man largely responsible for the Polaris submarine program) is apparently now devoting him- self to these new-type vehicles. He showed a series of slides at this gathering of what the Navy is doing in this field: -It has a submarine chaser, the High Point, weighing 110 tons, that can do 40 knots, and will be used to patrol harbors, harbor epproaches, and coastal water. Then there is the 15-ton Fresh- time divisional officers at no cost to the herd owner. Provision was made at the out- set for the use of accredited vet- erinarians to conduct the tests for these diseases, said Dr. Wells, and no new - regulations are needed. These owners wishing to con- tinue under the herd testing programs should approach their practitioners, If reactors are discovered by these veterina- rians they must immediately re- port to the Departthent so that official action can be taken. * * The Division's officers will also conduct tests when infection has been uncovered in a herd as a result of a screening program, or where an accredited herd certifi- cate or brucellosis-free listed herd certificate is to be issued for the first time. Dr. Wells added that his divi- sion will continue to maintain a register of listed and accredited herd owners. He pointed out too that the change in operation will not in any way effect the move- ment of cattle for export. gc Bull's eye rot, a fungus disease that can cause heavy losses in apples harvested and stored after wet seasons, can be controlled best by a combination of spray- ing and cultural practices. Late apple varieties are most susceptible to the rot fungus, says Dr. L. E. Lopatecki, of the federal research station at Sum- merland, B.C. He also points out that early culling of infected apples is bnpossible because the rot only appears late in the stor- age life of the fruit, * * The perennial canker fungus is the cause of bull's eye rot in the Okanagan Valley where the cankers usually survive in old trees and trees damaged by frost. The fungus is spread by the woolly aphid, - As an effective vvey. to reduce losses from bull's eye rot, Dr. Lopatecki recommends painting the cankers, replacing or pruning elieryy , vhetyr'e ;idkl . South mumbled softly. "Can't YOu atop that damned muttering?" snapped West, try., lag to decide his best lead. '`Oh, I'm • very, very sorry," said South in heavily accented English. ""Tai. trefy 4. 4: ..ever buboy," he went on mumbling. Thoroughly irritated, West stilt made the right lead. Bat his Ira- . in the following play of tho, irri- tation, had heightened the possi,, bility Of a blunder both then and. Nobody understood this better than South Feldesman, trim, natty New York dia. mond merchant V.-th a swarthy, inscrutable face and • ni0OltilV, dark eyes, Born in Odessa, Bus- ,sia, but nicknamed "The Arab" by his fellow bridge players, reldesinan has been racking • up a fabulous record in,. U.S, bridge, Last month, be won both the life masters' pair and master men's pair championships, the second Consecutive time he had achieved this unparalleled double. He is. a consistent winner in such money bridge places as New York's exclusive Cavendish Club on Park Avenue where, at 5 cents a point, a player can easily drop or pick up $250 in, a few. hours. One of the reasons for Feldesman's remarkable record of success since taking 'up the game only ten years ago is that he is one of the craftiest praca. titioners of bridgemanship-the dark art of subtly disconcerting one's opponent to. such an extent that he makes a costly mistake. Mumbling in Russian is merely one way by which Feldesman helps opponente to err-though, naturally, he denies any subver- sive intent. ""Sometimes it seems to Make the people I'm playing against a little impatient," Felde eaman. conceded. "But I don't do it to irritate them, I just feel more at ease • counting in my mother language." The cool pose of innocence does not fool those who -follow Feldesman's games. "He will go out of his way to keep his op- ponents • upset," says Oswald Jacoby. "He studiously irritates his opponents," says Albert H. Morehead, a Cavendish Club member and The New York Times' bridge columnist. Mere- head has likened The Arab to the late Ely Culbertson both in his play ("he seldom drops a trick") and in his manner at the table, Culbertson,. of course, wasn't above springing an un- expected bit of personal gossip about an opponent during the play if it will help disrupt con- centration. If Feldesman doesn't go this far, he goes far enough. For in- stance, he hums, which can be annoying • under any -circum- stances. Feldesman also intimi- dates by staring as though he thinks his opponent capable of a felony. And in a maneuver per- haps most offensive of all in the know-it-all world of,. expert bridge, Feldesman manages to exasperate .opponent after op- ponent in the simplest way: "He will rehash, tirelessly, a pbint that .everybody „understands, that nobody could misunderstand." says one partner. Meei-Tir all, The Arab has a near genius for getting his op- ponents into arguments with • each other. At the end of a dis- astrous hand for the opposition, he will often turn to one oppo- nent and, turning on the charm, sympathize at the expanse of the Otlqr: "You would have made it certainly-if your partner hadn't misinformed you." Even Mrs, Feldarnan has felt her husband's bride erna aship, "It's murder," she says. "I've often left the table in tears," Nobody, of course, contends that Feldesman relies entirely on psychological warfare for his • victories, An intuitive player ("Points, echmointe," be says, "throw away the book .and use your bead"), he is a master of the deceptive discard, the aston- ishing pre-emptive. bid. Like nearly every top player in the arrogant, slightly eg.-...ma- niacal world ci expert bridge. Feldesman considers himself the best. Other top players, naturale V', rank him -only near the -tee. Charles Goren, for instance, ac- knowledges Peldesnan's skill t`ta line • player"), while do:110ring his gamesmanship: "There is a groat deal to questien about hi; propriety-net his hor est..% his propriety."-from NEWSWEEK Individuals Still Biggest Givers •Contrary to the 'impression cre- ated by spectacular gifts of foun- dations and corporations, the in- dividual is still the big philan- thropist in this country. Of $6.7 billion donated for charitable causes last year, nearly $7 bil- lion came from you, your neigh- bor and others like you, only maybe richer. Compared to this, the founda- tions' benefactions were small: a mere $625 million, Corpora- tions gave $460 million and the income from endowment funds produced approximately a bil- lion. This is the finding of the. Am- erican Association of Fund Rais- ing council, a non-profit organi- zation of 28 professional fund- raising firms that measures the public's generosity each year. Discounting what the govern- ment's generosity, with our mon- ey is doing to its value through inflation, philanthropy was up by half a billion dollars last year over the year before. Anyway, it's good to have the findings posted. Nice to feel that anything the foundations can do, we can do better-and do. -San lVfateo (Calif.) Times. CROSSWORD POZZLE 7. Swamp 27, Place or 8, Slender girl confinement ^ 9. Attrition . 28, Alien 10; R oya l Ai l, 29,Everythinge 22... ELigh Way Force inside 11. Some IndeflnitelY 26. Bristle 17. Tailless 88. Consolidated amphibian 40. Institute 19, Profitable (2 words) ..; grasses 42. elligthfrmn the 22. Cereal 24. Cordage 49 Plxhatist fiber 411. Spoken . 25. Withered 47 Survey 48 Weep (vay.) ' t 26, So, Amer. 49. Age wildcat 511. i 11 bricate ACROSS 67, Secluded 1. Fashion valley 5. Aggregate Brother (11`r, DOWN 1 2. Pa, lakeport 2 Allot 8, Intimately Out"tw[ne 145:. termP1‘ II'erloiaasupnatolh:1° (poet.) 14. Hank of led 16, Matte 8• Insect ridiculous I z S 6 7 $ 13 6 1Z 15 20 19 18. Navy offider 20. Point- ...Elite (lte: .Sp.) 21: Si Indian- Crude sesee 28. neaten' intensely'., 28. Relating AO' holieohold. Ott redYful 21. Person „ addreSsed 82, oenamento Seheine Of room 84. Belonging to rte i t. CtietiOlibi 7,-Foreg0 9, Church 'bsi.irt el 41. MA'S tilaittiaine 42; Article 49 StinerViief„ of 11; viibltdatIO6 48. wet of . , ealming„ II. Amateur 62. Seaweed II. ATOM?! Afan era 16. Obstruct 114.1roneIng dirmtii140' etewho.1* oh this 'Oa& i4Api, I Wearing initsuglt.'04- Whelk NDAY SC/I001 LESSON "Mrs. (X), the du Pont heiress, and her former husband will re- marry shortly," wrote society columnist Suzy, baring her ele- gant claws, "Mrs, (X) says this time it will be forever. Honestly, what society needs most is some new dialogue." With such irreverent and catty scratching at society, Suzy, whose real name is Mrs. Aileen Mehle, has carved out room for herself at the top of a highly specialized journalistic field. "Society by Suzy," which started in The New York Mirror less than four years ago, has attracted twelve news- paper outlets since the column went into King Features syndi- cation last spring, Mrs. Mehle, 40ish, attractive, busty, and blond, is twice-divor- ced and the mother of a 20-year- old Annapolis midshipman, She claims that in 1951, between husbands, she became a society columnist quite by accident. "There I was at this Miami cock- tail party minding my own Mar- tini," she says, when Miami News pubisher Dan Mehoney talked her into writing a column dissecting Palm Beach society. It lasted two years, and after that, until 1958, she devoted all her time to her second husband, After starting her column in the Mirror, Suzy, a stranger New York, gained attention by the sure-fire technique of feud- ing with carefully chosen oppo- nents, The first was a fellow Hearst gossipest, Cholly Knick- erbecker (Igor Cassini) of The New York' Journal -American, whose ire was raised, under- standably, by her constant "re- writing" of his items concerning the idle rich and the titled poor, (She is also prone to fill her six columns per week with freely lifted items from the London papers.) "Cassini printed lies," says. Suzy. "I just couldn't let that go by. He's jealous. I've already replaced him in The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner." The feud rageS on. "If she were a man," Cassini fumed recently, "I'd punch her in the nose." Suzy also took on Zsa Zsa Gabor, acidly calling the Hungarian- born actress "Gabby" and "Miss Chicken Paprika of 1910." Social Registered social com- mentator Cleveland Amory ad- mires Suzy, "The peril of the gossip columnist," he says, "is that he or she begins to write from the outside in, gradually gets more 'in' and winds up writ- ing about society •from the inside out, as though they believe the stuff. Suzy teniainS unimpress- ed and 'out' and therein lies her charm, She's also shockproof," Suzy, who. was once a grade- echeel teacher in California, TIIEFARM FROM Jokzvusseil. agrees she's shockproof, but be- cause she feels her readers may not be, she tries to spare them the worst. "There are a thousand things. I don't print because they're too awful," she says. Does she take the society beat seriously? "No," she says, "but there are a few souls who do. Their mothers must have been frightened by a yacht," Utit, to Pre-Vt. REIM BM Ei.111311 UDC ooao C1121111BEIDEIE3 1323110H Moan • GICHIE1 INEIEM ERIZISEIBEIRI COED EZEItia GEEZ1 IdEPECI BOMA Nana- CIIMBEMEI F2EUEIRIlia-Er Enos EICEI DEE IREIEld-,CliiICIPS New varieties. of potatoes are being developed by federal agri- cultural scientists to,help the po- tato starch industry that is gain- ing ground in New Brunswick. The varieties are high in starch conent. says Dr. D. A. Young, of Canada Department of Agricul- ture's research station at Fred- eriction where the potatoes are being developed. 4‘ Potato starch is used widely in the paper, textile and food in- dustries, but so far most of Can- ada's. supply is imported from. Europe. Up to three years ago what little was made in Canada came from cull potatoes which were often poor in quality and short in supply. In 1959, three manufacturers, in co-operation with the New Brunswick and federal agricul- ture departments, mapped a plan toput the Canadian industry in a firm competitive position. * 4' Last year 600 acres of the best cbmmercial varieties available were planted by growers under contract to the starch manufac- turers. The results were so en- couraging that 900. acres are. being grown under contract this year, The Fredericton research sta- • tion has undertaken to breed po- tato varieties expressly for in- dustrial uses. Several varieties with good yields and a higher starch con- tent are now being tested, Dr. Young reports. Such varieties could be a fac- tor in helping the industry sup- ply most of the nation's demand for potato starch, he points out, * Herd testing for tuberculosis and brucellosis in Canadian cat- tle has, -with some exceptions, been turned over by the federal Health of Animals Division to veterinarians in private practice, Dr. Kenneth Wells', Veterinary Director General, said the deci- sion was effective September 6. It was not primarily an economy measure, but a result of the steady progress in the eradica- tion of the two diseases, The net result, however, will be the release of many of the Division's veterinarians for other duties in animal disease control, The programs concerned are t h e 'Tuberculosis Accredited Herd Plan and the Brucellosis- Pree Listed Herd Policy, They were designed primarily to assist individual herd owners to elim- inate boVine tuberculosis and brucellosis ' and to provide a 'source of cattle free from these diseases, New that tuberculosis has been Virtually eliminated", the Accre- tilted Herd Plan haS. outlived its usefulness,. said Dr. Wells. The same applies to the bru- liStdd herds pro- gram, now that approximately 65 per dent of Canada's tattle 'pep- illation has come under the 13rtt- belleeis, Ctaiittel Area Program and the Majority of the areas concerned have qualified as brit- tellosis certified, 4' e 11.• However, brucellosis-free * herds located Where brucela leele Certified area atatus. ha, 'net , Yet been reached,.. Will continue td he tested •atitilially by Nil-. 18-§ilti 196t:‘ PittliAltt 001 COUNCIL ----... Seats ale lined up in the Central stavee-of St. Peter's Basilitiii for deledotes to the Second VOtidOii. Council, 'Whidil It telledilled to convene Oct. 1 1.. 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