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WOMEN WELDERS USED
There is such an acute snort-44ge.. of Taber in West Germany that
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WAPUSK
The, following, artiple, was written
by Vince Criehton, senior conser-
Within efficer for the magazine,
Sylva. Mr. Crichton had been
stationed at Winiek on Hudson's
Bay during the winter months,
$ '* *
When Iestpusk came to live with
us, he was between three and four
menthe old. He was possibly born
in late 'December, but the exact
date, will not be known, as Malan-
tos rnaritimos do not keep a birth
register, He was typical of Iris race,
long-necked, narrow, pointed head,
earrow forequarters, bowed front
legs, pure white except a little
black nose and dark beady eyes.
He was, a smaller counterpart of
his parents. His dad weighed well
Over a thousand pounds, and may
beep reached the three-quarter-ton
merit, while his' mother was much
smaller, possibly weighing in the
neighborhoo'd of 750 pounds. Yet
Wapusk 'at his tender age of 3-4
months, weighed . about four
pounds. He. did not 'growl; as his
Cousins are supposed, to do, but
issued very raucous mites, akin, to
those made by ravens.
He was seldom still, and always
hungry. Like most youngsters, he
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• The Win gl/Aln Ad11114110,,VIPMWednesieay,Soppt, IStia sg, leislisle
at The Hill till t s picker C than the Eye
Stttart Truemale
In Imperial Oil Review
Most people thought We were
crazy; hilt net all of them. Some
thought we were coming 11Q-41,0
from well-celebrated
epeee.
It Was Abel* 7 a.m. and at the
foot of each downgrade In the
highway our little roadster chortl-
ed to a stop and waited silently,
as if it needed to get its breath be-
fore attempting the neet rise.
It was understandable if farmers
carrying pails of milk froth their
barns suspected that the three oc- •
cupants pi the car were' having a
convivial' swig every 20 yards.
One who sauntered over must
have been convinced of it,
"Having trouble?" he asked..
* iM
• -- '1,`Li
pointed this out, Ocith• government
and opposition apolresmen brought
it rap • em the floor of the begisla-
ture, Cabinet ,members concerned
hastily gave assurance that special.
provision Weald be 'mettle for the
Magnetic Hill to go on entertain-
ing .
This. gives. Brine finite an .Wo-
elation with 'thee' bill—be helped
'launch: it on its way to fame, and
then, nearly a quarter of a century
late,ri Welled it from.
' (Stuart.• Trees-nee and John
Brine are editor-in-chief and as-
sociate editor of The Saint John
(N.B.) Telegraph-Journal a a ti
Times Glebe; 'lack .Brayley le bend
of the Canadian. Press Maritime
bureau.)
Results of a two-ear collision at the intersection of the 13 Line and
4 Highway on Monday afternoon are shown above. The ears were
driven by Donald Troffer of Detroit and Earl Hart, of Woodstock
e Roth suffered injuries but were not as seriously hurt as the picture
steeight. indicate. The Hart car lies on its side.--Photo by Lewis. „ . eseee
—Central Press Canadian
' Officials of the Canadian Olympic track :and field trials at
Hamilton Ont., are going to apply for a pew Canadian record
opposite the name of Douglas Kyle for the 10,000-metre race.
Kyle, right, is not disputing their records, and Joanne Wooley
a step-watch to prove his time, But there ere others to say that
though the stop-watch is right, Doug missed a lap somewhere
around the track and he still, had another lap to go. If the officials
are correct, he did the 10,000 metres, about We miles, in 29: minutes, 18,2 seconds, only 1,2 seconds off the 0/ympie record
set by the Czech runner, Emil Zatopek.
Golf Euchre
Germ-carrying flies, biting inos-i
quitoes, Meths, and Other insects
are at their hardiest during holiday
time, but there is no need to let
them spoil your fun. Insecticides
such as "Ridsect" ennte 'In.:handy
aerosol containers and with, , the
ptish of a button these pests will
disappeer. 'Vole spray will hold its
strength for six to eight weeks,
• e
There were five tables of euchre
played at the Golf Course en
Thursday afternoon test. The win-,
ners were 1st, Mrs. W. H, GurneSsi
lone hand prize went to Mrs. C.'
Hincle; and low prize to Mrs, W,
J. Greer, and lucky prize to Mrs.
C. I-linde, she winning two prizes,
The prizes of old fashioned grocer-
ies were done up in brown paper
bags.
The hostesses, Mrs. R. E. Mc-
Kinney, Mrs. H. P. Carmichael,
Mrs. J. Kerr and Mrs. W. B. Mc-
Cool served a lunch of boiled eggs,
homemade bread, hot, tea biscuits,
apple sauce, cheese, bran muffins,
tea and oat cookies.
Most of the ladies were dressed
in old fashioned costumes, and all
enjoyed the afternoon.
Zees-ea-as_ elle'Seeeeesese .
eiderately sidetracked Magnetic
Hill and 'detoured the main high-
way to let the coasters coast un-
disturbed—also to avoid a chronic
traffic. jam.
I visited the hill last surpmer•for
the first time since 1933, and was
surprised to find that Mrs. Ludwig
Sikorsiti, who runs the tourist shop
Is the former Muriel Lutes who 22
years before had sold us an ice
cream breakfast. She remembered
our ,eventful excursion.
"J moved down from the other
road in 1935," she explained, "but
I still specialize in home-made ire
cream, as well as New Brenswiek
buekwheatsand-buttermillt p a n-
cakes with seer own maple syrup,
and I still sell Imperial Oil's gaso-
line." .Ininically, here the -Visitor
sees an-Esso gas pump at a location
where, cars flock to travel uphill
"Oh, no thanks," was the cheers
fully earnest reply. "We jest want-
ed to see if we could coast back up
this hill."
We wore on the Mountain Road
—once an Indian trail, later a pion-
eer wagon route—which leads from
Moncton, N.B., towards the gentle
slope of Lutes Mountain, It, was a
crisp June morning in 1933 and
three Saint John newspapermen—
John G. Bruce, Jack Brayley and
I—were on an exploratory jaunt
that was to have a big impact on
New Brunswick's tourist trade,
Half an hour and ten stops later,'
six miles from. I'veonqon, at the laste
dip before the; dirt road climbed,
up to meet tin interesting highway,
we were ready to give up hope,
"If this isn't ' it," philosophized'
Bruce as he, switched' -'off the ig-
nition and put the geare, in neutral,
"we'll have had e nice_ ,250-nilie
round trip anyway." •
Brayley , and / . were almost too
sleepy to answer. (We had left
Saint John after putting The Tele-
graph-Journal to bed at 3.30
shortly after which, ordinarily, we
would have rolled into heti tea) -
Then_ ;eerily, . startlingly,'
we began trosnove-abacitWartie--up
the hill we, had just descended
Gathering np'SPeed a'S•We went—
we coasted up What seernea' to be
a gradual but distinct, incline about
200 yards long. ,
This, at last, was, the "magnetie
hill" we had heard .'about from Alex
Ellison, superintendent of' theliWttho,ut using gasoline. "One Sun-
newspaper' Preestoonm,' Who' we felt day in August more than 3,500
sure was pulling tsee:nottective leg. people 'came" out to try the hill,"
Wide-awake now, 'we 'tumbled'she said. "We figure aliout 150,000
out of the car. Brune,' wee ' had People visit us' each year. Almost
brought engineering instruinents, everyone who visits Moncton drops
checked the lay of the hind: I got in—Princess Alexandra, the daugh-
busy taking pictures -with an old- ter of the Duchess of Kent, drove
type Graflex camera as' big as a out here even though the .Royal
woman's hat box. Brayley seribble,d train was' making only a short
notes. • stopoyer in town."
Any idea' that somethingsmagne. One American, Mrs. Sikorski re-
tie in, the soil ,had. actually drawn called'a brought his own carpenter's
the ear up the slope was 'washed level all the way from California
out when we neticed the,witter in to test the hill. "He told us later
the ditch was flowing "uphill" too, the level never worked properly
The whole thing was an optidal after that."
illusion, created by the extraindi- Iltiman nature, it seems, exhibits nary and deceptive doWnsWeep o ,quirks as odd as the hill itself,
the entire landscape:. this "up- One visitor claimed that coa.etiag grade" was really a downgrade, a
less.' steep continuation,' of the
downgrade, that feced
Oddly, no 'mention of the -phenol
menon had ever appeared in print,
as far as we knew: Few, farmers,
even in the immediate vicinity; had
observed the peculiar. characteris-
tics of the hill. 4 girl Wito2wis 'sell-
ing borne-niiide tee .ereatinet a little
stand beside.,herParentS' eirtveWity
end tending 'a gaeblitte::eitimp at
the same time, .watched' us, in eltizs
zlerrient ftwee the intareecting
.
way above u'
in giving Us 'Oar Ellison
had claimed he sought out the hill
arid* tried it himself after hearing
the tale from his brother, who in.
turn heard It front a clergyman
years before.
"It was the most astonishing
thing I ever experienced," the mini-
ster was reported to have said, "I
Was bringing some children home
from a picnic when a thunderstorm
broke, I stopped my car it the bot-
tom of the 'bill to put up the side
curtains--and- the automobile start-
ed to run Up the next hull" •
Even after-elie.pittures and story
appeared in' The Telegraph-Jour-
nal the neet „meriting, people were
skeptical. Seine of therm, too, poi-
sibly doubied .our sanity. A Monc-
ton paper published a 'small etem
headed: "Silly Story in Saint John}
Paper." The leap: Whig Sunday,
however, the "skeptical" flocked
by the hundreds to the' hill..
Almost overnight, Ciedefella-like,
Magnetic Hill Was transformed
from another dip iti the road to
One of Canida'a Meet Widelyspubli.
cited tourist attertetionalts snag-
tietie quality being evident In the'
fact it has drawn a einitititiotte
stream of Visitega ever 'since,
Strangely, snore Anteriettes than.
Canacliane seem to know _ about It.
In 23 years More than half a Mil-
heel cite' haVe folkneed Brtiee'S
1931: reed Teadetee to sartillte 'the
eeptelence of apparently gildhig
"uphill" with the eltitch diedrigege
tie, Another ineleted he felt the
• "magnetism" in his bones and ,had
to blink to focus his eyes, and ne
asked Mrs. Sikorski, "Where do
you keep the magnetos?"
, • There have been people who
walked "up" the incline warily for
fear the magnetism would pull the
nails out of their shoes; or who
sat down expecting •to'. be drawn
bodily up the hill; or' who were
convinced the hill was sitting on
fabulous undiscovered hoe eke de-
posits, hence the magnetism.
Mrs. Sikorski and her husband,
a Polish-Canadian who settled . in
this country after World War II,
remember one visitor who remon-
strated flatly, "If it was only an
optical illusion my car 'wouldn't
actually d,o it"; and another who
said, "Yes, 'I know it's an optical
illusion—but what makes my car
coast up the hill'?"
There's an upsto-date sequel to
Bruce's original visit to the Mag-
netic Hill, In its rush to teach pro-
rogation, the 1955 session of the
New Brunswick Legislature nearly
passed ae new Motor Vehicle Act
that in part read: •
"The driver of any ,motor vehiete
while travelling upon a downgrade
shell not coast - with the „gears of
such' vehicle in neutrel."
Reading this in. news co-lilts-ins,
John Bruce—new associate editor
of The Telegraph-Journel— im-
mediately saw its implications: the
House was placing 'Itself in the
awkWard position of legislating one
off New Brunswick's greatest nee
teral tourist assets out of business.
-The next day an editorial duly
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A heartwarming story of a bey
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Al Western Fajr
- - was happy and t/hiet when his
stomach was full. He had not b eers..
weaned and our first problem was
how to feed him, Diluted canned
milk in a baby's bottle complete
with nipple was the first experi-
ment. He bit, and scratched our
arms and- legs, so the only other
alternative was to wear heavy
mitts, hold him in the crook of
one arm, pressed close to the body
and, with the other hand, hold the
bottle and try to feed him, He
would get a mouthful. of milk,
choke and then spit milk over
himself and his foster-parent. Then
he would fight the nipple and pull
it off, the result being more spilt
milk, but mostly on our clothes.
Reminds one of the old English
Music Hall song, "When father
papered the parlor, you couldn't
See Pa for paste." After three feed-
ings in this manner, and out
clothes becerning disagreeable with
the Odor -of sour milk, it was de-
cided that from now on he would
have to he weaned completely.
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