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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1956-09-05, Page 12SETS TRACK RECORD ,-- OR DID " .11tAtWs fiOSPEL HALL Regular Sunday Services Sunday School 1045 am. Remembering the Lord at 11.15 Gospel Meeting at 7.30 p.m, 'Ea , ch. Thursday evening at 8 pm. T.!raYer Meeting and• Bible Study WOMEN WELDERS USED There is such an acute snort-44ge.. of Taber in West Germany that Hamburg's shipyard, the world's sttiggeete has gone back to the Wartime practice of employing we- Aen'as weldern, The 900 welders nines include 12 women who were trained from scratch. 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 1.0mooNwrian WASHER REPAIRS WE STOCK PARTS FOR ALL COMMON MAKES - Wringer Rolls to •fit all makes & models Ii 44. 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F No. if • • • 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 Two shows each night First at 7.15 'LYCEUM' Theatre There's no better' place for those idle, unproductive dollars than in Investors -Mu- 'teal, Canada's largest mutual fund. For full information consult your Investors Syndi- cate representative. Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sept: 6-7-8 Walter Brennan Brandon De Wilde "GOODBYE MY LADY" A heartwarming story of a bey and his strong attachment for a dog. This is a picture for the whole family, up the hill had helped his arthri-, John W. Waines R.R. LISTOWIDL Flume 1042 Mon., Tues., Wed„ Sept. 10-11-18 Frank Sinatra Sterling Hayden , in "SUDDENLY" A taut suspense melodrama about a fantastic attempt by a physchopathic killer to assassin- ate the President of the United States. 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. I rill 41Stei r 1.1011 OP CANADA .VID. Croladtht largaid mutual rand . . RRARIPPPiCRI"RIINOIIPIIG , °trim t4 PRINCIPAL cryls ......b.1...1.1.110. •IirnAMMI.001•09.111p0e1Mo,1111•11411•.011111.1.11101.00.1111.140•041111M410.3.10..=......0.......S.O.M. 0 Exciting.. New... FALL MATERIALS have arrived at Edighotter's timed perfectly .for your FALL SEWING '• FELTS New and luXurieue shades of popular felt material in 72" width. $2.9 Price 5 yd. !ober Building Supplies FOR EVERY NEED Hemlock, Pine, Spruce, Ash, Hard Maple, 'menton Doors, Frames, Windows, Sash, Trim,. Arborites, Hardwood Flooring, .• Plastic Wall Tiles, Linoleum and Vinyl Floor Tiles. WOOL TWEEDS See the outstanding selection Of Wool tweed in true Fall Colours. .50 width pricer! its $2.98 a.,1 $3.95 We • remembered seeing some baby food tucked away on a back shelf in the Hudson Bay Store, and decided that, "mixed with milk, this might be ideal food for little Wa- push. A soup-bowlful was prepared, put on the floor, and the little chap's nose was 'forcibly inserted into the preparation with the warning, "Eat this or steerve." To otir delight he did not need a second warning and he was weaned in an instant. • Our worries were over, So we thought, A Seeond bowlful was pre- pared and instead of putting his nose in it, he put his two huge feet into it, epilled it on the floor, and then realized it was Something to eat again and immediately ate it, All the while, he Was messing up ,the floor jest as much as Our doting had been with milk. Like all youngetets with a ftill stemakh, he Was happy and lie etretelled out 'near the stove to dream -of heaping Bowls of ban? food, ' This 'was fr repeat parities =tome twice e day, and it was telly then that We realized What 'peer viaibri these. aniretilli `have, No need to say that our floor Was welshed More often in' the two Week' he wits with tis than in the entire pre- vieue eXietertee Of the hotrie. HuWevee, Wantielt has now' des parted to the outside 'to he placed it zoo Where he nen be the :albs lent of delight to many humans, We wonder If he will feel the Saute tiweerde /ames, Or e would he much rather be svvitruntrig around or 'hylitg eh a polar tee Pack, We hope Wapnek 'has as many pleas sant erleinorice of us as WO have Here of Arthur Godfrey radlo_toid TV Miele Who oe. him, It is no wonder he Was headliria the "Intereatienal Fettles'," tillet evening atatidgER,Yid tattle- such yeah* devil and bit the band' tion at Western Pair, r„.onclett, .8eptember 1.0' to lb; Write •now :for that fed him, for you See, WaPtoilt regorited s'l'ats,, Prieet are A. 450 .and.41,094- was young Cub. 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