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Contact: ROY CLARK PLANT PERSONNEL 1-638-3081 Dr, R. T. NIc featured on two Two high-value Olympic coni- memorative stamps will be issued on March 14. The stamps feature reprckducttons of The Sprinter, at $1, and The Plunger, at $2—bronze se ptures by the noted Canadian physical educe- r and sculptor, Dr. Robert Tait McKenzie. The stamps were designed by Allan R. Fleming and retain the bronze Colour of the sculptures.'? The stamps measure 48 mm by 30 mm in a horizontal format for the $1 denomination—The Sprint- er—and 30 mm by 48 mm in a ver - , tical format for the $2 denomina- tion—The Plunger. A total of 10 million stamps in each denomination will be print- ed in six -colour lithography by Ashton -Potter Limited, Toronto. Marginal inscriptions, including the designer's name, appear on the four corners of each pane of eight stamps1 The total production of the stamps will bear the general tag- ging and will not be available in any other form. Robert Tait McKenzie, creator of The Sprinter and The Plunger, was born in Almonte, Ontario in 1867. McKenzie, whose highland family had a scholarly tradition, financed his medical education at McGill University by surveying, lumbering and clerking during summer vacations. While an un- dergraduate, he resolved to improve his delicate physique, and by the end of the second year he had won the All-round Gym- nastic Championship. He tried high jumping, hurdling, boxing and football to balance himself physically for his two athletic specialties, swimming and fenc- ing. After graduation, McKenzie became general and medical di- rector of physical training for McGill and chief instructor at the gymnasium. He sought above all else to qualify himself to train physical education teachers so that others would know the joy of effort. He attempted to set upa physical education department, but couldn't find enough money. He was also an anatomy profes- sor and specialist in orthopaedic surgery, gaining renown for his. research on spinal problems. During his spare time, the doctor painted with water colours. McKenzie began to sculpt when -.he decided to use statuary for teaching . and research. Having gained self-cord'idence with four "Masks of Expression", he began is Tal PACK@3r.lrt? rAi ultttor, sc'uipteur POURED CONCRETE SILOS *Quality built of best materials to ai � last longer! *Big or small, we build them all *Roofs and Accessories *Poured Concrete Check our price before you buy J • DE JONG BROTHERS LIMITED SILOS AND ELEVATORS R.R. #2, Monkton, Ontario, Tel.. 347-2424 Member of O.S.A. Ontario Silo Association sc uI.ptures 'm.i.pic stamps work on The Sprinter. "It was to show the ideal . . : form of a sprinter ... (by averaging the) dimension of successful indivi- duals." After three tries McKen- zie overcame his lack of artistic training and produced a figure capable of supporting its own weight. His intention, in both The Sprinter and The Plunger, was to show the beauty of the .healthy human form at the moment of re- solve. His search was aided by his work in anatomy and sport. As one of his contemporaries stated, "Probably no man filled with the aesthetic impulse has, since the days of the Greeks, seen pass before his eyes so long and varied a procession of men in the nude as he has during the physi- cal examinations that he haston- ducted ... " In 1904, the university of Penn- sylvania hired McKenzie . as di- rector of its physical edlcation department. As such, he attempt- ed to reduce the numberbf spec- tators who only watched and never played. The solution was to make sports part of everyday life, and to make them count for scholastic credit in the academic world. The onset of World War I Balled McKenzie to duty as a soldier. To familiarize himself with the phy- sical education system in use, he enrolled in a course, and dis- covered he had written the pre- scribed text! Nevertheless, he went on to serve Britain, the United States, Canada and France as a rehabilitation ex- pert. The experience had a strong impact. War had destroyed the young men who had been his greatest inspiration. Consequent- ly, the sculptor dedicated much of his subsequent career to war memorials, emphasizing the self- sacrifice of youth—not the hide- ousness of destruction. His last wish was to have his heart buried in front of one of these monu- ments. While producing such a work for Almonte, he rediscovered his old love for the place, and spent his final summers there. Dr. Mc- Kenzie died in Philadelphia in 1938. H. GORDON GREEN If you are a Catholic, or if you are on visiting terms with Catho- lic neighbors, you may recall that back in the 50's one of the most popular portraits of the day was that of Canada's sixth cardinal, Paul Emile Leger in his scarlet robes. There was something about Cardinal Leger which at- tracted everyone: the. strength, ° and connmantd in' th+e' face"per- haps. Or maybe it was the fasci- nating story of this man's rise from the humblest of births in a Quebec village to so high an es- teem in the Church that many of the faithful were already be- ginning to suggest that he should become the next pope. As a hidebound Protestant with the usual -prejudices, I watched the enthroning of the new Car- dinal when he came back from Rome in 1953. We didn't have colour, television in those days, but one couldn't help but imagine the colour that must have filled the cathedral in Montreal that night. Personally, I havealways been .suspicious of clergymen who glitter, and I was not one of the thousands who rushed out to buy one of the portraits of the great man in red. But if I could find one of those posters today, I'd not only be willing to pay a good price for it but I would give it a place of honour in this unreli- gious house of mine. Because Paul Emile Cardinal Leger wasn't content to merely enjoy the power and prestige of being a prince of the Church, one day in 1967 he startled us all by quietly announcing that he was resigning his post as Archbishop of Montreal and that he was going' to Africa to work among the lepers. And nothing could stop him. Today, after seven years of the most arduous kind of work in Africa, and after raising millions of dollars ,for a medical and re- habilitation centre in the Camer- oons, Cardinal Leger has re- turned to Canada to fill the post of simple parish priest in Ahuntsic, Quebec. "It isn't that I'm desert- ing Africa," he explains. "The Africans are well able to take over the centre now, and I can do much more for them here by let- ting America know of their great need." And no one talks long to Car- dinal Leger today without hear- ing of the crying need of the mil- lions who never have enough to eat. We who are rich cannot af- ford to let it go on like that, he says. I am interested in the Cardinal Leger of the African lepers and the hungry millions because I think that only by actions such as these can the Church hope to sur- vive. The Church is having a rough time everywhere today. Of those who still profess to belong, there are more lukewarm mem- bers than ever before. Perhaps it is because we have become con- tent to let social legislation suf- fice for the charity which was the essential spirit of Christ's mis- sion. Others, perhaps, have begun to look upon the Church as a tradition rather than as a power and a light.'If such is the case; the Church must continue to loser be- cause tradition alone will never hold us for long, no matter how sweet or mysterious its trappings and ceremony. This is too late an age for the. Church to compete at showmanship.lBut I think we are as willing as ever to listen to any man who will roll up his sleeves, spit on his hands and put the, teachings of Christ to. work. And that's why I'm looking for one of those old scarlet portraits of Cardinal Leger to put over my desk now. Registration of purebreds to cost more The I olstein-Friesian Associa- tion of Canada, through its annual meeting in Toronto held Febtuary 12, has changed the fee structure regarding the registra- tion of purebred animals. The new fee will be a basic $5.00 per animal for members and $10.00 for non-members, effective April 1, 1975. The charge for late ap- plication will be" increased to $1.00 per month or part month. Association members are al- lowed one month from date of birth to register a calf at the basic rate. The fee structure for registra- tions was last changed in 1972 when it went from $2.00 to $3.00. The penalty fee had never seen an alteration since its inception. The annual meeting also passed a host of other amend- ments to the Holstein Association constitution and bylaws. One amendment calls for the imple- mentation of a discipline com- mittee composed of five past presidents. The committee would hear charges and submit a verdict in the rare cases when a member is . 11eged to have vio- lated the constitution, bylaws, rules, or has conducted himself in such a manner that continued membership may be detrimental to the reputation of the Holstein Association. The new procedure would allow the member the right to appeal the decision to the board of directors and is in line with human rights legislation. Other bylaw amendments in- clude a rewriting of Association purposes; inclusion of honorary lifetime memberships; a prohi- bition of full-time employees from owning Holstein cattle or semen; and the power of the executive committee to appoint new auditors should an auditor be unable or unwilling to complete his year of service. Grant for research The Ontario Association of Ani- mal Breeders has presented the first instalment of a $35,000 grant for research to the University of Guelph's animal and poultry sci- ence department. A $3,000- scho- larship to a Ph.D. student study- ing animal reproduction or breeding is given from the grant and the remaining $32,000 is used for research within the depart- ment. In addition, the OAAB is making a $1,000 grant for a research project in the Ontario Veterinary College. Snowmobiles and soil Do snowmobiles hurt agricul- tural crops? Many farmers and naturalists complain that they do, but there is scant evidence to prove or dis- prove their contentions. Alain Pesant, a soil scientist at Agriculture Canada's research station at Lennoxville, Que., is experimenting to see if claims of snowmobile damage are well- founded. Using sites there and at the de- partment's La Pocatiere experi- mental farm, Mr. Pesant set up a cultivated plot, a sheltered plot with no snow cover and a control plot. A snowmobile was driven over the cultivated site 150 times per week throughout the winter. Temperature readings were taken several times a week at various depths in the soil. Mr. Pesant discovered that packed snow, such as that caused by snowmobiles, loses its insulating properties. "The soil under the com- pressed snow was freezing to the same depth as the sheltered soil that had no snow covering," he says. On the basis of 10 readings taken during the 1972-73 winter, he found that the average thermal conductivity of the com- pressed snow was two -and -a -half times that of snow left on its own in the control plot. "We also found that the soil froze more deeply under the center of the snowmobile track," Mr. Pesant adds. Although his experiment indi- cates that snowmobiles do change the thermal properties of snow and soil, Mr. Pesant wants to make further studies to deter- mine their effect on crops. More research is needed before he can reach any definite conclusions about the effects of snowmobiles on plant life, he emphasizes. Weather conditions must be conducive to his research before it can be continued. For two winters ('72-'73 and '73-'74) flora was destroyed by alternating frosts and thaws. "Because the weather was de- stroying the plants, I could not determine how they were af- ° ected by snowmobile traffic," he \explains. "If conditions are favorable in the 1974-75 winter, we should be able to get more de- cisive results." SKUNK REMEDY LOS ANGELES — Tomato juice is a reliable, cheap and effective deodorizer for skunk -squirted animals, ac- cording to Dr. Kenneth Shaw of Children's Hospital, be- cause of the reaction of sulfur components in the skunk scent to carotenoids in the to- mato juice. — CNS An Agriculture Canada technician at Lennoxville, Que., takes soil temperatures in a study to determine what damage may be caused to the environment by snowmo- biles. CAREFUL READING — Automatic exposure equipment Could be thrown for an error in a picture such as this, from a color slide. The huge expanse of white from the building, plus the dark background and foreground, requires careful reading to include lust a bit of both — along the edge of the building for instance with a spot meter. The "overall" exposure could be too much or too little. PHQTO FUN Thinking .beats automation By GILBERT HILL Camera automation is often amazingly successful in solv- ing routine problems for the working photographer — in, perhaps, even a majority of situations. But great „photography is rarely routine, and good photography becomes better when the photographer does his own thinking. And it must be remembered that even the most sophisticated computer can't think. Automation, by necessity, must operate by the "rule." But what do you do when the picture you really want re- quires the violation of a rule? That's the reason every piece of good automatic photo- graphic equipment makes 'provision for "manual over- ride," so automation can be switched off, and the photog- rapher makes his own deci- sions. A beautiful silhouette pic- ture iature .could ' be an example. Suppose you want to make a picture of a seascape? The picture would be helped with a figure in the foreground. But the figure is not the picture, but is.either just an accent,- or a means of "giving scale" to the scene, perhaps emphasiz- ing the sweep of the sea by showing how small man really is. Automatic exposure would Work hard to provide detail in the shadows — the dark sil- houette — and might even destroy the picture by overex- posing the background, the partx of the picture that is realty important, in an effort to identify the "figure." Selective focus is often ex- tremely important. Perhaps you want to show only the face, surrounded by a mood - creating, out -of -focus frame. • The trick here, of course, into focus on the subject, pref- erably with a longer -than- ' normal lens, and then expose with the lens wide open and cutting down light with a high shutter speed. Automatic exposure and -or, automatic focusing, could easily foul up your picture. One of the most popular gadgets recently has been the "motorized camera,". one which will expose a suc- cession of frames, particular- ly of fast action, in the hope that one picture out of 15 or 20, just might show the peak of the action. Blit far more often than expected, the camera "presses the button" between peaks of action — and the pic- ture is missed even though the photographer went after it with a shotgun. - The thinking photographer, who doesn't want, -to depend ,¢. upon "luck," may use the motor, but he wants to control. the exact moment of exposure for himself. And he will often surprise himself by turning off his automatic gadget and coming in With the picture he really wants. Much the same problem arises for the photographer using an "automatic strobe," an electronic flash which will "squelch" the light at the exact moment exposure on the film is sufficient — as pre- viously "programmed" by a specific lens setting by, the photographer. 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