HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1947-11-5, Page 3"Flatiron" Melts
Snow Off Roads
It was inevitable that considera-
tion of the amount of time, 1011
and money involved in keeping
Modern streets, highways, air.
fields and so on clear of snow
should start some efficient mind
working on the possibility of get-
ting rid of snow by the simplest
and Most thorough method—na-
ture's. Melting it, that is.
Britain Made some use of this
method in the emergency created
by unprecedented snowstorms last
winter, says the Sault Daily Star.
• Wartime flange -throwers were em-
ployed to melt the snow froln
rail lines, but the searing flame
set fire to ties and otherwise dam-
aged roadbeds, The blast from
jet engines mounted on flatcars
proved . more suitable, but both
contrivances were really makeshifts.
* * *
Now, a Pittsburgh engineer has
conte up with a specially -designed
machine for melting away snow.
This John 13. Sweeney's chief
concern was with keeping air-
fields clear, but there semis no
reason why his contraption
shouldn't work equally well on
high ways.
It's a 12 -ton device which op-
erates like a gigantic flatiron, lit-
erally "ironing" the snow and ice
completely off a 12 -foot swath of
runway—or roadway, for that
natter—by two wide combusters
which focus a blast of oil -fired
2,000 -degree heat on the area to
be cleared.
* ■ *
It travels at the rate of 10 to
15 miles an hour, mounted on an
ordinary road grader, and water
that the heat does not evaporate is
wiped up from the pavement by
a large squeegee blade, working
something like a rubber window
cleaner. Actually, according to
Mr. Sweeney, a relatively small
amount of water is formed by the
melting snow, since the average
water content of a falling snow
crystal is only two per cent of its
volume, \Vhen not in use, the
snow remover can be removed
from the grader in a couple of
hours.
* * *
The 2,000 -degrees (Fahrenheit)
blast of heat is forced down onto
the runway or roadway through
blowers .operated by an air-cooled
engine. It is claimed not to dam-
age pavement because of the
speed at which it moves along
and because of the cold weather
in which it operates.
Its advantages over mechani-
cal means of snow removal are
obvious—instead of plows, snow -
loaders, trucks, manual labor and
high -piled dumping grounds, sim-
ply a swoosh and the snow is
gone completely. Mr. Sweeney
claims for it the additional ad-
vantage of a "clean sweep," leav-
ing no icy spots to endanger ve-
hicles.
It 'night well become the sim-
ple, cheap and efficient snow re-
moval method of the future.
Does Russia Know
Secret of A -Bomb?
The rumors now current that Rus-
sia is already in a position to manu-
facture atomic weapons are at worst
only anticipations of what cannot be
long deferred. The so-called secrets
are accessible to all nations that can
command the services of Competent
scientists, whom. Russia does not
lack, and will devote sufficient re-
sources to pursue research along
lines that are expensive but of which
the general direction is well known
to the learned world. Professor Ein-
stein is quoted as saying "there is
110 secret and there is no defence."
—The Times London.
Viscount Alexander Trophy
—To be awarded annually to
the most outstanding junior
amateur athlete in Canada.
t
sports OI t
Open to all orfs tin
lr
(e or
affiliated with the Amateur
Athletic Union of 1;Canada.—
'
Age to i ells governing
'O\'el'ltltl
juniors in the sport concern -
cd Nantes Of candidates with
citations
should
be sent I-
me(elv t
tat o C.C.Robinson,P i'
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secretary, A.A.U. of C., Room
12, 640 Meat Hastings Street.
, Vancouver, 1.3.C.
Tyson, winner of the $1,000 nlil,ster• all -age bird (log event at
the international match at Fort Erie is seen with handler How-
ard Kirk, Macon, Miss. Dog is owned by H. E. McGonigal,
Kokomo, Ind,
Sports — And One Thing
or Another
By FRANK MANN HARRIS
("A Sixhit Critic")
Right now, in honor of Princess
Elizabeth's forthcoming marriage,
people of various Canadian com-
munities are preparing to send over
donations of food to the under-
nourished people of Britain. Then, in
just a few months, we propose to
ship a whole bunch of hungry ath-
letes and their hangers-on over
there, to take part in a set of games
which the British—and the rest of
the world, for that matter — arc
about as much in need of as they
need a third World War. If that
doesn't figure out as a screwball
proposition, any way you look at it,
at least it should serve till the real
tiling comes along
Of course it will be argued that the
Canadian Olympic athletes will take
their own food along with them. To
that we reply, O,K.—send that food
to be eaten by folks who really need
it, and let our athletes stay at home.
* * *
It is our personal opinion that the
British authorities have made a great
mistake in not calling the whole
thing off before this, as it puts them
in a false position—especially in the
United States—to be stressing their
need for Western World assistance
and, at the same time, preparing to
stage such' an unnecessary and fool-
ish affair as the Olympics. Bitt if
British pride won't allow thein to
cancel the show, at least let us stay
out of it. Right after a family has
come through a combination fire
and earthquake isn't the time to go
paying them social visits, even if
they are close relatives.
* * *
The political orator was working
up towards his peroration and, like
most of his tribe, using plenty of
oldies as though they were new -
minted thoughts of his Drum..."After
all, my friends," he said, "nothing in
This world is absolutely certain, ex-
cept death and taxes," Ile paused to
wipe Iris fevered brow. "Olt, trop"
cane the voice of a heckler from the
rear. "if'hat about hearty applause
from a radio studio audience?"
* * *
Gate receipts $6,972; expenses
$7,455; net loss $743—that's the re-
sult of a football game in Ottawa,
played for sweet charity's sake—for
the benefit of the crippled children.
And it was between two amateur
teams, of course for we all know
that we haven't any such thing as
professional football in Canada.
* * *
That's the way the whole sweet -
scented affair stands at this writing;
and it should be a warning to all
charitable organizations, too many
of whom allow their names to be
tacked onto promotions put through
by gents who believe that Charity
not only begins at home, but also
ends there One of the teams in-
volved got something between $4,500
and $5,000 out of it; which, even in
these days of high prices, would buy
quite a lot of train fares, bandages
and liniment All we hope is that
the crippled Kids won't be asked to
kick in to make up the deficit.
** *
No matter how they try to smooth
it
over or explain it
way, we thinknk
thattli
Ct
Ota'
«n
Trojans and Mont-
real Alonettes have been guilty of a
very grave mistake. It isn't so long
ago that
there
was serious
tall(
of
taxing football on a professional
basis, the promoters
C 11010
iso
p f that sport
0 t
managed to wiggle through without
gettingnicked.
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But now with this
happening—and happening right itt
the taxing attihoities own back yard
—well, wltett the inevitable takes
place, they can console themselves
with the thought that they certainly
asked for it!
* * *
To many of those 7ahose Attire
waking (tours seem to be spent
within earshot of that great inven-
tion, The Radio, news of Mr.
Petrillo's bate on any future musica
recordings came as a ray of sunlight
bursting through a dark and for-
bidding sky. But now conies this
awful thought—maybe those much -
publicized geniuses, the disk-jdek-
eys, are readying for us entire pro-
grams composed of nothing but
Singing Cow mercials!
* * *
According to a recent newspaper
report, the Toronto Maple Leaf
Hockey Team las a friendly interest
in, and lends an occasional helping
hand to—among others—such ama-
teur clubs as Toronto Marlboros,
Senior and Junior; Winnipeg Mon-
archs; Oshawa Generals; as well as
one or more junior outfits in North-
ern Ontario.
* *
This may be all very well if you
are one of the many to whom the
success or failure of the Maple
Leafs is all that really matters in the
sport of hockey. But if you were
just a sports -lover in a small town,
trying to keep the kids of your com-
munity interested in playing the
game, we very much fear that you
wouldn't loop at it in exactly the
salve light. In fact we think that,
sooner or later, you'd begin to
wonder if it wasn't pretty near time
for an entirely new deal for the
little fellow not blessed with any
such wealthy and generous relatives.
* * *
info a Toronto restaurant the
outer day came a ,pati—at least he
had the outward appearance of a
man—who proceeded to put on an
aliasing demonstration of sheer
gluttony. blowing down the victuals
at record-breaking speed, he got
aeelay 7t'illt four full-size meat or-
der.r—each with regular complement
of vegetables on the side—and then
topped it off with nine separate and
distinct desserts! Although trying to
appear oblivious of the stores of the
astonished specalors, he was obvi-
ously enjoying the sensation he
created. But he didn't linger long
after an old gentleman, who had
been .watching the performance, ep-
proaclred, "1f you're thinking of sell-
ing yourself any lime, blister," said
the old gent, "Td advise you to do it
right a^e„y, as I don't think the price
of !logs will cern' get higher!"
Something New:
Iron -Bearing Cows
Pity the poor cow in this modern
century. Time was when Bossie
conlei mind her own business, eat
what she lilted. But not now. Let
her go off her feed, or get a little
dry and a veterinary is on her tail
promptly.
However, the last straw, from
Bossie's point of view, is the latest
wrinkle being developed at the On-
tario Agricultural College, They are
now going to use mine detectors on
her.
When the detector passes over the
stomach of the cow toward the front
and toward the udder, no 1extraord-
>ut as soon as
extraord-
inary sound is heard l
y
the detector passes over the area
where the metal Is located no c, ted the tons
s
or the instrument immediately rises
simply,
The gold fish had indite move
etc).
Bossie has just its little privacy
nowadays,
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Man ipG From Second Floor
to Sava Child From Train
WINS DOW AWARD
ALEX CANAVAN
OF SYDNEY MINES, N.S.,
is hero in quick and
daring rescue ni
The roar of the approaching
express could be heard plainly
when Mrs, Canavan first noticed
16 -month-old Jackie Holec sit-
ting bewildered in the middle of
the track. Yelling for assistance
she ran from her home toward
the frightened child.
HEARS WIFE'S CRIES
When Alex Canavan heard his
wife's cries, he rushed out on the
second floor balcony to see what
was the matter. Realizing there
was not a moment to lose, and
that his wife could not possibly
reach the child in time, he vaulted
over the balcony and leaped two
floors to the ground.
IN THE NICK OF TIME
Attracted by the excitement,
the child's horror-stricken
mother looked on as a race de-
veloped between Canavan and
the fast -approaching train. The
engine was only a few yards
from the terrified child when
Canavan leaped onto the tracks.
Snatching the baby from almost
under the wheels, Canavan hurled
himself and young Jackie clear.
Together they rolled down the
embankment — safe!
Such cool courage and quick
thinking in an emergency is
worthy of the admiration of
every Canadian. We are proud to
pay tribute to these fine qualities
to Alex Canavan of Sydney Mines;
N.S., through the presentation of
The Dow Award.
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citation for outstanding Itero•
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$roo Canada Savings Bond.
Winners are selected by the
Dow Award Committee, a
group of editors of leading
Canadian daily newspapers.
It was an emergency that called for
immediate action. Alex Canavan leaped
from his second floor balcony and
raced to the child's rescue.
There was not a moment to spare as
be snatched the child from the thun-
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