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The Winner
By
LOWS CUNNINGHAM
Incl y l ell, alias Phelan, alias
Finn, urued the green coupe iu at
night Cabins—Borne Cooking." This
out -of- he -way tourist camp, deep in
t.'auutlt's New Brunswick, looked
like a natural for Rocky, wanted in
a dozen states, with $5,000 for the
one who turned him in. Fat chance!
They probably were still looking
for a blue sedan with Illinois plates,
This nuinbet', for instance, cause
from Arizona. The old bird who
owned it never would squaw'.. A
guy was a sucker on a lonely road
to offer a stranger a lift,
"You're a pal, mister," said Rocky.
Ire shuck a gun in the odd boy's ribs.
"Drive down the side road and be-
have yourself and everything will
be lovely." The man, his face gray-
green, drove down a narrow track
and at the end was an abandoned
quarry with lots of water. Rocky
drove the coupe back alone, He had
the money and passport. He was
Phillip Sumpter.
It was easy for Rocky to forget
hits and a dozen like him. He was
looking forward to some home -cook-
ing and a soft bed. Ile turned the
corner of the drive and saw a white
house with nmany. gables—Rol,in's
Nest. Sure looked comfy. Cabins
here and there among the willows.
"Oh -oh l" A scarlet tunic was
talking to an old lady in blue ging-
ham 013 the steps. Rocky felt the
gun under his armpit. Nothing to
worry. about.
When Rocky stopped the car, the
old lady came briskly down, The
Mountie went into the house. "Good
day, sir. Welcome. I'm the pro-
prietress—one of them. Miss Abby
Stubbs. My sister Rachel and 1
run Robin's Nest..You'd like dinner,
a cabin—"
"Sure," grinned Rocky. "Sure
Merry Menagerie—ByWalt Disney
30.31
"I'll take the roaster—you take
the fryer—and Hank can have
the broiler!"
Miss Abby -1 want the works.
Chicken and hot biscuits and
collee—" •
"Very good sir. Here's the key of
No. 1, the cabin by the pond. Din-
ner will lie ready when you are,
Id r.—"
"Sumter—P, H. Sumter," Rocky's
gray eyes never left the smiling old
blue ones,
"We're so glad to have you, Mr.
Sumter. You have no idea." Miss
Ably actually dimpled.
"Swell," said Rocky, Just the
same, after he had washed up he
did not go directly to the front but
strolled around to the rear.
• "I saw him first." Dear, Sweet
old Miss Abby's voice. "I spoke to
hint first. it's the money car—it's
• the one that pays'"
"Abby Stubbs! I noticed first 1
swear I did. You never even got
him to register. That's what you
were supposed to do—"
"You're trying to cheat me, I
know you, Rachel."
"We'll call it a tie. We'll split the
stoney—" Harpies—both of them -
Rocky straightened up.
"1 have the proof," crowed Miss
Abby, "l was talking to Corporal
Renault, IIe stopped for diluter, 1
•-'sold hint, and he's waiting and when
Mr Sumter comes in—Well, I'm not
going to wait; Pot going to get the
corporal now."
That was why Rocky pulled the
gun 00 Corporal Renault when they
met at the corner of the house. "Not
so easy, copper," •Rocky snarled,
anti stared at the two trembling old -
sisters behind the - Mounties broad
hack, "'Those old tlantes can fight
some more -Deer the $5,000 prize.
Pm not caught yet. Damn you—"
That Mountie was a 'tinny cop.
Be didn't look boyish any more
though he stilt was smiling, And he
didn't back up. I -Ie kept right oil
muzzle was knocker up and a fist
caught Rocky in the middle, He was
still on the lawn when he cause to
and there was a familiar feel about
his wrists. Bracelets,
"Well, it's a pinch, 1 guess;" said
Rocky. "l—anyway, those old witch-
es will have to split the dough with
you, copper,
"Miss Abby and Miss Racel;" said
the Mountie, "hard a little pool. They
put- a dollar in it for every czar with
a different state license -plate, They
were tmlr to 47 when you came in
with Arizona,'Arizona was Bingo.
'That's how U iss Abby aunt to be
Alining the anon:v .. 48, 1t seems
there's 'a bit more coining,"
Gambles $25,000 to Sow 1,800 Idle Acres, Hopes for $100,000 Return—For years 1800 acres of land, part of the Defense Indus-
tries area at Ajax, Ont., have been growing nothing but grass and weeds. Now Norman C. Taylor of Oshawa, Ont., proposes
to raise wheat, barley and oats, using western mass -production methods, anti is investing a small fortune in the hopes of
quadrupling Itis money in one season. Taylor, a believer in the one-way disc as opposed to the mold -board plow, already
'has two tractor crews working day and night readying his rented property for spring planting.
If you're NOT interested in
apples, don't bother to read further.
1E you ARE interested in apple -
growing, perhaps you know all this
already, so don't say you haven't
been warned. Anyway, Mr. Stew-
art C. Chandler is a well-known
entomologist who has just made
public some recommendations based
on orchard records of 13 Illinois
apple - growers over a three - year
period.
* * *
He says that spraying plus sanita-
tion is the secret of producing clean,
high-quality fruit and most of the
practises he recommends are aimed
at reducing the number of codling -
moth larvae. One thing that is of
the highest importance is to store
used baskets in a closed building
after the apple harvest is in. They
may harbor codling -moth larvae;
and when they emerge in the spring
in that building many of them can
be destroyed, before finding their
way back to the orchard, by a light
hung over a pan of coal -oil or —
a more modern device — a light
with an electric grill, placed in the
building.
* A, *
Broken baskets, crates, discarded
sacks, large -stemmed weeds and
other debris, which might furnish
hones for the larvae, should be
collected and burned.
, * *
During the fall, winter or spring
pruning should be done so as .to
open up the trees and reduce their
height, thus allowing for more
ample coverage when you spray.
To destroy any insects that night
be hibernating, pruned -out wood
should be burned.
* * *
When pruning make the cuts
smooth and don't leave any stubs.
Scars left by rough pruning, and
cavities that result from rooted
stubs, make grand hide-outs for
the codling -sloth larvae. Small cavi -
Pearly Bread—One of London's
"pearlys" irings his loaf of
bread. offering to the Coster -
mongers Ilatve.t Festival ser-
vice at St, Mary Magdalene
Church. The costermongers---
fruit and vegetable hamr'kers—
identify themselves with pearl
hitttons sewed on their clothes,
ties in the trees should be plugged
and larger -ones screened to cut
down the number of such hide-outs.
* * *
Loose and rough bark should be
removed from trunks and branches
of the trees. '!'his can be clone either
by handscraping or by knocking off
the bark with a spray gun ( No. 8
disk) at around 500 pounds pres-
sure. Clean bark and other debris
out of the tree crotches. This bark-
ing -off may be done in fall or spring
or even during the winter, but
should be completed before the
moths emerge. In most apple grow-
ing regions by full bloom is a safe
date.
* * *
In spring a band of chemically
treated corrugated paper, 2 to 4
inches wide, should be wrapped
around the smooth trunk of each
tree. (Bands treated with naptha-
lene may be purchased from deal-
ers.) The band acts as a trap for
larvae which leave their wintering
places in fallen fruit and head for
a place on the tree where they can
spin a cocoon and start a family.
The bands should be in place by
the time the first larvae are leaving
the fallen apples, usually some time
in June. They should be removed
and burned before apple -blossom
time. Such banding will decrease
the number of larvae in summer
broods by almost 50 per cent.
Wormy and rotting apples should
New — And All
Of Them Useful
Truck Cover. Designed to elimin-
ate bother in getting tarpaulin over
an open truck or trailer. One matt
is said to be able to perform the
entire job in a natter of 'minutes.
Tarpaulin is attached to metal bows
mounted in two parallel racks.
Turning crank pulls bows and tar-
paulin from front towards rear.
Plastic Home Kit. Contains all
'basic items needed for making plas-
tic gadgets in home workshops or
kitchen. Finished pieces can be
either clear or colored,
Lightweight Logging Sleigh. Made
of aluminum and recently put into
use in Northern Quebec this sleigh
weighs just over 600 pounds, or 4o%
less than timber -constructed sleighs.
Capable of loading VA cords of
wood.
Curbs Moisture. A tray -like device
which catches excess moisture and
drains it off automatically elide the
old nuisance of rotting floors caused
by bathroom tank drippings. Made
of steel or aluminum with. baked
white enamel finish.
Aid Fbr Contour Farming. Mount-
ed on the hood of a tractor, bull-
dozer or road roller this device is
claimed to eliminate necessity of
surveying and staking out contour
lines in terrace nuking or contour
farming. Driver keeps his eye ole
a magnifying lens, a scale, and two
columns of liquid. One column is
stationary, the other rises and falls
as the machine moves upgrade or
downgrade.
Pressure Fryer, Designed for the
quick preparation of meats, poultry
and fish this combines the features
of a skillet and pressure cooker.
Claimed to fry even the toughest
chicken in approxinmatelyma quarter-
hetu'. Fries hair and other orals
without the usual smoke.
Tench Type Switch For Wartnin'
Pads, In addition to usual visci:
markings this switch has "dots
which permit user to feel which I'^7
setting is in operation williout turn•
Mg on the light.
be collected and either fed to live-
stock or buried.
* * *
Sweet clover and other cover
crops should be clipped before the
stems get so big that they provide
hiding places for larvae to spin
cocoons. Ml apples showing signs
of disease, rot or insect damage
should be thinned out and destroyed.
* * *
In conclusion Mr. Chandler says
that many apple -growers think that
when D;DT and other modern insect-
icides are used, there is no necessity
for such orchard sanitation. Others
believe that sanitation is necessary
only in years of heavy codling -moth
infestation. This is a mistake. Al-
though such insecticides have given
good control of the codling moth,
they tend to increase the number of
leaf -rollers and mites by destroy-
ing their natural enemies. Which
should be enough about apples for
the time being, except to say that
I hope it will be of some value to
many of you.
* *
And just in case you're thinking
of doing any repair work to roofs
or anything else of the kind, it's
well to remember this;—ladders that
are kept around the place and only
used now and then can be really
dangerous, as the rungs or side-
bars may have rotted. Careful
examination before using may save
you from an accident or something
even worse.
With the Movie and Radio Folks
by Grace Sharp
It may be pure catttishness; but
every time some fatuous figure—
such at a big -name ath:ete—takes
part itt a radio "commercial", I
find myself secretly hoping that he
will forget what's supposed to be
said. When the announcer asks
him what brand of soap, shaving
cream or breakfast food he uses, I
can't help wondering just what
would happen if a rival brand was
named.
* * *
As a atter of fact 1 have an idea
that somebody — maybe it was
"Babe" Ruth, it would have been
just 'Ike him as Ise couldn't even re-
member the names of mer who had
played on the same team with hint
f.,r years—once did that very thing
on some radio program. But I didn't
happen to be listening and catch the
"boner," worse luck,
* * *
Something—well, not of the same
!rind but along the same lines—
seems to have come up in television.
Sponsor of the televising of the re-
cent World Series baseball games
was the Gillette Safety Razor Com-
pany; and at Braves Field in Bos-
ton, every time a ball was hit toward
left field there would come into
view, on countless television sets,
the advertising billboard of one of
the sponsor's chief competitors, the
Gem razor people. During the first
game alone this happened no less
than twenty times, which must have
pleased Mr. Gem very much, al-
though just what Mr. Gillette
thought about it I haven't heard.
* * *
For those who liked "The Jolson
Story"—and there were plenty of
them, in fact I know one woman
who saw it eight times—there's
good news out of Hollywood. Larry
Parks, who was having trouble over
his contract, has settled matters and
started rehearsals for the sequel,
'Jolson Sings Again." Just as was
the case in the other one, the voice
you'll hear in the new film will be
that of Jolson, not Narks. The
reltear'sals, which are conducted 'n
front of large mirrors, are far
the purpose of having Parks copy
Ai's style and tnannerisms of sing-
ing, with Jolson as his coach.
* * *
Last week I said something about
the Laurence Olivier screen vrrstou
of "Hamlet" and wondered whether
or not the public would "go" for
such a gloomy and comparatively
actionless opus. So far as New York
is concerned, at least, I don't need
to wonder any longer. While the
Park Avenue Theatre, where it is
showing, isn't playing to capacity
at every performance, it's very close
to it; and mail orders for reserved
seats are being sold as far ahead as
February. And they're saying it's
planned to keep the show there for
at least two years—which, in my
humble opinion, will be a goad trick,
if they do it.
* * *
It appears that over in the States
columnists such as Walter Wincheli
have been having themselves a fine
time by printing the correct answers
to the big -money questions on
various quiz shows, the effect being
that the jackpot is often woo
several weeks earlier than it normal-
ly would be.
* * *
This annoys those behind such
programs no end, and Ralph
Edwards of "Truth or Conse.
quences" finally sent a wire to the
columnists asking them to "lay
off." He based his plea on the fact
that their "Mr. and Mrs. Hush" con-
test which started on October 2nd
is for a charity—the mental health
drive or some such. "We would like
to have the contest last long enough,
to give the Drive enough funds t
do a real job. Could we count on
your not divulging the Identity of
Mr. and Mrs Hush to your readers
when you have solved it yourself,"
the wire concludes.
WHAT PRICE
EMOC ACY?
Democracy is without price . , no one can ever take it
for granted or assume it is paid for in full. It is an ln.'
hesitance we are duty bound to pass on ... not only to
t.
the next generation, but to our fellow men everywhere who
have yet to enjoy its full benefits.
Democracy grew from a great ideal ... that all men aro
born free and equal and are deserving of the same privileges.
It can live on only if we constantly strive to fulfill this
ideal and protect the priceless freedoms won.
Moderation is one of the chief safeguards of democracy.
y being moderate in our thinking, In our actions, and in
our pleasures, we are living democratically.
As The ]douse of Seagram has do often stated, by being
/moderate Ian all things, Including the enjoyment of whisky,
we are acting floc the aoaXliunoin good.
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