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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-2-6, Page 3Sommer Storms By Ralph Blanchard' For a week it had been raining. Ken sat on the porch 'of the resort hotel and looked over the lake. "Why in thunder doesn't it stop, he asked? Ile threw the newspaper at a fly on the railing, Gail :was sitting on the swing, She was pretty with a few, freckles over her nose and cheeks—just a few, "There's no use letting it get you, Ken," she said, knowing ,inwardly that she was''tiredof it, too. "With this thing on your leg, you'd be fed up," he snapped, thumping the heavy cast. lie had been in, an accident two. weeks ago. Now that there was rain he was doubly unhappy. "Maybe by tomorrow I can take you for a ride in the' boat," Gail suggested. "It looks as though,it might stop raining tonight" Ken kicked his good leg ...against the steps. "Pil go by myself.' I'm not a cripple." Gail felt her face redden a bit She, too, was nervous and on edge. The rain had been so bad for the last week that no one had done any- thing but play cards. She turned her face from Ken. • "I'm sorry," he said. Gail turned abruptly, "But, Ken, you know the doctor warned you about being on the lake. What if you should have an accident?" "I'm not an undernourished school trio, you know!" She knew what he was thinking and answered, 'Of Course, you.can take care of yourself, but it's better to be safe than sorry." "Wf1! you please'Shut -sunt" Gail'fdoked at him. He had'never come right out and said that he loved her, but she knew that he did. And she understood him. It wasn't that he was angry at her, but it was the whole business of rain and a broken ,leg. The next morning the rant stop- ped for a while. Ken was up early and down by the lake walking along the shore with his crutches. He felt better than he had for several days, and when he came to a boat he decided that he would go out just a little ways from the beach, With his crutch, he pushed the boat .out, and laboriously placed himself between the two oars. He heaved a sigh as he felt the boat stove over the water. For a while he thought the sun was coming out from behind the -clouds, but the sky grew darker. As the boat sped through the water, it would snap at' the waves. After a few minutes Ken realized that he had gone further than he had plaimed He looked up at+the sk-y and saw that it was just on the verge of storming, As he looked - up, one of the oars slipped, slid down into the darkening water just out of reach. The rain poured down as though someone had taken a knife and slashed the under side of the dark clouds. Quickly, he took the other oar and used it Indian fashion, but the boat was much heavier than a canoe, and it was hard to lift the heavy paddle. The waves grew larger. The shore was at least three hundred yartls alvay, probably more, and the wind seemed to push the small boat fur- ther away. If only he had two oars, his arms would not have been so - tired. In his mind he saw Gail sitting on the porch. He wondered if ha would ever see her again. His wrists ached and sharp pains shot through his broken leg, A wave nearly swamped the boat and he was thrown backwards, His head hit the side of the craft. He was having 0 crazy, ugly dream. Multicolored spots swam up and down before his eyes. A sickening hunt rang loundly in his head. Suddenly the dots dis- appeared. Plw h n ni stopped abruptly. When he opened his eyes, he saw Gail blurred before his vision, and 'he heard her voice, softly, "It's all rigid, Kea. ft's alright now," _ "She must have tossed me and gone for help," he thought. Then her voice faded away, As he closed his eyes, he knew she was right, Everything would be fine, He felt her soft hand on his face. He wasn't quite sure whether he was sleeping or awake now, but he kissed her fingers as they caressed itis lips. Has Family Of 9 — 4 Of Them Adopted When Mrs, May Nicholls was a little girl she had twice as many dolls as any child in 'her street, When a neighbour jokingly offered her her infant twins and she found the offer wasn't serious she sobbed: all afternoon, When May grew and married, she determined to have a large family of her own and site raised five healthy boys, Yet to -day, around the Nicholls's trim Canadian farmhouse • near Bolton, Ontario, nine boys are having the time of their lives. Though no one can tell the dib ferenee, the other four are boys she borrowed Under a foster -parent plan or youngsters who somehow became attached to her and smiling May Nicholls is hailed to- day as a shining example of a foster -mother writes "R. G. D." in "Tit Bits.' Wiry Bill Nicholls agrees with his thirty -nine-year-old wife all the way. He lost his own fathel• when he was ten and 'noiv he explains: "It's good for a homeless kid to acquire a family complete with mother, father, brothers, uncles, cousins' and grand -parents." Affection is so shared that nine- year-old Arthur—a waif narrowly saved from a reform school—lived hvith the family for several weeks before discovering that hot all nine were foster -boys. There are nine birthdays, each with a cake and a candle, nine pocket -money bonuses for Christmas shopping, paid out strictly according to age, And when a local school demanded that one boy—a foster -child — should be withdrawn because he was too unruly, Mrs. Nicholls gave the only answer a mother should: "If the school is too good for my foster -boys it's too good for my own!" It was school, in fact, that launch- ed her bursting fancily. pride. When her own boys began going out to school, she noticed that the house was ,consistently becoming quieter —so she went to a children's aid society and asked for another boy, Four - year - old David's own mother had been sent. to a mental - hospital. Hefoundlife on the fifty - acre farm so strange that he some- times dashed into the house yelling; "I've seen a bee!" May Nicholls told herself that it was cruel not to have a playmate for David. So from the children's society came fours year-old Jackie: Then Mrs. Nicholls noticed that• her fourteen -year-old son, Ernie, was developing a remarkable ap- petite. Every day as she packed his four sandwiches for school lunch he kept asking for more until he was taking eight a- day. One day Ernie confessed that he was giving the extras to a school friend, Fred, who lived with foster -parents and wasn t getting enough to eat. So Mrs. Nicholls fixed that up. Then came nine-year-old Johnny, He made the ninth. At one time Mrs. Nicholls had ten boys. l+ut one went back to his parents. Every Saturday night nine boys go with Mem and Dad to the pictures. Every week she budgets for at least a hundred -weight of 'potatoes and fifty loaves of bread, sixteen pounds of butter, five pounds of brown sugar for morning porridge and—eight dozen eggs! On wash day she wrings sixty under- garments, The noise of the boys around the house is her reward together with the gift that comes at the close of the day ... nine goodnight kisses. Nonshattering Glass Plastic coating gives glass non - shattering quality, Filum is sprayed on ordinary glass, has tensile strength of 3,000-5,000 Ib. per sq. in. and is unaffected by heat up to 212 degrees F. Gallon covers 500 sq. ft. of glass. Manufacturer states it is guaranteed not to yellow. r Can This Be Harry?—London clothiers have their own ideas of how President Truman should dress and in the British clothing industry journal, "Cloth and Clothes," they make so bold as to offer a few suggestions. At left, a model, with the President's head dubbed in, wears a conservative, double-breasted suit with a bowler hat and rolled umbrella completing the ensemble. A similar picture, at right, shows how Mr. Truman would look in a medium -shade overcoat and bowler, with the cane added for dash. TiI FMM FRONT Jovp.ussea As you probably know — es-. pecially if you've been buying some —pest control products run into money. As a natter of fact the commercial value of the actual pesticide now sold in Canada ap- proximates twenty million dollars yearly, and their value to Canadian agriculture could be estimated at many tens of millions' of dollars annually, and there are approxi- mately two thousand different'pesi- cides now registered for sale in Canada. * * * Pest -control products which in- clude insecticides, fungicides, weed killers, rat killers and worn reme- dies are essential commodities in agriculture, and some of these are are useful also in industry and households. The yield and quality of most farm and garden crops de- pend partly on the successful con- trol of insects, plant diseases and other pests, and this fact empha- sizes the- value and importance of pest control products. * * * So extensive , and important a trade as that of the pesticides could beopen to :i number of atlases such as the selling of useless of very inferior product and the sale of actually injurious materials, were it not subject to some legislative control 2 * * Such control is excreised in Canada under the Pest Control Pro- ducts Act, a Federal Act adminis- tered by the Plant Products Divi- sion, Department of Agriculture, This Act requires the registration of all pesticides and requires that alt directions for use be approved BY • HAROLD ARNETT i, i ,iiityn 11 ylil'h":, i 'HANG UP A SACK FROM THE CEILING Or YOUR GARAGE SO THAT IT TOUCHES THE WIND- SHIELD WHEN THE BUMPER 1S CLOSE TO THE WALL. THIS WILL PREVENT DRIVING INTO THE WALL. before the product is accepted for registration. *" * * Re -registration of a pesticide can be deniedif it is sold contrary to the .terms of the registration, or should fail to provide the control claimed for it. 5 * * If apples are to gain their utmost in popularity with Canadian con- sumers, storage operators would be well advised to do some testing of their storage stocks at this time of year, according to officials of the Division- of Horticulture, Canada Department of 'Agriculture. * V: 5 These officers point out that much of the pleasure derived from eating apples is due to the pres- ence of a natural blend of acids, sugars and aromatics within the fruit, When the apple is ripe these factors are at their most appealing stage. This condition is approached very gradually at storage temper- atures, but once reached a gradual decline ih quality begins. * * * At anis season of the year apples of moderate storage life such as McIntosh, Cortland and similar varieties are at their peak of quality. This is true only if harvested and stored property. if ideal conditions have not been provided the quality of the. fruit will very likely be low. 5 * * Too many storage operators ig- nore this quality factor, having only regard for conditional factors such as rots, scald and breakdown. It would be well to remove a sample of apples from storage at weekly intervals, allow them to ripen for several days at roots temperature and evaluate their quality by samp- ling then, * * * If this is done and followed up with an attempt to get the apples to the consumer before high quality flavours are lost, apples would be - conte even a more popular whiter fruit in Canada. * * Strength and size of lambs are greatly influenced by the rations fed to ewes. Certain feeds may be sat- isfactory from the standpoint of maintaining the ewes in satisfac- tory conditions of flesh butarc unsatisfactory for the production of strong vigorous lambs, Paints out A, R. Jones of Beaver'lodge Expert. mental Station, * * " * Trials on Experimental Farms hand' shown that " grass hays, when fed' 1 Aorta, l el pecially during , the • lathfsf palet, of the' pregnancy period, 4fFeP i;ysult An }yeah Jambs and a catytdz;flow of milk. When these ayye�$ are to be used they should, be fbel'lti o&ifjtindfioti With'ntbre'atutri- tigus'liag' 1ucli ae-alfalfrp,or other :l,egutne hayy:gr, if fed algae, should be,.gtlp,piens need ,with whole oats o'r other concentrates 'to maintain ewes in a 'thrifty condition and to provide sufficient milk at lambing . 'time. * * All sheep should be fed iodized salt to prevent the .birth of soft, tlabhy avid goitrous lambs, When ewes are being fed cereal or grass hays these shbuld'be sttipplemented with a mineral mixture of equal parts of bonemeal and iodized salt. • ;This should be;available.atall times to ,supply their mineral needs, The condition of the ewe wili govern whether or not grain should be fed. Handling of the individual ewes is the only sure way of de- termining whether the' ewes are in 'satisfactory condition. If it is found that they are thin, it will be necessary to feed then more liber- ally. 4 Grain feeding is often necessary when poor quality roughages are fed. Recent feed trials have shown that grain feeding during the latter 'half of the pregnancy, period gives almost as good results as feeding grain during the entire period. Dur- ing the last 4-6 weeks before lamb- ing, the ewes will uspally need not more than % to pounds of grain per head per day. * * Ewes that are seriously underfed during the latter part of the preg- nancy period may not accept their lambs. In such cases there may be insufficient milk for the newborn lasub. * * * - Exercise during the win t e t' months promotes thriftiness and re- sults in a stronger iamb crop. Feed- ing racks mak be placed smite dis- tance away from sheep shelters, thus forcing the ewes to take more exerois'e. - Good Winter Job "The most profitable job you can do this winter is to put your farm machinery in the best possible condition," recommends a well- known expert. This is always good advice, and especially so now. New farm ma- chinery and necessary parts are likely to be scarcer and harder to get when needed next year. So the situation calls for even more fn the way of protective maintenance than usual. Investiga- tions in several states show that the proper winter ,shelter and ser- vicing of farm machinery will double its working lifetime. More- over, the overhauling, cleaning, lubrication, adjustment and other steps necessary to put it into good order will be reflected in its field performance next season. If one isn't sure just what to do, most Implement dealers can supply man- ufacturers' manuals or maintenance and repair check lists that tell all the things that should be done, To these shoud be added this suggestion: Check carefully for any damaged or badlyworn parts and get in your orders now for any new parts that may be needed. It may save costly delays next season. - The large investment farmers now have in machinery has made its proper care an essential factor in good farm management. With present high operating costs it can readily meats the difference be- tween profit and loss in any year. "NEW YORK'S OTHER RIVER" — THE ST. LAWRENCE Most of us, here on the north side of the far-famed "imaginary line" are accustomed to think of the St. Lawrence as pretty much a Canadian river, A recent article on the editorial page of The New York Times gives an interesting slant on what some of our neigh- bors to the south think of it. - * * * The people of the North Coun- try, that part of New York State north of the Mohawk and particu- larly in Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties, are always mighty sur- prised to find that one of our most popular almanacs always lists the St. Lawrence as one of "the for- eign rivers of the world." For many of those people who live right along the St. Lawrence, who vacation on its Thousand Islands -the American share of them, that is—or who fish for bass and stur- geon in the deep waters have a possessive sense about that river. They have always felt that the hundred miles or so of it that make the northwest border of the state was theirs, They may not be in at the start of the river nor at' its finish, and they may own only one bank of it, but they are as proud of it as downstaters are of the Hudson. They boast with more or less accuracy that the St. Law- rence carries out more water than the Amazon, bears more traffic in a year than the Panama and Suez Canals combined and, all in all, is quite a river, And out of the little towns of the North Country have conte a breed of man unique in navigation — the St. Lawrence riverman, who will match the fer- ocity and the mercilessness of that stream with any water anywhere in the • world. * * Those New Yorkers who live beside the St. Lawrence may seem 'remote from Manhattan but, thanks to their river, they are tied close to the wide, wide world. Any sum- mer day they can sec vessels frons a dozen countries sailing east and west. In the holds are oil and pulp- wood, newsprint, coal, grain and ore. That ship traffic is stopped now and the St. Lawrence river freighters, some few American but mostly Canadian, are in their Win- ter berths, The river, at least the part that passes by New York State, is iced over and will stay that way until April. * * V, Yet over that river, frozen or not, there is a lot of heat, as there Inas been for fifty years. The very warn question of building or not building the St. Lawrence Seaway is still unsettled. Fora long time the people of the North Country have been hoping that the Federal Government would authorize build- ing that seaway and its accom- panying power development, The Seaway calls for a continuous ship channel, twenty-seven feet deep, from Duluth on Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, 2,650 miles away, It would put Chicago, Mil- waukee and other ports on a new "seacoast" It would mean more business for the North Country. With that channel would be built a power Station large enough to enable the United States to divide with Canada twelve billion kilo- watt-hours of cheaply produced electricity each year. A lot of that might come into the North Coun- try, an area of the state well equip- ped with labor but almost com- pletely devoid of large industry. Having signed a Seaway agreement in 1941, the Canadians were dis- appointed that Congress turned the whole scheme down last year, and they now plan, promise or threaten to build the whole thing themselves. Reading that, the North Countryman hopes that the 'United States will get into it somehow. - He hopes, even as he reads the arguments against it: that it would be a waste of money, it would not Tee -V V—Hollywood television actress Margia Dean hastaken the plunge—all of it — as she models the "Tee -V" shirt, ob- viously designed to pep up sluggish TV programs. develop the power hoped for, and it would harm the Eastern Sea- board. He knows that the opposi- tion to the Seaway is a strong one, composed of Eastern railroads, railroad labor unions, Atlantic and Gulf ports, shipping companies and power companies. He is happy to see a new argument on his side: that the Seaway would be a vat- uable defense project. * * * But the North Countryman, with his little home and job, is small peanuts compared to the great in- terests fighting for and against the Seaway. He can have his hopes, however, and they are always as green as the first tamarack fronds of the spring. w• * * With that spring he will get out his tackle and skid his boat back again into the green river water. Maybe the Seaway is a rope for a tog -of -war between giants and maybe the St. Lawrence is one of the great foreign rivers of the world. But as the citizen of St. Lawrence County, New York State, feels the propeller of his boat grab again at the cold April water of the St. Lawrence he thinks of just one thing and happily: once again he is back on his riser. Peat -Gas Turbine The first peat -burning gas tur- bine in the world is now running in the engineeering shops of John Brown & Co„ famous Clydeside shipbuilders. The plant consists of a 500 h.p. experimental gas turbine once run on oil, but now equipped with a peat -burning airheater and with peat -drying a n d grinding equipment. The suitability of a peat -fired closed -cycle gas turbine for continuous operation to produce electric power is now being deter- mined. In its present forte the turbine can run on peat of any moisture content up to 50 per cent, but next year new drying equip- ment will be built to utilize wetter peat without loss of efficiency. How To Keep Your Eyes Off The Road—Mike Aionso, Havana cor- espondent for the United Press, tunes in his automobile TV set, oelieved to be the second of its kind in the world. The other is installed in the car of Argentina's president Juan Peron, Jll'1TER A, rya <24 By Arthur Pointer otoCa Was', IMO