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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-6-25, Page 3codfish Catching by Modern Method* Thee new experimental long -lin- ing method of catching c d in the MI -shore •waters of Niewfoutidiand is ttro?ving suecessfnl'and for many fisherilicn . jt tel ;;lean the end of century old methods of eatchfug fish by trapping, trawling, or hand -lining. `• This method is now being estab- lished at Bonavista, Newfoundland's largest fishing town,. where the experiments were first tried. This type of fishing requires larger boats than fishermen now use. Harbors of sate anchorage will • also be needed. With the type of craft used fishermen will ,be able to fish longer than they now do, some of,. themthroughout the whole ,year, In the cold days or laset Febru- ary two seasoned sea skippers -- Captains Denis Bruce and Mich- ael Burke of Long Harbour ill Placentia Bay were pa to the;deep water grounds fishing for cod the long;lining way. These *kippers were each in charge of 'a converted Labrador schooner' and hooked encouraging catches. Daily average ranged from. 2,500 to 4,000 pounds of cod a trip. To get these catches means set- ting and hauling about a hundred lines each trio: Each line' is about , fifty fathoms with hooks about a fathom apart. The fish they catch is sold fresh at the fishing port of Burin. Long -lining experiments are al- so being carried out at Isle-aux•• Morte farther along the southwest coast. Experiments have also been successfully carried out . at St. Anthony, on the northern tip of the island. Longlining is a new and mod- ern method of fishing resulting in larger catches for the fishermen than the outdated methods yield for hirer. ' Thisnew method might very well mark the beginning of a long overdue change in. our,fishing methods which haven't hanged very much during the past three hundred years. 1 High, C;eaf Voice—Preparing for any possible complete severance of communications between Western Germany and West Berlin, workmen ascend a 450- footvery-high-frequency tower at Heckeshorn, in Western Ger- many, to prepare it for trans- mission. Heckshorn station can route messages throughout Western Germany. An Apple A Day Though it is doubtfui whether one day will keep the doctor away ill - definitely, it is quite true that fresh ap;tle, protect one's health. One •good-sized apple a day will pet-nidesufficient Vitamin C for the average adult, and Vitamin C is of gerat importance in combat- ing diphtheria, typhoid, pneumonia. and whooping rough, It is even alleged that people who delight in eating enough apples will develop more intelligence and walk and work faster than their fellows. Chew Well it isnot necessarily true that in digestion will result from eating unripe apples or ton tetany ripe ones. The indigestion comes be- cause the apples are not being chewed sufficiently. The hardest and greenest apple can be eaten with no ill effects providing the flesh is thoroughly wised with saliva and other juices of the mouth. A few years ago a barber in Pennsylvania ate 366 apples in two hours and live minutes, yet suffer- ed no indigestion! Apples breathe, and their health depends largely on how frequently they take in breath. The faster the apple breathes the sooner it de- rays, and the problem in storing them is not to give then too much air. It is generally held that the Ito -- 111a113 were the first tO cultivate apples in Great Britain, but it is quite possible that the crab apple, ham which the. mainrity of culti- vated apples are derived; existed in England long before the Romans came• Frozen Or Fried —What's Our Fate? Astonoiners operating the world's most powerful telescope at Mount I'aIclugt•, California,. recently pho- tographed_ a Huge exploding star, the light front which had taken 15Q:000 light years to reach us. One light year is tiro distance • light can travel In the course of a year -,and the speed of light is about 1$6,000 miles a second, Such tremendous distances stag- ger the imagination, but they are only a email part of the wonderful discoveries scientists are now male - lug about the universe of which our world is such a tiny ,insignifi- . cant part, M We now• kilkynowWthayat the sun, • around which our earth revolves and on which we rely for the con- tinuance of life itself, is a mem- ber Of' a great disc-like system, the distant,members of which are visible to .us as the Milky Way, The Galaxy, as it is called, eon - tains about •100,000,000,000 stars, beside a great deal of semi-solid matter in the form of gas and deist which has not yet condensed into Stars. ° Every star in the Galaxy is re- volving round the centre of 'the system.. The sun, which is "about 30,000 light years away frons the centre, takes about. 250,000,000 years ,to complete one revolution, travel- -ling at the tremendous speed of 170 miles a second and carrying us all with it. , The star nearest to us is twenty- five millon million miles away and its name is Proxima Centauri, meaning thenearest star in the group called- Centaur. Light from this star takes several years to reach us. Oa a clear night it is easy to spot the Pole Star, one of the brightest in the Galaxy. The light from it, when it reaches our eyes tonight, started to travel in the reign of King henry the Sixth, five centuries ago: Modern telescopes have added to our knotfledge of what is going on inside the sun, It was formerly believed that over trillions of years the sun's heat would gradually di- minish as it bunts itself out, with the result that our earth would be- come colder and colder until it would be impossible for life to survive. Music Hath Charm -W.•. And""Fdhg", nfascbt'of the lsf Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, seems delighted with the• bugles solo of Pte. Art Furness of the Battalion's band. The picture was taken in` Korea where the PPCLI are now serving with Canadian Forces. Getting Hotter Latest theory, however, is that; instead of getting cooler, he usn is gradually becoming hotter. In about telt billion years it will be so hot that all life on its planets will he burned to death, not frozen. After some fifty billion years it will swell up monstrously and con- sume the inner planets, including the earth. Eventually its heat will begn to fade and it will cruise through space without throwing off any light, 'surrounded by its outer planets. Astronomers now believe that there are at least 100,000 solar systems in` the universe which are capable of creating and supporting life as we know it. They compare our world to a speck of pollen floating in the" Pa- cific Ocean and point out how pre- sumptuous we are to assunte that life is monopolized exclusively by this one tiny planet. TAiLE T fan¢ ArviDews Far too few Canadian housewives snake an extensive use of herbs in their cookery. It's a great pity, too, because so many dishes fall short of perfection just for the lack of that 'touch" which only herbs can give. * * And it isn't necessary to "grow your own"—although it's a fascin- ating pursuit if you have the time and space to do it. However, popular demand has made freshly dried products readily available; and they only await in- creased knowledge of their use to bccotne as accessary to good food seasoning as salt and pepper. * * Conuuircial herb growers in various sections of the country do a thriving mail-order business di- rectly with the housewife; while the shelves of most specialty food shops in large cities - are, well - stocked with jars and boxes of separate varieties and blended mix- tures for specific uses. * * * Perhaps the following will serve as a guide to the beginner in -.the use of the more common varieties. Mint— h'or peas, either fresh cw in soup. Sprinkle on boiled potatoes and carrots. One-half teaspoonful in currant jelly for roast lamb. A clash in cream, cheese for sand- wiches. A pinch in apple sauce. *- * * Basil— improves imy dish containing tomato. Sprinkle over scrambled eggs. Add to stuffing for baked fish. Sprinkle over' boiled or creamed Potatoes. Mix with ct•eemnl and cottage cheese. Dust On vegetable salads. Thyme— Add to fish chowder, Add to oyster stew. Add to turkey stump!:. include in beef loaf. improves pot roast, a: * * Savory— Flavors all beans—lints, string, shell. Add to snuffing for turkey, veil, fish, duck, goose. Sprinkle over hall or vegetable salad. Marjoram -- Sprinkle over roast pork. lilavors soups. Add to stuffing for chicken or turkey. - Add to sauce for fish. Parsley— Flavors cheese, Sprinkle on poached eggs. Sprinkle on fricasseed chicken. Add to melted butter sauce for vegetables. Flavors tomato soup. Sprinkle over boiled or mashed potatoes. • * 0 :Sage— Add to stuffing for veal, pork, goose and turkey. Sprinkle over broiled pork chops. Sprinkle over any dish of egg- plant. * * * The following blend makes' a most satisfactory •flavoring pow- der: 6 ounces marjoram 6 ounces savory 3 ounces basil 3 ounces thyme • 3 ounces' tarragon Combine thoroughly and keep in small jars so that the whole mix- ture is not open to the air at once. This • is an excellent combination for stews, soups, and ragouts. In the use of powdered herbs, it is always well to bear in mind that they are more potent than fresh ones, therefore a smaller amount will be required: The flavor should be subtle, not 'dominating. Capsule -size Motor Runs Electric Watch Au experimental electric wrist- watch has been made which has no main spring --nothing but a battery and a capsule -size motor that de- livers power at a constant rate. The Elgin Watch Company has built such a watch in America and the Lip Watch Company in France. When tote two companies learned that they were independently work - Mg along the sante lines they de. sided it w•as common sense to join forces and exchange information. Iilech•fr clocks are old. Hence. an electric watch seems a natural evolution. The late T. Albert Pot- ter, president -of the Elgin Watch Company and later chairman of its board, suggested the. idea to George C. Ensign, the company's research director. Potter learned. that Ensign and his mini had long been working on the idea. ' Contrary to expertations, it turn- out that an electric watch had. to be something different from a min- iature electric clock. It was not enough to reduce the size of an electromagnet that was good en- ough for a clock, :l'he mason is that the working force of an electro- ntagnet'clecreases at an nnexpeeted rate with diminution in size. View of 'per u'=°Airline' hostess" Isabel Carrion of lima, Peru, holds one of the 1500 pieces of anciont Peruvian art on display in Chicago. The .e xh 1 b i t i o n, which runs until September, traces the artistic development of the ancient Peruvian Mochi ca and Nazca Indian tribal cultures. Designing a suitable electric mo- tor was no mean task. Nor was it obvious how the flow of electric energy to tine motor could be con- trolled,.or how enough energy could be diverted to drive the hands. The energy capsule presented a wohlc set of problems in itself, if high voltage was to be maintained. Corr ventional principles no longer ap- plied to mechanism that was to produce only one seventy-five mil- lionths of a horsepower. At first it was thought that the type of cell used in hearing aids would do as a source of power. That proved to be wrong, After much research a cell was developed which is smaller than a penny and which will drive the watch motor for more than a year. The voltage is constant to the very end, Time keeping is perfect. The motor presented more dif- ficulties. Finally soh -miniature coils were developed that are slightly more than an eighth of an inch in diameter and one thirty-second of an inch long, wound with 3,000 turns of insulated copper wire one- sixth as thick as a human hair. THE POOR UMPS Joe Page, the Yankee relief pitcher, says he dreamed one night that he was in heaven, and was assigned the task of forming a baseball teats of all the great stars available there. '•Iiut who'll we play against?" be asked. Just then the • Devil telephoned and challenged him to a series, "Four games out of seven," suggested the Devil, "and no miracles on either side," "What Page. "Every great hall player -goes to heaven when he dies!' "Cot riot w'or•ying," the Devil told him. "I've got all the umpires" Gruesome Tale Peggy Wood, the operetta star, watched the rain pouring down one night from the haven of a warm, friendly drawing room, and remembered this story she had heard years ago in England. A country doctor, cursing the luck that called him out on the worst night of the year, was splash- ing Isis way homeward on his motorcycle, on an old road full of bumps and holes. Suddenly he heard a cry for help. A luckless motorist had skidded off the road, and his car was up to the hubs in mud in a ditch. "Obviously I cannot pull you out with this motorcycle," said the doctor, "but if you'll hitch on be- hind me, I'll ride you into town. It's only three or four miles, and we'll find someone there to drive you back and get your car on the road again." Before the grateful motorist climbed aboard the cycle, he was advised by the doctor to reverse his raincoat, back to front, to pro- tect him a little better from the driving rain. Then they set out on the rocky road to town. The doctor said nothing until he saw the first lights of tine main street flickering through the storm. "Here we are," he pointed out then. "We'll soon have help for you." When there was no reply, the doc- tor looked behind him. He was alone on the motorcycle. "Good heavens," he thought, "the poor fellow trust have fallen off!" He turned the cycle about and began retracing the ground. A mile hack ice came upon his erst- while passenger. lying motionless on the road, surrounded by a group of w-ct and bedraggled cot- tagers. "Is he badly hurt?" cried the doctor. "I'm afraid so," answered one of the cnttagers. "We were in our house yonder when we heard Isis moans above the wind and the storm. When we found him ile was in terrible shape, sir. His head had been twisted dear around! My son and I twisted it back just as far ns we could. but ever since he hasn't moved or made a single sound!" Story Tellers Story The other morning, a couple of days before retiring after thirty- two and a half years of telling stories to children for the New York Public Library and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Mrs. Eleanor II. Nave, a small, fairy-godntotherliice woman of 65, bustled daintily through the front door of the library's Yoricvilie branch on East Seventy-ninth Street. She alinost, but not quite sprinted up a steep flight of stairs to the children's room on the sec- ond floor, without dropping a petal from the bunch of fuchsia and white rhododendron she had brought along, sat down in a child - sized chair at a child -sized table and told a grown-up about how she tells stories to children. Library officials estimate that Mrs. Nave has told her stories to and given puppet shows for (she does her own dramatizations, cos - turning and productions) between 500,000 and a million young people —generally fifteen to severity=five at a time. "Tal' has been about the most successful story here and at the Institute," she began. "It is a book of sixteen adventures about a nor- mal, but occasionally mischievous child who says 'I'nt sorry' at the right time." (She said that "Tal" was written by Paul Fenimore Cooper, a grandson of the author of ' Leatherstocking Tales.") "The stories have wisdom, humor, pathos and mystery," she com- mented, "all of which have a great appeal for the young mind. These are very normal stories with happy endings. I don't like to tell un- pleasant stories, and anyhow the children always want the prince and the princess to get married in the end. For that reason I hardly ever tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood. 1 don't care for the wolf element. And I've never told Bluebeard." What could the youngsters ex- pect when they came to one of Mrs. Nave's "hours?" "I usually tell two stories an hour. No, I don't actually read them, but I leave the book on the table to let them know where they can find the story to re -read if they want to. And then. as a rule, a little poetry at the end—Walter de is Mare's poems are among the best for our purposes." The children come to the library, Mrs. Nave related. check their lolli- pops and comic books at the door, sit down quietly and, these days, demand stories about men from Mars and atomic explosions, "Yes, television has had an influence on their requests,' Mrs. Nave said, "but I completely disregard what they want. I tell them classic fairy tales or stories dealing with folk- lore. I guess my favorite is a New Zealand folk tale called 'Maid of the :dist.' It's exquisitely written. The prose is poetic. It sings. It is simple and direct and suitable for older children and adults as well. The only trouble is that it has a tragic ending." Mrs. Nave went on to say that boys like to listen to fairy tales, too, although they are a little bash- ful about admitting it. "You know," she said. "you'd be surprised at the people who enjoy listening to a story, Children come here volun- tarily, and frequently their mothers come with them. At the Institute doctors and nurses listen. 1 tell stories and show picture books to the toddlers out in Carl Schurz Park. There nurses and maids show an interest. Evert the park attend- ants and policemen occasionally sidle tip to the edge of the circle." "It would be wonderful," she continued, "if mothers would spend t more time telling their cltildreit'. stories. I recommend that : they memorize and tell the story rather than read it. Children prefer it and appreciate the personal touch. A child likes to have a time set aside for h!in --a quiet atmosphere, an uninterrupted session. It is Some- thing that is very precious to him and' a time in his life that he'll never forget" Mrs. Nave said she was going to continue her volunteer work at the Instittue. "I'm a registered nurse as well as a librarian, and I find the work there as gratifying as any I've ever done. I' rcmettn her one afternoon many years ago at the Institute I was.doing a pup- pet show, 'Runspelstiltskin.' There was a little boy in the audience.* ' he couldn't have been more than 5 ,--who had never spoken a word . in his life. The mother in the story sings: 'My daughter hae spun five skein* today. My daughter hae spun five skeins today.' "As she was singing the little boy all of a sudden started to sing along with her. It was one of the most exciting experiences of my career." Mrs. Nave added that site wants to enroll next year for work with the Lighthouse, an organization for the blind. "I've always wanted to see 'Tal' written in Braille," she said. "I hope' they'll accept me." Left -Handed Rats Has it ever occurred to you that many animals are left-handed? Rats, for instance, often use their left paw more than their right. And most bears are left -pawed for some unexplained reason. Doctors and scientists have for years been studying left-handedness in human beings and animals.. They know that the cause of left- handedness is concerned with brain development and that in right- handed men the left side of the .brain is bigger, while in the left- handed the right side is bigger. But a recent medical survey sug- gests that many left-handed people are not so Left-handed as we thought. Seventy left-handed and 35 right-handed men were studied, and it was revealed that many who called themselves left-handed were really ambidextrous, although they did not realize it. AIR Air samples taken from the noses of V-2 rockets have shown that the atmosphere is evenly mixed up to a height of 36 miles, said Prof. Arthur Paneth at a recent meeting of the British Chemical Society. Above 36 miles there is evidence of gravitational separation of the argon and neon. MERRY MENAGERIE "Her husband waddled away with another woman!" Tank Lifter—Designed for moving artillery pieces, tanks, bridge sections and trucks is the jet - powered XH-1 i, the world's largest helicopter. T he tank -carrier is powered by two turbojeti. which send power through ducts up the rotor shaft and out to the tips of the giant rotor blades. The king of the 'copters straddles a cargo, picking up loads by attachments to the landing gear and body.