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Clinton News Record, 1944-06-29, Page 6- JOIN THE CANADIAN ARMY'. OVERSEAS SERVICE (NO PERMIT REQUIRED) Shell Service Station Reg. Pall, Clinton, Phone 5 , The Four "E's" of Safety Engineering, Education, Enforce- ment and E'quipanent are the four "E's" of wartime safety, according to R. B. Morley, general manager of the Industrial Accident Prevention Associations. In a recent •memorandum issued to industry's executives, Mr. Morley says, "For many years, those of us in the safety movement have heard of the three "1;'s" of safety. Since war broke out there has been an additional "E" and that is Equip- ment" He points out, Equipment is important because it serves to place a barrier between the accident of the flying particle or falling material sand the person, .who lacking equip- ment would be injured. Mr. Morley suggests that industrialists concen- trate on the four "E's" of safety. V " Prime" Minister Churchill excoria- tes those who criticize the present ,Goverriment in Madrid. Possibly he possesses "eastlets in Spain". POOR. SHAKESPEARE Two women were chatting about the play they had leen the day before: Mrs. J.—Funny chap that Shakes- peare. I can't see anything in his plays myself. Mrs. P.—Nor can L And I'm told that he didn't even write them him- self. Mrs. J. -Who did, then? Mrs. -A man called Bacon. Mrs. J. Well, that sounds more t likeh for only such a chap would ever dream of naming his principal character Omelette! V JOl�1 THE' AN`ADIIANAflMY OYERStAS SERVICE . STEEL. + TUNGSTEN = ARMORED .STEEL - Loi;gx, RUBBER + VITALIN Extra strength, longer wear, increased tough- ness, ough ness, more protection , against aging and in- ternal heat —these are the properties of Firestone Vitamin Rub- ber and they all add up r, to longer tire life. hi addition, you still get the Firestone extra values of Gum -Dipping, Safety Locked Cords and Gear -Grip Tread. proved features that made Firestone tires the choice of champion race drivers. If you are, eligible to replace your tires insist on Firestone tires made with the new synthetic rubber fortified with , Vitalin, You can put them on your car with the full confidence that you are getting the utmost tire value. ALWAYS -'MOST MILES PER DOLLAR DOUGLAS Garage Clinton,' Ontario TELEPHONE 345 TIIE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Winter Wheat in Eastern, Canada (Experimental Farm News) The growing of winter wheat in Eastern Canada is confined largely to Ontario where some '700,000 acres are sown annually. For the past five years the annual production has varied from 13,222,000 ihus'hels• at 22.0 bushels per acre, in 1943 to 23,391,000 bushels at 30.9 bushels per acre in 1942. The milling trade nor- mally uses about 5,000,000 bushels for making biscuits, cakes and pastry goods, but owing to the:. poor quality of the crop in 1943 and the heavy de- mand for feed for livestock and poul- try, winter wheat has been in short supply. The high yields per acre, to- gether with the strong demand for winter wheat for feed and for mill- ing, give winter wheat an important place. In. Eastern ` Ontario, Quebec and in the Maritimes only small acreages of• -winter wheatare grown and the crop is used• for feed'pur- poses •only, Dawson's Golden Chaff is still the most widely grown variety of winter wheat in Western Ontario, and is favoured by most growers except' in Kent County whore a red wheat is grown. For areas east of Peter- borough, the Cereal Division, Central ]experimental Farris, Ottawa, says A. G. O. Whiteside, has developed a new variety, Rideau, which is more winter hardy than Dawson's Golden Chaff, and has done very well in this area. It does not yield quite 'as well as Dawson's Golden Chaff in the main growing areas, nor is it as suitable for the milling 'brads, consequently Rideau is not recommended' for West- ern Ontario. The Cereal Division, at Ottawa, and .the Dominion Experimental Sta- tion at Harrow, Essex County, Ont., are actively engaged in breeding better varietiesof winter wheat for Ontario. Problems in resistance to leaf and 'stem rust, loose and stink- ing stout together with high yields and suitable milling quality have been under study and tests for a number of years. ;Some promising material is now under .test. Varie- ties resistant to loose and stinking smut and to leaf and stem rust have been produced but these have not ad- vanced far enough to be releasedto the farmer. Good cultural practices and good seed are important in obtaining goodresults from winter wheat. The seed' should' be treated with one of the mercurial dusts to control stink- ing smut and to protect the young seedlings from root rots. Loose smut can be lessened by using seed fron'i previous crops which were free, or by the hot water treatment, Prepare a good seed bed and for surface drainage where water accumulates in the spring. Sow early enough to allow the plants to be well established be- fore freeze-up. Winter wheat respond to g6od fertility. .Increased yields will be obtained by using manure or artificial fertilizers, or a combination of both. V LIGHT YEARS All gladsomely, on buoyant thought a -wing, Through morning splendor or the evening glow, Let us fare forth as far as dreams shay go, In faith and hope, for Truth adven- turning'. Sublime sphere music, myriad - tongued, shall ring Through cosmic solitudes; ' and we shall know • That ultimately only good' can flow From Him Whose glory all the aeons sing, Earth years are •richt with wonder and surprise,' And beauty ever seeks the seeking eyes. How'overbrimming, then light years ' must be, The unit measure of infinity! t Nor can we lose ourselves, below, above,. For God is everywhere, and God is love. LILTAN LEVERJDGE V CRT de COEUR I cannot pray; I know not what to say. But God, • " Be .with him night and day, Strength to ,his arm impart, Ano Courage to his heart. r Help us to bow together to Thy will: That each his destiny May well fulfill. MARTEL JENKINS PROOF POSITIVE "Bertie," said his .mother,, sorrow- fully, 'every time you are naughty I get another grey hair:" "You must have been 'a terror, then," replied Berrie, "look at grand- pa:" Corsica, Colorful Island, Off European Mainland Covered with forested mountains, Corsica's interior is rich in tourist interest but poor in military useful- ness aside • from' its manpower. Mountain Alen with a long, tradition for feuding were many among 40,000 Corsicans who died for France in World War I. Naval stations at Ajaccio, Bonifacio and L'Ile Rousse, •harbors in the north at. Calvi and Bastia, and the narrow Plain' of Aleria along ;the east coast have military value today. . Bastia, with 37,000 of - Corsica's 325,000 people, is, normally the lead- ing trade center. Closest to Italy, it was the island- capital for three centuries until Napoleon moved the government to Ajaccio > in 1811. Ajac- cio, founded jac-cio,founded by the Genoese in 1492, has long made tourist capital of the fame of the Bonapartes, Its well - sheltered harbor was Corsican point of arrival for thousands excursion- ing to the island from Marseille. A rail line winds north through' the mountains from Ajaccio, reaching to Bastia and Aleria on the east coast and to L'Ile Rousse and Calvi on the northwest coast. Highways reach all parts of Corsica. Fruits, olive oil, lumber, wine, fish, charcoal and cork are exports. ' At Calvi, Lord Nelson lost his right eye alld a plaque proclaims the town as the birthplace of Christopher Co- lumbus. Citrons are the distinctive export of this market garden` corner of Corsica. , Suggest Preparations to Dehydrate Vegetables In preparing dehydrated vegeta- bles, here are some principles to follow: Soak the dried vegetables in hot water , just long enough to plump them, and cook them in the water in. which they are soaked. Thirty min- utes to one hour usually is sufficient for this "refreshening" period. Some dehydrated vegetables, such as leafy ones or those powdered or shredded, may be cooked without soaking. Drop these into hot water, seasoned with salt, and simmer un- til tender. Use a small amount of water—not quite enough to cover the vegetable. Simmer rather than boil vegeta- bles. Cook them only until tender— not until they are mushy. Use any left over cooking water. Increase the taste of dehydrated vegetables with interesting season- ings such as strips of ham or bacon, garlic, basil, sliced onions, and to- mato sauce as well as the more -fa- miliar seasonings—butter and milk. Precision Casting Precision casting, old in the man- ufacture of jewelry, surgical instru- ments and dental forms, is being ex- tended into the industrial field by the impact of the war. As the re- sult of recent research, small parts may now be successfully precision cast of metals which melt at tem- peratures too high for die casting, and whose shapes are too intricate for satisfactory production by pow- der metallurgy. In fabricating parts of critical materials where waste must be minimized, from expensive high -melting alloys, and from ma- terials difficult to machine or forge, precision casting offers interesting possibilities. Properly' handled it provides an exceptionally good sur- face on the' part cast, solid mass, sharp outline, and dimensional ac- curacy within one to several thou- sandths of an inch, depending on the sizeand characteristics• of the part. The foundry and the machine shop are, so to speak, joined in the ontr art. The mechanics of procedure are relatively simple and the equip- ment employed is not large in unit size. Aleuts Kill Seals Seals selected for killing, chiefly three -year-olds, are driven inland a short distance in the Pribilof islands. They can be driven almost as easily as a flock of sheep, although more slowly. These driving operations are conducted with extreme care so as not to overheat the animals and thus lessen the value of the pelts. Rainy or cloudy weather is pre- ferred for the seal killing which is done under the immediate direction 4f the fish and wildlife service by Aleuts who reside in the villages on St. Paul and St. George islands. After the killing, the skins are re- moved and given a thorough curing in salt for at least 10 days. They are then rolled singly with a gener- ous supply of salt on the flesh side, which is turned inward. Boric acid also is used as a germicide in pre- serving the skins. From 50 to 100 of the skins are packed to the barrel. Military. Vehicles More than ' 400,000 automotive vehicles, for the armed forces have been produced in Canada since the outbreak' of war, 215,000 of which were °made in 1942. r One of these units --consumes ap- proximately twice the material and labor used on an ordinary.commer- cial vehicle, so that the 1942 out- put is practically equivalent to 430,000 commercial trucks, against an average of less than 40,000 a year for the 10 years prior to the war. More than 30,000 persons are em- ployed manufacturing more than 100 types of 'military vehicles. One Canadian plant, the largest of its kind in the world, turns out enough universal carriers in one qday to equip a battalion. • Suggests Use of Tannic Acid for Poison Ivy Dr. William L. Holt, health ,officer at Massachusetts State college, says one of the methods of treating ,heat burns, is to open the blisters and apply tannic acid and this same method of treatment might he ap- plied to inflammation caused by Poison ivy, The treatment consists in vigor- ously , rubbing the eruption with a piece of gauze or cheesecloth soaked in 95 per cent alcohol. The 'rub- bing should be severe enough to re- move the tops from small blisters. Large blisters should first be washed with alcohol' and opened with a knife dipped in alcohol, After the tops of the blisters have been removed, whatever matter oozes from the open blisters should be wiped off with dry sterile gauze. A large piece of gauze saturated with a 10 _ per cent solution of tannic acid should then be applied over the inflamed area and allowed to stay for 30 min- utes. At the end of a half hour al- low the skin to dry. Do not wipe dry. This treatment is repeated every six hours and new blisters should be treated in similar man- ner. Usually three or four treat- ments are sufficient. , A crust will form over the blisters and in a week's time the crust falls off. The 10 per cent solution of tannic acid, according to Dr. Holt, is made as follows. • Buy four ounces of pow- dered tannic acid in a drug store, dissolve it in one quart of water. Stir until all of it is dissolved. A quart is usually sufficient for six or more treatments. Remove Crop Refuse to Combat Garden Insects One of the most effective ways to reduce insect and disease troubles in the garden is to clear all refuse from each crop area as soon as the vegetables are harvested. This means that not only stems, stalks, leaves and overripe fruits should be removed, but also stub- ble of the roots. Borersand other insects may find shelter in these for the winter, unless the refuse is thor- oughly cleaned away from the gar- den. Weeds and grass should be cleaned from the garden borders as well. Most of this plant rubbish can be spread on the compost pile. Tamped down and mixed with fer- tilizer, lime, manure and other rub- bish it is soon rotted, and furnishes no harbbr for insects. Gardeners who have neither room nor time to make a compost pile may spread out the refuse of the garden to dry. Then it can be burned, though this method wastes some fertilizer and humus that could better be turned back into the soil as compost. • Milk Production Costs The cost -of producing milk on an average New York farm in .1942-43 was $3.01 a hundredweight, "accord- ing to an investigation completed recently 'by the New York; State College of Agriculture. As farmers received an average price for milk of $2.90 a hundred pounds, the dairymen actually real- ized only 33 cents an hour for their work in producing milk, instead of the 37 cents an hour charged for labor in figuring costs, says Prof. L. C. Cunningham of • the college. This labor wage compares with av- erage factory earning of workers in. the state' of about 95 cents' an hour. A study. by the college in the 1939- 40 season showed a cost of'$2,07 a hundredweight. Since then feed costs have gone from $1.22 a hun- dred pounds of milk to $1.55. Losses, or depreciation in milking herds have about doubled. Farm wages have gone from $46 a month in July, 1939, to $76 in July, 1943, but aro still low compared to city wages. Portable Pipelines Portable pipelines through which it is possible to pump gasoline from tankers' m a harbor virtually into the fuel tanks of a plane a thousand miles away' have been developed by the corps of engineers in co-opera- iion with private industry. The pipelines, which have passed successfully the acid test of battle conditions in North Africa, are ex- pected to revolutionize the transport. not only of liquid fuels, but also of water to troops fighting in arid re- gions where water -holes are few and far between: ; Black Powder Used by • Chinese Centuries Ago Black powder was used by the Chi- nese centuries ago, but its principal use was for religious observances to drive away the evil spirits. For hun- dreds of years the Chinese did not appreciate the possibilities of black powder as a blasting explosive or as a propellent in the manufacture of', ammunition.' A combustible known as "Greek, Fire," . and somewhat similar to black powder, was used in incendi- ary bombs prior to the fall of the Roman Empire. Roger Bacon de- scribed black powder in about the year 1260. It was used in firearms at the Battle of Crecy in 1346. The Germans used itas a propellent for missiles from hand -cannon as early as 1361, the rate of, fire of these guns being about seven shots in eight hours. - Black powder, withits lower pres- sures and slower velocities, carried on until just prior to the .20th cen- tury, when a new material described as 'Smokeless Powder" was being developed' by the French and Rus- sians. About that time, a different 'type of smokeless powder, called Cordite, was being developed by Al- fred Nobel in. Great Britain. Through the greater strength of these pow- ders, their cleanliness of burning and comparative absence of smoke, it was possible to reduce the bore of some military arms from about cal- iber .45 to approximately caliber .30" make use of a jacketed bullet of lighter weight and much higher ve- locity and considerably reduce the weight of a soldier's ammunition! The most important feature of this new pipeline is that it is 'practically as 'poc'tablh as the tank truck. It has been designed' so, that it can. be laid at the, rate of. 20 miles a day ands can., be moved or.shifted, so as to cover the most fluid and swiftly shifting fronts. Furthermore, its use will , free overloaded supply roads from the extra 'burden'of tank truck convoys: ' ' Burning Wood To get the most heat from 'wood, use the largest size piece that will go through ,the door of stove or fur- nace: A pieces of sheet iron over•the grates. of a coal furnace will help to reduce.draft and, provide steadier heat, Some homeowners take out the grates, line the ash -pit with fire brick,'and build the fire on the ash - pit floor.' ' •• If green wood is burned a ,mini- • mum of elbows and crooks in the stovepipes will help the creosote to escape up the chimney. , A long pipe that goes through a cold rooin be- fore it reaches the chimney should be wrapped in asbestos. e Native Party Highlight Of South Sea Islald One of the highlights of South Sea island of Samoa is the tofa party, staged especially for the war -bound. U. S. marines, Tofa (accented on the fa) is the native word for good -by, and a tofa party is the customary farewell tossed for Leathernecks stationed there who have received orders to move on to other areas. The floor of a hut or tent is gen- erally the locale of a tofa party. A fire bucket is used for a mixing con- tainer and a bayonet to chop the ice. The marines sit on the floor and drink refreshments from their canteen cups, or directly from the fire bucket. When taps blow and the lights go out, the party moves into the "boon- docks" (jungles) to the fale (house) of the nearest native chief. If the departing marine has been friendly with the natives, the chief will order a kave (drinking ceremony) and siva-siva (dance). Samoans enjoy parties as much as marines, and the jungle tofas sometimes last until daybreak. ' Trail Blazers William L. Sublette took the first. wagons over the Rocky mountains to become one of the leading trail- blazers of the West. In commemo- ration of the first wagon trip, a por- tion of the Oregon trail is known as "Sublette's Cut-off." As a mem- ber of the William H. Ashley expedi- tions, Sublette made a number of trips to the Rocky mountain regions. Later he bought out Ashley and with Jedediah S: Smith and David E. Jackson set up a trading business for which he, maintained headquar- ters and a store in St. Louis, Mo. In 1841, Sublette 'was .appointed to the staff of Governor Thomas. Reyn- olds and given the rank of colonel. Milkweed Clothes Chemists believe one of tomor- row's new fibers may come from the pesky milkweed which contains in its stalk up to 20 per cent of fiber asserted to be stronger than linen. Milkweed floss, the fluff inside the seed pod, is already being used ex- perimentally to linesuits as insula- tion against cold. If inventors can work out a ma- chine to separate the fibers front the guns in the slender, reed -like plant called ramie, add that to your wardrobe too. It's the strongest fiber known, has the high luster of silk but can be made to look like cotton or wool, is resistant . to rat, and is stronger wet than dry. Dazzling Colors Fatigue Too .much dazzling white in .a fac- tory or workroom may overdo light reflection and lead to fatigue of workers, say's a prominent color spe- cialist. He points out that the hu- man eye adjusts itself to brightness much more quickly than to darkness, so that a white wall may detract . attention from a dark-dolored ma- chine upon which the • vision should be `concentrated, find lower eye -effi- ciency by 'constricting ,the size of 'the pupil. He holds that the en- vironment. of the machine, should. be• passive in effect And suggests that wallsbe painted gray for eight feet from the door with the remaining space abode' white for illumination. . New Diver's Helmet A new, streamlined helmet for deep-sea divers has a curved win- dow of "Lucite" methyl methacry- late resin. The plastic window elim- inates the heavyprotective metal grilles` of older helmets, It extends the.. diver's field of vision, reduces helmet'$ weight, and makes it eat ter for the diverto maneuver under water. ' Twenty-five' divers working on the gutted S. S. Lafayette (Nor-' mandie) in New York harbor are wearing the new headgear. THUR$,, JUNE 29th, 194 ... From plant, to store, to customer ... and •'back again ! For bottles and cartons are used many times. So please. don't break . this • cycle. Return your empties, in their original cartons, promptly and you'll' help us maintaite steady supplies for you. British males, now threadbare—. seize family clothing ration cards. demanding new apparel. Well, this is summer. Why not put the ladies in shorts—all except the duchesses of of eourse? GET INTO STEP WITH THE BOYS Don't ',Vat to be drafted for Home.eervieel Mareit aide by e de.wnth Caaadn'afighfing men Volunteer now for over,ena eervieet Wear .trio`. G.S. bad* on your arm ... Canada's ovor- ,00a badgo of honour!