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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-04-04, Page 3Woman Hit By A Flying Cow Several folk living in Bad Axe, Michigan, say they have sighted "flying saucers." But recently one resident in this tiny commu- nity, 62 -year-old Mrs, Janet Whittaker, encountered a flying cow! Setting off on a shopping ex- pedition, she heard a sudden thud as she came round a bend and the next instant a huge cow de- scended on her. Petrified, she had no chance of side-stepping and the cow, hit by a car, crashed full tilt into her. knees. But luckily she sustained only slight injuries. No bones. were broken. Traffic accidents involving ani- mals often take strange turns. In this country, according to the Royal Society for the Preven- tion of Accidents' report, per- sonal injury accidents caused by dogs average 2,600 a year. And as the Highway Code warns "the presence of dogs and other ani- mals in the carriageway contri- butes towards the 4,000 personal injury accidents a year." This is in Great Britain. alone. Pet owners should be more alert and careful. And motorists should know more about animal reactions When caught in the traffic. Chickens nervously fol- low a single instinct when sur- prised by a car: they dash straight for home. Horses and ponies, which seem quiet, may be thoroughly startled if ap- proached too close and they may swing without warning straight into a car's path. • Cows, being sluggish -minded, often behave very stupidly. And a solitary sheep, left stranded on one side of the road, with the flock on the other, merits extra cauion. For, seeing a mechanical monster aper-eehing, the animal ., may panic and scamper across the road to rejoin its companions. When, in April last year, the Queen attended the West Nor- folk Hunt's point-to-point meet- ing at Sporle, two races ended with a riderless horse galloping out of the main gate and career- ing wildly along the main Swaff- ham road. In the first instance, two R.S.P.C.A. inspecotrs gave chase in their van. But P.C. Thomas Bokeham raced ahead of them on his motor -cycle. Very skil- fully, he managed to catch the hunter by the reins with one • hand, whlie with the other, he steered his machine. He then rode alongside the runaway, talking soothingly to it all the time, until the horse calmed down and trotted to a standstill. Half an hour later, • when another riderless racehorse bolted, P.C. Bokeham again gave chase and, using the same tech-. nique, made a second capture, without injury to himself or to the horse. It was bad luck for a York- shire milkman of Wibsey, near Bradford, when his ten -year-old ODD EGG - The hen that laid this egg apparently drew tired of her -anonymous contributions to humanity. So here it is, com- plete with monogram. mare suddenly bolted. She raced off the main, road, the milk cart ' swaying crazily, behind her, and charged down a narrow lane. The cart overturned, bottles smashed' and milk whitened the wreckage. The horse, now free, cleared a four -foot -high stone wall and fell six feet into a cel- lar entrance. There' she was wedged, with her left hind leg trapped and in danger of being: 'broken. Arrivingly quickly on the scene, policerpen, firemen and an R.S.P.C.A. inspector placed rub- ber 'fire hoses beneath her and lifted her forward into a more natural position to ease the strain on her back leg. Then, using a special lifting apparatus, they' raised her bodily from the cellar entrance into which she had plunged. The entire rescue op- eration lasted an hour and twen- ty minutes. The horse was saved from injuries which might easily have necessitated its being de- stroyed. But the residents were not at all happy at seeing their breakfast milk splashed all over the road. Drives Eight Miles With Eyes Shut What's happening to the wink - the deliberate wink which was once so frequently exchang- ed between young men and women? It is losing popularity all over Europe, declares a French expert on courtship and marriage. "Many a love affair used to begin with a wink, but you rare- ly see a man wink at a girl nowa- days," he says. "As for a girl winking at man - this just isn't done any more, not even in France! But in the 'twenties of this, century such winks be- tween the sexes were very popular." Perhaps he's right. When did you last wink deliberately at an- other person, or see a wink ex- changed between a young couple? Lots of schoolboys still wink in play, but even this type of wink- ing is much less often seen than it was a quarter 61 a century ago. Involuntary winking, or blink- ing, is as universal as ever. Ever tried to see how long you could go without winking? You'll find it very difficult to carry on for more than a minute or two, and very uncomfortable. Yet Miss Maryan Curtis, a lovely U.S. brunette, won a bet of nearly $1000 for as the judges put it - "maintaining a fixed stare for twenty-four hours without moving an eyelid." To scientists a wink is an op- eration of the eye which requires one-fifth of a second and occurs twenty-five times a minute. Therefore, ifyou drive at an average of 20 m.p.h. for five hours, you will drive eight and a third miles with your eyes shut! This winking business, you see, is necessary. It's Nature's way of keeping your eye -balls clean, moist and comfortable. Some people wink more Often than others. A nervous person winks most. It is calculated that his eyelids travel about 25,000 inches a day. Women tend to blink less than men. It's considered wicked towink deliverately in Falco, Alabama. 1.1 a woman's rapid winking is mistaken for saucy winking, she can under a local by-law - be arrested and fined. OPERATION WHISTLE During an operation to remove six-year-old David Anderson's tonsils, the surgeon found a small, plastic whistle lodged be- hind' one "'of the boy's tonsils. Questioning the boy's mother later, the surgeon learned that David had swallowed the whistle some months previous but it gave him no bother. "He did snore with a peculiar sound,. though," she added. 10. Cotton fabric 41. African fly.. yt 44. CR^�'I1Al SSw®R® 16.Unit ofwtke 46. Mat liquor 9. Donkey 5an 48. S47. oono of PUZZLE. 2 26. Paddle 49. Skin disease ACROSS 2. Barber's can 26. Intimation 61. Handful of 1. Together with 8. • straw Band of colorf 30. Acknowledge 58. To a point 4. Rough matted 6. Finished edge applause • inside noir 6. let Hebrew 81. Anger 64. Maple genus 8. Outdoor game letter • 82. Clear gain 66. "Auld Lang 12. George (ab.) 7. Sort 84. Went first - - 13. Device for 8. Caress 86. Supper 67. Poem ". .... .. 67 ri-t.If,lt measuring distances 15. Roour 17. Cubicng meter 18. Sport 19. Bashful 20. 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The woman raised the tiger from a cub, and they appeared to- gether in a movie which was successful in Russia and abroad. The photograph and caption' are from an official Soviet source. TIILTAIfl4 FRO{T Cooking quality of potatoes de- pends to a large extent on their degree of manliness when cook- ed. The food value of the potato depends on its dry matter con- tent, and many of the qualities of texture - Or mealiness - and taste depend on the percentage composition of the principal com- ponents such as water, starch, protein, mineral and cellulose. * a 4 Over the past quarter-century research workers have devoted much time and a great deal of effort in trying to develop a prac- tical method for determining the cooking quality of potatoes on a commercial basis. Of the many methods experimented with, the most practical has proved to be the specific gravity method. By specific gravity po- tatoes can be separated into classes based on the total solids content of individual or com- posite e results of thousands of tests ples of tubers. has shown that there is a very close correlation between the specific gravity Or 'total solids' content of potatoes and their cooking quality, reports N. M. Parks, potato specialist, Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture. * 4 * Specify gravity is defined as, "The relative weight of a given volume of any kind of matter as compared With the weight of an equal volume of a standard sub- stance, as water or air'. Hence the specific gravity of potato tubers can be determined either by (1) the flotation of individual tubers in a solution of known density, or by (2) weighing them in air and then under water and dividing the weight in air by the loss of weight in water. * * s If lots of potatoes with defin- ite dry matter content are desir- ed, then the specific` gravity of individual tubers must be deter- mined. However, potatoes can be separated into classes with.a range of percentage dry matter content and their cooking qual- ity predetermined by making specific gravity determinations on composite samples of any given lot of tubers. M e q• An instrument designed for this, purpose and known as a 'potato hydrometer' was devel- oped in 1936. This instrument is so' designed that the specific grav- ity - per cent total solids - and per cent starch of any composite sample of potatoes can be read directly from the stem of the hydrometer. In using the potato hydro- meter the following points must. be observed: (1). The composite sample of potatoes being used to make a determination must be clean and free of all soil parti- cles; (2) A ten pound sample of potatoes must be weighed ac- curately; (3) The temperature of the water in which the basket of potatoes is suspended must be held at a constant tempera- ture of 60 degrees F. The following gives .the sug- gested quality of potatoes fall- ing within certain percentage range of dry matter as deter- mined by specific gravity: Below 15 per cent dry matter - Poor Quality; 15.1-18 per cent dry matter - Fair Quality; 18.1-21 per cent dry matter - Good Quality; 21.1 up per cent dry matter - Excellent Quality. * ' 4. Improved flock management is rapidly reflected in increased profits. Such factors as feed wastage, culling, labour, balanced rations and egg marketing, must be considered in a well managed poultry program. * a a As feed comprises approxi- mately 65 per cent of the cost of egg .production this is the logical place to reduce expenses. However, this should not be done by limiting total feed consump- tion. A surprising amount of feed is wasted each day due to carelessness on the part of the operator and improper construc- tion and location of feed troughs. By careful planning, practically all of these loses can be limited. w e a Culling is also important in the cost of egg production as It costs about 30 cents per month to feed a non -layer. Pullets should be culled when put in the laying pens so that only strong, vigorous, well -matured birds are kept. If a pullet is not laying by six months, chances are she will never be a high producer. d • * Egg flavour and grades are often adversely affected through excessive amounts of green feed. For this reason hens should not be allowed to forage for suffi- cient feed but rather should re- ceive complete rations. This will ensure desirable egg flavour, uniform yolk colour, upstanding yolks and clean, white, strong shells. Frequent egg gathering and early marketing regardless of storage facilities on the farm is desirable, as quality deterior- ates rapidly even under the most favourable conditions. Operating costs could be re- duced still further by conserving labour through the use of prop- erly constructed poultry houses and good organization. "One good thing about the ris- ing cost of living," said Mrs. Stern to her husband, "is the fact that I've lost fifteen pounds worrying about it." • Fifty -Two Years To Deliver Letter A tailor in Graz, Austria, re- cently received from his mother a letter which she had posted in Vienna, less than fifty miles away, in November, 1904. What happened to it during that fifty- two years remains a Mystery which is still puzzling them both Postal services in Europe to- day are as near perfect as in- genuity can make them and such instances of delayed mail are rare. Letters have sometimes slipped unnoticed between floor- boards and remained undiscov- ered for years, but very few go astray nowadays. Thirteen letters posted be- tween 1915 and 1917 were not delivered to addresses in the West of England until 1934, but there was a good reason. They were discovered behind the sorting racks of a post office railway .van when it was being. repaired. A letter from the Post- master -General, apologizing for the delay, was sent to each of the addresses. During the siege of Paris by the Germans in 1870, postal of- ficials hit upon the idea of en- closing letters in small zinc globes, water -tight and berme- , tically sealed, and dropping them into the River Seine. They floated down ° to the French lines, where a net stretched across the river gath- ered them in . and they were sent on their way. When the Germans discovered what was going on, they stretch- ed across the river a net of their own and caught the floating mail. Thirty years later, in 1900, when the zinc balls and their use were almost forgotten, a fish- erman found one in the Seine. Inside were 300 letters dated 1870. "Jenkins," hundrede the em- ployer, "why do you keep look- ing at the clock?" • "Well, sir," replied the em- ployee, "I keep worrying whe- ther I'm behind on the two men's work that Ido." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ma ©®o® mom mum ®MU©©LIHOE MEMOM©UUMOEMo ©OI00 ©© �i�i7M BOO !M©® DUU!1 U ©OOM MOM OWEIE MEMO OEM EDL MOO MUM MOB MOB ©O©©® BOEUMMUMMOMME MOMEMUM©© ©� CEDE 1 U0®© U00 UNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. The Last Judgment Matthew 25:31-46 Memory Selection: And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto yon, Inasmuch as ye have done 8 unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Matthew 25:40. The parables dealing with Divine Judgment emphasize God's condemnation on people not so much for what they did as for what they failed to do. The foo l i s h virgins did not take an adequate supply of oil; the servant did not use his •talent; those put on the left hand did not care for the hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick or imprisoned. We incline to think of, wickedness in terms of the evil things which people do. Jesus focuses our attention on the sinfulness of those who fail to do good things. Men do not so readily detect 'the sins of omission. We are not saved by works; we are saved by faith. But James wrote: "Faith 'without works is dead." A man's faith is manifest by his works. Per- haps we cannot do much toward feeding the hungry and cloth- ing the naked. But surely ws can visit the sick. I have called on the sick of all creeds. Not once have I been treated un- kindly. The sick appreciate visi- tors provided they ate cheerful and helpful and do not stag* too long. I called to see a man held on a murder charge. Ha didn't have to consent to see me. We had never met. We talk- ed, read the Scriptures and prayed. Developments since have demonstrated his apprecia- tion. Let us remember our Christian responsibility to 'those in trouble. Is there really a judgment af- ter life? Jesus uses strong lan- guage. "Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darknesst there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." "Depart from me, ye cursed, into ever- lasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels," We ane prone to pass over such pass- ages. Well, who are we to al- ter what God has decreed? Ow part is to repent of our si believe in Jesus Christ a bring forth fruit unto Life eter- nal. ternal. TOLLING INTO DREAMLAND - Thrilled by her first pair of roller skates, 2'/2 -year-old Susan O'Brien won't take ' them off even when sleeping. l'he skates may be heavy and cumbersome to wear while napping, but Susan's not giving them up - asleep or awake. FINNY FROLIC - It's party time underwater as diver plays host at the 10th birthday celebra tion of Spray, oldest living porpoise born and raised in captivity. Spray is a star attraction at the Marine Studios. The birthday cake was de corated vf'ik tasty little fishes instead' of candles. ` .