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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-05-23, Page 3WORLD'S TOP DOOMS OLD AIR SURVEYOR PROSPECTOR By DOUGLAS LARSEI,V NEA Staff Correspondent Ottawa, Canada -;(NEA) - One of Canada's` colorful insti- tutions, the bush prospector, has been done in. That hardy breed of fortune seeker got the axe by one of this country's most dramatic post- war businesses, typical of the kind of imaginative enterprises going on up here. Spartan - Canadian Aeru, now the world's largest air survey outfit, is the firm which has laid the trudging prospector to rest. In the process the company is revolutionizing the technique of finding hidden natural resources around the world. It also oper- ates the, world's largest private helicopter service. . Spartan services have been an JOHN A. ROBERTS: An aerial view of hidden resources. Important factor in the tremen- dous mining boom now going on all over Canada. Its airborne, scientific prospectors discovered the existence of tremendous iron ore deposits at Marmora in Southern Ontario for the Bethle- hem' Steel Corp., for example. It did the same thing for the American Cyrus. Eaton Enter- prises at Knob Lake in northern Quebec. It spotted the huge new Bath- urst zinc and copper deposits in New Brunswick. It revealed the oil bearing geology in sev- eral areas where oil production is booming. And there is one case where a Spartan flier ac- tualIy predicted the site for an oil well, which when dug, im- mediately became a producer. One of Spartan's earlier jobs was helping Canadian and U.S. defense experts select the sites for the Distant Early Warning radar line which now protects the North American Continent against surprise air attack. The phenomenal growth of Spartan from a tiny enterprise with a cduple of broken-down World War II planes to a multi- million corporation with more than 500 scientists and pilots op- erating a huge fleet of planes all over the world starts with the threat of Germany's V-1 and V-2 missiles during World War II. RCAF pilot John A. Roberts and his navigator, Russell L. Hall, were assigned to help lo- cate these missile launching sites. In the process a new aerial mapping technique was . devel- oped. So when the war ended these lads quickly began apply- ing this technique to practical \'private enterprises. They started with forestry mapping and then began• map- ping for new rail lines and irri- gation projects. The Korean. War got them into the mineral hunting business, They began using an electronic device called the magnetometer and detecting iron ore bodies, Then they add- ed the electro -magnetometer for locating non-maa,netic ore bodies such as nickel. Spartan's experience in oper- ating over the rugged Canadian wilderness put them several jumps ahead of foreign competi- tors. This enabled Roberts and Hall to begin getting their boom- ing firm aerial survey jobs in British Guiana, British Hondur- as, Colombia, India, the Philip- pines and even England and the U.S. With their electronic devices and their own technique or high altitude surveying, Spartan ex- perts can produce accurate min- eral reports in, a few weeks which would take years to make by prveious methods. Their work has proved a boon to un- derdeveloped countries by locat- ing previously unknown mineral deposits of tremenduos value. In India, for example, their electro -magnetometer was able to pierce through hundreds of feet of earth overlay to reveal the possible mineral -bearing ge- ology below. Spartan's reports have Indian officials anticipating a new mining boom in that coun- try'. Spartan's expanding helicopter fleet is being used for mapping and survey as well as for taking supplies to its own isolated for- ward bases. It is becoming an aerial taxi and guide service fOr the whole Canadian arctic and sub -arctic. It has its own school for helicopter pilots. The Canadian government is one of Spartan's biggest custom- ers for all of its services. There's no stopping this out- fit. Lookingto the future it is doing research on the aerial feeding of forests, for example, an idea which holds great prom- ise for the paper pulp industry up here. As Spartan's President Roberts says, "Our goal is to find a brand new aerial service to sell each year of our existence." ELECTRONIC PROSPECTOR: Magnetometer dangles from plane on airborne search for magnetic o -e fields. 10. Amer. Indian 38. lnelegaant 11. Needlefish language 1 r,. Sarcasm 41. Periods of darkness 18. Mournful 47. Idle talk 20. Ask for 40. Not present repeatedly X47. Drive 22, Turn aside slntingly 43. Renting 27, Shun agreement 20. Swamp 92. Arrow 27. garble.4. Insects 38. Religious 99. Old Irishcoin composition - 50. Period of time 80. Decade 97. Likewlee 32. Oriental ship 00. Untruth captain 50. llrinern 1 sprinl 30. gleno' sl r,,l,e 03. Article CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 2. Leading. 1. Weary aviator 4 Bearing 8, Mild weapons 4. Wings 9. Floor covering 6. Rent again 12, Frozen dessert 6. Mother 18. Depart 7. "Our Miss a 14. Creek O Brooks" 15, Cordial 11. Bargain 11, Spring festival 9 Withdrew Id Cornered 21, Burmese tribe. 22. Carle of light 24. Vat 26. Unit ot. weight 29. Important ocourenee 31. And' not sa. Self 31 Accomplish 90 however 117. Auto' fuel 35. Near 40, Cotton -seeder 42. Horse 44. Cray Edon() • 46. Redact 98. Bonn companion 60, Encourage 51. Divinity 63. Pork and - - - 00,Warm over 68. Celestial beings 61. Skill 42. Cook In an 0050 64, Pin991 66, Dance step • 06. Musical. sounds 07. Evening meal DOWN 1. Tropical trait 1 2 3 .iii4 5 6 7 e" t;9 ri.•s> 10 11 12 I,•13 i\. r4 6 19 22 :23 'tli 24 - _. 25 Sac 26 27 z8 39 30 " 31. .. 32 %,;32 34 ,i 33 3637 38 ' y .39 40 - 91 I42 43 tr14 15 46 47 •`XG 16 49 also J51 52 yam', 53' 39 00. 55 56 ' - 57 p5.8 59,60 61 - f; 62 .f64 Frr.f, 65 ly?$a6 • Answer elsewhere on this page. COTTON ROYALTY - Crowned and resplendent in royal raiment - all of cotton - the King and Queen of the annual Cotton Carnival, Berry Boswell Brooks, 55, and Lila McGehee Wrape, 20, strike regal poses. Brooks, famed big -game hun- ter, gave up a tiger hunt in India to fireside over this year's affair. Miss Wrape, a college student, is a nationally known horsewoman. ThLFA1fl4 FRONT Two recent changes have been made by the Health Of Animals Division, Department of Agri- culture, Ottawa, in the vaccina- tion of calves for the control of brucellosis. The changes are ex- pected to assist in the area test- ing and eradication of brucel- losis program announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Rt. Hon. James G. Gardiner, re- cently, in the House of Com- mons. Health of Animals regulations have been amended to permit official vaccination of calves from the age of 4 months to 11 months, Formerly the age limit was from 6 to 8 months. The change will not apply to cattle offered for export to the United States as officially vaccinated, without a blood test, as their regulations still require such calves to have, been vaccinated at from 6 to 8 months of age. a * * A new desiccated or dried vaccine has been developed and is now being made available by the Division to veterinarians for calfl'lood vaccination. This vac- cine can be kept under ordinary refrigeration for as long as fif- teen months, whereas the via- bility of the former liquid vac- cine was approximately 40 days. The Federal -Provincial Calf_ hood vaccination program was begun in 1950 when 140,643 calves were vaccinated. In the present fiscal year it is estima- ted over 750,000 calves will be vaccinated, bringing the total from the beginning of the pro- gram to over three million calves. . „ * Calfhood vaccination, along with testing and removal of in- fected animals from individual herds, if continued for a number of years, reduces the level of infection of brucellosis to a point where it is economically pos- sible to proceed with a test and slaughter program on an area basis, as announced by the Min- ister. The regulations under which the control plan will operate will be announced shortly. * * * It has been estimated that brucellosis in Canada causes an annual loss of about nine mil- lion dollars. After a survey made In the various provinces in 1956, it was estimated that the na- 'tional level of infection in Ca- nada at that time was 4.2 per cent of the cattle, though the percentage varied considerably in the different provinces. Set- ting up brucellosis free areas on a similar basis to that followed in the T.B. free area program is a logical step in the eradica- tion of brucellosis. * * * An area testing program was started in Denmark in 1946. At that time 25 per cent of the herds contained brucellosis in- fected cattle. By 1954 the in- fected herds had been reduced to 2 per cent and 1957 has been set as a goal for eradication of the disease from all herds. • * * In the United States, an im- portant market for Canadian cattle, the level of infection was estimated at 11.5 per cent in 1935. This was reduced to 2 per cent by 1939, following the test- ing of 33 million cattle. During the years 1935 to 1954, $193 mil- lion of public funds was spent on brucellosis eradication. To- day, seven states and over 600 counties have been declared modified certified areas. Eradi- cation programs are under way in nearly every state of the Union, and the work is being speeded up in hope of having the entire country declared a modified certified area for bru- cellosis control by 1960. * * A. new technique for bean processing has been developed by the Horticulture Division of the Lethbridge Experimental Farm, Canada Department of Agriculttu'e. .As a result of this development, dry beans grown in Southern Alberta can now, in spite of the normal low mois- ture content which is detrimen- tal to good bean processing, be successfully processed for the pork and bean industry. Under normal processing me- thods which involve a twelve to fifteen ' hour soaking period, a certain percentage of beans from this area do not absorb sufficient moisture and consequently re- main hard, thus reducing the quality of the finished product. G. Strachan, Food Technologist, of the Lethbridge Experimental Farm, says this problem can be overcome by heating beans in water at a temperature of 160 to 190 degrees F., for three or four minutes, followed by a soaking period of three to four hours. A reduction in soaking time of approximately one-third is also a great asset to the bean processing- industry. * * Processors of pork and beans require a relatively small bean, free from split', discoloration and other defects. The moisture content must be less than 18 per cent to ensure long storage without molding. A minimum of 11 to 12 per cent moisture content is preferred for effective processing by the long -soak me- thod. This minimum is difficult to maintain in southern Alberta due to extreme low humidity, especially during the winter. Samples taken from storage in- dicate that a range of 4 to 8 per cent moisture content is more common for that area. * * * The presence of hard beans, that is beans that fail to soften when soaked in water, even though in small quantities in commercial pack, reduce the quality of pork and beans. Com- mercially these hard beans were generally removed by hand picking after the long -soak me- thod of softening, but they are very difficult to observe on a sorting table. To further compli- cate the problem, hard beans cannot be removed by the flo- tation method as there does not appear to be any difference in density between hard and soft beans. * * * The development of the quick pre-soak boil technique has un- doubtedly opened up new out- lets for dry bean production in southern Alberta and possibly other areas in Canada. Also, the adoption of this method should greatly increase processing plant capacity as the twelve to fifteen hour soak requires a large num- ber of soaking tanks, By redu- cing this period to approxi- mately four hours, a greater volume could be handled with less equipment. Advice to young preachers by the famous Charles Spurgeon: 'When you speak of heaven let your face light up - let it radiate a heavenly gleam. When you speak of hell your ordinary face will do.' Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ON-REMOM MOM riiii ' nm Ce m .-Lin© �i7`�]L JIa7/�7©O©Wq r mmilm 1 i ❑e , Won II 10 a no OWR ' Edd MIIE1 ©fl I. p.:©©©iAX] EME EGI ©©mmP Jlu m ' L hP!: ,E Ik1I: c, r Ilk . ©©0F©' - FVERInglining p©N r © IDEM MNII 9TOMO pum n TUMAYSCIi00L LESSON By Rev, R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. Abraham and His World Genesis 18: 20-33; 19:29 Memory Selection: Arise, 0 God, judge the earth; for thou shalt inherit all nations, Psalm 82:8. In his last great prayer for his disciples Jesus said, "I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them frons the .evil. They are not of the world, even as I am of the world." John 17:15,16. Abraham was in the world but not of the world. Buthe was a great intercessor for the world. The wickedness of Sodom was greater than he thought and se the city was not saved through his prayers. However God re- membered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow. So Abraham's inter- cession was not in vain. Many thousands around the world are praying now for the Billy Graham campaign which has just begun in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Dr. Paul S. Rees, Associ- ate Evengelist with the Team writes in the New York Cru- sade News as follows: "New York City: With a high- er skyline than any city on the planet: With amusement enough to make every day a Roman Holiday and boredom enough to keep the world's biggest con- centration of psychiatrists busy round the clock: With culture smooth enough to please an Athe- nian and corruption enough to blanch a Judas: With people enough to start a nation and re- sentments and hatreds enough to start a war: With din in her ears and speed in her blood and sweat on her face and the 'Un- known God' in her' nebulous longings" So much of our praying cen- ters around ourselves. We are selfish. In the ministry of inter- cessory prayer we pray for others. Our own soul is enlarged as we bear the needs of others before God in prayer. The good we may do in this ministry we cannot evaluate in this life. It is a blessed experience for ourselves. Abraham was called the friend of God. Let us enter more in- timately into fellowship with God through prayer. In the words of Rev. J. D. Blinco, Bri- tish Methodist Leader with the Billy Graham team: "The short- est route to New York from any point in the world is not by the magnificent air lines that serve this fantastic age, but through the heart of God on the wings of prayer." PRACTICES WHAT HE PREACHES - Believing that the odors from waste treatment plants will smell only half as bad if the grounds around the plants are prettied up, W. T. Blackman Sr. fashions a bushy cat out of a hedge at the Murfreesboro waste treatment plant of which he's superintendent. YOU WON'T FEEL A THING (MAYBE) -Pedro, a full-grown Chihuahua, seems dubious about that big needle. But it's for his own good. Pedro happens to live in Memphis, and Memphis happens to be in the midst of a drive to have all canine residents inoculated against rabies.