The Seaforth News, 1957-07-25, Page 7Big Field For
Soap -Box Derby
The All-American Soap Box
Derby at Akron on Sunday, Au-
gust 18, will have the largest.
field of contestants and the rich-
est array of prizes in the 20 -
year history of the famous boys'
racing event, The 161 champions
from the United States, Alaska,,.
Canada, West Germany and the
Philippine Islands will vie for
$15,000 in college scholarships,
10 beautiful trophies and valu-
able merchandise awards.
A special added prize this year
in Observance of the 20th .anni-
versary of the All-American is
a two-week all -expense paid
trip to Europe for the national
champion, W. G. Powerexecu-
tive director of the All! -Ameri-
can, said.
Power, advertising manager of
Chevrolet which sponsors the
Derby, stressed that the trip to
England, Ireland, France, Bel -
glum, Germany and Italy is in
addition to the $5,000 first place
scholarship and- other honors to
be bestowed on the winner.
The national champion also
will receive the Chevrolet tro-
phy and a gold Ringmaster ring
similar to that given to the win-
ner of the Indianapolis "500."
The list of 161 champions tops
the previous high of 155 who
raced in 1956, Power said. The
boys, 11 to 15 inclusive, will
drive homemade gravity. - pro -
pelted cars on the 975 -foot
downhill course at Derby Downs
in quest of prizes and glory.
Champions showing outstand-
ing skill in car construction and
design will receive special
awardsat the Banquet of
Champions following the race.
Five trophies will be present-
ed to the boys whose cars have
the best brakes, best construc-
tion, best design and best uphol-
stery and to the driver with the
fastest heat of the day.
Besides all this, each local
champion is awarded the spe-
cially designed E. N. Cole
Plaque. Along with it goes a
Soap Box Derby racing diploma,
a wrist watch, and, of course,
the coveted Derby weekend in
Akron with a full calendar of
excitement and entertainment.
Just two days following ' the
race at Akron, the new cham-
pion will leave on his European
tour, departing for Ireland by
Pan-American Air Clipper. His
journey will take ,him to such
famed world capitals as Dub-
lin, London, Brussels, Paris and
Rome, and to Frankfurt in West
Germany. Before leaving for
Europe, the champ will be flown
to New York and entertained
there.
Power said a feature of the
1957 race will be a special race
for the contestants from outside
the United States for an inter-
national trophy.
The All-American is co-spon-
sored by Chevrolet, leading
newspapers, radio and television
stations and fraternal and civic
service _ organizations.
UNCONQUERABLE
Although most of the more
serious diseases have been con-
quered, the great killer on the
highway • has yet to be control-
led. Every year, traffic accidents
take a greater toll of life; every
year, more and more people are
Injured and often crippled for
life. The motorist who drives
when he is sick, overtired,
emotionally upset or otherwise
impaired in mind or body, Is a
menace to himself and to other
drivers. Anyone who has heart
trouble, diabetes or any ailment
which could suddenly incapaci-
tate him, should never drive.
Inog distances alone.
Schedule all your worrying
for a specific half hour about
the middle of the day. Then take
a nap during this period.
ALL IN FUN -"Sleeks", one -year-old star attraction at the St.
Louis Zoo, seems to be having a very good time with her play-
ful antics, But Dick McGraw, zoo lion tamer, is in a more
stoical than -amused mood. McGraw's trouser leg was ripped
open but he wasn't injured.
Rocky Wilderness Hides Vast Wealth
Canada's Pioneers Never Suspected
At the turn of the century an
American school geography des-
cribed Canada as "a country,
cold, barren, and uninhabited,
lying to the north of the United
States; a vast expanse of rock
and muskeg (bog), with great
forests of worthless b l a c k
spruce."
The authors of this piece of
bleak prose were preceded and
followed by many writers, econ-
omists, and geographers who
took an equally dim view of
Canada's future; for approxi-
mately a half of this country
lies within the rocky, infertile
embrace of one of this planet's
ancient pre -Cambrian shield&:
Until recent times not even the
Canadians themselves - who
from earliest beginnings have
loved their stern homeland
with an ardor not readily un-
derstood by their American and
British cousins - could find
much to say in defense of 1,800,-
000 square miles of rock, mostly
granite of a quality too inferior
for commercial purposes.
Today this rocky wilderness is
the established economic corner-
stone of Canada, for most of the
fabulous mineral wealth of re-
cent years has been found with-
in the shield's stern crust.
Some 95 per cent of Canada's
copper, 85 per cent of its iron,
all of its nickel, platinum, titan-
iumand uranium, as well as
less -welt -known minerals like
lithium, columbium,. and the rare.
earths, come from the shield.
Also within the shield lies most.
of Canada's fabulous hydro-
electric power potential.
But of all the Cinderella sur-
prises of recent years the stunt-
ed forests of the shield head
the list. For pulp and paper
made from the scrubby stands
of spruce, poplar and jack pine
have become a mainstay of the
Canadian economy. Pulp and
paper now take precedence over
wheat as the major source of ex-
port revenue. •
Crude Horseshoe
The Canadian pre -Cambrian
shield is a vast plateau, uneven-
ly clotted with hills, lakes, and
DREAMS OF GLORY -This youngster, surrounded by ancient
cannon, assumes a' hands -on -hips pose in the African Museum
In R6tne, Italy, perhaps dreaming of stirring military exploits.
The weapons are relics of Italy's 1910 campaign in Libya.
muskeg. In some areas it is cut
with fiords, In Labrador the
Torngat Mountains rear bleak
heads 6,000 feet above sea level.
In outline, the shield is a crude
horseshoe, with its ends on the
Arctic Ocean. Embracing the
whole of Hudson Bay, it stretches
east and northeast to include
Labrador and northern Quebec.
To the south it narrows to a
point on the American side
south of Lake Superior. The
famous iron deposits of the
Mesabi Range in Minnesota are
in this extension of the Cana-
dian shield.
The shield has a saucerlike
shape, the high edges of the rim
sloping toward the central de-
pressidn of Hudson Bay. In pre-
historic times ice planed off the
deep soil formed by centuries of
weathering, therebydestroying
the possibility of widespread
agricutural settlement.
In earlier days in Ontario and
Quebec barren rocks wrecked
the hopes of many courageous
farmer -pioneers.
Even today there is little at-
tempt at farming within the
shield except for the scattered
areas of rich clay or fortuitously
placed pockets of clay near some
of the mining settlements. So
closely does the weight of the
shield press down on the settled
areas of eastern Canada that
qnly 50 miles separate Ottawa,
the capital city, from a wilder-
ness that extends, uninterrupted-
ly, to the lowlands of Hudson
Bay.
Planet's Oldest Mountains
The shield is very old. So old
that visitors to Ottawa, standing
on Parliament Hill, looking
across the valley of the Ottawa
River to the purple -blue haze
hanging over the Lautentians,
are looking at the oldest moun-
tains on this planet.
At best, it is a strange land,
mysteriously attractive to the
Canadians who have loved it
enough to want to understand
It, repellent and grim to men
bred in softer lands.
The earliest French settlers
knew there were minerals in the
rocks of the shield. Indians led
them to the crude, primitive
workings of copper deposits on
the shores of Lake Superior.
But in those days no one cared.
In more recent times men
were baffled by the complex
nature of the ares when dis-
covered. Metallurgy had to
catch' up with the prospector
before the shield could come
into its own.
On oft -quoted example was
the discovery of copper at Sud-
bury during the building of the
Canadian Pacific Railroad in
1883. When a construction gang
cut into a rich mineral deposit
there was much excitement un-
til it was learned that the cop-
per was of little value because
of the abundant) presence of a
worthless metallurgically ex-
asperating white mineral called
nickel. Today nickel is one of
modern industry's most essen-
tial minerals, of which Canada
is the world's greatest producer.
Canada also is gaining ground
rapidly as a prodtloer of iron
ores. The pioneering geologists
of the Geological Survey have
known of the Labrador and Un-
gava deposits since the early
1890's. Recognition of their tre-
mendous importance came with
the phenomenal growth Of the
American steel industry.
Steel output is undergoing
rapid expansion in many' other
countries, including Canada, the
United Kingdom and Germany.
But it is the expansion of the
United States steel indifstry that
has stepped up production of
the iron ore. business.
At the beginning of World War
II the United States steel in-
dustry had an annual capacity of
86 million tons, Today this has
grown to 126 million tons.
Because iron is still "the mo-
ther of industry," one of the
reasons for the speeding up of
the building of the giant St.
Lawrence Seaway by the twee
countries was the necessity to
guarantee continuing supplies of
the essential mineral to the great
American steel industry, as well
as to its rapidly expanding
Canadian counterpart.
But of all the shield treasures,
none has captured the public
imagination as has uranium. It
started in 1930 when Gilbert
LaBine, who had first gone to
the Northwest Territories in
search of copper and silver,
found pitchblende, the ore of
radium and uranium.
The discovery of radium was
big news. No one was interested
in the uranium. Nevertheless al-
though not realized at the time,
this presaged the day when,
following World War II, Cana-
dian uranium began to make
front-page news.
Pioneer Courage
Today Canada is the world's
second largest producer of uran-
ium and one of this century's
recognized "atomic powers."
Flying over the wilderness,
looking down on the endless
forests and muskegs, the lakes,
and myriad tiny potholes, it is
difficult to grasp the courage of
pioneer fur traders, explorers,
prospectors and geologists who
by their tireless travels and en-
during interest made these
things possible.
With respect to national unity,
the shield has been a problem
child, complicating attempts to
reconcile the divergent pro -
HEY, MARTY! - Ernest Borg -
nine, star of award-winning
"Marty," looks pretty happy
about his page-bcy bob. Actu-
ally, the false locks are for his
latest movie role, that of a
brutal sea war lord in "The
Vikings," which will be filmed
in Norway. He'll also wear a
bristling beard.
blems of East and West, for
1,000 wilderness miles lie be
.tween the heavily populated
province of Ontario and the
prairie provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
In earlier times more than
one Canadian argued the folly
of trying to build a coast-to-
coast nation because of the
shield, with its geographic lin-
gual, and religious sectionalism.
In the past "decade the shield
has played a reverse role in
bringing about a closer relation-
ship between Canada and the
United States.
This relationship, always
greatly handicapped -by Ameri-
can ignorance of Canada and
indefference to the true nature
of a complex country and its
. viewpoints, has been jolted out
of traditional attitudes' in both
countries..
For interest in the treasures
of the shield has done more than
just attract the American capi-
tal which has helped speed up
their development. The new in-
terest has already made some
progress in breaking through the
old stuborn "sound barrier"
(American resistance to acquir-
ing any serious knowledge of the
northern neighbor's viewpoints.)
For there have been many
hopeful indications that Ameri-
cans are beginning to understand
the Canadian's pride in his own
sparsely settled homeland. - by
Helen Gordon McPherson yin The
Christian Science Monitor.
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A After the linen has been
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