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The Seaforth News, 1958-05-22, Page 3Last Survivor Of OM Sailing Navy Tying at permanent anchor just inside. Portsmouth's historic naval harbor, the Foudroyant is the last survivor afloat of Bri- tam's oi.d sailing navy. Far less famed than her neighbor, the older, land -berthed Victory, she' Is nevertheless much more than lust a museum relic. Her .French name obscures her 3'ea.l origin, for she has always been British and was In fact built in the old East India Company's Dock at, Bombay. Her makers were a Parsee family long famed es master shipwrights, and that they put immense skill as well , as stout teak and beautiful cop- per into her is proved by the fact that, without the customary re- novations of timber, she is still perfectly sound below the water- line aterline and expected to give a good fifty years' service fn her present active capacity. It's the necessary Skillful maintenance that costs the money appealed for last year. She was launched in 1817 as lits Majesty's Ship Trincomalee, as fine a 46 -gun two -decker the sle world had then seen. Indeed, she was vests to be recognized the finest and by far the fastest fri- gate in the King's. Navy. Look- ing at her today, shorn of sails, masts in their original layout, and rigging, it's a little hard at first to visualize her as a craft of great speed at sea, But study her sleek lines, trim build, and give her in the eye a vast mind's y head of sail like that she once flaunted, and it's not then so difficult to imagine her outstrip- iping her fellows, friends or foes. .Anyway, during a refitting spell at Portsmouthearly in her career, she was found to be in Such fine condition that she was forthwith converted from a fri- gate into the lighter 24 -gun spar - decker corvette. As such she served her country in two event- ful commissions, one in the Americas and the West Indies, the other out in the Pacific. Fou- droyant appeared on the seven yeas too late to take any part in the Napoleonic Wars, when sail- ing warships really showed their nettle, but she did fight the Crimean. War,. Her intriguing figurehead (which still survives in perfect condition) of some long -since - forgotten Indian prince, com- plete with white robes, girdle, turban, and coffee complexion, was seen over many waters be - Pore she was finally paid off and commissioned as a static reserve training ship. At last, with the world's navies now all iron and steam, she was sold out of ser- vice by the unimaginative auth- orities and was set for breaking asp at Reid's nautical graveyard set Portsmouth, writes Daniel «lunston in The Christian Science ' Monitor. Then there appeared on the ecene a great lover of old sailing PETAL PUSHER -This honey bee was right on the spot when the first crocus opened in Mon- roe, Wis. Getting back into the ;wing of things after the winter layoff, the bee lives up to his title of "busy". vessels whose unaided 'effOrta saved many a fine ship from the breaker's hammer - Mr. G. Wheatly Cobb. He secured her reprieve by buying her in 1912 after he had lost an earlier ac- quisition, the original Foudroy- ant, one. of Nelson's ships, train foundering in a gale off Black- pool. He gave Trincomalee the name of the ship he had lost, his favorite, and soon she was doing good. work as a privately run training vessel at Milford Haven and Falmouth. On Cobb's death she was presented as a gift by his widow to the British Society ' for Nautical Research as an over- flow training ship. Thus began her still continuing career as a training base for or- dinary children, girls as well as. boys, individually as well as cadets and members of clubs or, youth movements, For some years before the war she and the old. French man -o' -war, Im- placable, a prize at Trafalgar, served together, moored stern to bow. When the latter was found unserviceable and had to be scuttled in 1949, only she re- , Maine"d. Then came the war, when she was nightly filled almost to bursting by naval personnel sleeping on board, and nearly sunk when a Nazi bomb grazed her bows. • By 1950, however, she had been completely restored by pa- tient dockyard shipwrights, Ev- eryone was amazed at the basi- cally sound condition of her s main timbers, even after 133 years of continuous contact with salt water. Her teak was still un- impaired, held together with three -foot -long red copper bolts and tough hardwood pegs, after the fashion of the time. As the overhaul went on, ro was she restored for her peace- time duties toward Britain's youth. Her Doric style stern gal- leries and figurehead werere- painted in gold and white and red, her low lines accentuated by the neat black -and -white squar- ing of her original design. Only the mainmast was restored, with the minimum of rigging, and her strangely broad deck now oddly sprouts stove chimneys. Below decks, all is tidy, effi- cient, and comfortable without being cushy. The spacious gun decks, where'once 300 pig -tailed men toiled and sweated, are fit- ted roomily with hammocks and trestles; there are modern toilet and cooking facilities; and the officers' cabins are still that, but rather more modernly equipped. Everywhere there's an agreeable blend of history and contempor- ary usefulness, tradition without the dust, the historical setting very much alive and kicking, yet ' unspoiled by tawdry slickness. Foudroyant now has a per- manent crew .of picked officers and she accommodates about 100 youngsters per week. These are taught the romance of life afloat, sailing, rowing, swimming, sig- naling and the rudiments of sea- manship. It's hard to imagine a liner school for the sea, where the very decks one has to swab are steeped in history, and all the majesty of modern shipping passes hourly close by in and out of the harbor. Discipline is by tradition of the strictest, and is based on the Standing Orders of one William Parker, a lad of only 19 who suddenly found himself by a turn of fate in sole command of the frigate Amazon under Nelson in the Mediterra- nean. In 1956 the officers and boys built a new poop deck, and now, thanks to some extraordinary in- dividual generosity plus a gov- ernment grant, this valuable work is certain to continue. When the last underwater ex- amination by naval frogmen took place, they reported the copper - sheathed bottom still sound be- neath its covering of sea ane- mones. So all the hard work, the love of the sea and the fine ships that have sailed it, will glorious- ly' continue: CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROAS 11 Marisanonl 0. nahotd 13. See") through h 00.80 14. 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Despite that, I feel that passing on to you this stuff from the blueberry belt might not be amiss especially now that the Ontario opposition party shows signs of awakening from a long, long snooze. * * * One farmer acting alone can gap that exists between the $40 little about the approximate $60 the farmer receives for food and the $100 the consumer pays for it. By pooling his crops with other farmers and selling them together the small grower can narrow, the margin of dollars going to middlemen and proces- sors . between him and the con- sumer. This group selling en- ables small farmers to furnish the large volume big buyers de- mand. It also usually brings consumers products of superior quality. * Cooperative marketing means not only a chance for increased profits for small producers; it can mean the difference between their survival or failure. * * * Inspiring examples of the benefits of cooperative selling are the two North Carolina blue- berry co -operatives -the Carolina Blueberry Association and Blue- berry Cooperative Association. The organizations, located at Burgaw, in the Tarheel State s southeastern corner, have given benefits to the individual blue- berryman that only a giant grower could enjoy previously. * * * Blueberries, cultivated varieties of the wild huckleberry, are shipped and sold together in huge dots by the cooperative directly to produce hoyses in large cities. The arrangement knocks out the middleman's cut and puts growers in• a better bargaining position. The associa- tion pays commission houses in the cities a flat 7 per cent fee - no more, no less -for selling the fruit, thereby neutralizing the role of speculators. * e * Keen crop specialists know every trick in lassoing top money for berries, such as putting load- ed trucks an the road without specific destination. The strategy calls for drivers to head northward on main routes and to check in with the Burgaw office every 200 males or so by telephone. Meanwhile market managers at Burgaw keep in touch with northern pro- duce houses for prevailing prices and demand for blueberries, which 'cane change within hours. Should a shortage develop in Pittsburgh, for instance, the manager directs a truck on his next call-in ,to proceed there. The truck's well -en -route po- sition insures delivery while sup- plies are short and prices are high. Baskets, fertilizer, and' other supplies purchased in large lots by the co-op come at greatly reduced prices. The group is also able to • promote blueberries through advertising campaigns, using newspapers, billboards, and other media -an important mar- keting function beyond the means of most individual farm- ers, . p , Co -op -trucks collect the berries at farms. This saves the grower time hauling them to market and waiting in line to sell. He is freed of marketing worries, knowing co-op experts can trade on even terms with the sharpest of buyers. There's no humilia- tion of having meekly to accept prices offered only by specu- latorsor buyers' representatives, whose earnings are largely de- termined by how little they pay the farmer. * * * :stow does the co-op prevent members from shipping poor ber- ries under higher grade labels? Guilty ones are either lined heavily or tossed out of the organization. Each farm must post . grading and packing rules. Every pint basket contains a small card with the grower's number printed on it. If berries prove inferior, the responsible grower can be traced directly. This marketing system may seem militarily strict. But it pays. In 1955 an estimated 12,500 acres of blueberries cultivated in the United States returned an esti- mated $11,000,000 when market- ed -fresh, canned, and frozen. * * * Farmers by nature are intense- ly independent, But many feel the marketing cooperative points a way to survival in an economy that demands the efficiencies of bigness. Dr. Albert Banadyga, North Carolina State College vegetable specialist, alter re- turning from observing highly organized western states farm- ing, stated this in cold-blooded simplicity at a Washington, D.C., meeting last November. He said: "Fruit and vegetable growers of the Southbast must organize or face the alternative of being forced out of business." * * * Could be -maybe nearer home than the United States southeast. Upsidedown to prevent reelcing MIMEO OMOOMOO mum OUWOEDO HOEUCLUME?; ®0 ®©00 MOU ©nn N DE008 ©W0©'.4©[J 0000 ©111) -'EMUS a ENE �© ©num00 memo 1L -mums tiiinmom 13Wo Price Jungle We were all seated at the end of the long press table in the Senate restaurant talking, of course, about the automobile in- dustry. Everybody these days talks about the slump, and then about Detroit. "Do you know," observed a reporter, "that there isn't anew - car salesroom in this city where you can find the actual menu- facturer's list price of an auto- mobile to the dealer? When a consumer sets out to buy a car he's just operating in the dark," "There don't seem to be any fixed prices any more," said a disgruntled voice. "You take in your old car and from there on it's like haggling in an oriental bazaar," I was surprised at the agree- ment that followed. Several speakers said they wanted new cars but were holding back. I am sure the same discussion is going on over the country. A lot of people, it appears, not only don't like the length, looks, or price, of new cars but are also upset by the details of the "deal" that sells their old car and gets the new one. "It's a price j ungle," testified John L. O'Brien, president of the Better Business Bureau of Ak- ron, Ohio. "The plain price tag on an automobile offered for sale today Is so rare a thing as to be almost nonexistent. You can find out almost anything about an automobile except what the darn thing costs. It's a queer situation. Hund- reds of millions spent for auto- mobile advertising, and yet at the salesroom when the doubtful customer enters he, or she, is expected to engage in the Levan- tine sport of•bargaining in which a . ballyhooed overallowance for the trade-in is taken care of by an inflated price of the new car. On a Mexican street corner a tourist smiles at the need to haggle for some common com- modity, but back in the United States he now often engages unsmilingly in much the same practice in what may be the - biggest single investment he makes outside 01 his home. Four spokesmen for the Na- tional Automobile Dealersg- sociation, which represents soihe 25,000 franchised dealers through- out the nation, testified in favor of a proposed 1ionrone' b11 g- quiring Manufacturers' Whole- sale ho e -sale prices to be displayed on new cars. The association, they explained, had tried and failed to police the industry themselves. Price "packing", they said, was common -marking up or adding charges over and above normal recognized mark-up from the wholesale price at which a dealer acquires an automobile from a manufacturer. In large part, it appears, the fault is that of gullible custom- ers looking for fantastic "bar- gains", who think they are some- how beating the system when they get preposterous trade-in allowances. They do not realize that they are paying as much, or more, for their purchase because of "packed" prices of the new car. Sometimes there is outright NDAY SC1IOOI LESSON By Rev, it. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. God's People Tested Numbers 13:30 - 14:3, 19-24 Memory Selection: Wherefore, as' the Holy Ghost saith, today 11 ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provo- cation, in the day of temptation in the 'wilderness. Hebrews 3:7.5. How quickly we forget] God had brought this people - more than a million of them ,- out of slavery. By His servant, Moses, He had smitten the Egyptians with one plague after another until Pharaoh was willing to let them go. He opened a way for them across the Red Sea. Ha fed them with manna from hea- ven and brought water from a rock to quench their thirst. Yet when He willed to lead them into Canaan, they were afraid. They seemed to forget about God's power that had been se mightily manifest over the past year and they trembled at the thought of meeting the strong sons of Anak. The fear of the people was prompted in large part by the fear of the ten spies. Fear is easily caught. Here is illustrated„ too, the powerful influence of the majority. Ten had fear, two had faith. The people followed the larger g r o u p. We should never follow the majority just because it is the majority. We should follow the majority only when they are right. Dreadful were the conse- quences for choosing fear rather • than faith. The Children of Israel were doomed to wander in the wilderness for forty years till all those who were twenty years of age and over had died. There were only two exceptions; Caleb and Joshua, the two spies who tried to inspire the people to faith in God. They said, "The land which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into thin land, and give it tio; a land which floweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the LORD neither fear ye a t. people of the land; for the �cw bread for us; their defence i9 departed from them, and this LORD is with us: fear them not." Sputniks, the threat of war, economic recession; all these anti other factors callfor a "living faith in God if we are to Byte happily and creatively in this world. "Repent and believe oa Jesus Christ" is the recipe fat the faith we need today. a fraud through the device of a faked factory invoice; sometimes the trick is done more subtly by including a long list of "optional equipment and accessories", at in- flated prices; items which do no$ occur to the customer as prics factors until the deal 10 all but closed. "SNIFFER" TRACTOR -Endurance tests are necessary for future space travelers but they're needlessly fatiguing for tractor test drivers. ,This electronically guided "sniffer tractor" is used at a Ford Motor Co. test site. The antenna at the front picks an electrical signal from a buried wire. The tractor follows this is more women truck drivers, she says, because the gals are wire around the test track and jarring obstacle course. GREENHOUSE ON WHEELS -A new sightseeing bus rolls through Paris, affording its occupants an excellent view of everything through its hugeglass area. The double-decke• vehicle, called the "Cityrama", is equipped w;th a special public address systrm which prosides a running commentary an principal atlro tions in the tourists' awn language.