HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-09-11, Page 9Just How Deep
Is The Ocean ?
Fora feW turbulent clays last
month, the waters of Sagami
Sea, just south of Tokyo Bay,
had been lashed by a succession
of small typhoons. Then came
a morning of gray, heavy calm
In the muggy heat of a Japan-
ese dawn, an odd, blimp -shaped
vessel, rode the dirty waves
slapping against its bulging sides.
• red -thatched head popped
'through the air lock in the cen-
tre of the craft, turned foe a last
look at the misty sea around,
and disappeared, closing the
batch behind him. The French
Navy's bathyscaphe — FNRS III
-- was set to begin another
descent into the depths of the
ocean,
Lt. Gabriel Obern, a 25 -year-
old submariner, clambered clown
the ladder which runs through
the bathyscaphe's "gasbag" hull
into the steel gondola attached
underneath. Waiting for him
there was Prof, Takeharu I�uma-
gori of Tokyo Fishery Univer-
s i t y, his companion on this
lonely expedition.
Within the sphere's 61h -foot
diameter, the two moved gin-
gerly about checking their in-
struments. Then they began
their slow dive to the 'bottom
et the sea. As they passed the
1,000 -foot mark, the last of the
suns rays vanished. Looking
over Kumagori's shoulder, Obern
saw one of the bathvscaphe's
three portholes as a luminous
disk in the gloomy cabin when
he switched on the floodlights.
The two men watched sea snow
—plankton and marine debris—
"fall" gently upward as they
descended.
"At about 9,000 feet, we ar-
rived in a narrow rocky canyon,"
Obern reported later. "It was the
first time we had seen such s
thing; The current was very
strong, I tried to find the bot-
tom but it was impossible. I was
afraid our engines were not
powerful enough, so I decided
to ascend. Later, divers inspected
the protective wings on either
aide of the FNRS and discovered
we had touched both rock walls.
This was the most exciting try
we've ever had."
At the Uraga Dockyards on
the mouth of Tokyo Bay that
afternoon, Obern and his chief,
Comdr. Georges Houot, enthusi-
astically discussed the submarine
cesplorations. "Too many people
have been looking up instead of
down," explained Houot. "Even
the scientists have neglected the
bathyscaphe. The craters of the
moon are better charted than
the bottom of the ocean. It is
difficult to change the minds of
scientific people. They are used
to learning about the sea from
the surface. In the bathyscaphe
we can go down and see it as
it is."
Houot's FNRS III, with which
he has been diving since 1954,
is nothing short of an under-
water blimp. Conceived after
World War II by diver -balloon-
ist Auguste Piccard, it has a
"gasbag" hull filled with 20,000
gallons of gasoline instead of
air. To descend, gasoline is re-
leased and water (which is 1.4
times heavier) allowed to enter
and take its place, For the.
ascent, bird -shot ballast is elec-
tromagnetically dropped light-
ening the craft.
Many of Houot's descents have
been made in the Mediterranean
where he set a record of 13,287
feet in 1954. The series of Ja-
panese dives in which he and
Obern are now engaged Oast
month's was the sixth of nine)
are sponsored by Asahi Shimbun,
one of Japan's largest newspaper
chains. They were conceived by
Prof. Tadayoshi Sasaki, professor
of oceanography at theTokyo
Fishery University, and delight -
INSIDE PHOTOGRAPHY—This tiny camera, only three-quarters
of an inch long, was designed to take pictures inside the human
stomach. It was invented by Norman Gosselin at the Charles
Brusch Medical Center. The standard -sized darning needle
locates the lens opening. In a special capsule, it can be swal-
lowed by the patient without discomfort. The camera can take
up to eight pictures, black -and -white or color, from light sup-
plied by a built-in bulb.
Rats In The House ?
Try A Mongoose
Wendy is a pet, but she has
some rather disturbing haoits.
For instance, she's quite liable
so leap into your bed early in
the morning and start nibbling
your toes.
But no one seems to mind for
Wendy is a pet mongoose, kept
by Mr. Maxwell Knight, the well-
known naturalist, and of all the
great variety of animals he has
had as pets she is the undisputed
favourite.
Many people have lcept mon-
gooses with varying success. They
are wild animals, flesh -eaters at
that, and so they seldom become
really domesticated, however
tame they may seem.
But Wendy is an exception, I
wish you could see her. She is
more tame and domesticated than
any wild animal Mr. Knight has
ever kept before.
One's first introduction to Wen-
dy is a unique experience, No
dog could give a more friendly
greeting or show greater inter-
est. With much twittering chat
edly publicized by science editor
Saichiro Hanzawa. The enthusi-
astic editor, however, has had
his troubles with the paper's
'business side." "They say," says
Hanzawa, "that if you throw in
50 million yen ($139,000) you
must gain something by increas-
ing circulation, or in some con-
crete form." Though the final
returns are not in, Hanzawa, who
has been writing dramatic stories
on t h e perils of bathyscaphe
diving, can already point to a
number of concrete scientific
achievements:
Contrary to oceanographic
lore, there are strong ocean cur-
rents at great depths. According
to Professor Sasaki, who has
been one of Houot's passengers,
these submarine drifts "might
make the sea unsafe as a dump -
i n g ground for radioactive
waste."
Houot and Sasaki's June
plunge to 9,840 feet set a new
record for the Pacific. — From
Newsweek.
GREW -SOME TWIST -Named for its weirdly twisted shape ra-
ther than its fruit, this "pretzel" tree stands at Cassville, Wis.
A g Mississippi to have been twisted by pre-
Smiling
re-
Va linarwtndsroff the Miis issippi�River.
ter, you are thoroughly "gone
over" and accepted as one of
the company.
Wendy's "home" is a large,
airy cage with a snug sleeping
compartment attached, She is so
lively that it would be impos-
sible to let her have the run of
the house all the time. But sev-
eral times a day she ,is let out..
And how she looks forward to
this.
Her first journey is into the
garden, for she is completely
housetrained, an unusual feature
in a wild animal. Back indoors
she is "into everything." Every-
one present must be greeted and
sf it is early morning, bedrooms
have to be investigated in case
someone is still in bed.
To find a bed occupied de-
lights her. Down the bed she
goes, twittering all the time, be-
fore reappearing on the pillow
beside the sleeper.
Elsewhere in the house she is
continually searching for pos-
sible tit -bits. Pieces of paper in
the waste paper baskets must all
he unravelled, while handbags,
coal hods, cupboards, and, in fact,
any receptaele where f o o d
might be hidden, must all be
investigated.
Her main meals consist prin-
cipally of raw meat, liver and
tripe, but on her outings she has
all kinds of tit -bits, such as fruit,
ruts, biscuits and cake, and she
is very fond of sweets. She likes
all kinds of worms and insects.
Out in the garden she loves to
hunt for them and is able to
smell and dig out grubs and
beetles from beneath the soil
with 'unerring accuracy.
Milk she will have none of, be-
ing a confirmed water -drinker,
though she is not teetotal! If she
can find a glass that has con-
tained sherry or gin, she will tip
it up most carefully and eagerly
lap up the dregs.
Having investigated every-
thing, and thoroughly tired her-
self out, Wendy at last looks for
IA suitable lap on which she can
curl up to sleep like any pct cat
or dog.
There are many different
kinds of mongooses in Africa
and Asia. Wendy belongs to a
breed from West Africa. Better
known are the Indian mongoose
and the Egyptian mongoose,
The one tact that everyone
knows about mongooses is that
they can kill deadly snakes,
whereas other small mammals
are usually quickly destroyed.
The mongoose probably :ewes
its superiority to a combination
of tremendous agility and its
habit of raising its thick fur
when really roused.
This makes it look bigger than
it is and, if the snake manages
to strike at all, it strikes short
and fails to reach the skin.
In Africa and Asia people of-
ten keep tame.mongooses to rid
their houses of snakes and rats,
To keep down rats, they ,were
once introduced to Jamaica —
with disastrous results.
They wiped out the rats, all
right, but they had to look else-
where for food — and turned
their attention to •birds, lied, ds,
snakes and even domestic ani-
mals.
As the snakes, 'birds and liz-
ards .disappeared, so the insects
on which they fed were able to
increase unchecked and, as a
result the crops were destroyed
by insect plagues.
Finally, it became ` obvious
that the mongoose must go, and
large sums of money had to be
spent on exterminating the ani-
mals that had at first seamen to
bring salvation to the Wend.'
Tales Of The
Baseball Diamond
WARM -VP TIME
Bob Turley cut loose with a
fast one, right over the heart
of the plate. Umpire Eddie
Rommel called, "Ball one."
Turley came charging off the
mound. "What do you mean,
ball? flow could you miss one
so badly?"
To which Rommel replied,
"Look, mister, it took you fif-
teen minutes to warm up. Can't
you give me two or three min-
utes to do likewise?"
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SWEETHEART SOFT SOAP
The bench jockeying in the
1929 World Series was unduly
loud and vicious—so much so
that Judge Landis had to step
in and order it stopped. Just be-
fore the start of the next game,
Mickey Cochrane, tough Ath-
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Cubs, "Come on, sweethearts,
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served in the fourth inning."
After the A's took the Series,
Landis visited their clubhouse to
congratulate them. He spoke a
few gracious words, then turned
to Cochrane and said, "That goes
for you, too, sweetheart,"
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RUG CUTTER
One clay when Branch Rickey
was still operating the St, Louis
Cardinals, a friend dropped into
his office and found him fran-
tically rolling up the rug.
' "What's the idea?" the visitor
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"Judas Priest!" Rickey gasp-
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BE SEATED—This sportswoman
manages to rest on a hunting
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He Gets Dollars
From Dinosaurs
While other businessmen speed
millions every year devloping
new products to stay ahead of
the competition, New Englander
Carlton S. Nash keeps out in
Bent with merchandise touted as
"the oldest in the world". Nash
sells dinosaur tracks tnat- are
anywhere from 100 million to
200 million years old. "I can't
say precisely," says Nnsh, "but
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a few million years one way or
another doesn't make much dif-
ference."
h'or the past 19 years, former
geology student Nash has been
stripping the tracks from a shale
quarry behind his home in South
Hadley, Mass., and selling them
to curiosity lovers for use as
plagues, 'book enols, paperweights,
ash trays, and as stones on ter-
races, doorsteps, and fireplace
hearths. In all, he has sold more
than 3.000 tracks at prices rang-
ing from $10 to 5300, depending
on size. The smallest tracks were
made by dinosaurs the size of
rabbits (not all of those pre-
historic beasts were huge) and
the biggest, up to 20 inches, are
theprints of 8 -ton, 20 -foot
Giganteum.
At a rough average of $30
etch — Nash is as il,ttefinite
about earnings as he is about
cons — Nash's take on tracks
has so far come to around
500,000. He adds to that income
by selling dinosaur gizzard
stones, bones, and fossils, model
monsters, and books, and by
charging admission to his dino-
saur "farm".
But last week, modern times
seemed to be catching up with
Nash's business. As layer after
layer of shale was removed, dino-
saur tracks were showing up
less and less often. Nash was
seriously considering selling
plastic copies of the preh.istorra
footprints.
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paQ. slow can I remove old wall -
A. There are several methods
of removing wallpaper, but one
good way is to add alum to warm
water as long as the water will
dissolve it, then apply this solu-
tion with a white wash brush.
After it has dried the paper will
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Q. What is a good tonic for
the hair, and one that will arrest
grayness?
A. It is claimed that pure cas-
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an excellent tonic, and will also
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Q. What can I use as a polish
for linoleum?
A. Linseed oil rubbed into
clean linoleum makes an excel-
lent polish. The floor will not
he slippery.
Q. How can I make fillets
grapefruit?
A. By cutting the fruit evenly
and removing all the pulp and
juice, then filling the shells with
;pieces of grapefruit, diced straw-
berries, and fresh pineapple.
Q. Iiow can 1 remove burnt
spots from granite?
A. Cover the stain with a tea-
spenful of soda and a little water
and heat to the boiling paint.
Wash at once, but never scrape
11 with a knife.
Q. What can I do tt'itll a wire
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A. Paint it with aluminum
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Q. flow can I remove small
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A, Pour boiling watei down
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