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The Seaforth News, 1955-06-02, Page 3Called Wife reedy— ; eater To Death As a protest against the stan- dard of meals served, 140 stu- dents of the Hereford Teachers' Training College recently refus- ed to eat in the college dining hall. If food is not to a person's lik- ing, he may take even more dras- tic action than going on hunger strike, Relatives who served bacon to a Dane when he liked only sau- sages have been cut out of his will. Many a marriage has broken up because of a wife's cooking. A separation was applied for on the ground of cruelty in a Leices- ter matrimonial court after the wife had prepared a dish of hedgehog for her husband Quarrels over food have even led to murder. Hugh Johnson, a builder from Boston, confessed to the police that he had killed his wife because she told him he could have eggs but no bacon for breakfast. It can be dangerous, apparently to complain That ,onieone else eats too much, When her husband mentioned that he thought she was greedy, a Feenehwoman beat hien to death with a ham- mer. It's not wise, either, to en- courage another person to stuff herself with food,. Marie Urban, of Los Angeles, sued widowed Edith Gaines for $75,000 because the latter had ted her on ice- cream, sweets and pastries, taus ing her to' put oii,a great deal of weight, Edith was in love with 'Marie's husband, who disliked fat weenen, and hoped he would turn against his wife. Eating too little holds its perils too It resulted h one Sheffield woman appearing in court, accus- ed of shoplifting. The case against her was dismissed when counsel successfully 'pleaded that too strict dieting and cutting out all forms of sugar had led to her losing her memory You should also be careful what you eat and where you eat it. Swallowing seven live mice to win a bet, Austrian Johann Lime was charged with cruelty to enimals. In Indiana, people have to consider seriously wheth- er they will flavour their dishes with garlic. If they do, they'll be forbidden to board a public vehicle for the next four hours. Thieves have frequently found it's not profitable to dine on the job. His greed led to a French burglar's undoing. Eie hid over- night in a Paris cinema and was found next morning, doubled up with indigestion, by the police. Beside him were the dozen empty chocolate boxes he'd stolen. Food of all kinds has danger- ous potentialities, When two Italian lawyers duelled in 1950, their pistols were loaded with sugar lumps. Chocolate pies have figured in duels, too. This ammunition was chosen by two American girr students in 1938. Standing back to back, they marched forward five paces, turned and flung their pies at each other's faces. In 1954 a Rome bus driver was found to be suffering from sever head injuries During a fiesta he had been bit repeatedly with a salami sausage And when 3 Staffordshire wo- man was fined for assault, it was stated that site had swiped the butcher across the Moe with one of his own ducks When food is used as a weapon in the home it f'•equently leads to the divorce court. To throw s ' rice pudding at one's husband amounts to cruelty was the ruling given in the di- vorce court a 'few years ago„ It might be cruelty. too, said Mr. Justice Singleton last year, if a husband threw an egg at his wife and bit bee im the head with it An American judge recently stated that a frozen loaf of bread was a dangerous weapon. He had before him a wife whose husband had bit her or the head with just such an article But food can bring people to- gether as well as part thein. Dur- ing the war, when fruit was diffi- cult to get, an English girl was suffering from an illness which necessitated a diet of bananas. The newspapers appealed for supplies. One of those who re- plied was a 'schoolboy. For six years they corresponded, then met and married ' A burnt calm may set off a matrimonial : quarrel, hut who would believe that a cake could burn down a house? It happened in Connecticut. When a cake tell from the kit- chen shelf, it struck the handle of a tap, turning on the water. Then the cake clogged the drain, the sink overflowed and water seeped through the floor The re- sultant short-circuit set the house alight CHEESE QUIZ — GinaLollobrig- ida, who burst into movie fame in ragged but revealing peasant costumes, shows to just as good advantage gowned in a flow- ing creation of lace and ost- rich feathers. The Italian beauty, shown here in Rome, recently answered queries about her measurements with, "Why do you need by the -numbers what you can see with your eyes?" Nylon leaders are sometimes hard to straighten out. This can be easily accomplished by draw- ing them through .a piece of rub- ber. A boot strap will serve the purpose well, A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge inereaseth strength. —Old Testament: Proverbs, XXIV, 5. SALLY'S SALLIES Meres puastseteet 7s 5.11 "Now don't get extravagant ideas, dear. You know we're on a budget." CROSSW: tR PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Walling - at1eft= 6 Writing tablet 9. 11col4 up 12. Over 13. "•-de Janeiro" 14 Little--" 15. rounded 19Meet)tric 18 Reliable 29 Dog's delight Si. In favor of 53, Rn^ 24. 111mtntshed 26 Rennet 29 Sit el1es Mi lend 31 91znert= 3 r`mrorl es 14 Genic ire 3R Partake 41 Ghon 43 Senn Ingredient 44went durably 45, Second selling 47 1eee11n 49 nes ativer aoln 2. T.ega1 action 81. 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Inaugurated with cable -car service in 1868, over -head railroading chuf- fed orlon under steam pow- er from 1870 until 1902, when electric cars took over the aerial railroad, which had grown to a sprawling four -mile network blanket- ing Manhattan. Subways and buses bled the "El" of life- giving revenue, caused lin- gering death of the world- famous system. , . for New Yorks' elevated trains, 2tnd undreamt -of privacy for families in trackside apartments. "Agriculture has accepted the responsibility of feeding and partially clothing the peoples of the world. Thi:: is no small task and one which cannot be entered - upon lightly. Most of us take food for granted with little thought for those who put it on our tables Yet it mut be grown, assembled, graded, pack- aged and transported for our convenience. Once having en- gaged in This task there is a moral responsibilifty to provide a continuity of supply, Man has become accustomed to eating regularly," writes Kenneth Cox, Principal of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. "An additional responsibility has been assumed. Some might say a moral responsibility only, but a responsibility nevertheless. This volume and continuity of supply must be provided with- out impairment of the soil. This generation does not own the soil. We are merely tenants and if civilization is to endure we must pass the soil on in a state of fertility as high as, or higher than that. in which it was re- ceived. This a sacred trust. w s a "A third responsibility is also assumed. The responsibility of providing a standard of living for the farm family comparable to that enjoyed by other seg- ments of society. Farm people enjoy the good things of life as do other people and are as en- titled to them. Again this must be done without impairment of the soil and other capital as- sets. * * r• "The responsibility of being good citizens in the several com- munities is also asstlmed. A man may farm to provide a living for his family and himself, but in addition is a citizen in his com- munity. As a citizen certain re- sponsibilities must be assumed. Offices of church and state must be manned. 0 4 "What 'industry would place such responsibilities in untrained hands? Every industry must have trained personnel. Agricul- ture is no exception." k 41 4, ' Farmers have been battling crop -hungry grasshoppers for centuries. Until recent years, however, it was a losing fight. Aside from natural predators, poisoned bait was the only ef- fective weapon, and it had its limitations. During serious out- breaks, much time and labor were required to mix huge quantities of bran, ,sawdust and arsenic for baiting strategic spots, But beeal2se of the danger to Iranians and animals poison mixture's could not always be spread where they would do the most good. , 4 r The introduction of modern insecticides has provided the farmer with new -anti-hopper woapens. Poisoned bait is still used, but chemical sprays have cut dawn on the amounts need- ed, and in certain situations give protection where baits cannot, such as when a growing crop 551±10rs a mid -summer invasion by winged hoppers, ,,, The latest chemical aid in grasshopper control is methoxy- chlor. For grasshopper control a methoxychlor spray is prepared. from a wettable powder and is applied at the rate of three pounds to the acre. Best results are obtained when the control program is started as soon as the insects begin to hatch in the spring. 41 s r Methoxychlor le said to give slower and lower kills than some other insecticides, but it still prevents any serious grass- hopper damage and leaves no harmful residue on crops. This low toxicity feature means that it can be used on pasture crops where dairy cows or beef cattle graze or on other vegetation used for animal feed. To check this safety factor, the United States Depurtment of Agriculture fed milking cows fur periods of from 40 to 80 days nn alfalfa containing resi- dues of the insecticide ranging from 16 to 109 parts a million, The milk was analyzed at 10 day intervals but no methoxychlor could be detected. Approximate- ly 100 times as much methoxy- chlor as DDT must be fed before it becomes detectable in milk, it was reported, 'Flying,Horsemen' Lead Exciting Lives time, almost anywhere in Can- ada, in seaplanes, skiplanes or landpianes, on missions so in- credible they read like fiction,. They've taken census of eta extinct trumpeter swan and showered human ashes on a mountain. They've shadowed smugglers, tracked robbers, spied liquor stills, reconnoitered forest fires, photographed disast- er centres, dropped parachutists, rescued babies and found bodies. The swan -counting took place in British Columbia's Tweeds- muir Park. Ornithologists went aloft with woods•wise RCMP' pilots and, cruising low over likely looking areas, hunted fee nests. When nests were spotted, the planes would land on the nearest lakes and the ornitholo- gists would complete the work,. Government officials said it was the finest job of its kind. ever undertaken. The ash -bombing was in ac- cordance with the dying wish Of a civil servant. Staff Sergeant Stan Rothwell loaded his plane with the cremated remains net the man and his long -dead. daughter and sister, and deposit- ed them on the slopes of Mount Tzouhalem, in the Cowichan district of British Columbia. The aerial vigil for smugglers is a continuing operation, Several times in the past decade RCMP planes have spotted tell- tale elltale tracks in the snow and put ground searchers on the trail of gangs which periodically bring bargain -priced cigarettes and electrical appliances across the United States border into Que- bec and the Maritimes. Many a car has been •eized simply be- cause e• e use it left tire marks on a little - travelled country road. RCMP planes have doubled as courtrooms, cells, hospital wards and dormitories. Cargoes have ranged from fuel to frozen fists and from mental patients to police dogs. The freight mani- fest on one trip carried the cryptic notation: "One unidenti- fied corpse." The Skipper of a 1'.est coast boat looked up aghast one sum- mer's day a few years ago. Swooping towards him, silhouet- ted against low -hanging cloud, was a trim little seaplane with an official look about it. Sten- cilled along one side were the legend MP and the unmistakable insignia of the Roval Canadian Mounted Police. The skipper's amazement was compounded when the plane landed alongside and the pilot much in the manner of a high- way patrolman, signalled him to heave to. Two officers climbed aboard, executed a warrant and took custody of a passenger. The man was wanted for murder This was another incident in the day's routine of a small, al- most anonymous band of police- men who patrol the longest lone- liest beat in the world. For these.were members of that little- known adjunct of the famed RCMP—the Air Division. In 1935, the last year for which statistics are available, the blue and gold skyborne steeds of the RCMP charged across 517,28 miles of sky, equi- valent to 20 trips around the globe, The flying horsemen are liable to drop out of the skies any - There's nothing dull about this work. Every flight is an advem• ture. Sergeant R J Harries set some sort of speed r'ecor'd in northern Saskat,;hewan when he' was asked to search for a sus- pected suicide, The search took 30 second:, During take -off he .. discovered the man's body dangling from a tree en the fringe of the pastime that was his landing field. These versatile policemen,- pilots may find themselves do- ing a lengthy patrol of the Northwest Territories to inocu- late or destroy animals with rabies, or perhaps seeking bank bandits, such as three now tem• pleting 10-vear term. in a federal prison. They'd taken 540,000 from a Sakatchewan bank and got clean away. A police mane was summoned from Regina, Before nightfall it had nicked up the trail and guided ground searchers to their quarry, The RCIt1P'c first interest is the airplane as an extension of the law's long arm was fostered by the late Commissioner Sir James MacBrien. As a voung general in World War 1 he fre- quently snapped his tactics trots the air. In 1926, as chief of the Canadian General Staff, he be- came an RCAF recruit at Camp Borden and passed a military pilot's course. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking r7©1301© ©0k2 ©©o©©' ,o0© ©©E 1 i rI]r i IIIC1101913E115 ©11113©©© .i ©EN 'O 4100114 ©©C© 13190111E1-',, r " t 1,4 z1, fl©©©©Q ; p1110E! ENICIDIA11210111013 E111119007115 oo©1P000rano oo© li it ri ' EIRME; GUNS DON'T INTEREST HIM ANY MORE — Gen. John Sailing, one of three surviving vete,aon of the Confederate Army, seems more interested in the camera than in little George Elkins° pistol. The old soldier recently spent his 109th birthday quietly sitting at home, wearing a new "Texas style" hal and eating From a 40 -pound birthday coke.