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The Seaforth News, 1956-03-01, Page 3WEE DREW OED MEE ®®I CI' ©OB moo nuom 1�- �®u 0010000 ©MQ© ©©©® ODO no©OC7u©D ROME MOB ©EIL®G : C00; ©OM 0®!9©©©O =HO MOB an©© 00MOOp . 000000a0.E00, UD® © OE © OE 00o ammo- moo TIIHARM FRONT Joh When you want concentrated heat for some building or re- pair job, there is no better way of getting it than with a blow- torch. If used right, a torch is entirely safe, Most danger comes from carelessness• with the fuel. Here are a few things to watch out for: 8 4 e Fill torch outside if possible. Avoid spilling fuel. 41 a * Do not overfill. One-half to three-quarters full is better. Wipe off tank. r: a 41 Avoid building up excess pres- sure. After lighting torch, be sure flame is kept away from inflammables. Don't use a leaky torch. a * * When soldering overhead, use care in preventing hot solder from falling on skin or into eyes. Use goggles. # 41 8 When removing paint, use care in not leaving flame too long in one spot which may burn and start a fire. 8 * e There are two simple and im- portant rules for effective- use of metalworking (and wood- working) hand tools. First, use a tool only for the purpose for which it is designed. Second, make sure that it is in good con- dition before using it. Simple as these are, they are often overlooked, with resulting dam- age to work or personal injury. Other good practices and pre- cautions in the use of metal- working tools are: There are many types of wrenches, each intended for a specific kind of work. Use the type best suited for the job. Pull, don't push, when using a wrench so as to avoid hand in- juries if the wrench should slip. Place a monkey wrench or other adjustable wrench so that the open end of the jaws is fac- ing the same direction as the direction of pull. n a. * When pulling on a wrench, get a secure footing and brace your- THOUGHFUL - Robert Johnson, porter for a wine importing firm, benefits from the thoughtfulness of men long dead as he rests his wicker basket on this "por- ter's rest" in. London. It was erected in 1861 on orders of the vestrymen of St. George's Church, "for the benefit of por- ters and others carrying loads." self so that you will not fall if the tool should slip. Avoid use of extensions such as pieces of pipe placed on wrench handles to gain lever- age. This causes jaws to spring. Wrenches with sprung or rounded jaws may slip and re- sult in hand and finger injuries. 0 4, * Never use a file without a good handle. See that the tang is inserted far enough into the handle so that it will not work loose. Do net strike a file against anything to knock oil the filings. Use a file card for cleaning. 1 1 * Do . not strike a hardened bushing, pin or similar object with a ordinary hammer. Use a soft hammer, or place a piece of soft metal over the hardened surface before striking it. When using a screw driver, do not place.your hand where it will be gouged if the tool slips. V1 * • When using a hack saw, tighten the blade rigidly, so that it will not buckle and break, and saw away from yourself with long straight strokes, using practically the entire length of the blade. To avoid dulling the teeth, ease pressure on the back- ward stroke. U e 41 Avoid the use of chisels with mushroomed heads. In striking them, pieces of steel are apt to chip off and become imbedded in unprotected parts of the body. The heads should be care- fully dressed on a grinding wheel * * * Use only hammers made of nonsparking metals in the pres- ence of flammable materials or explosive dusts, gases, or vapors. Hanged By Fate It is commonplace to speak of the irony of fate, but what bet- ter examples are there than the strange and bitter quirks of fortune which have brought re- tribution to criminals? A man.was convicted of mur- der, but well-meaning people were convinced of his innocence. They launched a fierce cam- paign ampaign in his favour but, un- aware of this, the condemned man asked for writing materials. Meanwhile, the Home Secretary, impressed by the representa- tions, called a meeting of legal officials. The condemned man might have been reprieved had not the meeting been interrupt- ed by the arrival of his con- fession ! Peter Kurten, the "Monster of Dusseldorf" who was executed in 1929, had at least nine mur- ders and seven attempted mur- ders against him. Only one thing lay to his credit : he had spared a girl who had begged for mercy. And this girl was the only one of his victims who was able to point him out to the police. It was ironical that Patrick Mahon, who killed a woman and dismembered her body at a cot- tage at Pevensey Down in 1924, should have been brought to justice by his wife who loved him. She became worried at his habit of staying out late, and rummaging through his pockets, found a railway cloakroom de- posit ticket. She handed it to a 'friend con- nected with the railway police and he found that it referred to a bag deposited by Mahon, which contaired bloodstained imple- ments. CROSSWORD PUZZLE Ar'ROSS 1. Burn 011011122 5. Cl'al2 1'. Steal 12 Horse s gen 18 County in (lair 14. Pei•ind 16. Herring WOVE 1s. rmpha8Ised Th. Wain so: Send Out 21. 88011 28. t lnln hlleae 28. Lewailed s- Auction 32. aloslem spirit 34' aeuteh for Jelin 31. Lose freshness 37. Recovered 339. Move suddenly 41. 13atlrrnntinn 44. Closed tightly 48. infuse 118e into 61. volcanic matter 62. Digit 68. I':nglish princess 64, Cake Prosier 66. Siamese coins 88. Clive temporarily 07,. Copper coin DOWN 1. reased 2. Cavity E. ('.op108 4. Ten u. Renegade 2. Painting -. Conflagration 8. Abounds 0 2Tnrd mice . 18. Source on metal 11. Spoilee 17 Occupies a chair 19 e:wenn en R 22. Dogma 4. wing? 26. GI. 1 8 Stu tuts: . 1':n trance 2u. 5. 1p'Imiior a au. 11e11eve 18. Stumble .S b. 41upuly 40 1.0 •l1 11!1:11'1'-! 43. Irish -river 4:. n. r, 48. Fla lanced 47. Arrive 42 Philippinl. negrito 4e, Neat) rive. 4n pacer, &nswes elsewhere oh this page. MINK. CATCHES HER EYE Attracted by a caged mink is "Cosi- ne," Conlie,.1 supermouser in the Seabord & Western Airlines hangar. The mink is one of 580 that were being flown to Copenhagen. Denmark, for breeding purposes. FASHIONABLE? - it is, on a chilly beach. This terry cloth tent -robe is designed to keep milady warm after a swim. Size of the London, England, creation makes it appear use- ful also as a dressing tent. World's Deepest Hole -Man -Made Thirty-five miles southeast of New Orleans in the Mississippi Delta marshes is the world's deepest hole - -a record 22,559 feet. The hole has been drilled by Richardson and Bass of Fort Worth, Texas. Whether it pro- duces oil or not, it will have cost more than $2,000,000. The Richardson -Bass outfit consists of two barges sunk in- to nine feet of water at the end of a channel dredged out of the Louisiana marshes. The actual drilling barge is 140 -feet long, 54 -feet wide and 12 -feet high. On top of the barge is a 136 - foot derrick, Beside the drilling- barge, and connected by a walkway, is the boiler barge. Located on this barge are five 150 -horsepower boilers which provide the steam to drive a huge rotary engine. The boilers are fired by natu- Ostrich Farming In Africa The Ostrich is pretty general- ly known as the bird that is al- ways sticking its neck out. But most everyone here feels the time has come for someone to do it for him. It seems that the ostrich is a much -maligned creature. You ought to know, therefore, that the ostrich does NOT bury his head. The explosion' of this popular myth will likely cause some re- gret among politicians, journal- ists, and others who cannot seem to get along without a sprinkling of adjectival. "os- trich like's." But 'then it seems only fair to the ostrich that you - should know he doesn't have a personal and private formula for getting away from it all. He faces right up to things • like anybody else. All this, at any rate, is what they feel in Oudtshoorn. And they should know. For here they get closer to ostriches than anywrere. This is the only place they farm them. Some 200 farmers in this area keep about 25,000birds which produce 55,00(` lbs. of feathers a year. About 70 per cent go to Britain and the United States either to grace Fifth Avenue and Bond Street salons with os- trich feather evening capes and fashionware, or somewhat more mundanely, to make feather clusters. At Highgate Farm, three gen- erations of Hoopers, who first emigrated from Highgate, Lon- don, have been farming ostrich- es for more than a hundred years. And they've never seen one bury its head yet. Our emphatic guide, John Harris, told us all about it: "There's a very good reason why the ostrich cannot possibly bury his head," said he, warm- ing to his subject, "If he did, he would not be able to breathe. "The whole thing is this. As far back as 1823, we have a re- cord of ostrich feathers being sold at 6d a feather in Cape Town, This means that more than a hundred years back they started capitalizing on the os- trich. Hunters went out either to catch grown ostriches or to steal their eggs. "Soon -the ostrich was on the defensive. Perhaps he already` knew how to do it, or perhaps he learned then. But he started take cover. And he did not do it by burying his head. All he did was to squat on the ground and stretch his neck out flat so asnot to be scan. When he got up, of course, the• length of his ral gas supplied from another well. Spudded -in last Feb. 27, work has been going on for almost a year. Incidentally, the command post for this huge operation is not on the drill site but some 500 miles away in the sky- scraper office of J, E. (Ed) Hill, manager of operations for Richardson and Bass. Here by means of telephone, Mr. Hill keeps a constant check on what he calls rig No. 25, His desk is piled with reports, electric log graphs, geologic surveys, and special maps. " The biggest problem in drilling to depths greater th'an 20,000 feet," Mr. Hill said, "is in maintaining the proper ,cas- ing program that will give you a big enough hole size at the bottom. - "If you start out too small at the top, you'll end up at he bottom with drill pipe the size of spaghetti. We have been ex- . tremely fortunate," Mr. Hill continued, "in that we have yet to have a single drill pipe failure. "Pipe failures mean fishing jobs - that is, probing by re- mote control to bring up the broken end. With drilling costs of almost $5,000 a day - we couldn't afford to stop many, times for this sort of thing." Mr. Hill then went on to ex- plain some of the unbelievable strains placed on drill pipe at such tremendous depths. For example, a string of drill pipe at such a depth will stretch about 20 feet. "I know it may sound fantastic," Mr. Hill said, "but much of the drill pipe was not new but had been previous- ly used on other drilling pro- jects." Among the hazards of deep drilling is the exceptionally high temperature encountered at great depths. The overburd- en pressure -that is, the weight of the earth -at this record depth is approximately 20,500 pounds per square inch. In fact, temperatures as high $ 350 de- grees Fahrenheit have been re- corded. It is Mr, Hill's calculated guess that if trouble develops it may be in the rig's mud sys- tem, because of the tempera- ture. According to Mr, Hill the drilling mud is pumped down inside the drill pipe, emerges through the drill bit, and re- turns to the surface by climb- ing up the outside of the drill pipe. The mud not only cools the hole, but also brings up drill bit cuttings. The mud weight is now over 18 pounds per gallon. It has to be thickened constant- ly to maintain a hydrostatic head t4 counteract the forma- tion pressure. "We think we can operate at a bottom hole temperature of up to 370 degrees with our pre- sent mud system," Mr. Hill de - dared. "If it gets much hotter than that we will end up mak- ing bricks out of the mud at the bottom of the hole." Nearly $2,000,000 has already been spent to drill to the record depth, $446,000 of which went for mud. neck in front was covered with sand -hence the theory that he buries himself." Whether he buries his head Or not, the ostrich is still an un- orthodox . enough creature to get himself considerably talked about. He lives on lucerne ("lucerne to South Africans, clover to Bri- tons, and alfalfa to Canadians," says Mr. Harris, " it's all the same") and helps grind it up with marble -sized stones which he swallows. Being a desert bird, besides top and bottom eyelids he has a third, side- ways, blinker to shut out sand- storms, and goes waterless for months, writes John Hughes in the Christian Science Monitor. At 260 lbs., male ostriches are black and sit on the eggs by night. Females weigh 50 lbs. less and use their gray feathers for camouflage over the eggs by day. Males have a squawk -- fe- males are completely voiceless. Both grow up to seven or eight feet in height, can jump up to 10 feet, but never leap the five-foot wire with which they are fenced. Why do they farm ostriches at Oudshoorn? Because of the low humidity with the eight to ten inches a year rainfall - very suitable for ostriches. - Ostrich -farming really came into its own just before World War . I,. during a boom when every fashionable lady had an ostrich -feather fan, boa, or hat. But the boom was short dura- tion. Ever since, the Oudsboorn fanners have been hoping, tor a ndw one. Queen Elizabeth II gave trade a fillip by wearing an ostrich -feather cape with which she was presented during a visit to South Africa, and also ostrich feathers in her hats. And prices have been climb- ing to the current 64s. a lb. which farmers get for feathers at the local auctions, Besides the feathers, 'tile ostrich pro- duces "billow," a traditional form of South African dried meat, and its skin is used for expensive leatherware like handbags, wallets, and note- books. So there is the story of os- 'trich. - There surely will be somebody who has seen him bury his head. But then we said at the beginning we were stick- ing our neck out. Perhapsto avoid a controver- sy we, 'would have done better • to go and bury our head in the sand like the- Butthen, of course. Ile doesn't. GOSSIP Here's news for wives who like to gossip over the garden fence. Gossip is one of the heal- thiest of all pastimes, say lung specialists. At a recent conference in France, one pointed Out that many human ills result from weakness or deterioration of the lungs. Intensive talking, he de- clared, strengthens these deli- cate organs. "Women love gossiping more than men," he went on. "It is fairly certain that talking makes women live longer." N SCIIOOL LESSON it, Barclay Warren B.1i1 B.1ft. Christ Confronts the Moderns World - Luke 19:37-48 Memory Selection -If thou hada known, even thou, at least is this thy day, the things which belo.ig unto thy peace t Luke 19 :42. Joy and sorrow are seldom far apart. The crowd of disciple gathered into the city for the annual feast rejoiced as Jesus rode into the city seated on a colt, the foal of an ass. The haughty Pharisees were dis- pleased. As the procession rounded a turn from which Jesus looked down upon the city he stopped. He wept. He saw into the future. In a few days the people of this favored city would reject Hina and crucify Him. Spurred by their religious leaders they would cry out, "His blood be on us and on our children." In an- other forty years it would come to pass even as they invited. The beautiful city would be laid waste under the heel of the Ro- man conquerer. Many, many people would be slain. How would Jesus be received in the big city of today? There. are many to give him an en- thusiastic welcome. There are a few cynics who openly mock at religion. Perhaps the majority could bedescribed as indifferent. G. A. Studdert-Kennedy has de- scribed this attitude in a poen entitled, "Indifference" He first describes the crucifixion scene at Calvary. Then he says : When Jesus came toBirmingham they simply passed Him by They never hurt a hair of Him, they only let him die; For men had grown more tended and they passedwould not give Him pain, They ad only Him the rain street, Still Jesus cried, "Forgive them for they known netwhatthey do" And still it rained the winter rain that drenched Htm through and throw The crowds went home and left the streets without a soul to see, And crirala. a wall edf Cvry How shall we . escape, if we neglect so great salvation? -Hebrews 2 :2 "You sure have a lot of brass, General, and it's not all on your hat and uniform'." toe Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking "TURKISH" DELIGHT - Basketball coach Peter Newell shuns parr• nuts and hot dogs when -his-team takes the court. All he cravaa is a good, husky towel. Newell, shown during a tense Domani+ in a game, is harder on the towels than are the players. 10 ■ 116 . 17 ■ I8 19 A 20 :23 26 29 2. 8o 31 89 Ss 38 39 Zi Mi: as 48 49 54 1 5Z 53 - `•: 54 55 \, 56.? 57 &nswes elsewhere oh this page. MINK. CATCHES HER EYE Attracted by a caged mink is "Cosi- ne," Conlie,.1 supermouser in the Seabord & Western Airlines hangar. The mink is one of 580 that were being flown to Copenhagen. Denmark, for breeding purposes. FASHIONABLE? - it is, on a chilly beach. This terry cloth tent -robe is designed to keep milady warm after a swim. Size of the London, England, creation makes it appear use- ful also as a dressing tent. World's Deepest Hole -Man -Made Thirty-five miles southeast of New Orleans in the Mississippi Delta marshes is the world's deepest hole - -a record 22,559 feet. The hole has been drilled by Richardson and Bass of Fort Worth, Texas. Whether it pro- duces oil or not, it will have cost more than $2,000,000. The Richardson -Bass outfit consists of two barges sunk in- to nine feet of water at the end of a channel dredged out of the Louisiana marshes. The actual drilling barge is 140 -feet long, 54 -feet wide and 12 -feet high. On top of the barge is a 136 - foot derrick, Beside the drilling- barge, and connected by a walkway, is the boiler barge. Located on this barge are five 150 -horsepower boilers which provide the steam to drive a huge rotary engine. The boilers are fired by natu- Ostrich Farming In Africa The Ostrich is pretty general- ly known as the bird that is al- ways sticking its neck out. But most everyone here feels the time has come for someone to do it for him. It seems that the ostrich is a much -maligned creature. You ought to know, therefore, that the ostrich does NOT bury his head. The explosion' of this popular myth will likely cause some re- gret among politicians, journal- ists, and others who cannot seem to get along without a sprinkling of adjectival. "os- trich like's." But 'then it seems only fair to the ostrich that you - should know he doesn't have a personal and private formula for getting away from it all. He faces right up to things • like anybody else. All this, at any rate, is what they feel in Oudtshoorn. And they should know. For here they get closer to ostriches than anywrere. This is the only place they farm them. Some 200 farmers in this area keep about 25,000birds which produce 55,00(` lbs. of feathers a year. About 70 per cent go to Britain and the United States either to grace Fifth Avenue and Bond Street salons with os- trich feather evening capes and fashionware, or somewhat more mundanely, to make feather clusters. At Highgate Farm, three gen- erations of Hoopers, who first emigrated from Highgate, Lon- don, have been farming ostrich- es for more than a hundred years. And they've never seen one bury its head yet. Our emphatic guide, John Harris, told us all about it: "There's a very good reason why the ostrich cannot possibly bury his head," said he, warm- ing to his subject, "If he did, he would not be able to breathe. "The whole thing is this. As far back as 1823, we have a re- cord of ostrich feathers being sold at 6d a feather in Cape Town, This means that more than a hundred years back they started capitalizing on the os- trich. Hunters went out either to catch grown ostriches or to steal their eggs. "Soon -the ostrich was on the defensive. Perhaps he already` knew how to do it, or perhaps he learned then. But he started take cover. And he did not do it by burying his head. All he did was to squat on the ground and stretch his neck out flat so asnot to be scan. When he got up, of course, the• length of his ral gas supplied from another well. Spudded -in last Feb. 27, work has been going on for almost a year. Incidentally, the command post for this huge operation is not on the drill site but some 500 miles away in the sky- scraper office of J, E. (Ed) Hill, manager of operations for Richardson and Bass. Here by means of telephone, Mr. Hill keeps a constant check on what he calls rig No. 25, His desk is piled with reports, electric log graphs, geologic surveys, and special maps. " The biggest problem in drilling to depths greater th'an 20,000 feet," Mr. Hill said, "is in maintaining the proper ,cas- ing program that will give you a big enough hole size at the bottom. - "If you start out too small at the top, you'll end up at he bottom with drill pipe the size of spaghetti. We have been ex- . tremely fortunate," Mr. Hill continued, "in that we have yet to have a single drill pipe failure. "Pipe failures mean fishing jobs - that is, probing by re- mote control to bring up the broken end. With drilling costs of almost $5,000 a day - we couldn't afford to stop many, times for this sort of thing." Mr. Hill then went on to ex- plain some of the unbelievable strains placed on drill pipe at such tremendous depths. For example, a string of drill pipe at such a depth will stretch about 20 feet. "I know it may sound fantastic," Mr. Hill said, "but much of the drill pipe was not new but had been previous- ly used on other drilling pro- jects." Among the hazards of deep drilling is the exceptionally high temperature encountered at great depths. The overburd- en pressure -that is, the weight of the earth -at this record depth is approximately 20,500 pounds per square inch. In fact, temperatures as high $ 350 de- grees Fahrenheit have been re- corded. It is Mr, Hill's calculated guess that if trouble develops it may be in the rig's mud sys- tem, because of the tempera- ture. According to Mr, Hill the drilling mud is pumped down inside the drill pipe, emerges through the drill bit, and re- turns to the surface by climb- ing up the outside of the drill pipe. The mud not only cools the hole, but also brings up drill bit cuttings. The mud weight is now over 18 pounds per gallon. It has to be thickened constant- ly to maintain a hydrostatic head t4 counteract the forma- tion pressure. "We think we can operate at a bottom hole temperature of up to 370 degrees with our pre- sent mud system," Mr. Hill de - dared. "If it gets much hotter than that we will end up mak- ing bricks out of the mud at the bottom of the hole." Nearly $2,000,000 has already been spent to drill to the record depth, $446,000 of which went for mud. neck in front was covered with sand -hence the theory that he buries himself." Whether he buries his head Or not, the ostrich is still an un- orthodox . enough creature to get himself considerably talked about. He lives on lucerne ("lucerne to South Africans, clover to Bri- tons, and alfalfa to Canadians," says Mr. Harris, " it's all the same") and helps grind it up with marble -sized stones which he swallows. Being a desert bird, besides top and bottom eyelids he has a third, side- ways, blinker to shut out sand- storms, and goes waterless for months, writes John Hughes in the Christian Science Monitor. At 260 lbs., male ostriches are black and sit on the eggs by night. Females weigh 50 lbs. less and use their gray feathers for camouflage over the eggs by day. Males have a squawk -- fe- males are completely voiceless. Both grow up to seven or eight feet in height, can jump up to 10 feet, but never leap the five-foot wire with which they are fenced. Why do they farm ostriches at Oudshoorn? Because of the low humidity with the eight to ten inches a year rainfall - very suitable for ostriches. - Ostrich -farming really came into its own just before World War . I,. during a boom when every fashionable lady had an ostrich -feather fan, boa, or hat. But the boom was short dura- tion. Ever since, the Oudsboorn fanners have been hoping, tor a ndw one. Queen Elizabeth II gave trade a fillip by wearing an ostrich -feather cape with which she was presented during a visit to South Africa, and also ostrich feathers in her hats. And prices have been climb- ing to the current 64s. a lb. which farmers get for feathers at the local auctions, Besides the feathers, 'tile ostrich pro- duces "billow," a traditional form of South African dried meat, and its skin is used for expensive leatherware like handbags, wallets, and note- books. So there is the story of os- 'trich. - There surely will be somebody who has seen him bury his head. But then we said at the beginning we were stick- ing our neck out. Perhapsto avoid a controver- sy we, 'would have done better • to go and bury our head in the sand like the- Butthen, of course. Ile doesn't. GOSSIP Here's news for wives who like to gossip over the garden fence. Gossip is one of the heal- thiest of all pastimes, say lung specialists. At a recent conference in France, one pointed Out that many human ills result from weakness or deterioration of the lungs. Intensive talking, he de- clared, strengthens these deli- cate organs. "Women love gossiping more than men," he went on. "It is fairly certain that talking makes women live longer." N SCIIOOL LESSON it, Barclay Warren B.1i1 B.1ft. Christ Confronts the Moderns World - Luke 19:37-48 Memory Selection -If thou hada known, even thou, at least is this thy day, the things which belo.ig unto thy peace t Luke 19 :42. Joy and sorrow are seldom far apart. The crowd of disciple gathered into the city for the annual feast rejoiced as Jesus rode into the city seated on a colt, the foal of an ass. The haughty Pharisees were dis- pleased. As the procession rounded a turn from which Jesus looked down upon the city he stopped. He wept. He saw into the future. In a few days the people of this favored city would reject Hina and crucify Him. Spurred by their religious leaders they would cry out, "His blood be on us and on our children." In an- other forty years it would come to pass even as they invited. The beautiful city would be laid waste under the heel of the Ro- man conquerer. Many, many people would be slain. How would Jesus be received in the big city of today? There. are many to give him an en- thusiastic welcome. There are a few cynics who openly mock at religion. Perhaps the majority could bedescribed as indifferent. G. A. Studdert-Kennedy has de- scribed this attitude in a poen entitled, "Indifference" He first describes the crucifixion scene at Calvary. Then he says : When Jesus came toBirmingham they simply passed Him by They never hurt a hair of Him, they only let him die; For men had grown more tended and they passedwould not give Him pain, They ad only Him the rain street, Still Jesus cried, "Forgive them for they known netwhatthey do" And still it rained the winter rain that drenched Htm through and throw The crowds went home and left the streets without a soul to see, And crirala. a wall edf Cvry How shall we . escape, if we neglect so great salvation? -Hebrews 2 :2 "You sure have a lot of brass, General, and it's not all on your hat and uniform'." toe Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking "TURKISH" DELIGHT - Basketball coach Peter Newell shuns parr• nuts and hot dogs when -his-team takes the court. All he cravaa is a good, husky towel. Newell, shown during a tense Domani+ in a game, is harder on the towels than are the players.