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The Seaforth News, 1956-03-08, Page 3EN 6brdon Smith Soon Be Time All things must end some- time, even this, in many parts of Canada, -t h e coldest winter in three.quarters of a century. Very shortly now we can expect to limber up muscles and get out into the sunshine and the gar- den, But before we take up the rake, there is a pleasant inter- lude before the fire with a good seed catalogue and perhaps a pencil and a sheet or two of paper, Planning a garden, of course, is not absolutely necessary. Some lucky people, with a particular. iy.green thumb, perhaps can get along without any planning at all, But for the average persons, some planning ahead is recon• mended by the experts and this preliminary planning can be a very pleasant way of putting in the time. It will also repay many times in a much better garden, ' more beautiful, and more use- ful and one that requires much less effort. Keep It Simple Only an expert should attempt a formal garden and most of the experts are too wise to try. Stiff rows and square beds, under very rare- conditions, may make an impressive show but if carried out in the small home garden, at best, they look awkward and out of place. It is far better to have the garden lay -out simple and informal with clumps rather. than straight rows, a n d wavy edged beds with lots of variety. For the centre and fore- ground nothing is better than a good lawn. On city lots this may only be a few square yards. The grass however sets off the whole layout and it should lead up to the flower garden with possibly shrubs or trees or a vine -covered trellis or f e n c e in the back- ground, or as a division between say -a kitchen garden plot at the rear. Shrubs and flower borders may be used to line driveways and fences, Against the house tiself, but at least a foot or so in front, one can plant groups of shrubs or taller flowers. A winding path, disapearing behind shrubbery or trees, will add attraction. In the flower garden or border the informal or clump planting is continued. Rather than setting out in rigid rows, one should plant groups of various - flowers with the little things like alys- sum, dwarf nasturtiums, lobelias and so "n, in front, taller zin- nias, petunias, asters towards the centre and really tall flowers such as cosmos, hollyhocks, mari- golds and delphiniums at the rear. Tough Ones First Most conveniently growing things in Canada divide them- selves into three main groups. There are the hardy types that cannot be planted too early, pro- vided of course, the soil is ready and fit to work. These are not afraid of frost. Next come the biggest group of all, the semi- hardy. They will stand a little frost but they do not like it and it is best not to sow or set out until we are almost certain that spring has really arrived. In -the third category are the softies, plants, seeds, roots or bulbs that will not stand frost at all. Noth- ing is gained by putting these things in the ground until the soil is really warm and summer is just around the corner. At this season, of course, we need concern ourselves only with the first and extremely hardy group of plantings. In the warm- er parts of Canada we can plant these before the end of March, Of course we must wait until the frost is out and the mud has dried up reasonably, It never does to start working soil in any case while it is stili soggy and liable to pack clown tight. Lake of Mystery Keeps its Secrets Lake Fundudzi is the world's most mysterious lake. You can get to it at some risk, you can examine its water, but you can't remove any of the water to have it analysed You cannot plumb the lake's depth, end men who have ventured out on to the lake's surface in boats have vanished, never to be seen again. The lake lies in the heart of the m o u. n t a i n o u s Western Transvaal where few white men venture because of 20 -foot pythons, lions, giant - sized scorpions and a thousand other forms of death. • When the eminent Prolosor Harry Burnside learned that the lake had a reputation for refusing to give up any of its water for analysis, he set out with two assistants to disprove the theory. They had to (ind their own way through the dense bush - land to the lake because tto na- tives would accompany them for fear of reprisal from the evil spirit of the lake. Burnside filled porcelain, glass, bakelite and rubber bot- tles with water, carefully re- placed the stoppers and set out for home to analyse the water. THE SAME NIGHT, MILES AWAY FROM THE LAKE, ALL THE BOTTLES BURST! They returned and filled more bottles, but on the way home the water mysteriously evapor- ated from the careful stopper- ed bottles. There was no ex- planation for it. Once more they returned. This time Burnside tested the water for poisons but could find no impurity so he drank some, again filled some bottles and drove back home. By the time he reached Pretoria the bottles • were bone dry. Two days later Burnside went sick from a mysterious stomach ailment. No doctor could help him because they couldn't find out what was causing his ill- ness. He died in agony, but at the autopsy no unnatural cause of death could be found. There was nothing wrong with his stomach at all despite the AD °` ork ''"':ekes Jack a Serious electrical engineers sometimes get off the elec- tronic beam and come up with creations which ilium- inate the lighter side of the exacting business of re- search, One would-be cou- tourier recently fashioned the glowing example of mil- linery, at left. Tiny bulbs adorn the spring straw. Snappy whipcord trim around model's neck leads from hat to concealed batteries. At right, a wet knuckle at cof- fee -and -doughnut time may have inspired this . "dunk light," Tiny, 1.3 -volt, .06 - ampere bulb, held by model, has an adhesive tape -like strip around its base. When strip is dipped in water, bulb glows for an hour or more. A laboratory curiosity at present, bulb may find seri- ous application some day as Bulb° item of lifesaving equipment for use at sea. Both items were developed at General Electric's Ncla Park. cramps from which he had suf- fered. Jacobus van Blerk, 29, a pow- erfully - built farmer, and his brother, Hendrick, 27, decided to challenge the lake. Hendrik took a rowboat, and while his brother swam in the lake, he rowed next to Jacobus: Their younger brother, watch- ing from the shores, suddenly saw the boat plucked under the water. Simultaneously the swim- mer vanished. There wasn't even a ripple on the water, It appeared to the youth that a giant's hand had reached up from the depth and simply plucked the boat and the two men under. For hundreds of years Bantu natives met on the shores of the lake annually to hold their appeasement dance for the spir- it which they believe dwelt in the lake. Three young girls were forced to wade into the lake and to stand neck deep until some unseen force whipped them away under water where The biggest and in many ways the most important crop in the world is grass. About two-thirds of the world's farmland is under grass, and the roots of this massive crop are literally the grass roots of the world's main food supply and a major means for overcoming its hunger. * * ,, According to Lord Boyd -Orr, first director general of the Unit- ed Nations Food and Agricultur- al Organization, it would take $12,000,000,000 to relieve hunger in the world. In nonfinancial terms this means there is no real international food surplus des- pite reports from time to time of grain "surpluses" in some countries. . N: * i "The future depends," said •Lord Boyd -Orr, "upon whether the ruler: of the world can have sufficient sense to get together to apply great scientific powers to relieve hunger." Apart from the purely politi- cal field, these powers are al- ready being applied to the pro- duction problem, and possibly nowhere more interestingly or 'CROSSWORD PUZZLE , ACROSS 1, lo•naeet 4. location 0, Snare 12. tie91 18, Seed snvel•tug 14. Interpret 15, Complete obstruction 1?, Always 18. Grade 19. Weak 20. Fast - 27. Burdens 24: , Competent, . Microbe 27. Frozen water 301 Jaeger 2,511 82 improved in health 34, Yen 85, Contends 87. Brave man 38. Inclination 45. Ore deposits 41. Grayish white 48, Preceding' nights 46. Piece of money 48 Whined. 6O. Dwarf 41, L angul'sh 62, Biblical priest UniteS of work 64. N1'aple genus 10. Silence forcibly DOW'4 ,t Screed loosely ' . Grow old i siva zras*. 4. Cold dish 5. Metal 6, Please 7, Antlered animal 7. Wolk 11, Went back 10. Arabian seaport 11. 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Actually, Ray Marquez hails from the Philip- pines and went to Australia on a United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization scholarship •under the Colombo Plan. * * * In association with the dean of the faculty of agriculture in the University of Sydney and an associate professor, Mr. Marquez became deeply interested in the problem of a two -million -acre wasteland in midwest N e w South Wales, the Pilliga Scrub country, where a handful of tough battlers defied the wilder- ness and . the soil deficiencies which were its chief weapons. • * a With the cooperation of sone of these pioneers, Mr. Marquez went to work on the problem. He faced a light, highly acid soil, acutely deficient in nitrogen and phouphate and comprising some- times 89 per cent sand. Some people called it "desert. * * 6 Working steadily, Mr. Marquez devised a grass development technique which produced what the locals termed "startling" re- sults. He had, achieved what was thought to. bimpossible, that is, to induce leguminous grasses to grow in this highly inhospitable soil environment. But grow they did,, to the keen delight of his university. The grateful farmers took round the hat and presented Mr. Marquez with a sliver tray and a cash gift as a sign of their warm appreciation. As somebody . said, the Colombo Plan was work- ing in reverse for Australia. But the once almost unbeatable Pil- liga Scrub country had met its match in the bright -faced young Filipino. For the world's hungry, there are two million acres of newly productive land added to the credit side. Even more to the point, the Marquez technique has breached the defenses of wastelands in other parts of the. world. they vanished, never again to be seen, When Patrick McMurty, a young Irishman, joined the police force in the district and learned about the lake, he de- cided to photograph it and to send some pictures home. He was accompanied by a youth, and neither was ever seen again after they set out to walk to the lake seven miles from where they were forced to park their car. Another odd thing is that Lake Fundudzi is fed by the Mutali and other rivers at the rate of 3,000,000 gallons of wat- er an hour, but there is no vis- ible outlet to the lake. The lake rises and falls with tides just like the ocean, but no one has ever been able to account for this. Neither do we know where the overflow of water goes. Last year two adventurous men, Ronald Gregory and Tom- my Brown - Hamilton, went shooting in the lake area. It was sticky hot and Gregory de- cided against the advice of Ham- ilton - Brown to have a quick dip, Gregory was swimming in a shallow part of the lake, no more than ten feet from the shore when he gave a shout. Hamil- ton - Brown saw him struggling as if in the grip of some great underwater creature and has- tily threw a rope to him. Gregory gripped the rope and Hamilton - Brown began to drag him out, but some force was holding Gregory back as if he were glued to a rock in the . wa ter. Gradually Hamilton - Brown found himself being drawn into the water. He raced with the end of the rope and tied it to a tree, then he had to stand by and see how his friend was dragged from the. rope and taken under water. Gregory has not been seen since. Once a farmer, Gerhardus de Bruin, with two companions, ventured on the lance and drop- ped a 2,000 -ft. plumb line. It went rgiht down without touch- ing bottom, but while they were hauling the rope in something caught it and began to drag it downwards although all the men hung on to the rope. They swiftly sheared through the rope with a knife and began to row for the shore. Fifteen feet from the shore something grabbed the boat and jerked it under the water. De Bruin and his companions began to swim for their lives. De Bruin reached the muddy shore exhausted and dragged himself out, then turned to look for his companions. - They had vanished! Within a few feet of the shore something had caught them and dragged them under waterl They have not been seen since. The world's most mysterious lake keeps its grim secrets locked somewhere in the great depths where the superstitious natives say a gigantic monster has his lair. Can this be true? WEATHER PROPHETS Some French peasants claim to be able to foretell the weather for the next twelve months by means of a centuries-old Christ- mas custom... Early on Christmas Day they put twelve onions, representing the months, in a row and then place a dab of salt on each, If by Epiphany the salt on any onion has melted, the peasants say the month represented by that onion will be very wet. If the salt on the twelfth onion is dry at Epiphany, it means that the following December will be dry and that the sun will shine brightly on Christmas Day. MERMAID Selection of Shir- ley Galpin as "Honorary Weight - master" is the first weighty de- cision to be made by the judges of the 21st annual Metropoli- tan Miami Fishing Tournament, Hungry Hotel Amid a blaze of publicity, a Government-owned hotel was opened recently on the Gulf of Siam. All the rooms were pala- tial, and the amenities left nothing to be desired. The hotel staff was courteous and con- siderate, and the charges were moderate. The new, palm -lined roads that led to the hotel were a motorist's delight; there were excellent facilities for bathing and sporting activities. The wide beach and a well-equipped playground ensured a good holiday for children. There was even a well-equipped health centre close by. There was just one snag, however, and it soon had the guests departing, and writing angry letters to the Press. The hotel provided no food— and the nearest town was nine- teen miles away, and that's quite a distance to travel for a meal, they all agreed. The explanation is that the Government, finding itself un- able to offer meals at a price that would permit a reasonable margin of profit, decided to of- fer accommodation only — but did not make this clear in its brochures. MY SCHOOL LESSON 11. Barclay Warren. 134. lLll . 7esus Interprets History Luke 21:5-38 Memory Selection: Heaven and earth shall pass away; batt MY words shall not pass away., Luke 7.1:33. Our lesson is froin one of tho most difficult and perplexing portions of all of Christ's re- corded teaching. I think Genii meant it to be that way. If we knew in minute detail Goda plan for the future, we would know too much. Some confident interpreters are very dogmatic about their understanding of It all. But if one follows their writings over a period ofyears, he finds that they have to amend frequently in order to keep in line with current events„ During the later days of the war I was returning a friend'Is book. With great enthusiasm 1a showed me a new book by the same author, just off the press. I ventured, "Oh," I said, "I sup- pose that in this new book Japan isnot one of the ten lost tribes," "No," he replied. In the book I was returning, Japan was so identified. Why the change? The first book was written before the war when Japan was an ally of Britain. The second was written when Japan was fighting Britain, Hence Japan was discontinued. In the lesson Jesus predicts the fall of Jerusalem. That took place in 70 A.D. The Jews made their last stubborn stand in ,the temple. The Roman general set fire to it. The Romans dug up the foundation stones to pro• cure the gold that had melted and run down. Not one stone was left upon another, even as Jesus had said. Verse 24 predicts the follow- ing scattering of the Jews throughout the world. "Jeru- salem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles till the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled." The Gen- tiles have recovered part oe Jerusalem. That is significant. Great events are in the near fu- ture. Let us take heed that awe are not bowed down with diasi:- pation, drunkeness and cares of this life. The last can be disas- trous to spiritual preparednesis as the first and the second, Jesus! Christ is coming again with Ilia holy angels. Let us be ready. 'One advantage of long engage- ments is shorter marriages!' er Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 9 Q 9 79 37 3 A 3 90 1> N Id 1 NS /L3 S 1 9 gat Nn,PI /0i' HS a'9 /1 d©•'''a' N 9 a0O70 3 30921 '7 / - V:,,09 91/B dV1 NOSE WARMER — This RC -121 isn't too big for it hangar. Thebuildingis specially designed to house the huge, four - engine radar search planes in this manner. Crews can work under shelter as they check equipment -jammed nose portions of the ships. When on patrol, the huge ships extend our rodctr warning network far out to sea along the nation's east coeoL