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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-10-04, Page 7Mutiny p i° 11 A One ,:tia ii Voyage IIe was far out in the Pacific, alone on a balsa raft, fishing, Sudcieely there was a gigantic heave that threatened to snap his line. He Hauled in as fast as he could slid found he had hooked e shark. He dragged it half -way ug across the end of the logs, with its tail in the water and the hook. in the corner of its mouth, thrashing fiercely with its tail. He didn't want that shark, but he had to have the hook, so holding the ilne in his right hand he reached for the gaff be- hind him with his left and hooked the shark through (he lower law with it. Now began a terrific fight for the hook, The logs were sea - weedy and slimy. The raft roll- ed. Bracing his knees hard against the log, bending .over farther and farther, he stretch- ed out his right hand to twist the hook from the jaw. The kthark's mouth was open a foot wide and its evil piggy eyes watched him balefully. With a last push, he got the hook out, At that moment the shark thrashed so fiercely that the gaff jerked out of his hand, he lost his balance and went head first into the sea. Shooting` out his left hand to grasp some- thing, he thrust it blindly into the shark's mouth, and was se- verely gashed. Struggling in the foam and swirl of the wake, with the raft sailing away from him, he thought, this is the end. It was certainly 61 -year-old William Willis's most desperate moment on his 7,700 -mile lone voyage from Callao to. Samoa, with only a cat and a parrot for company. In "The Epic Voyage of the Seven Little Sisters" he reveals how he struck out desperately, then checked himself, feeling that the effort was useless. Then he realized that the wire leader of the fishing line was still around his right arm, with the either end tied to the raft s erosslof;. He still had a chance -- if the gine held. The raft was now 200 3eet away. Hand over hend, he began pulling himself along the line towards it. His clothes were leaden, his canvas slippers drag- ging him down. His gashed hand streamed with blood, crimson- ing the water around him... . The shark had made off af- ter the struggle, but what if the blood drew the other big fel- lows he'd seen yesterday? If a shark got him anywhere it would pull back at once with Ma tremendous breastfin lever- age and so break the line. Willis decided that he'd have to lash out with all his strength the moment a shark came close, and kick it on the nose. He'd fought sharks before and knew them to be cowardly — but tre- enendously strong, cunning and persistent. Foot by foot, making double turns with the line round his righthand and resting at inter- vals, he struggled on and on. Until at last be could grip the top of the iron rudder, then the chain controlling it, and so pull himself up on to the end of the logs where he'd landed the shark — to lie face down in the sea -wash, all in, his head spin - sling. He'd made it, made it. He was saved! But he had to stop his gashed hand spurting blood. With a SPLIT-SECOND TIMING — Byron Masterson tiptoes the water during evolution of a double somersault dive during Have- lanta (Havana -Atlantic) diving finals. Also exhibiting excellent form is the photographer who caught this split-second picture of perfection. DOG HERO OF THE YEAR—Lassie, a Shetland sheepdog owned by Gary Gustafson, seven, has been named the most heroic dog of 1956. Lassie summoned help for her master when the lat- ter suffered a hemorrhage in the middle of the night—o week following a tinsillectomy. Physicians said the boy would have bled to death in another 15 minutes. Lassie received a $1,000 U.S. bond, a medal, a gold leash and collar, and a year's sup- ply of dog food at a dinner in herh anor. The HI That s Quicker Than The Eye Most people thought we were crazy but not all of them, Some thought we were coming home from a well -celebrated all-night spree. It was about 7 a.m. and at the foot of each downgrade in the highway our little roadster chortled to a stop and waited silently, es if it needed to get it breath before attempting the next rise. It was understandable if far- mers carrying pails of milk from their barns suspected that the three occupants of the car were having a eonvival swig every 200 yards. One who sauntered over must have been convinced of it. "Having trouble?" he asked. "Oh, no, thanks," was the cheerfully earnest reply. "We just wanted to see if we could coast back up this hill." We were on the Mountain Road—once an Indian trail, later piece nt fishing line and a mar- lin -spike he made a tourniquet for his forearm, then sewed up the gash with needle and white thread, greased the wound, and bandaged it. He mixed some coffee, ate some sugar, freed himself of his soggy clothing, and felt in such good spirits af- ter his escape that he began roaring a song. Constantly on the long voy- age he sang lustily, shouting against the elements. "It took nie about fifty minutes or so to go through my songs," he says, "They were songs from everywhere, hits from all cor- ners of the earth songs of men thinking of home and loved ones, songs of sailors when their ships went down, songs of the exiled." "Every day brought some crisis. With new decisions to make about the sails and the steering, new winds and a new sea, and a new arrangement of centreboards. I could take noth- ing for granted. What worked one day would wreck me the next. It was a struggle for sur- vival every day and moment." Each day he wound his clocks and watches, but his mind was almost a blank, he lived in a vacuum and didn't trouble to look at his chart because it would have been too much effort to take it out. He had to save every ounce of energy for the tricky business of handl- ing the raft. Making sixty to ninety miles a day, sometimes even more, after 74 days at sea he sighted Ramie, where the Kon-Tiki ex- pedition had ended. It had also started from Callap, and had taken 102 days to cover the 4,- 100 miles. But the Seven Lit- tle Sisters was winter -sailing with stronger winds and its design gave greater speed. Before he could land on Bri- tish Samoa he had to coast along the islands and find a way through the perilous reefs thatwould have wrecked him right at the end of his great ad- venture He made harbour at Pago Pago an hour after mid- night, his epic journey over at last. Willis has made a fine story of his daring adventure, with notes of others in his crowded, eventful life. Everyone who was thrilled by Kon-Tiki will want to read it, well illustrated with vivid photographs, some in -Colour. a pioneer wagon route — which leads from Moncton, N.B., to- ward the gentle slope of Lutes Mountain. it was a crisp June morning in 1033 and three Saint John newspapermen — John G. Bruce, Jack Brayley and I—were on an exploratory jaunt that was to have a big impact on New Brunswick's tourist trade. Half an hour and 10 stops lat- er, six miles from Moncton, at the last dip before the dirt road climbed up to meet an inter- secting highway, we were ready to give up hope. "If this isn't it," philosophized Bruce as he switched off the ignition and put the gears in neutral, "we'll have a nice 250 - mile round trip anyway." Brayley and I were almost ton sleepy to answer, (We had left Saint John after putting The Telegraph-Jountut to bed at 3.30 m,m.---shortly after which, we would have rolled into bed too.) Then slowly, eerily, startlingly, we began to move—backwards-- up kite hill we had just tie- cended! Gathering speed as we went -- we coasted up what seemed to be a gradual hut distinct incline about 200 yard': long. This, at last, was the "mag- netic hill" we had heard about from Alex Ellison, superinten- dent of the newspaper press- room, who we felt sure was Pul- ling our collective leg, Wide-awake now, we tumbled out of the car. Bruce, who had brought engineering instrutnents, checked the lay of the land. I got busy taking pictures with en old -type Graflex camera as big as a woman's hat box. Bray - ley scribbled notes. Any idea that something mag- netic in the soil had actually drawn the car up the slope was washed out when we noticed the water in the ditch was flowing "uphill" too. The whole thing was an optical illusion, created by the extraordinary and decep- tive downsweep of the entire landscape: this "upgrade" was really a downgrade, a less steep continuation of the downgrade that faced it. Oddly, no mention of the phe- nomenon had ever appeared in print, as far as we knew. Few farmers, even in the immediate vicinity, had observed the pe- culiar characteristics of the hill. A girl who was selling home- made ice cream at a little stand beside her parents' driveway, and tending a gasoline pump at Toad These days moat peop e -wed under pressure, worry more s cep less. This strain on body and brain makes physical fitness easier to lose—harder to regain. Today's tense living, owered resistance, overwork, worry—any of these may affect normal kidney action. When kidneys get out of order, excess acids and wastes remain in the system. Then backache, disturbed rest, that "tired -out" heavy - headed feeling often follow. That's the time to take Dodd's Kidney Pills. Dodd's stimulate the kidneys to normal action. Then you feel better—sleep better -work better. Ask for Dodd's Kidney Pills et any drug counter.. 88 the same time, watched us in puzzlement from the intersect- ing highway above. In giving us our tip Alex. Elli- had claimed he sought out .the hill and tried it himself after hearing the tale from his broth- er, who in turn had heard it from a clergyman years before. "1t was the most astonishing thing I ever experienced," the minister- was reported to have said. "I was bringing some chil- dren home from a picnic when a thunderstorm broke. I stopped my car at the bottom of a hill to put up the side curtains -- and the automobile started to run up the next hill!" Even after the pictures and story appeared in the "The Tele- graph -Journal" -the next morrj Ings penple were skeptical. Some of them, too, possibly doubted our sanity. A Moncton paper published a small item headed: "Silly Story in Saint John Pa - par" The following Sunday, however, the "skeptical" flocked by the hundreds to the hill. Almost overnight, Cinderella - like, Magnetic 1ii11 was trans- formed from anether .dip in the road to one of Canada's most widely -publicized touristat tractions -- its magnetic quality being evident in the 'fact it has drawn a continuous stream of ye -titers ever since. Strangely,. more Americans than Canadians seem to know about it. In 23 years more than half a million cars have followed Bruce's 1031 Ford roadster to sample the ex- perience of apparently gliding 'uphill" with the. clutch disen- gaged. The site has blossomed. 13e - side the hill today is a modern gift shop. It contains a post office which caters exclusively to the itinerant public: outgoing mail is stamped "Magnetic Hill, N.I3., Canada" from May 1 to October 31. Across the road is a.provin- cial park where orphan wild animals picked up be game war- dens ' deer, bears, fishers, heav- er, foxes - peer out curir'u:.l,v through the wire fence at the stren„e, c•hortling,.shouting ant- ies of human on wheels. - The prow incial government eonsiderztely sidetracked Mag- netic Hill and detoured the main highway to let the coa"icra coat Lmdidtulr:ed also t:o evefd a chronic traffic jam. • T vis.itrid the- hill last sato- mer l,t' the feet tirne since 1pit3, :ilia was : urpr eyed to find that teidwie Sikorski, who runs the touri: t ahnp, is the former Muriel Lutes who 22 years before hed sold its 011 ice-creern break- . fait. She remembered our event- ful excursion. "I moved clown from the other road in 1035,” she • explained, "but I still specialize in home - male ice cream, a$ well as New Brunswick buckwheat -and -but- termilk pancakes with our own maple syrup, and I still sell Im- perial Oil's gasoline." 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