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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-02-26, Page 3Swamped By Dust in micl-Qcean "Tile bells! The bells! The bells!" Chips, the ship's carpen- ter, whispered hoarsely in the Mate's ear, "Hear them bells, IViisteri' The bells o' the seq, ring- ing for the dead!" The mate grabbed Chips' shoulders and shoo* him. "You are going balmy," he said. "The heat has affected your brain! One more word from you about bells,and you'll be locked up until we reach Melbourne!" But the next day 'Chips was at it again. Running from his shop, eyes staring, he sang out to the dockhands, "Listen, mates, listen! Hark at thein bells, the Lolls o' the seal We'll never reach port. Ir tell ye! We're all dead men!" With a screech of horror, he climbed on the ba.rque's rail, holding on to the fore shrouds, ` pointing ahead. "Pull him down!" the mate roared. "Grab him before he goes over the side, and lock him in his shop!" Locked in he was, but he stuck his head out et the port, singing out in a voice of. doom "The bells o' the sea fore- tell death and destruction I can hear them ringing!" Sir James Bisset, ex -Cunard Commodore, d e, says it happened in mid-Atlantic doldrums in the County of Pembroke, the first barque he sailed in as apprentice in '98. The sequel was as strange as any in sea annals, For, next the lookout man, Rhys Davies, came bounding down from the forecastle, eyes wide wit fright, crying: "Mister! Mister! 1 hear hells ... on the port bow, ring- ing over the water, and there's no ship or land in sight!" "Have. you gone mad, too?" the mate demanded But he t rdered all hands forrard to lis- ten, and himself heard a hell's deep note tolling over the empty expanse of sea on the port bow. "Holy mackerel!" he gasped. "Nothing in sight, and we're hundreds of miles from land! Call the captain!" The captain came, focused his telescope in the direction indie cated. "Indeed to goodness," he exclaimed. "It's a bell buoy! I ▪ can see it, very rusty, with no top light, but the clappers are working well enough. What's a bell buoy doing in the middle of the ocean? It must •be adrift. Bear up ler it, Mister]" Fefching a rifle from his cabin, he sank the buoy with a number vI shots, ignoring Chips' frantic appeal: "Don't shoot, sir! It's bad Luck!"_ What puzzled them all was HE'S NOT EMUSED - A dim view of all that snow is taken by this baby emu in the Vin- cennes zoo near Paris, France. Emus, birds resembling the ostrich but smaller in size, are native to Australia. Their chief purpose: to fill three - letter blanks in crossword puzzles. LONG ODDS - Quintuplets in the world of sheep are expectable about once in 20,00 Iamb- ings, Mother sheep, left, beat the percentages andcame up with five healthy youngsters on the James Risk farm.. Four of the Risk children display the prize family.• how Chips had heard that bell. days and nights before anyone else, Sir James comments in a stirring account of his first six years under sail; "Sail Ho!", r' in collaboration with written t P R. Stephenson. Was the dis- covery of the realbell-a mil- lion -to -one chance in mid -ocean -just a coincidence at the very time he'd gone off his head with e touch of the sun and: imagined he could hear bells? Another strange thing happen. ed on the voyage bask, 900 miles off Africa, when the masts and yards were given a fresh coat of white paint. The mate noticed a drift . 01 reddish dust swirling in the corners of the poop deck, then discovered that the wet paint on masts and yards was completely covered with it, "A ruddy dust storm, sir, during the night" he told the skipper in- credulously. "Dust storm?" said the cap- tain. "We're nearly a thousand miles from land!" But he went aloft and saw for himself that the unbelievable had occurred. A whirlwind from the Sahara'. had presumably carried a dust -cloud high in the air for 1,500 miles or more, to deposit it in mid -ocean on that new paint! Sir James says he's never heard of it happening to any other ship. He's never heard, either, of a ship with burst seams making port safely, held to- gether with cable, until a ship- mate, Mick Mulligan, told him it happened to the fully -rigged Kingsport when he sailed in her on her maiden voyage from Saint John's, New Brunswick. Wooden - built, she hadn't enough iron bolts and tree nails to .hold her hull together. But the owners decided she was good enough to sail to England to be finished, with a cargo of sawn baulks, boards and battens which had been frozen hard, lying out in the open. When she reached warm Gulf Stream weather the timber thaw- ed, swelled, and as the hull wasn't properly fastened, burst her seams; she began leaking like a basket and became water- logged. Pumping couldn't keep the water back, so Captain Mul- cahy ordered a length ..of the anchor cable to be unshackled, hauled under the ship's bottom on a line and up the other side, and made fast to the capstan with wire lashing. In nine hours they put one length round her by the fore- mast, one by the main, and a third by the mizzen, and thus trussed -with rails under, only poop and forecastlehead show- ing, galley washed out and fo'- c'sle belly -deep in water -made. Holyhead after a forty -day voy- age, and were towed into Liver- pool by a Mersey tug. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 6, Oovet. 28. Peacefully 7. Go (Scot.) 30. Baby bear 8. Refined. ore 81. Enclosure 9. Cleopatra's •.for storageattendant 83. Composition 10. U. S. missile for two 11 Convey 34. htttle ACROSS DOWN property ewnn. 1. Roman 1. Drug inducing 17. 1-1°P6^0. 36. Ice runner forgetfulness 19. Day of the 30. Grimy. fiddler weelc (ab.) 37. Grand. 5Greek 6. Supplicate philosopher 22. Caused to parental` . 3, Careerburn 39. 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Many ,of them are drive-ins, where women using the-, family car forejitneying children to and from school or for shopping .ex- peditions can easily swing by and pick up the family" milk for less money. * •' • One of the newest and largest. of these "producer to consumer" dairies, located in Hayward, in the San Francisco Bay area, has four service lanes, 3,000 -car daily capacity, for expeditions handling of cash and carry cus- tomers. A large sign centrally located between the service lanes lists merchandise, complete with prices. It is the outcome of an idea of four active dairy far- mers producing Jersey milk, * k * ' One reason for theability of the smaller producers to com- pete r is the "feed -lot" system, where pasture is dispensed with, cows are penned up in as small an area as possible. and 'fed store - bought hay and supple- mentary nourishment. This brings its results in milk: California's annual output of milk per cow is reported as 8,000 pounds, compared to Wisconsin's 7,600 and the national average of . 6,000., For the Los Angeles County dairyland, or "milk shed" as it is frequently called, figures rof 13,500 pounds per cow are reported. The country's milk volume is the greatest in the country and greater than 22 of the states. • » ,* Another reason is truck trans- portation, which permits a small plant to process milk from groups of farmers located a con- siderable distance away, With the ' development of refrigerated transportation, milk can be haul- ed many miles; in fact. it is trucked from California's San Joaquin Valley., to Phoenix, Ariz„ a good thousand miles, with only 'two to three degrees change in temperature. * .r * The ;so-called small milk 'oper- ation is nevertheless a good- sized business. It must have from 80 to 100 fresh cows to be :pro- fitable, according to Mrs Baker. end - must be highly mechanized, Today's ultimate is piping the milk direct from the milking machines attached to the cows to holding tanks, and thence by pump into the truck's tank. * * * This Is part of the picture of the growing West, whose milk production for the 11 -state area is expected toincrease from the 14.8 billion volume of 1955 to 20.2 billion pounds in 1975 -and still not. be able to meet the de - mend. Despite this 37 per cent climb for m 1 I k, the expected population increase is 67 per cent. * M * At present the West produces slightly more than enough to meet its demands, according to a study by 4Dr. R. G. Bressler of the G i a nee i n i Foundation of Agricultural Economics, Univer- sity of California. In terms of total dairy pro- ducts, however the region has a 'deficit equivalent to some 2.2 *billion pounds of farm milk pro - Auction, roughly equal to two- thirds of the butter consumption of the western states. Shipments of butter, cheese, and other pro- ducts from the Mid -west make up the deficit. Bright Ideas There was a time when many •companies who paid any atten- tion at all to their employes' ideas, paid a $10 bonus for im- provement suggestions. And they got ideas worth only $10 in too many instances. Since World War II many com- panies have upped the bright - idea ante. They' pay off a per- centage of the savings that can be made on an employe's bright idea. And both the companies and the employes have been cashing in handsomely. Latest such cash -in is that of two employes of the Gary Works of the U.S. Steel Corp .The steel- workers, Oscar M. Dansler, 61, and Salvatore Lumella, 39, each received $10,000 for figuring out a way to separate molten iron from slag as it flows from the furnace. Dansler was quite frank in admitting he put his mind to the problem only when the com- pany announced the suggestion contest 18 months ago. Since then the Gary plant has paid out $67,000 to 1,500 em- ployes. This shows that when management is willing to learn from the workers on the job, employes can be inspired to think in terms of 'the company's pro- blems. That is, if the employes have the same incentive that management has - namely, money. Hundreds ofcompanies are learning this lesson andeare - paying out millions for bright ideas. - Chicago Sun -Times. ep NAY LESSON By itev. 1L" Barclay Warren B.A., 13.1). Jesus Teaches about the End of the Age. Memory Selection: Take ye heed, watch and pray; for ye know not when the time Is. Mark 13:33. Many who used to scoff at the idea of the destruction of this world have changed their mind since the coming of the atomic age. The following' statement from 2 Peter 3:10, doesn't sound so fantastic now. "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; on the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the' elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therin shall be burned up." The destruction of Jerusalem, including the temple, happened in 70 A.D, just as Jesus predicted it on our lesson. His personal re- turn is still dela y e d, Some would-be prophets have set the date for our Lord's return, "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no not the angels which are in heaven." It is not for us to speculate as to the time of His return but ra- ther to take heed, and watch and pray.. The prophecies with regard to the first coming of Jesus were minutely fulfilled. So will the Scriptures concerning His return in glory be fulfilled. Our business is to receive Him now into our hearts as Lord and Saviour. Then we shall be ready to meet Him when He returns. An old Rabbi used to say to his people, "Repent the day be- fore you die." 'But" said they, "Rabbi, we do not know the day of our deaths." "Then", said the Rabbi, "Re- - pent • today." That is timely ad- vice. We should live today with the full awareness that it may be our last day. For, even though Jesus Christ may not come, death .may come; Let us therefore walk With God, "If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with an- other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cieanseth u$ from all sin." 1 John 1:7, If you are not on speaking terms with some member of your family or your community, do your best to clear the misunderstanding, Let uspre pare to meet God. English Becoming The World Tongue The important change in the postwar years is the extent to which English is spoken, and as a form of communication be- tween those of other nation- alities. In Palermo a French woman speaks to hotel employes in English, In Florence, Cubans haggle over price in English. In Hamburg, an Indian and a German argue politics in Eng - To stimulate this trend, the Ford Foundation has announced grants of $600,000 to expand and improve the teaching of English as a second language. This mon- ey will be used to upgrade the quality of instruction, chiefly in Africa and Asia. It is now being predicted that onlynational extreme n t nal pride or a complete collapse of the econo- my, both unlikely, can prevent (the English language) from be- coming the accepted second language in most countries of the world. -Kansas City Star. 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