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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-03-05, Page 3Country Store On A Oath Rood It was well below zero, a ellill night eneenlllshed by a ripe wind. from Carlaee,,end we were Qom- ing honee fromeupstate over the bade reeds 1•;like back roads.. People 'live on 'them. Nothing seems to happen to me, ever, on the big bonded highways. They have no mail boxes akimbo, or lighted kitchens, or 'frosted tie, up windows. I like to swing along the rivers, and over the hills, and keep in touch. So she said, "Better find a place to pick up a loaf of bread." I don't understand the feminine inventory, She had been riding along, checking the cupboards and shelves back home, conduct- ing a running account of provi- sions. Bread - yes, bread was low, and breakfast would be coming up, So we came to a fork In the road shortly, with a store, and I pulled up. "And I guess some prunes," she added. This was 'far from somewhere. We were back in the woods. Yet progress hasn't been selective,. and you can have about any- thing now back in the woods, No reason to .expect any de- ficiencies the little country store now has its frozen foods and such. I pulled open the dont and stepped in - and there was a difference. They were burning wood, in a wood stove. It smelled good. You have to have a little touch of wood smoke in the air whenever you burn wood, because a little putt or two comes out when you open the front door and stoke. And you have to keep stoking. But more than that, wood heat is another kind of heat, and you can feel It. It was cozy in the store, warm to hot, and as I left the door and walked forward, it began getting hotter. I. went by a stand of axes and a couple of chain saws on the floor, and saw a display of felt boots. This. was lumbering country, and such things would be in demand' in the winter. There was a fellow sitting by thestove-just sitting -and he was gray and elderly. Mackinaw and mittens on, cap down over ;his' ears, he didn't look up at "ine. He didn't know I was coming in, so he hadn't planned to look up. And a wom- an came out of., a back room when she heard me close the door, "Hi!" she said. I said, "Hi!" She said, "Guess it'll be colder 'fore it's warmer." "Oh,' I said, "it'll warm up come June." The man said, "I$ it don't, it'll be a long winter." Now, I report this fully, for 1 FISHING PARTY -Location -where Russian fishing trawler was captured by Norwegian Navy ship is spotted on Newsmap. Charged with violation of Nor- way's fishing boundaries, the Russians were escorted to the town of Aalesud, believe there are expatriate people present who will want to know there still is suoh a store, with axes on display, and old nien at a stove -a stove, even - and a society where conversa- tional by-play .is ea important as: ringing the cash^register, "Wood fire feels good," I said.. "Best kind," she said, "None better," said the man. The woman said, "Been so cold I have to get up once and fill it. Freeze up if I didn't, Most of the time it'll hold hot ashes to 'morning, but these cold nights I'd wish it to burn longer." "Can't you get oil here?" 1 asked, knowing that they could, but giving the conversation every opportunity, "Oh, sure," she said. "But I'd look sweet buying. oil with the profit on what groceries I sell here. Besides, I got 10 ,men cutting hardwood, and if I just take out one stick to a cord, I couldn't burn it. "Not that I do," she said, "But I could, Sealers would never know." "Wouldn't you like to have an oil furnace?" "Well, yed and no, Be a fine thing, but old John D,'s got all he needs without support from. got fifteen hundred me, I e 1dred acres I pay taxes on, and wood just lays around. That stove can glow red, and it don't oost me a cent," The door opened and closed,• and it was my girl friend com- ing, to see what happened to me. "Ole smell the wood fire," she says. "I burn wood at home some;"•she said to the woman. "Best. to bake by," said' the man, ,"I want some baking powder, too," she said to me. "Baking powder," said the woman. "Anything else?" "Bread and prunes," I said. "I got loose ones and tight ones; she told me. "Loose ones is best," said the man. "They cook up better, and • got more gumption," "Let's have a• snatch of loose'" ones," quoth L "Best kind," said the man. So we paid up and drove ,.along, with an invitation to stop in again, and while the bread had seen better days, the prunes were delicious. We cooked them on a wood fire, which is the best way. It's •niceto know that that little store is there, hotter than a two -dollar pistol, and het by wood through preference and prudence. It's on the road less traveled by, right in the fork, back a piece. -by John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. $200 A Shot "This is a money -making scheme," a. Canadian official said frankly last month, his eye on the huge amounts wealthy sportsmen spend on big -game hunting in Africa. The scheme: To open up the isolated grass and muskeg country of the North- west Territories to buffalo hunt- ers. The North American buffalo, onetime king of the plains, is almost extinct in the U.S. but more than 13,000 closely pro- tected by the government, still roam Canadian grasslands. Strays from the Wood Buffalo National Park in Northern Al- berta and the Northwest Terri- tories have been straggling north in such numbers that food is running short, so hunters will be allowed to kill 2,700 of the un- gainly but tasty beassts..Bag lim- it: One per year. License fee for United States hunters: $200. - From NEWSWEEK. A mother with six children boarded a bus and gave the con- ductor so much trouble that he • said.' at the end of the trip, "I wonder you don't leave half of your youngsters at home when you travel.." 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Rider Bag- gand heorine 40, Dried grass 41. Ocean 42. Period of time 48. 1)era;i, 46. Belonging to me EMM®.:;f :®MEM' ill MIME iii= MI®= MMUMMMEMMIMMM MEMMIMMEMMEMMS ®I®M'' MOIM®®®® WIMMEMBMMEMEMM MMMEMMMKOMMIMM MMEMMMEMMMUM MOMMMEMMOMMMM MMOMMMWMMEMOM MMMUMMi®:::::::M*$U MEMOIMMMMEMMMM 20 Answer elsewhree on this page. BALLS OF YARN-. Railroader Ed Wilson uses colorful balls of yarn to knit sweaters. Taught by his wife, Wilson is now suf- ficiently skillful to shame most females. He sold enough sweaters last year to pay for a vacation for himself, his wife and their four children. He's regularly employed as a baggageman. TIILPAIZM F1&JNT Jok Registered warehouses have been advocated by a leading government official as a means • o2 bolstering a sagging. potato Industry in Canada. ' 4, * *: E. G. Paige, Director of Fruit and Vegetable Division Canada Department of Agriculture, re- minded the Potato Section of the Ontario Soil and Crop Improve- ment Association that potato consumption has ' slipped by about 40 per centover the past 30 years. He said an urgent examina- tion of production and merchan- dising methods is warranted to see' what can be done to halt this disastrous downward • trend. * Mr. Paige noted that with re- gistered warehouses, the onus would be on the grader ur packer, to comply with grade standards and other regulations, It would mean a more consist- ently well -graded pack being put on the market. Too, warehouses would pro- vide records of sales and aver- age returns, aiding federal sup- port programs or deficiency pay- ment systems. And, he added, production of a better eating potato would be •encouraged, * * * "Position of the potato in the national economy is such that the industrymust make every effort to see that services avail- able to it through universities and governments are used to best advantage," said Mr. Paige, "Ways and means of improve- ing its position, however, must emanate largely from the in- dustry itself. * e While conceding that the high standard of living in Canada is partly responsible for the de- crease in consumption of pota- toes and other low-cost foods, the federal spokesman claimed the degree to which changes in eating habits occur can be in- fluenced by the'quality and at- tractiveness of the products as they are presented to the house- wife. Unless corrective measures are taken, hesaid, powerful re- tail organizations will assume control of their requirements through a form of so-called ver- tical integration and the indus- try will evolve into one where a relatively few selected and specialized producers will, under direction of these retail outlet-, produce the bulk of potatoes for domestic market. The remainder of producers would he limited to supplying the export require" ments and .what is left of the domestic market. • Resides the . swing to potato warehouses, he urged promo- tions of the nutritional qualities of the Potato and a drive toward new and better processed potato `products, * 4, * A Russian apple variety may play ' an important role in the development of a more winter - hardy Canadian apple. This is the conclusion of Ca- nadian Department of Agricul- ture officials after 20 years' ob-• servation of the Antonovka variety at the Fredericton Ex- perimental Farm. * 0 Various test winters since 1931 have shown that Antonovka trees topworked to the varieties Bancroft, eld ear, Kendall, Linda, Maenun, Reel Soy and candow, have done better that' when the trees are grown on their own trunks. + * * * Singleworked, o r standard, trees of Kendall, Linda, Red Spy and Sandow practically all per- ished during. a series of test win- ters, while double -worked trees of the same varieties, while in- jured to some extent, largely re- covered and bore good crops. The Antonovka wood that makes up the trunks and lower portion of the scaffold branches was not injured. * * 4 While forming only 8.9 per cent of total beef gradings in 1958, the new Standard grade, introduced a year ago filled a gap in national beef grades and justified its creation. Homer J. Maybee, Canada De- partment of Agriculture, said Standard beef was in demand by institutional purchasers like the Armed Forces and hospitals. In fact, on occasion some sup- pliers with Department of Na- tional Defence contracts substi- Luted Good grade beef because of the shortage of Standard. * ro * . Owing to the lack of volume, Standard has yet to be sold in any proportions on the retail level, Though this grading was fair- ly uniform throughout the year, the high point was May when it averaged 9.9 per cent of total Canadian slaughtering. A built in possibility is that Standard will be called on if Canadian consumers demand a leaner type of beef and prices fall into line accordingly. "The Standard grade has proved a worthwhile change," summed up Mr, Maybee, That Long Arm Of Coincidence! How significant ere coinci- dences? From • time to time, even in the most humdrum lives, events occur which bring some of us up with a jolt. Some of these eventsmaybe no more than mildly. surprising; others may exert a lasting influence on our lives. An example of a remarkable but not .really baffling coni- dence was recently quoted by a famous Harley Street doctor, He tells of a man who noticed a second-hand walking -stick in a bric-a-brac shop. He bought it, and when he got home dis- covered that it bore his own ini- tials in silver. Closer scrutiny showed that underneath the ini- tials was the date of his birth. Yet investtigation showed that no one in his family had eves awned the' stick! Even more striking is the tale of the young sub -lieutenant who made repeated' visits to the Admiralty to try to discover the fate of a friend called Green, who had been captured by the Japanese in Hong -Kong. Eight or nine visits over a period of -many months failed to yield any trace of his friend The sub- lieutenant gave up the search. On the following day his car was halted at traffic lights just. outside the Admiralty, Crossing 'the road in front of .him was the missing friend. He hath made a • sensational escape` from the Japanese, It was, in fact, his very first day ill England! Walter de la Mare, the poet, told another true story of coin. oidence, A friend of. his -we'll dell him John 'Brown Smith Jones --on a walking tour in Cumberland, put up for the night at a hotel, A$ he wax about to sign the register he saw thatthe last signature In the book was his own unusual com- bination of names -John Brown Smith Jones. He never discovered who his narnesake was, for the stranger had left overnight. But ibis was not the end of the story. When the traveller reached Kirkby Lonsdale and stayed the night there, he found the following entry in the visitors' book: Jones Smith Brown John, his own name exactly in reverse! Some coincidences seems so far-fetched that it is difficult to believe them, even when one has proved them true. Not long ago, for example, a writer set out to walk from John o' Groats to Land's End, meaning to write a book on his travels. On the very same day, another writer set opt to walk the opposite direction, from Land's End to John o' Groats, also with a view to writ- ing about his journey. Investigation showed that the two travellers, unknown to each other, had actually stayed the night in the same hotel -the Trust House at Abergavenny- and that their respective pub- lishers had offices exactly op- posite each other in the same street. The two books might even have appeared on the same day if one of the travellers had not seen a newspaper report of the other. Eventually one of them gave way. But you dorft need to be a writer in order to experience remarkable coincidences in your life. A St. Ives fisherman, for example, was rescued from his sinking ship by the second cox- swain of a Kent lifeboat. Not long afterwards the rescued man was on holiday in Kent when the lifeboat was called out for the third time in two hours. One of her crew had earlier been injured so the •.fisherman volunteered to go in his place. The first man he helped froni the sinking ship was the same second coxswain of a Kent life- boat! From the United States comes the story . 'of a truly amazing coincidence. Edith Cohen. and Julia Reilly,• two teenage school- girls in Detroit, entered for en essay competition, the subject being "Does Money Mean Hap- piness?" Although the two girls canle from different schools, hadnever met, and lived in dif- ferent ifferent parts of the town, the first . seventeen lines of their essays were word-for-word the same! But for the most staggering coincidence story of all we must turn to the statisticians. They assure us that if a monkey were given a typewriter and continu- ed to batter away at the keys .f or an infinite period -perhaps billions of years -it would one day ' type a correct draft of Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet," quite inadvertently, of course. It's that sort of possibility which adds edge to a line from Shakespeare himself: "There are more things in heaven and earth , . . than are dreamt of in your philosophy." The Lewis woodpecker of the far West doesn't dig into wood for its food. It catches insects and bugs on the ground or in the air, or bores into fruit for thein. The flat shell of the .window oyster. of India is, so translucent it can be used as a window glass, UNDp(sctio(!1 UiSSON By Rev. R. 8, Warren, feA., B.A. God's leave and Man's ltefusel Matthew 21:33.43 Memory Selection;; Be is des- pised and rejected of men. Isaiah 53:3. The day of Calvary would come later that week and Jesu knew it. In parable he foretold His own death at the hands of God's favored people, Israel. God had bestowed great blessing on the chosen seed of Abraham. lie expected fruit. But they had beaten and slain many of His messengers. Micaiah and Jere- miah were imprisoned; Zechar- iah the son of Jehoida was stoned to death. Then God sent His be- loved Son. Against Him they poured forth their hatred and envy as they prevailed on Pilate to crucify Him. It seemed on that dark day that God was de- feated. But He wasn't. Three days later He raised His Son from the dead. Forty days later He received Him into Heaven to sit at His cwn right hand, In 70 A.D. Gods judgment fell on this rebellious people. Their city was destroyed by the Roman army and they were scattered throughout the world. Only in the last forty years have they been allowed to return to their own land and that under some restrictions, The Gospel which was first presented to the Jews was given a more favorable re- ception by the Gentiles. • Why do people reject Jesus Christ? While many of the Gen- tiles have accepted Jesus Christ, many still rejeot Him. It's hard to understand. We know that to obey God and accept His salva- tion as provided by Jesus Christ, is the proper thing to do. But sin blinds our eyes. It requires effort to turn from sin and seek God. Of course, we are not saved by our effort. We are saved by faith. But it requires exercise of the will to repent of our sins and thus get into the position where God can give us the faith by which to believe. Jesus, in his lament over Jerusalem, said, "0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even , as a hen gathereth her chickens un- der her wings, and ye would not!" A hen has several calls for her chickens, They must heed the call and come to the shelter of her wings. So we ouebt to heed God's call. If we don't, we shall have no shelter when the storms of God's judgment break upon the earth. Let us come to Jesus Christ! ISSUE 9 - 1959 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking J. 1 d 5 3 1 O 3 18 a d: 3)1,14 N n N 0 8 V A t: 3 3 W S1 405 VW 3 J. a n 3 5 J. w 3 5 1 N 3 3 d 1 >1 d 61 d 3 H 5 N N O O 1 n H 5 5 4 Y 0 18 H n 5 3 3 3 0 a t3 O a .1. 3 1 A 3 3 5 H O 1110 J. 5 01:13/1O It:i lit la LiVSA .1Yd 53Mee PHOTO FINISH -Mouse, lower left, has his em'otiens all bottled up in the face of cat-astroph°, as kitty prepares to take o nip from the bottle's stopper. No hero, he. "Kitty" is a photo en- largement, and this little drama was played out in a photo- grapher's studio.