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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-04-09, Page 3r Winter Hoseline )3eeause the telephone bell rang the other morning while he was having breakfast, my long- time friend, Eugene T. Wakely, answered it, lie thought it was going to be another oil custo- mer, because Gene is in the fuer business; but it wasn't. I was calling him, "Nice cold morning," I said, to which he agreed with the glee that goes with being a fuel dealer on a cold morning. It was, indeed, 22 degrees below zero, or 54 degrees of frost, and the sort of morning on which Gene oils his cash register be- fore he tackles his eggs. This has been a wonderful winter for Gene, and he has not been Seen without a smile since some- time in September when it was quite warm. 'It's a beautiful day!" he said, T said, "Have you got a gar- den hose?" "Sure," he said, I said, "Are you planning to use it today?" A considerable pause ensued, during which Gene digested the oddity of this query, and prob- ably measuredmy sanity down - to the last quarter inch. Unlike Gene, he didn't come up -with anything memorable, • but simply said, ."No." "Can I borry it?" I asked. After another pause he said I might. "Good!" "i , I said, I11 be right down to get it." I didn't hang up at once, for I could sense that Gene was meditating, and probably would like to say more as soon as he • could figure out what he would say. "What are you going to wa- ter?" he .asked, "My wife," I said. So this has been my project, and of course Gene came around.• afterward to fill himself in on the details. The continued cold, with little snow cover, has ele- vated Gene into the Morgan and A SAWING WOOD - Talkabout a housing shortage. Even these raccoons at the Swope Park Zoo are hard put to find a spot for their afternoon siesta. Sort , of a tree stump apartment house. Vanderbilt class, but it has sent the frost deep into the ground Until my waterline froze and lapsed into desuetude, Peep un- der the ground it congealed and lay still, The pump, one morn- ing, was churning without a gurgle, and the sink tap said, "?,hl" Out here, I am my own water commissioner, with full author- ity. I knew just what to do. i went below, closed valve A and opened valve B. This threw our system off the spring line and onto the well line, and I was glad for two sources, The pump picked up, and we had water again. We bathed and laved, and the frozen springtime froze some more. But a well and a spring are two different things, and while' the spring bubbles on with moa0 water than we can use, the well has a limited feed, and after about a week the pump began to swish -swish again when it should knock -knock, and my pink apron informed me, "We're dry again!" We were, and in trouble. • So I called on Ivan Walling- ford, who has a 200-amparc welding machine in the back of his truck, and he came and hooked cables to each end of my frozen pipe and surged his 'AC with the idea of thawing it out. But he gave up after two days and said if June and July didn't come off hot, to let him know, "I don't see," ,sold my pink" 'apron, ". . why you don't run a hose out to, the spring and hook it on the pump!" Iwasn't' ui a that q t easy,but the idea was sound. I broke the intake line, screwed on an ordi- nary • faucet, and attached the end of my garden hose. All I needed now was 350 feet more gardenhose to complete the dis- tance to the hillside spring. I ',hope somebody' smiles 'a bit at :the. neighborhood thoughts and inquiries that prevailed when I went put to borrow 350 feet of. garden hose on a 22 morning. It is also possible my answers would make gems of whimsey 1f anybody had collected ' them. Gene's hose completed my needs, and I washered • them, tightened the joints, and thrust the nether end into the clear, cold, sparkling liquid of my lovely spring. The hoseline was stretched upon the bosom of the snow; through the yellow plas- tic length I could see the water moving toward the house. When I came in my yellow apron: had the laundry going, and was run- ning the tub for ablutions. (She had changed aprons, was going to wash the pink one.) The only trouble with my system is that I can't shut .it ,oft or my hoseline will freeze up instantly. I've had to suspend the- automatic pressure shutoff to keep the motor going, and as this gives us surplus water, I've had to run the excess into the well. The well is now fuller than ever before. We use ,what we can, and run the rest off down the valley. I'm • bathing four and five times a day, and am the cleanest farmer in Maine. But it's kind of comical us- ing Gene's hose. If the power goes off, or a fuseblows, or a pressure valve goes, I'm going to have 400 feet of the frozenest garden hose you ever saw, with Gene's right in the 'middle. Meantime, I'm bending all 'ef- forts with the authorities to have an early spring and a quick re- turn. of warm weather -when I can return, Gene's hose. But Gene smiles and smiles, end is delighted to be of service, and keeps telling' me not to hurry the least bit about, re- turning his property. "Keep ill" he says, and he means it. When he gets it back, the oil business will be over. Neighborliness is a fine thing. - By John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. �R 16. Cluster or - ss Italian CROSSWORD won ool finers gambling PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Furnish a crew ane 22. Karl being 29, Pn geometry, 24. Dry intersecting line 25. Piire and 4.4. Pallid simple 95. Repair' 3. Trim 28. Branobee,of 40. Stages of 4. Aversion learning life 6. Type measure - 47. Jump 27. 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Canadian agriculture runs the risk of losing valuable export markets if contagious animal diseases are allowed to become established, and federal veterin- arians agree it is cheaper to the producer and the entire industry to eliminate these diseases., • * * Foot-and-mouth disease is an example of how it pays to wipe out. certain ' dreaded diseases: Only once did• this killer get a toe hold in Canada,' but the re- sults, were costly. Direct losses from the foot- and-mouth, outbreak in Saskat- chewan seven years ago amount- ed to $1,000,000. Markets to which Canadian livestock and agriculture ,products normally moved were immediately closed, and it •was estimated that the drop • in potential value was $648,278,000. * * ► There are other costs to be considered. Health of Animals, Canada Department of Agricul- ture, estimates a,vaccination pro- gram for hog, cholera would cost swine producers $6,80,000 a year. This is based on the fact that in the United States it cost $1 per hog tip td market ageto con- trol cholera, and on the fact that Canada's swine population is about 6,800,000. * * * Instead of livingwith the dis- ease and depending on vaccina- tion, Canada halts any outbreak by slaughtering diseased hogs and compensating the owners, Overthe past decade, there have been seven outbreaks in which 3,459 pigs wre victimized. Com- pensation costs were $96,590. The worst .:cholera epidemic sinoe the turn of the century occurred' in 1940-41, when $204,- 176 was paid out in compensation to farmers. Cost of completely driving out this disease, though, is only a shadow of what it would be to live with it. Canadian sheep producers have been told that any relaxation in this country's scrapie eradication program could jeopardize the ex- port of purebred breeding stock and feeder lambs to the United States. In fact, it is felt that certain segments of the U.S. sheep in- dustry Will press for more rigid control .on import and an inter- state movement. * * * Veterinarians of the Health of Animals Division, Canada De- parttnent of Agriculture, sounded this noteof warning at meetings of Western Canada and Ontario sheep growers. * 4 * Scrapie is a chronic disease of sheep involving the central nerv- ous system and characterized by nervous symptoms, such as itch- ing and lack of co-ordination, ending in paralysis and death, It was first identified in Can- ada in a Suffolk ewe imported from Scotland in 1938, Since 1945, there have been 14 out- breaks in which 1,570 sheep were ordered' destroyed and their owners compensated. • * Four years ago, a Ministerial Order was signed prohibiting further importations of sheep from the United Kingdom. tinder the present Canadian control program, an entire flock is slaughtered after a caae of scrapie has been discovered. Sales from the flock for, the preced- ing 42 month are tracked down and kept under scrutiny. The premises are ordered cleaned and the owner is advised not to re- stock for 90 days. The U.S. control program is similar to that of Canada but more stern. Up to November last year, 138 positive cases of scrapie had been diagnosed in 70 flocks, and 38,611 sheep in 1,101 flocks destroyed. A Canadian observer accom- panying a U.S. fact-finding com- mittee studying the scrapie con- trol program reported that the majority of the American. sheep industry supported the present -eradication program, and that some segments may urge more rigid controls. Antarctic Wait On April 17th we see the sun for the last time, a thin painted fngernail t h a t scratches the northern horizon for a few min- utes and then is gone, not to appear again until the end of August. Now little America settles down for the long winter wait. The men start growing whiskers according to their own ideas of how an Antarctic ex- plorer should look, the chins of the youngsters sprouting peach fuzz in assorted pastel shades, and the older men cultivating Dundrearys and black spade beards and pointed Vandykes. Gummy, the cook, is the envy of the camp with his flaming Ted beard that looks -like the rear end of a mandrill. A few of the smart ones remain clean- shaven, fox a man's breath in sub -zero cold will frost the whis- kers and irritate his face. We are entombed in a glacier at the bottom of the world, in a total silence broken only by the occasional rumble of an ice- quake as the Ross Shelf shifts and settles. Most of the life in camp is under the snow. The men pop corn over the stoves in their barracks, and play end- less games . . , They scrounge bits of Material, robbing one an- other like a colony of pack rats, to make , . bookshelves cver their bunks. Old Martin Ronnie is busy at his sewing machine day after day, stitching parkas and sleeping -bag covers, and we work out together a new type of barren -land shelter. (It came to be called the Bal- then -Ronne tent, and was used by the United States Army in Greenland during World War II.) One of the scientists- brings Ronne a sensational pattern he has just invented for a trial mask, with slits for eyes. Ronne inspects his design, and shrugs: "3a, I make one like that for Captain Amundsen once. He said no good." We show movies now and then to pass the time, and every Saturday night we have a two- way broadcast with the United States, in which the men can talk directly with their families and friends at home. From "Come North With Me," by Beret Balchen. Oceans to Drink? Water, water everywhere Nor . any drop to drink. The Ancient Mariner's classic lament suggests. the ironic di- lemma facing the United States. On the one hand, supplies of fresh water in lakes, reservoirs, end rivers are barely able to satisfy the current national con- surnption, an amazing 140 gal- lons a day for each American, The future expansion of the na- tion's industry and populatiun can easily lead to a critical shortage. -On the other hand, there is an almost unlimited sup- ply of water in the oceans and, surprisingly, inside the earth it- self: Deep beneath the dry, dusty surface of the Great ' Plains states, for example, enough wa- ter lies in 'rockbound pools to meet all the nation's current agriculfural, industrial, and home -consumption needs. But this liquid is so contaminated with salt and minerals that it is unfit for human use. Last month, however, a major 'step was taken toward convert- ing this promising supply of water into purer form when the Interior Department announced plans to build the nation's first large-scale plant to remove the salt from sea water. A $1.5 mil- lion array of tanks and pipes covering not more than an acre, the new plant will distill a mil- lion gallons of water a day, at a cost of about $1 per thousand gallons -one-seventh of the old cost of desalting sea water. However, even $1 a thousand gallons hardly seems a bargain. Most U.S. communities pay an average of 30 cents. But in many water -impoverished areas, the Interior Department's new . still would be immediately welcome even without theadditional im- provements which, ' department experts say, should further cut the price of desalting sea water in half. Already, 80 cities around the nation have asked to be con- sidered as possible plant sites. Although the location will not be announced until next sum- mer, it will probably be in south- ern California where the water situation is often desperate. The Interior Department's new plant is the first of five which will be built under a recent $10 million authorization from Con- gress. It is based on an idea submitted four years ago by the late Walter Lucius Badger, pro- fessor of chemical, engineering at the University of Michigan, who was for years a top consul- tant for the salt industry. Like any othef still, Badger's boils water which turns to steam, leaving impurities behind. It is then condensed into pure, rather flat -tasting water. By ingenious use of long tubes in the evapor- ation process, Badger was able to slash the price of desalting sea water. Badger's Most important con- tribution, however, was a trick he borrowed from the salt in- dustry to lick his plant's big - in • NPAY SC 001 LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., IS.D. Samuel as nudge I Samuel 7:5-16 Memory Selection: God forbid that 1 should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you; but I will teach you the good and the right way. 1 Samuel 12:23. In the lessons of this quarter we resume the history of Israel, beginning at the time of Samuel, and consider the united kingdom under Saul, David, and Solomon, and then the first 25 years of the division. Samuel was the last of the judges. Like so many of God's great servants during the cen- turies, he had yielded himself to God's will in his youth. His pro- phetic career was probably the longest of any Hebrew prophet that ever lived. He guided the nation through the transition period from government by judge to government by mon- archs. Under God's direction he chose and anointed the first two of the kings, Saul and David. Our lesson is a•. record of his pro- motion of a religious revival dur- ing a dark period when the Israel- ites were largely dominated by the Philistines. In obedience to Samuel the people of Israel put away their idols. Then as a priest, Samuel led them in sac- rifices and worship, The Phili- stines came toward them to bat- tle but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines and discom- fited them; and they were smit- ten before Israel. It was on that memorable day that Samuel set up a stone and called it Eben- ezer, saying Hitherto hath the LORD helped us. This incident has been an encouragement to many people. If we put away our idols and serve the Lord, He will fully guide and direct our lives, He will bear our burden and sustain us. So the Psalmist ex- horts us. "Cast they burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee." 55:22. A man shows how great he is, or how small he is, by his atti- tude when someone else is pre- ferred before him and steps into his place of leadership. The me- mory selection demonstrates that Samuel was truly a great man. He cared for the people. That love continued even when the people wanted and gained a king in Sannuel's place. They wanted to be like the nations round about them. The story of Samuel's life and devotion to God will always be an inspiration to those who want God's best in their lives. gest, most expensive problem: Cleaning out the salt scale which frequently gummed up his pipes. Since salt scale tends to deposit on other salt crystals instead of a metal surface, Badger simply injected salt crystals into the tubes as bait. The result, accord- ing to Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, was "a remarkable break -through in saline water conversion" - From NEWS - WEEK. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking nuammangrAmmm Wora' MOi7IMMUU mmumaREIROungp MiraimeAgoopaLi WrIEVAMfOrkiMW MMEAMMOROMME WEIMMUMPLIODE OMM ©` W©©U miaT a ... _... - om KIXIIMMO M ®0.®moo®© MEM OMMOUDITIMMEI�sW� E 1 ISSUE 14 - 1959 SPARE TO SPARE - This "continental spare lire" is really a mobile billboard for a farm tire dealer. Ha ri^ged it up to the rear of his pickup truck, In the cab there's a spare that fits.