The Seaforth News, 1959-09-10, Page 7Baby Seal That
Thinks He's Human
When skin diver Bill Cheeks
dripped up out of Puget Sound
one recent afternoon, he thought
he heard another pair of flip-
pers slapping the sand behind
him. Pushirsg fogged goggles
over a tanned forehead and.
pounding the water from his
ears, he looked back; then
down, Hewas right.
Waddling in his tracks was a
baby harbor seal — a sleek,
roly-poly infant with plaintive
eyes, incongruous mustache, and
a patent conviction that it was
a person closely related to
Cheeks. Unable to coax it back
to the water, Cheeks drove the
foundling down the Washington
shore to the Seattle Aqua Di-
vers Club, where it was prolntly
christened Scuba (short for
"s e 1,f - contained underwater
breathing apparatus") and
adopted as club mascot.
Not so promptly was Scuba
accepted in a foster home. Lots
of the men at the club wanted
it, but' somehow wives kept ob-
jecting to a.seal that thought It
was a child. Most of them, in •
the skin-diving set, already had
their hands full with children
who thought they were seals.
But last month, after some
whimpering days of institution-
al care and force-feeding by a
veterinarain, Scubawas firmly
established in the skin-diving
family of Glen and Peggy Bris-
tow of Bellevue, just across'
Lake Washington from Seattle;
and more certain than eyer that
it was human.
It had, it was convinced, three
foster brothers — Tim, 14; Ter-
ry, 10, and Mike Bristow, 7 •—"
and, for a pet, it had a beagle
named Zeke with whom it liked
to play on the Bristow lawn.
Scuba despises water; he
flipped right out of a wading
poo] that the Bristows gave
him. (Turned loose offshore for
an enforced daily swim, he
can tow• the other Bristow chil-
dren or Bristow, himself, by an
improvised harness. But his
destination is always the near-
est beach.) He spurned an un-
disguised fish diet, but thrives
on a formula of pulverized, tin-
ned salmon in goat's milk (he
tips the .scale at 21 pounds, a
gain of 5 in a week).
The Bristows haven't the re-
motest idea of Scuba's sex —
"I am not a seal," says Bristow
—but a member of the family
can't be called "it"; so they
arbitrarily made Scuba a male.
"Scuba thinks my husband is
his mother," Mrs. Bristow says.
":i just baby-sit during the day
until Glen comes home."
How does it feel to be a seal -
sitter?
"It's a new experience," says
Peggy Bristow. "He's a nui-
sance. He's a baby, and you ,
have to squirt him down every
so often. He only eats four
times . a day now, it's true; but
we have to stay up till 11 at
night for that last feeding."
What future is there for a
seal who thinks he's a person?
"I read a book that said a
fully grown' harbor seal weighs
between 150 and 220 pounds
and eats about 30 pounds of
fish a day," Bristow grimaced.
"I can't afford that; .so when
the going gets tough, I'll have
to give him to the Woodland
Park Zoo,"
There, among others of his
species, ,Scuba m a y finally
learn• that he is a seal, not a
human. He might possibly even
learn that he is a 'she.
LIVED TO SEE THE ACTURE —'Ace German racing driver, Hans Hermann crouches on the
pavement as his racing car hurtles through the air in the West BOrlin Grand Prix race, He
was only slightly .injured, but in a preliminary race the day before, French racing great
Jean Behra was killed, •
Cars Are Realty
To Ride In:
As automobilemodels for
1900 roll into • the showrooms
there is going to be an en-
tirely new 'focus of interest.
The breathless question will not
be which company can adver-
tise • the highest -horsepower gas -
burner, the flashiest fishtails or
the most chrome. Curiosity in-
stead will center' on the new,
small cars which are being en-
tered in competition by motor-
dom's Big Three.
- For once the mammoths of
the industry will not be lead-
ing; they will be following
where two independents and
some, twoscore foreign manu-
facturers have shown a waiting
market' to be. They will be ack-
nowledging that after all, a sig-
nificant segment of American
motorcar buyers are interested
in economy and functionalism;
that many purchasers want
transportation, not metal plum-
age to outstrut their neighbors.
Business Week magazine
counts this change of trend as
one df five major turning points
in the half -century of the auto-
mobile industry. It quotes one
researcher's estimate that po-
tential compact car buyers con-
stitute about one-fourth of the
1960 market in ' the United
States.
A study by ILS. News &
World Report brings out the
points that typical buyers of
economy cars already on the
.American market, average some-
what higher income than buyers
of the big selling Chevrolet,
Ford, and Plymouth, that they
include , a - more than average
number of college-educated
people, that most are families
with children and many are
two -car families.
An important change in at
titutde toward consumer tastes
has taken place since 1955. This
year Detroit, will not just be
saying, "Here's your car; get
out and sell • it." Detroit will hi
listening. — From the Christian
Science Monitor.
Q. Tim can , I remove light
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THIS I5 BASEBALL? — Looking for the world like fourth down
and goal to go, a not -so -friendly meeting Is conducted by
members of the Giants and Pittsburgh .Pirates in San,Prancisco.
Hassle developed over an atleged epiking' at third base.
GROWING RUBIES — That's
no lump of coal chemist Carroll,
Chatham Is examining. Using 'a
secret process at his one-man'
laboratory, Chatham "grows".
marketable emeralds and rubies
which are virtually indistin-
guishable from the real gems.
He calls them "cultured" rather;
than "synthetic."
Space Grabber
Is Baffled
One of the wiliest space grab-
bers ever to baml1oozle an edi-
tor,, New York Press -agent Jim
Moran, 51, has found a needle
in a haystack (after 82 hr• and
35 min.), hatched an ostrich egg
(19 days on the nest), sold an
icebox to an Eskimo and two
snow-blind fleas to Paramount
(for use under klieg lights), to.
pitch himself ora client into
the newspapers. Last month Mor-
an was landing in print again,
on a coast-to-coast search for
"the happiest girl in America
— a girl as happy as a Lark."
His client: Studebaker's Lark
But in Minneapolis Moran's
bird failed to sing. Minneapolis
Tribune City Editor Robert T.
Smith puckishly printed a
straight-faced story that ran
through a whole catalogue' of
cars without using the one word
that Moran was trying to get
into print —. Lark.. Smith's story:
"Jim Moran is 1a world -re-
nown rambler.
"In his many travels as a
pressagent, he has been known
to ford a river or brave locali-
ties' where the mercury knows
no •bounds in order to plant a
sponsor's name.
"Moran is well known in Cad-
illac and Pontiac, Mich., and hi
the imperial palaces of the Ori-
ent, On the other hand, he has
never been in Buyck or Austin,
Minn.
"He has pulled many a dodge,
but in general he is known in
thea trade as being solid as Ply-
mouth Rock,
! "Moran has a beard,.like Lin-
coln that gives many people the
willies. He is built in somewhat
Goliath proportions and has the
eye of an explorer, like De Soto.
"Moran was in Minneapolis
promoting a contest to find 'The
Happiest Girl in America'
The winner will receive a screen
test and a new automobile, the
maker of which is his sponsor."
In St, Ann, Mo., a book titled
Ten Days to a Successful Me-
mory was returned ten months
overdue r to a branch of the St,
Louis County Library with a
note: "I just forgot all about
having it"
Jockey In A Hurry
He comes whooping and whip-
ping out of the starting gate, a
pale -faced kid who fights for
the lead right at the start so that
no challenger will spoil his view
of the -pot of gold waiting at the
finish line. His body high and
forward, weight over the horse's
withers, boots in two of the
shortest stirrups in racing, he is
a jockey in a hurry. He is
strong enough td' ride all after-
noon, and he applies the meas-
ure of cold cash, not sentiment,
to his work, Shrugs Jockey Bob
Ussery (rhymes with 'fuss-ery)
"If I ride in the Kentucky Der-
by, I want a real shot at win-
ning. Otherwise, I'd rather ride
six moents at Belmont."
'This frankly quantitative ap-
roach to riding is paying off
handsomely this season for Rob-
ert Nelson ("Okie") Ussery, 23,
whohas risenfrom a dust -eater
generally, back in the pack of
national rankings, as tabulated
Eby the fact-finding Morning Tel-
egraph, until he stands second
only to the' great Willie Shoe-
maker in booting home winners
(224 v. 221) and total purses
($1,863,049 v. $1,128,474). It mat-
ters little' to Ussery that he has
had to ride 143 more races than
Shoemaker to get his total, or
that he has never won a major
stakes event. He is often willing
to resort to lackluster hayburn-
ers to fill out, an afternoon's
work: "Those stiffs will win now
and then."
Bob Ussery learned to ride
back home in Vian, Okla., a lit-
tle farming town (green beans,
cotton, corn) near the Arkansas
border. His father was a clerk
in the genera] store, had five
children, a piimp and an out-
house; his grandfather had a
big black mare named Kate.
When he was seven and weigh-
ed just 55 lbs., Ussery was clat-
tering across the Oklahoma flat-
land, perched like a raisin on the
bare back of Kate, and celebrat-
ing a win over other mounted
kids by riding straight into a
water hole, Kate and all.
Bob Ussery early learned the
value of a buck. Says he: "I al-
ways wanted to ' hoe cotton—
those guys got' $3 a day. But I
wasn't big enough." So Ussery'
turned instead to picking spin-
ach (106 for every 20 lbs.). By
seventh grade, he knew where
easier money lay: "I couldn't'
ride and go to school too. I quit
school,"
Sprinting quarter horses over
dirt tracks around the South-
west, Ussery learned to get . a
horse away fast at the Start. By
16 he was ready for the .thor-
oughbreds, drove his first mount
to victory in the 1951 Thanks-
giving Handicap in New Orleans.
Within months Ussery was a
big-time jockey, with a reputa-
tion as a slasher who bulled his
way through the field like a full-
back. ,Ussery used the whip so
much that some jockeys hated
to mount the horse he had rid-
den because the animal tended
to sulk. Not until last' year,
when, he was set down for 30
days for whacking Eddie Arc-
aro's horse across the nose at
Jamaica, did he finally realize
that there is 'more to racing than
muscle. Ussery still whips hard
-(cracks one jockey; "They run
for Shoemaker because they
like 'to; they run for Ussery be-
cause they haveto"), but he now
uses his head' as well. Says ven-
erable Trainer Jim Fitzsimmons:
"The boy picks his holes right,
and he doesn't get himself jam-
med up in the pockets. He'll be
a great one if he doesn't get
oversatisfied."
Ussery has salted away $100,-
000
100;000 in blue chip stocks, has
earned. more than $100,000 this
year. At Saratoga last month,
Ussery hunted for winner so
zealously that he rode in ten out
of 14 races before finally cross-
' ing the finish line in front. Sums
up,Arcaro: "He's a hungry kid,"
0. How can I clean waxed IOW,
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A. By wiping them with ben -
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