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The Seaforth News, 1960-04-07, Page 6Orem Qf F't Under The. SE Capt. J:rcquee-Yves Cousteau, the world's greatest undersea ex - Morel., was high and day one ninrning recently in a room on the: sixth floor of a Now York hotel. A glass on the breakfast table held the nearest water, but as always the restlessly imagina- tive Gallic mind ate swimming attune; a dozen aquatic ideas, His newest, grandest dream; .Buileittle an underwater animal farm. He tut the idea from un- dersea work as a French naval officer, and the Monaco Oceano- graphic bluseunt, which Cous- teau serves as director, is back- ing it. "A ship aright sink in the most deserted part of the ocean," Cousteau es;plalued, "but one year later. the wreck is teeming with sea lire." Cousteates con- clusion: There is a tremendous amount of life in the sea that could be systematically farmed if only shelter were provided so that the sea animals could con- gregate and proliferate in eco- nomic numbers, Working on this theory, Cous- teau and his colleagues are building a "baitron" -- a con- crete slab "apartment house" whose different levels could lure varying forms of sea life. On one level, for example, there are convoluted pipes for eels; on ap- 4Y7 Blouse Bonanza PRINTED PAYEERN 4—,41h,.. —44.►s5 Sew -Easy blouse wardrobe — smart with skirts or slacks! Take advantage of all the beautiful buys in cottons — scoop up the newest prints, stripes, solids. Printed Pattern 4885: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 top style les yards 35 -inch; mid- dle lee yards; lower 1?s yards. Printed directions on each pat- ter', part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (500) in loins (stamps cannot be accept- ed, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. 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For the last three weeks, for example, Cousteau has been speaking before U.S. underwater sportsmen clubs in his capacity es president of the World Under- water Confederation — a fitting honor for the man who gave millions freedom in the seas through the co -invention of the Aqua -lung, the wet -suit, and the underwater scooter, In Now York, he planned to confer with American engineer's on his "X - boat," a radically new (and still secret) ship being built at the Cousteau-founded French Un- derseas Research Center le Mar- seilles. Then, he would report on the latest cruise of his re- search ship, the Calypso, to the annual meeting of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic In- stitution, before flying to Paris to look in on Associated Sharks, his film company. Prom Paris, he would fly to his "land" home in Monaco, Ifad the underwater explorer turned Turd -locked entrepre- neur? Not at all, When the Calypso .lowered Ccusteau's saueerlilce submarine, affection- ately dubbed Denise (in Manor of Mrs. Cousteau), into the. Mediter- ranean off Corsica for its first 1,000 -foot dive last month, the captain was one of the two-man crew aboard. At the age of 50, he dives with the best and brashest of the younger uien. But to be a great explorer these days requires more than cool grace under high pressure: The ex- plorer must also be an adept publicist, skilled at raising money to support his schemes. In Cousteau's case, support has came from a variety of sources. The National Geographic Society and the French Ministry of Na- tional Education have sponsored Calypso cruises. Sales of his best-selling "The Silent World" and revenues from the film of the same name have helped. So have the admission fees of 700,- 000 annual visitors to the Monaco museum, a massive granite pile cn a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean. Bu' these reve- nues are not adequate for the bold new biatron village which may cost as much as $250,000, "Our purpose is strictly ex- perimental," Cousteau explained. "We want to see what materials end what conditions produce what results. Later, some of our houses will be made of plastic, others of metal. Some will be sunk at 100 feet, others up to 400 feet, Some 'avenues' between the houses will be illuminated; others will have pipes for dis- tributing chemicals. "If there is a short cut in the tedious chain of life in the sea we want to find it. On land, the pig and the cow are most effi- cient meat makers. Corn plus water equals a porker, Grass plus water equals a beefsteak "We're looking for the nig of the sea." -- From NE:WI'STE'EEle. Q. When two girls are tvalic. ing together and meet a bra' who is a friend of one or the girls and he stops to talk, sloes the other girl stand by while they converse or does she walk en slowly? A, She should walk on slowly until her friend rejoins. her — unless, of course, her friend holds her and introduces her 10 the boy, MENTAL )3LOCK OVERCOME -- Alice Marie Combs, 4, (centre), she little girl with the big Intelligence Quotient (138 t,(;),) will he adopted by the only parents she has ever known, Mr, and Mrs. Richard Combs, following a change in a State Child Macre Board ruling. The Board reversed a two-year•old de- 'cilion which would have separated the foster child from her parents because they allegedly did not provide the proper col - .twat environment. Also happy to have their sister back ares tt>q Coombs' other girls, Gall, 1, (left), and Sheri, 2. TEARS FOR A LITTLE BOY — Faced with an order to surrender 3 -year-old Richard Guy Montemorra, center, after rearing him from infancy, John Vesta and his wife Concetta shed tears in a Brooklyn court. CL GERERN' Gwead.olin.e P. CLcaxlve Well, at least I ala in good company. Or am I — that's ,a de- batable point? Anyway Mr. Khrusiic'hov and I have one thing in common . . we are both re- covering from "flu". And if com- plications for you, Mr. Khrush- chev, were the sante as they were for me you would not be doing too much talking for a change. How was your tongue, Mr. K.? After the fever had left me my tongue was so rad, swol- len, dry and cracked I was in absolute misery. 'You may re- member, Mr. K., that if you touch frozen metal with wet fin- gers they stick together. In just that way after falling asleep I would wake up to find my tongue sticking to the rcof of my mouth. So, like you, Mr. K., T had to cancel several engagements. There was a pot -luck luncheon at one Institute meeting and a grandmothers meeting at an- other, both of which I had prom- ised to attend, But how could I address a meeting with a swol- len tongue? Or de justice to a pot -luck luncheon when every morsel of food I tool., instead of being chewed, would have to be rolled around in my mouth and then swallowed. Such a con- dition, to say the (east, would make it impossible for remarks to fall with their usual fluency from the tip of out's tongue. However, atm would have more time to thick and perhaps be a little mere c:utti0us In saying what one might othc>'wise have said without too much consider- ation. And that, I think, applies to you, Mr. Khrushchev, more than it does to me. Well, so much for that. And now, barring unforeseen compli- cations, Mr, IX, it looks as if you and I might both be around for a little while yet to use 0114' influence, good or bad, on a long-suffering public. But 1 have a problem — and' it night well be that Mr. K. and 1 again have something in com- mon. My doctor says — "'Take off some weight — you must be eating too much!" Well, now before you get the idea I have the proportions u1' a porpoise let me say that I am 5 ft. 7 and weigh 150 lbs. 1 don't like cakes or pastries, hardly ever rat dessert at dinner, don't go in for snacks between meals or at bedtime. Always drink skim milk and have lots of cot- tage cheese; have very little' fried food, so where can I cut down? 1A1.1ar'S SAeeli,> u pure, Nurse{ hitt or rhinal" At home, and away from home, people laugh because I eat so little. "What do you .live on?" they ask. And yet I must admit the bulge amidships is definitely there. I ant not allowed strenu- ous exercise so I can't help my- self that way. Incidentally I don't drink — other than tea and coffee. So where do I be- gin? Anybody any suggestions? Can someone tell me how to take off ten pounds? I am not really very interested in food so it should be easy — and yet it isn't. Oh well .. . What comes next, I wonder? While the Soviet Union was reaching for the moon, the Unit- ed States has gone one better and has a satellite circling the sun. A phenomenon that sounds too fantastic for the person with Cute and Cool Daughter looks so pretty in this whirl -skirted pinafore. Col- orful embroidery trims neck. 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I was wandering around the house in the small hours and knew it must be taking place by the queer light but the moon wets riding too high in the sky for me to see it from any ee our windows, mainly beeattee of the metal awnings. At zero I certainly wasn't going outside lo do any moon -gazing. I thought the moon could go into oolrpse and out of it without any assist- ance from me — which it did, But Taffy didn't like it at all. Several times he started barking and I noticed rabbits stuttering across the snow as if wondering what it was all about. And now the weather! Of course everyone is talking about the weather . such a long, cold winter and no let-up in sight. Apparently the last month has established some kind of a record — never once rising above 32 degrees. 7 have just looked up last year's columns, written in March and at that time we were battling floods, following a sudden thaw. That is something that may be in store for us again before too to:ig — and then we may wish for the snow back again. Once we get a change m the weather there will sure be plenty of water around here, maybe some flood- ' ed basements, But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, This time last year we had Ross staying here while his baby brother was getting himself born. Now Ross is three years old and Cedric has just celebrat- ed his first birthday. So many milestones come along each year in a growing family. Dee is fed up with the winter — says all she does is put on and take off snowsuits and overshoes. Oh well, the winter can't last for ever. More birds around every day; sun warm and bright. Some- time a wind will blow from the south and father will be running ditches instead of shovelling snow. If you feel downhearted think what's happening in other parts . of the world. We are lucky — if we'd only stop to realize ik trcm a Voyages Serubi cel and polished until every braes rail shone, the U.S. !t 004' y cruiser Northampton steamed through the Baltic nue afternoon recently, . its prow cleaving a passage through '.ltsa thickening ice Aboard were 1,200 officers and men togged out fn their best blue winter uniforms in preparation for the civic re- ception that awaited them et Stockholm, Alas, 25 miles from the Swed- ish capital, the Northampton got stuck in the ice. And instead of the Americans going ashore to meet their hosts, the Swedes — by the hundreds - donned ice skates and skis and sped across the ice to greet the embarrassed cruiser. "HII, WELCOME TO SWEDEN," the Swedes sprawl- ed on the ice, Capt. Harold G. Bowen Jr., the Northampton's skipper, promptly offered them coffee and cakes. Across the Bal» tic, another ship, the German freighter August Peters, was get- ting a very diftferent reception. The North German city of Kiel had forced it to move to the most remote anchorage available, and as it finally steamed away, flying the red flag of danger, Germans sighed with relief. The reason; The August Peters ear- ried a load of 28,000 shells el the, deadly gas called "tabun," devel- oped by the Nazis and capable of wiping out whole cities in a mat- ter of minutes, A stockpile al ta- bun shells fell ire the hands of the British at the and of World War II, and was dumped into the Baltic. Recently, it occurred to Kiel authorities that the rust- ing of shell cases might release some of the gas, and eves set off a chain -reaction explosion, of the whole lot. Hastily, they !hauled up the shells, then encased' there in heavy cement -coated contain- ers, and loaded them onto the August Peters. Their next des- tination: The bottom of the - South Atlantic. An executive is a man who, decides; nontetimes he decides right, but always he decides.— John Patterson. Churches in the Round Rising in a city famed for its ancient churches, the: modern- istic church of "Jesus the Divine Workman", above, is ars impressive addition to the landscape 1>a Rome, Italy,... Tilercircular main portion stands next to a belfry that rises. 183 feet and is topped with a 37 -foot cross. Below, booking more like a coke oven than part of a church, this odd brick struc- ture is on the grounds of the new Skorpnack Church being constructed in Stockholm, Sweden. The "igloo with a port- hole" was built especially for youngsters of the congregation to play in. it can be used, for instance, by a Scout Patrol.