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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-12-01, Page 7Won Air -Rate By Riding A Train The young man in the Lon- don to Manchester express amazed his fellow -passengers by Incessantly poking his head out et the window. Asked what he was doing, he replied! "I'm win- ning an air race." Everyone thought he was crazy. But young Claude Gra- Ihame-White had his wits aboet ,him that day, fifty years ago, Be had entered his aeroplane :for the London to Manchester /ace, for a prize that would .nowadays be worth $150,000. His enachina was a home-made con- iraption of wood and fabric, and had no navigation instru- ments at a11,. Grahame -While couldn't afford them instead be planned to steer by the rail- way line and had arranged with the railway company to have key points along the track whitewashed, including the roofs of selected junctions, But young Claucle's career be- gan years before — tinkering with a bicycle. He grew inter- ested in all kinds of machinery, and eventually trained as an engineer, He built his own rac- ing -hike, then took to motor- ing on homemade racing models. Then he turned to something sew — to aeroplanes, which at that time were slower than a modern motorcycle and almost as dangerous to the. owner. Nowadays, pilots must train thoroughly before they are al. lowed to fly solo. Not so Gres. 'theme -White. After a few hears with a textbook on the ground, be jumped into an aeroplane end flew, He won the 1VIanchester race and afterwards sailed to Ameri- ca for a- series of contests against machines far more pow- erful and better equipped than Iris own. His 'plane seemed qa primitive by comparison that at first some of the judges refused permission for him to take part, Bet he won through — and amazed the Americans by tab - nig first prize in every race. Back in England again Gra- hume-White organized a unique err -mail service of his own — the first in history -- years be- fore the -Post Office or commer- cial airlines dreamed of such a thing. When he visited the fields that were then Hendon aerodrome. be set about the task of maktug 5t into Britain's number one air- port, In the years when night - /flying was unknown, he staged 43 series of thrilling after -dark .air displays. Within a few years Iris exhibitions of aerial aero- batics had transformed Henden :air display into the finest of it. kind in the world. But Grahame -White never lost his love of motor racing. He was • m frequent visitor to Brooklands ,and on one occasion was racing when a wheel of his car worked Joose and sped into the crowd. A gasp of dismay went up. But Grahame -White went on and evith masterly skill managed to kelp hi. car 00 an even keel to win the race. Seeing the cae lure its µheti, n newspaper reporter there elasht'd for a 'phone booth with - era waiting to discover whet w•t,uld happen and got throe ei le his editor with the headline -- Grahame -White Crashes. When the 11)14 war came. he turned aircraft designer mat seanhlfecturer- on a big scale. Be. eradless of profit or loss- he em- ployed 3,000 workers to make 'planes for the B.E.F. in France. Then by his own choice he disappeared from the world's her:Alines. Between the wars he concentrated on his business. When he died recently, at the rlge of eighty, many young pea• plc had never even heard of him, • A rubber -tired wheelbarrow is excellent for getting your deer carcass out of the woods. It saves a lot of back -breaking work. Tie a rope to the front of the wheel- barrow, so your hunting partner can help pull the load up hill or over nought terrain, ( 51EXLI ti. ' 1 UATE1r1Al.A »i5AIVItttflli;t1 1(iLAltii,ts•A „,,,,, l CANAL ZONE. t;0STA; �, llax�uiia5 PA$AMA fEHfx1JELA t;ttltrlR1A TROUBLE SPOT — The U,S, is prepared for the possibility that the Fidel Castro government may demand abandonment of the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo. Strikes Terror In Hunters' Hearts Every hunter who has rifled. his way up the sporting scale rabbit to white - tailed deer dreams of the day he will turn gunsiphts on a grizzly bear or pump lead through the heart of a moose. Hunters who have shot both prefer to take on a grizzly rather than tangle with a bull noose. This misshapen creature with the massive antlers and misplaced goatee -- he often weighs 1.200 pounds or score -- ti a bulldozer on hoofs, and when the fall rut is on he's spoil- ing for a scrap. Ordinarily, the sight er :cent of man is enough to send a noose about its business. But not if he has his dander up or if some cow moose has just spurned his romancing. One ex- perienced guide told 100: "The males are on the prod for about a month and a half, hut the caws are interested in them for only four weeks, After an amor- ous bull has been Spurned a few times, he gets mad. lie's itching to take on all comers -humans included." Despite their massive -tree, a moose can slip through dense brush almost noiselessly. His eyesight is not good, but his nese warns him of danger long before he sees it. In battle with une another they charge head-on and the impact of their racks meet- ing can be heard a mile away, Another guide not Icing ago told me many tales of the terror hoose struck into the hearts of hunters contr'onted for the first time by one of these majestic brutes. Some threw their guns away and fled up the nearest tree; others froze in their tracks, too flabbergasted to pull the trigger. One hunter was shown moose tracks along the muddy bank of a Jake. took one look at them and then began to pack his gear. Asked where he was going, he replied: "I'm getting the hell out of here. i want no part of anything that makes a footprint like that!" And don't laugh 5.5l hint' Re- mernJJe,', the Cenadisn moose stands six to six and a half feet tall et the shoulder. 'rhe ma -'sive palmated antlers niton spread five or six feet in width and tower nine or ten tel above the ground. His : i„minr is 1, rr ic. I've talked with a hunter 'aha told how he tired, bread idt, et. a moose standing krt•e-ib e p m the Walt -r. ''I 5505 posilivc it was a heart shol," he recalled. "But the critter ,lust stood then•. 1 was getting ready to Ulla cam when my ,guide: told me to call. "He's dead," he said, "If not he'd be running.' "And that's just what happened. That bull rh:.,r6 ed 1' good 20 yards Through the water. then fel! dead as be bit shore. When we 'exanuned him he had a bullet in his heart!" It you have any Vett for this kind et backwoods adv'eniiu'e, contact guides at North Bay, On-. tasia. There's a Northern Lodge on Little Abitibi Lake. whic'Ij is accessible only by air out of Cochrane, and is the northern- most permanent hunt. and fish ramp in Eastern Canada. It covers an area of almost 600 miles from North Bey to Fort Albany, and ,lame Bay. The camp operator directs the hunts out of a Cochrane hotel where, in moose season, you'll hear everything from the slow drawl of a Texan to the jabber of the• Cree and Ojibway Indian. Mil- lionaires climb out of Cadillacs to rub shoulders with squaws badgering flit' advance on their husband's guide pay. Many of the hunting parties are lined up and despatched right from here by plane to the moose hunting g rout) ds. There ;teens to be no explana- tion tor the recklessness of a bull moose charging a railway locomotive or plunging head-on ink - a speeding automobile. In the Chaplettu district of Ontario, where moose :,re plentiful, sev- eral locomotives have jangled with enraged 1)15050. Train crews think the horns of the big diesels call the bulbs to battle. Others say it is just pure cussedness. Out the Temiskanhing high- way, 20 miles from North Bay, a ,sur prised motorist not long ago had his car smashed by a moose which leaped atop it from an overhanging wall of rock along- side which the car was parked. A trapper in the Temagami dis- trict reports being treed fur six hours by a bull which had pre- viously been severely gored in a battle with another moose, writes Ralph T. Burch in "The Police Gazette." The moose, behemoth of the North American Continent, fa- vors the forests of Ontario. Hard hunting after the last war de- pleted the herds so much that nonresident hunters had to be barred, But now tate bars have been lifted, and -in practically all sections of the province where there is moose habitat. the herd has made excellent population gains. During a season of nor- mal weather. moose hunters are extremely _successful. In Some years more than 00 percent of those licensed brine nut animals. There are some hunters ,rhe claim that the lowest powered rifle that should be considered 1nr moose is a .1100 Savage with 220 -grain bullets. I like the .30- 00 for all-round big -cams. hunt- ing in Canada. It weeks equally well on bobeets, deer, wolf or ntnoet by esir;I different c nl weieh1 bullets. Slam a lee -grain Rem- ir,gten Bronet. Point into the spot 01 a moose from 5, .30-00. and he'll told like is wet blanl.et. Some of thr Minting is:: still - hunting. (1000115 are ,tetirnled on peomonteJrics 05 er b c king vast true she. It:M Inds I moose nead- ows1 to wait for mouse to show lhemscl01 1. In this kind of hunt - r t:1, -scopic 010>hts are advie- ablc. Ther: are :till available many guides in Ontario who can can the bull moose to the gun -especially if the, rut is on. In this type of woods hunting, open sights arc adequate, and some- times. preferable So telescopic sights, and most certainly so i1' there is Snow on the trees, .N veteran moose shunter told me of his guide's strange duel with a cow moose: "Jinn, who had called more than 40 moose .ince his boyhood, got the bull on a string almost at once though other caller's had worked that 0500 without Much eucce.:r, It. CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT — Marines hearth civilian employes of the Guantanamo Naval Bose, Cuba. The workers are leaving the job at the end of the day. w is a completely windless after- noon; his calls rolled const; the bilis in a vibrant client. "Phare were I h e familiar sounds of the bull grunting and the breaking brush as it came from. inland. It emerged into a swamp to the west of us, where it was bidden by willow trees oh an intervening point of land. "Though there w a s heavy splashing, it wasn't apparent that a cow was with the bull till more than half an hour after the calling started. Then. over and above the bull's grunting, there caste the wailing baritone of a female. Joe gasped in dismay! He backed the canoe out of the weed bed where it was lodged. With great power, he drove it in complete silence through -the water, to a spot close behind the willow,•, "Ile began to simulate tate summing of a bull,- in hope of arousing the antagonisnh of the beast, There was silence for a long time, and again there was the sound of heavy splashing. Jim switched back to the call of a cow, and the real cow sounded off again, "Jim went through this reper- toire -in full blast. The bull then made its decision. The enticing net• creature behind the willows was the one it wanted. It began to march to its fate step by step, grunting with each water -slosh - inn grunt; a veritable orchestra of grunting filled the air." The veteran moose hunter con- tinued: "I had my rifle ready as 110 walked out in the open, 40 yard. away. From the bottom of the canoe. it looked as big as a house, antlers held high, email eyes fixed right on us. I fired, the beast crumpled, like a tatt- ing wall. We dragged the canoe through the mire, walked in cautiously. It had been killed instantly from the shot." • Because of the fear of being trampled, moose calling is done from a canoe. The sounds of the horn roll across the water, rico- chet off the barrier of spruce and willows lining the shore and scatter in cascading echoes into a bleak October sky. You hud- dle in your canoe and you shiver. But 3 our trembling is not from the cold alone.. You're waiting, tense and hopefully for the first sounds that will tell you -a bull moose is coming to his death. The call lures him from miles away. From the birchbark horn at the guide's lips conies a loud, brassy grunt, almost like a bark punctuated by long baritone wails. One of nature's least feminine Founds,' but, nonethe- less, the call of a lonely cow moose, Your guide is calling for keeps now, swinging his head in wide circles. - "O000-awh!" This is it! You suck on your cigarette — and you listen. Nothing! Then, sud- denly, from about a mile away, you hear it. Then, much closer, the thudding sound of bone striking trees, The guide grunts softly through his horn, then drops it and starts sloshing the water with a canoe paddle to simulate a cow wading in the weed beds of the lake. Silence again, Then a newsy crashing of saplings and a vibrant grunt. A charging bull moose. driven by p n ssion for the cow he thinks awaits him, is an awesome *non- star when he crashes into sight through the spruce trews: This is when you need to know your rifle -- and exaetI\' clove to use it. Nasty Moments For Air -Ghats Flying snhoothiy at 30.000 feel over the German -Dutch border One clay last month, Flight Lt. Frank Stevens suddenly sate a terrifying sight. Two jet fighters were streaking sra•ai:ht toward his Comet airliner at a deadly closing speed — more than 1,000 miles -an hour. Stevens "prepared to do something drastic" — then, at the last "very nasty moment," the fighters banked and scream- ed overhead. They wow leer than 50 feet away. On hoard the Comet. Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, were returning from an informal visit to Den- mark. The Queen shrugged 'all the incident with a 5111110 w-hils• Pnilip was reported to La"c cotn- monied with "unr short word. - But when tMth, r Britons 'newel the news, they exploded The tabloid Daily Sketch syr' ;u) ,1 banner headline 00 it front pogo W ith the demand: WHO .NEAII- t,Y KILLED THE QUEEN'? It was no marauding R'-ssian. Stevens reported, The planes Were American built Sable- lets with "churn great iron crosses under their wins." That forced the embarrassed West German De'f'ense Ministry to start an in- vesti5atial1, expressing "deep re- grets." - Scarcely less embarrassing wee the week's other .airplane mis- adventure - that of Pan Ame- rican pilot Warren Beall, who was taking a load of 41 passen- gers aboard -a Boeing 707 jet I'ronh Frankfurt to London. One knowledgeable passenger, Doug- las McLean, ,arc, )nuked nut the win - 1 tete `I. ADVERTISING AGENTS SALESMAN Appltanoe dealers to sell finest pulp, expelling juicers, stainless steel cookware, literature direct. Jeto' made distributor, 11324 50th Sts., Ed. menton. ARCH: SUPPORTS FEET HURT? Combination Arch Sup - 01%e, Dien l--- Women washable, efts size and width. 93.90 postpaid. Dsvidhtzs1^ Arch Supports, ItollsappJe, Penneyl• v nia, BABY CHICKS BRAY has epeetal prices on raze week old pullets, and started ehtcks prompt shipment. Dayolds, to order, dual pure pone and specialty egg prodtteers Book February -March broilers now. 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