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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-12-29, Page 33 r y. Cie ening Won't Do Any Good Hero In the pattern of things to come, a fellow says they'll have an ultrasonie gadget by the door, and everybody wlio comes in will be cleaned slick as a whistle while passing by. Just step In, and zip; This may be a wonderful thing for city folks, who can take neat- ness in stride, but the dry clean- ing of farm clothes and anatomy may be another matter, It takes a lot of noise to clean me up' right after a typical day, and persuasion will have to be pret- ty good to get me out of niv established pattern. For one thing, I don't believe ultrasonic waves will b or e through a good Maine garb, par- ticularly if crusted with spruce pitch during the winter months. It'd be like an apple maggot try- ing to get into a cannon ball. Starting with long -handled un- derwear and a couple of sweat shirts, a real Maine farmer who is working his pulp lot would have on three or four woolen shirts, a mackinaw, and a pea - jacket. Of course he wouldn't work in all that. While he was up in the woods he'd be layered down to his underwear, and per- haps would have that open at the neck, A fellow working in the woods has little company, and there is no social need to keep the necktie in line or the cuffs neatly short. When you're in a lee spot and the sun looks In, and you keep an axe -handle limber, you can use a sub -zero day with hardly any complaint. Come eventide and the lower- ing sun goes behind yon knoll, and the air hangs heavy with the coming night, such a chap as I speak of would put his clothes back on, hide his tools under a snatch of tops, and drag his weary way homeward over the plod, as the poet puts it. His ar- rival home, in terms of a pos- NO LIMOUSINE -- Ecuador's President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra rides along a ditch on a mule in Carchi Province to Inspect a road construction pro- joct. Transportation is in con- trast with the usual plush cars used by ranking officials. Bible tiltre onic cleaning job. suggests problems, In the first place it is better to ap ;roach the xieitoyage, or loured' ., r, by degrees. First you get to the kitchen rocker and sit down and pant for twenty minutes. The dog, who has slept under your feet all clay, comes and rens his head under your arm to show his deep concern. This is touching. A decent dog subscribing to your fatigue is about as friendly as anything you get. You rub Ms ears. Then you take off your boots and three pairs of socks, Depending on who's around you gradually el- iminate the successive clothing, until you are down to basics, and then you lilt yourself up by pulling on the table and corner cupboard, and you work toward the bawtli. In the old days, and I know, it was kind of fun to do this in a big washtub in front of a red- hot kitchen range, but times have changed, and you lie back in the tub with your nose up like a periscope, and gradually feel the art of living return to your fiber, It is the reverse of Soc- rates and the hemloelc. Meantime the pile of clothes you shed is sorted according to its purposes, and some is hung on a hook and the rest is tossed into the elec- tric washer. As you lie back and absorb the liquid delight of a resuscitative bath, you can hear the washer begin to churn and a rich melody of laundry soap and spruce gum pervades the house. Supper must be attendedso you shortly arise, rub yourself enchantingly with a good towel, and pull on some minor costume which will serve until bedtime. Thanks to the revival quality of a good soaking, you find the fried ham, turnips, squash, pota- toes, boiled onions, succotash, hot biscuits, and two kinds of pie seem to hit the spot. Somehow I cannot see this pattern of delight giving way to an ultrasonic whisking by a pat- ent contraption installed inside the door. I would not want to come up to the house in the full fatigue of a worn-out day and know that I was to be given a once-over lightly by a high -fre- quency tingle. I might come through the machine as pure as a new -opened Bermuda lily, but I would not feel I had absorbed my money's worth. I do not think the transistor will prove a country replacement for the cake of soap. I refuse to believe a high -frequency encounter with invisible noise would do for the pulp cutter what is now done for him by a tub. Summertime would have simi- lar problems, Cleaning out a poultry house has an aftereffect which I doubt if the laboratory desif:ners of our future have adegt:ately considered. Running a crop of hay into the barn, even with modern machinery, leaves you with a taste for something more than an ultrasonic dry cleaning. When you've been on your knees all day in the hot sun, thinning beets, you would not look forward merely to a door over which physicists have writ, "Through this portal passes the cleanest man in town!" By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. Grow A Pahn Tree in Your House Here's .a novel idea that really works! Take the seed from an unpitted date and plant it about one inch deep in well-aerated. open soil. After some time you will have a young "pal's tree" in the house,. But be patient; hor- ticulturists say it takes about two years before the tree be- come, attractive. It's a dwarf variety, very suitable as a house plant. Keep it- well watered. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Nocturnal animal a. Printers' measures 18. Twisted rope of two strands 24. Harden t K. Cir. letter 13. mage flatboats 17.'rag 18. Small Island 20. (var.)atyle of tyre fab.) 85. Sodium symbol 22. r''hnd's naphln 24. Was aware 85, neehrt•e Stale 27. nut Into service qa• 7,1140 a mss rid 30. 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'1' ani fellow t 2 3 4 5 Mala ®l2 I 1 1 4 14. Ira ill 20■1111■ I S1■ae■Iv■ G11 1111 NM IIIIII � I NI Niel* ill !WIN it �■11 11111 ®I ■G.fF: ■U ,:..,:, :.4.: ill ■■e ttAJt 57 III Answet elsewhree on this page CANNED PUMPKIN - Mother Nature canned this pumpkin, Ben Jackson, holding the horticultural freak, found It while. weeding his chicken yard. Now that farmers across Can- ada have successfully harvested approxi mately 1,300,000,000 bushels of various grains from almost 50,000,000 acres, this country faces the even tougher task of profitably disposing of the surplus production on world markets. And, as usual, the greatest problem is faced with bread wheet, a major export grain that Canada's praise farmers specialize in producing by the hundreds of millions of bushels over and above this nation's an- nual requirements. The grain harvest this year ex- ceeded that of 1959 by about 100,000,000 bushels, most of the increase being in wheat and the bulk of the entire production being garnered in Alberta, Sas- katchewan and Manitoba, the prairie provinces that have be- come world-famous as "Can- ada's breadbasket." 5 5 5 Even before the 1960 harvest began flowing from fields, Can- ada was burdened with a carry- over of more than 760,000,000 bushels of the major grains, in- cluding the equivalent of wheat and flour exports for two nor- mal years. Now the stockpiles of all the principal grains are considerably larger, and they have grown at a time when Canada is experiencing increas- ing difficulties in trying to ex- pand its export markets. As a result of the bountiful harvest this year, most elevators across Canada are jammed with grain. Country elevators are so full across the prairie provinces that government -imposed tnar- keting quotas on grain continue to be severely restricted, often permitting fanners in many dis- tricts of the "breadbasket" to deliver no more than one or two bushels per acre from triter 196660 crops. Thousands of these farmers recently harvested Wheat yields averaging 40 or more bushels per acre, so most of the harvest must remain on the farms, writes George A Yackulie in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor. Q: y, Unable to markettheir grain, in commercial channels, most farmers have their granaries filled to the rafters, not a few with grain harvested over the past several years. Increasing numbers of farmers are trying to develop their own markets for their surplus grain produc- tion by expanding livestock feeding operations. Generally speaking„ the lion', ,hart, of Canada's inlnu 11 pro- duction of oats and barley i' used for fattening be: f rattle, hac•on hep and Iambs. 1n recent ye:I0, host ever, more and more wheat also has been oivertod for • such purposes -became.-it could not be sold within govermnert marketing quotas, Using bread wheat for live 33505k latter lig; purpr, ;t;ru 1114;, often yielded better return., 'ski) possible free eraumerciai clan• nels, prairie farmers averaging around $1.20 per bushel for their - best quality wheat when selling it for milling or export. The position in which Canada now finds itself following the better -than -average 1060 har- vest may be treasured from tine following summery for t h e country's principal grain crape; 5 5 0 Wheat -.- The 1060 ha r vest ISSUE 52 --- 1960 yielded an officially estimated 490,532,000 bushels, compared with 413,520,000 bushels last year. As the new crop started coming from harvest fields, Can- ada had a carryovar of 536,220,- 000 bushels of wheat from pre- vious years. Exports during the past grain year amounted to 272,100,000 bushels, compared with 288,900,- 000 bushels during the preced- ing year. The 1959-60 exports included 93,901,339 bushels of wheat to the United Kingdom, 46,836,430 bushels to Japan, 24- 376,058 bushels to West Ger- many, 10,882,302 bushels to Bel- gium, and smaller volumes to the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa, France, Poland, and India in that order of im- portance. w e Oafs - This year's harvest yielded an estimated 451,008,000 bushels, compared with 417,933,- 000 bushels from the 1959 crop. The carryover of old oats am- ounted to 92,526,000 bushels. During the past grain year Canada exported 5,600,000 bush- els of oats, including 2,226,502 bushels to West Germany, 1;249,- 963 busheLs to the Netherlands, 1,103,771 bushels to the United States, and 504,613 bushels to the United Kingdom. Exports during the 1958-59 grain year totalled 7,000,000 bushels. VI Barley - With the acreage in this crop reduced by more than 900,000 acres from 1959, the 1960 h a r v est produced 207,837,000 bushels, compared with 225,550,- 000 bushels last year. The carry- over of old barley amounted to 120,103,000 bushels. Exports during the past grain year dropped to 57,700,000 bush- els, compared with 64,400,000 Upsidedown to Prevent r'ee'king S 1311N 13H.I. I 3d VS Jc13M SOD kld S G a Hb'1 VN -13 3d SVS bushels in 1958-59, The 19594;11 barley exports included 30,136,- 705 bushels to the United King- dom, 13,527,895 bushels to the United States 5,801,000 bushels to Poland, and 4,183,871 bushels to West Germany. 4 . e Eye ---Thanks to Increased yields, the 1960 harvest returned 10,142,000 bus Ise I s, compared with 8,149,000 bushels in 1959,. The carryover of old rye am- ounted to 6,750,000 bushels. Exports increased from 3,200,- 000 bushels in the 1958-59 grain year to 4,500,000 bushels during the past year, and the 1969-60 exports included 4,062,770 bush- els to the United States and 331,259 bushels to the United Kingdon. a O Flaxseed -- With 700,000 more acres in this crop, the 1960 har- vest produced an estimated 25,- 513,000 5,513,000 bushels, compared with 17,719,000 bushels last year. The carryover of old flaxseed was reduced to 4,730,000 bushels. Exports dropped from 14,300,- 000 bushels in 1958-59 to 12,- 500,000 2;500,000 bushels in 1959-60, those during the past grain year in- cluding 5,293,131 bushels to the United Kingdon, 2,682,331 bush- els to Japan, 1,518,406 bushels to the Netherlands, and 707,710 bushels to West Germany. Business is Bad For Witch -Doctors In the Highlands of New Gui- nea, harmless -looking structures, known as "war gates" lie across many tracks. Only bold men go through these gates, which mark the frontier of one tribe from another. Even if accompanied by a mis- sionary, peace -loving natives are careful to skirt round a gate and rejoin the track behind it. If a man went through the gate, says the Rev, Peter Robin, a former Bethnal Green curate, he might be suspected of coming with hos- tile intent, or he might lay him- self open to sorcery. Warring tribes add to the haz- ards of missionary life in these primitive regions. Village sor- cerers try desperately to retain their grip over communities that for centuries have been ruled by magic and superstition. But with the arrival of missionaries they are losing "patients." Some missionary stations are very inaccessible, and goods, landed at the nearest airstrip, have still to be hauled '3,000 feet or more up mountainsides to the mission house. Vest Pocket Size Thomas Edison had pencils custom tailored to his own speci- fications. They were 3 inches long, with a very soft black lead and oversize wood. He always carried one lying flat in his right hand vest pocket. UNMY LESSON By .Rev. 1t. Barclay Warren The Greatest Gift Luke 2: 8-20. Memory Selection: Thanks he unto God for his unspeakable gift. 2 Corinthians 9:15. Let one of the shepherds tell us the story of that eventful night. As we were watching over our flocks that night, lo, the angel of the Lord came skpon us, and the glory of the Lead. shone round about us. We were fright- ened. But our fear sdon gave way to joy. The angel said, "Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings et great joy, which shall be to al: people. For unto you is born this day In the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord, And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." Then, suddenly, the angel was joined by a great company of angels praising God, and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and an earth peace, goad will toward men." Part of heaven had come to earth te give us this wonderful news. After a little the angels left. We were alone wit' our flocka on the hillside. We looked at one another. Of course, we be- lieved the message. We said, "Let us now go even unto Beth- lehem, and see this thing which is come to pees, which the Lord hath made known unto us." We hurried down the hills and into the stable at the Inn. There He was; just as the angel had said, "wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." There was no other sign. There was no halo about His head. The sign of which the angel had told us was sufficient. After all, you don't usually find a newborn Babe lying in a manger. This Babe didn't look particularly different from any other Babe. But we knew that here was Messiah, our Saviour. The angel of the Lord had told us and the sign was fulfilled. We told Mary, His Mother, and Joseph, Hie foster Father. In fact, when we went out, we told everyone who would hear us of the wonderful things we had heard and seen on that memorable night. We gave praise to God and have been praising Him ever since. Our Saviour has come, Him to whom the law pointed, the Prophets spelt:: and the Psalmist sang, halt come, and we were highly hon- oured to be among the first to see Him. We love the Lord Jesus Chriet. "To -morrow never comes," goes the saying. True, but the day after the night before does. BOTTOMS UP - These two chimps do what comes naturally after tiring quickly of their chores in a furniture factory. Specu- lation wos that they might replace humans on assembly line. Seems as though headstands were more to the chimps' liking. DRIVING A HARD BARGAIN ._ A real bargain hunter, U.S. Navy 'Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Cecil H, Francis poses In Jacksonville, Fia., with a 1936 Jaguar he .bought in Englan«t for one pound -- $2.80, The owner could not afford to bring it up is safety standards anal sold it for what he could get.