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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-02-02, Page 7will Try To Break Underwater Record The world's first underwater endurance competition, with tlome of the greatest skin divers Vori different nations partici- pating, will be held in conjune- tlon with the 1901 Canadian Na- tional tional Sportsmens Show in the coliseum, Toronto, from March 10 to 10.'. This spectacular fea- ture will be under the joint auspices of the Canadian Nation al Sportsmen's Show and Su- preme Divers, Contestants will. vie for cash awards and equip- ment valued at more than $7,000, At least 10 of the world's greatest skin divers, all of whom already hold underwater endur- since records, will be chosen by Lou Singer, President of Su- preme Divers, and his selection committee, to participate, All will attempt to shatter the offi- cial world record of 101 hours, 13 minutes presently held by 22 - year -old Ben Thornton of Port Arthur, Texas. Throughout the competition twelve qualified safety divers and a medical practitioner will be in attendance 24 hours daily in the event of illness or injury to any of the contestants. All of the latter will be re- quired to use uniform equip- ment of fins, mask, snorkel, tank, regulator, depth gauge, compass, wateh and wet suit provided by the sponsors, Three oxygen compressors, two to serve as emergency units, will be especially installed to refill the tanks of skin divers 'while. they remain underwater. A special glass tank has been designed and is being construct- ed for this unique competition. Xt will utilize in excess of 16,000 gallons of water and will contain a special filtering unit and heat- ing system. While underwater the contes- tants will write letters, read books, play cards and resort to other recreations and amuse- ment to idle away the time without expending excessive en- ergy. Strange Noises Puzzle Scientists People living in some rural parts of Kent were puzzled not long ago by what they described as a succession of strange and loud humming noises which they constantly heard while out walk- ing..Others said they heard them lull the sky. The cause of the sounds remains a mystery. Mystery noises of a similar kind were reported from parts of Sussex about thirty-six years ago but went unexplained. In areas of the West of England, too, continuous humming noises heard over a long period before the first world war were never satisfactorily explained. Some came from a lovely gorge which had the reputation of be - big haunted but even the super- stitious scoffed at the idea that the sounds were caused by ghosts. Some of the jnexplicable noises which have been report- ed from abroad at various times have seemedto be subterranean. Scientific investigation has usual- ly failed to account for them. They have been heard in Italy, Holland and parts of the United States. In North Georgia is a chain of precipitous mountains known as the -Blue Ridge. There, at many different points and in all kinds of weather but invariably to- wards evening, sounds described as resembling those of distant cannon were heard over a num- ber of years, but no one ever dis- covered what caused them. TEST SPIN — Marine Col. John Glenn, one of the seven astron- auts training for Project Mercury at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Task Group, wears his space suit while sitting in the capsule of the Mercury Procedure trainer, The trainer is used to train the astronauts in the,use' of manual controls to keep the space capsule in proper altitude while in orbital flight. Stay in School Or Live To Regret It There is a grim warning to teen-agers in the survey of school "drop -outs" just complet- ed by the United States Depart- ment of Labour. They are going to have a tougher and tougher time getting jobs. Also they will earn much less over their life . spans and job satisfaction will be appreciably lower than it might have been with a finished high school education, The Labour Department stu- died 26,000 students in seven widely scattered areas of the country. The conclusions of the survey are plain and unequi- vocal: Less money; less skilled jobs; less rapid advancement, greater chances of unemploy- ment. One of the surprising items turned up in the survey is the reason most youngsters leave school early. Itis not economic necessity, It is just plain bore- dom. In part this may be due to the lower IQ's (on the aver- age) of those who fail to finish high school. In Minnesota, a state advisory committee on employment of youth already is working on a state program to meets -the chal- lenges of youth employment in the 1960s: It is well recognized that the untrained and the un- skilled will have a much more difficult time of it from now on. In a highly technological society there will be fewer and fewer unskilled jobs available.' The bright side to this picture is that the demands for the train- ed, the educated, the competent promise a good future to almost any youngster willing to pre- pare himself. Studies show, in fact, that the demand for skilled youth will exceed the supply in the next decade. The warning is plain: Stay in school, get a high school diplo- ma, go to college if you can, make a definite preparation for your lifework. This would be good advice any time, of course, but it is particularly compelling in this fast moving, rapidly ad- vancing dvancing age in which we lives— Minneapolis ive:Minneapolis Star. C y n i c — A sentimentalist whose feelings have been hurt. 'ILULU' IS A DEADLY LADY — "Lulu," the U.S. Navy's atomic depth bomb, is shown hanging from an HSS -1 anti-submarine. helicopter. The bomb can be handled by nearly all Navy air- craft and its "kill radius" gives enemy submarines, virtually no chance to escape. FASHIONABLE — Ondine (read name: Anne Marie Sil'le) is a new star among Paris fashion models, She models the crea- tions of Serge Matta. Top Cowboy — From New York State-, The first time Harry Tomp- kins rode a horse was almost the last. A short, slender 14 -year- old, growing. , up in Peekskill, N.Y., he cleaned out stalls at a local riding academy to earn a free ride. 'I thought you just got on and did it," Tompkins re- calls. " I found out different. Afterward, I had to hold my pants away from my legs where the skin was rubbed raw." But he came back for inure and last month, as the National Finals Rodeo wound up in Dal - his, 33 -year-old Tompkins,. who never stepped out of New York State until he was 20, was firmly established as the top rodeo cowboy in 'the U.S. With close to $35,000 earned in 1960, Tomp- kins replaced Oklahoma's Jim Shoulders as the national all- around rodeo champion. 'Harry," drawled Shoulders, a leathery cowpoke, "is the best Yankee I ever saw." After his introduction to horses, Tompkins rode every chance he found. From cleaning out stalls, hegraduated to a job on a dude ranch near Peekskill • and then, in 1947, entered the rodeo at New York's Madison Square Garden. :."I figured you did it just for fun," he said. "I didn't know you could win money." But Tompkins, without experi- ence, won $315 riding bulls and. decided to try the rodeo circuit. In 1948, his first full year of competition, he becamebull rid- ing champion. He repeated in 1949 and 1950 and, in 1952, won the bull riding and bareback bronc titles. Through his balance (perfect- ed by tightwire walking) and his surprising strength (be is only 5 -foot -8 and 152 pounds), Tompkins has gained a reputa- tion as the most stylish of bull riders. "He thinks faster than, 99 per cent of us,' says Bill Linderman, who has won almost a half million dollars in twenty years at rodeo, But last year, in Hutchinson, K a n s,, Tompkins was almost knocked out of ro- deoing. Riding a tough bronc, he tore a cartilage in his knee and had to have it removed sur- gically. "You better find some- thing else to do," his doctor ad- vised. Tompkins ignored the advice and enjoyed his finest year in 1060. Does he worry now about injuries? "The most dangerous part of rodeoing," Tompkins said, "is go- ing from one rodeo to another -- by car or plane." Economy Flight Over From Britain "I told our Alice I didn't want coy fish an' chips tonight, I know they'll serve a meal as soon as we get away from Man- chester, or after we leave Prest- Wick." I looked at the Woman beside me on the plane. Straw colored hair, pink cheeks, even features, fine wrinkles of experience un- der shrewd, gray eyes; and neat, small ears pierced with tiny chip diamond earrings. We sat three abreast, and she was wedged in the middle, "They sure pack them in on these economy flights." This Vern the man in the aisle seat, I sat by the window. We fasten- ed our seat belts, in accordance with instructions, "You're from Lancashire?" I ventured, as my neighbor drop - bed her left shoe on my right foot and said, "Ee, by gum!" when her other shoe slid out of sight under the seat in front of her. "Aye. But I've lived in Toronto since I was wed. Me daughters were born there, and me grand- children. I just 'aye to get this jacket off." I helped her out of the heavy sports coat. "It's a lad's jacket really," she confided, "for me fifteen year old grandson. Six foot two. I'm fair drowned in it. Didn't want it weighed in." "Writ a dreary 'ole that Man- chester airport is, And on sooch a night. It's been a right wet summer 'asn't it?" I agreed, "But I'm sorry to be leaving," my Lancashire neighbor added, "I've 'ad a champion time with me sister and 'er family. Now we're going to get our dinner." The stewards and stewardesses were pulling down the trays at the back of the seats and supply- ing the passengers with cutlery. "Turkey," said the man on the aisle end of our row, "a regular dinner, and it's nearly midnight." "We shall get breakfast too," our experienced Lancashire friend informed us, "before we get to Boston. Happen at three in the morning, We're due there at five. I 'ope that turkey's ten- der, on account of me new teeth. That's one thing I went 'one for this year. I needed a new set and got 'em free." Then it, was true! One of my Yorkshire friends had told me, "The Americans are coming over here for free teeth and spectacles and operations." "Americans" to him included Canadians. I could- n't imagine any of my friends in the United States trying to get either medical or dental care free, especially after seeing the queues outside the surgeries. The reports had varied: "If you want to go on the panel," one Yorkshireman said to me, "you don't 'really know that you'll get a proper examina- tion. We've two doctors for the panel in my district. One Eng- lish, the other a Pole. We all try to get the Pole. He does ex- amine you. Seems to care about you. Aye, aye, I know there's always a long queue, and a lot of folk that never would have gone to a doctor before go now if they've nobbut a scratch on their finger." "Our Alice's lasses are going to university," my Lancashire plane companion informed me, hastily withdrawing, a turkey drumstick from the tip of my nose and drawing her elbows closer to her side. I tried to work my arms loose for action on my own dinner. "They can go free, can't they? That's wonderful." "Aye. That's grand — right through high school and univer- sity. When I was a lass you'd to pay for both," Miss Ramsey had talked to me about that, I recalled the week before. My former Latin teach- er, now retired, happily engaged in papering and painting her own house, and taking lessons in dressmaking at the Technical College, had approved of the free education but deplored the willynilly allowances for chil- dren. "Getting paid large sums just for having children," she complained, "it's unjust to the spinsters. There's a family in the next street. With allowances for school children, and some of them are teen-agers earning high wages, they've a total of forty- five pounds a week coming in. And the elderly spinster next door to them, with an income of two or three pounds a weelc, has to pay the same taxes." I remembered asking her why people did not take such things up with their representatives in government. "Well," she said slowly, "I've thought about do- ing that, myself. But, really, their common-sense should tell them, shouldn't it? They should know what's 'wrong without any letters from me," "How do you like the painted doors?" I asked my seat com- panion, to take her mind off the tact that I was gently removing her overnight bag from between my feet and depositing it be- tween her own feet, CLASSIFIED ADVTISI AGENTS AGENTS WANTED Peter - tasted MALE. torsell Ban Lon sweaterbso wrest to. wearer? Full or part time. k511gb quality and exclusive styles, High Cora.. missions and bonus- paid. 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Be thefirst and the only member of your community to own a protected fully licensed and exclusive COIN - WASH STORE, Call collect or write Coinwash (Eastern) Ltd. 125 The Queensway, Toronto, 15, Ont. CL, 9.8633, COINS "THE old Canadian and U.S coins you have been sating are worth money". We will pay Cash for wanted coins. Premium price list 250, shows the coins desired. Victoria Street, Toronto Company, FARMS. FOR SALE MARKHAM; for sale, 50•ncre farm, house, all conveniences, good barn, river running. across property. J. B. Johnson, R.R. 1, Stouffville. ELECTRIC BEDDING BE COMFORTABLE I Use electrically heated bed pad, direct from England 512.00, two for $21.00. Written 2 year guarantee. grant SchmidtonDCo.. 4511 Garrison, F -OR SALE OR LEASE SERVICE station with large show- room on busy highway, 2 miles north of Wallacetiurg, adjoining marine busi- nessalso available if party interested. Write H. G. Patterson, R.R. 3, Wallace - burg. Phone MAyf air 7.5580. FOR SALE — MISCELLANEOUS CHEQUE Protectors: Reconditioned and guaranteed. Several models. Very res. sonable. Information: T. H. Graham, 296A Glenforest. Rd., Toronto 12, Ont. HELP WANTED MALE "QUALIFIED printing pressman to operate automatic Miller cylinder presses color experience neeessarYJ publication plant; prevailing rates with • benefits to right applicant. Apply superintendent, General Printers Lim- ited, 57 Simcoe Street South, Oshawa, Ontario, RAndolf 3.2233." BEEKEEPER. Position open April 17, 1961, in one of Canada's largest bee- keeping businesses for experienced beekeeper with- chauffeur's license. Write to Rideau Honey Co. Ltd., epihitno'ig experi- ence,eghadweghtreferences, and any other helpful information, en- close photograph. INSTRUCTION EARN Morel Bookkeeping, Salesman- ship. Shorthand, Typewriting, etc. Les. sons 500. Ask For free circular No, 25. Canadian Correspondence Courses 1290 Bay Street, Toronto. MEDICAL POST'S ECZEMA SALVE BANISH the torment of dry eczema rashes and weeping skin troubles. Post's Eczema Salve will not disappoint you Itching scalding and burning eaze. ma .acne. ringworm, pimples and foot eczema will respond readily to the stainless odorless ointment. regardless of how stubborn or hopeless they seem. Sent Post Free on Receipt of Prig PRICE 53.50 PER JAR POST'S REMEDIES 1565 St. Clair Avenue East, TORONTO "Oo—they're right cheerful, aren't they?" "Yes, pink, and green, and hy- acinth blue, and orchid really de dress up those rows of black stone houses round Manchester." "And anoother thing," she said, "all me old friends, folk I work- ed with—I was a spinner in a cottonmill—own their own 'ouses now -buy thein from the Corporation, so much a month. They've washing machines and bathrooms and even refrigera- tors. And cars, some of them!" "Time to go to bed," I remark- ed. The stewards were dimming the lights all along the aisle. "But it's not easy to get any- thing done, my neighbor added, yawning. "Our Alice wanted er winders washed, A cheeky lad about thirteen came, with 'is pail and rags, and said, 'Give us a pot o' tea first' And she 'ad to put the kettle on and make 'im sandwiches afore she got a stroke o' work out of 'lin. It never stopped raining all .." That was where I fell asleep, and when I woke up it was still dark, and the stewards were bringing the morning orange juice. I crawled over the legs of my fellow passengers. If I could reach the washroom before the general stampede in that direc- tion . . , my small plastic bag flew open, and the contents spilled in the aisle. I recovered all except my toothbrush, And what was more, as I crawled about the stocking feet of' my fellow passengers, I found my hat—the chic little straw with no trimming, which depended for its smartness entirely on its lines, It was folded in two.. "Please fasten your seat belts. . . 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ISSUE 4 - 1961 1960 ---BIGGEST CIGARETTE YEAR Average Smoker - 197 Packs in 1960 Record 489 Billion h4 F„am Ci•eratttess Sold y��,r HEAP BiG SMOKE -- Desp'te higher taxes and health scares, Americans smuked more c 9- arettes in 1960 than ever be- fore, Department of Agricul- ture figures show that 489 bil- lion cigarettes were sold dur- ing the year. This averaged out to 197 packs, see Newschart above, far every person ..of, smoking alpe in the, nation...