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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-02-09, Page 3When The Kids Were Snowed In At School "There won't be many peeple corning to the store today," Papa said, looking out of the kitchen window one wintry Morning, "Snowing hard - blowing too. Good day to begin Inventory." "Maybe it's too stormy for us to go to school," I said, though not very hopefully, it wasn't that I didn't like school, but a change in routine was always welcome, "Maybe I could help take inven- tory.I could hand -things-" But Mamma shook her head and said firmly, "It won't hurt warmly dressed children a bit to walk less than half a mile on a straight road to school." Our Deer Forest school was not in the village but nearly hall a utile out, for it had to be located in the centre of the district it served. "We used to walk a mile and a half to school when I wa`s Tour age and think nothing of slth added, "A little snow- storm never stopped us." "And I walked three miles -, glad of the chance to do it," said Papa, "Milked seven cows first and did a lot of other chores," He had often told us of how he worked for his board and room so that he could go to school when he first came over from Norway, I could easily see there wouldn't be any use to press my request. "Come and have some buck- wheat cakes and sausages and you'll feel like getting out -in the snow," advised Mamma, "And you can take your dinner." This was such an unusual concession I was almost reconciled to go- ing, It always irked me a little to be told that I didn't have the same hardy outlook on life Mam- ma and Papa had had in their early youth, and I was somewhat eheered to find, on arriving at school, that the farm .children who lived any distance had stay- ed at home this stormy morning. Apparently they wern't as hardy as their parents had been either. Miss Ellen seemed pleased that so many of us had managed to get there. Indeed most of the 'village children, excepting the very little ones, were on hand, and we gathered around the big, gedhot stove, spreading out our imats and mittens to dry on va- grant seats. Miss Ellen said she wouldstart the day by, reading "The First Onowfall" by James Russell Lowell, and I listened enraptur- ed as she began: "The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping fields and highways With a silence deep and white," Mr Lowell might have been right seTe in our little Wisconsin vil- lage. Our fields and highways were certainly heaped "with a silence deep and white." With our smaller numbers, lessons and recitations went more quickly than usual. We had time for a song or two before the noon hour,,and then we gathered around the stove which some of the big boys. from, Miss Crab - tree's room upstairs kept well- filled with wood from the stack in the hall, and opened our din- ner pails. Hearty sandwiches of meat and homemade bread, cake and wedges of pie,, " doughnuts, andcookies were exchanged. Most of us went home at noon so this was a great treat. Miss Ellen ate with us and told us stories of her own childhood in South Dakota, and of how they would sometimes be snowbound for days and have to dig a.tun- nel .from house to barn in order to care for the animals.' "Like in 'Snowbound,' " I said eagerly, for Mamma had often recited -part of that poem to us, Miss Ellen nodded and said it we kept 'on with our work at the rate we'd been going, she'd read some of it to. Us. By, this time •I was enjoying myself so much I hoped the snow would continue for several days, It never occurred to me that there might be any trouble about getting home. But as the after- noon went On KissEllenglanced oftener and oftener 'out of the window, an anxious look on her face. She was reading "Snowbound" and had just finished "A smooth white drift the brush - pile showed, A '.fenceless drift what' once was road" when there was a tap at the door. As Miss Ellen answered . it I caught -a glimpse of my sitter Ethel standing there and it seem- ed to me she looked frightened, "Miss Crabtree would like to see you," she said, and MIss Ellen, with a parting; injunction to us to be quiet and study while she was gone, disappeared, She was back in a few mom- ents looking very 'serious. She glanced out at the storm 'once more then turned and faced us, • her eyes steady. "There have been no sleighs on the road for Milch over an hour. Miss Crab- tree arid.I couldn't send you out on these drifted roads, And we're not sure that anyone can get through to us. It may be we'll have, to stay here all night," A gasp of surprise and dismay seemed to go up front the, whole room. For one swift moment I wondered if Mamma would be worrying about us. And What about supper? "Most of us had food left in our dinner pails which we can share," Miss Ellen 'was saying, her voice quiet and matter-of- fact. "We have plenty of wood at hand. We can spread our coats on the floor for sleeping; if necessary," "Like Snowbound," someone said. Someone else. giggled, Suddenly Miss Ellen. smiled, and that warm, bright smile lift- ed our spirits, "I needn't have worried about you people," she said. "Granddaughters and grand- sons of pioneers,•I can see that!" We finished the afternoon ses- sion in finestyle, and then Miss Crabtree came downstairs, since our room was easier to heat. Miss Ellen got out a little sew ing-kit that provided items need- ed for games. We felt very grown-up playing, "Button, but- ton, who's got the button?" and "Hide the thimble" with the older boys and girls, Miss Ellen and Miss Crabtree and a few others stole •anxious. glances toward the window When they thought no one was look. ing, but dusk came early, the. kerosene lamps were. lighted; and any; view of the snowy world was shut out. Most of us were having too good a time to care just then, and it was fun to open the din- ner pails once more and see what kind.of a supper we could pro- vide. It wasn't very hearty, but no one complained. Supper over, I suddenly began to want very much to see Mam- ma, and I knew some of the others were feeling pretty for- lorn too, Miss Ellen seemed to realize it, for she said briskly, "Now, we're going to do some singing. What shall it. be?" One of the big boys called out, "Jingle Bells" and'it was so ap- propriate that everybody laugh- ed. We began to sing so lustily we didn't hear the knock at the door, But Miss Ellen did, and when she flew to answer, we all stopped singing and trooped af- ter her, There stood Papa and Mr. Gus- tafson from the livery stable, • looking like snowmen, their big fur overcoats and caps caked with white, I flew at Papa, Snowman or not, he never look- ed so good to me. "We had a time getting the CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1, Motor coast' 4, Illimitable B. Clever stratagem 12 Peer'Oynt'e mother 18. Ireland 14. Tardy 15 Make necessary 17 Public lodging house. 18 Vase 1t Jostle 2i Scabbard 24 F'i'st game in a series 27. NUmberof votes recorded 23. Voting eel.. 80. Sinning • syllable 31. Bitter vetch 82 belief a of R3. Dispose of. 84 While 85. seat of iustlee SO. Brletlo 87, Ricochet 30 Tray 41. Girl's name 43. Meadow. barley 44, Broiler' 40 Superinte0d 00 Old Fr, diet! measure M. Whale 58 . Take to collet . Dodihet It Milne 6, q 68454' i, O'Fnaat,ioee 4e. Shoehonoan Indian 11. Fencing dummy 18. 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We can get everybody into Deer Forest all right, and any children from. the country we'll find place for in town." Never had coats and caps gone on faster. Descendants of pio- neers we might be, but home, safe and comfortable, sounded very appealing. All the way there we sang "Jingle Bells:' Mamma didn't say . a word when we got home -. just hug- ged us. After we were fed and tucked into bed, I heard her say to Papa, "This is something the girls will remember all their lives." She gave a big, sigh. "And so will I." By Alta Halverson Seymour in the Christian Science Monitor. Still Dangerous Stuff To Handle At 4 o'clock one afternoon re- cently, two young soldiers and a sailor entered SL -1 - Station- ary Low Power Reactor One - at the Atomic Energy Commis- sion's National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Their job was to hook up the control rods that keep the ura- nium core of the reactor from fissioning too fast and running away. Then SL -1, which the AEC is developing for remote Army posts, could be started• up after a ten-day layoff. At 9:02 p.m., the alarm bells in the fire station nearby started clanging. When rescuers entered the reactor building, they found a radiation. level of over 1.000 roentgens (450 to 500 is lethal). The three young men were dead. What probably happened, ac- cording to several experts, was this: A slip-up with the control rods occurred, and the nuclear core started an uncontrollable chain reaction. The uranium fuel. glowed blue -white with heat, turned the water in the core's cooling jacket into steam, and the sudden blast of •heat, 'steam, and 'radiation killed the three men instantly. But the task of determining the precise se- quence, AEC Commissioner John A. McCone explained, "will be difficult because of the presence of radioactivity.". The three deaths were the first to be caused'' by''a reactor, in a delicate enterprise whose safety record is almost perfect. But the accident worried the AEC none- theless. SL -1 is situated in an isolated spot, but what if there should be a slip-up in the huge atomic power plants now being built near large cities? Flies Could Bury• The Entire World The whole world covered in flies to a depth of forty-seven feet - it's a horrible thought! But this could happen if ideal breeding conditions were to last. for a mere twelve months, say anti -fly campaigners who every winter think up new ways of ' fighting the menace of the com- mon housefly. In certain circumstances, say the experts, there might be enough flies to bury every city in the world. But luckily for us, cold weather and casualties in- variably make this impossible. But with every female fly lay- ing 800- eggs which within three weeks can 'become adult flies, the world already has far too many of these pests. Logarithm - Folk songs of lumberjacks. FALRM.F_ROIT ft44�FL34s Diluting the finishing rations for pigs with ground hay in- creases the number of grade A carcasses, despite the fact that fibrous feeds in finishing rations usually reduce the rate and ef- ficiency of gains. This was the conclusion reach- ed by C. D. T. Cameron, of the Canada Agriculture . Experimen- tal Farm, Lennoxville, Que., fol- lowing tests there, N N 4: Mr. Cameron said that a standard finishing ration was compared with one in which ground hay (a timothy -red clover mixture) was used to replace 25 - percent of the barley meal in a similar ration. The two finish- ing rations, one standard and the other altered were fed to separate groups of 24 Yorkshires, from 100 pounds to market weight. N N Results showed that 92 percent of the carcasses from the herd fed the ration containing ground hay graded A compared with 71 percent of those from pigs fed the standard, or unaltered ra- tion. But the pigs fed thestandard ration gained weight more rapid- ly. Daily gains, according to Mr. Cameron, were 1.74 pounds for pigs on the standard ration and only 1.5 pounds for those fed hay in the ration. This, he point- ed out, means that pigs on the ration containing hay require 10 days longer to reach market weight. This extra 10 days, figur- ed in cost of feed and labor; amounted to an increase in the overall cost of the animals of $15. N N w Cows on a dairy farm at Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking O©©:''©©© ©tad.'©©©� ©0M DEMOB I4!©0: OCIO'WOMMEI ©U ©0'la`WWWOW • MONIUM imam MU®F]. "`:0O©E7 ' s©lat7 :, `:D0 ©O© WOMMMO WWW00 OHM @MOM ` ®M®©. WOOL= ®clown©o MOW ©©0 MW1F7'r DOOM : sWO Courtenay, 1.C., never had it so good. And that goes for the dairy farmer, too. The Courtenay, dairy farm, has cut chore time in half by switching over to a milking parlor and bunker silos, The new system replaces one where the cows were kept in a loafing barn and tied in the old star- chion barn twice daily for milk- ing and feeding, Bags of grain and silage from an upright silo had to be man -handled into the mangers. N * N Replacement of the stanchion barn by a double -six, herring- bone milking parlor and of the upright silo and mangers by bunker silos now permits one man to feed „and milk in the same time that it formerly took two men to do the job. Total chore time was 241 min- utes for a 30 -cow herd under the old system and only 139 minutes for 38 cows under the new system. This represented an average saving of four min- utes per cow, N The milking parlor proved to be the greatest time saver. Daily milking time was cut by 30 minutes. The pipeline milker saved another 42 minutes. In- stallation of a bulk tank is ex- pected to cut another 20 minutes from chore time. * N N At the Courtenay farm, now, the grain is fed automatically into the milking parlor. Open- ing the gate to the bunker silos takes but a minute compared with 47 minutes for feeding grain and silage under the old system. While a total of 22 minutes is still required to wash the milking parlor, this is offset by a saving of six minutes in wash- ing the milking equipment and of several hours normally re- quired for cleaning the barn. f * N Extra milk sales are expected to result from the recent intro- duction to Canada of a variety of new liquid dietary foods, most of which are built round a basis of skim milk or skins milk solids, More lisp 40 new prepara- tions of this nature ar-e being sold in the United States and some are , gaining widespread acceptance now in Canada. A spokesman for the Canada De- partment of Agriculture said this development should provide a wider market for solids -not - fat and non-fat milk. Some pro- ducers in the U.S.A. claim that the dietary drinks are competing against fluid milts sales and they demand that milk products D- ing into dietary - drinks should be classified as whole milk. N N. N C. Those who are . interested in losing weight usually do not drink whole milk and it is more likely that consumers of the liquid diets represent •new business to the milk industry and not converts from whole milk diets. It would be time to go into this aspect when the impact of the new product on the industry was better known. Slim milk in both dry and liquid form has been a surplus problem in Canada and any process which promises to absorb more of it should first be given ample opportunity to establish itself among Canadians *120 feel that dietary liquids are the best answer to weight problems. • 11I011 ABOVE SUSPICION Police of Santa Monica had occasion to question William Howard regarding a robbery. That Howard was not the wanted man was proved when he verified his statement that, for the previous 27 days -which included the date of the robbery -he had been pole -squatting at the top of a 85 -ft. high flagstaff as a publicity stunt. • Obey the traffic signs - they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY. J4DAYSOO LESSON Ely Rev. R. Uarelay Warren S,A., S,O. Christ Satisfies Life's Hunger John 6: 35.40 Jesus' feeding of the multitude was another of His miracles that led to a great discourse. I -re. member, hearing a sermon at sixteen years of age, a few months after I had surrendered my life to Jesus Christ. The preacher's text was from our lesson, "There is a lad 'here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes." The lad gave his lunch to Jesus who blessed it and fed the 'crowd. I took courage that day. I didn't have much but I saw that with the Lord's blessing, my little in His hands, could feed many. Jesus can still do wondrous things if we give ourselves wholly to I3im, As the disciples gave out, there was more. So it is; the more we give, the more we have to give. Besides, each disci- ple had a basketful left over. The next day Jesus unfolded to the people the deeper sigufi- canes of the miracle. He spoke the words that form our mem- ory selection, "I am the bread of life; he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst." John 6;35. Jesus Christ, and Him alone, can satisfy the deep hunger and thirst of tna human heart. One day, a heart - hungry woman 'living in an ex- pensive ranch bungalow with the best of furniture, said, "I Snow there is more to life than a beautiful home." Many are finding this true. Many are dis- satisfied and do not know what is wrong. We just can't satisfy ourselves on things. When God formed man from the dust of the earth, He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. We are immortal spirits who will live forever, We are never hale py until we get into, harmony with the Great God who created • us. We find this place ' of rest and peace when we turn Irons our sins and believe on jests; Christ as our Lord and Saviour. He is the, BREAD OF LIFE. LIGHT STEPS - French shep- herd wears fog lights on the stilts he uses to get around the marshy, fog -covered flat- lands of southwestern France near Mont -de -Marson, He uses the lights to see and be seen. ISSUE 5 - 1961 FINGER PAINTING MASTERPIECE - Some critics say this painting Is lust being palmed off as art. Others, including its owner, Mrs. Thee Tanner, who displays it in Stockholm, Swe- den, think It's greet. The piece woo executed by painter Stellon Morner, who first pressed his hands in paint, then onto the canvas.'