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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-03-02, Page 7Australia Puts Up An Iran curtain Australia's bloodthirsty wild dogs, the dingo; are on the ram, page ina new burst of savage slaughter. In some eases, a Sin- gle dog has slain '600 full-grown cheep in a night, Dingos teach their pups to be. killers, just as prehistoric tribes taught their young men. They kill sheepafter sheep, not be- cause of hunger so much as the sheer lust of slaughter. So powerful are the dog's wolflike jaws that once it grips its prey it never lets go, but. tears away the flesh in huge chunks. Yet the dingo itself is no big- ger than a -collie and when kept in a zoo looks as docile and com- panionable as any family pet of similar build, Until recently, however, clin- gos have been destroying 500,- 000 sheep and lambs a year in Queensland a 1 o n e. Attacking most persistently in the prov- ince's western area, the marau- ders have driven many wool breeders into the bankruptcy courts. According to government esti- mates, they have reduced this region's sheep population from 41,000,000 to 13,000,000 since 1950. But now graziers have esta- blished a new defence line, 7,000 'miles of closely -meshed iron fence to hold off killer packs. In Queensland the fence is 3,500 miles long, 6 ft. 6 M. high, com- pletely enclosing 210,938 square miles . of richest sheep -raising country. In the same area, some 600,- 000 cattle are pastured, and din- goes feed. just as savagely on calves as lambs, ,This new barrier now links up with an. older 1,700 miles of fencing, running over mountains, through lush valleys and rich farmlands to South Australia, where it reaches the shores of the Great Australian Bight, There is a third "iron curtain," forming a safe breeding area for cheep in Western Australia. These fences have to be pe - trolled like any war -time fron- tier. Kangaroos don't like such ob- structions. Some charge the fence at high speed and crash ' through, leaving gaps for prowl- ing dingo packs to sneak in and run berserk among flocks and herds. Descended from the wolves of Asia, the dingo First came to Australia as the pet or hunting d.ogof migrating aborigines. It's easily the most •destructive im- migrant the country has ever received! CAUTIOUS — Sandy Cooper, 16, comes up wish a pair of snow goggles as protection against sun and snow. These goggles had previously been to the Antarctic. SOFT LANDING — Donald Brock 28, leaps a hurdle on snow- shoes during competition in Lewiston, Maine. He holds the 440 -yard snowshoe dash record. Sea Voices Sound in Stln. Francisco In San Francisco and its variegated environs, people' not only talk about the weather, they listen to it, too. This is the sea- son of our tures, the time when loly fog occurs nearly every morning at the mouths of our rivers and bays: These fogs are unlike to great clouds of moist catspaw fluff that stalk in, archbacked like Hallo- we'en, on mid$umnier afternoons on the coast, from Alaska almost everywhere south - to the Santa Barbara archipelago. These tules steal in after .mid- night, silently down the rivers and canyons in the coast range like nocturnal back -fence prow- lers. The tules come off the delta marshes when the land . cools down, bringing their music with themas their gray tails flick past the lighthouses and fog stations that are massed like the San Francisco Symphony around this great mountain -rimmed, sea - washed orchestra pit. These tules have a London look to them, but the sound is orchestrally pitched to coastal California in its doleful diaphony. They make our midwinter morn- ings musical in the way that Scottish bagpipes perhaps wake the Highland mists with their shrill reveille. Only our sym- phonic arrangement of ocean fog signals speak their sonorous warnings to groping mariners in a deeper and more vibrant range all around the rim of the sea that surrounds two-thirds of this cold, dripping city. This is the kind of music that better lends itself to the sensitive interpretation of one of our sea- beaten old bar pilots than to the San Francisco Symphony's fam- ed Maestro Enrique Jorda. They have an "ear" for all this fog, these San Francisco pilots, and the romance of its serious music is enriched by their wary transla- tion of sounds into places in the cold gray veld of these midwinter mornings, writes Harlan Trott in The Christian Science Monitor. "Ahoy, there," yelled. a "lost" aeronaut spotting a farmer gaz- ing up at him through a rift In, the fog, "where am I?" "Up in, a balloon," shouted back the farmer. This Is just the kind of a.dilem- ma the fog stations dispel for the San Francisco pilots, so that even when there is no break in the fog they bring their ships n MCVtES IN THE SKY' Movies will be a regular thing this spring on TWA jets, Showings will be given on all nonstop coast-to-coast and ;transatlantic flights, A 16 -nim projector focuses on .a •screen at the front of the first-class cabin, In- dividual hea`sc;s,are used for the soundtrack. safely to sea or to port as much by ear as by compass. Cold type does not lend itself very well to describing the or= ehestral variations by which the San Francisco bar pilot plies his uncanny trade. Somewhere be- tween the Farallon Islands and the San Francisco Lightship he makes contact between the pilot schooner's jolly boat and the hotting gray monster wailing for him like a lost lamb in the fog. Up the sea ladder goes this horny= Banded maestro. He takes sta- tion far out on the bridge wing, asks the captain for "ahead, -one third," and sings out to the helmsman, "Colne to zero six eight true." After an interim of local silence, the voice inside cries out, "Steering zero six eight true." "Steady, sol" replies the pilot as his ears begin to translate the dismal music rumbling around the horizonless gray waste. Aft of the spaceless ship, on what seamen call a reciprocal bearing, the two-tone diaphone horn on the red -bulled San Francisco Lightship, now only a formless noise, makes her high- 1 o w once -every -three -minutes contribution to the sailors' sym- phony. And astern on thia south- westerly bearing, the knowing pilot reassuringly notes the somewhat fainter but more fre- gUent portions from the "wood- winds", farther out where the Farallon Islands are blacked out in the fog, out of sight but -not out of sound. The Farallon's two - toner lets go with one blast and a group of two blasts every minute. There's a two-second 'wa-a-a-rn," a fo ur-second silence, then another two-second "wa-a-a-rn," followed this time by a one -second silence, then the second two-second blast, follow- ed by 49 seconds of eerie silence. Gradually the "music" astern fades out, but inshore the air horns gradually rise to a Valky- rian tempo as Point Reyes' one blast every 45 seconds, and Point Bonito and Mile Rocks all voice their friendly dissonance at once. By the time the white cylindrical tower at Mile Rocks on the southern side of the Golden Gate - entrance is a twice -a -minute three -second blast broad on the starboard beam, the air. horns on the high red span 'dead ahead are beginning to outshout Pt. Diablo's siren a mile down the Marin shore. Now the rumble of traffic on the bridge intrudes on the au- thentic sea sounds and the fog music is loudest between the midchannel foghprn on - t h e mighty span and Lime Point's rhapsody of diaphragm horn and chime hard under the Presidio shore- of the city itself. The inner harbor orchestration; the air horns of Alcatraz, Yerba Buena, the Western Pacific Rail- road ferry ship, of Fort Mason and Hunter's Point, blend with a medley of pier -head' bells and sirens such as every San Fran- cisco office worker enjoys. In- deed from the far-out Farallons to the mist -scarfed ferry tower, Riese tures make our midwinter mornings one glorious cacophony of fog -muted music. Fight '>f+rain.ng Two SSty!es Snowdrifts were piling up to more than 4 feet, and heavy- weight champion Floyd Patter- son churned his arms furiously as he swept snow off lois maroon (961 Lincoln Continental one night recently; After driving from his Spring Valley, NX.,. training camp to watoh his younger brother, Raymond, fight in the New York Golden Gloves (he'won by a technical 'knock- out), Patterson had stopped at his Long Island home for a mid- night supper. Now, at 2 a.m., the champion had no thoughts of CLA$$FI[D ADVERTISING BABY CHICKS BRAY can give prompt shipment, day- old and pterted chicks, Sone Ames In - Cross end, other breed pullets, to 10 week old, Also, Hatching to order, Book May broilers now. See local agent, er write Bray Hatchery, 120 John North, Hamtltgn. pISHER ORCHARDS' CHICKS OUR 41st, year serving Canada's poultry Industry with baby chicks, famous for heavy laying or efficient meat produc- tion, Sea our catalogue and price list before you order. 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But by 2.30, Patterson, hatless 'and gloveless, hacl dug his car `out of the drifts, By 7,30 after ;passing hundreds of stranded ,cars along the highways, he reached the base of the long hill ;which leads to his training camp, ;Then Patterson parked his car in the side of a drift, trudged up the hill, and, several hours later went back to work. Some 1,400 miles away. Ingemar Johansson, the challenger for the heavyweight title, jogged lazily in Florida warmth. Famous Jungle Doctor Des "There is no cure for my kind of cancer — melanoma. With luck, I have a 50-50 chance to live six or eight months Calmly, D. Tom Dooley made that grim self prognosis in No- vember 1959. The frail, blue-eyed young Irish -American had just received the $10,000 Mutual of Omaha award for his medical missionary work in the jungles of Laos. Earlier that year, Dooley had been operated on at Memor- ial Hospital, New York, for a fast -spreading chest cancer Be- fore "going home" to Southeast Asia, the cocky young doctor, then 32, insisted on making a 40 - day lecture and TV tour of the United States, "begging, bum- ming, borrowing, and from time to time,stealing just a little bit" for his string of makeshift jun- gle hospitals, with mats for beds, close to the Chinese border. His schedule was filled with the zeal of a man in a desperate hurry. Dooley had been in a hur- ry, in fact, since the. Vietminh Communists crushed the French at Dienbienphu in 1954. Then, as a U.S. Navy medical officer, he had helped to evacuate 610,000 Indo-Chinese from Red -dominat- ed North Vietnam, and had stay- ed on in Laos as a civilian M.D. Now, cancer hastened his steps. "Cancer creates fear, and fear comes from ignorance," he told his American audiences. "Cancer should be regarded as just an- other incident in our lives like a broken leg. I want people to see me moving around, talking, planning my life — even though I have a dubious future" Luck was with him. His can- cer temporarily arrested, h e headed back to Laos with enough money from his lectures and from his best-selling books, "De- liver Us From Evil" and "Edge of Tomorrow," to continue his care of thousands of suffering Asians. Two months ago, pain began to bite at Tom Dooley's spine. Taken to a Hong Kong hospital, he was told that he had a "bony deterioration of the vertebrae." The cancer had spread from his chest to his spine. Flown to Mem- ' oriel Hospital in New Yorlc last Dec. 27, wearing a heavy back brace which he called his "iron maiden," Dooley grinned and said: "All right, it's malignant. But I am not going to quit . until my back, my brain, my blood, and my bones collapse," Heavy sedatives dulled his ag- ony; his only visitors at Memor- ial Hospital were his immediate family, and Cardinal Spellman, who an the day of Dooley's 34th birthday last month, paid the sick man a call. "I tried to assure him that in his 34 years, he had done what very few have done in the allotted scriptural life span," said the cardinal, The night after his birthday, Tom Dooley died quietly in his Sleep. From NEWSWIISI( Q. flow can I keep the excess oil from soiling material after oiling the sewing machine? A, This can be prevented by tying a small piece of cotton String tightly around the needle bar, near the place where the bar grips the needle. EASINESS OPP9RTUNlTlUf N10DER1Y soft ice cream and food business ler seta in growing tint% of Port Hope. Excellent loeatien en No. 2 Highway, equipment, inventory $11,- 644. Soiling for personal reaso00, $14,800 ion price, 97,000 down. 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