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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-03-09, Page 3Abut Pumping - ,Also Prlrlr ng Fraser, Colorado, appears sow 'to be a fake. 1 don't even find it in Webster's Geographical Dic- tionary, and during the past cold spell its well-established reputa- tion as the television man's hor- rible example was completely exploded. I have also found I can typewrite , with mittens on, end. thus the winter contributes, to our lore, I came in the other evening to report a genial 38 -below, just as the weatherman was saying. that Fraser was the nation's coldest spot with a minus 22. Since then Fraser has got progressively hot- ter, and we have lost ground, and they tell me this is the 'worst spell in a generation, 1 do rot, however, offer my opinions as solid, for I haven't tried to 'tart my automobile, Nowadays any drop in tem- perature seems important in terms of getting the family .ve- Ihicle running, and the conversa- tional appurtenances thereto, A :man whose conveyance chugs off immediately becomes something of a neighbourhood hero, and he can push his friends and make fun of their models and establish (himself all around, When. it warmed up the other morning 'to minus 18 we were all greatly Selieved and felt the worst was over. Somehow I got to thinking about pruning a pump. W h en F,D.R, began talking about pri- ming a pump for political pur- poses, I used to havea little fun asking the younger eolks if they knew what he meant. I used to wonder if he did. Today you can telephone from a warm kitchen and have 'a garage , man come and start your au- tomobile nicely, but starting the old barn pump was always something you did yourself, and during a spell such as 'we have just had it was a' task only the dreasners would ever Convert by political dimensions into a national desideratum. I have always admitted that 01priming the pump" was the suf- -- s.- . trident reason why I couldn't subscribe to beliefs so many others accepted. Anyway, a pump was made so if you lifted high on the han- dle and kept the pressure aloft for a moment, the barrel would drain. Pf you didn't drain the 'Water back into the well, the freeze-up would prove mean, • And you might burst your equip - Ment. Since every family ,in- gludes one muddle-headed mem- ber who might forget to do *hat, 'it was customary to fix the leathers inside so they would 4radn automatically in cold wea- ther. You took the barrel off and Out a small notch 'in the edge of the leather, Then, if the fumping member of the family orgot, the water would run 'back down anyway with a Burg- ling, gasping, sometimes whistl- fng noise until with a prolonged gloomp the process would be fin- ished and all was safe. Then the pump would cool nicely all night, and I would have to go out in the cold dawn and prime it so all the frost- rimed animals could have a drink. The chore began the night before when you set a pail of water by the stove, to be ready for priming in the morning. We would take our bricks from the oven, wrap them in a snatch of flannel, and 'push them down in our beds to warm our feet, and retire. We had no heat in bed- rooms then, and the air was just as cold and just as fresh 'whether you opened a window ,or not. We liked the weighs of (blankets and comf-tibles, and tucked ourselves away, If any rails pulledduring the night we ,..new it was cold. Unless you remember nails pulling in the roof on a cold night you shouldn't be talking a AND STILL THE BEST — The old way sometimes is hard to improve upon. This team hauls pulpwood out of the woods near Clayton Lake, The horses can go where mechanical equipment fears to tread. about cold weather. The air would be still as a pirate's con- science, the stars close down with their cut -glass edges sharp and blue, and a fox snarling. three miles away would seem to be right under the window, Somehow this built up a stress in the rafters, and when it got strong enough one of the old hand -wrought nails would pop out. It sounded like a pistol shot, closer than any sonic boom, and from deep under your bed- ding youwould twitch in reac- tion and' think about that old pump in the barn and the in- evitable morning. Sometimes the pail of water by the stove would freeze, so ,you'd have to wait while the stove thawed it. In the barn, with steam clouding up from your pail, you'd find the cattle waking, and as they stood up and adjusted to their stanchions they'd turn and watch you. No maestro ever raised his baton with as critical an audience as the.farm boy got when he h'isted the handle on his pump and made ready to pour. The dry, cold, ice -crusted interior of, the pump needed the lubrication of warm water to make it suck again. Sometimes it took a long - long time. The thing is done on sound, es with a' pipe organ. The long hollow reed of iron, down into the depths, gives you a whank- whank noise, when it is empty, but after you have primed and pumped enough it will begin to . 'fill and you have a whunk in- stead. This is good. When you have elevated enough water so there comes a gloonk-gloonk, the priming is done, and all that re-' mains is to - work the handle, When that first burst of water gushes into the tub the cattle seem greatly relieved. All of them want a drink, so you turn them loose from their stanchions a couple at a time, and pump, pump, pump, pump until all have had all they want, and the exercise has warmed you into a healthy sweat. Then you let the pump down to its last gurgle and take your pail back to the house. As I, say, I didn't try to start my automobile this week, — By John Gould in the a Christian Sci- ence Monitor. The sports pages of the daily newspaper do bring us closer to spring or haven't you noticed the baseball players are once .again bound for balmy climates and spring training? Prof,: "What happens when a body is immersed in water?" Student: "The phone rings." C i SSWORD PUZZLE 11, Fit together 31, Exclamation 10. Project 24, Obtained 12. Deep ,.tole 35. Flexible or 20. }lar across supple an escutcheon 37. Pronoun 21, Angie of a8. Afresh rantiftoatjo7, 39. Seed 22. Collective Container ACROSS 4, Ornament for members of 40. Pedestal part . 1. Bristle the leg a state 41. Declare E. 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Dsig. 2. 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 If lz 13'. 14' 15 17 181 19 20 21. 22 23 » 'AVIS 24 30 33 JP 25 2627, 2e 29 32 3 3$' 304 37 38 31 4, az 50 Answer elsewhree on th s page THE FALRM ,FRONT ll A streamlined method of test- ing Cheddar cheese for extrane- ous matter pioneered by Cana- da Department of Agriculture scientists several years ago, is attracting interest In other parts of the world. An artiole describing the Ca- nadian method appears. in the current issue od The Australian Journal of Dairy Technology. Written by Francis D. Murphy and Dr. C. K. Johns, of the Ca- nada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, it outlines in detail the Canadian method of testing for extraneous matter. lit also points out that 'modifications of the Canadian method are being used by Australia, New Zealand and Finland, a, * * The Canadian method has cut the time required, for testing from 25 minutesper sample when testing was commenced to - PSI man -minutes per sample. The record held by the Canada Department of Agriculture is 1,659 samples handled in one day. * * * Under the present Canadian system a sample of cheese is ta- ken from eaah vat at the time of grading and forwarded to the department's laboratory at Otta- wa for analysis. Samples are re- ferred to as having Disc 1, Disc 2, 3 or 4. The first two 'discs qualify the cheese for inclusion in Canada First Grade, Disc 3 Canada Second Grade and Disc 4 Canada Third Grade, or below — depending on the nature of the sediment. * + * In 1957, the Canada Dairy Products Act was amended to make extraneous matter analysis a factor in fixing the grade. "The prograan developed for the routine testing of all Cana- dian Cheddar cheese offered for grading," state the authors "has undoubtedly rendered valuable .service in the improvement of sanitation, both on the farm and in the factory. • "Interest in testing cheese for extraneous matter appears to be growing." * 0* Regulations of the Destructive Insect and Pest Aot are under review with an eye toward amending the restrictions relat- ing to apples. The movement of Ontario ap- ples to the British Columbia market for the second succes- sive year was one reason for the proposal to amend the regula- tions. * * Apple maggot is a pest peculi- ar to the North American con- tinent and, in Canada, is con' - fined to the eastern provinces. British Columbia, which found itself having to import Ontario apples for the 'first time in 1959 and again in 1960, is free of ap- ple maggot and is naturally an- xious that the pest be not in- troduced throng h' shipments from the east. * * * Under existing regulations, only registered orchards that have undergone the preharvest apple maggot survey by pro- vincial authorities may submit apples for export to overseas markets, It may be necessary to make this restriction apply in law (as it did in fact) to ship- ments to British Columbia from Eastern Canada, * * « Further information .is being sought on the effeotivenass df controlled atmosphere storage in destroying apple maggot larvae in infested 'fruit, Regulations tiny be amended to make fruit stored for 90 days wider certain coil hot led attnoslyhere conditions eligible for export if the evi- dence warrants such actions. The State of California permits the movement of apples from areas infested 'with the apple maggot after a minimum of 90 days in controlled atmosphere. * * ' There was a slight increase, in the amount 01 fruit rejected by processors because of apple mag- • got infestation in 1960, and the suggestion was made that more publicity be given to the need for pre -harvest survey and its effects in keeping the maggot under control. * * * A recent review of hog mar- ketings indicated that 5 per cent of the Grade A hogs slaughter- ed in Canada were marketed by producers who had not register- ed with the Agricultural Stabili- zation Board at Ottawa. An addi- tional 15 per cent of the mar- ketings did not carry the regis- tration number, although the producer was registered with the Board. * * �, Since it is impossible to cor- rectly identify hag marketing% that are not accompanied by a oorrect registration num b e r, some farmers may be, ineligible for future deficiency payments o9 some or all of their ship- ments. Truckers, packing -house work- ers and livestock graders oan assist the producer in getting his registration number report- ed with each shipment, but Luke W. Pearsall, chairman of t 11 e Agricultural Stabilization Board points out that this is primarily _'the producer's responsibility. Don't Try To Scare The Driver After years of trying to fright- en American motorists into driv- ing carefully ("Traffic accidents were expected to take 340 lives over the long New Year's week- end ."), the National Safety Council conceded recently that it had'•been careening down the wrong lane all along. Releasinkj a report on its first natii 4' -wide sampling of the re- actiol) .td safety propaganda, the couirerl concluded that "the worst kind ... is that ... which results only id raising anxiety levels." In. simpler terms, the scare technique just makes driv- ers nervous. Publicizing scapegoats, such as teenagers, drunks, and speeders, is likely to do more harm than good, too, because the vast maj- ority of drivers refuse to identify themselves with any such cate- gory. Equally useless are the old slogans—"Obey Traffic Rules," "if You Drink, Don't Drive" — because "they are so culturally ingrained that little more than lip service is paid to them." What, then, to dol Calmly spread the message that normal people ,get involved in acccidents if they don't know how to avoid them, and offer specific lessons in dealing with problems like passing, skidding, entering busy thoroughfares. "If you succeed only . . in making people nervous," said the council, as it disavowed its past, "it is possible that there will be more accidents rather than fewer," Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking N O >1 d H d a a A v a -L 104 O 5 a NM 21Q J O 9 ©AR 1 N 3 B M a N A bt >1 A 9 a VP N O 2i I v' s UNDAY SCil00l LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. A Test of Discipleship John 13:1-5, 12.17, 34, 35. Memory Selection: A new eons mandent 1 give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another john 13:34. A n a n c i e n 1 rabbi once said, "Among men the slaves always wash the master's feet but with God It is not so," John tells how God became a slave to wash His followers' feet. In this self-abase- ment Jesus reveals more of His deity than lie had ever revealed before. Here, says Arnold's Com - =eatery, is the majesty of humil- ity. The one who came from God and would return to God reveals the sublimity of service by girding Himself with a towel and washing the disciples' feet. No other deity in the long his- tory of man's religions ever dar- ed stoop to such levels without forfeiting his sovereignty. How- ever, Christianity is distinctive In its emphasis upon humility. Gladstone said, "Humility as a sovereign grace is the creation of Christianity." In Jesus we see sovereign grace reaohing down redemp- ,tively to rescue men in deepest need. We, too, must have the mind that was in Christ Jesus. St. Philip Neri was asked by his superior to investigate a mir- acle. He returned from the in- vestigation -saying, "Where there is no humility there can be no miracle." At ti great reception given for Abraham Lincoln an old chap on the edge of the crowd shout- ed out enthusiastically, "I am from York state where we be- lieve God Almighty and Abe, Lincoln will save the country." Lincoln was then heard to mut- ter, "You are only 'half right Lincoln's, last words in Spring- field before going to Washing- ton were, "Without the ald of that Divine Being who ever aid- ed Him, who controls mine and all destinies, I cannot succeed. With Him I cannot fail." On the same night that Jesus washed the disciples' feet, He saw Judas,one of the twelve, leave the little company to take the final steps to carry out his contract with the priests to sell his Lord for 30 pieces of silver. Yet, Jesus had even washed hart feet. Ile kept the door open for Judas to turn 18010 his awful sin. Let no one say that Jtldae helped in the procuring of our salvation, His sinfulfilled a pro-. pileoybut that did not coerce Judas, He fell by transgression and - went to his own place iii spite of the great love of Jesus Christ manifested to him up to the very last. Highway Pavola A Big Problem Discovery of underwater pay- ments to Florida highway offi- cials by a construction firm in.. volved in the interstate pro- gram may not rate a surprised response, More flagrant evi- dences of the widespread use of payola in recent years perhaps have dulled the shock value of such revelations. Nonetheless we agree heartily with Rep. John Blatnik (D., Minn.), chairman of the house investigating committee, that this cynical disregard for busi- ness and professional ethics is "reprehensible" and cannot be condoned on any ground. Highway employes who re- ceived gifts of whisky, cash, free dinners, etc„ told the investiga- tors they were not influenced to do anything other than their normal duties, The contractors testified they were not attempt.. ing to bribe the officials into overlooking substandard materi- als or workmanship. But no amount of pious de- clarations of this kind can erase the fact that gifts were proffered and accepted on a project that should be "strictly business." Even if no actual wrongdoing is uncovered in the construction and inspection procedures, it cannot be denied that the intent to buy influence was present. And with whose money? The taxpayer's, of course, every penny of it. And the construc- tion firm airily charged it all off as "advertising and promotion." Tax deductible, of course. This from a firm which has had more than 30 million dollars' worth of road 'contracts—much of it in- volving interstate . work—since 1956. Companies such as this do not deserve:"tor„profit at the public till. Nota a state officials wise wouldaccept . such gratuities merit epintkilued public trust, -- MinneaRolii:,Morning Tribune. ISSUE 9 — 1961 Where Religion Doesn't Wait for the Seasons POWER OF FAITH—It took a lot of old -'time faith,, but the folks to Pana, III., had it. With the temperature standing at 20 de- grees, and six inches of ice on a local lake, members of one of the town's churches gathered around a hole in the 'ice. Then the converts- stepped forward for the baptismal ceremony. One by one they were guided under water briefly by Rev. James Stewart, In white shirt, and Rev. Charles Enlow.