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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-03-30, Page 3MOcidng Friends On A Jungle Road The first people 1 aw in Nigeria had come out of a bus. The bus had its name paintedem and it was in a deli ,by the .side of the road with a Creep. ex of bright red flower tangled in the bun.dles tied to the lug- gage aoI. The passengers were :mattered In e h e e rf u l family groups over the road. Some of them had their cooking pots and were frying up the bananas and stew they had. carried with them, sonse af the men were chatting together, and several had settled themselves comfortably to sleet,. Everybody seemed pleased to 'see Our car; and one of the cook- ing women pressed a banana on me, The 'bus would be there two hours; three hours, or perhapa.a day or so, she said. It depended onwhen the men from Marnfe eaine to drag it out of the ditch. We tried to edge past the bus- oarefully-because we had seen further back the burnt-out wreck -of a lorry which had got too. close to the side of the road, and rolled over into the trees down the bank, Several of the bus passengers woke up or left their food and 'heed the side of the bank, testing the mud, pushing at our wheels, and telling us to an inch how near the ditch we could go. We were on our way from 13amencla in the Cameroons to Calabar in East Nigeria. Mostly we had travelled on the worst - road Lhad ever seen-. It was.nar- row and twisting, and open to one way traffic only, the direc- tion of the. traffic changing on alternate clays. During the Rains one day each week was reserved by the Public Works Depart- ment for running repairs. But even so the ruts in the road were deep enough to make ordinary English sedan oars stick with their wheels hopelessly turning inches above the hard surface. The cams that can manage these roads are Continental, American, or best of all, long wheel -based Land Rovers with tour wheel drives to get them out of the wont mud patahes. In a, French ear we got through, but at the end of the journey our exhaust Pipe had been knocked off and - was tied to the roof -rack and we had also stuck four times. be- tween Manrfe and Calais -an But. this did not matter much because even the empptiest bet of jungle Miraculously produced a crowd of people within a minute or so to help push us out.... It was a good way of coin- ing into Nigeria. For most of the Journey the road was a narrow track through very dark,very (tense forest with tall straight trees, almost branehless, but PHOTOGENIC - Lilly, e pound hippo, gives our with a heap of no expression. The ani mal was sold by the New 'York Central Park Zoo to a circus, With festoons of creeper hanging from them. Everything was try- ing to push its Way up into the Sun above tree level, and after a time 4 wanted to see the sun too, . . Very occasionally there was colour in the dark green . . flame -coloured flowers, or leavee striped with white- . • But nothing Worse than stick- ing in the mud happened to us, and the machete we saw were all waved at us in the most friendly way. -From "Nigeria: Newest Nation," by Lois Mitchison. 'Hide All Your Shiny Articles People Who visit a large os- trich, farm in South Africa are usually asked by officials to hide all shiny articles they may have brought with them. This is because ostriches might otherwise gobble them up.. Os- triches are used to swallowing bright pebbles whioh help them digest their nonnal feed and they find visitors' rings, brac- elets, watches, buttons and spec- tators irresistible. While in the Kalahari desert cn South Africa, traveller and novelist William. J. Makin re- ported that twenty' large and small diamonds -were found in the stomach of one ostrich which had been allowed to wander freely with his companions over the diamond fields. Mr. Makin reported that the ostriches often swallowed dia- monds to assist their digestion, preferring the gems because of their hardness or because they were naturally attracted -by their brilliance in the Narld. The South African government claimed that .since the ostriches had taken the dlarnonds from the fields, they were the prop- erty of the state. A large number of coins weigh- ing more than four pounds- and worth .$10 were found inthe, stomach of an ostrich which died in the -Buenos Aires zoo. And a London Zoo' ostrich's stomach yielded two shillings' worth of coppers, a bangle, several pieces of silver, jewellery, glass, a watch -chain and a glove, as well as smaller articles. Ostriches still give us many everyday articles, -Their tough' feathery skins are made into handbags; shoes, wallets, belts, gloves and even Bible and other book covers. And their bones, when milled, yield a good -quality bone meat. In fact, South African breeders pride themselves. on using ev- ery' part of:, their birds, except heir brains. Gaiety girls, flaunting gor- geous ostrich - plumes, created huge business for eestrich farms in Edwa-rdian days; and. teethed - fetched prices. as high as $500 a pound, whiner often werkecl out at $750 a feather. Nearly a million ostriches were farmed in 011B district alone. But to -day, the feather price has slumped to below $30 a pound, and. the same district supports no more than 50,000 birds, When full,' grown an ostrich could easily beat champion run- ner Herb Elliott. Within seconds •the bird can reach 40m.p.h. and keep it up. A single kick from an ostrich could kill a man. Curiously, the male ostrich, though ill tempered and resent- ful of hninans, is thoroughly domesticated. Under the female's eye,' he builds the nest and sits on the eggs for the first five days. ' After 'that, the female sits by day and father by night. That - goes on for forty-two • days, meth the eggs arc hatched, Orators in Grandpop's day Used to say that history is at the crossroads. Now' we're at a • cloverleaf. - CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 105.. tit tig;:i'T.he leer*" 11. Core 14. Chancellor'. office ACROSS 1. Dry 2. Vince im bind 06. C11011 for out windin0115 4. B19110P'P &Mena nIrce 90. Satisfied Jorisdiption 4. l'u'r 01. Nothing I. Wife of car1'71112 22, Merry AUPRIIRM wool 24. Youth 22, 11 el du 16. GOod-Ilick 1102: nealo:incictele,1,16. 2.tIon 6.11/11' I I c Reflice (MO 27. 10 Islam e 29. A.If cetedly 17. n112.17, 7.111 N. Malt 'Moor :My 18. litaclamatIon 10. Pack 20, Anchor tackle 51. And not ET, Swallow quickly 23. 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Alberta, accounted for 33 per cent of She total out- put, Ontario 30 per cent and Saskatchewan 19 per cent. Inspected slaughter of cattle totaled 1,942,000 head, • an in- , crease of 11 per cent over 1959. * 1' * There was a dramatic rise in the • marketings of Ohoice grade cattle, he pointed out. In 1960 the weekly average was nearly 11,900 carcasses., or 32 per cent • of :the total kill. Mr. Bennett called this figure startling when compared with 2,450 Choice grade carcasses, or 11.1 per cent of the kill ten years ago. * The increase in Choice grade reflects the improvement in cat- tle and growth of the cattle . feeding industry .in Canada, Mr. Bennett stated, The greatest increase in Choice and Good grade cantle . during 1960 has taken place en Alberta, where marketings totaled. 430,000 head, about 55 per cent of total deliveries. * 5 * ee' said that human popula- te:As lie Canada was climbing seeneellesebut cattle numbers had riot. increased much in the pest fan' ellinees. The cattle total on IKenerer 1, 1955 was almost 10 minion. Lase December 1, it stood at 10.9 million, an crease in five years of nine per cent or an average of 1.8 per cent per year. During the saine five-year period, the htnnan population rose from 15.7 mil- lion to 18 million, a 13.5 per cent boost, or at average yearly gain of 2.7 per cent. * 4 * Predominantly, Canadian cat- tlemen were oe an export econ- omy with their fortunes lin ked very closely to those of Ameri- can cattlemen. In 1980 Canadian catble expoits to the United States were about 10 per cent oe total marketings -- much less than the 655,000 live cattle and 53 million pounds of beef ship- ped in the peak year of 1958. That shipment was the equiva- lent° of 760,000 cattle or 28 per cent of the total marketings for 1958. 0 * . He noted a decreasing supply of boneless beef and an ever-in- creasing demand for this pro- duct, A decrease in the number oe -dairy cows in the past 25 years had meant fewer canners and cutters for slaughter. "M" grade caroas.ses in the 1960 inspected kin totaled 218,000 or 11 per cent. Artificial insemination was re- dlining the number oe bulls in Canada, In 1960 the number of carcasses in • the "C" grade to- taled 63,013 or a• little mare time three .per cent. The 1948.51- aver- age was approximately five per cent, * * Cattle prices at the year's end, he Said, were "about $25 for Choice steers in Termite and $23 for the same grade at Cal- gary." The potential capaoity to pro- duce on the North American continent was still,tied basically to the carrying capacity of the Western rangelands. Grass was a limiting factor because "every piece of beef starts out as a calf and cow on grass." Analysis -of two significant facts in the beef cattle industry -4he limitations of- grazing •lands, and the growing demand for beef arising fromthe rapid growth - in human populatien- indicated a basically favorable. situation. * * * There were 6,764,196 hogs graded in 1960, a drop of 1,804,- 021 .from the near -record 8,568,- 217 carcasses graded the previ- ous year. Canada .baparbment of Agri- culture figures show that on a national scale 30.5 per cent were Grade A. It was the highest per- centage cf Grade A's since 1951 •when the figure stood , at 31.3 per cent. In 1959, the percentage of carcasses grade A was 29,5 per cent. * * * Elgin Senn, chief of the grad- ing section, Livestock Division,. said that the percentage of Grade A's has risen slightly each year , since 1954. In 1940 the percentage oot Grade A. hog carcasses rose to an unprecedented 32.4 per cent. • In 1954 it tell to 26 per cent, • Mr, Senn states.one /actor may have influenced •the picture in 1960. "It's the first full year .we've had since A and B grades were altered on October 5, 1959," he said. "At that time the mini- mulm Weight for Grade A nogs was dropped five pounds while the back 'fat measurements were tightened alightly." In any case, the number nE ease easses graded A is increasing slowly and with the change in the payment of the Federal Gov- ernment premiums from $2.00 on A and $1.00 en II grade to $3 00 on A grade, a further improve- ment in 1961 is, anticipated. 1INDAY SC11001 LESSON 91y Rev ite ilarolay Werrett BA., B.D. Jesus Gives Itis Life Toten 19: 1744, 28-30. Memory Selection; I ant the good shepherd; the good shep- herd giveth his life for the sheep. John 10;11. Chapters 13 to 19, nine in all, of the 21 chapters of the Gospel as recorded by St. John, are de- voted to the last 24 hours of our Lord's life before His death on the cross, Why such detail? Examine the biographies of the World's great and no where else will you find a biographer de- voting so much space, in fact, More than a quarter of the book to the last day of the mares life. What is the explanation? The death of Jesus Christ has very special significance, The Psalmist and the prophets, parti- cularly Isaiah, had spoken of it centuries before. As our title states, "Jesus Gives His Life." The men who came to take him in the garden fell to the ground at his word, (18:6), He said, "I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay It down of myself." Why did He give him- self to die at the age of thirty- three? To ans w e r this question thoroughly calls for a study of the whole Bible, It is especially clarified in the Book of Acts, the Epistles and the Book of Revela- tion. Man through disobedience in Eden fell from the state of innocency. He no longer enjoyed fellowship with his Creator. He was now sinful, Jesus Christ, God's Son, same to pave the way for a reconciliation. He carree as a man to save men. He hna no sins of His own. As man's re- presentative He bore our sins in His own body on the cross. We are saved from our sins when we repent of them and believe on Jesus Christ. We are saved by His Grace. "Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were an offering far too small. Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all," We may have salvation through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Time To Order Garden Seeds While perennials are the back- bone of the flower borders, most people look forward to growing many of the lovely annuals each season, and now is the time for ordering seed. . Annuals add color and variety to the garden. With a little plan- ning and their long blooming pe- riod, one can have an abundance of flowers all summer and into the autumn. Use them to fill gaps in the perennial border, in front of shrubs, or in among newly planted shrubs which are small. Plant them among bulbs to hide Upsidedown to Prevent Peek:rig the fading foliage of tulips and tiettfoclils, • or around bleeding bent, oriental poppice, and other early -blooming plants, For making gardens in new or rented, homes, annuals are a wise °bake. They will: illoom mn taxa oci'onetiingiuste awlleeslut sm in! reerfth: seed aThe seed catalogtei,i, h are suc fun that exercising restraint is difficult. If the resulting garden is to be a joy and not a burden, however, thoughtful planning ie a must, We teed to select vari- eties that do well in our location. In the South are hot, arY 31210 risers, In the North we need quick flowering, A definite color plan and only, a few types of Dowers massed for effect and in blending tones are usually better than miscellaneous mixed colors and too many kinds. Annuals- are classed as hardy. half - hardy, and tender. The hardy con be sowed as early as the ground can be worked, Sweet peas, cosmos, larkspur are hardy. Half - hardy annuals, such as snapdragons, should not be planted in the open until after the last spring frost date for the locality; and tender annuals, such as zinnias, must be planted only after the soil is warm. If you have no book showing average spring and autumn frost dates for your region, ask your nurseryman or agricultural ex- tension station what your dates are, In the front of most seed cata- logues are the new flowers for the season. Seeds of these may be more expensive, but it is re- freshing to try a few new kinds. MOST EIVIRARRASSING Inoo. Miami, Florida, blonde, freckled Marjorie Curry from water and sued the store for $50 Washington, D.C., bought a new bathing suit, wore it in the The reason: The suit got so transparent when wet, claimed Marjorie, that people could count all of her freckles, causing her "embarrassment and humilia- tion." The most galling problem harassing a suburbanite was ,to keep dogs from tearing up his patiently -cultivated lawn, His , Prominent "Keep Off the Grass" sign wasn't taken seriously ley any of the dog owners. Seeking a fresh approaoh, he erected a small sign on a newly -seeded area. It read: "Protect your clOg/ Lawn specially treated with poi- son." Not a dog -touched -a blade. a AH, SPRING Knorke, a go- rilla in the Berlin, Germany, zoo, seems to be waiting fof the vernal equinox. He receite ed the flowers on his fifth birthday. ISSUE 12 - 1961 ELVA COURIER - EXPLODER VIEW - A speedy Elva Courier sports car, guided by Wi; W ddowson of a Smithfield, Tex., frac!: t ace, mis-es a turn. Plying hay bales and Eying Elva parts wers captured by the camera o:* newspeper pli:1;agraphar Bob Jackson.