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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-04-13, Page 3Persuading Ducks TO Come Home The ducks cheer us up. 11 is a comical sight to see them return M the evening, trundling rapidly down the trail, bobbling along single file like toy ducks on an invisible string, They invariably atop at a pertain place above the falls for duckish deliberations - trying to make uptheir collec- tive mind, They hesitate, stretch their necks this way and that, make false starts, and run back again. Suddenly, seized by an en- thusiastic group impulse, they come runneling down the steep bank and into the water; bob- ' bing and ducking like corks, showering crystal skeins of wa- ter over their backs and drinking and clipping as if they have not had a drink for a week. On winter nights the ducks used to return voluntarily, but only at a particular time- just as twilight merged into the pro per degree of darkness, We used to call it "cluck -dark," or as Rd - win said, somewhere around half -past -fox -time. Balmy spring evenings are quite a different story. Now it is our last duty after the day's work to hunt up and down the creek for our de- linquents. le-linquents. I go after the "up -ducks,' a drake with two wives who is smart enough to keep them ee- questerecl, while Edwin pur. ues the "clown -due's" usually far- ther away and among more briers. We endeavour by any means we can think of to inuuce the ducks to. return home My phony fox -bark was very effec- tive until the novelty wore oft. Then I tried using my flash- light as a "witch light," switch- ing it after the ducks and .herd- ing them along, mush to their. terror. My flashlight did very well indeed until last night, when its feeble light had to compete with a great golden moon shining out from behind dark clouds. The air was warmly mysterious and,' the ducks remained moored in a 1 a r g e pool. I waved them homewards. I apoke bland words calculated to make them think 'returning thoughts. They' moved' about uneasily, making nongorn- mlttal sounds in their. throats. I , shied a. ienv pebbles aft, but they only -moved farther away. Ducks are master geopoliticians. They force you to clamber, up', and down snaky, weedy banks,'stri.g gle through brier patch add detour around waterfalls: In des- peration I step into the swiiilen creek, 'floundering up over ,my knees in the cold eddying water, while they fly, down across the falls, or take to secret duck tr.-ills through the woods to avoid too. much water. A mountain stream can be top tempestuous even for a duck. These forays are apt to be strenuous, but we keep after them until the whole mutinous crew is back at the home port, following its leader single file into the duck house, We are be- draggled, our shirts torn and boots squishing with water, but we are usually laughing and feel ten years younger, - From "Tr; the Arms of the Mountain." by Elizabeth Seeman. Government officials are those people who take 35 acres cf land and shape it into a mile of pack. ed earth for your benefit. They call it a superhighway. WIRED FOR SPACE - it's not ribbon for milady's spring out- fit that Shirley Gray is exam- ining. Pretty spirals are an im- portaht part of the guidance system of a missile, The ribbons - "contour cables' - are plas- tic with flat metal strips em- bedded in them and save near- ly half the weight of conven- tional wiring,, Pool Hustlers Getting Scarce They were shooting "Sin of Angels" in New York, producer- director Robert Rossen explain- ed, "because I like to work in New York," and they had picked the Ames Billiard Academy, just off Times Square, "because of the size, and the feeling of age -of having been lived in by pool players," The movie, de- rived from Walter Tevis' short, dramatic novel, "The Hustler," is all about a man who plays p001 for money. For two weeks, crews had been making the old poolroom look even older, installing beat -up leather chairs, seedy looking cur- taine. During the same two weeks, 'Paul Newman, who plays "Fast Eddie" Pelson, the young pool -hustling hero, was taking lessons from ten -time world - champion pocket 'billiards player Willie Mosconi. Jackie Gleason, who at his currentweight, of 255 pounds plays "Minnesota Fats," 'tile big man whom Fast Eddie has come to town to -beat, needed no lessons, having spent much of his youth hanging, around pool in Brooklyn, where he dnea made a string of 90 bang" Gleason practiced fol - the filen' at home, on his own table. At the Ames Billiard Academy, director Rossen, gray-haired, and sporting a maroon knit shirt, squinted through a viewer and • Charlie Maguire, the assistant director, yelled out: "All right, cut the chatter!" Newman took his place beside character actor Myron McCormick, and the scene rehearsal started. Gleason, in a conservative overcoat with a huge red flower in the lapel, came in the front door, went over to check his coat, revealingan identical, huge red flower in his jacket lapel, lit a cigarette, came over to watch Newman shoot; and ex- changed ten lines of dialogue making the match (at a $200 -a - game bet). Then a take. ' Newman missed three balls in a row. "Cut," called Rossen. "At this rate, we'll be doing four minutes a day," said Rossen, "We're pretty much on time." At another table off camera, BULL'S-EYE - Remarkable accuracy of the air-to-air Falcon mis- sile is demonstrated by the hole in this 36 -inch aluminum target. Standing beside one of the missiles and looking through the hole is James J, O'Reilly, test pilot for Hughes Aircraft Co., maker of the missile.' The disc was hit dead center from more than a mile away. In tests at Holloman AFB, KM., such discs' were suspended from tower and headed to simulate a jet's exhaust. Heat -seeking Falcons were then fired at them from aircraft. Willie Mosconi was showing a peel shot to McCorinick, McCor- snick tried it, sank the ball twine, and beamed. Mosconi, the biggest stick in the pool game (he once ran 526 balls without missing), was wearing a sport ;jacket with a Brunswick emblem op it, It is his job to sell Brunswick pool. tables and the idea oaf pool -play- ing to the public, "The old green -paint -on -the -window joints are going," he said, "They're not economical any more. And the hustlers have gone with them, Of course, I won't say they won't come back. He admitted, how- ever, that pool players looking for action could still find it. "Well, yes, there's Bicycle Char- lie here in, New York, and Ko- komo Jae in Miami, In Chicago there's Big Time . Charlie and State Street Willie, and then there's Cheeky Nose - he's a roamer, But this movie shows what pool was, say, twenty years ago. Not what it is today." Newman, Marconi said, was an apt pupil. "He looks like a pro- fessional. Of course, he's liable to make a shot three times, and then miss it six time in a row. But he looks good. You know, he used to rack balls at Kenyon College [at the Student Union) for 75 cents an hour," The next scene was ready. Newman and Gleason lagged the balls, to determine the break, Newman won. "Cut," said Rossen, because Gleason was supposed to win, They did it again. Gleason wen. Newman broke, As the camera moved in, Mosconi raced in to change a few balls to make easier shots for Gleason. Gleason walked around the table. "Cut," said Rossen. "Ridiculous," said Gleason, "If the balls broke that way I'd pray the eight!" Everything stopped for a con- ference. • "I'll practice that break to- night," Newman promised. In his new nine -room Park Avenue apartment, Newman now has a pool table in the dining room. "We eat in the living room," he said, "or in the dining roam right on the pool table." "Cut. the chatter," Maguire hollered. "Places. One more time." From NEWSWEEK. Should Atomic ,. Wastes Be .Dumped? • Will radioactive waste stay harmless' indefinitely once it's been dumped into the sea? This problem is vexing America's soientists. As ever -greater quantities of so-called low-level atomic waste aa'e disposed of in American wa- ters, some fear a leakage, which could be very dangerous for people living along the neigh- bouring coastline. Fish, too, could become con- taminated and to handle or eat them would cause blistering wounds. To prevent such dangers, a "hot" waste study project is now operating in the Santa Cruz basin off the Californian coast. There, radioactive material, in- cluding debris from atomic fac- tories and laboratories, is being dumped in containers of experi- mental sizes and shapes, includ- ing fifty -five -gallon steel drums and reinforced concrete cylin- ders. Lowered by cable, the contain- ers are, photographed during their immersion to depths of 1,000 fathoms. After some months, specimens will be photo- graphed again, and others haul- ed back to the surface for in- spection. Sometimes, the pres- sure of water cracks a drum. Then, however competently seal- ed, all its "hot" waste escapes, Latest Thing - The Round, Hot Dogl The hot dog, said the Ameri- can Kosher Provision Co. last month in tones normally. reserv- ed 0ot''the fall of governments, is on the way out. In its place, AKP said it was offering a cir- cular frankfurter with a hole in the center, like a doughnut, designed to be eaten on a ham- burger bun, AICP claims its sound dog, now being test -mar- keted in New York and Miami, will cost no more than the tra- ditional lohgie; The credit (or blame, depend- ing on the point of view)' for the drastic alteration (the first, sausage historians claim, in 3,000 years) lay squarely with the New Frontier, "We 'feel the Ken- nedy Adsninietretion signals the beginning of a more modern era," said an AKP spokesman confidently. 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Apply stating quali- fications, salary expected and name of last inspector Duties will commence Sept. 5111. D. J. M. Moore, See, • Treas.,. RR No. 5, Lueknow, Ont. ISSUE 14 - 1961 THAT'S THE WAY THE BALL BOUNCES - National League umpire Mel Steiner walks away' and catcher Hal Smith of the Cardinals looks a4 him as Jake Wood of the Tigers scores in the first inning of the Detroit -St. Louis game in. St.,'Petersburg, Flo. Maybe Steiner is too embarrassed to stay on the scene. It appeared that Woad would have been a sure out if the ball hadn't hit the umpire.