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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-04-20, Page 3Kennedy is A. Rocking -Chair Fan That old -fashioned rocking chair discovered in the Presi- dent's office is not one of the antiques with which Mrs. Ken- nedy hopes to, refurnish the White House, It is a regular poroh-type cane rocker to which she has given a decorator's touch, with a Specially made foam rubber cushion and arm coverings, The chair itself'' has bean stained ma- hogany to metals his other office furniture. Discovery • that President Ken- nedy is a rocking -chair man came as a surprise to reporters recently, Actually it's an old story, lie had the chair in his office in the Senate. He admired a similar chair some years ago in the of - five of Dr. Janet G. Travail, lion White House physician and pos- ture authority, found it comfort- able, and ordered one like it Now when 'visitors coma in and he wants to "pull. at, a chair," he takes the rocker. It makes good sense, accord- ing to Dr. Travail, who insists that different chairs have dif- ferent purposes, A desk chair, for instance, is related to a desk, A dining room chair is _related to a table. Neither are gen ral purpose chairs, She is somewhat of a special- itt on this subject, having de- signed a proper kind of seat for farm tractors, as well as com- fortable Seats for airplane pilots who must remain in a sitting position for long periods during flight, She feels that a person should select a chair ascarefully as he buys a suit, or a dress. A chair that is right for a person who is six feet tall is not at all the kind of a chair which will be comfortable for a woman who is five -foot -five, says Dr. Travell, She claims the average person cannot tell just • by looking at a Chair whether it is going to be 'a good fit." Nor can he judge even by sitting in it, unless he sits for about half an hour. or takes it home on trial. "It's like sleeping on the sand," she explains. "At first it feels 'line, but you can become very uncomfortable if you stay, there very long." :'Her theory is -that, every chair. should be selected with the pur- pose for which it is to be used in mind. "You wouldn't think of using a lounging or reading chair alt the dining room table;" she points out. Not that she recommends a "posture chair"; just one that fits. Each chair has its own par- ttcular use. There is no "all- purpose chair," in her estimation, any morethan there is an all- purpose shoe for all occasions and weather. -By Josephine Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor. Tortoises Plague African Farmers Tortoises, beloved as pets, can be•dangerous and pestilential. At least, that's the view South Afri- can farmers ' hold of them. Re- cently thousands of mountain tortoises lumbered down from the hills' to invade their crops and pastures. prolonged drought and blistering sun had forced them to seek new feeding grounds, Until recently,,it was illegal to interfere with them. For the tor- toise, In the sunny African clime, is protected as Royal Game. It Could not be .trapped or killed without a permit. But realizing how serious is the tortoise onslaught the Director of Nature Conservation withdrew the ruling. So in -a big round -up which has' just started, tortoises are being• scooped up by the hun- dreds and either disposed of or earmarked for transfer to distant nature reserves. One farmer, Mr. Van der Merwe, has come up with an or- iginal'use for them, "It's a grand chance:for•'us to get together and found a local tortoise soup industry," he says. Ms main outlet, he thinks.would be catering for aristocratic appe• tites such as royal banquet:• and similar functions,' Husband: Have you, ever won- dered what you would do if you had Rockefeller's income? Wife, No, but I've often wondered whal he would do if he had mint UPSI rIi•C1n41'11 ng Cali v - ®3® tW[-ir PERU, i r i - r C�C.1m mo(' i MEIC7BiIlf. M PEW r ENO [- P 1[• NE MOM') MW : ®•iNH I WC7isjP !WINWOW op !IIS I1k'2re • ci' tIMME !MUM F F AmRw4L-lriN mom 1 MEn WIINH PAMMN OA WMWt HOW SEVEN CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE - Charred bed frames rest in 'the smouldering remains of •the Raymond Floyd home near Excelsior Springs, Mo., March 15, where seven children, ranging in ages from 2 to 11, burned to death, Their parents had driven into town to do the family laundry and left the, youngsters alone in the, house, THE FARM FRONT Of 4i`iK, mteti In conversation among Mid- west U.S. farmers you are likely, to. hear ' talk of "this new MT." The speakers are' referring to a simple, successful way to cut the cost of soil preparation and cul- tivation. MT means Minimum tillage, the reduction of the number of trips over the- field preparing the seed bed. e • Harry Galloway, Purdue Unix varsity agronomist, says he is impressed ' by the willingness of Midwest farmers to try out the new tillage methods tested at the experiment stations. In 'Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and some other states, as .well as in Indiana, practical farmers have put the MT methods to the test and are getting results, Mr.' Gal- loway says. ' Field men of the Purdue Univel%sity .extension ser- vice intervievadt5gsfarmers who raised them;, -,cosi "'by the MT method and ft r'd,.$6 of them say "MT pays U[i?t,'' dost of thein figured it saved then from $2 to $3 an acre.' The Ione farmer who disagreed found the method he used not adapted to his muck soil. r. n e Mr. Galloway sat down in the .lounge of Purdue's Memorial Union one eveningand explain- ed to me •'the 'fundamentals of minimum tillage, diagraming soil structure en a sheet torn from his ' notebook. He made it plain that in certain toils much of the discing and harrowing done in the traditional methods is not necessary or conducive to the, highest yields under today's con- ditions. The methods developed with horse-drawn plows were. not designed foruse with heavy modern machinery which pounds the earth as the horse-drawn • machinery never did. Whit's more, today'sprice squeeze and I the scarcity of farm labor en- : courage farmers to eliminate as many' motions as possible, writes • Dorothea I{ean Jaffe in the Christian Science Monitor: , • • c MT seems to be' doing this. Conventional spoil treatment, said Mr. Galloway, calls for some 11 trips with the tractor over the field from early spring to har- vest time. With MT methods, these can be cut to as few as six, although they may run to eight or nine, depending on the parti- cular technique. used.. The most striking form of minimum tillage is known as wheel track planting. Instead • of discing twice and perhaps har-' rowing also to prepare what used • to be regarded as "a nice' fine bed," the MT farmer plants in the track left by the wheels of. the tractor that pulls the plow. ' The field is left rough except for the tracks, In them the weight of the tractor has broken the, clods and impacted the .soil suf- .ficiently to give the'seed a.start- ing bed. ("Inver notice' bow weeds grow in the footprints on.. a spaded garden?'." Mr. Galloway Raked, '"tame principle.") • 5, 5, 5, There are 'advantages to this method other than saving trips •around• the field. By leaving the soil. rough 'except for wheel tracks it remains more porous, more water absorbent, less in- clined to 'puddle, Moreover, weeds don't grow so fast in loose soil as in the conventional "good seed bed," This postpones the need for cultivation and gives, the farmer a chance to do other jobs demanding immediate at tetttion, There are various other m1ni= mum tillage methods,, Farmers have names for them -"plow- plant;' "plow then plant" "limit- ed, ;Itliage," Each is a, definite procedure, adapted to a parti- MOON SHOT? - No, this Fs nota scene at Caps Canaveral. The unusual picture was made on a farm. The structures are silos, with the moon as a back- drop. es ruler soil or situation. Laboris also eliminated by. combination of jobs. For example, a farmer may attach a sprayer behind his wheel track planter to' include pre -emergence weed spraying in his planting labor. He may plow with a .mulches 'attached .to his plow, eliminating the, need for discing and , enabling him to plant in the conventional way. • • ,• Up to now, MT has required no new machinery. Farmers have a.d a p.t e d their present equipnient to the new methods. "They're wonderfully ingeni- ous about it," -said Mr. Galloway. "They study' ,MT in our winter schools, then, go home and Mr- provise,. Some 'farmers change the wheel spacing on -their' trac- tors and 'add two extra wheels in order to put the tracks where they want them. • One farmer hitched his planter so the right runner followed the inside -edge of soil compacted 'by the_ rear tractor wheel and the left' run- ner planted in the front wheel track." • • This. farmer, working his field Rhine, made a practice of plow- ing several rounds with one trac- tor, then leaving it andmount- ing the other tractor to which the planter was hitched. In any case, planting must be-done:not, more. than half a day after plow- ing in order :to • get good results. Manufacturers are watching minimum tillage experiments like' hawks, said 'Mr. Galloway, Allis-Chalmers is offering a wheel track planter this spring, he said. Deere & Co., studying experiences, of users of their ma- chinery, report a Wisconsin farms er in - the northern, limit of the .corn belt 'who gets 100 bushels to the acre by wheel track plant- ing, more than he ever -got. be- fore., University offers a table showing the average cost of conventional and. MT methods, It shows in every •case a lower plowing cost per acre, counting labor, power, acid equipment. "There's no fool like ' an old fool," goes the saying; No, you certainly can't beat experience. ISSUE 15 - 1961 ;Bcinl's., Pockets Were "Al waif s Crammed "...brother Ben followed in his father's footsteps in the mat- ter o3 filling his pockets so that Mother used' to remark, "Ben outcrams his . father." Mother could not' take with Ben the same measures that she took with me because the pockets in a boy's• clothing, were too numerous .tq be sewed up. She tried scolding him. She sought to reward him when he remembered.to keep his' pockets clear and clean but neither blame nor praise could change • his ways. - Even as a small child, my bro- ther. was a con:firtned berry-, picker, It was he • who always - found the first sweet strawberry in the meadow grass and hare - vested the last tart cranberry in the frosty marsh. Mather was pleased that he liked to pick berries but she deplored his practice of depositing them in• hn' `*pockets where, crushed, and .mixed with chalk and marbles, they'.became entirely' unedible. ':.Father, who himself was a .great ferry -picker, pleased both Mo - 'Alias and Ben by suggesting a device that solved' the berries - in -pocket problem. He showed Ben how to cut a band of bark from a white birch, how to fash- ion it into a cup and pin the 'edges together with a briar or a sharp, twig. Birch baskets fill- ed in turn with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black- berries, and cranberries were welcome offerings which Ben brought to our ]citchen table. When Ben was older, he did not cease to pick berries_but he also gathered objects of a less attractive, nature, One year, he collected lizards and tree toads. Another year, he amassed ,a col- lection of rocks and mosses, and for. Several seasons he centered his interest on sea shells. What- ever he collected, he placed in his pockets so' that his pockets had often to be turned wrong side out for cleaning and wash- ing. Finally Mother hit upon a novel solution. She used heavy blue and white ticking to' Make holders that „fitted into each poc- ket In this way: the 'overworked pocket was saved from. - much wear and tear, . In the whiter, Ben found fewer objects - to collect. There were no berries; rocks; and mosses were covered with a blanket of''snow. Spruce- guns was about the only outdoor.ob- ject that was added to his pocket collection of odds and ends, writes Esther E. Wood in the Christian Science Monitor. _ One winter afternoon, when he was walking leisurely to school, he stopped at Herman's carriage shop, where his cousin was' painting a sleigh, In the 'corner of the shop was a broken wasp's nest with bodies of the insects scattered upon the floor, Ben was curious about the wasps and he gathered a dozen or so of them for later study under his magnifying glass. Re gently tucked the insects into the poc- kets of his mackinaw, and- hur- ried to the schoolhouse which he •reached just as the teacher was 'ringing the bell. The other chil- dren had removed their outdoor wraps and hung them on the wall nails near the stove; leav- ing the nail nearest the stove for Ben. The belated pupil re- moved -his cap and mackinaw, hung them on the nail, and hur- riedly took his seat, The pupils soon became in- volved in a busy afternoon of geography and history. At about three o'clock when the older were busy reciting the capitals of the western states, we little girls in the' front row were dis- turbed in the reading of our his- tory lesson by the buzzing of insects about our heads, The heat of the stove had brought Ben's wasps to a lively rejuvenation. Just as Cqusin Austin said' with confidence, "Idaho -Boise," Alice cried out in alarm, "Bees, bees, flees." In a moment the school room was in an uproar. Desk tops were banged; school books were dropped;' children sprang to their feet,. In' the excitement, Olive up - water pail and I kicked " a dinner pail on the hearth. of: the: stove. It was. Miss Mason's firm hand that brought order out of the chaos. The little girls were told to go to the entry and close the door, The older girls were asked to open the win- dows while -Miss Mason and the older ' boys armed themselves scarfs and caps with which they drove the offending insects out of. doors. After the 'wasps had been banished, the windows closed, and the children reassembled in the cold room, Miss Mason asked the pertinent question, "Children, did any of you bring those wasps into the school room?" A subdued Ben raised his hand to reply; "Please, Miss, I brought a pocketful of wasps to school. I meant no harm. They were sound asleep for the winter. I never expected them to wake up:" "Pocketful of wasps indeed," exclaimed the teacher. "It is too cold for school to continue. All the pupils except Benjamin are zexcused- to go home." ' Miss Mason's mild correction of Ben took an unusual form. She asked him to 'look up the word pocket in the dictionary and to 'write the definition on the back blackboard. The next morning when we came to school, we read the sentence, "a pocket is a small bag inserted ina gar- ment for carrying small articles, as money." Each day for a week, Ben was bidden to read' aloud the sentence at the close of the day's session. The incident of the wasps and Miss Mason's punishment sug- gested to the boys a nickname By Rev, it. Barclay Warren B.A., `B.D. When the Righteous Suffer Job 3: 3-6; 19: 13-31 Memory Selection: Blessed is the Ivan that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. James 1:13. The problem of- suffering is always with us. The book of. Job faces these problems realistically. and answers some of them, Let us consider three of them, (1) Suffering is not necessar- "'ily punishment for the 'indivi- dual's sin. God's testimony of Job was, "A perfect and an un - plight man, one that feareth. God and escheweth evil." Even after his loss of property and children, "In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly." Then after Satan's second vicious at- tack, this time on Job's body, the comment is, "In all this did not Job sin with his lips."' Job's so-called friends said he must have sinned. to have incurred such suffering but God's word 'of him is good; (2) Suffering is a test of faith. While pain has its origin in the nervous system, the pressure upon man's spirit is terrific. This is evidenced in Job's laments such as, "Let the day perish wherein I was born.' This is the time when faith is a great source of strength. Job said, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," Faith thus tested in the fires of affliction, comes out stronger. (3) Let us continue in our ef- forts to alleviate suffering, but we shall never eliminate it. We have made marvellous progress in the control of T.B., but cancer increases. This world isn't heav- en. Pain accompanies man in his earthly pilgrimage. The Chris- tian must learn -to receive bene- fit through his suffering. Job exclaimed, "When he bath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." Job got a clearer vision of God. This is especially seen in the last chapter. He was. chastened . and humbled, He learned patience. So;for us all. We must capitalize on our • sufferings. When Paul's prayer for the removal of the thorn from his flesh was.answer- ed with a promise of grace suf- ficient, he said, "Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." The Christian can, by the grace of God, be triumphant in the time of suffering. • for Ben. During the following months of the winter term, he • was called "Pocketful Ben." CROSSWORD /� - O. P.1. yam (var.) 29. Soft cloth CROSS 11�/ORD 7• leully grown used for X. So. American linings 93, Desert train ruminant PUZZLE ' 9. Depot s}. Planes 10. Cooking vessel 37. Persian hook 11 Reverence money ACROSS 39. Shoe part 17. Edges 39. Sluggishness 1, Word of DOWN 19. Tumble 42. Cozy places commiseration 1. Beast of 21. Coronet 44. Lasso 5. Vold up burden 52, Scarcer 46. rather 2. Abraham's 23. Morning _ 8. Tear nephew - reception - 9. Dusk 3. Cockatoo 28. Fresh -mater 0. Not in 4. Compete fish S. Pro and -- 6, Jubilee 20. Tales (001105.).. 58. Turn hay tlentil I. Spring 19. Santee 13. Hurtful 14. Pull after 15. Pentagram i6. Cleave 18. Craik 20. Give forth 91. Intenee pain 24. Friendship 27. Hawkeye State Cab.) 9R. Sprites 30. Rail bird on Curve as. rr. premier executed for treason 38. And not RR, Actual 98. Dormouse 40. World organization lab.) 41. slandI i'Irth of Clyde, Scot. 43. Accompanies lee 45. warr god 47, Independent Ireland 49. tio-examina- tl on 54. Covenant 64. Herb eve 55. honest 08. Siouan Indian 57. case as. Stone paving block Answcl eisewnree un this page TRYING 'TO PALM HIMSELF OFF - Thorny character is a tenses, a prolific animal from Made, •ascar which _feeds mostly on earthworms. 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