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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-04-26, Page 3Famous Astronaut Talk About Luck Luck, says the dictionary, is "that which happens to a person, as if by chance,, in the course of events, This is scarcely the deft - ration Astronaut Alan B. Sleep- and Jr, placed on the word when he appeared to testify before the. House Space Committee, the first of three astronauts to do so, He had been asked frequently, he said, "Where do you get your luck?" "We make our own luck," Shepard told the members of the committee, "by careful attention to details and duty and design and qualification tests,"' There is a lesson here for all of us. A first rate mechanic, for example, gets a raise. Why? Be- cause the boss thinks he has paid attention to detail and knows what he is doing, This is 'what makes him a good mechanic, hence eligible for a raise, We, in America, are accused of doing much of our work in pretty sloppy fashion and when one finds missing parts in the body of a brand new automobile, it certainly seems 23. It is true in many fields, Many of us do not pay the attention to detail we should pay, and we are much too inclined to think that anyone who is moving ahead is lucky, Luck, in the• opinion of Cmdr. Shepard, is not something which happens by chance, but some- thing one makes happen. If the luck is good it simply indicates one has been on his toes, doing the things he should have done, and doing them well, And bad luck happens, not by chance, but because one has NOT been on his toes and has NOT done the things he should have done. If this point of view could be- come widespread throughout the nation as a result of Cmdr. Shep- ard's testimony, he would have contributed fully as much to the nation's morale and brighter fu- ture as ha did when he was whirled through space in subor- bital flight. - Cleveland Plain Dealer FADING STAR Her long blond curls veiling one eye, half-pint actress Ver- onica Lake catapulted to Holly- wood glory during World War II, and plunged from stardom almost as abruptly, Last month, The New York Post found the former• peekaboo girl -now 42, with her hair drawn back -working as a ;hostess -waitress -barmaid in the taproom of a woman's hotel in Manhattan, She spoke vaguely of writing an autobiography and of trying a comeback in show bus mess, and she joked about' her three divorces, Of herold movies, which she sometimes sees on television, Veroniea said: "I don't believe anybody was ever that young." . Q. How can I clean patent - leather shoes or belts? A. Mix up a solution of two- thirds vinegar and one-third water. Apply this to the leather with a soft cloth, and polish it with a dry cloth. Petroleum jelly, applied with the same pro- cedure, will do a. good job,- too. • SOWER OF SEED - An airplane is used to, seed strip mine pits near Montrose, Mo. A combination of brome grass, orchard grass, fescue, alfalfa and lespedeza is used in effort Jo restore vegetation to the strip cool mine pits. THE FAI* fGFARM FRONT t'1use U That chemists have been ex- erting themselves on behalf of the farmer is apparent from the fact that 10 new chemicals ap- pear among the' pesticides reg- istered with 'the Canada De- partment of Agriculture in 1961, Additional evidence is that about 350 new pest control prod- ucts are registered each year. +++ For the first time a living organism - Bacillus thuringi- ensis Berliner - has been reg- istered for control of insects. It' kills caterpillars on tobacco and vegetable crops and is contained in a dust and a wettable powder. available to Canadian farmers through commercial channels. * + * Dominion Bureau of Statistics records a jump of 24 per cent in the sale of pesticides in the 12 months ended Sept, 30, 1961. Total value was reported by 500' Canadian distributors to be $33.7 million, compared with $27 mil- lion in the corresponding period in 1959-60. The total has gone up 70 per cent in four years. About 95 per cent of the sales are made by 150 firms. Increases in sales were made in all classes of pesticides, Last year's sales involved: agricultur- al sprays and'dusts $12.3 million; livestock treatments $2.4 mil- lion; herbicides $10.3 million;' household and industrial insec- ticides 07.4' million; rodenticides $0.56 million; and ' miscellaneous products $0.67 million. * + , + Bacterial ring rot is present in all potato producing' areas in North America,- says , a govern- ment expert. To get a crop tree of this disease, the grower should: use only Foundation. seed; dispose of all contaminated potatoes; and avoid recontamina- tion by disinfecting all equip- ment, machines, gloves, sacks, that have been in 'contact with other potato crops. * '* * Breeding is under way on mink ranches across Canada. With 450,000 females held over for this purpose' last fall, opera.- tors pera-tors are looking for a production of 1,500,000 kits which, after normal losses, will give a. crop of; CROSSWORD PUZZLE 7. Elevated 30. Grains used railway (ab.) for brewing 8. Intended 9. 88. Swiss river Australian dtrallan bird 86. Treat with 11. Robot dramarikdeference 11. Fault drink 88. himatreas, 18 Naught high stand 40. Through 20.1Equipped plboe 40. As It stands 81, Strict 21. with oars (mus,) 81, nu: decimal Ger.; ogre 45. Before now number0ow 22. diminutive 47. Of theeear DOWN of Margaret 48. Small 1. Sewing party 23, Dogs name explosion 5. Above (poet.) 24, Clot rds 48. Bitter herb 8. Clara 25, One of David's 60. Make a 4. Natural rulers mistake locality 28. Of ormer 61. Roman room 5. Chills and tem s (poet.) 62. Tip fever 27 Nle :name 64, Gypsy tont 8. Dlaso hie for Theodore 67. Draft animal ACROSS 1, Larva of horse fly 4, Seraglio 9, Age 18. Allways (poet,) 18, Smit:11t v 14. Mire 16. Tiontl>y, 19. Begin to 17. gerulecn VOW 19. rind of (Meese, 21. Cubo root e of ono 25, vast 54. Lover of one's country 28. A.rtlflcial language 29, More courageous (colloq ) 81, r-reraldio bearing 32, rem Info Baine 34, Small candle 38, Append 37. River du(lt 50. Ore deposits 41, peat enae ending 42. Detains 4eT :¢Hatless , Little iter) 47. October birthstone 48. Tyre as the feathers 6. Corroded 628. Salamander S6, Stomacb nope 8, o OoteE9oe Cab. ®■■11p�l��� a1 all Er WV U JMI fns ®®11111 2'®11111111®®®® 61111115111113°11111111E11111111111 61.11■®Hill •%: iall®li® 1111111 .61641®®::::: JU fitlillig4111®®®ccmirl®■ Answer elsewhere on this page some 1,350,000 pelts for sale at auctions. By the end of March this year, fully 95 per cent of the domestic pelt crop will have been disposed of at satisfactory prices and breeders are conse- quently facing the future with optimism, + * * The Record of Performance program for beef cattle showed a substantial increase in activity in the 1960-61 test year. Although the number of herds on test increased only to 133 from 120 the previous year, the number of calves tested rose 10 3,373 from 2,565. The total com- prised 983 Aberdeen -Angus, 2,109 Herefords and 281 Shorthorns. Number of herds and calves tested last year by province were: New Brunswick, 11 and 88; Manitoba, 6 and 187; Sas- katchewan, 44 and 1,076; Al- berta, 63 and 1,798; British Col- unxbie, 9 and 224. + µ 41 In pre -weaning tests, male calves 'showed an average daily weight gain of 2.0 pounds and females 1,8 pounds, Post -wean- ing gains averaged 1.96 pounds daily for male calves and 1,28 pounds for females. The dip in weight gain for fe- males in post -weaning is the re- suit of a lower level of feeding provided in the winter months. During both pre- end post - Weaning periods, difference in performance between top and bottom one-third of the calves tested was half a pound per day, This provides ample scope for selection based on performance. The federal -provincial ROP program for beef cattle, launch- ed in 1956, enables breeders to compare rates of gain of animals in their own herds as a basis for herd improvement. Under the plan, a breeder must have a min- imum of five calves of the same sex from the same sire and born within a 90 -day period, In addi- tion, they must get the same treatment up to weaning. Recommendations made last fall by the National Advisory Committee have been ineorpor-' ated into the 1961-62 ROP pro- gram. The recommendations were: 1. Use of age -of -dam correc- tion factors, determined from ROP results, to adjust rate of gain in thepre-weaning period. 2. Elimination of the practice of adjusting the weaned weight to a standard age of 180 days. 3. Extension of the acceptable age range for entry on test to cover from 160 to 250 days of age at weaning, (Previous limits were 150 to 210 days). 4. Acceptance of Charolais herds for test on the basis of a sex -sire group of five calves eligible for registration, The calves must be produced from purebred dams or recorded darns with a minimum of 15/16 Char- olais breeding. 5. A federally supervised car- cass appraisal program for ap- plication in ROP beef herds. A federally supported and supervised progeny testing pro- gram for beef bulls in AI service. MYSCIiOQt _LESSON By Rev, R. Barclay 'Warren, B.D.. CHRIST 1tEI(IINS Matthew 28;1.10; 16.20;. Hebrews 1:1-14 Memory Selection: Worthy 11 the Lamb that was slain to re- ceive power, and riches, and wis- dom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. Revela- tion 5:12 The Easter lesson Is the climax of the first four lessons of this quarter, They have been focussed upon Christ: Christ as the centre of our faith; growing in the grace and knowledge of Christ; our re- sponse to the Cross of Christy and now, the reign of the resur- rected Christ, When Christ arose from the dead, the chief priests and elders bribed the guards to lie and tell that the disciples had stolen the body of Jesus while they slept. How foolish! A corpse in the hands of the disciples would have witnessed to the failure of Jesus. But instead, they heard from his lips, a commission to tell all na- tions about him. We have been slow in the task, The last portion of the lesson starts with the Son, then pro- gressively shows him as the "Heir, of all things," Creator of the worlds, the brightness of God's glory and express image of His person, sustaining the worlds, making atonement for sins and finially taking his position at the right hand of the throne. My friend, Claude Horton, wri- ting in Arnold's Commentary, tells again how the news of Wel- lington's victory over Napoleon reached England. It came by ves- sel to the south coast and by semaphore was wig -wagged over- land toward London, Atop Win- chester Cathedral the semaphore began to spell out the message, "W -e -1 -1 -1 -n -g -t -o -n D -e -f -e -a -t - e -d." Then dense fog settled over the land. The incomplete mes- sage went on to London, blank - ISSUE 15 - 1962 eting the country in globin. ]3 * soon the fog lifted and the rest of the message was received. It was, "Wellington Defeated the Enemy." What rejoicing! As Christ died on the cross, darkness deepened for His fear- ful followers, Calvary seemed to spell out, "Jesus Defeated." It appeared that Satan had tri- umphed. Then suddenly, on Eas- ter morning the darkness lifted. The gloom - dispelling news spread; "Jesus Defeated Death!" We rejoice in the triumph of our Savour! Unfortunate Deal In Real Estate An astronomy buff since boy- hood, TV's Dave Garroway set up an observatory - complete with 12t/a-inch telescope - at his summer place in Westhamp- ton Beach, N,Y. But a constant salt spray corroded the alumin- um -surfaced reflectors, and Gar- roway packed up his scope and put the property up for sale. Last week, he sold it for $39,500 to 43 -year-old Gerald Fisher, a $35,000 -a -year New York box manufacturer. Less than 24 hours after Fisher took title, storm - swollen seas demolished the seven -room house and its fur- nishings, the two garages, the observatory - everything but a solitary fence post. Although in- sured, and hopeful of recovering his monetary losses, buyer Fish- er seemed shaken by what he called "the psychological aspect" of the housebreaking. Sympa- thetic seller Garroway said: "I'm very sorry for him, naturally, But you can't call off a sale that's been made." a Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking WEB .' ®MOF:1©'. ME . 0IJ1,I MINOR' ME BEN:EI0® ©©®in EO.O ©0© AM ©B©E©Mr2 © O©: ©©CJO 1O©© 000 DEMO®::. 'it MEMO "MUM 'OM HOWIE0M MIUMESM ®©a 1A100 oo®.• ©EURO EIEC h iL®' IMPEERI WHAT1 SAW IN RED CHINA (First of Series) By FE•RNAND GIGON Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. NEW YORK - The "Great Leap Forward" once extolled by Chinese propaganda is finished. The back yard blast furnaces which dotted the Communist Chinese landscape 'are no. more. They were to supply the nation. with its iron and steel, but in- dustrial smelters with Soviet machinery have taken over the job. Gone, too, are the dormitor- ieswhere men slept on one side and women on the other, Gone are the community kitchens where peasants ate the same meal cooked in an immense cauldron. Gone are the work brigades of '250 to 350 persons who would fall on a field like a flight of birds to till and har- vest the • land. No longer are children raised away from their parents: In less than two years these features of the rural people's commune have disappeared. The super -brains of the Com- _ munist regime, who perhaps have never set foot in a field, are forced to admit the failure' of their policy which they im- posed on 500 million peasants. But, despite failure they will not admit defeat. They still maintain that they will "straight- en the thinking of each Chinese and raise his ideological con- science." I asked officials for permis- sion to visit a rural commune and perhaps to stay there two or three days. The .official an- swered my question with only a shrug of his shoulders. Several future requests were in vain. The People's Republic of China cannot bear to display the evidence of its disastrous policy, visible in the furrows of the grain fields and rice paddies of the south, Finally, however, I succeeded in visiting three communes during my 750 -mile trip from Wuchang to Shanghai down the Yangtze River, + + + They were, of course, rich and prosperous communes which work well. They can be shown to a -foreigner who will be led to believe that they rep- resent a 11 24,000 communes across the face of China. One of these communes which I visited was a community of 23,000 persons under the leader- ship of Kwang Yong Fo, an able director who rose to his position from the laboring class. Kwang is very popular with the work- ersin his commune. In the prev- ious year he had distributed to the commune members an aver- age of 247 yuan (a yuan is worth about 40 U.S. cents). To the local citizens he distributes the har- vest of the commune. Only then does •the government receive its share. On Kwang's commune, called Tang Wei, three of the four community tractors were park- ed broken in a yard. Until me- chanics could come to repair them the peasants hauled out their old wooden plows, and at- tached their buffalo to them as their ancestors had done for generations. Muscle power is still the main source of energy in China - as it has been for centuries. Tang Wel is a singing com- mune. I asked Director Kwang for a translation of some of the workers' songs. Some of the titles" The Song of the Clothes"; "Song of the Cotton"; "Song of the Vegetables." Heavy with propaganda, some of the lyrics went like this: "Previously we had holes in our hats and shoes without soles. Our skin was our only dress. Today our heads are cov- ered by a new hat and our body is clad in seven layers of cotton. We also have seven pairs of shoes." A team of girls was busy at Tang Wei when I arrived, spray- ing insecticide on the fields. An increase in the insect popula- tion had been the result of a program to massacre crop -de- stroying birds. The successful bird eradication program killed the bugs' natural enemies. + + + Money is now used as a strong incentive to increase ag- ricultural and other production. Because of this capitalistic -type competition there often exists a black market in reverse in the rural areas. Sometimes the amount of produce which a pea- sant has for sale is so great that he must keep his prices cut well below the official level. Chick- ens, rabbits, pigs and fruit are offered for sale in the market places. At a collective called the Oc- tober Commune, an autocratic director named Wang pointed proudly toward the fields, "Here, whoever works hard makes big money," he said. "Look what the peasants do with the land the government has given them and where they can grow whatever they want" Wang, not a very capable ad- ministrator, made up for his ignorance by thundering at Ms 32,000 peasants. But he under- stood his directives well front Peiping. In another commune, at the village of Ho Chen, 1 walked with a group of commune lead- ers to the fields for a first-hand look at the Chinese peasant at work. Suddenly I saw a small child run ahead of us and disap- pear into a corn field, He was to alert the workers that we were arriving. When we reached the peas- ants they were, indeed, hard at work. But not a single drop of sweat was on their faces, and their new shirts were still sharp- ly creased. * + + This artificial display of zrral does not diminish the quality of the Chinese peasant in my mind. I consider him one of the best farmers in the world. What is embarrassing is this mixture of propaganda and work offered as a spectacle for the foreign visitor to China. So goes life in the people's communes in China. They are prosperous if well directed, but miserable if the local director's incompetence combines wt :h the delirious policy of the party. But whatever their fail- ures or successes, the agricul- tural communes adapt them- selves well to the earth and mentality of China. Next: The Black Market MUSCLE POWER: Much of the work in China Is done as It hos been for centuries- by sweat and naked muscle.