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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-05-03, Page 6Where Streets 'Were Paved With Suver Much has beep written in fic- tion. as well as history regarding the epoch of Virginia City, which began es e group a dugouts, tents, and Crude cabins clinging to the side of Mount Davidson, These were replaced by sturdy frame structures which were soon wiped;' out by disastrous fires, Then buildings of brick and stone took shape, and a few mansions were built, By far the most notable of the latter was that of Sandy Bowers whose wife, Eilley Orrtun, was known as the "Queen of the Comstock," The streets of the city were, in fact, paved with silver, as the low-grade ore was used to sur- face them. Better ore was piled up for later treatment, and the first -grade ore was sent to Eng- land to be milled before local enills were built. Later a local mill, erected by the investors Gould and Curry, cost a million dollars. Mark Twain lived in Virginia City and wrote in the daily Ter- ritorial Enterprise, at that time Nevada's • leading newspaper, of the life which thrived so lustily there during the several boons periods, The Comstock poured out so much wealth in silver that Be it gathered momentum the United States operated a mint at Carson City for twenty-three years to handle its bullion. The mining boom had brought enough people to the new dis- trict that their influence was felt in the East, and In the spring of 1861 the Territory of Nevada was created by act of Congress. James W. Nye, a New York law- yer, was appointed governor, and Orion Clemens, brother of Sam-. uel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), was the first territorial secretary. Several -months elaps- ed before these officials, trav- elling by boat around the Horn from New York to San Francisco,. then by stagecoach over the range, arrived in Nevada. In Oc- tober the first territorial legisla- ture met in Carson City, chosen as the capital. — From "The Downs, the Rockies—and Desert Gold," by Helen Downer Croft. What One Negro Did in Nigeria Joseph R. L. Sterne, writing from Nigeria, tells the story of Charles L. Davis, an American poultry specialist, a Negro who once taught at Princess Anne on the Eastern Shore. For the past two years, sent out by the Amer- ican Agency for International Development, he has been a one- man task force bent on revolu- tionizing poultry raising in Ni- geria. Here, as in most of the under- developed countries, food supply for the ordinary people is skimpy and badly assorted. Here, as in most of them, it is not lack of land but ignorance that holds down production: ignorance of the principles of good husbandry plus bad seed for planting and scrubby blood lines in farm ani- mals. What Mr. Davis is doing is to correct that in Nigeria so far as poultry is concerned. . . Mr. Davis is showing the Nigerians how to raise Rhode Island Reds, and the results of his demonstra- tion are spreading in .concentric circles. In a land where eggs and broil- ers are often a drug on the mar- ket, this may seern a small thing. In Nigeria, it is a big thing, It adds protein to an unbalanced diet greatly in needof it. It ISSUE 16 — 1962 starts a new sash crop. It takes peasant farming a step beyond the struggle for more subsistence. it starts minds working and dis- arms suspicion and hostility. There is glamour in the plans Pox equipping countries like NI- geria with steel mills, great dams and aluminum plants, But their appeal is more to the ruling elite in these new countries than to the humble, There is glamour, too, in the arrival of shiploads of food labeled "Aid from U.S.A." But for the hungry and ignorant chained to a life of bare subsis- tence on the land there is greater glamour still in the elementary revelations of men like Mr. Davis. This is the kind of aid that brings fast results at minimum cost, The (Baltimore) Sun AIRY LOCKS — An orbit or airiness is the theme of this spring coiffure for 1962, In- spired by the celebrated feat of John Glenn and the other astronauts, the sides of the new hair style lift up,while tap lucks cross the crown of the head in a celestial swirl. Maybe We'd Setter Switch To Tea If two Indiana University Med- ical Center scientists are correct, the familiar New Year's Eve slo- gan, "Make the Last. One for the Road Coffee," is doubtful advice for drinkers. Aided by a collec- tion of staggering rats, pharma- cologists Robert B. Forney and Francis W. Hughes claim that caffeine can actually prolong the effects of alcohol. Using a specially constructed box, the Indianapolis researchers taught their test animals to avoid a small electric shock by running into one of two compartments when a red warning light flash- ed. Rats that stayed put, or chose the wrong compartment, got shocked, When the animals were trained, Drs. Forney and Hughes gave them alcohol injec- tions. At the warning light, the tipsy rodents hesitated, received a shock, then ran for a compart- ment. "Many of them chose the wrong room and got shocked a- gain," Dr. Forney said last week. Surprisingly, caffeine seemed to exaggerate the effects of al- cohol. And the caffeine -treated animals tended to make bad de- cisions even after the alcohol had disappeared from their blood. Now Drs. Forney and Hughes say they will test the effects of coffee and alcohol on humans. Eagerly awaiting the results of these tests,' one New York bar- tender said recently: "I've al- ways recommended black coffee. But if I'm wrong, I'1] start sug gesting Bloody Marys, "It'll help business." Jim (in Hospital): "Are you medical or surgical?" John (in, Hospital): -"I don't know," Jim: "Were you sick when you. came in or did they makeyou sick after you got here?" • FRIGID BRIGITTE -- Seeming chilled and impatient w'th rain freight check at Los Angeles airport, waxen likeness of French actress Brigitte Bardot, clad only In the bottom half of o bikini, glares out from crate, Made in Mexico City, the wax figure will be put on display in a Buena Park wax mu- eount. CHURCHILL'S DAUGHTER TO WED — Sarah Churchill, the 47 -year-old daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, poses with fiance Baron Audley, 48, in London. Miss Churchill an- nounced her engagement April 3, It will be the third marriage for Sarah and the second for the baron. HRONICL 1NGERF 14 evendoline P. C to ke Well, haw did you like the first of the playoffs—that is betwten the Leafs and the Rangers? Partner . and 1I thought both games were good, but unfortun- ately we didn't watch them to- gether. Partner was at home and I still in the hospital—at first worrying my heart out because I could hear a hockey broadcast, but not clearly enough to get the score. • One of the nurses came into my room and I asked her where the broadcast was coming from. "Oh, that's from the semi- private room where my husband is a patient. The set belongs to his room -mate, I am sure they would be glad to have you watch the game • if you are really interested." So off 1 went—that vigil*, and again on Thursday— and was able to go to bed well content because I hadn't missed the play-offs and was able to talk things over with Partner next morning. The next subject I want to introduce for your consideration is hair -dressing -a far cry from hockey. Have you ever realised how a woman's hair -do reflects her temperament, her health • and her spirits? Most women, -when they are up and doing,' lilte to. look their best and this necessitates spending time on their hair— either at the hairdressers or setting their tresses at home. Go to any social affair — church, I.O.D.E., W.L, or whet have you, and you will find. most of the women smart and -well .groomed. But occasionally you will notice a woman whose hair looks ragged and uncared for. Inquiries will generally reveal thefact that that same woman is 'tired and under the weather, and hasn't enough energy to care what she looks like. I have often felt that way myself, but if I let myself goI have Partner on my track. "For heaven's sake go and get something done to your hair," he will say, "it looks like the devil!" About six weeks ago he got after me in just that way, sc I made an appointment and got a permanent, Three days later came a call from the hospital to say they finally had a bed wait- ing for me, Was I ever glad I 'had got that permanent! Since then I.have been looking around at the other patients.• Quite a number of them came in, much like the wreck of the Hesperus—a few on stretchers, saying little and caring less; hair hanging loose and straight around their faces. Then as time went on and each one began feel- ing better you `would hear from, first one and then another—"O)1, my hair, isn'tit awful?" A kindly nurse took pity on my room -mate and put her hair up in pin -curls, immediately she was more cheerful and looked fifty percent better. A younger. patient, as soon as she was able, gave herself a real attractive hair -do. Still another, with long White hair, tied at blue ribbon around her head. And so lir goes. - . 'ane look at leer' hair and you cantell paretic' yeell whether a patient, Le cheeafal and optimistic, or Alli arid depressed. A thinkit would be a wonderful idea if' every hospital' had a eau: - dresser come in at least once a week. Perhaps they are available in bigger hospital's — I don't know — but certainly some arrangement should be made tor smaller establishments.. I iaatiued one men had a barber come iso to give him a haircut Are the men entitled to better service than the women? Well, my surgeon has jiust been; in and there dosen't seem watch hope of tory going home until the middle of next week. I ane perfectly well, but a little bit of surgery still' remains to be dome. I don't mind except that Partner is getting fed up with batching. Daughter is shopping for h ro to- day and taking in some cooked) stuff, so I am hoping that will cheer him up a tittle. A funny thing. has happened here—the staff and some of the patients have discovered I do a bit of writing and they want to , know where they can read .this column. . One patient said "I wish you would write a day by day story of your stay in hospital!" Ye gods ... isn't "Dr. Kildare' and "Ben Casey" enough to satisfy the public? They should be, although I must admit there are many gaps that .could be. filled in with considerably more detail—if so desired. However, , it is just as well toleave a little to the imagination! A Really Fine 0ooR Aba ui'' A Great Man .E'ull many a volume has eom- passed the. exciting lives or Sir Whiston Churehill—his memor- ized upbringing, his Boer War exploits, the tragedy of Gallipoli, the lean and unrewarded years, and the resounding climax of World War II. Biographies have sprung up, Arthur Bryant in `The Turn of the Tide" dealt with Churchill in relation to other war leaders, and Sir Winstni himself penned the whole epic struggle of "The Sec- ond World War," drawing on state papers and personal min- utes. But now we have a book which concentrates wholly on t h e drama and decision of Churchill throughopt World War It, the profound and moving struggle from the days when the British fleet at Scapa Flow flashed the exhilarating w o r d, "%luston's Back" to the moment when, with. Hitler's "thousand year Reich" a shambles, Churchill, defeated for re-election, tenders his resigna- tion to the King and advises His Majesty to send for Mr, Attlee, Jack LeVien and John Lord, in their "Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years" almost make World War II too dramatic and brave, There were stagging months and moments of gaunt despair when the Allied cause— or the British cause after the re- treat from Thsnki'rk- seemed de- sperately far tip victory over the Axis powers:, But a story *filch deals with that isresivons- sible, sentimental,. irrcTonettable,, sonorous, boners,. and grand' fig- urate,. drat imam 0± the ages,, Win- ston Spencer cirri droll, could) Hardly he duel ter at moment.. Sb, li'ere ie. excellent reading for astyone who. woeld' relieve that epic times and' high strategies and! Famous conferences and tense battles of the great war. It is a, fast -paced account, as might be d story putt together initially as background to the widely ac-; c1'aiined' television series, "The Valiant Years."' One can open this book to any page and become ' engrossed with the pageant of history and the interlocking of man—this: man—and events. Said the kind old 'lady to the Internal, Revenue.. clerk: "I do hope you'll give. my money to some nice country." Ad'tti'ng to, the value is the au- thor's occasional use of quota- t'i'ons from Site Winston's own ac count of World War IL These itai&cized.paragraphs, in the best King's English,, add a potent com- mentary to the unfolding account. In a way this is the cream of the history, but there is sufficient depth. to illumine all major ac- tions. Here are the Polish Blitz- kreig. the fall of France and Churchill's efforts to persuade the beaten French generals to fight on in Africa. Here is the air -fought Battle of Britain, with Churchill' pokierg among the Lon- don doxy ruins. Here ie. the. hunting down of the Bismarck;, axed' then the foss of the Prince of Wales and' Repulse off IVIaTaya. Here is Pearl' Harbor and CliurchiiPI quick visit to Washington to cement the alliance—and assure that the Allies would tackle Eu- rope ahead of Japan, The eanfereuees of Quebec, Cairo, Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam— they are told, and Churchill's role in each, and: his delightful side excurisions, as when at Yalta he sought to see the orig- inal Crimean terrain of the Charge of the Light Brigade. The North African campaign, the tor- tuous advance through Italy's mountains, the massive assault in Normandy on D -pay, the race across France, the Battle of the Bulge, the crossings of the Rhine, the final hours before, V -E Day —these all pass in thunderous ar- ray, The panorama is wide enough to present the whole struggle at once, If the book is flawed at all, it is in minimizing some of the less- brilliant strategems of Churchill, and his habits of stunmoning ministers and even the Chief of the Imperial General Staff at ex- hausting midnight hours to dis- cuss .some far-fetched tactic that might have been better left to the - military, No seamy side of Churchill appears. Yet after all there has been no phenomenon quite like Sir Win- ston in many a decade of this, world's history, whose• broadcasts were worth divisions orf troops„ whose sense of destiny and his- tory was so profound. This ' booth very nearly does hirer justice. Modern Etiquette By Anne ltsh•t'e;v Q. W'e've'seen having an amgu`' anent fm our group, as to whose. place ft is to speak first when, meeting oar the. street, ,tile man, or the woman. Will' you. Please' settle this for us?' A. Wirile once. it was always. the "lady"' whoa spoke first, Wi- day' — it they saw good friende— there is nothing' of all' wrong; witir the nran''s• speaking first Q. Now should' the. very large, type of shrimp in a 'cocktail. be. eaten? A. If your can manage it;, outs it ire Half with, your fork, against the side• of the glass. — or else, you' lift it out,put ib me the plate, under the glass, and' cub it in. half with the, fork. Q. Should the bridegroom's. parents mail announcements of the marriage to their friends, it the bride's parents are not sending out any?' A. This would not be in, good. taste. They may, however, notify their friends and relatives by telephone or lay personally -writ- ten notes. Q. Is.it acceptable now to. sends a typewritten, letter '0± oondol: enoe, signing it, of course; by' hand?' A. While must social corres- pondence. May now he typed; it still is considered' more proper. and nine' iirdlcative et sineere sympathy to write • letters; of cnn- d'ol'errce by hand'. BOW' CHAPEAU Bowlike bonnet clasped with diamond pin setin gold was created by,aSpanish designer for. spring. SET SKETCHER — Academy Award winner Charlton Heston passes time between takes of his latest film, "Diamond Head," by making sketches of the movie sets and flora of Kauai Islandwhere the crew is on location, With Heston is his co-star, Yvette Mimieux. One of Huston's sketches, the carved head ofa grotesque jungle god, is shown at right.