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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-05-31, Page 7Corduroy Roads Are Not For Springtime One of the automobile clubs has just warned us that the Maine Turnpike will be rated "eecond class" this sunh;ner un. less the 43 ;piles of patches are smoothed up before the tourist feason starts. It so happens I Thad just driven over those 43 miles of patches the day before, and I came home to tell people the road wasn't bad at a11, The ALA must have a road inspec- for who never saw a mud sea- son, Here in the northerly climes we invite some of this spring- time trouble by scraping off the snow all winter. Snow protects the ground against. the penetra- tion of frost, and if you. clean the snow off you're going to get bad heaving. The Maine Turn- ,pike will smooth out amazingly in a few warm weeks, and with necessary grooming will prob- ably be ready for the paying guests when they come. In extreme instances we have prograln of a quick -shot pave- anent treatment which costs the gtate a minimum of $5,000 a mile and is shade necessary en. tirely by this winter plowing, lit is, of course, an expense the more southerly states don't have, and if a similar job were :necessary otherwheres it would last longer than the single sea- son we usually get from' it. A, good Trost heave, along in March and April, affords some merriment. A. gentleman f r o m New Jersey was up here last week selling ceramics whple- sale to our florists, readying for a brisk Baster trade, and 'he took the Pond Road from West' Xettlebottom over to Pepper- mint Corner and hit a thank - you -ma'am near.ihe Davis place, He had his little vases and pots laid out in the station wa- gon, and was meditating plea- santly about' many things when he took off in a wild flight half- way between a ski jump and a polar orbit. The Devises said it sounded as if the shelves had collapsed in a restaurant k i t- ehen. The gentleman paused here in town long enough to get his springs replaced, and had some harsh words abopt the road commissioner. No doubt he will tell people the Pond Road is a bad one, whereas it is really a verygood road as soon' as, the frost comes out. Years ago we had a corduroy road over the beaver bog in the borough; They laid long logs, like 'the tracks on a railroad, across the bog, and then put shorter logs crosswise of them to drive on. In the rough, this kind of a road is bumpy, but it was a standard Maine way of getting across wet land. We used to use this construc- tion for bridges -running heavy logs across the stream and "paving" them with other logs. The ridges ire corduroy cloth, of course, suggest the name. In the winter snow smooths up the chinks, and sometimes they spread gravel for the same pur- pose. Indeed, after a time such a bridge gets to be pretty good going, and after a while some- body may even forget it is a corduroy. So this early -bird tourist came and thought he would see if the trout had wintered in Cox's bog, and he drove his Model .T onto his stretch juse at the season of the year when he shouldn't. Big trucks had been hauling lumber out over it all winter, to why should anybody suspect h Model T would get in trouble? So the ends of some of the cross -logs snapped off, letting the wheels of his car down into the abysmal slough, and the framework and housing perched LAST MONTH -- iN HISTORY r APRIL. 21 APRIL 30 !elation Walker flies X-15 rocket plane ecoid 48 mites into space. Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle. N 1 Il lllll��li!14 � Itis ` i vlal� � I�h � . A hi(;i •.70 000 flowYork Cll' A 11 schooltsachtirs wank off job for idebor pay: court grdere thorn bock, tl APRIL 11 Alen 10 U,$. St1ri peeouecot $64 topics rim OR Vespitillee fol ese APRIL II 'gaud fedashiKoestlpbittefly etteck. 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The lengthwise stringers were just right so he straddled them, He tried to 'pry himself out, after he found churning the wheels only filled the sky with thud, but there was no place to stand, He felt around in the swamp with k 20 -foot pole but couldn't feel any ,bottom, and things look. ed bad, Afterward, Charlie Hunnewell came with a truclt. He didn't dare put the truck on the core duroy, so he kept it up on high - ground and ran a rope out to the Model T. When he got tied in he said, "All right, steer!" So the tourist got behind his wheel and stuck • his head out through the period side -curtains for the pack -up, Charlie had had .three cords ,of birch on, so his traction was good. And when he began' pulling he kept right on going. People three miles away heard the tourist yelp, but Char- lie didn't pay attention: What he did was pull the Model T up onto some unbroken • logs, which promptly broke and let the Model T down again. Then he pulled it up onto some more, which broke, and Log by log the tourist was jerked back- ward in a motoring experience the ALA has; probably never as- sessed. After they got the thing up on dry ground it stood there. and jingled for 10 minutes. This was the end of that road- way. You can't go there nuw. Fora few years the town had a sign up which said, "Notiss - This ,stretch decontinued, per order selectmen," and right by. the sign was a' big pile of mud that had dripped, off that Model T. But that's gone now, and the road has grown up to trees, and we are spending our money on patch for the Interestate. You can hardly find a decentstretch. of corduroy any more. My point (and there s'rould always be a point) is that we expect too much these days, and as tourists we don't know how to make -do, Frost breakup and mud -time, in Maine, make the going a little slower, and the• tourist clubs shouldn't get impa-, tient. Things will dry out. They always have. - By John Gould in the Christian Science Moni- tor. HOW DEEP TO DIP Never dip a paint brush more than half the bristle length into the can. One-third the length is even better. Deep dipping cattses paint to build 'up near the metal heel, harming the brush. Instead of wipiing off excess paint by scraping the brush against the can, tap the bristles gently against the inside of the can. Your brush will last longer this way. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Hebrew manure II Skein at yarn 8. Part of ,s harness 12. WIN of a raja1, 10 Self 14. ISlaoorate melody 16. One who Balled with Jason 17. Prohibits 18. Hawaiian garland ID, Practice 20.fihah8v 21 Burmese demons 22. Period 24. Bursar 27. A lifetime 20 ,Court 21. Wg heel track 22. Slgh 02.130 means of 84. Permaats 08. Til -man - tiered person 27. Nurture 18. Threaded metal 41. fent-ones 42. laneyme 46, Prose '4e. Rudlmente 48. Malden 48. Movttta J{ Wagon Pane 51, S all L00d tts, sweet g 0. Custom 9. 131b. character 10. 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The following account accentuates this fact ,and 'shows that, except for 'the amounts in- volved and the crepe grown, there is little difference between South Korea and North America, « « * The..ICorean winter is over, but as barley shoots and spring vege- tables relieve the brown mono - tong of the eroded fields, the two -acre farmer and his family face the most difficult period of the year, when rile stocks har- vested in' the. fall run low and the crop has barely begun to grow, . This is the time of year when, traditionally, the farmer must turn to his family moneylender, who, having frequently 'known hire since childhood, needs' no documents to determine exactly how much he can repay, and when. Interest rates, at around 8' per .cent a month, come to 96 per cent a year. Both the farmer and the moneylender have long been used to this cycle of borrow and plant, reap and spend, and borrow again. a « e This year there is a difference. A ;new government carne to power in Seoul 11 months ala -a government headed by army of= ficern determined, among other things, to break the moneylend- ers' grip ever the countryside, and accustomed to taking drastic measures. So, since last May, when the milite.ry' government ousted the elected civilian Cabinet in a nearly bloodless revolution, reeneylending at interest rates higher than 20 per cent a year has been outlawed. * +h * One would think that such a bold and .sweeping move would have made the military govern- ment the most popular adminis- tration farmers had ever known. Such has not proved the case, at least so far. And this year, as the farmers enter the season of their greatest need, the regime faces its first real test among the rural population. For 'the primary question to- day, as in years past, remains one of credit. Where will the farmers obtain the loans they need in order to grow heir 'crops and meet expenses until the har- vest? The outlawing of usurious moneylending has created a shortage of money in the coun- tryside, and government re- sources, .though bolstered by American aid, are as yet inade- quate to fill the need. * ,U « In one village near Taegu, for instance, a hamlet. comprising 80 families applied for govermnent loans of 30,000 hwan per family -a total of 1,800,000 hwan, But only 150,000 hwan actually came through -or 2,500 hwan (less than $2) per.family. The hamlet chief had great difficulty decid- ing how the money was to be used. He finally allocated it evenly among the 60 families, though he well knew that such atomization was tantamount to throwing the entire sum away. The new military gopernment, le the first weeks after: it seized power May 18 last year, outlaw- ed usurious lending, ordered bor- rower and lender to register debts, and canceled all amounts awed fn excess of 150,000 hwan ($113.85). A new credit organ, the National Agricultural Credit Fund, absorbed the Agricultural Bank and issued five-year de. bentures bearing 20 per cent in- terest to the .former moneylend- ers. Debtors were to repay the recognized portion of their debts at 12 per cent Interest, with the ISSUE 20 -- 1062 SEED SPRAY - Large turret gun mounted on truck shoots out o seed mixture in a new method used to plant grass near San Antonio. Spray mix- ture contains special wood cel- lulose fiber mulch to hold the gross seed in place, government paying . the differ-, ence, writes Takashi Oka in the Christian. Science Monitor. « 4 « In the autumn, South Korea reaped a bumper rice harvest totaling 18,902,870 suk (2,739,546 metric tons). As an additional gesture to the farmers, the gov- ernment raised the price at which it purchased rice by about .40 per cent. This, year, the government will supply free fertilizer in quanti- ties sufficient to meet the needs of submarginal farmers - those who cultivate less than 5 tanbo • (1.25 acres). It also will step up crop -production loans, with the help of 36.266,000,000 hwan from American -aid counterpart funds. Added to money the government itself has committed, plus carry- over from .last year's program and whatever may be realized from return payments on pre- vious debts, a total cf between 60,000,000,000 and 70,000,000.000 hwan probably will be available for new loans to farmers this year. M k « Aid officials hope the loans will serve a productive 'purpose by concentrating on farmsrs who have a chance cf commercial success - growing enough rice and other crops to sell them at a profit. It is estimated that farmers with less than five tanbo do not have such a chance, since they do not grow enough rice even to feed themselves. For this reason, individual loans will be made only in the range of 30,000 to 150,000 hwan. They will carry 10 per cent annual interest. M M * Can the combination of free fertilizer for submarginal farm- ere, low-cost crop -production loans for commercial -scale farm- ers, and higher rice purchase prices for both, replace or nearly replace the funds formerly sup- plied by the moneylenders? If the government can pass this test, it will have broken the power of the moneylenders, per- haps forever, If it cannot, under- ground moneylending, already said to be going on in many vil- Iages where fanners are despe- rate far 11tinds, is likely to in- crease and the regime's ambl- tious Five -Year Plan for eco- nomics development will expert-• ence a' setback in the crucial rural sector, where 65 per cent of South Korea's 23,000,000 pets - pie live and work, The human voice never changes more than when a wife Stops scolding her husband to answer the phone. tI Like Hot Needles Through Your Head Headaches, an occasional nuis- ance for most people, are aro current nightmare for more than 10 million Americans who reg- ularly suffer from migraine at- tacks, Possibly by the severest form of headache -Its intensity has been compared to a hot needle thrust through an eyeball migraine commonly puts its victims flat on their backs, The acute pain of migraine is cuased by extreme dilation and distension of blood vessels around the skull, exerting pres- sure on nerves. Doctors have used ergotamine tartrate, which constricts blood vessels, to treat acute attacks. But ergotamine has not proved satisfactory for continuous use as a preventive. In their search for a drug to stop migraines before they start, doctors have prescribed literally hundreds of agents- from tran- quilizers to Vitamins -all with- out success. But last month there was a report of encouraging results with a new drug. The drug, methysergide, is a distant chemi- cal cousin of ergotamine, but it is less toxic and can be admini- tered daily, Dr. Arnold P. Fried- man, director of the Headache Unit at New York's Montefiore Hospital, reported that methy- sergide had sharply reduced the frequency, or severity, of mi- graine attacks in 70 per cent of 325 patients who had serious migraine problems. "In 20 per cent," Dr. Friedman told the American Academy of Neurol- o g y, "headaches disappeared completely." Before treatment, the patients regularly had suf- fered at least two migraine headaches a week, or experi- enced one weekly attack severe enough to put them in bed. The neurologist warned that side effects such as nausea can occur, "requiring careful control of the dosage." (It varied in Dr. Friedman's patients from two to five tablets per day.) But despite the side effects, Dr. Friedman was optimistic: "Over the years I've appraised about 80 drugs and methysergide is the most effective migraine preventive I've ever seen." NPAY S01001 JSON BY Bev. a. 8, Warren, ii,A,, 0,B, Proofs of Faith 1 John 1:5.10; 221-11 Memory Scripture; Prove all things; hold fast that witch is good. 1 Thessalonians 6:21.. Jesus said, "I am the light.ol the world; he that 'Polloweth and shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life" John 8:12, This conception of Jesus as 'light' .impressed the apostle John, In our lesson John declares that, "God is light"; also, "If he walk in the light, las he is In the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cieanseth us from all sin." Sin is associated with darkness, He that hateth his brother is in darkness. John is very specific in hid statements with regard to sin, All have sinned. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteous- ness." A young friend was try- ing to point me to Jesus Christ, I confided to him the fear that I might confess my sins to God and He would not forgive, My friend quoted to me the above verse, I saw then, that if I did my part, God would not fail to do His. He is faithful and just One Sunday, as the claims o1 Jesus Christ were presented 1 was moved by the Spirit of God to repent of my sins. Then this verse came to my mind. I took God at His word. I believed. Ile forgave, My burden was gone. John writes, "My little chil- dren, these things write I unto you, that ye seen not." Christians ought not to sin, But what if a Christian, under pressure, does sin; is there hope for him? John goes on to say, "And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." Don't despair. Go tc God in prayer. He will forgive. But if we keep repeating the same sin, we shall come to doubt our own sincerity. "Whose keep- eth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected." We will never be free from error in this life. But if our love to God is perfected, He will see that in- tention is good, even though the word or deed may not be wise. Love is so important. When Jesus Christ transforms a life, the love of the world gives way to love for God and our fellow- man. God's love manifest through the Iife is the disting- uishing mark of a disciple. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking A �l9© ©ISO.>. MIMI -MRIZIE101111ilifl- RCM ©©0 Mgli3 0111F3pp Clara r, A igin©©©©0 0©0 hJ€1210 HEM19131:1,01910©� MrAl ©€I�IGI�u;51©ice E]©IOCi ©©©'' [i€li1 ©©I10 ©11110©t70 A Minn' ''-D0©'IIIil • E1 ©©k:d®''' MOD B MADE iN ERiTAIN - Space co-operation between Angli- American scientists has resulted in Great Britain's first satel- lite, shown in sketch above with its solar cell paddle wheel* extended. Called the "UK -1" in Britain and the "NASA §5-51" in the U,S., the 132 -pound satellite will be launched into 41 g00 to 600 -mil orbit from Cape Canaveral) Fla., by i1 American Thor -Delta rocket combination. Instruments dei: j signed by three British universities wi'f' investigate the layer of electrically charged particles which surround theuteortlt-