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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-06-21, Page 7Rts 4l Dire ..r r- IR Me .•4Nntryi A gentleman from Vinaihaven was telling me the other day how he put his wife in the auto- mobile, cadre to the mainland in dile Everett Libby, and drove to California. He wanted to see Disneyland. So they were going along as happy as could be, and they finally got out somewhere in Montana and hes came up be- hind a farm truck. Suddenly, end without warning, the farm trunk turned deliberately left into his pathway, The gentleman said, "And there, if you please, was an ac- cident," , He said the driver of the truck hopped from the cab, skipped back, and jumped on him by say- ing, You might -a known .I was going to turn - I live right over there." We have a fellow here in town who once told sometourists how to find the Jun Grover place, "Go right out here until you come to my house; and he's the one this side of that," So it isn't only in Montana this kind of localization creeps into affairs, and for some time now we've had a lot of fun with "the other" John 'Gould. If you stop in Lisbon Falls, as quite a flew of you do really, and ask how to get to my place, there are two ways in which the 'help- ful can gum you up, If they tell you to "Go out Main street and turn left at the Tavern ..." you are in for it.. There isn't any tavern, There used to be. I often won- der what flickers up in the mind's eye of tourists as they learn about our tavern. A tav- ern, today, is sometimes of dub- ious repute, and perhaps con- notes -.neon signs and regular shore dinners. Our tavern was a horse -changing station on the original post road Benjamin Franklin laid out, and here the weary stage passengers found high -posted beds in the frigid• chambers while they rested over- night. As steamboats, steamcars tend electrics came along the uses for this hospice ceased, and the ncient building became a farm ome for several generations. hen, about 24 years ago, it burned. And although the spot was cleaned up and a new home built there, somehow the tavern per Misted in local minds and any- body seeking our road is likely Ito be told to "turn left at the tavern." Quite a few who final- ly find us begin the colloquy by saying, "What is this tavern?" If you chance on a direction giver .who remembers that the tavern is no more, he will say, "Go out Main street past two cemeteries on your left, take the next left, and watch for a red house on the turn of the road," Usually he adds, "You can't miss it!" Actually, y o can, If y o u breeze along in the full exuber- ance or the open road, you can very easily miss these two ceme- teries, and a great many do. By this time you have gone past the four corners at my road, have gone past Higgins's Corner, and have gone past Purinton's Cor - JET CRASH TAKES 45 LiVES - Aerial view shows the wreckage of a Continental jet that crashed in a field near Centreville, lowu, resulting in the deaths of all 45 persons aboard. One passenger lived for 10 hours but died in o hospital. ner. At this point the traveler would usually conclude that he had erred, and should back up and try again, except that just as he begins to have doubts he sees a cemetery on the left. This is the Purinton's Corner cenietry, and has nothing to do with coming to see me. You have overshot by four miles, But it is a cemetery, and you feel this confirms the original instructions, so you press on a few hundred yards and come to a second cemetery. 'You now know that everything is fine. It is true that just about now there is a left turn, and as you make it, in the bend of the road, you observe a red house. There is a tendency, at this, to feel that the man in Lisbon Falls who told you the route was an ex- cellent guide, and you congratu- late yourself on following so successfully his directions, There is more. If you drive in- to this dooryard and apply your- self to the friendly lintel, the gentleman who comes at your knock will depose and state that he is,' indeed, John Gould, and what can he do for you? This Mr. Gould, who is no rel- ative of mine, has been told many -many times that his en- joyable pieces in the Monitor have caused this intrusion, and that having come this far the visitors - would like to see his ducks, or have a refreshing sip from his cold spring, or discuss for a moment the broad subject of worm farming, I have heard that in the beginning this other J. G. was sometimes alarmed at this, and made seemingly irra- tional responses which often al- armed his visitors and sent them away thinking I had been rude, ifnot a little nutty. But in time the coincidence of both names and road directions was straightened out, and today after a. discreet feeler Mr. Gould knows if they want him or me, and reacts accordingly.I have, .. once in a while, had people come here looking for him. We also have a fellow in town who gives directions wrong -side - to. When he says left, he means right. He's left-handed. You just have to live around here and you know that, and .if he directs you there is no problem. Strangers, he gets them mixed up some. When he tells them to look for two cemeteries and a red house, I don't know what happens to them. -. by John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 8. College 02, Not so degree (ab.) expensive 9. High,84. Neuter mountaipronoun 10. moth 37. Continent 11. Locomotives 38. Is able 12. Towardothe 41. 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All, he has done is provide suitable housing for purple martins, a specie of bird given to graceful aerobatics and a penchant for hunting insects on the wing: M @ 4, The martin was known to the Mohegan Indians as "brie- bird that never rests." The Indians would have been even more amazed at this robin -size bird's endurance had they known that it spends its winter in South America and its summers as far north as the Arctic Circle. But although the martin is a wide- ranging migratory bird, its true residence is where it nests and raises its young, and to this end Mr,. King hasdone everything but hang out a "Home Sweet Home" sign. Starting with only one martin house, which was occupied by a pair the same day he erected it, Mr. King just kept on building houses and the more he put up the more martins he had. Now, the daily sight of over a hundred martins gracefully darting through his garden areas is . a pleasure to his eyes and a reward to his pocketbook. King is a keen student of na- ture and his observations have led 'him to many conclusions which are supported in books on ornithology. For instance, he found that a .martin doesn't like to live too close to a human dwelling; there must be ventila- tion .holes in the houses or the young will be driven out by the summer heat and die in their fall to the ground; the house support must be 15 or more feet tall. 4, e a Martin colonies were once quite common in America, espe- • Melly in the deep South where it was not uncommon to see myriads of gourd houses sus- pended from crosspieces attached to poles. But the appearance of the English sparrow marked the beginning of a new era for the martin, Many a colony was aban- doned to the oncoming horde of sparrows which took up resi- dence faster than the martins could throw out their nests and eggs. Since then, bird lovers have tried various measures to discourage the sparrows. P 3 4, One method is keeping the holes corked until the martins arrive from the South, Mr. King used to use a more drastic meth- od to eliminate English sparrows tainted grains, This method still preserved Mr, King's song- birds since his other barn.inhabi- tants were swallows and phoebes, The swallows feed on insects; the phoebe belongs to the fly- catcher family, Now, however, he has discovered that sparrows will not nest in a tin •can! Con- sequently he has switched from wooden boxes and sections of hollow logs to cans, and both King and the martins are happy. • i 4 Tin cans have other advan- tages al=e: they beat quickly and cool quickly; they can be proper - CLEAR TRACK -:An old win- ter problem of railroaders - frozen switches - may be licked with " a new device hanging over Santa Fe track in picture above. It's an infra- red heater, fueled either by natural gas or propane, which warms the switch without warming the surrounding air. At first sign of snow or ice, the heater turns on automati- cally and keeps going until the storm is over. The railroad plans to install the heaters in problem areas in Arizona and New Mexico. ly ventilated ("You split 'em along the sides and then pull the upper flap out so it won't leak and water drop all over the bot- tom. Then the bottom, I jab it full of holes so in case rain blows in on 'em, it leaks right on out"). • a e Mr. King's martins arrive on the first day of March and stay until the end of August, Some- times this early arrival date means they must endure snow for a while. But they come back early anyway, and each pair enters the same house they left the. 'previous season, a house which, incidentally, they had emptied 02 everything but straw before their departure. One day Mr. King made the mistake of moving one of the old houses to a different location and installing a new house where it had been. When the martin ar- rived it went into the new house, stayed about 30 minutes, and then left it to perch on another house nearby. Finally, after it had returned to the new house many times in obvious confusion and frustration, Mr. King said to his wife, "Nellie, I've got to go move that old box of his and put it back where it was!" FORGIVING .NATURE In Detroit, Horace Dodge, the automobile builder, had an old gatekeeper on his estate who neglected his duties shamefully, but had been around so long no- body dared criticize hint too sev- erely. •0 n e da y. however, Dodge's ire was aroused to the point where he hollered, "you're fired," and drove off in high dudgeon to Detroit. When he drove hone that evening, how- ever, there was the old gate- keeper big as life. "Confound it," roared Dodge. "Didn't I dis- charge you this morning?" "You did," agreed the gatekeeper cheerfully, "but I forgive you," ISSUE 23 1962 Lather in Your Drinking Water: For several years pollution control officials in the United States have been worried about detergents, which get clothes cleaner, drinking water dirtier. Now at least two states -New York and Wisconsin -have be- gun to act on this subject. Millions of Americans have lately seen magazine and news- paper photographs of tap water in some communities pouring into drinking glasses with a magnificent thirst -killing crown of foam on it, The problem Is that no current water purifying method - filtration, sedimenta- tion, or aeration - removes de- tergents from waste water, Each year more communities have to re use water. Specialist; forecast that within a matter of decades some communities' wa- ter may have to be re -used six times, Already it is estimated that Ohio River waters are re- processed an average of 3.7 times before they reach the Mississippi River. Bach use accumulates more detergent content, states an editorial in the Christian Science Monitor. Factory waste and normal sewage are closely linked to their producers. But detergent manufacturers do nothing direc- tly to produce pollution. They merely, sell their multi -syllable compounds with the one -syllable names. The public does the pol- luting, New York has appropriated $60,000 to make a technical study of the detergent problem. Other government units will doubtless enter the field. Perhaps the most useful effect of this public stir will be to add further momen- tum to the detergent industry's own high priority search for organic detergents that will break down in soil or river water. If such compounds aren't found, people in some water dis- tricts may not need to buy deter- gents any more. Tap water will do the job. UNY SCOOI LESSON. By Rev. R. B. Warten, ILA., 8.0. The Praise of the Redeemed Revelation 5:1-14; 1:1-17 Memory Scripture: Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent i'eigneth. Let us he glad and re- joice, and give honour to hibn. Revelation 1916-7. Our Lord did not receive much praise while here on earth, On the day of his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, some of the Pharisees wanted him to rebuke his disciples who were praising him. Jesus replied, "I tell you. that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immedi- ately cry out." The acclaim that he received that day was a to- ken of what he would receive in heaven. In heaven Jesus Christ is the object of great praise. In our lesson, he, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, prevailed to open the sealed book, Lion suggests his great strength. But he is also the Lamb that was slain. As such we see his meekness. When he opened the book, the four liv- ing creatures, the twenty - four elders, one hundred million an- gels, and the whole created uni- verse join in essItasy over the redemption of the human race. In chapter 7, an innumerable multitude from al] nations, tribes and tongues, having come out of the tribulation, standing before the throne safe in robes of white and palms in hands, give joyful praise to God and the Lamb. John tells about the seventh trumpet in chapter 11. Great voices in heaven announce the triumph of Christ's kingdom. The whole purpose of God is reach- ing its glorious consummation. The long conflict is over. John sees the twenty-four elders, who sit before God on their thrones, fall upon their faces in worship and praise to the Lord for His reign in power, for judging the' dead, for the reward of the saints, and for the destruction of the forces of evil. Most of us will admit that we do not fully understand all the details set forth in the Book of the Revelation, But we can cer- tainly catch the atmosphere. Tn the great moral conflict of the ages, good will win over evil. And Jesus Christ is the One who by His death and resurrection., makes this victory possible. Here in this world, many revile Hit name. Finally He will receive the honour that is His due. IN DARKEST AFRICA A cannibal mother and hex child scanned the heavens while a big airliner zoomed by. "What's that?" demanded the child. "It's something like a lobster," ex- plained the mother. "You only eat what's inside." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking EMCEED :©n00© ©ED®0©o MOAB BMW' 1!1. MO ®Dons BOMB non oa MEDEE©© :®o ®EIOD© - EMCEE ME" ,t MOB J !©©EL OM ©BBORM ,.Ale RUM ®®M®© .'PM DEE©® MUMOMME STRANGE SIGHT TO US -Communist party hammer cirri sickle appeals tc voters in the June municipal elections on plastered all over this sidewalk display board in Rome, Italy