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The Seaforth News, 1962-07-26, Page 7teen. alien raft, tory 'onal his) nth,. little ;leen sock* .ven- ?eter this todie it is ap- n by Fleet,' have o be the Whey telling leaves ireLlnd lg the s.d "In York. ✓h,ch 1930 - ween anish 'ar is a. At lit .tii:gs '.form in a titled best e, He ty to ban- ,ubll- amed The idays they ineo'l ey M f the where ,menu desa rock, Irmth ation. alleys ed as Ind a from mon- ctory, made opub- tion2l l l"d"a A Nal l/ U:+e r Oaf Circuligr Saws The ineldence of reclaimed Sleigh belie on smart suburban lintels has become g a u o he enough, and I wonder it a new fad couldn't be started to add to the general gayety. I was think- ing of a easy. It has been kind of fun to step up to somebody's .door and jingle pleasantly, yearn- ing them et your approaelt, but sameness begets indiltl epee, and after you have jingled the same kind of bells on half the homes In town you notice a similarity, One good sate would be impres- give. I refer to a circular sae thou- sands of which must be available et this late date, and any of which would make a fine alarum at the portal, and advertise beau- tifully. It may be that too few suburbanites have ever heard the overland melody of a saw, and won't appreciate what 1 am sug- gesting. The standard sawmill saw has a 64 -inch diameter. Allowing for the arbor, this gives the sawyer just about 22 inches maximum sawing depth, far running off boards, By rigging two of these saws in what is known as 'over- ' and -under," in tandem, the cut- ting width can he increased to about 40 incltes, which is enough to handle about any log now found in an eastern white pine operation. Handsaws take over after that. The care and custody of these circular sates is an art in itself. You hear of people who "file and set." saws, but the big mill saws are "hammered." This is as deli - nate a task as cutting a gem dia- • mond, and a man has to know what he's doing. The saw must rotate at high speed in a perfect- ly tees manner.. Since it is thin for its diameter (it cuts a kerf or I "scarf" of only one-quarter inch) the slightest twist or bind can throw it off. Because of the thickness of the saw blade, a Fourth of a board foot is lost to sawdust at every pass, so a vibrating saw, even if ever so little, can wobble away valuable timber. To bring a warped saw back into precision a man lays it on a flat surface, studies it for stress and strain, vend then. with sure, adept, quick, And heavy clips with a stout rammer relieves tension exactly where he must. He also puts the "set" in the 'teeth with a hammer, pounding every other tooth one way, and then 'flipping the blade over to. NIiS11ER Baby Emperor penguin peers out from its nesting place under parent. Like all babies, he will spend his first weeks of life riding on mum's or pop's large feet. 'The birds live in Antarctica. pound the alternate teeth the other. The points of the teeth get filed, and the throats, which allow for the accumulated saw- dust to be extruded, must be "gummed." When the saw is just right it can be hung back on the arbor. There are trim saws and edg- ing saws and other smaller saws used in a mill, so at least one man is kept busy moat of the time gumming, setting, pounding, and filing, But saws wear out in time. Repeated sharpening reduces their diameter to inefficient size, and sometimes a sawyer will astonish himself by finding odd things in a log, Like a link of an old boom -chain, t h at was wrapped around a tree when a tree was a sapling and is now imbedded in the mature sap- wood. Nobody knows it is there, and the log is railed onto the bunks just like any other log. The sawyer, seeing it is dogged down, will pull his handle and the bright teeth of the saw eager- ly take hold. All at once, amidst the harmonious whine of routine industry, there conies a snarl of anguish, and every tooth on the saw has been ripped away by the imbedded chain Hearing this noise from the office, the boss inkslinger merely checks off a replacement in his accounts payable, Nobody Is going to take that saw end file, gum, and set it for another time, It would make a perfect saw. to hang by somebody's front door, and it can be had cheap. In every lumbercamp an old saw was suspended from the limb of a tree near the dingle. They'd leave a bung -down axe on the ground close by, and when dinner was ready the cookee would come out and pound on the saw with the axe. You could hear this 10 miles upwind. It gave off a jarring, soul -jerking reverberation that can only be appreciated when heard, Right down in the pit of the mill, with his whirring saw whining on a spruce knot, the sawyer himself could hear this dinner -gong with ear muffs on. Across miles of i wilderness the jangling echoes would repeat and hurl back the . :tocsin, Mountains would jingle and jangle. The noise is said to have started avalanches and broken up lee in distant lakes. The size of saw to be used as a doorbell could be left a matter of taste. Perhaps a 16 or 20 inch bolter saw would be best in closer neighbourhoods. A ball - peen hammer, instead of an ax, would make a striker, and tonier homes could have one with en- graved handle. This kind of saw has, of course, a hole in the, center, where the shaft fits. If a bracket is built ona home near the front portal, so a loop of old telephone wire suspends the saw blade by this center hole, the arrangement will give you the clearest and pret- tiest tones. It will be joy when visitors arrive and clout this. The jingling sleigh bell alarm cannot compare. The saw will be fully rural, bucolic and old- fashioned. Indeed, whereas old saw blades have long been used for alarms, sleigh bells really never were. - by John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. DRIVING TIP Advice from a used car deal- er: "If your headlights are out of order, don't stop to have, them fixed that night. Just turn on your radio real loud: this will help drown • out the noise of the crash." In many cases sanding disks must be discarded because the backing tears or cracks _ even though the abrasive surface is still good. To lengthen the life of these disks the backs can be reinforced by sticking strips of masking tape to the back of each one. This will keep the disks from folding or breaking prematurely, 21. Keel-billed ��® cucitoo 22, m thing 24. Become Informed 25. At ell times 20. Atoll tlntea n. Lyric 27. Tapering B. Our mutual 23. Oen �iA mer.en 'art 7. Se f tree 8. Tooth doctor 20, Border colo 9. St en 10. Comment 11. British 11. ronin or head statesman CROSS PUZZLE ACROSS 1, lOxclamation of disgust 4. 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' , qq SO -i hto x'4 }�Ft:' ANS 5o Answer elsewhere on this page W y`i 1' a GO AWAY - Ronald Murray feeds dog food to trio of young starlings ho adapted when he found them abandoned and starving The birds left Murray's house when they were able to fly, but when Murray comes out on his porch, they fly to him for their dog food. To be a4.....0 ,, . a r ,.sn'.• land as spring turns into summer and all the wild young things are discovering the vastness of their world is one of the rarer pleasures permitted to humans. Not everyone shares our fas- cination with the wide-open spaces, we know, else how would you explain the mushrooming of cities which are building ever higher and higher because they lack space to spread out horizon- tally? When people who dwell in these high buildings venture into the wilds of mountains and mea- dows, too often they travel at a pace which makes the country- side, for them, nothing but a blur.. e a Being willing to slow down just to look yields rich divi- dends, One learns, and 'occasion- ally, even laughs. We remember especially a matronly looking cow who went bustling among a herd of Here- fords out in South Dakota, ac- companied by a bevy of five young miniatures of herself who had to hustle to stay close. A cow with five calves! Could this be? When the question was put later to a rancher, he shook his head, aghast at such ignorance. "No," he said. "That never hap- pens." "But they were trailing that cow as if they belonged to her," we insisted. "Well, cows are a lot like peo- ple," the rancher smiled. "Some- times a real motherly cow will take on responsibility for all the neglected young 'uns around. Sort of a neighborhood baby-sit- ter." * 14 4 Are cows really like people? Travelling farther through cat- tle country, we watched - and could only agree. To the left be- yond a barbed-wire fence we saw two cows, utterly relaxed, stretched out in lush green grass, just enough removed from the herd to idicate that they had sought 'this twosome for the simple pleasure of each other's company. 14 N, A In the same meadow, other cattle were milling around, form- ing.twos and threes and larger groups, with a head lowered oc- casionally for a brief bit of graz- ing = presenting a scene for all the world like the convivial hour before an important business- men's banquet. At one point, some 20 or so cattle came rushing to the fence as we approached, with all eyes on us, exactly like a welcoming committee. We guessed that may- be for a moment they had mis- taken our little red Volkswagen for a visiting cow or some strange but fascinating breed which might be interesting to, know, writes Helen Henley in the Christian Science Monitor. a 0 * When calves are naughty and run away and suddenly realize they are lost and in danger, they panic, .even as small humans do when weighed down with a guilty conscience. When a car ahead of us on a Washington state highway threw on its brakes and forced us to stop with hazardous abruptness, we saw at once why: three Here- ford babies, scarcely two months old, were crowding against each ether in the ditch, struggling wildly to climb up onto the high- way where their danger would ISSUE 27 1963 have been increased a hundred- fold. The car ahead went on but we couldn't leave these fright- ened babies to the doubtful mer- cies of highway traffic. We maneuvered our small car to gently herd the huddled trio some 30 yards along the ditch to where a driveway circled into a farmyard. Once there, the three small calves kicked up their heels and went cavorting toward the barnyard with all the gusto of returning wanderers who had thought never to see home again. * m 1 When it comes to inquisitive- ness too, many animals act just as people do, Gophers, chipmunks, possum, skunks, squirrels from time to time scurried across the road ahead of us with reckless disre- gard for safety (in this, too, they act like people) and although we could never see them after they gained sanctuary in the tall grass or deep ditch, many times we were certain that, once they felt safe, they turned around to stare and perhaps wonder about what must seem to them our own reck- less pace. Once, in Kaibab National For- est, our rear-view mirror framed a small herd of deer crossing the road not 50 paces behind us. Backing quickly but carefully on the deserted snowy highway, we stopped where the mother deer, shepherding some of their deli- cately stepping babies, had so recently passed. We got there in time to see them all moving swiftly through a clearing into a shelter of pines which immediately swallowed them up. They blended so per- fectly into the background that not for several seconds did we - discern a beautiful deer head looking out from among pines encircling it like a wreath, gaz- ing at us with frank curiosity. This matriarch held perfectly still while we snapped her pic- ture, almost as if flattered by this attention. 4' But of all baby creatures to be seen on earth, to us the most beautiful are colts. We saw an unforgettable pair of them a pinto and a roan, standing no more than three feet tall, sport- ing around together in a South Dakota meadow of deep green grass while their surrounding elders watched in benign indulg- ence. Their springy energy, their grace, their sense of mischief as they slyly nipped at each other with no will to harm - in these, the two baby horses seemed en- dowed with the essence of spring itself. Because of sight:' like these, we are glad that the concluding weeks of an entire year of travel have kept pace with winter -in- to -spring as spring has gently led summer into one region after another. It's a happy thing to be accompanied by the success- ive blooming of daffodils, azul- eas, peonies, and roses. Because of sights like these, indelibly photographed in mem- ory, we shall never again feel completely cltybound, Beyond the city walls are delights un- dreamed of by those held cap- tive by urban charms, We know. We have seen them. And we shall see them again. Silence Still A Valuable Asset Perhaps the sagest and safest comment on the stock market was J. P. Morgan's observation that he didn't know where stocks were headed but he was sure they would fluctuate, His view has not been heeded by the Adminstration, which lately has revealed its own analysis of the market. President Kennedy and Secretary Dillon, who have both spoken out, have admirable in- tentions; they are seeking to gala the fears of nervous inves- tors, But their attempt to play the part of stock analysts may lead only to more uneasiness, Neither Mr. Kennedy nor Mr. Dillon is anxious to be pinned down where the market is going. They are much more assured in their view that when stocks were selling at an average of twenty- three times earnings, with some issues selling at thirty times or more, the market was too high. Now that stocks are approaching fifteen times earnings, they think that prices are more reasonable. Indeed, Mr. Dillon has quoted some unnamed stook experts who say that at current levels stocks are "probably on a pretty sound basis." It is doubtful that these re- marks .will serve to restore con- fidence among investors. , . Mr, Kennedy, whose father won fame and fortune in Wan Street, and Mr. Dillon, who is an old wail Street hand in his own right, Must know that psycho- logical factors play a part in de- termining stock prices, and that any attempt to influence the psy- chology of investors can boom- erang. Their remarks contrast strangely with their silence when Wall Street was enjoying what was hailed as the Kennedy bull market, and twenty-three times earnings was the order of the day. • It night be wiser for Mr. Ken- nedy and his colleagues to revert to their former reticence, and listen rather than speak. For the stock market may not only be readjusting to the end of infla- tion, but also may be saying something about what it thinks of the future. -The New York Times Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ©PJMa•1G ,MODE ©©Olnnn©OE®p 'MOOR 0u© _©O© ©mien p n®�°maaviomu d©mmon es © l eimmoo ©©© ©O©©g' ono 1 NDAY SCIIOOI _LESSON liy Re v It. Barclay Hear .11, B.A„ MD Habakkuk Questions the Ways of God- llabakkuk 1:1-61 2:2-4: 3:11.19 -- Memory Scripture: Behold, his soul which is lifted ap is not up- right in him; but the just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 3:4 Habakkuk was a contemporary of Jeremiah, Since Moses, the Jewish nation had stand fox nearly a thousand YE:UM Em- pires had come and gone. Now the armies of Babylon were poised to invade and destroy. Jeremiah cried, "Repent:" Ha- bakkuk cried, "Why?" In answer to Habakkuk's ques- tion, God indicates that he will use the fierce Chaldeans to r"r- reef Judah. This troubles Ha- bakkuk, The Chat deans were more wicked than the Jews, So thaght Habakkuk. Perhaps Gest, who in evaluating the wfeked- ness of any people, take: into ac- count the light that has been re- ceived, saw it differently, Did not Jesus say to Capernaum, "If the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done. in Sodom, it would have re- mained until this day." At any rate, it is not for Habakkuk to question God's Method, "The just shall live by his faith." We must trust God. Habakkuk speaks a word that should alert us today. "Woe un- to him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest hint drunken also. Many who are free from the curse of drink them- selves, take no interest in trying to stem the rising tide of alcohol which is consuming the meagre means of many and bringing. distress and unhappiness to the family, Habakkuk's final chapter be- gins with a prayer for revival. Then he sees a vision of God coming in great power and glory, shining as a light. Whereupon Habakkuk rises above his pessi- mism and gives praise to God. No matter how terrible the situ- ation becomes, he declares, "Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation, The Lord God is my strength..." As if to add a final climax to his impassioned words, he concludes by saying, "Give this to the chief musician. Set it to musicil It is important to give praise to God. It is an expression of faith and "the just shall live by his faith." So many of the re- cipients of healing, first gave an expression of praise, which con- tains faith. BUG-EYED - Donald Olskey, is wide-eyed at the pros- pect of a butterfly lighting on his cheek instead of on a flower. FORMIDABLE - Fence ,guarding the old log cabin that was once the home of Gen, Ulysses 5 Grant at Grant's Farm, Mo., is made from the .barrels of 2,563 Civil War rifles.