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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-10-04, Page 3Crooked Work At The Full Fair! It may just be that I never happened to mention the time I ran a crocked game at the fair tad made $2,50, It was really $5, but Pokey Foster helped me and I had to split, We were all of 10 or 12 at the time, and $1,00 sweating in the pocket of an adventuresome lad was a rich sum, I am sorry to say we frit- tered it away for spun sugar, merry - go - rounds and oyster stews, for if I had it now I could use it, But we did win a few jack-knives, tie -clips and teddy bears before we were poor again, Pokey and I had been saving up, but we didn't have much over the price at the gate, so we were spending slowly. We'd seen the cattle, swine and sheep, had ridden the Ferris wheel, had paid a dime apiece to see a stuff- ed whale, and now we were chewing on a hotdog and ponder- ing the next splurge. So we approached a booth where a lady was running a shooting gallery. Little prizes, clipped to wooden blocks, were standing on a shelf, and at three shots for 10 cents the sporty customer could take home what- ever he shot off. Pokey and I were a little disappointed to find the weapons were Daisy air rifles, which a country boy con- sidered a city -kid toy and hardly for us, Instead of shot, these air guns took cork stoppers which fitted somehow into the muzzles.. Popguns. The lady didn't seem to notice us mosey up and paid no heed to our snide comments on her arsenal. Instead, she was straining to peer over our heads at the crowds, and seemed oc- cupied with something at a dis- tance. Being discreet little gen- tlemen, we naturally didn't pry into her affairs, and were about to turn away when she sudden- ly yelled "Hey, you, come here!" The next thing we knew we were inside the little booth, hav- ing scooched under a counter, and as she scooched under it to get out she said, "Now, you hear me, you stay right here and run this place 'till I get back, now mind me!" And off she went into the crowd, ICE MMD -Anna Geirsdottir, Miss Iceland and runner-up in recent Miss Universe pag- eant, feels right at home with some big cakes of ice in sun- shiny Tollahassee, Pokey and 1 had nu( expected to own a shooting gallery,, at least with such a minimum of dickering, but there we were, and we took up our burden with a will, First we shut off all the prizes, There was a trick to it, because the cork stoppers didn't fly true, But if you set thein into the muzzle as squarely as possible, and walloped the prize just below its center of gravity, it would fall off, If you hit the prize high it would merely tip over on the shelf, and if you hit it low it wenld just push back a half-inch and not do anything. Having mastered the carnival secret we set the prizes all back up again, loaded the artillery and began to bark. Business didn't get brisk at any time, but we had flurries, We decided one obstacle to high success was the slight worth of the prizes. Tin rings and paste- board watch fobs weren't worth 10 cents if you won them, So we upped the shots to six for a dime. Somebody would put down a dime, we'd count out six stop- pers, and the game was on. Be- cause of the trick nobody won much, and if anybody argued that it couldn't be done Pokey or I would up with a Daisy and show that it could. We kept the money. -we took in a shoe box. out of reach of the public, and we found boxes of prizes in bacic to fill the shelf with when we needed to, Well, I didn't want to keep you in suspense, so I'd better explain that the lady was having police trouble, Eager to protect the gullible public against flim- flam, the local deputy had alert- ed a posse, and half the farmers on the fair -grounds were legally qualified to make arrests. Their rectitude was unyielding and they showed no mercy, 1f they thought a couple of "rasslers" were faking a bout, they filled in a summons with a pencil and served it, If the ball didn't come back and knock the pin down, they hauled the culprit in. The carnival men, whose chic- anery and shenanigans were a challenge to the citizens, were having a rough day. The deputy insisted on honesty and decency, and a fair shake. Even the merry-go-round was in trouble, for after giving 12 trips around on one ticket, it clipped one ride down to only 11 circuits. And this lady I speak of had' a hus- band who wore a tall hat and guessed your weight. He would look you all over, and write his guess on a pad of paper for ev- erybody to see, and then make you sit in a chair -scales. If he missed, you ; got a box of choc- olates. Unfortunately, he had neglected to have his scales cer- tified by the local sealer of weights and measures, and from her shooting gallery the lady had seen a rough delegation remove her husband to the pokey in handcuffs. She felt her place was by his side in his hour of need, hence she drafted Pokey and pie and took off. While she was gone - a man came up and said he wanted to shoot and would pay us after- wards. He shot six times, and said he would shoot again. Then he shot and shot, and he owed us $1.30, at which Pokey and 1 demanded a settlement. At this, he whipped open his coat -front to reveal a badge that looked as big as a barn door, and said we were under arrest for running a crooked game. "Them things must be glued down," he said. I was speechless, but Pokey was equal to it. He let out a yell that frightened race horses over be- yond the grandstand and began to cry that this fig bully was cheating us little chaps and we needed help. This attracted quite a crowd, who looked at the man aghast, so he dug out $1.30 and paid us and then went away. When the lady came back soon after she was pleased and sur- prised at how well we'd done, and thanked us and gave us a five dollar bilk -1Z' John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. j CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Restaurant 6. tin fair 9. Stitch 12. Cates god 18 TO 14 (larder implement 16, Stye 17. Permission 19 Register 10. At that time 11 Went up 9r Diann salon- riat per 17 termer annnd 81. Strainer 96t'nwtll log 87 Scope 80 Sea 4110 40 reach '41. 'Harvest* 4.8, Related '46. Send Oat 41. Saltpeter 51. Pinged 14. Mnlre off -r Dessert 0. Incline 8. meat lake 9. Wager 0, Plane's fixe4 route 101, St Otte uta Wn (�uate Arab, 9a art , Baptismal. aaieaa] 18, Breathe 06, Blood 'wisely loudly in 89. False hair sleep Egypt. god of 42. Bouquet setting sun 49. More refined 12 Ory (poet.) 24 Sharp point 4.Senior 26 Beside 26 Shepherd's 6. Fine hair nine 8. Along 27 From a 7. Western state distance 8. Is defeated 28 Cather 9. 'I he woman 29. Supplication 10 Eternity 81 Sudden jerk 11.2 stet 14 Diminish 16. Consume gradually 48. Edible rootstock 49. Heroic 60. Emit smoke 61. Child's napkin 62, Jol 60. Stoop 64. Conipase Point 01 Arriele Answer isewhere on this page FAIR FARRIER - To earn money to study veterinory medi- cine in college Miss K!etera Baker, 16, a high school sopho- more, shoes horses professionally. The 101 -pound lass first learned by shoeing her own horse, and soon she was in busi- ness for herself, Here, she shoes a more belonging to Koren Gilliland. THE F``ARM FRONT Ili FA1a4S li.l. A little time spent training picking crews pays off in fewer bruises and stem punctures of apples. Most of the worst offenders do not realize they are damag- ing the apples until the need for careful picking is pointed out to them, Studies in the Okanagan Val- ley have shown that some pick- ers damage twice as many apples as ethers in the same crew, o * '1. Most frequent causes of dam- age are: squeezing the apples when picking, dropping the ap- ples into the picking bag, press- ing the apples in the bag against the ladder by reaching too far, walking too far with a full bag and not emptying it carefully enough into the bin or box. Checks on picking speed re- vealed that slow pickers are not necessarily careful pickers and fast pickers are not necessarily careless. The need for instructing pick- ing crews is especially important for McIntosh apples, which are very susceptible to damage. * * 0 To thousands of Canadians, mushrooms add an epicurean touch to a meal. - But much as they find - this food titillating to the palate the majority of them shy away from gathering wild forms of mush- rooms. ' Why? Because they can't tell the edible ones from poisonous ones -often called toadstools. Where field mushrooms are common, it's easy to find some- one who can recognize them arid instruct others. But where they are scarce, people who know them aren't so willing to hand out information to would-be competitors. This is the observation of K. A. Harrison, specialist with the Canada Department of Agri- culture. * „ * Harrison notes that many new citizens from Europe are expert i n recognizing t h e different mushrooms and are finding Can- ada a rich hunting ground for these delicacies, Most Canadians who enjoy mushrooms know only the com- mon field species, he adds, while there are many other forms that are edible and make fine addi- tions to the menu. There are a succession of speci- es that may be gathered through- out the year. Earliest kinds are found during May and others appear during summer and fall -although the fall is the season of greatest abundance. * * e: Researcher Harrison offers this tip: Don't depend on so-called tests, such as peeling or blackening a silver coin or spoon. The Des- troying Angel, most deadly mushroom known, can be peeled and any material containing sul- phur will blacken silver. * 0 * The word toadstool, Harrison claims, is used erroneously for a poisonous mushroom, M u s h- MOMS and toadstools belong to the sane family. Some mush- rooms are edible, many are not, while a few are deadly poison- ous, Hcre;s what to look for in the ISSUE 38 - 1962 Destroying Angel; a rather tall mushroom growing under or near trees, white underneath (gills), and a ring (veil) hanging on the stem. Perhaps the most important point to look for is a swollen (bulbous) stem base growing out of a sheath(death cup), This can be deeply buried in the soil and is easily broken off when the species is gathered, * a * The common edible mushroom is rather squat, grows in open pastures, is pink underneath but soon turns black, has a ring on the stem, but the stem is not swollen and there is never any trace of a death cup, Harrison advises all mushroom lovers to keep this rule in mind - mushrooms gathered in open fields and pastures are not dead- ly poisonous. Just remember that the Destroying Angel is as- sociated with roots of trees and may be found on lawns near trees. And, at the same time, don't overlook the fact that many mushrooms grow under trees and in forests. * * Coral fungi are edible, but there is one kind that will cause some people discomfort while others can eat it without any reaction. While puff balls are good eat- ing when pure white inside, there is a similar group that are dark inside and these are mildly poisonous. * „ * There are also yellow chan- terelles growing quite common- ly in Canadian woods and the edible Boletus can be gathered by the hundreds in their season in many pine forests. Further information may be obtained from illustrated bulle- tins. One is available from the Information Division of the Can- .' ada Department of Agriculture at Ottawa. - Britons Defend Right To Walk Footpaths, like liberty, can be retained only at the price of eter- nal vigilance. While there is increasing em- phasis on pedestrian ways in planning Britain's new towns, country footpaths are in danger of decreasing in number or even disappearing. With traffic roaring along motorways at high speeds and crowding other roads at low speeds dictated by volume, the walker needs more than ever these quiet, safe, secluded by- ways across fields. On the one hand, motorways, housing development and the spread of towns creep over the pathways and bridle paths, On the other, the spread of rambling, camping, and horse- riding make it more necessary than ever to preserve right of footpaths, access to beaches, mountains, and moorlands. The footpaths are one of Eng- land's oldest liberties and their extent still far exceeds the road- ways. The figures are 300,000 miles of footpaths compared with 180,000 miles of roads. Local records of footpaths are often sketchy, In May 1960 the Ordnance Survey took a decision which may have far-reaching ef- fect on the preservation of these country ways, It published for the first time a map showing public rights of way, covering the Southampton, Portsmouth, and Isle of Wight area. As more information becomes available the Ordnance Survey hopes to mark on all its maps the rights of way established under the National Parks and-Aceoss to the Countryside Act of 1941. Linder this act it is the duty of county eouneils in England amt Wales to survey public tights sol way along footpaths. 1 idl ways. and (thee roads ust..i as public paths, writes Melita Knowles Iu the Christian Science lelenitor. In every parish local people are asked tit help in the plotting of all known and remembered rights of way, so that these may be dedicated for all time for the use of the public. The Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society is watchdog for liberty of the walker, Each year the society deals with some 1,200 cases of attempted in- terference with footpaths in many parts of the country. The ancient privilege of walk- ing across fields is being whittled away by the use of the internal combustion engine. With buses connecting village to village in rural areas country people are apt to hop aboard and the short cuts from one farm to another, or from farm to shops, or parish to parish become dis- used, finally they are obliterated and the farmer blows them up. He Ploughed Up A Treasure Hoard Treasure hoards are waiting to be discovered all over Britain - but usually they are only found by chance, One of the lucky finders re- cently was Mr, John Bee, a Stain- tonby-Langworth, Lincs, farmer, While deep -ploughing one of his fields, he glanced over his shoul- der, and saw a hoard of silver coins. There were so many that he rushed back to the farmhouse and fetched both his wife and a bucket to collect them. When they had picked up all they could see, their bucket was almost overflowing with silver half-crowns, shillings and six- pences. This fine haul, since declared treasure trove at a coroner's in- quest, has been seized on the Crown's behalf. There were 661 coins in all, in- cluding 228 pieces minted in the reign of Elizabeth 1, eighty-one pieces of James I, and 336 of Charles I. Mr. Bee can expect to receive a generous cheque from the Treasury. Some of this undiscovered wealth is many hundreds of years old• The Romans, when oc- cupying Britain, built temples dedicated to Mithras and other gods. At these shrines, their priests often buried money to earn f av- ours from their all-powerful deit- ies. A burial circle at Lower Reed- ing, near Horsham, Sussex, is ac- tually called "Money Mound." Here, recent excavation has uncovered 150 coins, all pieces of Roman silver. This number, experts say, clearly shows that the site was sacred to the Romans. Some say King John's treasure may be retrieved from the Wash. Its excavation will confound those historians who say that the loss of this treasure was simply a cover story put out by those who looted it, King John died very conven- iently for their plot at Newark, within a week of the disappear- ance of his baggage train. But a seventy -eight-year-old Wisbech man, Mr. Lewis Haver - son, believes the treasure is still Intact, and he knows the exact spot - at Walpole Marsh, Lin- colnshire. He says an old lady told him INDAY Sa1001 LESSON 9 • lieu: It 11 41 A. John Heralds the Christ Luke 3: 1-4,'1-18. ltlemory Scripture: 1 Indeed baptize you with water; . 11e will baptize you with the 0013' Ghost and with fire, Luke 3: 16. The 'inter - testament period, from Malachi to John the'13ap- tist, was a difficult one for the Jewish nation. With the excep- tion of 100 years of independ- ence, the period was lived under the rule of foreign powers, Sixty- three years before the birth of Christ the Roman armies over- ran Palestine. Antipater, an Edomite, was appointed ruler of Judea. His son, later known as Herod the Great, was the king of Judea when Jesus was born. His son, Herod Antipas, was re- sponsible for the death of John the Baptist and mocked Christ at his trial. Herod the Great's grandson, Herod Agrippa I, killed the disciple, James. These puppet kings, taken from the Edomites, left a record of blood and misrule, John the Baptist stands on the bridge between the Old and New Testaments. He had much in common with the Old Testament prophets. But whereas they pre- dicted the coming of Messiah, John proclaimed and heralded His coming. He fulfilled the pro- phecy of Isaiah and others, as he preached, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." He called the people to repentance. When they asked what they should do, he said, "The man with two shirts must share with him who has none, and anyone who has food must do the same," To the tax -gath- erers he said, "Exact no more than the assessment;" to the sol- diers, "No bullying; no black- mail; make do with your pay." (NEB) The people wondered if John were the Messiah. In humility he declared himself unworthy to undo the lachet of Messiah's sandals. John baptized with wa- ter but Messiah would baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire. The greater baptism would purify the hearts of the people. God, the Holy Spirit, would abide in them, When Jesus came, John pointed him out to his dis- ciples, saying, "Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sira of the world," Be was a faithful Herald of Jesus, there was only one survivor - remote ancestor of her husband - when the raft carrying the king's treasure across the marsh capsized. All the other retainers were drowned, and the treasure slid into the mire, But through that escape her family's link with the long -lost treasure was never broken, she claimed. 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