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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1946-01-03, Page 11.)J ALL READY FOR "OPERATION MUSICOX" eft -W4ftt;kaatafal ,za.s.S1S Various forms of face masks and goggles have beep issued to members of the force which will make up Exercise Musk-ox, the joint army -air force Arctic expedition. Left in the picture are ordinary plexiglass goggles, as supplied to air -force personnel. These are used as eye protection. The second man in the picture is wearing a canvas face mask, under. which is a breather mask similar to that on the extreme right. Thiad, is a chamois face -mask issned for patrol work to enable the trek- ker to keep his face waren. Cut into the face are two narrow ants about the size of a pencil point for eye pieces. The last face -piece is goggles, anti -dust, which have a nose breather on them that filt- ers the cold air. Cold air has a nasty habit of freezing the lungs. The eye -pieces are also replace- able. A quick push removes them and either one of four types of lenses can be quickly inserted—a polaroid for anti -glare, an orange color for horizon and sky separation in haze, an all-around filter to stop undue snow reflections, and a normal clear one. DARK LIGHTNING gy HELEN TOPPING MILLER. CHAPTER XIII Gary thought even less of the idea when at night Bill appeared, shaven and spruce, all dressed up in gray slacks and a snappy plaid coat. They'd been having a nice, quiet game of three -handed rummy when Bill arrived. And in four minutes by Gary's watch, the radio was going and Bill and Adelaide were dancing in the hall, while Mrs. Mason sat and beamed and murmured how much she liked boys and wasn't Gary pleased to see his old college friend agaitz.Z. "Oh, yes," grumbled Gary, "Bill's all right, He'll get along." "You'll get along, too, Gary. Now, you go straight out and make Adelaide dance with you. I'll get Bill out in the kitchen and make him squeeze lemons," But Adelaide was out of breath, she protested—and why not every- body go and help squeeze lemons? Harvey came tramping in at eleven o'clock, all aglow, pleased with himself. He banged Gary vi- gorously on the back. "Well, old croaker, I nailed 'est to the cross! I'm getting my water trom town—all I want." "But you have to lay your own pipe?" "Sure—what's a little pipe? Lay it on top of the ground—won't take long. Got to have water to drill a well, haven't we?" * * * The dance was not a conspicu- ous success for Gary. He had, at the last minute, rashly spent most of his money for a white suit and some shoes; he had escorted Ade- laide --looking crisp and smart and altogether adorable in a pale yellow dance frock and little gold slippers, "You look like a daffodil," be ad- mired her. "Well, thank goodness for a dis- cerning maxi," she sighed, spread- ing her wide fluff of skirt carefully. "Dad just told me I looked like fifty pounds of butter." There was a little too much of Bill at the dance. Gary danced with Adelaide once, rather awkwardly because of his lame arm, and Bill cut in before they had gone twice around the floor. After a while Gary went back and leaned against the wall, and presently Adelaide swooped upon him and slid her arm through his. "Where on earth have you been " she demanded. "You are the most elusive date I ever had. Come along and •dance, Sourpuss." So he danced with her, and Bill cut in immediately, whereupon Gary found his aloof post again and parked there for what seemed hours. Adelaide and Bill had dis- appeared`and the band was plow- ing through "Good Night, Ladies," when they came back. She was airy and difficult all the way home and Gary said very lit- tle until they were at the door. Then Gary said, "Thanks very much for a pleasant evening." Harvey was morose at breakfast, growling about the rain and the delays. "There won't be any delays," Gary assured him. "I'll keep the gang working." Then came a morning, when the drizzle slacked a little, and Harvey announced that the drillers would move on that day. "Pretty muddy out there yet, to move heavy machinery in," Gary :reminded him. "Hickey says he can make it," "Hickey!" Gary explained. "You didn't hire Hickey?" "Sure, I hired him. Got the best price out of Iim." "But—his outfit's in had shape! that's why he made you a low price —because his stuff is no good." Did • you take a look at Hickey's bits? Theyy hadn't been sharpened in months when I saw them." "He'll have 'em sharpened — I saw to that." Gary went out heavily. Hickey would move on the job and, unless extraordinary luck was with them, grief would move on with him. It began that afternoon, when the first of the tremendous trucks appeared. In the middle of the pasture, the truck bogged down in the black earth and there it stayed for two days, while a dozen men sweated and shoveled and swore, trying to get it out. But not until a wind. blew and the soil dried would it stir— and by that time three other heavi- ly loaded trucks had piled up be- hind it—with the lifting hoist at the tail end of the procession. Adelaide climbed to the top of a fence post and sat there, will% a raincoat buttoned to her chin, thrilled and gloating. "This is fun," she told Gary. And look—hes psinted everything. Bright buel It looks better now, doesn't it?" "Depends," frowned Gary, "on .what's under the paint," "You're bound to be a gloom, aren't you, darling?" I'm a petroleum engineer—I hope. Where's your blond friend, Bill?" "Oh, but he's your friend—don't you remember? He's in Houston ncw." • "Had a letter from him, did you?" Gary was being nasty and enjoying it. "No, it wasn't a letter. It was a telegram. Look savage some more —I like to shiver." "I've plenty to be savage about," "Mother signed some papers," Adelaide said. "I don't know what they -were. but Dad was mad, and when Mother tried tel talk to him he told her to shut up." Gary walked away, thoughtful and uneasy. So Harvey Mason was mortgaging something -riled had to undoubtedly,' because an oil well was a cash proposition. But at last, on Saturday, the great easing went down and gray Cement poured in, in a rolling stream, and Gary helped Adelaide up to the derrick and 'held 'her while she looked down. • "When they get enough concrete down there, they'll put this wooden block on top of it. And then they- 'll force water clown there under enormous pressure 'till it drives the block down and the cement up, be- hind the pipe till it seals the sides of the well. Monday they'll start drilling," Gary said. The great boilers roared, and the hot oil smoke from . the burners rode the north wind and seeped in- to the house, and Mona Lee sniffed it unhappily. • "You Can even taste it in the coffee," she complained. "Tastes like money to me," Har- vey said. He was more affable now that the slush pit was dug. Roughnecks with steel tongs per- ched precariously high in the der- rick, and when a length of drill pipe came riding up, they grappled and held it, screwing it on to the length that had gone clown before. Then the black kclly joint rode up and was coupled to the pipe -- and the whole went down, the swivel clanked into place again, the rotary turned as the draw gear grunted and whined—and deeper and deeper into the earth sank the hungry bits. At the top of the derrick the crown block, with its great pulleys, spun and hummed as the heavy cables slashed and tightened. His boots spae wlhsislth mud and grease, Harvey stood fascinated, as long as the rotary turded and drill was going down, but when the roar of the gears ceased and the clank- ing of chains began and the pipe came up slowly, slobbering mud and water, anxiety tightened his face. "Something wrong?" "Nope—just changing bits. Want to see what they're getting out now? Don't come too close, you'll get all muddy." He crouched over .the slush pit and brought up a handful of gray, dripping debris M his palm "Feel that? That's rock—'caprock,' oil men call it. Down below they'll hit chalk, perhaps—limestone, may- be. Then, if we're lucky, there will be yelowish rock with streaks of sand and oil in it—and then we're down. Hickey's • going to change bits now. Have to keep grinding them all the time." "Poor old earth! I wonder if it hurts," "No groans yet. But sometimes the earth hates the drill hnd blows it out—and then for weeks you live with trouble. You get a blowout on a well—a crater at the .top and the sides cave in and the gas roars out like something out of hell. I've seen one blowout." . "How do they know the drill's • going straight down? Suppose it wobbled around and went crooked and maybe ended up away over on old man Harper's place." "Not likely—not that much. But • a variation of a quarter -inch here at the surface can widen till it gets pretty big at the bottOm of the three -thousand -foot hole. I've seen wells put down that bit the casing on other wells, three hundred feet away." "I wish we could get ever on Harper's place — 1 wish we'd bore straight through his house. — the • mean old thine" "Seen your sister lately'?" "They were coming out Sunday —and then Dad was still angry po Mother phoned Grace not to come. She didn't want'Dad and Oliver to get into a fight." She knocked on the fence, postwith her clenched • knuckles, "I'm stiff. Help me down. I think Pisi tired of this oil well, I think I need a maple fudge sun- • dae. Let's get this mud off and go to town." "Caq't do It Pm a workingman. Your father expects me to stay around When anything happens. it • happens quick, on a' job like this. Good -by, idle woman." • "Good -by, Mud -dauber, Let me • know when you get oil, will -you?" "I won't need to 'let you know, You'll hear the gang yell all the way to town." Seven hundred feet, and still Hickey's draw gear groaned, and the cables held, and the rotary turned. Hickey grinned his tooth- less, malicious grin whenever Gary • was around. But- Mason had .an- • nounced that Gary Tallman was his field superintendent, and there was nothing for. Hickey to do but listen when Gary spoke. • (To be continued) UNRRA has provided 1,309,- 904,960 pounds of food, Mostly to Greece, Yugoslavia, • A I Sallie, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. TAKE TALKS.. One Crust Pres "Most people like most pies". When the crust is tender and flaky and the tilling luscious and fruity or rich and creamy, pie is the first choice of deserts. The home economists of the Consumer Section, Dominion De partment of Agriculture say that we can still enjoy pie for dessert while keeping the fat supply in mind, if one crust pies are served. • Deep Dish Plum Pie • 1 quart fruit (canned without sugar) • 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup sugar • 1/4 cup flour 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 tablespoon fat Pastry Drain fruit, heat syrup to boil- ing. Mix salt, sugar and flour. Stir slowly into boiling syrup. Place drained fruit in a deep baking dish. Pour thickened syrup over fruit. Dot with fat. Roll out plain pas- try to 1/8 -inch thickness. Make several slits in the centre. Fit • pastry oser the fruit, press down • well over the edges of the baking dish. Cut and flute the edges. Bake 30 minutes in a hot oven, 425 deg. F. Six servings. • Raisin Pumpkin Pi, 34 cup raisins 1 3/4 cups cooked pumpkin 2 eggs % cup sugar 34 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons cinnamon SS' teaspoon ginger 2 tablespoons molasses 1 cup milk Pastry Wash and chop raisins, combine with pumpkin. Add sugar, salt, spices and molasses to eggs. Beat well, add to pumpkin. Then add milk, blend thoroughly. Line a 9 - inch pie pan with pastry. Pour in filling. Bake in a hot oven, 425 deg. F, for 10 minutes. Lower the heat to 350 deg. F and continue baking 30 minutes, or until fill- ing is set. Modern Etiquette - By Robertd Lee 1. Would it be good manners for a girl to ask her dinner partner for a cigarette? 2. What' would be a suitable phrase for a wife to use when in- troducing her husband to another woman? 3. Is it obligatory to hp a servant in a home where one has spent a single night? 4. What would be the best way to go about making up the list to whom .wedding invitations are to be sent?, • ' 5, Are salted nuts and bonbons included among the regular dinner courses? 6. Whom should one select to act as a chaperon? ANSWERS • I. Yes, if her dinner partner is forgetful enough not to offer her a cigarette without this reminder. 2. "Mrs. Barns, may I introduce my husband to you?" 3. It is custom- ary to do so if the servant has done some special service. 4..The prefer- able way is for the bride and the bridegroom to make up this list to- gether, consulting the parents of both families. 5. No; the nuts and bonbons are passed from time to • time. 6. Any married woman. Meet Mr. McGinty The Wonder Sheep "McG i n ty, " won der sheep of Australia's Yass River area, has produced more than 220 lbs. of wool in the past ten years. Despite his age—more than 11 years—"McGinty" this year shore 1234 lb. In his first four years his clip totalled 108 lbs. 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I wondered how all the rest oi the folk were spending Christ- • mas Day—folk who are friends of this column particularly—and did hope that everyone everywhere was having just as'happy a Christ- mas as we were in our own quiet Our homecomers arrived by car late Christmas Eve, • It was well they did for the driving would have been very bad Christmas morning. They came in laden with parcels, gay with coloured wrap- pings, tags and ribbons, and those same percels were soon carefully distributed around the Christmas tree. We teased each other with time-honouted family phrases—"I know something you don't know" . . . "Yes, and I know something YOU don't know!" The next morning I couldn't help laughing„when I ,suddenly re- membered how time reverses things. When the children were small it was they who were up early; they who crouched around on the floor around the Christmas tree, reading the name tags, feeling the parcels, trying to guess by their size and shape what wonder- ful surprises would be found in- side. Now it was I who did the crouching and guessing! Partner and son Bob were of course, out at the barn milking, Daughter and friend Bert were not up yet so I had the floor to myself. I am tel- ling you I was really curious. But I didn't peak and when we were all together I wouldn't let anyone else peak either. The morning's work had to be done first, no mat- ter what. Then there was dinner— which really wasn't much of a chore at all, because I had cooked the turkey and all the trimmings the day before so it had only to be popped into the oven and heated up again. No one knew after the first course how they were going to find room for Christmas pud- ding but we managed it somehow. And then came the tree—yes, even before the washing of dishes. Not one of us could wait any long- er. Not that we were looking for anything big but you know what pleasure there is in this inter- change of family gifts. Who else knows one's needs and fancies so well as the members 'of one's own family?" Certainly there was a ring of sincerity in our voices as each one of us said—"That is exactly what I wanted!" In fact 1 was so fortunate in one of my gifts that I hardly kneiv hOw to tear myself away from it at all. It was from Partner—a copy of Nellie Mc- Ciung's latest book—"The Stream Runs Fast". He had heard ine say, 'after reading a review of the book, that I wanted to get a copy, so the news was relayed to Daughter. It was my good fortune a few KIDNEYACIDS Rob your Rest.. Many people never seem to get a good night's rest. They tum and toss—blame it on 'nerves'—when it may be their kidneys. 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And Mrs. McClung is one of the most lovable of persons. So, when Daughter said; "Now you just sit down, Mother—Well do the dish es. "well, I just sat down, all • among the' paper wrappings and gift boxes, and waded right into "The Stream Runs Fast". I forgot about the wind and the sleet; I forgot, for awhile, to wor- ry about how our Torontonians sere to get home on slippery roads. I was back with Nellie Mc- Clung, reliving with her some of • her • early experiences' which had • been so similar to our own out there on the Saskatchewan prai- rio. But I had to come back to re- ality ecause • Partner announcel • about six O'clocic that he didn't want to hurry anyone away but he really thought it would be wiser if they made an early start as the weather was bad, so there was a general hurrying and scurrying, things gathered hastily together, • and in half -an -hour they were away, starting on what we hope was a safe journey back to the city. 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