HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1957-07-25, Page 7Toothpaste Saved Sailor's Life Tony 1Vlendoza was dying. All night long his fever -ridden body had sprawled helplessly in the bottom of the drifting lifeboat. By morning his nine companions knew he would be dead. After eighteen days adrift since their freighter, the Saint Anselm, was torpedoed in July 1941, the ten men were without food or water. All they had was a half tube of toothpaste. "I think I'll mix a little tooth- paste with some seawater," the first engineer said. "It might make Tony's end a little easier." In a little tin he scooped up some seawater and squeezed toothpaste into it, stirring it with itis finger. Then he held it to the dying man's lips. Mendoza gulp- ed the mixture down eagerly. Within an hour Mendoza's breathing eased. His body broke Out in a sweat; by dawn he was sleeping peacefully, the fever broken. When he regained con- sciousness two hours later, he was again given a half pint of seawater mixed with toothpaste. Some of the other men, who had been without water for two days, tried it. The same afternoon, a Span- ish freighter appeared on the horizon and picked up the drift- ing seamen. Later, in London, they told officials about 'the toothpaste. The manufacturers were asked whether it contained any ingredient which would ac- count for the dying seaman's re- markable recovery. The reply was that it did not. The war at sea has produced many remarkable rescue stories. When Henry Heinson's ship was torpedoed in the spring of 1943, he was flung into the sea on an inky dark night. He bumped into something and found it, was a piece of the wrecked ship still afloat. Heinson climbed on to it and discovered that it was part of the pantry with one small com- partment still intact. In is was a cabbage! Behind it he found a small jar of distilled water. Heinson, bearly able to keep the piece of wreckage afloat, lived on the cabbage for seven- teen days. His small supply of rtiistilled water he eked out with snow and rain collected by means of a piece of canvas. In his pocket he had a photograph of his wife which he used to trop up and talk to for hours. Both his body and spirit sur- vived and after he was picked PRACTICING "SCALES" - Metro- politan Opera star Jerome Hines practices running a type of scale other than musical as he spearfishes off Canturce, Puerto Rico. up and landed in London, Hein - sen was awarded the British Empire Medal for his remark- able endurance, Captain Donald Blyth a one - legged ship's captain, found himself in a shark -infested sea with eight of his crew after their ship was torpedoed. "Come on, boys, let's swim around," Captain Blyth shouted, and he set the example when a hopelessness gripped the freez- ingly cold men. For eleven hours he ewam around with his men keeping up their spirits by singing war -time songs. He was still singing hoarsely, hardly able to keep his head above the water, when an R.A.F. seaplane came over- • head and dropped two rubber dinghies to them. For his bra- very Captain Blyth received the Order of the British Empire. When his ship was torpedoed in 1940, Ira Starling, a young seaman serving in a British tanker, found himself the only survivor in the sea. Ne'ar-by he saw a holed lifeboat still afloat. He had just clambered in when the U-boat opened fire on him with machine-guns. Starling jumped overboard and hid under the water. The. U-boat circled the lifeboat. Ira Starling promptly dived and came up on the other side of the lifeboat! Soon the U-boat went on its way and he climbed into the lifeboat where he found a tin of ship's biscuits and a gallon of slightly tainted water. On these biscuits and water, Starling lived for twenty-two days. On the twenty-third day, he, saw a small shark nosing arund the lifeboat. The young seaman leaned over and waited. Just as the shark passed under the stern, he shot out his hand, gripped the great fish by the tail and flipped it into the boat. He battered 'it to death and, with his pocket knife, sliced off shark steaks which helped him survive until he was picked up by a Portuguese ship six days later. Perhaps the strangest rescue story of the war concerns the San Fiorentino. She was struck by four torpedoes and broke in two. The forepart up -ended un- til it floated vertically, with the stem protruding 100 feet in the air. Two men clung to it and, as it slowly sank, they climbed up the fore topmast until they were high above the sea, cling- ing precariously to stays. Twenty hours later a British freighter came on the scene and the men were saved For Hikers When the youngster at your house announces that he's start- ing at once on a big expedition, a beeline hike through the woods to the pond, you can be sure a hearty sandwich of two is ex- pected from you pronto. That tenacious favorite, peanut butter, can be modified a bit and still please him. Fry 4 strips of bacon, crumble them into Ye cup peanut butter, and add a teaspoon of minced onion if he likes it. When this is spread on the bread, place on top bite -size pieces of tomato. Tomato provides welcome mois- ture, and with bite -size pieces, there are no unwieldy, large slices to cope with. This sandwich travels well to work, too, and won't get soggy if you use the firm part of the tomato. Another good peanut butter combination adds chopped cooked prunes or apricots - tie cup fruit and 2 teaspoons lemon juice or fruit juice to til cup peanut butter. Next thing, we suppose, fish- ermen will be asking the gov- ernment for a guaranteed annual catch. -..•-w• 8. Withhold OSSW PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Sphere 4, Serious 11 Part of t1:e mouth 12. Split pea 13 ,TOin 14. Soft drink 15. Imagine 17. Cow genus 18 Animal's home 19 Light. shoe 21 Glacial enowfield 23. Fresh -water fish 25. wash lightly 28. Turk. t-tand- ard 80 Part of a faucet 112, At hon, 33. rloy 34. Misrepresent' 85. Biblical character 36. Or. letter 87. Simpletmn 38. Chilled 39 Scoff 9l Below 48. rites Orr Drowsy 43 Ttkely 60, Emblem of morning. 52. 8 Erne:,,, money 88 Dessert 154. Willow 58, TTnoloss 57, Blunder 53. Cash 55.1 l ntft DOWN 1. Advanta ,,es 2 So. Amer. hird 3. Harmonized 4. S1 rule used In tanning 5. About G. Cl i1c1's napkin 7 Sheet menet 9. Burdened 10. Small fish 11. writing; implement 10. First man 20. Pry 22. Contend 24. Drawing - room 26. Father 27. wife of r.eraint 28. Swiss mountains 20, reclined 31, Covers the inside 34. Ennui 35. Arrangement of troops 37. Encountered 24. Roman road 90. Compound ether 42. wing -shaped 44. Mex. dollar 40. Gourd 47. Fr. river 98. Monkey 90. Mohammedan saint 51. (lain the victory 53. Electrica engineer(nh Answer elsewhere on this page, ThLTA2M FRONT THE ARMY WORM This is the time when farmers should be on the lookout for army.worms in their spring grain. fall wheat (if still green), corn, and pasture and hay fields, advises Dr. W. E. Henning, Head, Department of Entomology and Zoology, Ontario Agricultural College. Reports of damaging infeeta- tions have been received from Welland, Lincoln, Wentwoeth, and Brant counties to date. Three of these infestations were in fall wheat and the other was in pas- ture. Since fall wheat is begin- ning to turn colour and the leaves to toughen, the wor,ixss are moving out of that crop ;alto adjacent, more succulent crops. Courtesy London Free Press This year outbreaks have not been general except in one or 'two areas of the southern United States. Elsewhere damage has been relatively slight and more or less local in nature. However, it may be different in Ontario, and farmers are urged to inspect susceptible crops as soon as this warning is received. The worms, or larvae, are known by sight to most farmers. Spraying or dusting by air, the use of equipment, or baiting by hand (if labour is available) will provide control. Additional in- formation, and the necessary control recommendations, can be obtained at the office of the agricultural representative. The striking effectivene.S Of serum, together with vaccin zn preventing rabies in a gro 'f people severely bitten rabid wolf in Iran, :and 71, lar experiences 'of a less 'a sive nature, were accepte clear demonstrations of the Vie- fulness of this method by,' the Third WHO Expert Comm. tee an Rabies meeting in thePas- teur Institute in Paris. J;` * Until recently victims of. the severe head and face bites from rabid animals often succumbed, despite prompt inoculation:, Of rabies vaccine, probably because the infection had become esta- .blished before vaccine could take effect. The combined treatment with serum and vaccine .'now gives assurance of success even in the most serious cases, as,, the serum appears to check the di- sease until the vaccine can;be- gin to work. * * a During the past 15 years, among victims of rabid wolves treated at the Institute Pasteur in Teheran about 40% of these bitten ..in the head died despite vaccine treatment. A trial" was therefore organized there. by WHO to represent the severest proof to which the serum could be submitted, and to attempt to remedy the situation created by the failure of classical methods of treatment in severe exposure to rabies. From 1950 to 1954 only isolated cases were successfully treated by the new method, and their number was not sufficient to reach a definite conclusion. However in August 1954, a rabid wolf attacked 29 people in an Iranian village in the space of a few hours. This provided the opportunity for a decisive test. The victims were taken at once to Teheran and treated on ar- rival, with conclusive results even among the 13 patients who suffered severe head wounds. * * * The most striking case was that of a six-year-old boy whose skull had been crushed by the wolf's bite and who survived, despite the fact that rabies virus•. had been, so to speak, directly injected into his brain. He was given six injections of serum and a course of vaccine. A new Technique for protect- ing persons whose occupations expose them to the possibility of bites of rabid animals was out- lined at the Paris meeting. Veterinarians, laboratory work- ers, postmen, workers in gas and electrical industries and de- livery services, m u s t often undergo repeated treatments with rabies vaccine and this car- ries a danger of post -vaccina- tion complications. > * * The new approach involves providing basic protection by giving very small doses of chic- ken embryo vaccine, or a few doses of ordinary nervous tissue vaccine, followed by a single booster dose after they are bit- ten, instead of the long (14-21 day) schedule of inoculations now performed. * * * Rabies in wild animals, parti- cularly in foxes, jackals and wolves, is a problem in many countries. It also exists in in- sectivorous bats in areas of North America and it has long been established that rabies is trans- mitted to men and animals in Latin America by blood -sucking bats. * The finding of rabies in insectivorous bats in Yugoslavia indicates • that this problem is not confined to the Western Hemisphere. Wild animal reser- voirs present special difficulties and it was agreed that extra- ordinary measures must be evolved to combat them. * * +t The serum -vaccine treatment, an important advance in the. fight against rabies, is the re- sult of international collabora- tion, co-ordinated by WHO. * * * The Expert Committee mem- bers, whose laboratories are situated in India, Iran, Israel, Spain, France and the United States, have been working to- gether on problems of rabies control since 1950. * Mn A Dither Anxiety and tensions are a natural --- and protectively use- ful - part of modern living, Dr. George S. Stevenson points out in his new booklet, "How to Deal With Your Tensions," released by the National Association for Mental Health. The time to watch out for them is "when emotional upsets come frequent- ly, shake us severely, and fail to wear off after a while." Some of the danger signals: * Do minor problems and dis- appointments throw you into a dither? se Do the small pleasures of life fail to satisfy you? • Do you find it difficult to get along with people? • Do you fear people or situa- tions that never used to trouble you? • Do you feel trapped? tt Do you feel inadequate, suffer the tortures of self-doubt? If the answers to most of these qestions is "yes," Dr. Stevenson suggests these ways of making life more bearable: se When something worries you, don't bottle it up. Talk it over with some level-headed person you can trust. se When things go wrong, don't make yourself "just stand there and suffer." Escape for a while (not permanently) in a brief trip, a movie, a book, or a game. • If you get into frequent quar- rels with people, stand your ground when you are right, but do it calmly, and remember that you could be wrong. ® If your workload seems un- bearable, remember to take one thing at a time. Shun that "Su- perman" urge that makes you expect too much from yourself. * Don't feel that you must "get there first," no matter how tri- vial the goal. ® If you feel "left out," neglect- ed, and rejected socially, try "making yourself available" in- stead of waiting for others to make overtures. - From "News- week." "Is it true that it's good luck for a black cat to follow you?" "Depends whether you're a man or a mouse" Upsidedown to Prevent Peek'ng 7L1N�AY SCllOOi LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. Gideon, Foe of Paganism. Judges 6; 25-32. Memory Selection: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20: 3. The Israelites were greatly im- poverished because of the re- peated attacks of the Midianites over a period of seven years, They began to call on God. A prophet reminded them how Gott had delivered their fathers from the Egyptians. He rebuked therm for their disobedience and bade them have no fear of the gods of the,; Amorites. Then the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon commis- sioning him to deliver his people. He hesitated, saying, "My people is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house." But the LORD said, "Surely 1P will be with thee." That night under cover of darkness Gideon and his men destroyed the altar of Baal which his father had built, cut down the sacred grove and used its wood to offer sacri- fice on an altar to the LORD. His father., whose conscience had probably been pricking him stood in defence of Gideon be- fore the men of the city, saying, "Will ye plead for Baal? -If he be a god, let him plead for him- self." About 724, the English monk, Boniface, apostle to the Germans, similarly defied Thor, the god of thunder. In Upper Hesse in the presence of thousands of enraged heathen and trembling half- Christians he cut down a sacred oak consecrated to Thor. When he was not stricken by a bolt from heaven the people were utterly amazed. Thor -worship received a body blow, Gideon prepared an army of 30,000 men. God said they were too many. "Lest Israel vaunt themselves against me saying, 'Mine own hand hath saved me'." When the fearful were asked to leave 22,000 went. Another 7,700 failed on the next test. They were not sufficiently alert and keen for the battle. The remain- ing 300 "stood every man in his place round about the camp." It was a great day of victory. Gideon asked for and received signs from the Lord to encourage him in his work. In this day of fuller revelation we should not be so insistent on signs but should obey God in the sim- plicity of faith. Sensuality, wealth and fame are some of the gods worshipped today. Let t33 point the way to the true God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Two groups of farmers, their wives and friends leave Toronto on the Ontario Goodwill Crop Tour to the Pacific Coast, Board ing the train are A. H. Martin, left, secretary of the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, Mrs. Elsie Mitchell, of the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Louis Roy, of the Canadian National Railways Department of Colonization and Agriculture. Altogether, more than 100 goodwill ambassadors will spend 2 weeks visiting everything from model farms to the Kitimat aluminum plant. CNR Photo • 1RIDGE GIVES WAY UNDER FREIGHT TRAIN -This was the scene near Edenton, N,C., after a 50 -year-old wooden bridge buckled under a 77 -car freight train, sending five crewmen, two engines and two freight cars plunging into Albemarle Sound. Three of the crew were rescued but rho other two are missing and feared dead. 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Elsewhere damage has been relatively slight and more or less local in nature. However, it may be different in Ontario, and farmers are urged to inspect susceptible crops as soon as this warning is received. The worms, or larvae, are known by sight to most farmers. Spraying or dusting by air, the use of equipment, or baiting by hand (if labour is available) will provide control. Additional in- formation, and the necessary control recommendations, can be obtained at the office of the agricultural representative. The striking effectivene.S Of serum, together with vaccin zn preventing rabies in a gro 'f people severely bitten rabid wolf in Iran, :and 71, lar experiences 'of a less 'a sive nature, were accepte clear demonstrations of the Vie- fulness of this method by,' the Third WHO Expert Comm. tee an Rabies meeting in thePas- teur Institute in Paris. J;` * Until recently victims of. the severe head and face bites from rabid animals often succumbed, despite prompt inoculation:, Of rabies vaccine, probably because the infection had become esta- .blished before vaccine could take effect. The combined treatment with serum and vaccine .'now gives assurance of success even in the most serious cases, as,, the serum appears to check the di- sease until the vaccine can;be- gin to work. * * a During the past 15 years, among victims of rabid wolves treated at the Institute Pasteur in Teheran about 40% of these bitten ..in the head died despite vaccine treatment. A trial" was therefore organized there. by WHO to represent the severest proof to which the serum could be submitted, and to attempt to remedy the situation created by the failure of classical methods of treatment in severe exposure to rabies. From 1950 to 1954 only isolated cases were successfully treated by the new method, and their number was not sufficient to reach a definite conclusion. However in August 1954, a rabid wolf attacked 29 people in an Iranian village in the space of a few hours. This provided the opportunity for a decisive test. The victims were taken at once to Teheran and treated on ar- rival, with conclusive results even among the 13 patients who suffered severe head wounds. * * * The most striking case was that of a six-year-old boy whose skull had been crushed by the wolf's bite and who survived, despite the fact that rabies virus•. had been, so to speak, directly injected into his brain. He was given six injections of serum and a course of vaccine. A new Technique for protect- ing persons whose occupations expose them to the possibility of bites of rabid animals was out- lined at the Paris meeting. Veterinarians, laboratory work- ers, postmen, workers in gas and electrical industries and de- livery services, m u s t often undergo repeated treatments with rabies vaccine and this car- ries a danger of post -vaccina- tion complications. > * * The new approach involves providing basic protection by giving very small doses of chic- ken embryo vaccine, or a few doses of ordinary nervous tissue vaccine, followed by a single booster dose after they are bit- ten, instead of the long (14-21 day) schedule of inoculations now performed. * * * Rabies in wild animals, parti- cularly in foxes, jackals and wolves, is a problem in many countries. It also exists in in- sectivorous bats in areas of North America and it has long been established that rabies is trans- mitted to men and animals in Latin America by blood -sucking bats. * The finding of rabies in insectivorous bats in Yugoslavia indicates • that this problem is not confined to the Western Hemisphere. Wild animal reser- voirs present special difficulties and it was agreed that extra- ordinary measures must be evolved to combat them. * * +t The serum -vaccine treatment, an important advance in the. fight against rabies, is the re- sult of international collabora- tion, co-ordinated by WHO. * * * The Expert Committee mem- bers, whose laboratories are situated in India, Iran, Israel, Spain, France and the United States, have been working to- gether on problems of rabies control since 1950. * Mn A Dither Anxiety and tensions are a natural --- and protectively use- ful - part of modern living, Dr. George S. Stevenson points out in his new booklet, "How to Deal With Your Tensions," released by the National Association for Mental Health. The time to watch out for them is "when emotional upsets come frequent- ly, shake us severely, and fail to wear off after a while." Some of the danger signals: * Do minor problems and dis- appointments throw you into a dither? se Do the small pleasures of life fail to satisfy you? • Do you find it difficult to get along with people? • Do you fear people or situa- tions that never used to trouble you? • Do you feel trapped? tt Do you feel inadequate, suffer the tortures of self-doubt? If the answers to most of these qestions is "yes," Dr. Stevenson suggests these ways of making life more bearable: se When something worries you, don't bottle it up. Talk it over with some level-headed person you can trust. se When things go wrong, don't make yourself "just stand there and suffer." Escape for a while (not permanently) in a brief trip, a movie, a book, or a game. • If you get into frequent quar- rels with people, stand your ground when you are right, but do it calmly, and remember that you could be wrong. ® If your workload seems un- bearable, remember to take one thing at a time. Shun that "Su- perman" urge that makes you expect too much from yourself. * Don't feel that you must "get there first," no matter how tri- vial the goal. ® If you feel "left out," neglect- ed, and rejected socially, try "making yourself available" in- stead of waiting for others to make overtures. - From "News- week." "Is it true that it's good luck for a black cat to follow you?" "Depends whether you're a man or a mouse" Upsidedown to Prevent Peek'ng 7L1N�AY SCllOOi LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. Gideon, Foe of Paganism. Judges 6; 25-32. Memory Selection: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20: 3. The Israelites were greatly im- poverished because of the re- peated attacks of the Midianites over a period of seven years, They began to call on God. A prophet reminded them how Gott had delivered their fathers from the Egyptians. He rebuked therm for their disobedience and bade them have no fear of the gods of the,; Amorites. Then the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon commis- sioning him to deliver his people. He hesitated, saying, "My people is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house." But the LORD said, "Surely 1P will be with thee." That night under cover of darkness Gideon and his men destroyed the altar of Baal which his father had built, cut down the sacred grove and used its wood to offer sacri- fice on an altar to the LORD. His father., whose conscience had probably been pricking him stood in defence of Gideon be- fore the men of the city, saying, "Will ye plead for Baal? -If he be a god, let him plead for him- self." About 724, the English monk, Boniface, apostle to the Germans, similarly defied Thor, the god of thunder. In Upper Hesse in the presence of thousands of enraged heathen and trembling half- Christians he cut down a sacred oak consecrated to Thor. When he was not stricken by a bolt from heaven the people were utterly amazed. Thor -worship received a body blow, Gideon prepared an army of 30,000 men. God said they were too many. "Lest Israel vaunt themselves against me saying, 'Mine own hand hath saved me'." When the fearful were asked to leave 22,000 went. Another 7,700 failed on the next test. They were not sufficiently alert and keen for the battle. The remain- ing 300 "stood every man in his place round about the camp." It was a great day of victory. Gideon asked for and received signs from the Lord to encourage him in his work. In this day of fuller revelation we should not be so insistent on signs but should obey God in the sim- plicity of faith. Sensuality, wealth and fame are some of the gods worshipped today. Let t33 point the way to the true God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Two groups of farmers, their wives and friends leave Toronto on the Ontario Goodwill Crop Tour to the Pacific Coast, Board ing the train are A. H. Martin, left, secretary of the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, Mrs. Elsie Mitchell, of the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Louis Roy, of the Canadian National Railways Department of Colonization and Agriculture. Altogether, more than 100 goodwill ambassadors will spend 2 weeks visiting everything from model farms to the Kitimat aluminum plant. CNR Photo • 1RIDGE GIVES WAY UNDER FREIGHT TRAIN -This was the scene near Edenton, N,C., after a 50 -year-old wooden bridge buckled under a 77 -car freight train, sending five crewmen, two engines and two freight cars plunging into Albemarle Sound. Three of the crew were rescued but rho other two are missing and feared dead.