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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-01-07, Page 3Men " i:l Rh May Eyes David O'Reilly, of " Winiaton, County Durham, has been able to read and write upside down since ho learned_ the more normal method at school. Newcastle -ora -Tyne d o c Loi were completely puzzled to ex- plain away David's gift when he last visited them, but they are not the only members of the medical profession to be left wandering, A 22 -year-old Oklahoma stu dent, Jack Husband, ticks like a clock, and until he was nine years old he thought that every- one else did, A school chum was the first to hear the slight tick coining from Jack's head when he was wrestling with him one day. He remarked on the noise, and that was how Jack found out he was far from normal with his tick. Since then more than 200 doctors have listened -in, but not one of them has managecl_ to ex- plain why it happens, A. few years ago a patient in a Cleveland, Ohio, hospital claim- ed to hear radio programmes without having a set. What was at first thought to be hallucina- tion was finally proved to • be true, and the sufferer had to be fitted with a steel headband to . combat his .receptive brain. • Another case of this kind came to light recently, but a simpler cure .was found for the patient, Jahn Mogowsky, He was a knife -grinder by trade, and doctors discovered that small particles of carborundum were lodging in his teeth and turning him into a human crystal set. They prescribed a toothbrush and cured him. Of course, all grinders are not similar suffer- ers, John just happened to be gifted that way. The case of the luminous wo- man was never cleared up by Italian doctors. They took Anna Monaro to hospital, but she was still glowing with a blue light at night when they discharged her without .discovering the rea- son or a cure. 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He has X-ray eyes. So has Pieter van Jaars- vel, of Bughersdorp, South Af- rica, but he uses his talent to search out deposits .of gold and diamonds, as well as under- ground streams. Another man who has turned an abnormality to good, use is Jimmie Edmondson, of Atlanta, Georgia. He can read backwards with- out any trouble, and earns a good salary as a radio entertain- er by specialising in singing pop- ular songs in reverse. There are times when it pays to be different! Here are some diversified notes taken from the proceed- ings of this year's Federal -Pro- vincial Agricultural Conference. They'll give you an idea of what the experts think the year 1954 will bring to the Canadian farmer. And maybe, at that, their pre- dictions will come true. Even experts bit the bullseye occa- sionally. Prospects for 4b54 are that the generally firm trated of eco- nomic activity during 1953 will continue without serious inter- ruption. Consumer purchases. which showed a significant' in- crease early in 1953, are being maintained. Though exports de- clined somewhat in the early months of 1953 they improved later and held to levels of the comparable period of 1952. Con- tinuing firm demand for agri- cultural products in the domes- tic market can be expected Prospects for wheat sales are reasonably good even though the world supply is larger. Sales of other commodities in over- , seas markets have undergone some adjustment but generally seem to be firmly based. * The demand for farm workers during 1954 is expected to be about the same as in 1953 and farm labour supply and demand . to be in better balance. Basic farm supplies, such as machinery, fertilizers, pesticides, twine and bags are expected to be ample during 1954 with prices about the same as those of 1953. Ammonium nitrate is the only material in short sup- ply, but other nitrogen materials are available. The trend toward the increased use of higher ana- lysis fertilizers is expected to continue. * * World production of wheat . Art Runs In The Family -- This sketch by Celina Tai, grand- daughter of artist Paul Gauguin, was inspired by the painter's self portrait. It is part of a Paris exposition of drawings by children of the Oceania colonies. The 12 -year-old girl, who scribbled "My Grandfather Paul Gauguin" atop the drawing, is the daughter of Tat, a son of Gauguin. during the 1953-54 crop year is ; forecast at about four per cenrr below last year's record of 7.3'!?: billion bushels. Basic to the cur- rent world wheat situation is ' the fact that Canadian farmers'•:•: have harvested a total of 1,855,', million bushels of wheat in thee' past three years, an average o; 618 million bushels per years, This is nearly twice the prewa4 , (1935-39) average production of 312 million bushels. >a * Total supplies of Canaetiaia ' feed grains for 1953-54 are only... slightly below last year's ree ord. Decreases in production o` the chief feed grains from the record or near -record levels, were almost offset by increased carryover stocks of all grains, which reached new peaks for; both barley and rye and were second• highest .for oats. ;, Increased supplies of beef, veal, mutton and lamb and smaller supplies of pork are tri prospect for the rnarketmg ye . ,1rrdingr' S'epto caber.{ 1' 54. 'Ail f t pated reduction in pork . sup- plies will be more than offset by greater production of other meats and total supplies of all meats will likely be about four per cent above the 1952-53 fig- ure. Anticipated • high level of domestic demand in 1954 will lirnit the surplus of cattle and calves in spite of larger volume of marketings. In 1953-54 Cana- da's surplus Of cattle and calves may amount to about 230,000 head. Indications, are that during, 1554. there will be a'continuing strong domestic market for eggs and poultry with an increase in egg consumption comparable to the increase in population and an increase in consumption of poultry greater than the relative population rise. s., TS The outlook for 1954 is for a sizeable increase in the produc- tion of apples and grapes and for a moderate increase in the production of apricots, cherries, pears, plums and prunes and strawberries, This forecast is contingent on weather, and fac- tors such as insects and diseases. * * tl: Combined production of Reg- istered and Certified cereal, flax, corn, bean, pea, and soybean seeds in 1953 was a little larger than in 1952. Production of wheat was the highest , in a number of years and that of soy- bean was much the largest ever recorded. Supplies are adequate for domestic needs, * Seed supplies of alfalfa, al- sike, red and . sweet clover will be more than: adequate for do- mestic needs in 1954, with the possible exception of double cut or early type of red clover. Any shortage of this kind could be met from carryover stocks and by a greater use of other kinds such as alsike, alfalfa and timo- thy. JUST YOU IF you are an average man or - woman, this is what happens to you In st,aventyafour hours: Your hart beats 103,680 tirnes. You breathe 23,040 times. You drink 2.9 pints of liquid, You eat 3 ]b. of food. You speak 4,800 words. You move 750 major muscles. Your 'hair grows .01714 in. Your nails grow 000046 in. You exercise 7,000,000 brain cells. You turn in sleep from 25 to 35 times• kla€ pioVer--Quickly titled "Hang- over"' by local wits is this new hat designed by Sandy Pendery. Even though it hides part of her charms, she still commands ad- miring attention as she suns on thebeaches of southern Florida. CROCODILES FOR STEPPRIG STONES High up on a rocky path of the Magaliesberg Range, in the Transvaal, a big -game hunter rested, .his rifle at his 'side. A cliff dropped sheer before him, and twenty feet below spread the top of a moepel tree. Chin on hands, elbows on knees, he closed his eyes to Listen to the splashing stream down among the. shadows. Suddenly, from behind him, came the faint clatter of a roIl- ing pebble. He turned his head. An old baboon mouth open, fangs gleaming, hands outstret- ched, was within inches of grab- bing him by the head. Beyond, squatted a. score or more of its silent fellows .. . Jerking forward, the hunter kicked at the cliffside with his heels, launching himself into space, turning as he fell. Falling, too, was the baboon twisting frantically as it plunged over the cliff. Together they crashed through the tree, below, the leafy bran- ches saving them both from ser- ious, injury. By the time •the dazed hunter reached the ground the baboon had disappeared, but above him the ugly, doglike, grimacing • faces of the rest of the tribe leered at him from the cliff edge. Had that brute got him, he would have been torn to pieces. That wasn't the only chilling experience Alexander Lake had, for in his exciting new adven- ture book, "Killer in Africa"' he recounts another occasion when he saw two heads leering at him, this tirne over a dwarfed castor-oil bush. Both instantly disappeared. But glancing at the edge of rock above- his head,~ • Lake was alarmed to find a full-grown baboon staring a W' him some fifty feet away. The hunter let fly with his gun'°, and the hill suddenly becam -. alive. Pandemonium broke loose,' as from behind rocks all around, dark forms raced, shrieking, bellowing and barking up the 'hillside. While 'Lake had thought he was stalking them, the whole troop had been stalking him! With Col. Capel, of the Trans- vaal Signal Corps, and a Zulu tracker, the author was ori a trail skirting the Crocodile Riv- er — a narrow cutting in the cliff -face which - ended abruptly where a section of cliff had top- pled into a gorge. The party was in the middle of the pile of rock when, with a ferocious roar, a large male baboon shot out from behind a boulder and faced them. He was in a rage and, at his first bel- low, baboons sprang into view on a hundred rocks --- howling, shrieking, and closing in with short, threatening • rushes. The colonel aimed his rifle, but the Zulu tracker knocked up the barrel, "If you shoot, Baas, we are dead men!" "He's right," Lake told Capel. "Those baboons are hysterical. They might tear us to shreds." As the troop crept closer, the din was so great that Lake had to shout. Behind, a group of males barked and roared about fifty feet away. The largest moved slowly forward. It was touch and go. A few fast shots might panic the mob , — or might bring them down on the party, Members of the main troop were shifting -their posi- tions, the females, babies and young baboons moving back a little, the older males moving forward. It was formation ,for an attack. All the three men could do was sit and wait. The baboon on the ledge was' less than twenty-five feet off, and the hair on its shoulders stood up like an angry dog's, Lake stared straight into his eyes -- yellow and filled with hatred. Suddenly it backed a couple offeet, loosed three roaring barks, then slit,- ped lipped behind a rock.. That must have been a signal, for the whole troop turned and rari, Another time, an angry ba- boon sprang at a young Kaffir, holding him with all four hands and sinking his teeth in the boy's upper arm. Lake's rifle spat death to the animal, but before anyone could help the screaming Kaffir a second ba- boon leapt on Lake's back and knocked him over, ripping his arm. No time to shoot. He swung the rine like a club. The baboon crumpled. Lake says, in this graphic ac- count of his adventures, that ba-. boons are cunning, particularly their leaders. Though the• ani- mals have phenomenal eyesight, they are emotionally unstable, and two, driven by frenzy, can tear even a leopard to pieces But the ugliest, cruellest, most loathsome eaters of men and beasts in Africa are crocodiles. Once, in the Congo Basin coun- try, Alexander Lake lay on a rock, and in his sleep moved, acc,]entally kicking his rine over the edge. Sliding over to retrieve it, he stepped on something soft and wiggly that yelped ... he tried to jump . . . slipped ... and sat down hard on four newly hatch - baby crocs. About sixty of the ten -inch devils surrounded hire. Their mother was up on her toes, not twenty -feet away, glar- ing at him. Six of the yellow -eyed de- mons attacked his toes, heels and calves with their needle- sharp teeth. Grabbing his rifle, he regained the rock a second before the mother swiped with her' tail, almost turning a back somersault to get at him with her jaws. Camping at night in another plywith companions, the au .a th,V. was trapped by a mass arla migration. On they came, i;zwo files, skirting the wagon tents and fire on both sides, leaving him in a circular oasis about eighty feet across. Ubusu-. ku, a Zulu, and Bill, a Bechuana 'boy' ' were - outside the circle, ' • - Picking Bill up, the Zulu used the crocs' backs as stepping stones, and in three hops set • him down safely in the fire -lit circle. The book abounds in= thrills like these, packed with much absorbing lore about wild crea- tures. Masked Testimony A masked and unidentified Roman Catholic priest testifies before a Congres- sional Baltic Committee hearing in New York on the matter of Soviet brutalities. The priest, ar- rested by the Russians in Janu- ary, 1941 on charges of spying, said he had been stuffed into a coffin -like box or left stripped In a room filled with ice. SKI -TIME IN CANADA. Miles of cross-country trails and thrilling downhill runs through thick powder snow attract many thousands of winter vaca•tionists each year to the winter sports area in the Laurentian Mountains, about 40 miles north of Montreal, Skiers find facilities to accommodate all grades of skill, excellent instructors Inc'those who want to improve their technique, and a large number of rope tows as well as several types of lifts Inc their convenience. Many ski meets and carnivals are seheduled at the various resort centers during the snow season, which lasts through 1VIarch. At left, above, snow enthusiasts check their skis at the Canadian National Railways baggage room hi the Central Station at Montreal. The couple in the righthand picture glide past snowladen evergreens;i on a cross-country trail at Morin Heights, a popular resort in the heart of the Laurentian skiing country.