HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-01-06, Page 3Never Can Tell Where
YouiI find treasure
It had always been a nuisance
—the rusty old stove which a
Berlin woman shopkeeper , had
stored for many years in her
attic after picking it up for next
to nothing at a sale, She had
never made use of it, yet in
some strange way she felt she
did not • want to part with it.
Then came war - and • the
bombing of Berlin, Her shop
was badly damaged and she was
evacuated with what belongings
she could salve to Westphalia.
She did not abandon the old
stove, It went with her. And
when, not long ago, she return-
ed to open a new shop in a Ber-
lin suburb, back went the stove
as well.
But she could see imediately
that to keep it any longer was
sheer folly. The ugly thing was
out of place in the new shop,
though she still had a vague
feeling that she ought not to
part with it.
She decided to put it in the
window for a week, not really
believing that anybody would
buy it even at the bargain price
she marked it. But someone did
buy it, on the very first day.
"Thank goodness," muttered
the shopkeeper. But somehow
she wasn't really pleased when
the stove was taken away.
Nor was the little old lady
who had bought it. Two days
later she rang up, complaining
bitterly that the stove was "ka-
put" — that it just wouldn't
work. She asked the shopkeep-
er to take it back,
The shopkeeper hesitated —
then refused to do so.
So the new owner called in
an engineer to try to make the
stove function. He noticed some
screws were missing and said
he would first have to dismantle.
it.
Suddenly, as he worked, there
tumbled out a stream of golden
coins, jewellery, watches and
other treasure from a secret re-
cess at the back of the stove. At
a conservative estimate, the
treasure was worth $75;000.
Police were told, . but the
owner of the treasure, probably
long -dead, has not been traced.
So the lucky little old lady re-
ceives every . penny of the for-
tune.
And the woman who sold her
the stove? She is furious that
she finally ignored her hunch.
Unsuspecting treasure is con-
atanly turning up in odd places.
A poor Italian peasant almost
burst into tears when his spade
broke as he was digging his
meagre piece of land in the pro-
vince of Parma some years ago.
He knew he could not afford a
new one. The spade had struck
what he thought was a large
stone but what was actually a
huge metal box.
When he realized what it was,
he borrowed a spade from a
neighbour and uncovered the
box which . had been buried
deeply in the soil. Opening the
box he found it contained a mass
of gold coins which proved to
be worth $350,000. Intensive in-
quiries failed to reveal the own-
er of this long -buried wealth.
So to -day that lucky peasant
no longer digs for his living._
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SALLY'S SALLIES
G,x.,,)l Ob,<„Jn 1n4W11.1.
"What are you waiting for?
Mistletoe”
Two men were going through
the papers of a bachelor friend
who had died suddenly when
they found a scrap of ,paper ad-
dressed to them in his hand-
writing with the words: "Seven
thousand pounds in till . . . "
They were puzzled. The dead
man had never been in busi-
ness and although they searched
his house carefully, they could
find no money.
Then one of them had an
idea, He remembered that their
friend had often been found
reading .a book of "Tillotson's
Sermons." Could this be the
meaning of the word "Till"?
They found the volume. A-
mong the leaves were banknotes
to the value of $20,000.
When John Addington set out
from his old Kentucky home at
Southdown ninety years ago to
fight in the American Civil War,
he decided to take no risks with
his great store of gold. So he
buried it in a huge pot in his
garden. He died in captivity
and his secret was buried with.
him.
And bis pot of "gold? In 1926
a hen and her brood of chicks
broke through. the fencing of
the present woman owner of
Addington's house and got busy
in her cabbage patch. Hearing
the noise they were making the
woman rose in wrath to eject
the invaders and found that the
hen, if it had not laid a golden
egg, had at least unearthed a
. gold five -dollar piece, She in-
. vestigated, found many more
gold pieces and then, with a
shovel, dug up the long -lost pot
of gold and the fortune it con-
tained.
Yes, it's usually the folk who
aren't looking for treasure who •
strike it rich.
A pretty young housewife's
lucky pull at a bootlace resulted
in the discovery of $10,000 in
1923. She was cleaning out a
room when she noticed the tag
of a lace peeping from a crev-
ice. She could easily have push-
ed it back in; but she chose to
pull it out, and found on the
end of it a bag containing more
than $10,000 in scrip and notes.
In a Durham house a work-
man was stopping some smoke -
holes in a chimney stack when
he came across a large tin box
crammed with bills and on top
a small piece of paper marked
1$2,000."
Five minutes later he found
another box packed with notes
' and marked "$2,500." Before
he could recover from the shock
of these two discoveries, he had
found a large toffee tin which
he afterwards said was "cram-
med to bursting point with
notes." The total value of his
finds was $7,500.
A schoolboy passing by a cor-
poration refuse dump in the
north of England found on it an
ancient trinket box containing
money and watches worth
$1.500.
A cobham, Surrey, man had
a fortune in a spare room at
his home for years before he
discovered it. In the dark one
night he stumbled over an an-
tique oak chest which had come
to him years before on the
death of his parents. It had
stood there for years.
He decided to overhaul it and
get rid of it. He was amazed
to find that it had a false bottom
and beneath this he found' a
number of old and very valu-
able paintings. They included
a Rembrandt and two Correg-
gios. As a result ' of his discov-
ery, the man, a labourer, was
raised to wealth.
There was also the Clacton
woman who bought an old and
dilapidated piano at a local sale.
When she got it home, she fail-
ed get any music out of it, so
she decided to take it to pieces.
Hidden among the wires she
found notes of a different kind
«$3,000 worth of them.
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CAN'T BEAR TO BE BOTHERED—While most of us huddle in warm
clothing, Ivy, the polar bear at the London, England, zoo, finds
the cold temperature just right for a snooze, Protected by her
heavy warm eoi t, she looks comfortable as she curls up on the
frozen earth.
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"GEE, CHIEF, I'M SORRY" --•
Brian Cullman, 4, wrings his
hands as he finds the passenger
special is due to meet a freight
head-on just out of this pictu-e.
"Chief Engineer" Daniel Dt.n-
ning, '8, son of actress Cele to
Holm, is highly skeptical of i to
explanation, The boys were
joying a pre -Christmas displ y
of a toy train manufacturer.'
each ng he Top
Of Mount Everest
Giant cornices on the right,
steep rock slopes on the left, I
went on cutting steps on the
narrow strip of snow. The ridge
curved away on the right and
we had no idea where the top
was. As I cut around the back
of one hump, another higher
one would swing into view. , . .
I had been cutting steps con-
tinually for two hours, and
Tenzing, too, was moving very
slowly. As I chipped steps
around still another corner, I
wondered rather dully just how
long we could keep it up. Our
original zest had now quite gone
and it was turning more into a
grim struggle. I then realized
that the ridge ahead, instead of
still monotonously rising, now
dropped sharply away, and far
below I could see the North Col•
and the Rongbuk glacier. I
looked upwards to see a narrow
snow ridge running up to a
snowy summit. A few more
whacks of the ice -axe in the
firm snow and we stood on top.
My initial feelings were of re-
lief — relief that there were no
more steps to cut — no more
ridges to traverse and no more
humps to tantalize us with
hopes of success. - I looked at
Tenzing and in spite of the
balaclava, goggles and oxygen
:mask all encrusted with long
icicles that concealed his face,
there was no disguising his infec-
tious grin of pure delight as he
Safety's --sways in Season
A fellow buys rubbers to put on his feet,
A hat he obtains for his dome,
And in that direction of needed protection
He bulwarks the place he calls home,
Our fighters in khaki wore helmets of steel,
Our banks have alarms by the ton.
For merely the reason that safety's in season
A copper must carry a gun.
But think of your family's future, my friend,
Get wise, use a little restraint!
Despite your endurance, YOUR MITE OF INSURANCE
IS ALL THAT IS LEFT WHEN YOU AIN'T!
You'0g Liv Longer
of You're ilfiarrrled
Half a century ago the ele-
phant outlived us; to -day we
outlive him by seventeen and a
half years. But we have a long
way to go to catch up to the
lively salmon which outlives us
by some thirty-three years!
The newest life -expectancy
tables, published recently in the
United States, indicate that our
life span is increasing every
year.
Primitive man lived a short,
furious life of eighteen years;
the early Roman averaged
twenty-two years; the Briton of
100 years ago averaged thirty-
seven years; in ancient Egypt
man reached twenty-nine years..
and in modern Egypt he reaches
only thirty-eight point six years.
The modern Western world
male should reach 120 expec-
tancy before the end of the cen-
tury, scientists claim.
Married men live longer than
bachelors; university - educated
men longer than grammar
school boys; professional men
and farmers outlive skilled
workers, but the latter outlive.
unskilled workers.
Here are some figures to show
how the insurance companies
Might rate the animal kingdom;
tortoise, 150 years; salmon, 100
years; cockatoo, ninety years;
pelican, fifty-two years; ele-
phant, fifty years; ostrich, forty
years; toad, thirty-six years;
horse, thirty years; gorilla,
twenty-six years; lion, twenty'
five years; rabbit, eight years;
mouse, one and a half years,
mayfly, one day.
looked all around hila. We
shook hands and then Tenzing
threw his arm around my shoul-
ders and we thumped each
other on the back until we were
almost breathless. It was 11:30
a.m. The ridge hacl taken us
two and a half hours, but it
seemed like a lifetime, I turn-
ed off the oxygen and removed
my set. I had carried my cam-
era, loaded with colour film, in-
side my shirt to keep it warm,
so I now produced it and got
Tenzing to pose on top for me,
waving his axe an which was a
string of flags — United Nations,
British, Nepalese and Indian.
Then I returned my attention to
the great stretch of country ly-
. ing below us in every direction.
To the east was our giant
neighbour Makalu, unexplored
and unclimbed, and even on top
of Everest the mountaineering
instinct was sufficiently strong
ie cause me to spend some mo-
ments conjecturing as to wheth-
er a route up that mountain
might not exist. Far away across
the clouds the great bulk of
Kangchenjunga loomed on the
horizon, To the west, Cho Oyu,
old adversary from 1952, dom-
inated the scene and we could
see the great unexplored ranges
of Nepal stretching off into the
distance, — Prom Chapter XVI,
"The Summit" by Sir Edmund
Tlillary, from "The Conquest of
Everest."
"That pretty girl seems to be
having a good time!"
yes—her fiance, a young
medical oflteer in Korea, is com-
ing horde to marry her next
month."
"Well, she certainly seems to
have solved the problem of what
to do till, the doctor comes!"
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PLAIN HORSE SENSE..
IIS F MOB)
Canadian farm net income in
1954 will be down a cool billion
dollars from, its peak of $2,200,1-
000, 000 in 1951.
The continuous recession of
farm income over the last three
years is due mainly to the de-
cline :cif prices of all agricultural
commodities to which in the
current year was added the crop
failure in the West.
Beef price was practically cut
in half, butter has been at floor
price for the last two years,
hogs came close, . to it this gal);
and eggs, in many parts of the
country, are below the 32 cents
per dozen supposed to be a mini-
mum price to the producer.
These 32¢ per dozen of eggs,
incidentally, are riot guaranteed
by the government, but prom-
ised by the packers. The pack-
ers, however, received a guarana
tee from the government of 38
cents per dozen plus storage and
handling charges.
Although feed grains are
down, prices of mill feeds and
mixed feeds have gone up; so
have the costs of production in
general. Increased costs coupled
with decreased cash income have
actually cut the purchasing
power of the farmer in half.
The slump in agriculture has
already had its effect on indus-
try as rising unemployment fig-
ures show. Unless the trend is
changed, it may drag down the
whole economy.
1954 has seen Great Britain
withdraw from the International
Wheat Agreement unwilling to
accept Mr. C. D. Howe's de-
mand for a top price of $2.05.
In view of the considerable drop
of the wheat price below the
ceiling, Mr, Howe's insistence
on the extra nickel proved to be
lack of foresight, unless, of
course, Canada's Minister of
Trade wants to get away from
co-operative marketing and back
to the old catch -as -catch -can.
The Canadian Wheat Board
has been under constant attack
and a British Columbia farmer
has taken legal action, presum-
ably with anti -Board backing, to
test its constitutionality.
The floor price policy of the
federal government, meagre as
it is, has also been attacked by
the press,' processors, distribu-
tors
istribu-
tors and even a provincial Min-
ister of Agriculture. Particular -
VON PIDIS
ly the butter floor of 58¢ is be.
ing criticised as too costly for
the taxpayer. .The . net cost t,z'
the federal government of the•
butter support program since
1949 has been $2,606,742. Half'
a million dollars per year, how-
ever, seems to be a low price
for the stabilization of the dairy
industry, most important branch
of farming outside of wheat.
In 1954 the United States or
America imposed further restric-
tions on the importation of Can-
adian farm products, meekly
accepted by the Canadian gov-
ernment which also refused the
advice of the CCF members in
.the House of Commons to ex-
port
xport farm surpluses against pay-
ment in foreign currencies. The
idea was taken up by the Ame-
ricans and the U.S. Adminis-
tration is authorized to sell
abroad farm products up to one
billion dollars and accept the
buyer's currency.
Encouraging signs, however,
are coming from the ranks of
Canada's farmers, signs of re-
bellion against the fallow agri-
cultural policies of the Liberal
government in Ottawa.
In the West the hue and cry
for direct political action of far-
mers has been raised and upon
the initiative of the Interpro-
vincial Farm Union Council a
farmer -labour committee has
been established together with
TLC and CCL to consult regu-
larly on questions of common
interest.
A Canadian farm program
for 1955 will include the fe le.w-
ing points:
1) Strengthening of the Can-
adian Wheat Board by the addi-
tion of producer reperesenta-
tives;
2) Establishment of a Board
of Live Stock Commissioners;
3) Continuation of floor prices
for farm products;
4) Federal legislation enabling
producers to establish National
Marketing Agencies.
"God helps them that helps
themselves." With the old fight-
ing spirit of the farmers awak-
ening again, here it hope for a
better 1955.
This column welcomes criti-
cism, constructive or destructive,
and all suggestions, wise or
otherwise, Address all mail to
Bob Von Pills, Whitby, Ont.
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