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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-04-07, Page 3o //-�. yrrr.W.G,.,g,.r HR 0 -ISLES it 4 JINGERFARM, Canada won the World Cham- pionship in Hockey Canada against Russia . . Canada - five to nothing! What headlines what a victory! Even peo- ple not usually interested in sports will be delighted with the result of that hockey match. We needed a little good news like that to boost our morale after all the dire predictions about the effect of too much atomic activity. And then the unpleasant weather we have been having just lately. Last week we had everything - wind, snow, rain; sleet, fog and a thunderstorm. But then it's March; we should expect almost any kind of weather - and the chances are we won't be disap- pointed! Last year we had much the same variety around this time. Actually we ought to real- ise how lucky we are. Think of the floods in Australia and the snowstorms in the British Isles. What have we to grumble about? Nothing really = but of course we grumble just the same, just as naturally as the sparks fly upward. Anyway, the sun is shining this morning .. . "enjoy the pleasant smiling hour." Let's do just that. Why not, when Canada won the Hockey Championship? We had our own worries J.ast week - sick dogs. Honey has practically recovered but I ani afraid poor old Tip is finished. We tried to bring her strength with brandy and rano' eggs but her aging heart is giving, out. In all our years of farming she will' be the first dog to die a natural death. The others were either shot by accident or intent, or run over by cars, except in one or two cases when we had the 'vet' destroy the poor things for viciousness or some other bad habit. Apparently there is a terrific lot of sickness among dogs just now. In some cases it is a virus infection; in others, as with Tippy and Honey, it is some kind of flu. The vet dosed them with sulpha drugs to which Honey reacted quite favourably but I imagine Tip was too far gone before we real- ized she was sick. The first sign was a refusel to eat. I thought perhaps she had caught a rabbit and wasn't hungry. So, if you have a dog that won't- eat - watch out. We shall miss poor. old Tip. She was excellent with cattle and a good watch dog. Still on the subject of dogs: Remember what I was saying about dogs being dropped from passing cars? One of our neigh- bours actually saw it happen. Unfortunately he did not get the licence number of the car. A car drove by and a black cocker spaniel was left on the road. The driver evidently went up to the next crossroads, turned and came down the road again. The little dog recognised the car and raced after it but was soon out- distanced. The farmer went into the house for dinner. Next time he opened the back door the little dog ran in. His wife hadn't the heart to turn it away so she feel it. A week later there were six puppies. Three of them died but the others have all been promised homes. When the puppies go, the poor faithful little mother is to be taken to the Humane Society as these people already have a dog of their own. So you see that is just one more instance of cruel- ty an desertion on the part of the original owners. Just recently 1 have been having a field day with books -- English magazines and old Ile ,:.. of Coin Sit ' rtes: Rose i y on Career; ere . ' ` rower, Fledgling Thrush of Two By DICK KLEINER NEA. Staff Correspondent New York - (NEA) --- When Teresa Brewer was two, she was well started on the career that made her one of the leading thrushes of the day. When Rose- mary Clooney was two, she was just another kid. That's how thrushes are cre- ated - in many ways, Teresa Brewer's career was started for her by her parents. She sang in her home town of Toledo, O,, when ,she was bare- ly through with pablum. By the time she was five, she was a regular with one of the Major Bowes amateur units She's been singing professionally ever since. Rosemary Clooney, on the other throat, more or less stum- bled into her career. When she was 17, and her younger sister, Betty, was 14, they started off one day from their home in Maysville, Ky., to go swimming. On the way, Betty mentioned that she'd read that the big Cin- cinnati radio station, WLW, was holding auditions. The sisters had sung around home, and they'd talked some about doing it for money. But it was a hot day, and Rosemary wanted to go swimming. Betty said they might as well get an audition. Rosemary held out for the swim. So they tossed a coin. And it came up a stai. ROSEMARY CLOONEY: Holly.• wood gowns stirred ambition. 1 The audition got them a show on the radio station right away. And before long Tony Pastor's band came to town, needing a girl vocalist Tony's manager asked an old-time dance band leader turned booking agent, Barney Rapp if there were any girl singers around Cincinnati. Rapp suggested the two kids on WLW. And so the Clooney sisters came to Rapp's office and sang for Pastor. There was no piano in the office. It didn't matter, He took the two kids along, and a few days later, wearing the homemade dresses their grand- mother had stitched up, they, were singing at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. Their Uncle George went along as a guar- dian. Rosemary Clooney sang with Pastor's band for almost three years. Betty quit after a while to go back to school. Rosemary was only 18 when she started with Pastor. She had no great ambition even then. The musicians remember her mostly for her good spirits.,, Then they played Hollywood, The stars came to dance. Rose- mary sew Ava Gardner and the others, looking beautiful in their expensive dresses. Right away, an ambition was born. And it's an ambition that's been realized, Pastor's band made records spasmodically. On one session, Tony and Rosemary did a duet on a now -forgotten song called "I'm Sorry I Didn't Say I'i'Fi Sorry When I Kissed You Last Night." Jos Shribman, Tony's manager and now Rosemary's, remembers clearly. "I was in the control booth," he says. "I heard her sing and I lit up. So did everybody. Foi' the first time, I guess, we were really listening to her voice. On the bandstand, all we cared about was that she was in tune, But I knew the minute I heard her she had a big potential for records." There were a few more duets with Pastor, then, under Shrib- man's guidance, she. left the band and Columbia signed her to a record contract. The first record went nowhere. Then she made a thing called "Me and My Teddy -Bear." as both a pop record and a kiddy record, that is still a kiddy best-seller. Af- ter that came "Beautiful Brown Eyes," which was doing reason- 1ERESA BREWER AND I°AUGUER ,'heli she was barely through pa ably well until it was overtaken by her next record, "Come On -a My House." It made her a star. Then carne a procession of bit records, capped by the pheno- menal two-sided hit, "Hey, There" and "This Ole House" which sold more than 2,000,000 copies. Hollywood called her and she married Jose Ferrer and a flip of the coin on the way to the swimmin' hole sure changed a gal's life. Like Rosemary's "Come On -a My House," Teresa Brewer traces her stardom to one rec- ord, too, It was the bouncy little novelty, "Music, Music, Music." Between her Major Bowes days and "Music, Music, Music," life wasn't too easy, She'd come to New York, and was singing in a 44th Street cafe, but she was discouraged and was just about to go back to Toledo. Then a manager named Richard Lasella walked past the cafe while she was singing and - "And I heard this odd sound," Lasella says. "I went in and it was her singing. I signed her up. The big record companies turn- ed her down, but I got her on MEGAN: She started singing blum, but she prefers the nest. this other label. Her fourth rec- ord was 'Music,' and she's been rolling since." That odd sound is Teresa's trademark. It's best described as what a kitten would sound like if a kitten could sing. With it, Teresa can rip into any kind of song - from a plaintive bal- lad like "'Til I Waltz Again With You," to the brassy "Jilt- ed." Her kittenish voice and her kittenish looks - she's a cuddly 95 -pounder -- have led her to popularity in night clubs, TV and Hollywood. The only limit to her activities is her prefer- ence for home life. She's married to a construc- tion company executive, Bill Monahan, and the Monahans have three daughters - Kath- leen, 41/a, Susan, 3, and Megan,(. (The older two sing just like Mommy, and delight in imitat- ing her.) They live in .New Rochelle, and Teresa turns down many lucrative offers in order to stay hone. This is one thrush who pre- fers the nest. Canadian school readers, the latter dating back to 1885. Evi- dently school, readers used to be the same year in and year out for quite a long time. In these books there are poems that I remember very well although I certainlyy wasn't around in 1885, For instance I came across a great old favorite of mine -- "King Bruce and the Spider" - in fact I believe that poem help- ed me to overcome many child- ish obstacles. "The spider up there defied despair, he conquer- ed, then why should not I?" There was also "We are Seven" by Wordsworth. I used to won- der why the man was so stupid - why couldn't' he urderstand that to the little cottage girl. there still were seven in her family? And there was the sailor from "the Gray Swan" who returned, to his mother af- ter twenty years. And how he was welcomed. "After Blen- heim" was another favourite. Peterkin asks - "Now tell us all about the war, and what they fought each other for." And old Kasper replies -- "Well, that I cannot tell," says he, "but 'twas a famous victory." An aged -old question and an age - 10. wire 25, Light moisturo ROS CSYfORD 19. So. African rax 38. Mend 17 impresses h0 ,Flvslea, with wonder instrument PUZZLE' 1.9. Church festive? 42. Punitive 23. Ag,' 44. Monkeys 25..Late 41. Nearest 26 Holland 46, Set of throe ACROSS 5 ft Irv() 1 Public, notices 4 Sever 4 TahlelaTld 12. Channel 18 Silkworm 14. For shame 15 b.tlihin tuber 15. Resettleit Mut.. bearing animal 20. Stitrh 21. Born 22. Valley 24 weight or India 26 Rubbers 20. Parties 83. Arrow 84. Help 35, 1• uel 87. Closed 29. Number 41, knock 03. Conquers 44. tnseet 41.f!olor 49. Mammal 52. Enduring 55.1tutnn•,fngbird 86, r•'assage out. 57, MelOdy sr. Egg drink' 59. (Sleek portico 60. Pertnittt !1. Ootf new DOWN 1. 5 xei tett' 2. %'inh 9, Urlterion 4. teense1u 6 t etsttertit 6, Creeks 7 S oriel R. Animal's stomach 0. Dash commune 27. Operated 28. little girl 30. Loyal 81. Make 'tiro 20 Orli ft ;, 48. Calamitous In Rnrr%Innnliart o. 21, 2`'u> 51 G*eek let.er +4 River island 14 is esseseesseeeee eseet zest KeeltaiSee oinknrer eafsow vera o/2 tilwio 00geo old answer, neither one changes much with the years. I suppose most of the prose and poetry in the old school readers was 'sob stuff' but at least it appealed to the imagina- tion and left an impression that lasted through the years. Another article, decidedly modern, 'is u ell worth reading. Dr. rock Chisholm, in Week- end Magazine, says the greatest threat in the world today is over -population. Feeding the masses is NOT the answer. World-wide birth control is the only solution. He also advises inter -marriages as a means of combatting racial prejudice. Making War Or Deadly Sliders Mexico is to wage full-scale war shortly against one of the most vicious killers in the world, the "Assassin" scorpion, which' claims between 2,000 and 2,500 lives annually. No serum has been found that is effective against this scor- pion's sting, which bilis within a minute. The scorpion is round mainly in the Mexican provinces of Durango, Nayarit and Jalisco, where a poison is being de- veloped for spraying strips of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains, the breeding places of the Assassin scorpion. In the wheat belt of the Cape Province, South Africa, another form of war has also been de- clared -this time against the Button spieler, whose sting is fatal in about sit cases out of every ten unless a serum injec- tion is given at once. Now a poison has bean found which is harmless to animals and human beings, but fatal to the Button and other spiders. "This is the way," laughed the great god Pan . (Laughed while he sat by the river), "The only way since gods began To make sweet music, they could succeed." •Then, dropping his mouth to a. hole in the reed, He blew III power by the river. E, B. Browning. They shall sit every man u21 - der his vine and under his fife tree.-s-Oid Testament NMY SCIl00L LESSEN Rev. R. .Barclay Warren, B.A., BD, The Cross and Christian Discipleship, 2 Corinthians Galatians 2:20-21; 6:14-11 Memory Selections: God for- bid that 1 should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto vie, and I unto the world. Galatians 6:14. The crows is central in Chris- tianity. Omit it and Christianity is no longer Good News. Even the ethics set forth in the New Testament loses its power if Christ did not die for us. No wonder Paul wrote, "1 deter- mined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and hint crucified." 1 Corin- thians 2:2. One wonders if mod- ern emphasis on the psycholo- gical aspect of religion is tend- ing to obscure the central truth that Jesus Christ died for our sins. Yes, we need to understand ourselves better, But this will not save us. Only as we cling to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour will we find deliverance from sin. Let us not shy away from those hymns which focus our attention on the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for It on Calvary. Salvation is in Him and Him alone. Paul speaks of his own cruci- fixion with Christ; also of his own- crucifixion to the world and the world to him. This im- plies more than the forgiveness of our sins. It involves a walk- ing in the way that Christ walk- ed. We are to be like Him. Chris- tianity is a life to be lived day by day. It is the path of self- renunciation and consecration to all the will of God. No longer do we live for self but Christ; not self-centered but Christ - centered. The cross has intlu.enced us all more than we realize, J. F. Gregory writing in Arnold'e Commentary says, "There ie nothing stronger in life than vicarious suffering. es if wit think of a soldier as one whose business is to kill we recoil from him in liorroi', If we think of Auric Ars oto who exposes hits body to death for the purpose of protecting the weak, at once he wins our admiration. The cross of Christ claims the best in us, for there we see suffer- ing love at its highest." Let us proclaim the cross by word and. action, CONVINCED Aii elderly man consulted a doctor about his health. "Frankly," said the doctor, "it's quite obvious to ,me that you drink too much. If you. don't cut it out, spots will ap- pear on your face." The advice and the prophecy were both unacceptable to the patient, who, with a few words of derision, departed. In a month, he returned, wearing the promised spots. "Doctor," he said, admiringly, "you were quite right after all. D'ye know anything for the Kentucky Derby?" And I am praying God on high, And I am praying Him aight and day, For little house -- a house of my own - Out of the wind's and the rain's way. -Padraic Colum /'TI1UM ftYlig Gtot Sl9aii�i • Under Glass The very first planting job wig not be in the garden outdoors at all, but in the hot bed or special flats placed in bright window indoors. A hot bed is simply ai glass covered yard or so of special rich fine soil, heated with manure, electrically or some other means, Where a lot of plants are to be started the hot bed is the ideal solution and one is advised to get a Government Bulletin on the subject and fol- low the directions. Where only a few dozen started plants are needed one can so* seed in fine soil in a shallow box and place in a sunny window. Where this is not possible or practicable one simply purchases the started plants later on from any seed store or nurseryman. In this indoor planting pit is important to use fine rich soil, mixed with a little sand or leak mould. One should not plant more than a few weeks before it will be safe to transplant out- doors. If these things start t(e grow too early they will get too tall and spindly to stand the shock of transplanting well, Keep it Informal The simplest design is usual- ly the most effective in garden layouts and for the non-profes- sional it is also much the easiest Except, of course, along walks,, walls and similar fixed features, it is best to avoid straight lines both in the flower garden and in laying out shrubs and trees. The experts urge planting in clumps, with two or three or more of each plant in a group. For the centre and foreground nothing is better than a real good lawn. On city lots this may only be a few square yards The grass sets off the whole layout and it should lead up to the flower gar- den with possibly shrubs or trees or a vine covered trellio or fence in the background, or as a division between say a kitchen or vegetable garden plot at the rear. Shrubs and flower borders arc also used to line driveways and fences. Against the house itself but at least a foot or so in front, one can plant groups of shrubs or taller flowers. In the flower garden or border the informal or clump planting is continued. Rather than set - ••ting out in rigid rows, one should. plant groups of various flowers with the little things like alys- sum, ly -sum, dwarf nasturtiums, lobe- lias and so on, in front. Tails* things like zinnias, petunias, a0-> ters towards the centre and reap ly tall flowers such as cosmos, marigolds . and delphiniums et the rear. Walt Until Ready It's a great mistake to do any general sowing `or cultivating while the ground is the least bit muddy. Heavy soil is injured and later trouble results when it is dug or worked too soon. A good test is to take a little eartle and squeeze it in the hand. If when released it crumbles but does not pack, it is fit for the spade or plow. If it doesn't crumble, it is best to wait a few days longer. There is no gain in. rushing the season. Upsidedown. to Prevent Peekins V .1. bl iV 0 n 21' 1 a V 3 0 T N 9?1 .L J. Z1ad 0 GOOD MILKER -- Pierre Petit proudly displays the trophy w4n9 by "Havraise 11" at the annual Farm Show in Paris, The cove got the trophy, presented by France's 15.( ..:dont Rene Coty fart winning contests for quantity a' -d quality of milk.