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Zurich Herald, 1952-02-07, Page 3Has Family Of 9 --- 4 Of Them Adopted When Mee, May Nicholls was a little girl site had twice as many dolls as any child in her street. When a neighbour jokingly offered her her infant twins and she found the offer wasn't serious she sobbed all afternoon. When May grew up and married, she determined to have a large family of her own and she raised bye healthy boys. Yet to -day, around the Nicholls's trim Canadian farmhouse near Bolton, Ontario, nine boys are having the time of their lives. Though no one can tell the dif- ference, the other Tour are boys she borrowed under a foster -parent plan or youngsters who somehow became attached to her . and smiling May Nicholls is hailed to- day as a shining example c f a foster -mother writes "R, G. D," in "Tit Bits.' Wiry Bill Nicholls agrees with his thirty -nine-year-old wife all the way. He lost his own father when he was ten and now he explains: "It's good for a homeless kid to acquire a family complete with mother, father, brothers, uncles, cousins and grand -parents." Affection is so shared that nine- year-old Arthur—a waif narrowly saved front a reform school—lived with the family for several weeks before discovering that not all nine were foster -boys. There are nine birthdays, each with a cake and a candle, nine pocket -money bonuses for Christmas shopping, ,paid out strictly according to age. And when a local school demanded that one boy — a foster -child — should be withdrawn because he was too unruly, Mrs. Nicholls gave the only answer a mother should: "If the school is too good for my foster -boys it's too good for my own!" It was school, in fact, that launch- ed her bursting family pride. When her own boys began going out to school, she noticed that the house was consistently becoming quieter —so she went to a children's aid society and asked for another boy. Four - year - old David's own mother had been sent to a mental hospital. He found life on the fifty - acre farm so strange that he some- times dashed into the house yelling: "I've seers a, heel'.; May Nicholls ._ told herself thateit.. vas cruel not to have a playnxate fotjDavid. So from the children!e socae'f,y came four- year-old Jacltte.' es.• Then Mrs. Nicholls noticed that her fourteen -year-old son, Ernie, was developing a remarkable. ap- petite. Every day as she packed his four sandwiches for school'lunch`be kept asking for more until he was taking eight a day. One day Ernie confessed that he was giving the extras to a school friend, Fred. who lived with foster -parents and wasp t getting enough to eat. , So Mrs. Nicholls fixed that up. Then came nine-year-old Johnny. He made the ninth. At one time Mrs. • Nicho•lls had ten boys, but on " went back to his parents, Every Saturday night nine boys go with i\itun and Dad to the pictures. Every -week she budgets for at least a hundred -weight of potatoes and fifty loaves of bread, sixteen pounds of butter, five pounds of brown sugar for morning porridge and—eight dozen eggs On wash day she wrings sixty • under- garments. The noise of the boys around the house is her reward together with the gift that comes et the close of the day .. nine goodnight kisses. Nonshattering Glass Plastic coating gives glass non- sleettering quality. Film is sprayed on ordinary glass, has tensile strength of 3,000-5,000 lb, per sq. in. and is unaffected by heat up to 212 degrees P. Callon covers 500 sq, ft. of glass. Manufacturer state;: it is guaranteed not to yellow. Can This Be Harry?—London clothiers have their own ideas of how President Truman should dress and in the British clothing industry journal, "Cloth and Clothes," they. make so bold as to offer a few suggestions. At left, a model, with the President's head dubbedin, wears a conservative, double-breasted suit with a bowler hat and rolled umbrella completing the ensemble. A similar picture, at right, shows how Mr. Truman would look in a medium -shade overcoat and bowler, with the cane added for dosh. As ,you probably know — es. pecially,if you've been buying soitte —pest'"control ' products run into money. s As, a matter of fact the commercial value of the actual pesticide now sold in Canada -ap- proximates twenty million dollars yearly; and -their value to Canadian agriculture could be estimated at many tens of millions of• dollars annually, and there. are approxi- mately two thousand different pesi- cides now registered for sale in Canada. Pest control products which in- clude insecticides, fungicides, weed killers, rat killers and worm reme- dies are essential commodities in agriculture, and some of these are are useful' also in industry and households. The yield and quality of, most farm and garden crops de- pend partly on the successful con- trol of insects, plant diseases and other petits, and this fact empha- sizes the value and importance of pest control products. So extensive and itnportaut a trade as that of the pesticides could be open {n' a 'number of abuses such as the selling of useless of very inferior product and the sale of actually injurious materials, were it not subject to some ' legislative 'control. t, Such control is exercised in Canada under the Pest Control -Pro- ducts Act, a Federal Act adminis— tered by the Plant Products Divi sion, Department of Agriculture, This Act requires the registration of all pesticides and requires that all directions for use be approved sem tese.,ehis �i . , BY uP -HANG UP A SACK FROM THE CEILINGOP 'YOUR GARAGE SO THAT IT TOUCHES THE WINO. SHIELD WHEN THE BUMPER IS CLOg TO THE WALL . THIS WILL PREVENT DRIVit-J IN HE W . before the product is accepted :]for registration. s{: * * Re -registration of a pesticide can be denied if it is sold contraryto • the - terms' of the registration, 'or should fail to provide the control • ..claimed for it. 4 * * • If apples are to gain their utriO t • in popularity with Canadian con- sumers, storage operators would be well advised to do some testing of their storage stocks at this trine of year, according to officials of .the Division of Horticulture, Canada Department of Agriculture. • These officers point out that much of the pleasure derived from eating apples is clue to the pres- ence of. a natural blend of -.acids, sugars and aromatics within the fruit. When the apple is ripe these factors are at their most appealing stage, This condition is approached very gradually at storage temper- atures, but once reached a gradual decline in quality begins. ,, 5, At this season' of the year apples of moderate storage life such as Itfeintosh, Cortland and similar varieties are at their peak of quality. • This is true only if harvested and stored property. If ideal conditions have not been provided the quality of the fruit will' very likely be low. Too many storage operators Ig- nore this quality factor, having only regard for conditional factors such as rots, scald and breakdown, It would be well to remove a sample of apples from storage at weekly intervals, allow them to ripen for several days at room temperature and evaluate their quality by samp- ling ,the.n. . IT this is done and followed 'ftp with an attempt to get the apples to th consumer before high quality flavours are lost, apples would be- come even a more polestar winter frith in' Canada. Strength and sire of lambs are greatly influenced by the rations fed to ewes.. Certain feeds may be sat- isfactory from the standpoint of maintaining the ewes in satisface tory conditions of flesh but are unsatisfactory for the production of strong vigorous lambs, points out A. A. tones of, I3eaverlodge Expert., mental Station. ,> * * Trials on Experimental farms have shown that grass hays, when fed alone; especially during the latter part of the pregnancy period, often result in weak lambs acid a scanty flow of milk, When 'these hays are to be used they should be _fed;in conjunction with more` nutri- tious hays such as alfalfa, or other legume hays or, if fed alone, shotild be ;supplemented with whole oats or .other concentrates to maintain ewers in a thrifty condition and to provide sufficient milk at lambing tiim'e. All Sheep should be fed iodized • salt to, prevent the birth of soft, flatthy and goitrous lambs. When ewes are being fed cereal or grass hays these should be supplemented with a mineral mixture of equal, parts oft bonemeal and iodized salt, This shottld be available at all times to supply their mineral needs. * * * The condition of the ewe will govern whether or. not grain should be fed. Handling of the individual ewes is the only sure way of de- termining whether the ewes are in ':• satisfactory condition. If it is found that they, are thin, it will be necessary to feed theta more liber- ally. * * Grain feeding is often necessary • when poor quality roughages are. • fed. Recent feed trials have shown that grain feeding during the latter half of the pregnancy period gives almost as good results as feeding grain during the entire period. Dur- 'itg the last 4-6 weeks before lamb- ing, the ewes will .usually need not More than T/2 to 34 pounds of grain per head per day. * * * Ewes that are seriously underfed daring . the latter part of the preg- nancy period•'mav not accept their lambs, In. such cases there niay be insufficient milk for the newborn lamb. * * * Exercise during the winter months promotes thriftiness and re- sults in a stronger lamb crop. Feed- ing racks mak*? placed some dis- tance away from sheep shelters, thus forcing the ewes to take more exercise. Good Winter Job "The most profitable job you can do this winter is to put your farm machinery in the best possible condition," recommends a well- known expert. This is always good' advice, and especially so now. New farm ma- chinery and necessary parts are likely to be scarcer and harder to get when needed next year, So the situation calls for even more in the way of protective maintenance than usual. Investiga- tions in several states show that the proper winter shelter and ser- vicing of farm machinery will double its working lifetime. More- over, the overhauling, cleaning, lubrication, adjustment and other steps necessary to put it into good order will be reflected in its field performance next season. If one isn't sure just what to do, most implement dealers can supply man- ufacturers' manuals or maintenance and repair check lists that tell all the things that should be done. To these shoud be added this suggestion: Check carefully for any damaged or badly worn parts and get in your 'orders now for any new parts that may he needed. It may save costly delays next season. The large investment farmers now have in machinery has made its proper care an essential factor in good farm management. With present high operating costs it can readily mean the difference be- tween profit and loss in any year. "NEW YORK'S OTHER RIVER" — THE ST. LAWRENCE Most of f us, here on the north side' of " the far-famed "imaginary line" are accustomed to think of the St. Lawrence as pretty much s Canadian river. A recent article on the editorial page of The New York Times gives an interesting slant on what some of our neigh- bors to the south think of it. 4• 5. * e ' The people of the North Coun- - try, that part of New York State ncirth of the Mohawk and particu- ' :lately ie Jefferson and St. Lawrence °Counties; are always mighty sur- prised' to find that one of our most •pefiseti- r • alrinanacs:.al ways, lists, the S't 'L,awrence as one of "the for- ` eign rivers of the world." For many of those people who live right along the St, Lawrence, who vacation on its Thousand Islands —tete Americau share of them, that is—or who fish for bass and stur- geon in the deep waters have a possessive sense about that river. They Lave always felt that the hundred miles or so of it that make the', northwest border of the state was theirs. They may not be in at the start of the river nor at its finish, and they may own only one bank of it, but they are as proud of it as downstaters are of the Hudson. They boast with more or less accuracy that tl.e St. Law- rence carries out more water thau the Amazon, bears more traffic in a~ year than the Panama and Suez Canals combined and, all in all, is • quite a river. And out of the little towns of the North Country have come a breed of man unique in navigation -- the St, Lawrence riverman, who will match the fer- ocity and the mercilessness of that stream with an nater anywhere iu tl orld ']'hose ',co Yorkers who live beside the St Lawreure may seem remote from Manhattan but. thanks to their river. the t' are tied cloee to the tt id,•, tetde world. Any suni- mer day ripe) ca1, see vessels from a. dozen ootonrieA sail east and west. its Ow it:ilds ate oil and pulp- wood. ben -print, coal, grain met ore. Tea: ship traffic is slopped now and the Sr, Lawrence river freig•btere. some tcw American but mostly Canadian, are in their win- ter berths. The river, at least the part that passes by New York State, is iced over and will stay that way until April. ,p :N Yct civet. that riser, frozen of not, there is a lot of heat, as there has been for • fifty years. '['lie vete, warns question of building or nut building •the St. Lawrence Seaway is still unsettled. For a long time the people of the North Country have been hoping tl.at the Federal Government would authorize build- ing that seaway and its accom- panying power development. The Seaway calls for a continuous ship channel, twenty-seven feet deep, from Duluth on Lake Superior to • the Atlantic Ocean, 2,650 miles away. It would put Chicago, Mil- waukee and other ports on a new. "seacoast." It would mean more business for the North . Country. With that channel would be built a power station large enough to enable the United States to divide with Canada twelve billion kilo- watt-hours . of cheaply , produced electricity each year. A° lot of that• ` might conte into the North Coun- try, an'area of the state well equip- ped with labor but almost com- pletely devoid of large industry. Having signed a Seaway agreement in 1941, the Canadians were dis- appointed that Congress turned the whole scheme down last year, and they now plan, promise or threaten to build the whole thing themselves. Reading that, the North Countryman hopes that the United States will get 'fno ..it somehow. • * '4: • He hopes, even as he reads the arguments against it: that it would be a waste of money, it would not Tee -V V— Hollywood television actress Margin Dean has taken 'the plunge—all of it—as she models the "Tee -V" shirt, ob- viously designed to pep up sluggish TV programs. . develop the power hoped for, and it would harm the Eastern Sea- board. He knows that the opposi- tion to the Seaway is a strong one, composed of Eastern railroads, railroad labor unions, Atlantic and Gulf ports, shipping companies and power companies. He is happy to see a new argument on his side: that the Seaway would be a val- uable defense project. * * * But the North Countryman; with his little hone and,; -'job, is small peanuts compared to the great in-' terests fighting -for and against the Seaway. He can have his hopes, however, and they are always ..as green as the first tamarack fronds of the spring. 44* * With that spring he will get out his tackle and skid his boat back again into the green river water. Maybe the Seaway -is a rope for a tug-of-war between giants and maybe the St. Lawrence is one of • the great foreign rivers of the world. But as the citizen of ;St. Lawrence County, New York State, feels the propeller of his boat grab again at the cold April water of the St. Lawrence he .thinks of just one thing and 'happily: once again he is back on his river's Peat -Gas Turbine The first peat -burning' gas tur- bine in the world • is now running in the engineeering shops of John •Brown & Co., fatuous Clydeside shipbuilders. The plant consists of a 40 h.p. experimental gas turbine once run on oil, but now equipped with a peat -burning airheater and with peat -drying a n d grinding equipment. The suitability of a peat -fired closed -cycle gas turbine for continuous operation to produce electric power is now being deter- ';,ustined. In its, present form 'turbine can ' run on peat of any moisture content up to 50 per cent, but next year' new drying equip- ment will be built to utilize wetter peat without loss of efficiency. slaw '1'o Keep Your 'dyes Off The Rodd ---Mike Alonso, Havana -c<or•. espondent for The United Press, tunes in his automobile TV set, aelieved to be the second of its kind in the world. The other k installed in the' car of Argentina's president Joan Peron. Sy Arthur ?oirc