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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1947-01-30, Page 5r • e to st 1$ .m. gs Dfl am ,'loss an', ffia E.ggi in rust 0. Bets AUT. mss [0 t1s osa mdao ;htn- P'irc Black Hand Boss. rharsiC Costello, ex -convict; gam- bler,'rea�teestnte-operator, iriedd '•:ti,Fc_Taaiatf nny lehdersi' hib '. been numed.,as.boss of Harlem's mod- eete_,:lyfuf}an,.: pa Black. , :tad ,so- ciety, ' by federal narcotics' 'au- thorities in New York. Atomic Energy: To Spread eath Or Happiness? 1. \rt Bennett, believed to be .the young -est member of the: Hong. Kong battalion of the Winnipeg> Grenadiers -he enlisted ' at 15—has just told' his' story for. the Win- • ttipeg Free Press readers. Art witnessed sonic sickening hbarrors during the • fighting at Hong Kong and suffered the hard4 ships of -More than 314 years' cap. tiyity as a prisoner -of -war. He thought he had been toughened by these experiences but he states that what he saW'in Nagasaki made 'his flesh crawl along his back. The fate of Nagasaki and Hiro- shima has been described frequent- ly and discussed from many an- d res, But each time a description is given, a comment should be made, because this is one of the great issues before the world to- day — whether atomic energy be employed for construction or de- struction to promote more abun- dant life or to spread death indis- criminately, over huge populated areas? Is it to be harnessed to activate industry in regions that have. no other source .'of poia=,er to bring happittair to henia'n'beings? Or is :it to be; used to reduce into rubble frit that humanity has 'built up durin centuries of 'striving and, in the phrase of Tacitus, to make ia solitude and call.: it peace? NECKPIECE ¢e h ea Well known as the only woman trapper in her district, Mrs. Cluney Fitzgerald, McKendrick, N.B., is shown with some of the foxes of her last season's catch. HE CAREFULLY AVOIDED TRAFFAC HAZ:. ►' Other drivers around Los Angeles took awful chances, driving on slippery streets during recent heavy rainstorms. But not Charles P. Carey. Charles played it safe, paticing his car and walking. He's pie- tu'rel, at right, above, peering at what'sleft of the auto after three 6.0 -foot trees, undermined by water, smashed car as completely as any traffic crack-up could,- • LIFE By 'CEO.RGFS ' CAROUSSO. Driving. home in the car, Dick and' Nancy -had had another quar- rel. There was no particular rea- son for it. It was just a bad habit that they had slipped into. It had started originally with a quarrel .over the behaviour of their rather eccentric 'families. ' But when the smoke of that first battle bad clear- ed—being smart, young, and newly wed—they had kissed and made up. Wasn't it foolish to quarrel over two Families who lived such a com- fortable distance away? From that day forward their families would • be taboo as a topic of discussion. But they continued quarrelling about other things. When they drove up totheir little house in the quiet residential street, there was a man standing at the' front gate, a stout, pink -faced, - cherubic old man, with' white hair curling beneath his hat. When he saw them, his well -shod impatient foot stopped tapping against the suitcase festobned with labels. His face wore an expansive smile as he came forward to meet them. "A fine thing _ keeping your . Uncle Joshua waiting all this time," he laughed forgivingly. He kissed the surprise from Nancy's parted lips and shook Dicks hand vigor- ously. "Don't tell me you weren't expecting me?" Dick looked. 'at `Nancy'tot support, but Nancy was looking at the polish 'on her nails, "Well, you see=' "Sure, surer" Uncle Joshua waved the apologies 'aside. He threw his arms around them and hustled them into the house. "Fine place!" he approved emphatically. "Good taste. Charm. Is that .roast chicken I smell cooking? After South Africa, it 'will be like manna from Heaven. Terrible cooks in the mining camps." Need More Butter To Maintain Ration Production of creamery butter iia 1946 totalled 270 million.• pounds, a decrease of 8 per cent from 1945, while dairy butter production was estimated at 55 million pounds. This production of 325 million pounds was not sufficient to maiu- ta a 6 -ounce 'ration in 1946 and d May not provide sufficient stocks to meet a 6 -ounce ration in 1046 and may not provide sufficient stocks to meet a 6 -ounce ration in the first four months of 1947. Dairy butter rela- tively ' leasbecome .x1n 0 production - p stabilized at approximately 6:S million pounds which means that creamery butter production Should have to total 205 million pounds in 1947 if the 6 -ounce ra- tion is to be maintained from domestic production. • Oe the basis of a per capita con- sumption of 32 pounds per annunt (1940-42: average) it has been esti- . mated that the butter requirements its Canada would total 345 million Pounds: of creamery and 55 niilliort t►tiunds' of dairy butter or approxi - Mately 80 million pounds higher 'than 1046 production. Each pound change in the -per capita rate repre- sents approximately a2 4 million pounds of butter per annum. A producers' subsidy -of 10 cents per pound of. butterfat used in the rnattufacture of creamery butter is payable tinder the present Order not 'Council until April 00, 1941. "Better run down to the High Sti;eet for some gin, Dick, dear," Nancy smiled, The mute drooped a. bit at - the confers from shock. Uncle Joshua Arrives "Good idea!" said Dick heartily, rallying. He had to admit that Nancy was game! She was a good' sport. He had always been proud of her because of that, Even dur- ing dinner, when it became evident that Uncle Joshua intended to spend some time vi'ith them, Nancy Was able to smile, The best Dick could manage was a sick grin. "I'll fix the divan," Nancy said brightly. "It has a fine least- :Spring." nnsr`"spring." ' Uncle Joshua rolled his blue eyes upward. "I hate the beastly things? Ab. solutely! A, phobia.', Ever since that', snake -that. Was in Sumatra. Have yoti only one bedroom?" 'Welt" said Nancy slowly, "there is the. nursery--" 'No! When? Well, co'ng•ratula- Uons." "\ot yet," Nancy shook her head., "You see, when we 'took the house 'we thought a nursery would be useful, in case. But now---" "Good! Good!" Uncle Joshua beamed. "Don't be too hasty. Look at you! Why, you're mere children yourselves! Mere children! Hardly know each other. Too much work, and" his eyes narrowed and he hissed the word in. triumph—"sub- urbanitis! That awful disease, The same deli people. The same game of bridge. Nothing new ana excit- ing, No adventure. No laughter. Flowers withering for lack of sun and water. The bars of the cage closing in on you. One Iittle aye:- nue ve-nue of escape , marked 'Divorce'.. Suburbanitis. Dick's eyes met Nancy's in sud- den fright. Divorce! They had nev- ed named their voiceless thought. "Having fun!" Uncle Joshua's voice penetrated their fear. "Enjoy life! I see I came just in the nick of time. The trouble with you two is that you 'have forgotten how toy play, We'll soon fix: that." . Carefree And In' Love Otte' dawn, when Uncle Joshua's . gentle snores had started their con- tented,purring, Dick nudged Nancy into ',cakefulness. "Nancy, I'M tired," he Whispered.. "Of, course, darling, But isn't it fun .:fn be carefree and iii love?" "I ,suppose so," he said. "I sup- pose its fun to have. expensive fun. In' another month we'll have to mortgage the house. "Oh•, Uncle Joshua will pay his share before he goes:. He's just a' little eccentric and forgetful, I, think. Living in gold mines in Aus- tralia would shake anyone forgetful of little things like that." "I thought it was South AfrIica," Dick said dully. "Ire seems to have where." "I wish he were somewhere else now." "That's not a very kind thing to ,say," said Nancy, without convic- tion. Dick gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, and turned on his el- bow to Face her, There were things he wanted to say, and very few of them were_ going to be kind. But Nancy was suddenly asleep. Diel: smiled. He wondered if she was dreaming of music and soft lights and dancing feet. Beautiful; desirable' little Nancy — laughter tinkling like silver bells—ice cubes in glasses tinkling like silver bells The alarm went off. It was time to go to work. Expensive- Fun • Uncle Joshua left the table, Went to the 'phone, and made reserva- tions for them all at El Torro. "Isn't it exciting to have expen- sive Fun??" he beamed. "Yes !" said Nancy. "Now and then," said Dick., But it was now and then. It was tonight, and the next night, and the night after that. "Look at Nancy," Uncle Joshua said proudly, late one night of the first week, admiring her as an artist might admire the masterpiece he has created. "Just look at her.. Isn't she beautiful?" Dick roused, himself to the coloured lights and the blare of music swirling around him, Nancy's face cane into focus. "Beautiful as a blossom in the moonlight," he said, a trifle thick- ly. He wondered vaguely if it was poetry. Late in the evening he was liable to say anything. The second week Nancy stopped blossoming. The third week she be- gan to wilt. Dick -had long ago be- gun to feel like a boiled lettuce leaf. Only Uncle Joshua seemed pinker and more cherubic than ever. CRACK-UPS By Ed Nofziger /N®II/i1�li`yCi'aiilE� ®a11r■1/ �.� ,l �?z "I'd love to take a run downlo.wn, but where do you fit,d a parking space these days?" been every- A Good -Bye Letter They played golf. They went motoring. They went fishing — Uncle Joshua had missed so much while he had been.: in South Africa. Then s u m m e r. ended.. When autumn came they still had plenty of fun, Then twy i n t e came.. Uncle Joshua's cheery "Rise and shine!" failed to rouse th$nt one Sunday morning; It was noon when they finally awakened "He must have died in his sleep," Dick said, cocking a hopeful eye- brow at Nancy. They stumbled into' their dressing -gowns and slip- pers and ran to the nursery. The door was open. The bed had not been slept 'in. There was a note propped up on the dresser.' Dick leaned over Nancy's -shoulder to read. Town is too dead in the win- ter. Going south with the birds . , love them. Hoping I find some relatives half as nice as you twa. You're about the nicest couple I've ever visited, With a little practice you two may learn to play. There is hope. You're still young. Good-bye and good luck, Uncle Joshua, Nancy buried her face in Dick's shoulder and sobbed. "There—there—" said Dick, "I don't want to play," Nancy gulped, "I'm tired of playing! I want to visit dull people and sit at home and read dull books. I wan t----" Her arms tightened around Dick, and Dick's arms tightened around her. s -i 'There—there---- he said hu kilt'. "No more Uttcle Joshua, Just you and me." "And — and can we have this' room for a ----nursery again?" "Yes, darling. lust you and use, amid'--- " Site buried her face against his chest. When she looked up. she wets laughing, her eyes filled with stars and magic, Only a small cloud drifted over them for a mo- ment. "Dick, Dick, you 'don't. suppose if we had a baby—that it might grow up to be like your Uncle Joshua? Dick, you don't think—" His arms dropped from her and he backed away, his. eyes horrified. "My Uncle Joshua!" he gasped, "My Uncle---" lre choked. • "1 thought he was yoursl" ...-Tit lilts, I RINE OF' CHRISTIANITY NIT Fr.:''' ,Z f• r �yy_, �i f6:co:,..sX?i..: :.v .,...c. ----- A British soldier stands guard at the 'famous Grotto of the Nativity built by. the Empress Helena, wife of Constantine;• -in the third cen- tury,,and which marks the spot where the Saviour was born. The roar o'F.^3ttthine guns and exploding mines -are stilled in all of Palestine as bands of reverent pilgrims come to Bethlehem to pay tribute at this shrine. Alberta Cattle Travel By Air To S America 'Unique Export Trade. Said To Be Biggest of Kind In British Empire Calgary - • born Harry Hays will- export $2 millions worth of Ca- nadiati . cattle this year — most of them to South • America, many of them in de luxe airliners, writes Gordon L. Smith, in the Financial Post. His unique export business began only three years ago and is already the biggest of its kind In Canada if not the British Empire. gays' cattle are not just ordinary dairy animals — they're Canada's bovine aristocracy and already.they are in demand wherever cattlemen are trying to improve their breed- ing stock. ' . Hays Ltd,, really had its begin- ning 42 years ago. Back in •1904, Dr. T. E. Hays, house surgeon 'at the St, Louis Hospital, like a lot of other Americans, came to western Canada to make his fortune; He got into the real estate business. The crash in 1912 left him with a lot of unsold farm land a ort „Ida_ hands, so' he started a big dairy farm with a herd of Holsteins. His three boys, Harry, Torn and Jack, liked the life and liked .dairy cattle. Three years ago Harry formed Hays Ltd., took in his two brothers, and took over the old Hays & Co., founded by his father. Head Office in Calgary Held office of the firm is in Cat- garjr but most of the business goes through Toronto, and unless he' is oe a sales jaunt abroad, that's where you'll find Calgary -born Harry Hays, the 36 -year-old presi- dent. Confident, quick thinking and fast talking, Hays feels 'right at home on Bay Street and, but for his deep tan anti cattleman's hat, looks as if he had always lived there. But there are real cattle behind. this business, thousands of them. About 250 a year come from the Hays farms in Alberta and the newly acquired' eastern holding a few miles north of Brampton, Ont. Several hundred More come from high class Holstein breeders all ov- er Canada, either being exported on a commission basis of bought out- right and resold. country. They don't do business like our people and they don't want to. You have to become friends with them,. entertain them, look af- ter them when they conte up Isere and be familiar with their to us un- usual and complicated ways of do- ing business. Above all, you have to be prepared to spend money, and. big money, if you ever hope to make any." The Hays brothers have spent a. lot of money in developing tide new market for Canadian livestock in Latin America, and they have sold a lot of cattle, They are con- fident they can continue to -do sea provided exchange and other trade difficulties can be ironed out. They are confident that Canada can meet any renewed competition from Hol- land and Germany, chief Holstein cattle exporters. to the Latin Amer- . leas before the war, Air Load Worth $20,000 Eight animals, the load for the ordinary • air freight, though twig that number will he carried in the bigger DC4's soon available, would. be Worth at least $20,000. Resnen3-- bee .that- this is perishable freight and a good exporter wants it to land in the same high-class condi- tion it leaves the field at Mallon. By air it costs about $200 a head to land these cattle in Cuba and. not a great deal more to put thea after one stop for watering and. feeding at - Kingston, Jamaica, intim the northern part of South Ameri- ca. Leaving Milton in the morn- ing they are in their new stable la . Cuba that night and farther south. not more than 24 hours later. Ship- ped by rail and water and through • the various quarantine, .the animals would be en route anywhere up to 30 days, and there would be heavy expense for attendants and feed. Actual cost by the slower shipment, . plus the expense of bringing the at- tendants back, would be- little less than the direct and swift shipment by air, and the animals arrive in in- finitely better shape. They are not exposed to heat, disease or insects. If the are going to high country around Mexico City or some of the upper plateaux farther south, they never run into tropical heat at all, By air the cattle go without at- tendants and no feed except for a little hay, They are firmly strap- ped into the cargo hold of the DC.f and stay there until they reach their destination in Cuba or Mexico, or if going farther, removed once only for feeding and watering, in Ja- maica. Hays Brothers Team IVI'mile the main Hays' line is, and will probably remain, Holstein cat- tle, other products are also handled. On one of the Alberta farms white faced Hereford beef cattle are rais- ed and if the company is offered a - mixed order from Mexico or South America for other livestock, includ- lug sheep or even goats, it won't be turned down, Someone in the or- ganization will ]:now where such animals can be located and they will be rounded up and shipped. The three Hays brothers, all in their early thirties, form a natural team. jack runs the farms -- the firm operates about 2,500 acres and maintains a .herd of 400 to 500 cat- tle — and looks after the shipping and showing. Tom does the selling and Harry, the president of Bays Ltd., rounds up the buyers and does most of the travelling, The travel - ng has taken hint over a good deal of the world in the last five years and especially through Cuba, Mexi- co and South America where the hulk of the flays business is con- csntrated. Only Way To Sell "The only way to sell foreign cat- tlemen," he says, "is to get ae- quainted with theta in their own The Pedestrians May Be At Fault In considering motor accidents k England the law leaves nothing un- done to get at the root of things. If a pedestrian figures in the rase he must prove himself free from contributory negligence. Anyone Who casts a glance lance up and down w the twain street of almost anyOn- tario tario city on a busy day and o!>' - serves pedestrians darting out on the roadway at points where there is no crossing must wonder why there are not more accidents. Ice a case of this kind the pedestrian is to blame if a collision takes place and he is hurt, not the motorist. If the English precedent is adopt- ed on this side of the Atlantic`, pedestrians, may be compelled to carry liability insurance against damage to vehicular traffic on the streets and highways of the pro- vince, and that would not be at a?1 popular. It has been estimated that a swarm of bees, when it leaves the mother hive, constitutes from 1.0' tV ti,;600 bees.