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The Brussels Post, 1955-01-05, Page 7Lot Of Bull—This 19-foot, seven- inch plastic-and-steel bull is on his way to pasture atop a 90- foot-high pylon in Kansas City, provided for him by the Amer- ican Hereford Astociation. Royal Bank Assets Top $3 Billion Mark The Royal Bank of Canada closed its fiscal year ending No-- vember -30th; with assets of $3,- 026,895,844, the first Canadian chartered bank to pass the $3 billion-Inark; The Annual Bal- ance Sheet,just released, shows assets have increased by over $131,000,000 'as compared with a year ago. Loans and Deposits are at the highest levels ever attained by any Candian bank. A notable feature of this 'year's Statement is a major change in the capital structure of the bank. As a, result of the issue last July 1st of 700,000 additional shares of Capital Stock, the paid up capital of the bank has increas- ed from $35,000,000 to $41,809,- 863. From the sale of this addi- tional stock the bank also real- ized a premium of $13,619,726 which, together with • $16,000,000 transferred from inner reserves has been added to the Rest Fund. In addition the bank has, for the fifth year in a row, trans- ferred to the Rest Fund a por- tion of the current year's net earnings, the figure this year being $4,000,000. As a result of these transactions the Rest Fund now stands at $103,619,726. Capital Funds thus total $146,- 933,664, a figure which sets a record• high level for all Can- adian banks. When the instal- ment subscriptions for the new issue are fully paid, the Capital and Reserve Funds will stand at $42,000,000 and $104,000,000 re- spectively, which, with undivi- ded profits, will make the total Capital Funds of the bank $147,- 604,075. Deposits have attained the im- pressive total of $2,197,548,149, of which over $1,126,000,000 ,are personal savings deposits pay- able in Canada. Deposits by the public have increased by nearly $90,000,000. Loans, exclusive of mortgage leans under N.H.A., total $1,188,- 022,04'4 an increase .of, $(3,875,- 823 over .the 1953 figure. Call loans at. $156,395,203, show a moderate increase, while other loan s, including commercial loans' in Canada, have• increased by $36,761,094 to $1,031,626,844.,, The degree to which the Royal Bank participated in mortgage lending under the provisions of the N.H.A., •reflected in the 'figures shown under the new heading "Mortgages and Hypo- thecs insured 'under the N.H.A. (1954)", namely $22,672,390. The liquid position of the bank is strong. Liquid assets amount- ing 'to $1,881,900,848, are equal to 65.34% of the bank's liability to the public. Included in these liquid assets are Dominion and Provincial Government securi- ties totalling $9e9,888,546. Profit .for the year amounted to $20,913,511. From this ,amount $2,079,466 has been set aside for depreciation of bank prem- ises and $9,276,000 for income taxes. After 'the above deduc- tions net profit was $9,558,045 as compared with $8,6$5,136 in 1953. Out of net profit, $5,569,345 was paid in dividends to sharehold- ers, leaving $3,988,700, which added to the previous balance of $1,515,375 totals $5,504,075. Of this amount $4,000,000 was trans- ferred to the Rest Fund leaving a balance of $1,504,075. NO WONDER The doctor was puzzled. "You ought to be better by now," he said. "Have you carried out my instructions?' "Well, doctor," said the pa- tient, erve donee mast of them, but eI can't take the two-mile walk every morning you ord- ered. I gets too dizzy." "What do you mean—dizzy?" "Well," said the patient, "per- haps I forgot to tell you, but I'm a lighthouse-keeper." Overtime Was For Referee's Benefit Soccer fans at Naples, who have Made it necessary for ref- erees to escape from 'the Stadio Vomero ground disguised as firemen, and have threatened to lynch offending radio commen- tators, grow no milder. Earlier this year they provoked an ex- traordinary incident w hi c h eventually resulted in their club being heavily fined and having to forfeit two of its points. The occasion was a home match with Genoa, in which Naples were' not doing eieell. Viney, the team's Hungarian left back, badly fouled an op- ponent, and was ordered off the field by the referee. The crowd immediately became extremely menacing; and Viney, although he had sworn at the referee, was allOwed to play on. The crowd's temper was such that the referee realized that he would 'be lucky to escape with his life. He.. therefore adopted the stratagem of refraining from blowing his 'Whistle When it came to full time, and• allowed the game to go on. On and on it' went; for some ten 'minutes, until at last Naples attacked and a Genoa defender 'controlled the ball e guite lawfully in his own penalty, area. There was no semblance' eifea,loul—but it Was the chance:the referee had been waiting:" fee, 'Without Mesita- Lion he awarded ,,st penalty, from which Naples scored; ths "win- ning" the match As ~'soon as the ball was in the net the ref- eree blew for full time Thanks to his quick thinking, he escaped Unscathed; though the result of the game was later reversed by the Italiah Feder- ation, When Dickens VisitedAinefica No reception was ever given to any foreigner in the United States quite like that accorded. „to Boz. The visit of Lafayette a few years before (1826) had beeri art occasion ,.of greater .na, tiotiel hobbit's The later visits of Medi PeoPleaS the patriot kos- soth Called hetet' `larger etbWde and More' public tribute, tut the young Dickens' Was 'flailed With a warmth of personal efteetion never Manifested before or 'kinte. They, welcomed in him all the geniality of Mr. Pick- Wick; all the appeal of little Oliver arid Little Nell; all the elitniri of Old English Christ, fee for the people of a newer England. And Dickens at the fleet :net it with a boyish and buoyant delight that Matched his WelcciMe. lie was full. .of life,: arid povsee Bever fttigt Lae said in e She Nearly Caught A Falling Star When John Dohne wrote "Go- and catch a falling star" he thought he was, creating an im- age -of impoesibility. But a Mrs. .Htilett Hodges of Sylacauga,. Ala., who perhaps doeen't read , 'Joan, Donne (few people do, these daye),-Neery nearly 'taught re falling 'star. Rather; it very, nearly caught her. She was struck on the hip and hand by a meteorite that ripped through thee kesef of her' home while she was taking a nap. It was only a nine-pound meteorite, an astral fragment which the skies will never miss. But to Mrs. _Bod- ges, it is her meteorite, her per= sonal evidence that stars once really fell on Alabama,. Now they want to take it away from her. "They" means the Air koece and the State Museum Of Natural History. The Ali Force bee' taken .possession of the thetedrite and says it Will be sent to Washington for stiere- tifie research. The museum, dated in Tusealbeee, says it' Wants the meteorite foie display purposes, Mrs, Hodges Says She Wants the meteorite as a sett- vehir to talk -abate when folks drop in, Science, bf tottgd, must be 'Served, and ,perhaps some kind of: a coMprothise can be worked' out Whereby the 'Air Ante can conduct its eXperiniente and re- Weil the meteorite forthwith to' Mrs. Hodges. Ih her turn, she Might be willing to lend it to the Onisetim occasionally, say On alternate Sundays. But it Might: Well be' neade the -lase of 'the land any Meteorite felling on Revolution In Carpet Industry •s. THE Calvert SPIRTS COLUMN i lotez evada4 The baobab is e tree which refuses to die. Natives, Seeking its bark to make ropes, fre- quently girdle the tree, strip- ping the bark off completely as high as they can PqR,9100 Thies . would kill any normal tree, but the bapbeh is unperturbed, ;, ft simply grows 'another' bsitk round its 10 feet of girtivt— and meanwhile goes on growing, :Frequently natives carve gentle caverns inside the trunk., leaving only a foot-thick outer "skin," and then use this cave as a dwelling, or to store things, Sometimes they fill the cave with *water and use it as a res- ervoir in dry periods. Even forest fires, which have. swept other trees of apparently sterner stuff into dusty ash, fail to destroy the baobab, Stunted, blackened, it soon puts forth new branches which in time are again covered (in season) with leaves, It can, of course, be cut down. But it is a tough task. Famous. David Livingstone saw this, for himself., when he ordered one to be chopped down. At last it fell, But not to die. Months later he noted with amazement that the "dead tree" had grown another inch since it had been felled to the ground! Hoele Of The Year—Determine, with Jockey Ray York up, nuzzles the hand of Trainer BillY'Malter just after winning the $25,000 Added Golden Gate Handicap at Albany, Calif. His $15,300 purse brought the gray colt's 'winnings to $328,880. "Upside-Down.". • Tree That. Never Dies` Africa's toughest 'tree, the baobab, survives., „fire, storm, girdling (stripping 'off all the bark) .and all kinds of illetreat,, extent, It is sometimes called' . the ."creatn, of tartar" tree be-- 0144e the acid in the fruit pulp. is tartaric. acide •. ee Its.rc.)otse. go, deep bU its beetle chee are short and :stubby .and for most of the year are dare of leaves, It rarely grows higher than sixty feet—which is, lOw compared with the gieth of its trunk. When the tree is found in dry inland regioes 'the branches look so much like roots that local native legend says "an ?nay devil planted the baobab upside down." Though the baobab takes many centuries to achieve its full size (a trunk with a diara- eter of thirty feet is quite non, ;nal), its timber, uplike, most trees that mature slowly, is soft and pulpy and quite useless. Its leaves are not unlike those Of the horse-chestnut. Africans have found, that its fibrous bark makee eXcellent ropes and .even • tough fabrics. The fruit, known as monkey bread or sour gourd, has a vari- ety - of uses. The seeds and the acid-tasting pulp make a gruel which natives quite enjoy. The poles' juices are invaluable as medicine to combat various swamp fevers, .while witch-doc- tors use them as cure-alls. The • natives have found, also, that when cooked the leaves have a spinach-like flavour. They. feed them to their cattle when other • crops.. are in short, supply, TOPPED HIM Two boys were arguing about the strength and all-round abil- ity of their respective fathers. "You know the Pacific' Ocean?" said one. "Well, my father dug the hole for it." His pal ,paused for a moment, then said; "leave you ever heard of the Dead Sea? Well, my dad killed it." bitted 'with wool, rayon or cot- ton, the life expectancy of the rug is lengthened considerably. For instance, when nylon is added to-wool in quantities of 20 per cent, the rug should last 50 per tent longer, while the addition of -only 15 per cent ny- lon results in a boost of 43 per cent in wear life. Experts regard the quality of the pile to, be the. most impor- tant feature of, a rug. Pile qual- ity .is , determined by its resist ance to sctiffing, 'its springiness and strength.- 'Other ireportant , elements,: by which a ,carpet should, .be judged are subdued lustre, flammability echaracteris- . tics, ease of cleatlinearid resist- anteto soiling: ThOugh some pick up and retain' less dirt than others, all `rugs grey down a shad or two after six weeks' use.' Since'Cleaiiiiig niay not • .,. restore the original color,. shop- yers should keep this in "mind if they are choosy about their decor. , And so4passes the most amazing Year in all the history of sport. Amazinee because of the shattered records that dot its trail, Amazing, because the Brit- ish Empire, long an international door- mat in sport, arose in its might to contribute to the saga of 1954 the most astonishing of all, sports feats. That was, of course, the double Miracle Mile. In fact, you might term it the Double Double Miracle, First England's Roger Bannister crashed through the mental sound barrier with a 3.59.4 mile. But the ink had scarcely dried on the records page when along came slim John Landy, from the Empire outpost of Australia, to reduce the mark to 3.58. And then, the Miracle of Miracles, both these great athletes broke the 4-minute mark in their unforgettable battle in the British. Empire Games in Vancouver. These were the feats not merely of the year, but of the century, In a year when records fell like clay pigeons, these two stand out like beacon lights. The 5,000 metres mark• fell so fast and so often you could scarcely keep track. First Zatopek the Czech, then the Russian Valdimir Kuc, then England's great red-haired Chris Chataway, then Kuc again. And there was England's. Fred Green, shattering the 3-mile mark. And 1954 was a big year for Canada in sport. Marilyn Bell amazed the world as she fought icy waters to swim the 40 miles across Lake Ontario, an almost unbelievable feat. -And Tom Parker, a chunky Canadian. distance swimmer from Hamilton, Ont., thrashed across the treacherous Cat- alina Channel in the record-breaking time of 13 hours, 25 minutes, 41 seconds. It was Canada's year on our golf courses, too. Both Canadian Open events were won by,Canadians, Pat Fletcher of Saskatoon became the first native-born Canadian to win the Men's Open in nearly 50 years, capturing the Sea- gram Gold Cup and its rich cash awards. On the distaff side, little Miss Marlene Stewart captured. the Canadian Women's Open. For Canada, for the British Commonvvealth as a whole, 1954 was a fine sports year,. indeed. 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Later on, after dinner, he was out in the snow- bound streets, merry, boister- ous, exuberant, delighted with everything, Boz was- just what Boz ought to be, NO wonder, they smothered him with adul- ation, The country simply went wild over him. The time of his com- ing was fortunate. There was at the moment' no particular na- tional excitement. The tumult over "nullification" had died down, and secession, had not yet come up. It was midway be- tween two presidential elections. There was no'. cable to bring news of 4oreign wars, and no - foreign ,war to bring news of. Under these circumstances the arrival of young Boz became a first-class national event. .Peeeceeltees seleeeeed With a rush of reporters to meet the' ship, a sort of procession to the Tremont House, where Dickens was to stay, and a crowd of eager faces lined up on the side- walk to get a look at him. Then followed calls and invitations in a flood. Dickens' table at the hotel was soon piled high with unopened letters. He had 'to en- gage a young man, a Mr. Put- nam who wrote an' account of it all. He gives us a picture of. Dickens and his• wife break- fasting in their sitting room- at the hotel, Boz tearing open let- ters, dictating,e eating, and talk= ing all at the same time, and a local sculptor of note (a Mr. Alexander) making a bust of him at the side of the room and occasionally walking around to get a "close-up" look at him. There were dinners and recep- tions in all directions. Boz was introduced to the leading liter- ary people of Boston and of Harvard. He was taken out to Springfield to see the Massa- chusetts Legislature, where, we are told by the press, "his ap- pearance in the Senate cham- ber created quite a stir among the members."—From "Charles Dickens His Life and Work," by Stephen Leacocic, Soon a liviiie-r00111 carpet will be :aveilable Which has beep known to. Withstand the drench, ing oe a higgione, %Wept ate oak floor and clean with a .basin of soap suds. This is one of the latest de- velopments in ihe carpet indus tey which has experienced only two revolutions in the past 100 years, The fleet made it poss- ible for almost every family to own a parlor rug, It was" the invention of the carpet power loom in 1839. The second revo- lution, after many years of ex- perimenting, is now in progress. It involves the use ef new ma- terials and methods, which are finally putting, the carpet on an equal footing with advances in other fields of household furn- ishings. When the outbreak of the Korean War caused wool to double, then triple and finally quadruple in price, manufactur- ers realized that all quality car- pets need no longer be made of wool any more than they are still made by hand in the Ori- ent, They started experimenting with cotton and synthetics like rayon and nylon. Cotton rugs proved attractive, economical and fairly durable, although there are a 'few carpet authori- ties around who still regard them as enlarged bath mats., When a sturdier type of rayon was developed, it brought the advantages, of price stability and an affinity for the light- and neutral 'colors currently in de- mand. The rugs which have proved almost indestructible in 'the United States are now in the final stages of experimental work in Canada. ,Made of nye Ion, they have 'been subjected to the most rigorous treatment in American hotels, country' clubs and private'Atoznesk:. One installed in a main thor- oughfare of a Miami" Beach ho- tel has survived seven years of wear as well' as a -recent. hurri- cane with scarcely a" sign of damage. Another; bought five years ago by a golf club in New York, State,' 'was pummelled by ,nearly a million pair of ,golf spikes. 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