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The Brussels Post, 1961-01-26, Page 3through high school and univer- sity, When x was a lass you'd in Pay for both," Miss P.amsey had talked to me about that, I recalled the week before, My former Latin teach- er, now retired, happily engaged in papering and painting her own house, and taking lessons dressmaking at the Technieal College, had approved ,of the free education but deplored the willYnlitY allowance's for .chil- dren. "Getting paid large sums just for having children," she complained, "it's unjust to the spinsters, There's a family in the next street, With allowances for school children, and some of them are teen-agers earning high wages, they've a total of forty- five pounds a week coming in And the elderly spinster next door to them, with an income of two or three pounds a week, has to pay the same taxes." I remembered asking her why people did not take' such things up with representatives in government. "Well," she said slowly, "I've thought about do- ing that, myself. Btie, their common-sense should them, shouldn't it? They should know what's wrong without any letters from me," "Row do you lile,e the P013,ted doors?" I asked my seat com- panion, to take her mind e f the fact that I was gently removing ' her overnight bag from, between my fact and depositing' it be- tween her own feet. "Oo—they're right cheenfuL aren't they?" - "Yes, pink, and green, and hy- acinth blue, and orchid really do dress up those rows of black stone houses round Manchester. "And anoother thing," she said, "all me old friends, folk I work- ed with—I was a spinner in a cotton mill—own their own 'ouses now—buy them from the Corporation, so ,much a month. They've washing machines and bathrooms and even refrigera- tors. And cars, some of them!" "Time to go to bed," I remark- ed. The stewards were dimming the lights all along the aisle. "But it's not easy to get any- thing done, my neighbor added, yawning. "Our Alice wanted er winders washed. A cheeky lad about-thirteen came, with 'is pail and rags, and said, `Give us a pot o' tea first.' And she 'ad to put the kettle on and make 'im sandwiches afore she got a stroke o' work out of 'im. It never stopped raining all .. ," That was where I fell asleep, and when I woke up it was still dark, and the stewards were bringing the morning orange juice. I crawled over the legs of my fellow passengers. If I could reach the washroom before the general stampede in that direc- tion , , my small plastic bag flew open, and the contents spilled in the aisle. I recovered all except my toothbrush, And what was more, as I crawled about the stocking feet of my fellow passengers, I found my hat—the chic little straw with no trimming, which depended for its smartness entirely on its lines. It was folded in two. . "Please fasten your seat belts. Passengers with American Passports please wait in the lounge.. ."—By Pearl Strachan Hurd in the . Christian Science Monitor. FAIR QUESTION A little girl' went on a visit to her grandparents and, on the. first evening, they were telling her the story of Noah 'and the Ark. 'Were you in the Are, Grand- pa?' She asked. 'Why no, child,' was the reply. 'Then why weren't you drowee ed?' she asked, /Mu' IS A DEADLY LADY -- "lulu';" the U. Navy's olonlit depth borith' is shown licdibind 'froin HS'S-1 anti-submorine , beittopteh The bomb Can be handled by; hearty On Navy airs erdit arid ite "kilt radius" Wiles enemy subendeines v irtually no 011614 to eted06, Graduate Pharmacist (Ontario Reg. or Eligible} To assist in Hospital Pharmacy. Excellent salary range with good personnel policies, pension plan, vacations and sick plan. In reply give references, experience and, state marital status to DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL KINGSTON, ONTARIO PERSONAL HYGIENIC RUBBER GOODS TESTED, guaranteed, mailed in plain parcel, including catalogue and sex book free with trial assortment. 18 for $1.00 (Finest quality). Western Distribu- tors, Box 24-TPF, Regina, Sask. PET STOCK , CEAUTIFUL Tropical Finches, Caner-es, Budgies. Bantams. Also other birds. amsters, Guinea Pigs. Free price list. Catalogue 356. Salesmen wanted, Dour-galze, Cap-aux Os, Quebec, PHOTOGRAPHY FARMER'S CAMERA CLUB BOX 31, GALT, ONT. Films developed and magna prints 400 12 magna prints 600 Reprints 50 each. KODACOLOR Developing roll 900 (not including Penni). Color prints 305 each extra. Ansco and Ektachrome 35 mm 20 ex-posures mounted In slides $1.20. Color prints from slides 325 each. Money re-funded in full for unpainted negatives. PROPERTY FOR SALE IDEAL location, Western Ontarior about 8 air-s with large winterized. residen, , ,arge spring-fed ponds — room fur s.,Other, stocked 3 years ago) fishing river 100 yards away; sever more springs available. Governmen Parkland being constructed nearby, Ex-cellent for fishing club, motel or coi-tages: less than 100 miles from Toronto. Total price $16,000, reasonable terms. Send for details. Fred H. Reid, Broker, 43 Victoria, Toronto. EM. 8-6302, STAMPS d we+ Record 489 Billion '41) Ci mottos Sold tl'u04 ?" • I WISH' TO BUY old stamps and envel-opes, prefer material pre 1900. Write A. D. Day, 17 Lauralynn Cres., Agincourt, Ont. AM breaking up accumulation of stamps of 30 years. British Colonies and USA only. 25 different 106 50 dif-ferent 250, 100 different 505, 200 dlr.. ferent $1. No junk, Add postage. Bet-ter grades and covers oh approval. T. IL Graham, 296e. Glenforest Rd., Toronto 12, Ontario, • eoleured- lights when various key„ are pressed' are, now used in the trieatre cad for flood- lighting spectacles out of doors- They s were . inspired by a toy t'elpur player, with a leur note keyboard and two foot pedalo; `• told"' id a Nee,/ -York • shop. FASHIONABLE '— Ondine (real name: Anne Marie Sille) is a new star among Paris fashion models. She models the crea- tions of Serge Matta. Stay In School Or Live To Regret It There is a grim warning to teen-agers in the survey of schbol "drop-outs" just complete ed by the United States Depart- ment of Labour. They are going to have e tougher and tougne.r lime getting jobs. Also they will earn much less over their life spans and job satisfaction will be appreciably lower than it might- have been with a finished MO). school education, The Lebour, Department stu- died 26,000 studerits" in seven widely scattered areas of the country. The conclusions of the survey are plain and unequi- vocal: Less money; less skilled. jobs; less -rapid 'advancement, greater chances of un.employ- thent, One of the surprising items turned up in the survey is the reason most youngsters leave school Oatly. It is not economic necessity, It is .just plain bore- dent In part this nay be due to, the lower IQ's (on the aVer- age) ..of thoee who fail to finish. high school, Minnesota, a state advisory committee on employment of youth already is working on a ' state program to meet the chat.. leeges of youth employment in the 1:960e; It is well recognized that the untrained and the un- skilled will have a ihuch more difficult time of it from now on, In a highly technological society there will be fewer and fewer unskilled jobs available, • The bright side to this picture is that the demands for the train ed, the educated, the competent promise a ..good future to almost any youngster willing to pre- pare himself. Studies show, in fact, that the demand for skilled • youth will exceed the supply in the next .decade, The warning is plain: Stay in school,: get a high school diplo- ma, go to college if, you can, . make a definite preparation for your lifework. This would be. good advice any time, of course, but it is particularly :compelling :in this fast moving, rapidly ad- vancing age in which we live.— Minneapolis: Star, Cunie A sentimentalist whose feelings have been hurt ;1%151)1FIE AGENTS BE A TOWN HERO t. and INCREASE YOUR EARNINGS UP TO $$,0 00 A YEAR 5itinv of sour ociltbouring corninuni. ties are now imaging the luxury pro- vided by 4 coin-operated laundry. You will he loved by every bOVESOWITe in your locelltv. COINWASI1 will provide .4u with the coin operated laundry equip- ment featuring ;SPEED QUEEN corn-inercial washers, and will eornpleteiy nian and supervlee the construction Of your store. A complete package deal will include special. Promotional Assistance, Opera-tional. Guidance, Merchandising Aids. Be the first and the only member of your community td- own a protected fully licensed and exclusive COIN- WASH STORE, Call collect or write Coinwash (Eastern) Ltd., 125 The Queensway, Toronto, 18, Ont. Cr.. 9-6633. COINS "THE old Canadian and LIS coins yoy have been saving are worth money" We will pay cash for 'wanted coins. Premium price list 256 shows the coins deeired. International Coin Company, 227 Victoria Street, Toronto, FARMSFOR SALE for sale, 50-acre -farm, house, all conveniences, good barn, river running acrosspreperty. J. B. - .1ohneon, 11.R. 1, Stouffellle. - ELECTRIC BEDDING BE COMFORTABLE! Use electrically healed bed pad, direct from England 512,00, two for $21.00. Written 2 year guarantee. Schmidt Co., 4511 Garrison, Washington 16, D.C. FOR SALE OR LEASE POST'S ECZEMA SALVE BANISH the torment of dry eczema rashes and weeping skin troubles. Post's Eczema Salve will not disappoint You Itching, scalding and burning ecze-ma acne. ringworm, pimples arid foot eczema will respond readily to the stainless odorless ointment, regardless of how stubborn or hopeless they seem. Sent Post Free on Receipt of Price" PRICE 334S0 PER JAR POST'S' REMEDIES MS St. Clair Avenue East, TORONTO and enjoyed his finest year in 1960, Does he worry now about injuries? "The most dangerous part of rocleoing," Tompkins said, "is go- ing 'from one rodeo to another— by car or plane." Strange Noises Puzzle Scientists People living in some rural parts of Kent were puzzled not long ago by what they described- as a succession of strange and loud humming noises which they constantly heard while out walk- ing. Others said they heard them in the sky, The cause of the sounds remains a mystery. 1Viystery noises of a similar kipd were reported from parts of Sussex about thirty-six years ago but went Unexplained. Iii areas of the West of England, toe, continuous humming noises heard over a long period before the first world war were never satisfactorily explained, Some came from a lovely gorge which had the reputation of be- ing haunted but even the super- stitious scoffed at the idea that the Sounds were caused by ghosts. Some of the inexplicable noises which have been report- ed front abroad at various times have seemed to be subterranean. Scientific investigation has usual- ly failed to account for them. They have been heard in Italy, Holland 'and parts Of the United States. 111 North Georgia is a chain of precipitous mountains known as the Blue Aldo, There, at many different\points and in all kinds of Weather 'but invariably to- wards evening, sounds described as resent:1)11'1'1g those of distant cannon were heard aver a num- ber of yeah , but no one Over di.e, covered t tatised theni. AGENTS WANTED "'MILE, Or Female: Would Sun .do inter c.eted to s.11 Ban Lon elweeters :direct to wearer? Full er part time. High quality and ixeluslve Styles. High enue eosseins see bonus paid. Fur Free working Elt write to: JAY.!;;.9),135, D91SuTt rRelniflaUn7 Rmson trot S, P.O. • . BABY CHICKS PlIONIAT ehipment, Bray willed pul-lets, many varieties Dayolds to order, Ames In-Cross pullets, dual purpoae. Order now April-May broilers, Sc.e lo-cal ageut, or write Bray Hatchery, 129 eon North, Harnitioll, Ontario. E1U$INESS OPPORTUNITIES SERVICE station with large show. room on busy highway, 2 miles north of Wallaceburg, adjoining marine busi-ness also available if party interested. Write R, G. Patterson, R.R. 3, Wallace-burg, Phone MAyfair 7-5880. FOR SALE — MISCELLANEOUS CHEQUE Protectors: Reconditioned and guaranteed. Several models, Very rm. sonable. Information: T. H. Graham, 296A Gienforest Rd., Toronto 12, Ont. HELP WANTED MALE "QUALIFIED printing pressman to operate automatic M ill e r cylinder presses, color experience necessary; Publication plant; prevailing rates with benefits to right applicant. Apply superintendent, General Printers Lim-ited, 57 Simcoe Street South, Oshawa, Ontario. RAndolf 3-2233." BEEKEEPER. Position open April 17, 1961, in one of Canada's largest bee-keeping businesses for experienced beekeeper with chauffeur's license. Write to Rideau Honey Co. Ltd., KemPtville. Ontario, stating age, experi-ence, height and weight, references, and any other helpful information, en-close photograph. INSTRUCTION EARN Morel Bookkeeping, Salesman-ship Shorthand, Typewriting, etc.-Les-sons 506 Ask for free circular No. 33. Canadian Correspondence Courses 1290 Bay Street, Toronto. MEDICAL A V MEDICAL GOOD RESULTS — EVERY SUfFERER FROM RHEUMATIC PAINS OR WPM'S 035 SHOULD TRY DDIRXUOGN'S57911E:41EPY, iiiiM 2726, SOnlarti Station, $1. 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John Glenn, one of the seven astron- „outs training for Project Mercury at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Task Groupe wears his space „suit while sitting in the capsule of the Mercury Procedure 'traLiner, The trainer is used to train the astronauts in the use 1.11 of manual controls to keep the space capsule in proper altitude t while in 'orbital flight, Economy' Flight Over From Britain told our Alice 1 didn't want any fish are chips tonight, I know they'll serve a meal Re geOti as we get away from Man. %tester, or after we leave Prest- wick." looked 'at the woman beside me on the plane, Straw colored 'hair, Pink cheeks, even features, fine wrinkles of experience tins der shrewd, gray eyes; and neat, small ears pierced with tiny chip diamond. earrings. We sat three abreast, and she was wedged in the middle. "They sure pack them in on these economy flights." This from the man in the aisle seat. I sat by the window, We fasten- ed our seat belts, in accordance with instructions. "You're from Lancashire?" I ventured, as my neighbor drop. pecl her left shoe on my right foot and said, "Be, by gum!" when her other shoe slid out of sight under the seat in front of her "Aye, But I've lived in Toronto since I-was wed, Me daughters were born there, and me grand- children. I just 'aye to get this. jacket off." I helped her out of 'the heavy sports coat. "It's a lad's jacket really," she confided, "for me fifteen year ' old grabdson, Six foot two. I'm fair drowned in it. Didn't want it weighed in." "Wot a dreary 'ole that Man- chester airport is. And on sooch a night, It's been a right wet summer 'asn't it?" I agreed. . "But I'm sorry to be leaving," my Lancashire neighbor added, "I've 'ad a champion time with me sister and 'er family, Now we're going to get our dinner." The stewards and stewardesses were pulling down the trays at the back of the seats and supply- ing the passengers With cutlery. "Turkey," said the man on the 'aisle end of our row, "a regular , dinner, and it's nearly midnight," "We shall get breakfast too," our experienced Lancashire' friend informed us-, "before we get to Boston, Happen at three in the morning. We're due there ipt :live. I 'ape that turkey'erten- der, on account of me new teeth. That's one thing I went 'ome for this year...,, needed a new set 'and got 'em free," Then it was'true! One of my Yorkshire friends had told me, *The Americans are coming over here for free teeth and spectacles and operations." "Americans" to him included Canadians. I could- n't imagine any of my friends in 'the United States trying to get either medical or dental care /me, especially after seeing the queues outside the surgeries. The reports had varied: "If you want to go on the panel," one Yorkshireman said to me, "you don't really know that you'll get a proper examina- tion. We've two doctors for the panel in my district. One Eng- lish, the other a POle. We all try to get the Pole, He does ex- amine you. Seems to care about you. Aye, aye, I know there's always a long queue, and a lot of folk that never would haVe gone to a doctor before go now if they've nobbut a scratch on their finger." "Our Alice's lasses are going to university," my Lancashire plane companion informed me, hastily withdrawing a turkey drumstick from the tip of my nose and drawing her elbows closer to her side. I tried to work my arms loose foe action on my own dinner. "They can go free, can't they? That's woriderful." "Aye. That's grand — right Will Try To Break Underwater Record The world's first underwater endurance competition, wit some of the greatest Skin divers 'from, different nations parte.e. Peting„ will be held in .ronjux14-* tlorl with the 1901 Canadian leas tonal .Spertsrnetes Show in the Coliseum, Toronto, from March 10 to 18, This spectacular fea- ture will be under the joint auspices of the Canadian Nation- al Sportsmen's Show and Su- preme Divers, Contestants will vie for cash awards and equip- ment valued at more than $7,000. At least 10 of the world's greatest skin divers, all of whom already .hpld underwater endues once records, will be chosen by I.cu Singer, President of Su- preme Divers, and his selection committee, to participate. Al: wilt attemptetO shatter the ofti- -OW world record of 101 Imes, 13 minutes presently held by 22- year-old Ben Thornton oe' Port Azthur, Texas. Throughout the competition 'twelve qualified • safety divers and a medical practitioner will be in attendance 24 hours daily in the event of illness or injury to any of the contestants. All of the latter will be re- quired to use . uniform. equip- ment of fins, mask, snorkel, tank, regulator, depth gauge, comoaSse 'watch and wet suit provided by the sponsors, Three oxygen edmpressors, . two to serve as emergency units, w1.11 , he especially installed • to refill the tanks of skin divers while they remain underwater, A special glass tank has been designed and is being construct- ed for this unique competition. It will utilize in excess of 15,000 gallons ce water and will contain a special, filtering unit and heat- ing system. • While underwater the conte,i- ta.ats will write :letters, read books, play cards and resort to other recreations and amuse- ment to idle away the time without expending excessive en- .ergy, Top Cowboy — From • New York State The first time Harry Tomp- kins rode a horse was almost the last. A short,- slender 14-year- old, gl'o'wing up in Peekskill, N.Y., he cleaned out stalls at a lecal riding, academy to earn a free ride.. 'I thought you just got on and did it," Tompkins re- calls. " I 'found out different, Afterward, I had to hold my pants away from my legs where the skin was rubbed raw." But he came back for more and last month, as the National Finals Rodeo wound up in Dal- las, 33-year-old Tompkins, who never stepped out of New York State until he was 20, was firmly established as' the' top rodeo cowboy in the U.S. With close to $35,000 earned in 1960, Tomp- kins replaced Oklahoma's Jim Shoulders as the national all- around rodeo champion. 'Harry," drawled Shoulders, a leathery cowpoke, "is the best Yankee I ever saw." After h i s introduction to horses, Tompkins rode every chance he found. From cleaning out' stalls, he graduated to a job on a dude ranch near Peekskill end then, in 1947, entered the rodeo at New York's Madison Square Garden. "I figured you did it just for fun," he said. "I cede% know you could wit) money." But Tompkins:, without experi- ence, won $315 riding bulls and decided to try the rodeo circuit, In 1948, his first full year of competition, he became bull rid- ing He repeated in 1949 and 1950 and, in 1952, won, the bull riding and bareback bronc titles. Through his balance (perfect- ed by tightwire walking) and his surprising strength (he is only 5-foot-8 and 152 pounds), Tompkins has gained a reputa- tion as the most stylith of bull eiders.' "He thinks faster than e9 per cent of us,' says. Bill Linderman, who has won almost a half million dollars in twenty years at rodeo. But last year, in Hutchinson, It a n Tompkins was almost knocked out of TO. cloning, Riding a tough brone, be tore a cartilage in his knee aed had to have it removed sur- gically. "You better find some- thing else to do," his doctor ad- vised, Tompkins ignored the advice MERRY MENA0E1115, Child's Toy inspired .• ‘,„ Sp:Ice Rocket A faVouritelehoice of Victorian parents looking for an "edtee,a-' tional” toy to put in a Christ- mas stocking was the gyroscopic top,. When you ,pulled a string to set the top spinning, it would 'balance anywhere — en a piece of, taut, string or even on the edge of a wine glass. It demonstrated that a filet spinning wheel- would hold a steady position ein space. And today the basic working principle of that toy makes it possible to direct space reckets, or - navigate a submarine round the wgrld without the use of periscope. '— Years after its ihtroduction as a toy, the gyroscope was turned into a compass that did rise; de- pend .on -magnetism. From, this came the automatic helmsman that keeps'a ship on course with- out anyone at the wheel, and ."GeOrge,": the robot pilot that takes over control of 'a 'plane and flies it on a level course despite cross-winds and bumpy air-currents. Professor J. G. Gray, o'f Glas- gow, who became world-famous for his navigation and safety de- vices based on gyroscopes, had more ethan fifty gyroscopic toys "cto help him in his research, in- cluding a two-wheeled car that could balance and steer itself. Before he died, in 1934, he-des rnonstrated these toys to, a ga- thering of the Royal Society of Arts, Another invaluable aid to the well-being of mankind that was formerly a toy, is a doctor's stethoscope. Doctors used to "lis- ten in" to heartbeats and air in the lungs by putting an car against a patient's skin. Then a doctor saw two *chil- dren with a home-made "tele- phone," It was merely a long plank of wood One child tapped gently at one end, and by plac- ing his ear on the wood, the child at the other end could hear the taps as though they were coming through a loudspeaker. Later the doctor experimented on a patient's chest with a roiled up eXereise book. He found he could hear the heartbeats dis- tinctly. He had a wooden trum- pet rnade and this in turn led to the modern stethoscope. Kites were favourite toys for centuries before they attracted scientists, Before the invention of the aeroplane, Lawrence Har- grave realized that a kite Would be the right shape 'for a, flying machine. He produced the box- 'kite and some early aeroplanes were based on this. Over sixty years ago, Lord Baden-Pipe-ell built a box-kite big enough to lift a mane so that he could spot enemy gun positions writes I' S. Douglas in writ-Bite," Even the aeroplane owes its success partly to a child's 'play- thing. The Wright brothers, stu- dying what happened to air cur- rents when they encountered dif- ferent shapes, remembered the balloons of their childhood thee sometimes escaped their cluteh- ing fingers, They deliberately r el ea s e d balloons in different conditions to observe how they rose. Bal- loons are now, ot course, used daily itt Weethet forecasting. Most Christmases see new kinds of, toy guns in the shops, many of them "futuristic." Dur- ing the war, one such gun was the inspiration of a rICIV Army carbine only thirty-six itiches long, which fired fifteen' shots from one clip,. The idea of the weapon, said the designers, tame .from the toy gun, '"Colour Orgetie" 'Which protect `The lieateat 'pone? Well, it $ten're net follow arse-.'that's where I'm goltigl'~ HEAP Ma SMOKE — bestaite higher taxes and health scares, Arileritatis ottoked More ticj. 5iteftet in 1060 fh011 ever bes fore. t)epoolihielli of ititut. turd floret show that 480 bit- Den Cigarettes, were were sold tibt, ing 1116. year, This averaged out la 19/ packs, see klewsthart above, for every person Of anioking age id the ridIrdh,