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The Brussels Post, 1961-01-26, Page 7by some of the things I say. They did not answer, however, and I opened the door to find the encompassed ducks unen- compassed, The wind, had snaked a pane of glass from one of the windows, and during the night my flock had flown forth. This. must have been something to see. Dias can't jump like a hen and they had to effect this exit on pinions. How they took off inside the smallish coop and so fretted their wings that they had them drawn close at the precise instant of negotiating a seven-by-nine opening, one at a time, must have been a whole new concept of flight. Some artists in mobiles should try to express this. A flock of ducks erupting in order from a broken windoeir suggests an unerring acebraey 4,eyond, belief, and I'm sui.e. if I'd seen it I'd have doubte,d. Next I had the ;task of perus ang the acreage to find "them. While New York and Boston were lamenting traffic delays and the drop-off, in holiday, bust- nessa,I Was trudging the'efarrn, quacking away like a boll one, and wondering if my flotk had really kept On going to Alabama, They had not. In the wind, soon, I heard an- answering quack from from the pond, and I walked Out the. ice looking behind -every Snowflake to find my flock sifting P'eabeffilly in a -springhole of open water about the size of a bushel basket. They were bunched. Each had a soft blan- ket of new snow on his or her back, and each lifted a wild to-do as I approached. I got the idea they were glad to „see me and were apologetic for their perfenestration, I quacked teasingly like a drake, causing the hens to become vio- -laritly enthusiastic, and then 1 quacked a little like, a hen which stirred the drakes up a good Then I edged out to see if I could persuade them to leave the springhole and move to- wards the Coop. I told them I 'would repair the window and re- store former comfort. At this point I heard a great snap, and a splash, and I pre- slimed somebody had fallen_ in the water, so I looked around - and found it was myself, I diS- covered the pond, at that point / was chest-high to ally citizen of my build, and that it consisted largely of nice cold -water of a close and intimate disposition. I continued to quack, but my ef- forts to mina were not convinc- ing. The ducks stared at me from their blankets of snow, disbelief '111, their eyes, and seemed to won- der how anybody who could quack so good could swim so bacl. Let me not dwell too closely ors the ensuite. I successfully gain the merge, and proceed in- tently toward the house, Behind me, in the whistling of the wind follow the jeering remarks of iny friends, I distinctly recall several snide quacks., I am said to have bounded into the kitchen With a Clinking noise, and to haVe rectimbented myself on. the Hoer to lift my heels into the air and allow about eight gal- Ions of tingling moisture to flow forth on the floor. And so on. I Muttered soMe, and chattered, And eat all afternoon. The next day I tried again arid got the -clucks inside, setting the glass. tut they stared at me With un- believing eyes, and seemed tO doubtk I think they have conolud- ed I en riot a duck at all, AY johil atinid in the Christian Science `Monitor. Residents in the- blizzard areas Will readily agree that aside from a lack of gar nothing itri- Mobilizes •arl automobile More speedily than a 'few itiehes of unplowed show. 'Obey the traffic signs ,they' are. planed there for k 001# SAEETY, 14 20 • UNDAY SCIION LESSON Not at all, -clucked the party organ, Fravdp,„ It's, the system". In all of Moscow, said. Pravda, there's only one- dilapidated low factory, It dries, its feathers in an open-air cottrtyard., and when the wind blows—Whoosh go the feathers, "We asked the Moscow Fee- netnic Council f or new drying machinery," said factory director • Elena Novikova, "but they only thumbed their. noses at 11$," What ,AI-taSia. needs to soave its Pillow Shortage Are some hard heads. Famous Manuscript To Be Decoded It It Warren, ILA., B.U, Jugs Authority Cliallenge4 John 5: 9c 34. 1,:,%:'•,:•:,;;W,1341.ti • • "AS I END THE REFRAIN ," — His namesake had a long nose, so why not a long face for a two-year-old basset hound named Cyrano de Bergarac? Owned by Mrs. Jacqueline Reed, of New York, Cyrano was arriving horrie from Paris aboard the liner America, AH, ME — This Basiett -hound isn't really as sad as he looks. He is one of 280 puppies entered in the Hoosier Kennel Club's annual puppy match. MI FARM FRONT sclirall producer to expand up to ta fixed would encourage the 0 612LISSell sa: ; 0.-#4 Although it is toe early to be' sure of the ultimate result, the deficiency payment system of price support for eggs 'seems to have brought production into a more realistic relationship with demand, A. D. Davey, of the Canada Department of Agricola ture, told IinitedIStafes men •lecetitly. s r The director of the. depart,- ment's Poultry Division, spoke to the MidVaestern Regional Convention, of • the American Poultry -and Hatchery Federa- tion at Chicago in December. the limits for which he could receive support and thus defeat the very -object in mind. In fact the small' Producer bad just as much support under the offer- -to-purchase program as he does under the clefiCiency 7 prograrn and if he bad wanted to expand he could just as well shave done so wider' the- old program, One year's operation seems ,to bear out this thesis, said Mr. Davey, * * It was also claimed that the decision to make a uniform de- ' ficiency payment to producers regardless of regional differences was inequitable and that those producers in lower market price 'regions should get larger de- ficiency payments, Such price „regions, said Mr, Davey, are the result of differences.' in geo, graphic location in relation to retail outlets, differences' in 'time of marketini and differ-. ences bargaining skills, etc. It was -not intended that a price support program, should iron out these normal differences Which have always .,existed. Registration Of pioduc6rs was essential to the success of the price support program. Only , one registration was allowed for each flock .although many in- quiries were received from families wishing to divide up their flocks to secure more than one sregietration. Surrounded by surplus mum- mies shrouded in plastic bags, Iorw e x t h Edwards, birdlike keeper of Egyptian antiquities at the British Museum, began work last week on a task which might have shaken a more impression- able soul. Ignoriag the ominous lore that surrounds things rifled from tombs, he began decoding a 22-foot-long papyrus known as a Book Of the Dead, a kind of passport to eternity buried with Pharaohs, who extolled their vir- tues to the God Osiris. Because the superstitius donor, Sir Archibald C. Campbell, thought it unlucky to open it, the scroll- bad languished un- touched since 1874, when he bought it from Egyptian grave robbers, Not until the estate of his daughter was settled last fall did the museum receive the be- quest. After unraveling 1 foot of the wheat-colored papyrus, Egyptol- ogist Edwards knew he had a unique find. The papyrus be- longed to Pinudjem, a high priest of the Pharaoh Slamun (1000 to 984 B.C.), whose daughter was married to Ning Solomon. It is an exceptionally long Book of the Dead, written in elegant hieratic character script, rather than the more complicated hieroglyphics usu- ally found in such scrolls. With scholarly restraint, Ed- wards reported that the text is "of great interest to scholars .. But we don't expect any inside information about palace skul- duggery, harem intrigues, on priestly treachery from this seroll." Memory Selection: Verily, verilyi, I say unto you, lie that heareth my word, and bellevet's on him That sent me, ]lath everlasting life, and shall not come Into tom' damnation; but is passed frO4* death unto life, John $14, When Jesus performed a mir aele, discussion usually followed. On this occasion the Jews cri- ticized because the healing had been performed on the Sabbath. But first, let us look at the Mir- acle, Jesus seeing this invalid of 18 years, asked hint if he Willed to, be'made whole, Of course he did. That was why he was sitting by this pool. put hope had well night given way to despair. Jesus chal- lenged him further, saying, "Rise, take up they bed, and walk." This called for resolution and faith; Be responded. Ile-believe& He undertook to do as• the Lord bade him and, found he was able to do so. Later, Jesus meeting him in the temple gave him warning, "Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee." The Jews first found fault be- cause this man was carrying his bed on the sabbath. If one is against a cause, it takes a very little thing'to evoke criticism: W. need to carefully evaluate otiv, motives before we criticize. If it is in order to rescue a sheep that has fallen into a pit on the sab- bath, surely it was in order to heal this man and for him to talm his blanket with him. Jesus said. on another occasion, "The sab- bath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath." What Jesus had done was its keeping with the words of Isaiah, (58:13,14) "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a de- light, the holy of the LORD, hon- ourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor speaking thine own words; thou speakig thine own words; tilos shalt delight thyself in the- Lord." Many people want to disrea the Lord's Day and- seek their own pleasures. Promoters of commercialized sport and theatre Owners want to make more money. Communists are glad to see a further weakening of the worship attitude. We greatly need a moving of Gocl'e Holy Spirit that will move us to seek the Lord and obey Him, 'Trouble Explodes In The Holy Land Exs white hair bristling, hie craggy face a black of granite. 74-yearsold David Ren-Cnrion eretiehea in his chairs glowering ant his Cabinet, Fairly snarling at them, he swore that he would never.accept their deeision On what Israel had come to know as the Lam Affair, 'Never," said 13,Q, Thus, recently, did the myss terious Lavon Affair, which had been smoldering under a blan- ket of censorship for more than five years, explode into the aspen. This was not merely a political crisis in, Israel; it was a 'literal crisis — reminiscent, ironically, of the infamous Dreyftes Affair, which scanclalt‘es ed France a half-century ago, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus had been framed because he was a Jew; Lavon had been framed by a fellow Jew in the land of Moses Slender and handsome, an orator with a tongue gold, Phases Lavon was Israeli De- fense Minister in 1954. He found, himself qOarreling constantly with his aggressive young sub- ordinates, his Under Secretary, Shirnon Peres, and the chief of staff, Maj. Gen" Moshe Dayan. Then something happened — eomething still muffled by cen- sorship. The best guess is that someone in Army intelligence ordered Israeli espionage agents to set fire to the USIA offices in Cairo and Alexandria. The ap- parent motive: To inflame rela- tions between the laS. and 'Egypt, After the plan failed, Lavon accused his generals of having committed "a stupid and immoral act,:' They, in turn, said they had acted under orders and eyrodueed a corroborating docu- ment, ostensibly from Lavon, Denouncing the document as a forgery, Leven resigned. Ever' since, he has been pressing for an investigation. The first real break came last September, when sa man on trial happened to blurt out that the La,yon document was a fake. Investigators soon got on the trail atan Israeli girl who onoe had worked for a eneral implicated in the case. Traced to Paris, the girl broke down. She wept that she had been told to alter the disputed document by inserting; "This is on orders; from Mr, Lavon," Last month, the investigators reported . to the Cabinet that' Lavon was right., He had been, fraMbd -by the unidentified. general (whose name was ce.n- acred in alla news stories but ends in the letter "i"). A majori- ty of the Cabinet approved the committee's report — and that was when Ben-Gurion blew up. The fight was a personal one for B-G since, if the document had indeed been forged, his army proteges, 'Peres , and Payson might be implicated. Moreover, Pinhas Layone wshoes still is Secretary-General poWer- fui Israeli labor federation, has his eye on B-G's job, Sympathy tor Levan i'vtreWaeWliirri back to power, 4 • Defeated by his 'own taaniet; B-G announced that he would take off for a long leave of ab- sence. In his fury, he also lashed out at another; eof e his , pet hates, —all of the -,reiva Iivitiretitaide of Israel. atY.YeasoeyeetAyesT etetside the land of tarael is censicefed • to have no God," he said. "Fan- tastic nonsense," replied the American Council for Judaism. Exactly ,swhene-spr 9.14. marl would return to his post depended 'On-Whether `a egroupsof peacemakers' within his Mapai Party cottld''tyalett ups' a .00i11-, promise over the Lavon Affair. They were tr'yin'g e deaPei,atilaaalr For to • have a ,thing lkke this. happen in' tlietAnd VetifedUfkt —From NEW' WEE — ade every Is .aelafelesheayieldi. alpeneeduwn to Prevent l'eseortg And Now The Ducks Have Their Doubts! Should anybody be worrying about my ducks, be,, it known that my ducks are now worrying about me. They have found that I don't float worth a cent. This has a nugatory effect on my in- fluence amongst them, for the way I quack they thought I was a duck, too. They now know bet- ter. I, quack e rather well, really, being a longtime student of the articulate Mallard. .I can step out on my doorstep in the bracing air of a country morning, make a couple of quacks with such facility as seldom acetates to humans and set the whole duck- pond in a tizzy of excitement. The flock quack back with -cre- dulity, and confide in me with their most secret thoughts. Fur- thermore,I can shake not ionly the quietr quack of the greens'. head drake, which is cozier and limited in range, but the high, raucous quack of the female as well— which will slap against a distant barn and set the. wild' echoes crying all up arid down the 'Ridge. I ant not, only just a 1,duck I ant two ducks. .„So they rally to refriarke and feel I am one of theta. The other day when I rounded them up and inserted them in the weather-tight coop where they customarily 'pass the discontent- ful winter, they spoke sharply to me about freedom and liberty and due processe and impugned my intelligence. I told them- the weatherman was even now in- sisting that an old bruiser of a blizzard was due, and in spite of their strong arguments I would have to be adamant. I ,told them all this in patient giiacks,'kittt they kheaVInore than I did. I closed the door and ad- ' jtiet'ed the`bilttori and: as I walk- ed away I could hear them dis- cussing Me libeeallys and mak ing coarse comments I would not now care, to repeat. They seemed to thihk that Iona `chick, I was a. ,nut. Bu'rthe Weetherinan proved to, be correct, and shortly the storm settled in and 'it 'was indeed a rouser, By morning we had a foot of lovely .snow, and I sup- Posed-the-dttelcs eivould.be grate- .. eful „fop my, foresight. With the Meriting wind itill -whitiPing' the township, J. filled. a .bieeket‘with warm water and Waded' throtigh estlete, deaf teatertbeinglalaereset di ink, I quacked pleasantly as I ap pi daoti di'titk:' chop; eXPeeting art ,ensWering greeting, and perhaps 'gable el4•1,11aiellatantly sasses elicit , I , 3 1.3 • Nni.e 4395 VVVV21 ,3-14%/11 N I N 321i, 2. Adif I A 6 N 0, I '7 N d of 0 W®5 2 1 V. d 5 g 0 d' I V H N 0 3 5 V a v NO B' 3N 12 9 3 'I 37 I A 7V2IV 2IW3 ?1V V dWV 7 0 / 21I ISSUE 4 — 1961 DOUBLE TROUBLE Identical twins Randy and Ricky Tones Of Dallas, Tex,, fell Anto double trouble after Christmas. Each was trying out at new settaf reller skates, Within an hour each had broken his orm, Russian Chickens Not. To Blame Spurred by their ambition to "surpass the captialist U.S.," So- viet farms and factories are belt- ing out everything from pigs to pig iron. But somewhere, sense- one goofed: They forgot about pillows, A few weeks ago, Trade Min- ister Dnmitri. Pavolv announced that there were only enough feathers to meet 15 per cent of the Soviet public's annual des mend for pillows. "He wasn't telling. Muscovites anything they didn't know," cabled Newsweek's Moscow bureau chief Whitman Bassosv. "Most Russian families have to wait for at least a year for new pillosys, Some newly- weds have' been known to cut pillows in two SO that each can have one. Thera is evert a black market, with peasants getting as much as 5 rubles (about $8.50) to make up pillows on the sly. Yet even the black marketeers have' to wait six months—until the chickens, come through." Are the chickens to blame? LA-loe•it OVer. abundane5v,. 27: 28, E. Indian sheep 30. Draft 22. Continenceel • 44. Dismotinted 30. Nut 87./ Word or • nommisOrlitIon, 33. Take • chief meal 39. Cast a ballot 90. N. Zealand 'red pine, citAersi 14. FIxtltigniistreet• 45. Compass point CROSSWORD. PUZZLE - 9. Evergreens to. Drug plant . 11. Teer with violetieti . . . . :0. PoInts'iti tennis 4 Corrodee 4 ;Titeke sib 2 , Arrew poison I 2 : Threefold 2. Ship's repeS Variety of steeStnr, AegtOSS'„ 94efisetedif L •411*5tr480 r 451' Summer Portable1. • DOWN. light 1.• n of 8, a,. rweIrtiadttab noe. Atdthne ". 12. Be. at;falii k • , Any living 13. ttuShien sea 4.• Ancient t4 DeSnieithle language 101 PerliiiitIng- ici 5, Patolted (7, litest.eommon klekete • Metlil ill. stele 1 9, rfaiatined Si, .'woven Vale tI Dettiettettatilie efotiette 14, 'Menne, • 21,• lifettie tibjeetIone 20',:rdet1I1te pert 20. flOtinlefs 121. litterhity 33; reed hi tnetictn K, maoaront 19.1fettitnin Caine' 44,, Sheet of 59, The en min on, , tobtil4i 37, renr•Flun before 13, ,..'nriv.in0...1lh6 41. ',Whit n,ntmnl 42. rereIl) etntile fin 43 POIcOr stake 47. 'Inen ^rin,tion ref "Nelinit Ai 6"217:t.inilei, 6501i 43 Si, 2•1/7i'1* He described. stabilization policy in including the old offer:-to-purchase program for eggs and the deficieney pay- ment program which superseded it in OctOber, 19.59:" " - Although each program• as- sures a minimum level per dozen — the offer-to-purchase program establishing a baie and the de- ficiency payment prpgram an average for the yeafs' the-farm- er program could result in high- er returns to producers due to the seasonal pattern , of prices above the base or average .set. The important feature of the deficiency payment program is that it permits the product to be sold at prices that more truly reflect supply and demand and gives fees incentive to production expansion. Produc- tion expansion became a very 'serious ,nroblem as related to the Canadian Stabilization pro- gram for shell eggs. * It was dedided to support the price of eggs at 33 cents per dozen at the producer level, this being comparable to the former 44 cents at wholesale level un- der the old support-by-purchase program. The deficiency pay- ment would be equal to the Amount by which the national average price received by pro- ducers fell below the support price over a 12-month Period, starting Oct, 1, 1959, Payments were limited to a mazimum of 4,000 dozen. Grade A Large and Extra Large eggs marketed by each registered producer in that period. Mr. Davey said charges were Made , that the- large producer was being discriminated against. The fact Was the department had to find a way of reducing the av'erage price 'of those producers Who, bechtise of their latge stale and highly efficient opera- tions, were Mainly responsible for the big increase in egg out- put. lay' limiting the payMents in this way it Wes assured that the total paid to the -large pro- ducers would hot be enough to raise -significantly the average price per dozen they received. As the large-scale commercial producers were 'the ones who had expanded' molt it ftslIciwed that they were least in need of price support, Oh the other hand, those who had the greatest need the small producers — were given the largest Measure Of 'support. The quota eligible :for defi- ciency payment was related to a to* of SAY 596 birds- froth Which would be Marketed eight dozen grade A Large site eggs per bird' per year. some felt that this basis Was IOW, but after 'one year of- OPeitation ,the pre- lienittery records show that the national average Production Per bird is ri fraction of one per cent below the figure of eight dozen eggs et this grade. Another criticisin Was that the 7 4 6 ia II 13 23 12 26 27 • • 41 30 ' 31 /es 36- 40 37 • 44 43 45 41. 47 So 51 49 11.1. FIRING SOLIAI5 CHA,CHA A gathering of falloWers of Fidel tcsOro chant "la the 'NOVI:992A, denianding death for terrorists U4no set off Ira thi tily4 Answe else hree utr tint Page