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The Brussels Post, 1961-06-08, Page 3Remember The Yo-Yo? Ws Coming Back After checking first to the left and then the right, the New York shopkeeper reached quick- ly under the counter, slipped out a box with just one item left in and passed that surreptitious- ly to the "special" customer for whom he bad saved it, Its just like old times, like the black market," he said the other day, 'For this batch, X had to pay 121,4 per cent over the regular wholesale price, Now I can't get my more at any price," Ms fa- /tired customer forked over a dollar and pocketed his eagerly sought prize: A Duncan Yo-Yo. Spinning across the country like a pleasant plague from the past, the reborn Yo-Yo craze had finally hit New York—just as it had previously whirled through Salt Lake City, Wichita, Kansas City, Memphis, Nashville, and Birmingham, Donald F. Duncan, Inc„ which controls 90 per cent of the market, had, for example, sold more Yo-Yos in Nashville in two months (350,000) than there are people (322,000). In New York, for thousands of `cull- special" customers and their brainwashed youngsters ("If it isn't a Duncan, it isn't a Yo-Yo," advises all the firm's advertis- ing), there just weren't enough Yo-Yos to gs. -round. Ill a desperate effort Co meet the demand, the Duncan firm, with headquarters in Evanston, Ill., and a one-story cement- block plant in Luck, Wis., step- ped up production to 24 hours a day in April, and turned out more than a million Yo-Yos for the month—double the year-ago output. (Automatic lathes turn 4-foot-long blocks of maple into Yo-Yos at the rate of more than 1,200 an hour.) Duncan had television to thank for its new affluence. In the old days, the firm employed troops of Filipino demonstrators to tour playgrounds and neighborhood centers, exhibiting an amazing repertoire of tricks possible with the Yo-Yo, coaching youngsters in their efforts at "walking-the- dog" and "rocking-the-baby". While this type of advertising was good enough for dear old dad, it couldn't match the hard sell of newer, competing toys. Now concentrating on first one city and then the next (the up- coming target is Chicago), Dun- can has transferred its demon- strations to television via such kiddie shows as "Popeye" and "Laurel and Hardy." Duncan sponsors contests, and top prizes this year will be trips to Disney- land. "It's contagious," explains 34- year-old Duncan president Don- F. Duncan Jr., whose father founded the firm and gave the Yo-Yo its name in 1929. "Kids want to get their own and start playing. And anyone can do it —young, old, short, tall, weak, or strong." Retail prices, after a 50 per cent markup, range from 25 cents to $1, While the technique may be unique, the city-by-city sales campaign is just what Duncan ordered. "We don't want this to become a mad fad like the Hula Hoop," he says. "We want to keep it going." MERRY MENAGERIE 41fti She left time, Fate° Platte Mond ht the middle!" CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ,roosoi.Onv PERSONAL MY PAV,DAY EverydaA simp le ;plan brings ,egtia ineome Steadily., tie sellfhe, Mon, women, want tills exchinit Ilan? Just will e: .rvaphageni.:1, .16.50,{' cermak, (gouge 11, Ill. PHOTOGRAPHY FARBMITI, CGAAMITERpAN+c. Ltla. • jiti:111.11.iii.:4rigidnielts1151(cg,:a1805:14111!40j 12 tnaglia prints Stle I(CMACOLOR Developing roil 90,,, ;not Ine14(ii0if ertnts), cool, prints 30c each extra. All$eo- and Elstachrolne 00 rn.m. 20 ex. •posures mounted In Odes 51.20 prints Mow-. re- funded in full for imprinted negatives, ..~PO• NIES FOR . SALE SHETLAND Ponies for snle, ••: de and registered mares and. stallions and child's Ponies Bricigewood Woodbridge. RR No I. Sal as 11.5713 PROPERTIES FOR SALE FOR SALE. ••- New Modern Home over- looking beautiful river; and real estate business, One hundred mile territory separate office, $27,000,. terins. Write to; Meiler's, Chapeau, • Qtte. • • ACRES mixed fruit e nd nuts. on Main Iiighway between Vineland and Hamilton, Large Rouse. Levi Housser, 13earnsyllie, Ontario. RUBBER STAMP,S YOUR Name - address, city, zone, Province, on your own Rubber Stamp, only $1.00. 29 hour service. Micro Co., Box 2055, Seattle 11, Washington. STAMPS — - FREE, _60 different stamps, includes (Sr. Col., U.S.A., foreign, to eollecters re- q BulooesrtinW , Tor g apponto rovals. 4, ()Mart°. "Robins " 1322 FREE UM STAMPS WITH LAI= COLORFUL SPA SIP AP- PROVALS 6011 OFF SCOTT. FASTAMP CO.. P.O. BOX 1205. POMPANO BEACH, FLA.. U.S.A. SPARE TIME PROFITS BIG Profits, selling Hand Painted Por- traits in Oils on Canvas, from Photo- graphs) Write for details, liarte's Stu- dio, 27 Santa Barbara Street, Spring- field 4, Massachusettes, USA, SPORT COPTERS SPORT-COPIER; Enthusiasts! 21 page Catalogue complete 1561 Bensen Gyro Line. Send $1. Pioneer Copter Sales, P.O. Box 1562, Dept, C., Rockford, 11- linoia, U.S,A.. SUMMER RESORTS REMOTE, private camp on Tomilro Lake, 36 miles from North Bay: excel- lent fishing or family vacation cabins and meals, housekeeping cottage s, boats, motors, etc„ at lowest rates. For further information write Moose point Lodge, Crystal Falls, Ont, QUALIFIED teacher for rural school, enrolment 23. Apply stating salary ex- tot n and last inspec- r to Mrs. Herb. Smith, See,,Treaa-, R,R. 1, Grafton, Ont, TRAVEL TRAILERS a HOLIDAY IN Bonneehere Valley, heart of Ren- frew County, Good fishing, beaches, sight-seeing. Write EGANVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EGANVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA TEACHERS WANTED KINGSVILLE Separate School requires 2 teachers, modern 5-room school, situ- ated in the heart of the town, Duties - commence Sept. 6, 1961, Apply stating qualifications and experience to Fred DeSantis, Secretary-Treasurer. Box 130, Kingsville. SHASTA TRAILERS, more people buy SHASTA than any other Travel Trailer, VVERNER TRAILER SALES, SELIRK ONT., RR 2, PHONE 776-2373 SELKI K RK- , UNITED STATES RESORTS PARK VIEW HOTEL 5TH and Ash.bury, Ocean City, N.:1„ hear everything, double rooms, $24 week nuent s is$ t 5 a $ n 7 d we n e d k . fF looere, Modern parking: Bathing, Phone 299,7414, proved, Two scientists trained blind minnows to associate food with the Limas given by wills- ties and tuning forks. The min- nows invariably reacted the. signals by .napping vigoromly. Fish have an .eye for shaPes. Konrad iferter prom! this net by showing. them. pictures Of ;Jayne Mansfield:- hat by ty,ch- ing them to associate given pat- terns, for example, a small circle. 'and an elllp5t, with food, if the fish swam toward the circle they received food, but if they swam toward the Ellipse; they' got no- thing, The fish learned in time le to the circle only. ThissuggeAS that they . might easily learn .1.6 recognize and avnid shapes which spell &Ingo.. to them — such as a hook, The ability of fish to rev*. nizo certain items was illtr4 trated by a student who. kept a perch which showed considerable agi, tation when he approached its aquarium with a worm-box. -If he entered the room without the box there 'was no similar reac- tion. Which, all things consid- ered, shows pretty keen eyesight. The same student also kept another perch which had been captured in a net, It bore no trace of having been injured by a hook but despite this apparent lack of experience, whenever a hooked worm was placed in the water, the perch showed no. in- terest, When. the- worm was sus- pended by a th Tad, the perch rushed forward t) take it, Some of those 'believe it or not" stories which are swapped in the angling club could well be true. In the experiments de- scribed the fish have definitely exhibited signs of what, in man,. would be regarded as intelli- gence, At Bath, for example, there. used to be a pool of goldfish over which was fixed a platform covered with ants' eggs. A piece of string attached to the plat- form dangled in the water. The goldfish learned to. operate this novel self-service cafeteria by giving the string a tug. Thus the eggs fell into the water, FORWARD! - Dove, Burks, 4, tries his skill on a mlow motion steed - a giant sect tortoise at the Marsalis Park Zoo, Hem. 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Itching scalding and burning ecze, ma, acne; ringworm, pimples and 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 ;3.50 PER JAR POST'S REMEDIES 1865 St. Clair Avenue East, TORONTO MONEY TO LOAN OPEN Mortgage Loans on farms, homes commercial, etc. Fast service. Phone, write, or (hop in. United County Investments Ltd., 3645 Bathurst St., Toronto, RU. 9-2125. NURSERY PLANTS 20 HOUSE PLANT SLIPS 52,00. Blue Hydrangea 51.98 Tropical, 4520 Frances, North Burnaby, British Columbia. NUTRIA ATTENTION PURCHASERS OF NUTRIA When purchasing Nutria consider the following points which this organize. Lion offers: 1. The best available stock, no cross- bred or standard types recommended. 2. The reputation of a plan which Is proving itself substantiated by files of satisfied ranchers, 3. Full insurance against replace- ment, should they not live or in the event of sterility (all fully explained In our certificate of merit.) 4. We give you only mutations which are to demand for fur garments. 5. You receive from this organization a guaranteed pelt market in writing. 6. Membership in our exclusive breeders' association, whereby only purchasers of this stock may partici- pate In the benefits so offered. 7. Prices for Breeding Stock start at $200, a pair. Special offer to those who qualify: earn your Nutria on our cooperative basis, Write: Canadian Nutria Ltd., R.R. No, 2, Stouffyille, Ontario. OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN BE A HAIRDRESSER JOIN CANADA'S LEADING SCHOOL Great Opportunity Learn Hairdressing Pleasant dignified profession; good. wages, Thousands of successful Marvel Graduates. America's Greatest System Illustrated Catalogue Free Write or Call MARVEL HAIRDRESSING SCHOOL 358 Bloor St. W., Toronto Branches: 44 King St. W., Hamilton 72 Rideau Street, Ottawa PERSONAL ISSUE 23 — 1961 HAWAIIN EARRINGS 11SAL11Ft1i, Sea Shill or Coral Ear. reles from umvph: 12.50 per set Send to: P.O flux ans. Waikiki Beach, 11E1W:di • . HAY FOR SALE 2000 BALES mixed hay, 20e per bale 4, Tarok, 11.11.3, Oshawa. OL. 5-4480. HORSES --- SADDLE Horses -- Palominos, chest. nuts, blacks, yearlings and two year olds, also mares heavy in foal and mare with colt, also other horses. Phone ]300M4, George Rodwell, Inger, soll. MEDICAL 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. FREE! HoW To Win At The Raees! For Free Inforniation write to: 1-1,J.G. Com- pany, Box 215, Statioh "F", Buffalo 12, New York, AGENTS • • • STOREKEEPERS DEALERS W site for true caln Stunther Specialty Cattilteltle teaturine la rgo t4,.:,ortnlent '-e:sonsble inerchendise Toys Dry, housewares, ete •Bonefide deal- ers only Phillips Sales •COMpanS. 9314 111.Eiliv Si Month( el. AGENTS WANTED litGII PROFITS, selling. Imports every one mods Juicers, noodle ata,minea„ me 00. Importers 113 11 St N ,:mr J) MaSurtie Soa po e l:olcdNeetcx.$15,00 speelait suni Redieine Hat, Alberta , . NEW' Bray stuumst priees Prompt ship- ment IllitsCit, li111XLS, 'Parks HP7i 4..r).thattrodSeroierds cOr4;t14111214n,le.4r341.3r10/yearld,,sidatnItcts now. See Meal agent, or writs EroY thlichery, 121 401m North, Hamilton, Ont, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES - - ATTENTION ! Garage and serelee sta• lion owners Limited number of :lase, eirite store dealerships available, Only small capital required Be Competitive. Automart Associate Stores, 193 St Paul St W St, Catharines, Ont.` AirromoTivE accessories Only $1,- 000 puts you into the highly lucrative Year-round Automative Parts wholesale business. All service stations, garage, car dealers, eigar and drug stores, etc., your customers. Details available on raenot eeds t e ,srrypeli etsereroitnorrlyde. n tAi alll pg ua ar trs, Automotive, Limited, 1084 Kipling North Res:dale, Toronto, DRILLING Contractor holding 2000 acres in block immediately adjacent new Princeton gas and oil area seeking Partners or Investors in development. Apply Box 148 Ifillsburgh, Ontario. "EXTRA Dollars from Your Garden", New folio, 60 plans, tells how $1.00. Other homemakers' "how-to" hooks Write Luecrne, Box 133, Stones Creek. Ont ..„.. LIMITED number of active and part- time distributorships are available with a Progressive established Ontario lim- ited company now expanding. Experi- ence not essential. Company will or- ganize, Minimum $2,000 capital required. Excellent prospects. Appointment only. Box 235, 123 • lath Street, New Toronto. Ont. PARTNERSHIP - CONCRETE AND CULVERT CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS in operation over four years within a 75 mile radius of London. Interested in experienced concrete man to buy part interest or operate. Equipment is adequate and In good condition. BOX 9, NEWBURY, ONT BUSINESS PROPERTIES FOR RENT WASAGA Beach, Main St. empty stores and equipped restaurant for rent Phone 374W or write Box 72, Wasaga Beach, Ont. BUSINESS PROPERTIES FOR SALE TORONTO CENTRAL location. 42 rooms total, 9 suite apartment building built from pre-war materials; this extra large building will outlast and outproduce most of recent structures, excellent street, yearly rentals close to $10,000. No problems with these rentals, $9,500 cash required and the price Is low, be- cause the vendor left for USA and has to sell it. Call Mr. T. Warawa, RO. 3.3553, E. Kurdydyk, Realtor, 514 An. nette Street, Toronto, DOGS FOR SALE COACH Dogs. Dalmations, entire ken- nel stock, nine puppies, three adults, beautiful purebreds, moving. Mohawk ranch, RR2, Lowbanks. Phone Dunn- ville 4R18. FARM EQUIPMENT ASK your offer on 160 x 25 henhouse, Aluminum outside and automatic feeder new. Masselink Poultry Farms, Elgin Mills, Ont. TU, 4.2255. SEE us before you deal-for Farm and Industrial, tractors, loaders, hackhoes, Combines and Balers, New and used, Reconditioned, guaranteed and " as-is. Convenient terms and highest trade-in allowances. The Hamilton area's largest dealer, Hanson Supply Limited, 124 King St, W. Stoney Creek, Phone LI. $-5017. FOR SALE - MISCELLANEOUS "DESTROYER" for use in outdoor toilets. Eats down to the earth, saves cleaning. Directions. Thousands of users, coast to coast. Price $1,10 per can, postpaid, LOG CABIN PRODUCTS. 322 York Road, Guelph, Ont. FOR SALE' Dragline - Double drum, portable mounted, A-1 condition, com- pletely equipped with lines, bucket and Chrysler powered. Apply: Aid. borough. Oil and Gas Company, Wards, vine, Ontario, WELL drilling inachirie-Arrnatrong 45 semi-trailer mounted on F.W,D. truck, Also two Complete sets of tools. H. Comfort, 137 COrman Ave., stoney Creek, "HAIR GOODS!" W I g s, Toupee s, Transformations, Switches made from finest quality hail. Write for illustrated catalogue. Toronto Human Hair Supply Company 528-F Bathurst Street, Toronto, 3 GAS Brooders -- 500 chick capacity each. Almost new, $20.110 each, J. Torok: R.H. 3, Oshawa. PORTABLE water Softeners and Puri- fiers - $29.00. No installation charges, fits all taps. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Also, Chaise Lounge Cots - $11.95. Barbecues - $9.95', Carousel Clothes Dryers - $11.95. Therm's Portable Heaters - $21.95. Many other lines. Express Paid. Cata- logue. TWEDDLE MERCHANDISING CO. FERGUS 18, ONTARIO Those Private Eyes Had To Back Down As the world's largest detec- tive agency, William J. Burns In- ternational (12,000 employes) prides itself on its ability to serve up a sleuth for every oc- casion. In the past, it has sup- plied private-eye musicians for symphony orchestras, aristocrat- ic-looking gumshoes for fancy balls, a small army of "industrial espionage" operatives, and even a bandanna - kerchiefed railroad engineer, The steady expansion of Burns' undercover activities came a cropper last month, though, when the agency ran up against the American Association of Univer- sity Professors. The controversy started when a letter bearing the agency's letterhead went out from Burns' Houston office in January, addressed to six college presidents in Texas. "Many col- leges and universities have found that our services can be very „beneficial and informative," it began. "The same system which has' saved countless dollars in business can be used in your in- stitution to give you an inside, on-the-scene report concerning any practices detrimental to the institution's character and repu- tation. "Teaching practices can be viewed with information from a 'student' who is trained to re- • port objectively on what he or she sees or hears from the class- room. Almost each department has its controversial faculty member. These departments in- variably are: Religion, philoso- phy, psychology, English (litera- ture), biology, history, govern- ment, journalism, speech, and drama," "A 'student' trained in his du- ties as a Burns Operative can enroll . obtain his class sched- ule . . attend class and send daily, confidential reports to the Agency. , After the necessary body of fact and information is developed, corrective steps can be made quickly, quietly, and efficiently. "Burns operatives can also be inconspicuously placed in posi- tions of kitchen help, laborers, cashiers, office help, janitors, in any field where a security prob- lem-might exist , ." When the letter was brought, to the attention of the American Association of University Profes- LONE COED - Elsie law is in a class by hersellf. That is, she's the only woman student out of a total enrollment of 89 at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Mich., a Dutch Re- formed Church institution. She's the first girl to enroll in the school's 94-year history. Sitting next to 'her is her husband, Jeremy, whom she married in Hong Kong, They hope to re- turn to the Far East and teach. sors, that group vigorously ob- jected to Burns headquarters in New 'York, The offer, they fum- ed, was "entirely inconsistent with every concept of academic freedom and academic due pro- cess, which represent the hall- marks and the foundation of the whole system of higher educa- tion," Burns quickly apologized. It was all a case of "misguided sales enthusiasm to get new busi- ness" by one operative in the Houston office, said Burns; The letter had been retracted and the operative responsible "kicked in the pants." While it has often provided guard services for colleges, said Burns, "it has never been called upon to investigate any activity of college professors" From now on, the agency promised, such ac- tivity would go on its taboo list along with divorce and anti-labor investigation. Though the agency repudiated its letter, the very concept of academic espionage left educat- ors outraged. Their feeling could be summed up in the one-word reaction of president Virgil Han- cher of the State University of Iowa: "Despicable." From NEWSWEEK WELL-TO-DO LONDON OFFERS YOU The best investment opportuni- ties in selected apartment and commercial buildings and first and second mortgages, For free brochure and information, call, visit or write: RICHARDS NEILANDS LTD. Realtors GE. 4-2169 360 KING STREET, LONDON Specializing in Investment. Income - Real Estate since 1955. Trained Fish To Answer The Phone The Russian scientist, Profes- sor J. P. Frolov, once persuaded some fish to answer the tele- phone! He tethered the fish in a small aquarium upon a light flexible electric wire, with plen- ty of slack to enable them to move about freely. When a key was pressed, a submerged tele- phone receiver rang and trans- mitted a slight electrical shock to the fish through the wire. They reacted with agitated move- ments. After some forty trials, Frolov omitted the shock but sounded the signal—again the fish react- ed—they had learned to answer the 'phone! These and, other experiments carried out by students of fish behaviour provide the possible solutions to certain angling prob- lems. Can fish hear fishermen moving along the banks? Does talk curb them? Is a fish's vision good? Can they distin- guish colours? .The remarkable acuteness of fishes' hearing has already been Hard-Luck Gems 'Back In Favor Opals, the lovely gem stones which were believed by the an- cients to possess magical poWers, are in growing demand in many parts of the world. Girls and women of to-day, who admire the variety of their colour, no longer bilieve, as did those of a centui y ago, that opals are unlucky. In fact, in some cases opals are proving more popular than diamonds as "a girl's best friend." In an old treatise translated in 1750 the author scorns any belief that opals are unlucky and says: "They are stones wonder- ful to behold, being composed of so Many and divers colours of shining gems, as of the carbub- de, amethyst, emerald and many others." The opal is found in certain volcanic rocks and it's a curious fact that the colours 'of opals are always more effective and bril- liant in warm weather or ih warm place. The finest speci- mens are found to-day in South America, Australia, Mexico and the The largest opal ever discov- ered was one of 14k oz. troy halted Olyfillsie Australia, It was found near Coebet Pedy, South Australia, in August, 1950, and valued at $150,000, Years ago a rich merchant presented the largest opal then kneWri to the Cathedral at Rhe- itna. The clergy had this wonder- ful gem mounted in the cover of the Bible Which lay on the altar, It was so eye-caching :that as. time Went dii Mort and Mere. people spent Trier ey on 'bilying opals instead of g'iving it to the chttrch,- Rd the eleogy of itheirni decided to go to the cathedral at dead of night and with a ham- mer break the wonderful—but brittle—opal in the Bible into a thousand fragments, The clergy explained to the congregation later that the opal "had been struck by a thunderbolt" because of the people's wrongdoing iii spending their money on these stones. As a result the opal was labelled as unlucky, HOW Ity Roberta Lee Q..lint can I—blacken sonic tan leather? A. 'Pry rubbing this leather thoroughly With the inside of a raw potato. Let dry, then polish. Q. How can; I keep 'filet and other insects Out of 'thy freshly- applied paint outside? A. If you'll add One or two teaspoonfuls of oil of citronella et oil of wintergreen to eath gallon of your paint, the Odor of these oils usitally Make thit insects keep their illatatted, WHO IS THIS GUY 1 — Bearded Bert 'ItUtker ettii ae his •dlitittia• proving wife turns away font hini iii Seattle, WOO*, 'ticker grew the beard on a seven-month expeditiOn to the Antarel'a with a Navy icebreaker, 1:"Its wlfeily breetina at the: end' of .44 trip. it lest than etifhuislcittle. NOAD STOP — Maximum security is the watchword as the "Freedom Riders' but stopped On an Alabama highway during the (rip to Jackson, Miss, This photo was taken as Thai-dog Lawion, spokesman for the grolip, held an iniproMptu pr ess conference on hi ghway and said the riders resented protection fatted