The Brussels Post, 1961-11-09, Page 7Often, as was the case at. Cedar-
craft, the people must be trained
for their lobs. One reason they
are unemployed is that they are
not skilled * *
"We have a large, number of
people in the Up who are on
the rural edge-they are classi-
fied as farmers but they have to
work at least 100 days a years
off the /arm' to make, ends
meet," said Mrb Ileirman. "I
would say that one-third of
those up here classified as fartn-
,ers have to work off the farm
to supplement their income, In
this area, .a lot of them work in
some aspect of making timber
products, Some farmers go to
work in November cutting posts
In woodlots. They get their
chores done in the morning and
evening, and cut all day. Some
cut pulpwood for the paper
mills-mostly balsam and spruce,
Some farmers do very well at
this." w * 4.
The picture may differ else-
where, to the extent that local
resources and local circum-
stances differ, But what Mr,
Heirman termed "underemploy-
ment" of rural people is a com-
mon problem today all over the
country.
That is why many rural areas
with "underemployed" people
are assiduously wooing small in-
dustries like Northern Cedar-
craft. But as in this case, the in-
dustry must fit naturally into
the community, and be able to
operate at a profit, while help-
ing the local citizens to earn
their living.
rear of the wagon. We were
generous, and thus saved weigh-
ing,, If a customer insisted on
seeing the weight, then we care-
fully chipped a piece down to
just the right size, and gave no
more than was paid for. You did
better to trust us.
An icebox was a messy thing,
not only because ice dripped and
1Sept, everything damp, but be-
cause housewives generally kept
them so, It was the nature of the
thing. There would be a drab
and bedraggled bunch of celery,
two tomatoes and a cucumber
reposing on the sad remnants of
last Tuesday's ice, and there is
no genius of the kitchen equal
to making that arrangement look
lovely. Arrriving with a new
25 cent piece of ice, I had the
duty of removing said treasures
from their little grooves in the
remnant, putting in the new ice,
chipping the remaining so it
would fit in around the edges,
and then thinking of something
to do with the celery, tomatoes
and cucumber.
One home was fond of eels.
The gentleman in the family
used to go up to the millpond,
and bob eels in the evening for
amusement, bringing them home
and laying them on the ice in
his ice-chest. When I came it
was my happy task to remove
the eels, insert the ice, and then
replace the eels, which tended
to reduce my opinion of eels as
both a game and food fish, .and
I have never renewed my en-
thusiasms in that area.
Being an iceman had some re-
ward. Women who were bak-
ing cookies, frying doughnuts
and performing noble acts at the
stove usually contributed. But
there were others who were
fussy, and took the fun out of
it. "Are your feet wiped?" was
a greeting we could have done
without.
Some fastidious ladies had
papers laid down, and personal-
ly led us over them so we
wouldn't drip on the floor. Some
would make us stand a Moment
while they scanned the ice-not
so much to see if it was lawful
size, but to see if it was clean.
One' lady used to set a pan of
water on' her piazza and insisted
we splash it over the cake to
cleanse it. After the sun had
been on the pan all morning,
this washing process would melt
away a good part-of the ice, and
then she would complain that
the piece didn't seem to be as
big as it should. We got so we
weighed her piece at the cart,
and had witnesses .if we could
find any. *
I liked peddling ice. In the
cool of the morning, we'd drive
the horses to the icehouse, dig
the great cakes ,out of the saw-
dust and load the cart, and then
course the, village filling ice-
boxes. And along in late sum-
mer I'd pick up a newspaper
and see pictures of football stars
posing with cakes of ice to prove
that this labor made them
strong and agile. I guess if that
had been true, you'd have heard
of me instead of Red Grange.-
By John Gould in the Christian
Science Monitor.
Peddling Ice
in The Summertime.
Several famous old half ,baelts
in days of yore used to keep in
athletie condition by peddling
ice in the summertime. Ala( be,
fore college opened, the news-
papers would run a photograph
of the potential, All-American,
a rubber apron over his broad
-shoulders, and a 2Q0-pound cake
of ice poised on the tailgate of
a wagon. He was about to
clutch this ice in the tongs of
the trade, snatch it to the nape
of his neck, and trot lightly up
five flights of stairs to insert it
in an icebox-all of which tun-
ed him up for the football season
and proved that he was power-
ful and enduring,
Back when I weighed 138
pounds and was already six feet
tall, being far too light and un-
muscular to be taken seriously
by any football coach, I was the
only one in my crowd who ever
peddled ice in the summertime,
So you can draw your own con
:lesions,
I had an uncle who owned an
ce business, and he threw odd
obs at me now and then as jobs
went. There was a stable of
iorses, which meant something
o do around there most of the
-ime. Cleaning out, shining up,
washing and painting wagons,
and even leading a horse now
tnd then to the farrier. One day
le told me to go on one of the
wagons and help Elwood', and I
-hus began peddling ice in a
football-less career.
There was, then., no such thing
as mechanical refrigeration, at
least for home use. Most of the
farmers, if they had dairies, put
up their own ice, packed in saw-
dust, and used zinc-lined tanks
for the cans. The housewife
usually kept her butter there.
In the village, homes had ice-
boxes, and the commonest va-
riety had a lift-up top-meaning
that the chunk of ice had to be
lifted to a maximum by the ice-
man, There was an occasional
icebox with a front entrance,
and while the lift wasn't so hard,
they required more dexterity in
inserting the ice. They were
tricky. You had to retrieve your
tongs at a certain point-of-no-
return, and if you miscued you
could be in real trouble, with an
excited housewife dressing you
down for scratching her enamel,
spilling her cream jug, and get-
ting chips of ice over her clean
floor.
The only full-size cakes (they
run from 200 to 300 pounds)
we handled were for the mar-
kets in the village, and this was
done with slides and pulleys in
such a way that we never lifted
en them. The photograph of the
football captain about to trot up
to a penthouse with a full cake,
sh his shouluders was presump-
ive.
The little lady who lived 'with
hree cats in a. garret was never
t full-cake customer, but re-
iuired a ten-cent piece, which
;he wrapped in newspaper and
nade last most of a week. A
en-cent piece of ice should have
veighed 20 pouhds, but our po-
icy was to cut it so it came out
(bout 25, and in a whole day's
vork we seldom used the 'scales
hat hung on a bracket on the
By Rey. tt,, 0, Warren, 11,4*,
Growth, in. Knowledge of God
Matthew 5:17-20, 3848
Memory Selection: Thou shalt
Jove the Lord thy God with an
thy heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy mind. Matthew
2,2:37,
All men know something of
the eternal power of God
through the universe which He
has made, Romans 1:19,20, God
spoke more directly to Abraham,
Jacob, Moses and others. Some-
times He revealed hirnselt
through dreams. He also spoke
'to men by prophets, But the
greatest knowledge of God hag
come to us through His Son Who
came in the likeness of human
flesh. After His ascension into
heaven, the Holy Spirit came in
His fulness to guide us into truth
and to reveal to us Jesus Christ.
We also have the Holy Scrip-
tures which were given by in-
spiration of God.
knowledge
We are the most privileged
people of all time in regard to
readilyof
God,
available rri
The
hSacrviipntguraesare
and in translations abundant.
With so many new modern
translations coming out, it may
just happen that the rising gen-
eration will not commit to mem-
ory, verses from any one of
them, That would be too bad.
We should know one translation
well. Reading others may help
to clarify the thought and, of
course, that is more important
than being able to repeat cer-
tain words. But in failing to
commit to memory many por-
tions of Scripture, children and
youth will be deprived of a great
richness in their lives.
The. Holy Spirit is given to all
that obey Him. It is He who
makes the Scriptures real to us.
He convicts of sin, righteousness
end judgment. He illuminates
the Word, so that we grasp the
meaning of Christ's death for us.
He leads us to repentance and
then inspires faith in Christ to
the washing away of our sins.
die Witnessed With our rcmirit ,
that we are the children o d. •f Go
There need be no limit in our
advancement of knowledge of
God. If we really love him as
suggested by our memory selec-
tion, then we shall want to know
Him better each day. Our
knowledge of Him will grow in
the life to come, also.
GALVESTON REVISITED - "Only Yesterday" might well be the title of this picture of a
flooded section of Galveston, Tex. This was not hurricane Carla, however, but the after-
math of the great hurricane and tidal wave of September 8, 1900, which claimed 5,000
lives. An interesting sidelight is that the Galveston disaster was the last occasion in which
Clara Barton, who was 78, actively participated in relief work. One example of Red Cross
aid in 1900 was the replacement of 1,5 million strawberry plants that were swept away
in the flood. A box of the first strawberries from the new crop was later sent to Miss
Barton, Today, the Red Cross carries on in the tradition of its founder.
Tilt FARM FRONT
Jokz Plenty Of Cavities
And More Corning
The U.S. nation's teeth are in
a bad way, and getting worse.
Americans have a horrendous
total of some 700 million cavi-
ties, which works out to four
and a half cavities per person
-among the people who have
teeth. And 22 million other
l.
Americans are completely tooth-
These statistics were released
this month by the drug Indus-
try's Health Information Foun-
dation, which is worried about
tbs treed in teeth, The founda-
tion finds that A.merlcang gin!
only lip service to the slogan:
"See your dentist twice a year".,
Although 88 per cent of the peo-
ple interviewed said it was a
good idea, only about.40 per cent
follow through.
To correct these conditions,
George Bugbee, president Of the
foundation, recommends more
fluoridation of city water suppl-
ies, and a national drive to put
teeth into his campaign for
teeth.
Someone told us, as we travel-
ed north through Michigan, that
we shouldn't miss meeting the
two Texas boys with the free
enterprise spirit who had come
to the Upper Peninsula and
started making fences from
Michigan cedar for the folks
back home.
The. two Texans had not only
built a good business for them-
selves; they also had Provided
work for some rural Michigand-
ers who needed jobs.
When we located the Northern
Cedarcraft plant at Gladstone,
we found two Texans, all right
-handsome, genial, and gracious
as Texans* are expected to be.
But the Texans who greeted us
in the little cedar ,cottage which
serves as an office were not two
boys-they were man and wife,
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Casey. The
other "boy," they told us, is
Northern Cedarcraft president,
Paul Richardson, who presides
over the home office at Dallas.
Their company had been buy-
ing cedar up here to make its
fences but was not getting all it
needed. Mr. Casey came here in
1958 to buy another fence com-
pany, but when this deal fell
through, he leased a building
and Cedarcraft launched its own
plant. Recently the company
added prefabricated log cabins to
'its line, but the fences are still
its major product.
* *
At its busy season, the plant
employs up to 60 people, only
two of whom had had any wood-
.working experience. They all
have had to' be taught the rudi-
ments of fence making,
At this point in Mr. Casey's
story, the Delta County exten-
sion director, Joseph L. Heir-
man, who had helped us find
Mr. Casey, couldn't resist ex-
pressing his appreciation for
What he feels this company has
done for the community.
"Another woodworking mill
had closed up," he explained,
"and left its people unemployed..
Cedarcraft provided jobs for
some of them. Everyone in the
plant here has been unemploy-
ed."
"1 have the most wonderful
people here I have ever hired in
my life," Mr. Casey put in With
appreciation warming his voice,
too. "One of the boys, when he
started, wasn't drawing any
more pay here than he had been
getting in unemployment pay-
ments," The workers are paid
straight salary, he said, and
when profits permit, they get a
rain. • * •
The sound of hammering', was
loud as we approached 'the plant,
and the rhythm of work did
not change as- the boss escorted
his visitors through the busy
shop: A genuine rapport could
be sensed here, between man-
agement ,and labor. They are
friends. * *
The market for cedar fericz:s is
largely hi the Southwest the
Caseys explained, "This means
that most of the money we pay
our 'workers; and spend here,
'comes from another area," Mrs.
Casey pointed out. "People up
here aren't fence c,7718CtotiS, but
down in the Southwe4 they live
outeverre er a they want privacy
f-r paticm"
But it is a seasonal market,
Mr. Casey told us, because when
summer heat closes in, Texans
withdraw from their yards (pre-
sumably to air-conditioned in-
teriors). They buy their fences
earlier in the year. The factory
works the year 'round, but only
during the 31/2 -month busy sea-
son does it carry its full staff of
from 46 to 60 em149Yete. Val
rest 'of the year only about I8
men are needed .to .keep things
going, writes Helen Henley in
the Christian Science Monitor.
*
"But for every man in the
plant, it takes five or six men
out in the woods to cut the logs
we need," Mr. Casey said. "The
cutting starts in November and
ends in March or the first of
April. We buy the- cedar posts
by the piece. The farmers bring
them in, and collect their checks
right then. This is the first year
we have been able to get all the
fence posts we wanted. We have
bought nearly 750,000 posts this
year. We can cut up, on the
average, about 4,000 posts a
day."
He accounts for the good mar-
ket for -his product in this way:
"Cedar fences give privacy, they
require no maintenance nor up-
keep, 'they are really durable,
they weather to ,an attractive
gray."
CEMENTING FREEDOM - 'This
massive monument in concrete
rises above the Mexican town
of Dolores Hidalgo. It was
erected to honor Mexican in-
dependence from Spain, lust
150 years ago. Instead of loving your enemi-
es, treat your friends a little
better. They Go To Look
At One Another
It is a perfectly ordinary-
looking saloon, in a less than
fashionable section of Los An-
geles, but in eight months, P.J.'s
has established itself as itsville.
In the cypress-paneled back
room, Shelley Winters polishes
off a bowl of the house specialty
-chili (75 cents)-and Mort
Sahl orders a hamburger $(1.10)
and coffee (50 cents). The
crowd, packed in like the mobs
in the old DsMille movies, is an
assortment of blondes in capri
pants, pompadoured young ac-
tors who haVen't ,made it yet, a
few agents, a scattering of mu-
sicians, Jane Fonda, Jayne Mans-
field, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ella Fitz-
gerald, onlookers, on-liquors,
and four happy owners whom
publicity, luck, and the ,lern-
ming instinct have, catapulted to
prosperity.
Patti Valentine, a onetime
Chicago detective who, with
partners Bill Doherty, Charles
Murano, and Paul Raffles -
Chicagoans all - opened P.J.'s
last February, is blunt about his
big draw: "They all come in to
look at one another,"
The trick, of course, was get-
ting a shirt. Probably the big
break came when 'Eddie Fisher
and Liz Taylor brought the
Moiseyev dance troupe to feast
on spareribs, chili, ham and eggs,
and other such homespun goodi-
es at P.J.'s, (The initials stand
for nothing at all.) Eddie and
Liz are still fans, regularly
sending, messengers from the
Beverly Hills Hotel for two or-
ders of chili. And there are lots
of applicants for the two seats
they don't take up. Ordinary
tUrneway on a Saturday night
is 300 people, arid the doorman,
reports: "I was offered $40 in
an hate, one night,, but we have
a 'strict rule: No payoffs to get
in."
No ,place is- perfect, of course,
Tina Lottiie, who had a reaerVa-
Hon, once was refused admis-
5100, because- nobody believed
she was really Tina Louise (she
still calla it "The swingingest
club in town"). And there is,
too, a poitit of di:finishing re-=
Writ, Which in the long view,
may dim the charm of celebrity-
looking, 'Once Gardner Mel<ay
exPlaineel who he Was to a cou-
ple of girls at the bar, °Never
heEted of ya," yawned one, "i
don't watch' TV these nights.
Just sit around here .
DRIVE CAREFULLY - The
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brush wood HOW TO SAVE YOUR
REALLY VALUABLE JEWELS
In Paris, india's glittering Ma-
haranee of ' Baroda dropped a .
pearl of advice. Owner of one
of the world's costliest private
jewel collections,, the Maharanee
said casually- to syndicated col-
umnist Art Buchwald: "My in-
surance people told me to always
leave a little something on the
night, table, like $100,000 worth;
so the thieves won't get mad and
hit you over the head."
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The company has had a sales
representative working in the
East for two years, and considers
its potential market territory to
be from the' East to Denver, and
from the North down into
Texas. "If we try to go West,
we would run into redwood and
western red cedar, and could
hardly be competitive," he ex-
plained.
Although the number of
workers employed at Cedar-
craft's Gladstone plant is com-
paratively small, this is just the
kind of Industry which Mr.
Heimandeclared the area needs.
"The Upper Peninsula has been
looking for small industries for
some time," he said and a num-
ber have moved in. "People here
welcome industries which hire
perhaps only 15 or 20 workers,"
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