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1 MUSIC CRITICS? — No, they are members of Britain's
famed Coldstream Guards rehearsing for a concert. They
are firing blanks from box in London's Albert Hall prepar-
ing for their part in Beethoven's "Battle Symphony," during
which various realistic military sound effects will be used,
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PARTY GAMES
vAtcrx Games: Adult's, Children's'
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:dn.(' Dayton 5. Ohio.
Aim far High Profits
With frigid,', laiest in the ;Tinier-meth
machine business, lteeently advertised
an '1' V., Ratite anal Newspaper-', Mr.
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-Ile shoots just like real. Ideally to.
cated by us In Super Markets. Shopping
Centres. Bowling Lanes, Amusement
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financed on liberal terms. For a per-
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interested panties . contact the National
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Ottawe. Ont.
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order tr. ltelMer .
SNOW SCULPTRESS—Secre-
tary Margaret Taylor forgoes
her tea break to fashion a
miniature snowman on win-
dow sill outside her office in
very wintry London, England.
BUSINESS PROPERTIES FOR SALE
GENERAL STORE
LOCATED in Village South of City of
Barrie, near Lake Simeoe. Solid brick
building 40 x 60 with modern living
quarters above. Illness forces owner to
sacrifice this thriving business for
$22,000.00 plus stock at cost. Down pay-
ment $5,000.00 plus stock,. Yearly turn.
over $51,000.00, Phone or write for fur.
ther particulars. This is a wonderful
buy.
SERVICE STATION, G1iRAGE WITH
GENERAL STORE
RESTAURANT & CAB(NS
THIS fully equipped business including
living quarters located north of - OR'
ILLIA on No. 11 Highway. Owner
wishes to retire, Full pricce $80,000.00
plus stock at cost Down payment
$25,000.00 with 1st mortgage for bal.
once at 6% with fair principal pay.
ments. Yearly turnover 990,000.00 and
all records to confirm. Phone or write
for further particulars. See this bust.
ness first heron! ever eonsidcring
new venture.
On evenlnes for the above call Wm.
Adams, Severn Bridge, MU. 9-1341
.1 ie "Joe" MacDonald
Real Estate and Mortgage Broker
38 Peter St South
ORILLIA, ONTARIO
PhOne PAirview 5,5070 ANY'rimE
...;`AMPS
100 DIFFEREN1 stumps Rie
To Collectors Retteesting ',uprose's.
Winston Philpott
BotwoueNx11.3r, Canart.
pliOJEre MERCURY s.::nip on souve:
nir rose 111:411141•Ited cap.‘ CanaVera.
date and hours of Johu Glenn's recov.
•ery 15e each:. With engraved cachet
.35e -- 3 for it. St Mills. 211 Dunning
't., bandits, Ontario
$1.00
56,1111 cat.
MIXTURE
American and Canadian
Commemoratives
A few good foreign, One order only,
plem,e.
SMALL FRY STAMP
O Trenton nt aria
CATALOGUES
:FARM HELP WAN•TEP.-MAt.E"
1WANT411 • • IV. II men to 1'• 1.441a -
VI, If .71111%
1);15 Nei:Et-4115e. uutia y.a.we
tilt No, 1, t4t
Ontmlo
rtal-LY teipverenced• wiriteck. Watt foi
purebrect Holstein Dares Farm, SETA
rare Write 'datum aims and
letter; ;ilea refer
4.-nce "Hn a. porypets emplowr W
WesieN Were - Mt 1 ilumpton. fhlt
FARMS FOR SA1,0
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voititiotton
4 itet PS in ineple Ie;t1.. *Trine reed:,
ritiod limn,. bank barn 60%60, nee pen. hen pim z)bovr. 3ex5ii, water. liydrii
thremehe !I .,17.(er , ,•,,errly Irene Gil
nee Illt e_or Milted Deivithr.
re! Pk l i, Mour.t. Forest
1•.1 1'11 Foe aeres tinder' eel.
tnatem Rome rind buildings ere In
;mild shape: Apply • Ii,'. Clay ton Belch-
eirl. Inc No t, south Cayuga,
/arm near us.intwit.
Inlet Mane. piodern kitchen 2-
.bathr oornt, II,' living rosin with broad.
jowl:, 1119 acros ot relied; medium ela
loam, trout stream running through
ceder bush Contact Hove and. Peters.
Bealiore, -67 King tit. E., Oshawa, •725I
4741.
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FARM, 145 acres complete with eteelt
end (.M111)11101/, 2 'louses. 5 barns. 2
silos, spring water, Mostly new power
machinery with 2 tractors,. 20 milk
el ,ws and 10 heifers, mainly Jer.sev 4
sovs and purebred Landthee
Health reasou for selling. Government
approved farm Leonard. Parker, 'Sled.
ford •
SALE due to illness, 1011 acres guild
land. self drained. Modern 7 rooms and
bath. halt me! 4 )'ei'r,s. all new alumin-
• urn siding, and .Storemore storms and
screens Bank barn 15x75, upper Part
new, -I ers... other buildings Scheel
buses snail • milli routes past door
In Warwick Twp., Lumbton Co
mile No 7 11 Immediate possesaiOn
Owner wm. WL%nael.. •43 Wl.cle St.,
Leernine1,011. -Oil Reasonable clown
payment,
FOR SALE - MISCELLANEOUS
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S1.411 TABLE Bowling Alleys on alum-
inum bases. Five halls in cups ino•pinsi.
Orbit, 211 Est:ore Drive, Toronto 12, Ont.
GOATS & LAMBS WANTED
PALETTA TIROS
. MEAT PACKERS LTD.
'tvANTED
Baby goats and spring lambs
Highest prices according to qual-
ity Write 600 MOUNTAIN BROW
BLVD.. HAMILTON till CALL
I'U 7,7474. . • .
GRASS •sEED•
GREEN PASTURE SCARCE?
SORGHUM GRASS MAY
ANSWER YOUR PROBLEM
Nine foot growth In sand and gravel
soil. Farmer at Enderby,. B C. pastured
stock calves in Sorghum until snow
fall, Dairy farmer pastured his cows
on Sorghum when his other pasture
failed, through drought. Prove to your•
self what this grass may do in your
area This annual grass is good for
pasture or hay. Easy to bale and cure.
Ten pounds delivered. for 515.50;
Twenty4lve pounds, for $37 50 deity.
erect, Requires about We to three
pounds per acre for row crop- Place
your order now. All No 1 seed.
C. E, KINGSTON DIST. CO. LTD.
Box 424, Kamloops, B.C.
LISTENING DEVICES
iNVESTIGATORSI Write for free bro.
chore on latest subminiature electron-
ic listening devices. Clifton Electronic
Devices, 11500 NW 7th Avenue. Miami
50, Florida.
MALE HELP WANTED
GYPROC Lathers & Roofer for new
houses & experiereeed farm hand for
deity farm. Goresla Roofing & Lathing,
Port Perry, Ont.
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65 Nova Sewn( St., Port Burwell,
Ontario
How They Try To
Hoodwink Pollee,
Although hit-and-run drivers
frequently try to hoodwink po-
ike with a \ I,r1Uly of ru.w.•
a losing propsition. Police are
on to all the tricks, and all the
errant motorist ran expect to
u r t h e r inerirninale - himself.
Here are some of thy ploys and
ruses, and why they- don't .work.
Driver .p.ht,niu.: jn and wp )rt-
Ing 'his car 'been - stolen. But
if police are-: looking for a -hit-
and-run car re:-.embling s
"stolen" car, they w:11 i•Alt tor
every minute detail of the
"theft". The driver who begins
contradicting himself or "can't
remember" crucial details- will
be warned -that giving a false
report to the police is an ofit.mse
(public mischief) carrying a $50.
fine. Few drivers persist in lying
beyond this point.
Daliberately gelling into a
mid minor accident to cover up.
the dam-age from the first. Wa-
lice on the lookout for a certain
hit-and-run car keep cross-
checking the descriptions of cars
involved in other accidents.)
• Claiming that somebody had
borrowed the car and must have
been driving at the time. (This
calirb.: becomes shaky when pollee
demand a list of all the people
who might have borrowed the
a
"Forgetting" who was at the
wheel during the accident. (At
best, this is only a stalling tac-
tic.)
Admitting knowing who was
driving, but refusing to say.
(Police - parry this ohe `by' quot-
ing a little-known amendment to
the Criminal Code• that-makes a
passenger in -a hit-and-run car
just as culpable asAlie•tirlyer4
Freely admitting full knowl-
edge of the accident but insisting:
that -all the proper exchanges of
names and addresses took place
— with -a person whose name
has now been forgotten' or mis-
placed. (This is a tough story to-
shake when all the other circum-
stances make it feasible — but
they seldom do.)
Reporting in as a victim of a
hit-anderun, (This one is the ul-
timate in nerve and gall. It must
sound plausible, must be con-
firmed by Ovidence police find
around the fictitious scene, must
seem to negate evidence gath-
ered at the --ITO scene, and must
account in detail for the damage
to be found on the phony com-
plainant's car. But rarely does.)
1 COINS WANTED
( YOUR old coins may bo valuable. High.
est prices for Canadian and American.
Illustrated Catalogue 50c, Coronet
Coins, 1611 Church St., Toronto 2, Ont. . . . . ^ v.
MECHANIC
An excellent opportunity exists for em-
ployment of a mechanic or automotive
machinist in Hamilton, Ontario, Our
shop operates 52 weeks per year, we
have tt pension plan, 2 group insurance
plans and excellent wage scale. Apply
with full details to: P.O. Box 89, Sta-
tion "C". Hamilton, Ontario.
MEDICAL
NATURE'S HELP — DIXON'S
REMEDY FOR RHEUMATIC PAINS,
OR NEURITIS SHOULD TRY
DIXON'S REMEDY.
MUNRO'S DRUG STORE
335 ELGIN OTTAWA
$1.25 Express Collect
How Cart I?
KS gouts Ler
Q. How can I save the paint
that invariably collects in the in-
dented rim of a paint can, flows
down the- outside of the can, and
is wasted?
A. Punch a couple of nail holes
in the bottom of this indented
rim, and the paint will run hack
into the can again.
SHEEP FOR SALE
• KARAKUL
FOR SALE' Karakul iBlack Persian;
lambs nd ewes Edward E. Dickey,
R.6, Brempton, Ontario.
SWINE FOR SALE „—
TBE Ontario Landrace SW111 Associa.
Don's 1001 Consignment Sale will be
held on the 14th April at the Brampton
Livestock Exchange, Snelgrove. All ern.
male government inspected Bred gilts,
open gilts and boars will be offered.
Mrs. Dorothy Simmons, Secretary...treas.
urer. It R. No. 1, 'London Telephone
052-3507.
TRACTORS FOR SALE
INTERNATIONAL TRACTOR
Clearing a completely rebuilt 194(1 In.
ternational Farman Tractor, complete
with side cutting mower attachment -
Sacrifice Price 039500. Standard En.
eines, Equipment & Supplies Limited,
516 Parkdale Ave, N.. Hamilton, On-
taLio,
TRADE SCHOOLS
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Argon courses Canada Welding Can-
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L o In it 2
,ind
IlesLl N
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-6283
milton Shop
04 5
WELDING MACHINES FOR . SALE
200 AMP
PORTABLE WELDERS
We ere (dealing our full stock of Lin.
coin & Hobart Portable Welding Mach.
Ines All overhauled. 9401.W each and
Ur. Standerd Engines, Equipment &
tsuelilica Limited, Pertattii., Avenue
N .
YOUNG OTTERS WANTED
WILD IMALS
Society tor Promotion of Wildlife. imd
Fervid Conservation Inc , tt.n. 2, Stev-
ensville, Ontario.
POST'S ECZEMA SALVE
BANISH the torment of dry eczema
rash's mid weeping skin troubles.
Post's Eczema Salve will not disappoint
you Itching scalding and burning ecze-
ma, acne, ringworm. pimples and foot
eczema will respond readily to the
stainless. Odorless ointment regardless
of how stubborn et hopeless thee seem
Sent Post Free on Recelpi of Price
PRICE $3.50 PER JAR
POST'S
1365 St, Clair Avenue East
Toronto
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MONEY TO LOAN
DOGS FOR SALE.
SAMOYEDS, St. Bernards, Scotch Col,
Lies. German Shepherds, Fox Terriers,
etc All purebred and registered.
Agents for all breeds Terms to 20
months available,. Jerdon Kennels, 47
St Paul Street, Brockville, 1)1-2.3441.
LAB. RETRIEVER
PUPPIES
CM' Registered
Excellent show and field stock
Pedigree furnished.
Health guaranteed.
Whelped 17 Dee., '01
The world's best Retriever and (.0m•
panion clog.
Also some trained pups, 9 months
old. from champion stock.
• STUD SERVICE
HAWKRIDGE KENNELS Rey'd
'1110 Lakeshore Rd,
Sarnia, Ont. - KI 2-5270
Sterling's Car
Always Breaks Down
"If you want to interview me,"
British race driver Stirling Moss
told a reporter the day before
the twelve-hour Sebring (Fla.)
Grand Prix of Endurance last
month, "see me a few .hours after
the race starts, After my car
breaks up, It will break' up, you
know." -
Moss was wrong, His red No.
26 Ferrari, a three-year-old,
front-engine model, held up well
enough for Moss and his team-
mate, .ones Ireland of Scotland,
-to lead the race after seven
hours, Then their hopes ended
abruptly. No. 26 was disqualified
for refueling without completing.
the- required twenty laps be-
. tWeen. pit stops. "That wasn't
very fair," said Moss, "We had
come in for brakes and tires..
When the pit steward opened the
tanks, the mechanics put in gas."
With Moss out, the Ferrari
driven by 'To Bonnier of Sweden
and Lucien Bianchi of Belgium
won the race. Once again, Moss,
physically, technically, and psy-
dhologically the best driver
alive, had been thWarted,
The previous clay, in a three-
hour race for Grand Touring
cars under 1,000 cc., Moss had
another unhappy experience.
Early' in the race, on a wet
course, where skill meant more
than power, Moss's superior han-
dling kept his Austin-Healey
Sprite ahead of the faster Fiat-
Ahaeths. But once the course
dried, no amount of skill could
comBensate _for a .lack nt horse--
power. Moss finished third; New
Zealand's Bruce McLaren, in. an
Abarth, won. "Oh, Well," said
Moss, "It was fun while it last-
ed."
Moss, has grown accustom-
ed to disappointment, His failure
to get the best cars hurt him most
in Grand Prix competition, the
matches among purebred racing
machines which determine the'
world driving championshipe.
Moss refuses to sign with a fac-
tory team; the factories, in turn,
refuse to sell him their latest and
heat cars: So he often competes
in one- or two-year-old models.
Despite this, he has been runner-
up to the world driving champ-
ionships four times. "It doesn't
frustrate me any more," he said,
"After all, suppose I won the
Championship, What would be
left? I'd have to retire,"
Invisibie Poor in
the Wilted States
wag; 25 years ago tha t Frank-
lin Peoeovelt looked out and saw
one-third of his nation "ill.
botisefl, ill clad, and ill ,nourisli-
ed.," May., in an America vele-
tirated for history's highest
standard of living, few would
argue th•at the Conditions depict-
ed iri Roosevelt'e second inau,
prat have not vastly improved.
And yet in an eye-opening new
book ("The Other eknierica,u
Macmillan), a young .social critic
naineel Michael Harrington. has
tumid up an "economic under-
world" in the U.S. with no fewer
than 40 million to 30 million
inhahitante, Harrington's claim
to be heard is based on two years
with a Roman Catholic social-
service group on New York's
Bowery and past studies of
American poverty for such mag-
azince as Commentary and the
Partisan Review.
The U,S, Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics figures that about $6,100 is
en "adequate" annual budget for
an urban family of four. Har-
rington takes half of this figure
as his standard of poverty, and
arrives at the staggering numbers
above, Over-all, however, he says
that "the new poverty . „ cannot
be defined in simple statistical
terms," Harrington tries to do it
through revealing detail;
"Poverty is often off the beaten
track. The ordinary tourist ,
rides interstate turnpikes. He
does not go into the valleys of
Pennsylvania where the towns
look like movie sets of Wales in
the '30s." •
"Death plays a peculiar role in
the life of (Harlem) . . Under-
, takers are among the most re-
specter) members of the Negro,
middle class . . . Dying is a mo-
ment of style and status, at least
in the impoverished world. of the
racial ghetto."
"Clothes make the poor invis-
ible • . . America has the best-
dressed poverty th'e world has
ever known .e.. It is much easier
in the United States to be decent-
ly dressed than it is. to be decent-
ly housed, fed, or doctored, Even
people with terribly depressed
Incomes can look prosperous."
"Once depression hits an area,.
its very life seems to leave .
And then the vicious circle be-
gins to work. Because a place is
poor and dispirited, manufactur-
ers don't want to locate there;
because of this, the area becomes
even poorer."
"For most middle-class Ameri-
cans, aid to 'farmers' is a gigan-
tic giveaWay, a technique for
robbing the urban millions and
giving to the countryside. Yet
the poor farmers do not, for the
most part, receive a cent as a-
result of these laws."
According 'to •Harrington,
political and . eacigleeteLS,
e`' utctdte 'that only the Federal
government is capable of acting
to .abolish poverty. ("in saying
this, I do not rejoice . ,") But
he is leeilthan • hopeful, that it
will be done, For while there is
information. enough for action,
Harrington says that political
will is lacking.
Whether' or not readers agree
with Harrington's answer, his
presentation of the problem is
impressive. It is a shame that
"".1.he Other America" will prob-
ably not sell very well, The cam-
forteble majority isn't interested.
enough, and the people who are
can't afford $4 for a 191-page
book. From NEWSWEEK
Rhinos breed only once in ev-
ery two or three years and ustial-
ty have a single calf.
Hope is the desirable and valu-
able quality which spurs the
baseball fan into a new season
with the idea his home team may
come out of the cellar and into
the sunlight of the first division
in league standings.
rurirosomaarrorronvoreemorarry
IT'S NEW: The Aqub pen is a new
concept in writing instruments. Sub.
merge the 14K gold point in ordinary
tap water (diluting the highly concert-
trated ink in the cartridge) presto
you're ready to write with genoin4
Ink. Cartridge lasts about two year(
(refills 3 for $1.), Manufacturer's
time service guarantee for free re*
Pairs. Black, grey, maroon, red, men,
blue, 52.98.
BETTY SMITH ENTERPRISES
Dept. 6. 29 Brightside ,Avenue
East Northport, New York ISSUE. 15 — 1965
MORTGAGE LOANS
Money available for immediate loan
OD First and Second Mortgages, and
Agreements for sale, on vacant and
improved property, residential, tedus,
trial, city, suburban and country, And
summer cottages, Forty years expert.
once,
SUMMERLAND SECURITIES LIMITED
112 Sirecee Street North
OSHAWA, 'Ontario
Phone) 725.3568
wiqghttr,
"I'll thank you to stop refer-
ring to our place• as your
ROOFS"
Listening To A
Porpoise Chorus
We were 2 miles off the north
coast of Florida on the blue
waters of the Gulf 'of Mexico.
The. white sands of the beach
gleamed in the distance. A few
'Heathery clouds were scattered
here and there across the other-
wise clear sky. I had just shut
off the motor, and our boat — a
gray Navy speedboat known
technically as a "24-foot plane
personnel boat" — was drifting
inethe -light swell!.
We had stopped because we
had sighted a school of dolphins
or porpoises playing or fishing
about half a mile away. Our mis-
sion was to listen to the under-
water noises made by free or
wild porpoises in their natural
state and if passible to obtain
tape recordings of their sounds...
There must have been nearly
twenty in the group — a rather
large number for this locality,
When within 50 or 75 feet of our
craft, they all submerged and
swam directly beneath us. Look-
ing down through the water, we
coast see dark shapes streaking
swiftly past.
During all this time, the only
noise we heard them make in the
air was the "whoosh" of exhaling
breath as their blowholes were
modientarily out of water at the
top of each arc and even this
was audible only when they were
close to the boat.
But the underwater listening
gear told a very different story.
The intermittent tapping or sput-
tering which had been barely
discernible from the speaker
when the animals first turned in
our direction grew in intensity
and in continuity as they ap-
proached. When emitted by a
single porpoise alone, this noise
—as we had learned beforele
a concatenation of clicks or
01acks such es might be produced
by a rusty hinge if it were open-
ed slowly, It was soon apparent,
however, that a number of the
animals were making the sounds
together, and more seemed to
join the chorus as they came
nearer, Superimposed upon this
increasing clatter was an occa-
sional birdlike whistle resembl-
ing the "cheep" of a canary,
As they came Still closer, the
sputtering noises continued to
grow louder and still louder.
Taken together, they suggested
the rear of an approaching rail-
road train, except perhape that
they Were more irregular. By the
time the group was about ready
to niche its final dive, the ere
scendo froth the speaker iii our
boat had become a clattering din
which amidst drafted out the
human voice,
Then abruptly, ee if by prear-
ranged signal, it stopped whole.-
tely and left us in ehockirig site
erite, At that ilienient, they SWAM'
beneath the bbat, A single'bark-
like Sfittild was now repeated
. Once or twice, - and the porpoises
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