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The Brussels Post, 1962-03-29, Page 13NDAY Sa1001 SON *".' ,• • •'" So, the other day a smallish news item in the local paper. at Old Town carried a strange story. it said the Brewer Manufactur- ing Company would close Its doors, dismantle the plant, and go out of business, This decision was reached, said Ray Collett, officer of the cerporation-, be- cause cheap foreign imports had eliminated his markets. For 40. years the Brewer Manufacturing Company had made tool handles, wooden bowls, turned hardwood items 'iike brush handlee, nail handles, Indeed, about anything you can imagine, includiee Weed- ture parts, boxes and novelties, About two years ago I had a brainstorm that almost launched me cm a belated but brilliant in- dustrial career. Up on the Alle- eaeh River the canoeists have long Used a "wangan box." Wan- gan is an Indian word adapted to and camping, and it means, in general, your supplies; The box, about the size of a bushel apple crate, has a hinged cover that makes it tight, two rope beckela for handling, and while it riche; ;wetly in the canoe by day, it makes a chair around camp, keeps raccoons from your • bacon, and otherwise suits the occasion perfectly. • And When we made the Alla- gash trip I nailed a cribbage board to the top of one of these boxes. It was a fine idea—when- ever we stopped somebody would start a cribbage game, and you never had to hunt for the board. You sat on wangan boxes and used the one with the board as a table. It occurred to me that as camp- ing and outdoor vacationing grew • in importance it might just .chance that such a box, with a cribbage board on . top, would be a salable item Everybody going • on a picnic should have one. We could market them as "Original Maine Allagash Wangan .Boxes," *We, an, America,. are „accused of and weekend vaceationieles. o.ft--to.--drIfoing much of our work in pretty the-.wilds could feel like, real• coureurs-de-bois, en merchant dans les forets,, and so forth. I went to Mr: Collett with the idea, he said. he thought it was pretty good, and• he called in his lead- man to design such a box and figure the 'costs', The rest of the story is an econe omic le8son for Americans, Here was a well-equipped, thoughtful-- ey operated, top-notch woodwork- ing inclustey, sitting on. the edge of the nation's largest • wood-pro-, clueing area, andit!lead the sim- ple, eretitine and 'illoroughly at- home . problem of ,making an or 7 dinereeveteoden box With .a,hiriged cover, The best•evood for this job Is eastern white pine, of which we ,have more than anybody. Within easy. trucking of .the standaenetigh pine toenake a box like this •fare every maxi : and woman in the world. Good for- ,estey • practice Skilled harvesting methods, reforestation and rapid natural; growth, ample labor, ex..: collerit fabriCation equipment and techniques — any way you look at it here was chance. Cri4b.ago .139 rd4 And: ,FPrPigo( tatport4 manic, 14 the most forested state in the nation. Forest-based .products are our strongest ,cco- normc .support„ our largest gross value. Although the state is More industrialized then. some realize in shoes, textiles, electronics and other assorted •erees„ pulp, paper and lumber are -the mainstay, Fisheries, agriculture and veca- tion.the are far from minor items, Yet about one out of three resi- dents of the Pine Tree State gains his living from the wilderness resources—and when you stop to realize that hunting, fishing, Mc-. ing, boating, camping and pie- Melting flourish best 'where Lure is abundant, your statistics lap over. A summer hotel may flourish, but it wouldn't unless the timberlands adjacent protect- ed the lake. And so on, 7. i2levated . 30, trains h e ed ctito s tworto .. Intended ra il wa y r ab.) ." for brewing 9. Atistraliiiii 33.. SWlss river , .. bird 35, Treat With 10'. Robot hrarna deference 11. Pratt drink 38.. —inaSeste, Nr 18 ilight high treason ACI''.0.SS 59. Through 20. Roofing niece 40. As it stands 1, Larva of 60. Strict' 21. En-dipped (mile.) 11Ors4,4 ty„'„ , V'. riser .leolinal , Witt nate 43. Before nol.v num i,,,i'. 22, (lbr 45, Seented 4 Seraglio DOWN diminutiVe '47, Of the bar .9. Age of "Margaret • IS. Small 2. Always 1, Sewing On PO, 23. Dog'e name explosion . ( n (ye t . ) 2, Above , poet.) 24. tletircls 49. 13Itter herb 13, Sprivirtit 3,Clan 25. Ole of David's 80. Slake a 1LI, Mire 4. Natural rti fere mistake' 15 Rom hy 3 lodallty 10 Begin to 5, Chills and .. grow fever 17. Cbruirng? 6_ Dirritrsivo 19, nind of , Choc!, t, 21. Cube root , Of one 22, Vast ,i, 24. toi•er of one's: „ country28. Artificial' . langtiar.e 29 gore coUrri feedli# -. (colter.)'' 31. ITer•:1 i-d io hearing St F.,minine , astir:44. Sibalrenhdle. 36. A.Ppend 37. River duck 39., Ore deposits 41. Past ens p ,,,, end Ing: .• 42., Detains 44, rteleritless 44, T,1ttlo girl; 47. October , hirthston 48. nr,es":1‘te. ,_. fra.lberii. 11. Corroded 82. Salamander 65, Of tie 06, Stomach ache' SO.',Tefiehern• fi.§eneln tic's (010 PUZZLE I 3 X 4 g G 7 8 11 ...... ,,,1 1 0 111 2,5 II ti 27 12 ,.*.13 • le • . , •• II 22. Jw 23 324 28 29 31 32 33 s , ,..,, 34 35 nu 37. 38 39 rel 4 , 43 ..%, i e , 44 45 A, . •46 "447 .44. .....1.4>:.,A., ...x........-.; 48 49 50 . 51 :: 52 53 54 55 ' 5b 57,4 ....t...I 58 - - 59 ..; 6° ia .../ i Aiuwe.r. elsetilhere on this Page 26, Of former 51, Roman room times (poet.) 01. Tip 27. NW: name 54. Gypsy tent far Theodore 5.7 graft . sloppy fashion and when one finds missing parts in the body of a brand new automobile, it certainly seems so, It is true in many fields. Many of us do not pay the attention to detail we should pay, and we are much too inclined to think that anyone who is, moving ahead is lucky, Luck, in the, opinion of Cmdr. Shepard, is not something which, happens by chance, but some- thing one makes happen. If the luck is good it simply indicates one has been on his toes, doing the things he 'should have done, and doing them well, And ,bad hick'happens, not by chance, but because one has NOT been on his toes and has NOT done the things he should have done, If this point of view could be- come widespread throughout the nation as a result of Cmdr, Shep- ard's testimony, • he would have contributed fully as much to the nation's morale and brighter fu- ture as he did when he was whirled through space in subor- bital flight, — Cleveland Plain Dealer Famous Astronaut Talks About Luck . Luck, says the dictionary, is "that which happens to a person, as if by chence, in the course of events." This is scarcely the defi- nition Astronaut Alan B. Shep- erd Jr. placed on the word when he appeared to testify before the House Space Committee; the first of three astronauts to do so. He had been asked frequently, he said, "Where do you get your luck?" "We make our own • luck," Shepard told the members of the - committee, "by careful attention to details and duty and design and qualification tests." There is a lesson here for all • of us. A first rate mechanic, for example, gets a *raise. Why? Be- cause the boss thinks he has paid attention to detail and knows what he is doing, This is what makes him a good mechanic, hence eligible for a raise, What could Milne make metre Mame-like than a, pine box far wooOland plea4kuvs?. Wt'll, Mr. Collett's pricer came up with a disappointing figure. It was so high that such a box could be put into the retail market only at a -figure nobody was .1litely to embrace. After all, this is a rough, back-country idea — the box is made 14.4 banged around, sat -upon, and sometimes .dunk- ed in the drink. Why pay mink prices for dog hair? Wages-and- hours, oppressive corporation taxes, fringe benefits, paid holi- days, and a dozen other .compli- cation of the American way eon- Spired to force Mr, Collet to. quote me a price the wangan box 'would never fetch, He pointed out that it would be made of tile finest stock, sturdily jointed,. with adequate hardware. No- body would, or could, do it bet- ter but there was the price and that was that. Then he said an odd thing; He smiled a mite wanly, shrugged a bit, and said, "Of course, if you'll take it in Japanese plywood, we can halve the cost." Somehow an original. Maine Allagash wangan box, with cribbage board, made from Japanese plywood didn't ap- peal to Inc. As I hearken: to the free-flow- ing philosophies about world markets and our economic I come back every time to Ray. Collett and my wangan box. When a man standing - in the thickest of America's . largest continuous forest can•import wood from Japan at half the price of his own backyard raw material, we are not exactly dealing in philosophies,; We aren't going on any picnic, either. — By John Gould in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. SOWER. OF SEED — An airplane to used to seed strip mine pits near Montrose, Mo. A combination of brome grass, orchard grass, fescue, (alfalfa and lespedeza is used in effort to restore vegetation to the strip coal mine pits, progrem for beef cattle, launch,. .d in 1906, enables breeders 14. compare rates of gain of animals in their own herds as a basis for hem: improvement, 'Under- the plan, a breeder must have, a Min imum of five calves of the same sex from the same sire and born. • within a 90-day period. In 'addi- tion, . they Must get the same. treatment up to weaning. -* Recommendations made )ask fall by the National Advisory Committee have been incorpor-• ated into • the 1961-62. HOP pro- gram. The recommendations were: 1, 'Use of age-of-dam correc- tion factors, determined from • BOP. results, to adjuSt rate of pain 'In -the pre-weaning period.. 2. Elimination of the 'practice. of adjusting the weaned weight to a standard age of 180 days. 3 Extension of the -acceptable age range for entry on test to cover from 160 to 250 days of age at weaning. (Previous limits were 150 to 210 days), • 4. Acceptance of Charolais herds for test on the• basis of a sex-sire group of five calves eligible for registration. The calves must be produced from purebred dams or recorded darns with a minimum of 15/16 Char- olais breeding. 5. A federally supervised car- cass appraisal program fOr ap- plication in ROP beef herds. . A federally supported anti supervised progeny testing pro- gram for beef bulls in AI service.. That chemists have been ex- erting themselves on behalf of the farmer is apparent from the fact that 10 new chemicals ap- pear among the pesticides reg- istered with the Canada De- partment of Agriculture in 1961. Additional evidence is that about 350 new pest control prod- ucts are registered each year, * .5 For the first time a living organism — Bacillus thuringi- ensis Berliner — has been reg- istered for control of insects. It kills caterpillars on tobacco and vegetable crops and is contained in a dust and a wettable powder available to Canadian farmers through commercial channels. * * Dominion Bureau of Statistics records a jump of 24 per cent in the sale of pesticides in the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 1961. Total value was reported by 500 Canadian distributors to be $33.7 million, compared with $27 mil- lion 'in the corresponding period in 1959-60. The total has gone up 70 per cent in four years. About 95 per cent of the sales are made by 150 firms. Increases in sales were made in all classes, of pesticides. Last year's sales involved: agricultur- al sprays and dusts $12.3 million; livestock treatments $2.4 mil- lion; herbicides $10.3 million; household and industrial insec- ticides $7.4 million; rodenticides $0.56 million; and miscellaneous products $0.67 million, Bacterial ring rot is present in all potato producing , areas in North America, says a govern- ment expert. To get a crop free of this disease, the grower should: use only Foundation seed; dispose of all contaminated potatoes; and avoid recontarnina- lien by disinfecting all equip- nient, machines, gloves, sacks, that have been in contact with •' other .potato creps, *'5 ...Breeding is under way on mink ranches across Canada. With 450,000 females held over tie this purpose last fall, opera- tors ate looking for a.production of 1,500,000 kits which, after normal losses, will give a crop of some 1,$50,000 pelts for sale at auctions, By the end of March this year, fully 95- per' cent of the domestic pelt crop will have been disposed of at satisfactory prices and breeders are con8e quently teeing the future with optimism, * The Record of Performance program for beef cattle showed a substantial increase in activity in the 1960-61 test year. Although the number of herds oh test increased only to 133 froth 120 the previous year, the number of calves tested rose to 3,378 from 2,565, The total com- prised 983 Aberdeen, Angus, 2,109 Herefords and 281 Shorthorns, Number of herds and calves tested last Veer by provined Were! New Brunswick, it and g8; Manitoba, 6 and 187; Sas- leatche*ati, 44 and 1,016; Al- berta, 63 and 1,79$; British Col- &Ala, 9 and 224, * * In pre-weatifyig teats, Male calves showed an average daily weight gain of 2.0 pounds and females' 1.8 pounds. PoSt-wean- irig galria averaged 1.98 ,pounds daily for male vi'ives and 1,28 pounds for females. The dip in weight gain for.-fe- males in post weaning is the re- sult of a lower level of feeding provided in the winter menthe. During both pre- and post- weaning periods, difference in performance between top and bottom one-third of the calves tested was half a pound per day. This provides ample scope for selection based on performance, ' 4 The federal-provincial ROP (First of Series) By FERNAND GIGON Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. NEW YORK, — The "Great Leap ForWard" once extolled by Chinese propaganda is finished. The back yard blast furnaces which dotted the Communist Chinese landscape are no more, They were to supply the nation with its iron and steel, but in- dustrial smelters with Soviet machinery have taken over the job. Gone, too, are the dormitor- ies where men slept on one side and women on the other. Gone are the community kitchens where peasants ate the same meal cooked -in an immense cauldron. Gone are the work brigades of 250 to 350 persons who would fall on a field like a flight of birds to till and har- vest the land. No longer are children raised away from their parents. In less than two years' these features of the rural people's commune have disappeared. The super-brains of the Com- munist regime, who perhaps have never set foot in a field, are forced to admit the failure of their policy which they im- posed on 500 million peasants. But, despite failure they will not admit defeat, They still Maintain that they will "straight- en the thinking of each Chinese end raise his ideological con- science." I asked officials for permis- Sion to visit a rural commune and perhaps to stay there two or -three days. The official an- swered my question with only a shrug of his shoulders, Several future requests were iii vain. The People's Republic of China cannot bear to display the evidence of its disastrous policy, visible in the furrows of the grain fields' and rice paddies Of the south, However; I succeeded iri three tointhunes during my 750-inite trip from Wuelistig to Shanghai down the Yangtze * w 4, They Were,- of courses rieli alid Preeperotte c 6 it ni i h e § wills li work W, They dell e' SiloWti to a foreigner who' will be led to believe that they rep, resent a 1 24,000 Coilibetille8 'across the face of China, One of these communes which I visited was a community of 23,000 persons under the leader- ship of Kwang Yong Fe, an able director who rose to his position from the laboring class. Kwang is very popular with the work- ers in his Commune. In the prev- ious year he had distributed to the commune members an aver- age of 247 yuan. (a yuan is worth about 40 US, cents). To the local citizens he distributes the har- vest of the commune. Only then does the government receive its share, On Kwang's commune, called Tang Wei, three of the four community tractors were park- ed broken in a yard. `Until me- chanics could come to repair them the peasants hauled out their old wooden plows, and at- tached their buffalo to them as their ancestors had done for generations. Muscle power is still the main source of energy in China — as it has been for centuries. Tang Wei is a singing com- mune. I asked Director Kwang for a translation of some of the workers' songs, Some of the titles" The S on g of the Clothes"; "Song of the Cotton"; "Song of the Vegetables." Heavy with propaganda, some of the lyrics went like this: tev. R. Barclay Warren,. ILA.„ 11,1). ISSUE 15 — 1962 "Previously we had holes In our hats and shoes without soles. Our skin was our only dress, Today our heads are cov- ered by a new hat and our body is clad in seven layers of cotton. We also have seven pairs Of shoes." A team of girls was busy at Tang Wei when I arrived, spray- ing insecticide on the fields, An increase in the insect popula- tion had been, the result of a program to massacre crop-de- stroying birds. The successful bird eradication program killed the bugs' natural enemies, * * Money is now used as a strong incentive to increase ag- ricultural and other production, Because of this capitalistic-type competition there often exists a black market in reverse in the rural areas. Sometimes the amount of produce which a pea- sant has for sale is so great that he must keep his prices cut well below the official level. Chick- ens, rabbits, pigs and fruit are offered for sale in the market Pl4Actes a. collective called the Oc- tober Commune, an autocratic director named. Wang pointed proudly toward the fields. "Here, whoever works hard makes big Money," he said, "Look what the eting nit country jn gloom, 1.31,ft soon the fog lifted and the rest of the; message was received, It • 'Wellington Defeated tho F.nerny." What repicingi As Christ died On the cross, darkness. deepened for gis leer- ful followers. Calvary seemed tU spell out, "Jews Defeated." It appeared that Satan had tri- umphed. When suelaenly, on Eas- ter morning The darkness lifted, Tile gloom dispelling n e w 3 Sprci4Ch "Jesus. Defeated Death!" We rejoice in the triumph of our Savour! Unfortunate Deal In Real Est.a.to An astronomy buff since boy. hood, TV's Dave Garroway set up an observatory — complete: with 121/2 -inch telescope — at ,his summer place in Westhamn, ton. Beach, N.Y. But a constant. • salt spray corroded the alurnin- urn-surfaced reflectors, and Gar- roway packed up his scope and.. put the property up for sale. Last week, he sold it for $39,500 to 43-year-old Gerald Fisher, a $35,000-a-year New York box manufacturer.. Less than 24 hours after Fisher took title, storm- swollen seas demolished the seven-room house and its fur- nishings, the two garages, the. observatory — everything but a solitary fence post. Although in- sured, and hopeful of recovering. his monetary losses, buyer Fish- er seemed shaken by what he called "the psychological aspect" of the housebreaking, Sympa- thetic seller Garroway said: "I'm - very sorry for him, naturally. But you can't e••Il off a sale that's been made."' upsidedown to ['revert; P t''g N al DV eing10 a a N 1 1110 e 3 f 111121 Mel ' ale 6 Er', S 1 HICI • a orm Ele10 aiiiw 1 -.'" .N , ?:1 3 _1 ei S 0 a aneC2 EI --1©y 2:19 0 ;;, 3 el Ong `)pis," C"IEJEI Oa a a EIC3 peasants do with the land the government has given them and where they can grow whatever they want," Wang, not a very capable ad- ministrator, made up for his 1010t...Tance by thundering at his 32,000 peasants, But he under- stood his directives well from Peiping. In another commune, at the village of Ho Chen, I walked with a group of commune lead- ers to the fields for a first-hand look at the Chinese peasant at work, Suddenly I saw a small child run ahead of us and disap- pear into a corn field, He was to alert the workers that we were arriving. When we reached the peas- ants they were, indeed, hard at work. But not a single drop of sweat was on their faces, and their new shirts were still sharp- ly creased, * This artificial display of zeal does not diminish the quality of the Chinese peasant in my mind. I consider him one of the best farthers in the world. What is embarrassing is this mixture of propaganda and work offered as a spectacle for the foreign visitor to China, So goes life in the P:eaple"s' comnittne8 in China, They are: prosperous if well directed, but miserable if the local director'i incompetence combines with the delirious policy of the party, But whatever their fail- ures or successes, the agricul- tural communes adapt- theme selves well to the earth and. mentality of China. Next; The Black 'Market FA1);ING' STAR Her long blond curls Veiling -"Ore eye; 'half-pint -actress Ver- onica Lake catapulted to Holly- wood glory during World War II, and plunged from stardom almost .as„ abruptly,.,, Last. month, The New IforitA POS(.51/7KVtthe former peekaboo girl—now 42, with her 'Illair''.draWri back—working as a hostess-waitress-barmaid in the taproom of a woman's hotel in Manhattan, She spoke vaguely of - writing an autobiography and of trying a comeback in show bus- Mees, and She joked about • her three divorces. Of her old movies, which she sometimes sees on television, Veronica said: "I don't believe anybody was ever that young," CHRIST REIGNS Matthew 28:1.10; 10.20; Ilebrews 10,14 --- Memory Selection; Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to re- ceive power, and riches, and wis- dom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and, blessing, Revela- tlon 5;12 The Easter lesson is the climax. of the first four lessons of this quarter. They have been focussed upon Christ; Christ as the centre of our faith; growing in the grace and knowledge of Christ; our re- sponse to the Cross of Christ; and now, the reign of the resur- rected Christ. When Christ arose from the dead, the chief priests and elders bribed the guards to lie and tell that the disciples had stolen the body of Jesus while they slept. How foolish! A corpse in the hands of the disciples would have witnessed to the failure of Jesus. But instead, they heard from his lips, a commission to tell all na- tions about him. We have been slow in the task. The last portion of the lesson starts with the Son, then pro- gressively shows him .as the "Heir of. all things," Creator of the worlds, the brightness of God's glory and express image of His person, sustaining the worlds, making atonement for sins and finially taking his position at the right hand of the throne. My friend, Claude Horton, wri- ting in Arnold's Commentary, tells again how the news of Wel- lington's victory over Napoleon reached England, It came by ves- sel to the south coast and by semaphore was wig-wagged over- land toward London. Atop Win- chester Cathedral the semaphore began to spell out the message, D-e-f-e-a-t- e-d." Then dense fog settled over the land. The incomplete mes- sage went on to London, blank- 1141 CHINA MUSCLE- POWER: Much Of ilia work in china it elorli Oi if hot 6044 f{if cohturiet sweat and naked riluscio, 1.5•;,10