The Brussels Post, 1962-11-03, Page 2Pgeons—The P9or
Man's, Raco-Horse
A elaa-sided . truck drove WO
a 'Veld near Chat'
One morning last neenta and
bumped gingerly to a halt. A
man got out, walked to the war
Ltf the vehicle, and raied. the
Sidee. At onto dozens of -beaked
heeds on gray, feathery ntetkat
ahaved forwatal, beady eyee peer-iin;suepicinwly. The. man jump-
ed back. as a few birds flapped
Out of the stacked crates, follow-
ed immediately • by mere and
then still more-1.400 in all, flys
Inn truck-nigh for several yards
and then ewarming upward, their
wings beating eta an angry roar,
like a bassbell crowd geeetieg a
aPelee Marie stripe-out,
This Was the start 4 One et .the
big hentite-pigeon races of the
as.st. Coast tail etnion. The birds
wetnd travel all day at about 40
mites en ']lour--with occasional
tar--wind sp:nate up to 75-and
Teaelt their home roosts around
New York City, 300 miles away,
by sundown,
Sal Rueeti :igured his best bird
foe a likely winner. but .she fin-
ished fifth. A .Bronx ucte;untant,
-Rateao i an .example of the new
type ct pigeon fancier and a: far
ery fraud; the .stereotyped shun
boy wietfully tending his halt-
- clozn titan. au a tenement roof.
"Kaaliiite nisieen.; is tan expeaeive.
hethee" h. eeye. "With training
and] ahippiag .tents. f spend $40 a
wcoh durine :seeing seasons, and
about et1.00O all year around on
100 rigeons- Some of the racing
birds are worth $200. I've turned
down $500 for a female 'breeder."
But. the returns ore also high
these days. At some of the larg-
er meets, prizes and betting
gaols yield thousands of dollars
to.the owners of successful birds.
the financial stakes have
risen; the hazards of the sport
remain the same. For pigeons
are not the most dependable of
creatures, and they are capable
of disastrous mistakes, Thirsty
racers in California have been
known to swoop low over oil
sumps, thinking they were water,
and oil-log their wings. One pi-
geon, released outside Los An-
geles and aimed for his home 25
miles away, was ultimately dis-
covered perched in some bewild-
erment on a trey beside a lock of
the Panama Canal, And once a
bird, gets lost he's forever useless
for racing; his confidence is gone,
Some fanciers go to great
lengths to coax maximum speed
from their racers, For example,
'they use motherhood ruthlessly.
A setting pigeon will suddenly
become aware that one of her
eggs-which she had assumed
was several days from hatching
-has mysteriously become al-
most a point. Not realizing that
a substitution has been made, the
bird will be cutraged when she
is taken abruptly from her nest,
crated, and transported to the
race, Once released, she will fly
back to her eggs with the great-
est possible speed.
Such tactics are condoned in
the • best pigeon-racing circles,
from California and Texas to
Michigan and Pennsylvania. The
fanciers have matter-of-factly ac-
knowledged their fierce competi-
tiveness by adopting cheatproof
mechanical timers for their con-
courses, where victory -margins
are .measured in split seconds.
The lure of the sport was caught
very simply not long ago by
Paul Bothner, a California high-
way . patrolman who has raced
pigeons for nearly 30 years. "A
racing pigeon," Bothner said as
he waited fcr his own birds to
finish a concourse," is a ' poor
man': race horse,"
-from NEWSWEEK
Wu4Dow CLEANING — Arno Meyei, who built this large
sailing model of the "Eagle of Lubeck" is really a window
Gleaner, He builds the ships in West Berlin, Germany,
Mt BLUE GOOSE EX0itttS tv‘o thirds Qutomobile Grid one-third locomotive unique /
Vehiale fee:418)500s personnel befweeri U,S. Gypsum Co.'s. plant and quarry at Pletaten Cityt
COW bubbed th e Blue Goose, the 34-foot-lung, 6.,000-,pound roil .car rides along at 401
ril;p:h, 'eight steel-cord tires With flanges attached to the inner hubs. it's , powered by al
160-h.p, eogirie positiohed between two 1953 'I'leysier bodies and features automat-it
emergericy broke s, insUlatinn, air con -iitieNiing and two way radio's, No need to turn thd
Goote around after its 26 mile flint for each dale bus separate Controls.
Tough. Yecr for
Channel. Swimmers
Upwards of $60,000, aceording
to .cme reliable estimate, hes been.
spent this year by swimmers
from as many as a dozen coun-
tries trying to conquer the Eng-
lish Channel. Yet not one has
made it.
If anyone does make it now,
he or she will set a new record
for lateness, In 87 years of Eng-
lish Channel swimming nobody
has managed it later than Oct.
14. That was as long ago as 1927
when a Yorkshire housewife,
Mrs, Ivy Gill, crossed from
France to England in 15h. 9m.
After mid-October the water
gets progressively colder and
conditions generally more uncon-
genial. Not that they have been
at all congenial in the period
that. passed as summer, 1962.
Water temperature was seldom
more than 61 degrees Fahren-
heit (16 Centigrade) and favor-
able tides and winds rarely corn-
blued.
The only successful amphibians
at the time these lines went into
print were those artifically aid- '
ed. On July 11, New Yorker
Fred Baldasare fulfilled three
years of frustrated effort by
making an underwater journey
from France to England in 19h,
01m, Eighteen Jays later, Lon-
doner Simon Paterson, also wear-
ing a frogman's outfit, completed
• the same journey in 14h, 50rn.
There is no official record of
channel challenging kept, Any-
body can walk into the sea at
Dover and strike out for the
coast of France, or vice versa,
Some people do just that very
thing, requiring no fuss at all.
Others, usually sponsored, seek_
all the publicity they can get,.
In most cases, however, an
authentic aspirant to swim the
English Channel is one who has
proved himself in other, waters.
He wants to pit his strength and
skill against a strip of water no-
torieuely unpredictable and re-
garded as the supreme test by
most of the world's greatest long-
distance swimmers,
Shortest distance between Eng-
land and the continental main-
land of Europe is 21 miles. But
NEW SLANT Three of France's leading ski champs exhibit
then Skill on O' thdh-tTIOtfd ski run, which forms the cencre-
Viere of the International 'Winter ,Sports xhibiticri, held in
Eriatond's Alexandra Palace ill London.
a swimmer mu et be expected to
cover a distance at least half as
much again on account of tidal'
currents that sweep up and down
the Straits of Dover. A good
swimmer can turn these tides to
advantage, leaving on an outgo-
ing one and sweeping in on an
incoming one,
To get best advice in this di-
rection it is necessary to engage
the course in an accompanying
motor launch. The pilot knows
the times of the favorable tides
and proposes that the swimmer
should be ready to go at a speci-
fied time, The swimmer orders
the boat and boatman, an experi-
enced pilot. He plots calls for an
observer from the Channel Swim-
ming Association, and retires for
eight or nine hours' rest before
embarking.
During that nine hours a great
deal can happen. The winds
whistle up and the currents,
liable to sudden change on ac-
count of the ever-moving Good-
win Sands. play havoc with the
best-laid plans, writes Sydney
Skitton in the Christian Science
Monitor.
Between Aug. 7-12 this year,
for example,' when the neap tides
were favorable and several well-
known challengers were encamp-
ed on the coast, gales of such
ferocity whipped up the channel
that ferry boats were stopped a
number of times.
Despite this, and as a matter
of interest on the growing vol-
ume of traffic between England
and the mainland, a record 2,-
200,000 passengers had crossed
by Aug. 20. It was 170,000 up on
the previous summer.
For the channel swimmers, of
course, it was disastrous. They
spent money engaging boats and
pilots and in most cases had
spent their allotted waiting time
too,
One who remained longer than
others was the 25-year-old Amer-
ican girl from Detroit, Mary
Revell. She made an attempt as
late as Oct, 10, but after getting
halfway to France retired on ac-
count of cold after five hours.
Temperature of the water was
then 55° degrees Fahrenheit (13
Centigrade).
Was Revell, who arrived there
with successful conquests of the
Straits of Gibraltar, the Darde-
nelles, and the Bosporus to her
string, first tackled the channel
on Sept, 24, She wanted to be-
come the first woiv.rt to make it
there and back. But she gave up
after about six miles in 4h, 33m,
Argentina's Antonio Abertondo
made history last year as the
first man to make it there and
back.
Miss Revell's boat and crews,
pilots and board, are understood
to have cost something in the
region of $1500. That upwards of
$60,000 has. been spent through-
out the year gives some idea of
the number of people who Still
believe there to be a future in
challenging the channel.
PERFUMED UASOLJNE 1
If anyone manages to steal
gasoline from a United States
naval base in Florida, it won't
take the Navy long to get on
their scent.
To thwart potential thieves the
Navy is adding quantities of
sweet and pungent perfume to
the gasoline in all the base's
storage tanks,
All the sentries at gates on the
base have been instructed to
question drivers of cars and
other vehicles which smell too
sweetly of perfume as they ap-
proach the various exit gates.
Officials report that several
arrests have been made in recent
weeks,
Girls who Weat • Wit treesei*
'usually get a tat of 16014.
Poying Fov Domoge
.110t SUffiCiPnt
_ .
•;•"4 ni Air nt4,Y
ma tlr reetirrioe hen:lents
Of vandalem, 'rime pr, been is
worse at $0111e times than at
others, perhepe worse now than
in earlier tiara, But the most
W01'0:4114 aspect ot the problem
that nowadayeso many of the
vand;:ls,, v,!hen caught, seeni to
feel that: paying for the damage
-a broken window, for instance
-Wmakes everything all right."
They don't seem to feel that the
vandalism was wrong, but simply
that they erred in getting caught.
Irrespective of the dollars and
cent.; damage caused, which may
be minimal or great, 'vandalism
shows. a lack of respect for the
righte, as well as the property, of
others that augurs a lack of
morel . values. The trachtionl li-
berty of Hallowe'en, has been
borne with and conducted • for
many years-but we can't have
.Hallowe'en all the year around.
And even on Hallowe'en, tricks •
should no longer; be considered
within bounds when they be-
come destructive. -
As Christians, and as members •
of a. democratic society, Ameri-
cans have traditionally believed
in it right of the individual,
But this inalienable right carries
with it the obligation of accord-
ing ti. the rights of others the
same rights which we enjoy our
selves. Individual rights do not
include the right to destroy the
peace or property of fellow citi-
zens-even if we're willing to
pay for the damage, if caught.
It is to be hoped that we will
never allow the "Almighty Dol-
lar" to replace the Ten Com-
mandments.
-Monte Vista (Colon Journal.
GROWING PAINS — Joe Sny-
der, 5, is almost ready to take,
part in a football game, but
he'll have to grow a little, first,
The New Gypsies
Of The Spate Age
We are in the midst of a new
Gold Rush--with a different kind
of prospector, Today's prospec-
tore eve highly educated scien-
tists, engineers, and technicians
who move across America like
an undulating wave, Most of
these new migrants are in the
aerospace industry - an indus-
try employing approximately 1,-
900,000 skilled scientists and en-
gineers, 14 per cent of whom are
in constant movement, transfer-
ring from one company to an-
other, or from nee location to
another within the seine com-
pany,
Why do they move? To work
the new gold veins. Some mOve
by choice - jockeying for post-
Lion in the new world of spate
s and missile research and devel-
opment. Some Move to find more
challenging problems, or a better
scientific elimate. Most of them
move because they must. When
a contract is canceled or cut back,
or when an activity is phased
out, these skilled men, educated
to a specialty within a special-
ized field, have no alternative
but to follow the missile Money,
Why is contract canaelation
necessary? Because the speed of
technological advance IS so great
it cannot be anticipated. What
is 'a dream today is a reality 'to-
morrow, and obsolete a• few
months later. Since 1956, over
62 major missile programs ("nta.
jar" meaning 'a contract in excess
Of sLoocr,000) have been eancele
ecl, at . a .;cost , Mom . than
$6,000,000,000, There are '736
prime contractors and aver 100,-
000 email contrentOrs in the mis-
sile/space industry. Cancellation,
cutback or phasing-out of pro-
grams affect employees bf both
the prime and the subcontractors.
A few dlys after an announced
contracil cancelation, recruiters
frti,-. • " • r-ri1!7ril;e4 try to pick
Nf the working
uop, preferably at bargain
pricer. (When the Nav4tio was
colueled, scientific personnel
took .a$ much al $200 a month
cut in .salary just to remain in
the area.] When the .rnau finds
lie must relocate, he takes what-
ever job is offered. The. more
speelalized his skills, the higher
the position he held, the higher
hots academies degrees, the higher
his salary, the more difficult it is
fors him to find another job. he-
locating then becomes the least
of his problems.
These aerospace industry seiene
tiata„ engineers and technicians
call .themselves "missile bums,'
a term they use affectionately,
within the confines of their own
close-knit group, They know that
their specialized needs have
made boom-tuavns out of way-
stations.
The three eolf,:styled "space
capitals of the free world" are.
representative of dozens 'of these
new ennstant cities,'" Cocoa, Flor-
ida (metropolis for Cape Canav-
eral) had e population of 12,000
in 1550., 40,000 by 1960. Lompoc,
California (metropolis for Van-
denberg Air Force Base) had D.
1957 'population of 6,665, a 1960
population of 32,000, Huntsville,
former cotton capital of Alabama,
had a 1060 populatiOn jump to
70,000,
Helping these • instant cities
take on a character for the fu-
ture are the thousands of root-
less, transplanted men and wo-
men who have devoted a lifetime
to specialized stndy. These are-
the men whose work in research:
and development, individually
and as part of a team, will make
tomorrow for the entire world.
These missile bums, representing
a combination of all the sciene
tiflc disciplines, are the men on
whom the future depends, ac-
cording to Max and Nikki. Pape
in the Christian Science Monitor.
Then: wives, usually Well-edu-
cated, bring to their new envi-
ronment an interest in current
affairs and a desire for intellec-
tual activity. They organize
little theater groups, discussion
groups, book review seminars
and form local chapters of the
American Association of Univer-
sity Women, and the League of
Women Voters, The nomadic life
is .not an easy one for them; it
is a steady drain on emotional
and financial resources. For the
professional woman; the constant
moving often spells the end of
her own career, It is a sacrifice
demanded by the nature of the
industry,
The aerospace industry has in-
fluenced every facet of American
life. It has added wards to the
language (15,000), has changed
the physical face of Atnerica, and
has made migrants out of the
technological work force. But no
'matter where the new gold pros-
pectors settle, they change the
environment to meet their needs.
In their wake come new housing
developments, with names like,
"Countdown Acres,". or "Van-
guard Homes"abars and restaur-
ants with names like "Launch
Luncheonette," "Atlas Eatery,"
"Missile Inn," and highly accel-
erated educational, recreational,
and cultural activities.
Prospector, missile burn or
nomad - call them what you
will, they are today's new fron-
tiersman. They are of the same
stock as those .who,aa century
before, pushed west in covered
wagons. Today; they are opening
new frontiers of knowledget
their monuments are being built
in space.
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ISSUE 45 — 1962
HOT SITUATION -- Steel
beams and guard rail of over-
pass on Chicago, Ill,, express-
way begin to buckle from heat
of blazing gasoline truck,