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Charges linking DDT with the
incidence of human and animal
Itsease like infantile paralysis,
Sent disease, cancer and x-dis-
tase of cattle have beep dis-
cOunated by Dr. Leonard A.
Scheele, surgeon -general of the
United States Public Health
Service, The charges were made
by Dr. Morton S. Biskind in a
U.S. medical journal.
"In spite of continuous labo-
ratory reasearch on DDT in an.
trials and clinical study cases of
alleged 'poisoning' with DDT,
our toxicologists have been, thus
far, unable to substantiate Dr.
Biskind's allegations," Dr. Scheele
said.
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"Some of the diseases claimed
by him to have increased since
the advent of DDT have, in fact,
shown no increase. Others are
now reported more frequently
because of the changing distri-
bution of age groups in our
population and because of pro-
cedural changes in morbidity
reporting. Certain diseases of
man and animals included in
Dr, Briskind's list were well
known long before DDT was in-
troduced to this country and
occur in places where DDT has
never been used."
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Farmers, home owners, park
superintendents and resort own-
ers in eastern Canada are urged.
to prepare against another in-
vasion of tent caterpillars this
month.
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According to J. G. Hastings ttf
the agricultural chemicals de-
partment of Canadian Industries
Limited, the invasion will last
from the beginning of May until
the end of June. If not control-
led, great areas of forest lame
and many ornamental and fruit
trees in parks and home gardens
may be stripped clean of their
eoliage. Evergreens will not be
affected.
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As weapons, he suggests the
use of hand or power sprayers
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Something's Fishy - This liern-
boldt penguin just doesn't under-
stand the "weighs' of Man. Re-
cently captured on an island off
the coast of Peru, he's being
checked in by keeper terry Sher -
Man of Brookfield Zoo. "Hum-
ble" will be weighed frequently
as a check on his health.
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and 50 per cent DDT wettable
powder applied at the rate of
two pounds in every 100 gal -
lone of water for large areas, or
four level tablespoonsful in one
gallon of water for a few trees.
These rates should be doubled
when spraying trunks to control
migrating caterpillars,
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Mr. Hastings says there are
two species of caterpillar preva-
lent in Ontario and Quebec -
the eastern and the forest tent
caterpillars. The eastern species
constructs a web or tent in the
forks of tree branches which
serves as a base of operations.
The forest species is more diffi-
cult to spot as it has no tent but
migrates from one tree or shrub
to another in earch of food.
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For summer resorts, woad
lots and large forest. areas. air-
plane spraying is recommended,
using a 123e per cent DI,Yr oil
concentrate.
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Following the example set by
Carleton County in Ontario,
farmers in Waterloo County are
about to launch their Farmstead
Improvement Project in pre-
paration for the world plowing
matches to be held next fall
near Elmira, Ont.
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To date some 200 'Waterloo
County farmers have registered
in the contest to "paint up, clean
up and plant up." More are ex-
pected to enter by the deadline
date, June 1.
In 1052 some 400 farmers in
Carleton County took part in
the contest held near Carp.
Paint brushes became magic
wands which converted once -
drab homes and barns into eye -
appealing buildings. Shrubs and
flowers were planted and lawns
trimmed to green -carpet neat-
ness.
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A new anti - bacteria com-
pound, if fed to cows, will re-
sult in milk which takes two to
four times as long to turn sour
as milk from cows fed ordinary
rations.
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Known as "menadione," the
compound produces milk with a
lower bacterial count that would
remain sweet longer, especially
during the period before pas-
teurization, without adulteratiore
or changes. One pound of mena-
dione is enough for 50 cows for
one year, according to experi-
inents.
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Eskimos of the Far North. Both
types of boat are made of walrus
skins stretched over a frame-
work of whale -bone or drift-
wood. The kayak is a small one-
man eanoe, almost entirely
covered with walrus akin, so that
the opening is only large enough
ter the body of the paddler, who
sits with his legs stretched out
along the botom of the cantle.
Kayaks are very light and swift,
and the Eskimos handle them
with great skill. They are use -
tut, for hunting seals and wal-
ruses, but can not carry heavy
burdens. The umiak (woman's
boat) Is the burden bearer. It
is a rather clumsy, open -topped
canoe, broad in the beam and
capable of carrying the women,
children and household goods
when the Eskimos travel by
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Sound and Fury
At 'A -Bomb' Games
There's more noise than destruc-
tion as an "A-bomb" blast goes
off during the "Exercise Flash.
burn" atomic war game. A
circular cloud resembling sky-
writing, above, forms above the
spectators on the reviewing
stand. The ominous -looking
cloud, at right, was formed by
the aerial explosion of a simul-
ated atomic bomb dropped
from an altitude of 3500 feet
by an Air Force plane. The oper-
ation was held to teach the mil-
itary what methods to use in the
event of a future war involving
the use of nuclear weapons.
.. PLAIN HORSE SENSE ..
By F. (BOB
If there ever was a good clean
fight, it was last week at the
joint meeting of the Ontario
Farmers Union and the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture in
Shelburne.
By 5.30 p.m. every seat in the
auditorium of the townhall was
taken, the rear -aisle was full,
the staircase ceowded; people
were waiting in the street and
more were coming.
It was decided to move the
meetingto the Arena and even
that was almost too small to
hold the' crowd. When finally
the session started an hour late,
close to 600 people filled the hall
to capadity.
Union vs. Federation
The Union had sent its Presi-
dent Albert Cormack of Ar-
thur, Ontario,
to represent it.
Lloyd Jasper, President of Bruce
County Federation and First
Vice-president' of the Ontario
Federation, had come to speak
for his organization.
, Mr. Jasper, V;:hose was the
first move, took most of his 45
Minutes to describe the activi-
ties of the Federation in Bruce
County. He 'said. that he was
prouder to be President of Bruce
than of being Vice-president of
the provincial Federation; and
rightly so, as Bruce along with
Grey is well known to have the
best Federation setup in the
Province of Ontario.
Grassroots Moyement
Mr. Cormack who spoke con-
siderably shorter, said that the
Union was built from the bot-
tom up instead of from the top
down and maintained that far-
mers were split up into too
many small organizations like
the commodity groups. The
• Union's aim was to deal with
commodities through tommittees
which would all be backed by
the full 'membership of the
UniOn. He dealt at length with
provincial and federal •problems
and expressed the hope to see
a National Farmers Union.
llot Discus...Sion
As soon as the speakers had
swept the sweat from their
brows and sat down, questions
began to fiy, mostly directed to
Mr. Jasper who surprisingly
often did not have the answer.
the main subject was market-
ing, particularly producer con-
trolled marketing.
The new Milk Industry ,Act
Was attacked for taking away
from the producers the last
vestige Of control over the mar-
keting of their products and
concentrating all powers in the
hands of the government.
Bog :marketing w as closely
scrutinized and the Federation
was called on the carpet for
backing the Meet Council which
was said to be nothing but an ad -
VON PILIS
vertising scheme paid for by
the producers alone,' instead of
a National Beef Marketing Plan,
The latter is close to the heart
of the farmers in Grey and
Bruce regardless of whether
they are members of the Fed-
eration or the Union. Their two
counties are the heaviest beef
producers of Ontario.
Cheerful Meeting
It' was a cheerful meeting
without malice and nastiness.
There was a lot of give and take
and all was taken in good spirit
Much credit for this is due to
the Reverend Mr, McClary
Grand Valley who was in the
chair and who with much pa-
tience and humour, kept the dis-
cussion moving along smoothly.
It was quite late by the time
the meeting adjourned and the
last post mortem was over.
This winds up the campaign
and from neer on Federation
and Union farmers will work te-
gether as good neighbours until
after harvest when the battle
can be resumed.
This column welcomes criti-
eism, constructive or destructive,
and suggestions, wise or -other-
wise, ft will endeavour to deal
with all questions. Address let-
teTs to Bob Von Pilis, Whitby,
Ont.
THE REAL THING
It's the first practical cookery
book I've seen. Every recipe
starts with 130rrow a cup of
sugar' or 'Borrow three eggs' ".
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Visitor - Roger Bannister, the
British medical student who set
CI world's record by running the
Mlle in 3:59.4, smiles on hit ar-
rival in New York for a brief
visit.
Pay Rent For Castle
That Doesn't Exist
Ever since the Declaration of
Independence the British Tree-
iury has been paying $225 rept
for a castle that doesn't exist.
The money is sent (annually)
to a family in Lincolnshire who
receive it as heirs of the last Earl
of Dysart Yet lawyers and re-
searchers bave never been able
to discover why it Ls paid, nor
can any record be f ound of
"Langharne Castle, SouthWales."
"There never was a castle call-
ed Langharne," says Mr. A. J.
Taylor, government inspector of
ancient buildings in Wales. Yet
the astonishing yearly payment,
computed over 177 years in rent
and compound interest, has so
far cost British taxpayers over
$3,000,000.
The non-existent castle mys-
tery is believed to have origin-
ated with Charles II and com-
pares with the perpetual pen-
sion which the Merry Monarch
grated to his aide-de-camp,
Manor Carless - paid for over
220 years at a cost of $1,300,000.
Wine For The Duke
Even the traditional right al-
lowed to the Dukes of Grafton
to appropriate one cask before
and one cask behind the mast
of every ship bringing wine to
Brittain cost about $12,000,000 in
annuities, before it was redeem-
ed for a lump payment of $700,-
000 in government stock, a sUm
on which taxpayers still pay the
interest.
In this way, even redeemed.
pensions cost hard cash. After
the first world war, the heredi-
tary pension of $2,000 granted
by George III to Admiral Lord
Rodney was redeemed by a pay-
ment of e125,000, This still costs
the country $2,000 a year in tax-
ed interest Then there are the
fabulous rewards showered ou
the Duke of Marlborough.
From first to last it has been
calculated that he made $7,500,-
000 out of the State. This includ-
ed the manor of •Woodstock
given him by Queen Anne, the
$900,000 building of Blenheim
Palace, and a pension on which
the staggering total of $2,400,000
was paid before it was commut-
ed. seventy years ago for $300,-
000. Invested in govermnent
stocks, it has since cost, the Bri-
tish public another $1,000,000.
The Beatty family still benefits
from the $300,000 grant made in
1019 to Admiral Beatty, and the
Haig family still remains en-
riched by a similar sem. Com-
pare this with two annual pay-
ments of $75 made from the
civil list to two grand -daughters
of Charles Dickens, on whose
books there is of course nO long-
er copyright profit.
Outside government 00 11 t r o 1
also is the constant outgoing of
the Penderel Trust, Five Pen-
derel brothers helped Kleg
Charles IT to hide in an oak tree
alter the Battle Of Worcester
over 300 years ago. In 1875, the
king settled amities of $1,350 to
be paid to the perpe-
tuity, fixed from accrued rents
On land. Tbe original annuities
now reach Pencierel deseendante
One is a Carted/art University
den, another a laundry Owner
isi ilrOOklyn. A. third - entitled
to annuity and arrears and vain-
ly sought for years -- turned.
Out to be a London, cab -driver.
The rewards have so lap cost
the nation the equivelent of
$375,000.
London, •toe, 'has an astonish-
ing hang -Over in the $9,000 an-
nuities paid to honour •a pledge
made in the reign of Queen Eli-
zabeth 1,
In 1583 a water engineer nam-
ed Peter Moriee set tip a Water-
wheel beneath an arch of old
London Bridge to give London
its first mechanical water sup-
ply, and then sold his water
supply right for an annual pay-
ment to be made for 500 years
to himself and his heirs. The
s Metropolitan Water BOard has
met the payment for fifty years.
Oddly enough, however, Peter
• Morice's direct descendants reap
little benefit from the deal. The
original rights were long since
split up into hundreds 'of small
annuities which were sold over
and over again, and now, 1,500
cheques for $6 •apiece are sent
out yearly.
Still stranger, a Scottish bar-
onet holds his estates in • ex-
change for blowingthree blasts
on a bugle whenever, the sov-
ereign goes stag -hunting in the
neighbourhood.
Odd Jobs - Very!
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There's Adele Webster, who is
in charge of a emeli library in
London -and John,Mcliroy, who
calls himself a moustache eraser.
John reckons he's wiped out
about 38,000 pepeilled whiskers
from advertising posters in Am-
erican underground stations,
And how about Herbert Ross,
of New York, It'his job to tour
the bakeries measuring the hOles
hi' doughnuts.
AnOther gentleman in New
York spends his whole life blow-
ing bubbles, Not soap bubbles.
Ile is a tester for a bubble gum
firm.
Charlie Yates is a bottle snit.
fer-which means that he must
sniff at every empty bottle re-
turned to the brewery to make
sure paraffin oil or something
equally unsuitable hasn't been
put into them. A good day's
work for him is 4,000 sniffs.
A baldheaded man, Henry C.
far sitting each day in a com-
fortable armchair outside a hair-
dresers. Behind him hangs a
poster which says: "Don't be like
this man - wear one of our
wigs."
Harry Brown is employed at
a Government research station
as a basher of radio sets! For
eight hours a day, five days
a week, he operates a specially
designed machine that bashes
radio sets more than 200 times
a minute to test their toughness.
Perhaps the oddest jobs in the
world are those found in Hol-
lywood, where men and women
may be employed at anything
from ,planting dandelions to
• tightening a film star's tights. To
save wear and tear on the vocal
cords of stars, Hollywood pays
• Ezelle Poule $150 a day to scream
• for teem in films,
• One film technical -adviser de-
cided he had found his ideal job
in life when he was made res-
ponsible for checking the length
of the harem veils and the flim-
• sy costumes worn by the lovelies
• in a film,
NW SC11001
LESSON
By Rev, R, Barclay Warren,
ILA., 13.D,
1tev. R. !Barclay Warren, B.A. 13.D,
'Discovering Spiritual Resources
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Memory Selection: If God be
for us, Who can be against us?
Romans 8:31.
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Elisha left the plow to become
Elijah's attendant and later his
successor in the prophetic office.
By his hand many miracles were
pertormed. Ile repeatedly warn-
ed the king of Israel as to the
location of the king of Syria and
his army, This he did without
the „aid of an intelligence ser-
vice. The king of Syria first
thought Mere Was a 'traitor in
his camp. When informed that
Elisha was responsible ,for keep-
ing the king of Israel advised he
detetmined to capture the. pro-
phet. Hie army 'siterounded the
city' of Dothan by night. In the
Morning Elisha's servant beheld
the army and was in great fear.
•Ile exclaimed to Elisha, "Alas,
my master/ how shall we do?"
Elisha replied, "Fear not: for
they that be with us are more
than they that be With 'dem."
And Elisha prayed, and' said,
LORD, r pray thee, open his
eyes, that ,he may see. And the
LORD opened the eyes ef the
young man; and he saw: and,
behold, the mountain was full of
horses and chariots of fire around
about Elisha. Then Elisha ask-
ed the Lord to smite the people
with blindness, He led the army
away from Dothan to Samaria.
Then the Lord restored their
sight. The king of Israel •fed
the army and the met went
home. • ^
We have the same God today,
We need not fear. when we are
on God's side.
Red Harper, who had a radio
ppgram and was a noted enter-
tainer became a Christian
through the ministry of Billy
Graham. There was a great
change in his life. Now he is
singing the gospel and giving
his testimony. lie wrote a &mg,
"It Is No Secret", which has been
widely sung. The chorus is:
"It issree secret '
What God can do:
What. He's done for others
He'll do for you. •
With arms wide open
He'll Pardon you.
It is no secret
What -Cod can do."
Let us discover our spiritual
resources.
NOT A HOPE
The floorwelker in an expen-
sive London shop approached a
customer and said: "Good morn-
ing, sir, and what is your desire'
The customer looked at him
sadly and said: "My desire, if
you really want to know, is to
kiss Marilyn Monroe, but I've
come in here because I need a
pair of seeks."
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maimed or killed by playing with blasting caps similar to those
illustrated above. There are two types- both dangerous in
the hands of the inexperienced, The electric blasting cap has
a coil of wire attached to it The other typo is detonated by fire
from a fuse, Made of aluminum or copper, blasting caps vary
in length from one to five inches and are approximately one
quarter of en Inch In dicimeter, They may be mistaken for empty
.22 cartridges, firecrackers or pencil holders. If found, they
should not be touched, Police or other authorities should be noti-
fied immediatrly.