The Seaforth News, 1953-06-04, Page 3IINDAY SCHOO.
LESSON
Prilieiples e. Christian:
Stewardship
2 Corinthians 9
Memory Selection: Every luau
according as he parposeth in his
heart, so let him give; not grudg-
ingly, or of necessity, for God
loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Corin-
thians 91.
The church is often criticized
because of its frequent appeals
for money. But how little the
church receives compared with
what is spent for liquor and to-
bacco! The Anglican Council for
Social Service in its report to the
General Synod last November
estimated that the costs and loss-
es of drinking in Canada for the
i0 -year period was $4,580,273,000.
Of this $1,922,233,000 went to the
provinces and Dominion govern-
ment as revenue, leaving a net
cost to the people of $2,664,0.0,-
000. We believe the churches
use the comparatively insignifi-
cant amount which they receive
for more worthwhile purposes
In the instance of our lesson
Paul was appealing for a good
offering for the needy Christians
at Jerusalem, The poor people
of Macedonia had responded
most generously, They first gave
themselves to the Lord. What
would the church at rich Cor-
inth do? Paul had predicted well
of them but be sent Titus in ad-
vance just in case they had ne-
glected to respond to this appeal.
In his exhortation he cited the
greatest example of giving: "Xe
know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that, though he was
rich, yet for your sakes he be-
came poor, that ye through his
poverty might be rich."
Someone has suggested that
there are five levels of giving,
1, The "Tip" level- Those who
give a small coin to the Lord,
the same way that they tip the
waitress. It is just a little mat-
ter of appreciation for the Lord. e
2. T h e "Entertainment" level -
those who refuse to pledge and
give only when they come to
church. They give as they give
to a theatre, or the ball game.
They give when they go. 3. The
"Emotional" level- those who
give only when they are emo-
tionally stirred. They refuse to
give when their feelings are
hurt. They may give once or
twice a year according to feel-
ings, 4. The "Promise" level -
Those who pledge but neglect
the. promise. They never or sel-
dom pay up. 5. The "Bible"
level- those who give systemati-
cally and proportionately. Here
is cheerful, joyous, regular giv-
ing, week by week- both to their
local church needs and to the
wider work of the church. God
loves the cheerful giver.
A/C
I1N
11 iJI-
Something
Will Grow
No matter what sort of a spot
we have there are some things
that will grow. In gardening one
hears much of fine, rich loam
and sunshine, and while those
conditions may be ideal for a
lot of plants, there are others
that actually prefer a location
fa° less favorable. In poor dusty
soil, for instance, there are hardy
flowers like portulaca, alyssum,
zinnias, and many more that will
make a good showing. Then the
dark corners near walls or under
fairly dense shades are ideal
places for begonias and pansies
and certain fern -like flowers
that shrink away from the bright
Cheese Balls Balls A.d Food
BY DUROTIIIY MADDOX
W/E all turn to salads when the weather gets warm. 11 salads
include some form of protein such as cheese, eggs, fish or
meat, they can be used as main dishes for luncheon.
Here are two main -dish salads and a delicious buttermilk cote
slaw.
" CRISPY CHEESE BALLS
(Makes 8 bails, about 11/4 inches lhl dtanhoter)•
One package (3 ounces) cream cheese, 1/4 to 1/2 cup candy -coated
Puffed wheat.
Form cheese into balls and roll in cereal. Serve with pineapple,
orange, or other fruit salads. For an attractive salad, center 2 or
3 crispy cheese balls on lettuce or other salad greens. Arrange
fruit sections in swirls around the cheese balls.
BUTTE1tM1LK COLE SLAW
Shred a head of crisp cabbage very thin. Then slice thin 2 small
onions, 5 or 6 stuffed green olives, and add with 10 capers to the
cabbage. Salt to taste.
' Dressing: Use 1 teaspoon salt, pepper to taste, y teaspoon
,paprika, a very little curry powder, 1 teaspoon cape,' juice, 1 tea-
spoon Worcestershire sauce, and 1/2 cup mayonnaise. Next add
just enough buttermilk to make it as thick as cream. Toss dressing
and salad until thoroughly mixed.
TOSSED MACARONI SALAD WITH BLEU -CHEESE DRESSING
(Makes 6 servings)
One tablespoon salt, 3 quarts boiling water, 8 ounces elbow
macaroni (2 cups), 1/2 medium-sized head lettuce, shredded, 1/4
bunch chicory, broken in pieces, 2 medium-sized tomatoes, cut In
wedges, 2 tablespoons chopped onion, 1/s cup chopped celery, 1
green pepper, cut in thin strips, 1112 -ounce package bleu cheese,
2 tablespoons vinegar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1/2 cup salad oil,
>� teaspoon meat sauce, 1/q teaspoon garlic salt, 11/ teaspoons salt,
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper, dash paprika.
Add 1 tablespoon salt to rapidly boiling water, Gradually add
macaroni so that water continues to boil. Cools uncovered, stirring
Valu
Salad
These crispy cheese balls will turn any kind of fruit salad into
a main dish for an attractive summer areal,
occasionally, until tender, Drain In colander. Rinse with cold
water and drain again. Chill. In a large salad bowl, combine
chilled macaroni, lettuce, chicory, tomato wedges, onion, celery and
green pepper; toss lightly but thoroughly.
Chill. Crumble bleu cheese. In a small bowl, combine bleu
cheese and remaining ingredients; mix thoroughly. Add bleu
cheese dressing to chilled salad; mix lightly but thoroughly,
sun. liven soggy corners have
their favorites and poor wind-
swept rocky slope s. Rugged
climates, too, are no handicap.
Indeed in some northern gar-
dens are grown the very finest
of vegetables and the brightest
of flowers. Away up or rather
down on the northern tundras in
the summer time the ground is
aflame with bright bloom. In
any good Canadian seed cata-
logue will be listed flowers and
vegetables that will thrive in
unusual places and it will pay to
study these special likes if we
are to do the best with unusual
locations,
.Hot Weather Hilts
The wise gardener will change
his methods when the days turn
hot, With the lawn he will cut
less frequently, and not so short,
and he will usually let the clip-
pings lie where they fall to form
a bit of protecting mulch.
In the flower and' vegetable
garden, even if no weeds have
been allowed to grow, he will
continue a light cultivation once
a week or every ten days, to
create what is known as a dust
mulch which will prevent
evaporation of moisture from
the soil,
Before going on holidays it
is an excellent plan to go over
flower and vegetable gardens
lightly with grass clippings or
similar material to conserve the
moisture. If necessary and pos-
sible one should water thorough-
ly the night before the final pre -
holiday cultivation,
Still Time
There is still time for a show
of flowers and a fine yield of
vegetables. In fact one can go
on sowing all sorts of seeds and
setting out plaits right up to
July in many parts of Canada
and still get good results. With a
bit of luck in the weather, mostly
in the way of showers, growth is
very rapid during the extraor-
dinarly long hours of sunlight
we have in June. To catch up
experienced gardeners will use a
little extra care with these late
started gardens. They will make
sure the soil is well cultivated
and enriched where at all pos-
sible with chemical fertilizer or
manure, They will thin seed-
lings to give them plenty of roots.
With certain flowers and veg-
etables that require a long sea-
son to bloom or mature they
will use well start ed plants,
watering carefully and perhaps
shading from the hot sun for a
few days after they are set out.
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Answer Elsewhere on '(Itis irate
m
611 id Spot Spotters -Acting on the premise that color blindness
is affected by abnormal conditions of the optic nerve, two
William Smith College coeds, Helen Gardner, at left, and Teresa
Mundy, map the color fields of professor Shelton MacLeod, They
discovered color blindness is accompanied by irregularly shaped
blind spots.
TI1.UU. I 1 MM 1O 'T
tJ 0 aLszea
A lot of folks will tell you
that sheep ruin a pasture for
cattle because they "Graze it
down to the roots -and below."
I have always contended that
more often than not the fault
lies with the poorness of the
pasture -or else that too many
sheep are grazed for the size of
it. This contention is borne ow
by the Department of Agricul-
ture at Ottawa.
Here is their dope.
0 b 0
Pasture areas improved by re-
seeding and fertilizing can be
kept in good condition and better
returns secured from them by
grazing with mixed sheep and
cattle than by sheep or cattle
alone, judging by the average
of seven years' results at the
Central Experimental Farm in
Ottawa.
u. 4
This seven - year experiment
showed that a pasture treated
with 10 tons of manure per acre
every four years, and grazed
with both sheep and cattle, had
a carrying capacity 23 pet cent
greater than an adjoining field
given a similar application of
manure• but grazed with sheep
alone. Compared with another
adjoining field of permanent pas•
tures receiving no manure and
grazed by sheep alone, the in
crease was 50 per cent.
4: R.
On a fourth adjacent field, not
manured but fertilized with 100
pounds of sulphate of ammonia
per: ,acre each year plus 300
pounds of superphosphate and
70' pounds of muriate of potash
applied every four years. mixed
grazing gave all increase of 43
per cent over the manured field
grazed with sheep alone; 0.0 per
cent over a similarly fertilized
Plaid, grazed with steers alone,
and 74 per cent more than the'
untreated Feld.
Bach of these fields consisted
of foul' acres, uta terms of actual
Mai produced, the untreated
field showed 159 pounds average
yearly gain in weight by the
sheep grazed. on it. The manured
field grazed by sheep alone pro-
duced a gain of .192 pounds. The
manured field grazed by sheep
and cattle produced a. gain of
120 pounds for the sheep and 145
patinas
for the steers. TIc for.
1.
tlhzed field produce a gain of
152 pounds for the sheep and.
105 peunds•for the steers. A field
given the same fertilizer tseat-
nlent and 9't::cd by steers alone
produced a gain of 248 pounds
for the steers, still below either
of the mixed -grazed fields in
total meat production. All gains
are based on 150 days of graz-
ing.
P. E. Sylvestre and S. B. Wil-
liams, of the Animal Husbandry
Division at the Farm, state:
"Grazing with cattle and sheep
resulted in a definite increase
over grazing with sheep alone.
This was not only due to the
greater number of stock carried
on that pasture but also to the
higher daily gains of the Iambs
in the mixed -grazed fields. There
was a better utilization of the
grass available. Little of the
herbage was noticed going to
seed in the mixed grazed fields,
while there was considerable
waste on that account ie the
fields grazed by sheep alone. Thus
the mixed -grazed fields did not
require clipping. The quality of
tl'te sward was also improved.
The mixture of clovers and
grasses was considered almost
ideal in the mixed -grazed fields
while there was little improve•
mint in the others.
":'1- certain amount of care
must he exercised, however, in
the proportion of sheep to cattle
Three ewes and their lambs to
one two year-old steer gave ex-
cellent results."
Considerable interest has arisen
in recent years in the possibilities
Of chemical thinning or tree
fruits, particularly apples. I11
vestigations al'e being carried
on at Ottawa and at various
branch stations. At Surnmerland
the sodium salt of dinitru ortho
cresol and certain hormone fila
tarials have been reasonably of
festive. The standard method of
applying these sprays hat been
with. the conventional sprayer
and hand spray grins. Using this
method, about 1.5 pints of sodium
dinar() cresolate per 100 gallons
of water .are applied to the tree
the full bloom stage as a drench-
ing spray, Tests have also shown
that apples eau be thinned jus'
as effectively with concentrate es
with haled sprayers, and that the
ainoullt of sodium dinitro CPCSO'
tate required is approximately
15 pints per acrd. This diluted
with .100 gallons of Water gives
an application of about two gal-
lons per tree, Using a borlilone
spray of alpha naphthalene acetic
acid, 73 grams of 110l'rlone per
erre gave satisfactory results.
IJlflitultil. arise, however, in
t,5 -. a r,G a c�
the use o1 these • chemicals. The
dinitrus are caustic and burn the
floral parts and leaves severely
while the hormone spray may
cause severe distorition and
dwarfing of the foliage. Recent
reports indicate that delayed ap-
plications of hormones up to
four weeks beyond the calyx
stage would reduce this injury.
Investigations are under way at
Ottawa to determine whether
delayed sprays will reduce the
injuries arising f r o n1 these
sprays, and at the same time
give effective thinning of the
fruit, Results so far, indicate that
with certain of the hormones, at
least, delayed spraying is a pos-
sibility.
The Vast Amazon
The Sea River (Amazon) has
eleven hundred known tributar-
ies. Ten of them are larger than
the Rhine. Seven are a thousand
miles long. The Madeira is three
thousand miles long and collects
ninety tributaries of its own be-
fore it joins the Amazon. Stand-
ing where they join you can
just make out the other shore
of the Madeira but you cannot
see across the Amazon. , .
Place the mouth of the Ama-
zon at New 'York and its arms
would reach up into Canada and
down into Mexico and almost to
California. Straighten out the
kinks, and the smaller end would
stretch twelve hundred miles
out into the Pacific. (It seems
unbelievable, but figure it for
yourself. The breadth of the con-
tinent is twenty-eight hundred
miles; the length of the Ama-
zon, according to corrected sur-
veys, a little over four thousand
miles.)
A11 Europe could be placed
within the Amazon basin and
have room left for half a dozen
Japans.
The Amazon is not satisfied
with Brazil. it sends its feelers
far up into Bolivia, Peru, Ecua-
dor, Colombia and Venezuela and
the Amazon basin includes gen-
erous portions f these nations.
The sources of the great river
are high Andean lakes only
eighty miles from the .Pacific
coast. - From "The Amazing
Amazon," by Willard Price.
ILLITERACY
If you live on this planet, it's
3 to 2 you are illiterate. There
are 1,200,000,000 totally illiterate
people in the world.
New Mercantile
Bank Acquires
Property
The Mercantile ,dank of Cana-
da, chartered by Aet of Parlia-
ment on March 31, 1963, has ac-
quired the Hanson Building, 252
St. Jaynes Street West, as temper -
arty Bead Offices and banking
quarters.
The bank has also bought land
and buildings on the north-west
corner of St. Janes Street and
Victoria Square, where it will
erect a made= head office build-
ing at a future date.-
The
ate.The announcement of these
property purchases was made by
Mr. Henri Moquette, in behalf of
the Mercantile Bank's provisional
directorate.
The provisional Canadian day-
ectors are, Senator P. H. Boutfard
of Quebec, and the Messrs. Ar-
thur Cross, Montreal industri-
alist, and B. Carswell, promin-
ent consulting, envillein' • Of Va31-
enuver.
The Victoria Square site, oceu-
pying a frontage of 177 feet on the
Square and 130 feet on S. James
Street, is at present occupied
by several buildings, the largest
of which is known as Date Howe
and was formerly the head office
building :,f the Don -anion 'Textile
Company.
When the site becomes eva1l-
able on the expiration of teases,
the first unit of the Mercantile
Bank's Head Office building wilt
be constructed there. Plan for
this unit, and for subsequent ad-
ditions which will cover the entire
ground area, have been drawn by
Messrs. Lawson and Betts. Archi-
tects, of Montreal.
Duriug the interval before the
new building is erected, the Mer-
cantile Bank will utilize the Han-
son Building es Head Office prert.-
ises, and the main -banking etike
will open tor business us soon es
occupation can be secured and ire
terior alterations made.
The Mercantile Bank of Canada
is the first bank to receive a
charter from the Canadian gov-
ernment since 193:1. Capital for
its issue of shares has mainly been
subscribed by the Nationale Han-
dlesbank N. V. of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, of which Mr. Hemi
Moquette is a Managing Director.
Three Canadians and two nomi-
nees of the Handlesbank will
comprise the original Board of
the Mercantile Bank,
Mr. Moquette also announces
the purchase by the Mercantile
Bank of a property on Burrard
Street in downtown Vancouver,
where building operations will
commence within sixty days.
Other branches will subsequently
be opened in principal Canadian
cities,
The Mercantile Bank of Canada
will conduct a complete domestic
banking service in Canada, and
will also specialize in the Pacific
trade, through the widespread
facilities of Handlesbank.
These facilities include branches
in Japan, India, Thailand, Hong
Kong and Singapore, and through-
out Indonesia. as well as in such
Netherlands centres as Amster-
dam, Rotterdam and The Hague.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
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Handy -Cycle - French inventor Charles Duval, above, thinks
he's solved a big problem for cyclists. He claims that leg -
muscle strain ton be eased by switching to hand pedals which
he has mounted on his bike's- handlebars. Or, if you prefer
to snake a let, you con use both hand and foot pedals to
increase your speed. The gadget is one of many shown at
the annual inventors' exhibit in Paris.
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Answer Elsewhere on '(Itis irate
m
611 id Spot Spotters -Acting on the premise that color blindness
is affected by abnormal conditions of the optic nerve, two
William Smith College coeds, Helen Gardner, at left, and Teresa
Mundy, map the color fields of professor Shelton MacLeod, They
discovered color blindness is accompanied by irregularly shaped
blind spots.
TI1.UU. I 1 MM 1O 'T
tJ 0 aLszea
A lot of folks will tell you
that sheep ruin a pasture for
cattle because they "Graze it
down to the roots -and below."
I have always contended that
more often than not the fault
lies with the poorness of the
pasture -or else that too many
sheep are grazed for the size of
it. This contention is borne ow
by the Department of Agricul-
ture at Ottawa.
Here is their dope.
0 b 0
Pasture areas improved by re-
seeding and fertilizing can be
kept in good condition and better
returns secured from them by
grazing with mixed sheep and
cattle than by sheep or cattle
alone, judging by the average
of seven years' results at the
Central Experimental Farm in
Ottawa.
u. 4
This seven - year experiment
showed that a pasture treated
with 10 tons of manure per acre
every four years, and grazed
with both sheep and cattle, had
a carrying capacity 23 pet cent
greater than an adjoining field
given a similar application of
manure• but grazed with sheep
alone. Compared with another
adjoining field of permanent pas•
tures receiving no manure and
grazed by sheep alone, the in
crease was 50 per cent.
4: R.
On a fourth adjacent field, not
manured but fertilized with 100
pounds of sulphate of ammonia
per: ,acre each year plus 300
pounds of superphosphate and
70' pounds of muriate of potash
applied every four years. mixed
grazing gave all increase of 43
per cent over the manured field
grazed with sheep alone; 0.0 per
cent over a similarly fertilized
Plaid, grazed with steers alone,
and 74 per cent more than the'
untreated Feld.
Bach of these fields consisted
of foul' acres, uta terms of actual
Mai produced, the untreated
field showed 159 pounds average
yearly gain in weight by the
sheep grazed. on it. The manured
field grazed by sheep alone pro-
duced a gain of .192 pounds. The
manured field grazed by sheep
and cattle produced a. gain of
120 pounds for the sheep and 145
patinas
for the steers. TIc for.
1.
tlhzed field produce a gain of
152 pounds for the sheep and.
105 peunds•for the steers. A field
given the same fertilizer tseat-
nlent and 9't::cd by steers alone
produced a gain of 248 pounds
for the steers, still below either
of the mixed -grazed fields in
total meat production. All gains
are based on 150 days of graz-
ing.
P. E. Sylvestre and S. B. Wil-
liams, of the Animal Husbandry
Division at the Farm, state:
"Grazing with cattle and sheep
resulted in a definite increase
over grazing with sheep alone.
This was not only due to the
greater number of stock carried
on that pasture but also to the
higher daily gains of the Iambs
in the mixed -grazed fields. There
was a better utilization of the
grass available. Little of the
herbage was noticed going to
seed in the mixed grazed fields,
while there was considerable
waste on that account ie the
fields grazed by sheep alone. Thus
the mixed -grazed fields did not
require clipping. The quality of
tl'te sward was also improved.
The mixture of clovers and
grasses was considered almost
ideal in the mixed -grazed fields
while there was little improve•
mint in the others.
":'1- certain amount of care
must he exercised, however, in
the proportion of sheep to cattle
Three ewes and their lambs to
one two year-old steer gave ex-
cellent results."
Considerable interest has arisen
in recent years in the possibilities
Of chemical thinning or tree
fruits, particularly apples. I11
vestigations al'e being carried
on at Ottawa and at various
branch stations. At Surnmerland
the sodium salt of dinitru ortho
cresol and certain hormone fila
tarials have been reasonably of
festive. The standard method of
applying these sprays hat been
with. the conventional sprayer
and hand spray grins. Using this
method, about 1.5 pints of sodium
dinar() cresolate per 100 gallons
of water .are applied to the tree
the full bloom stage as a drench-
ing spray, Tests have also shown
that apples eau be thinned jus'
as effectively with concentrate es
with haled sprayers, and that the
ainoullt of sodium dinitro CPCSO'
tate required is approximately
15 pints per acrd. This diluted
with .100 gallons of Water gives
an application of about two gal-
lons per tree, Using a borlilone
spray of alpha naphthalene acetic
acid, 73 grams of 110l'rlone per
erre gave satisfactory results.
IJlflitultil. arise, however, in
t,5 -. a r,G a c�
the use o1 these • chemicals. The
dinitrus are caustic and burn the
floral parts and leaves severely
while the hormone spray may
cause severe distorition and
dwarfing of the foliage. Recent
reports indicate that delayed ap-
plications of hormones up to
four weeks beyond the calyx
stage would reduce this injury.
Investigations are under way at
Ottawa to determine whether
delayed sprays will reduce the
injuries arising f r o n1 these
sprays, and at the same time
give effective thinning of the
fruit, Results so far, indicate that
with certain of the hormones, at
least, delayed spraying is a pos-
sibility.
The Vast Amazon
The Sea River (Amazon) has
eleven hundred known tributar-
ies. Ten of them are larger than
the Rhine. Seven are a thousand
miles long. The Madeira is three
thousand miles long and collects
ninety tributaries of its own be-
fore it joins the Amazon. Stand-
ing where they join you can
just make out the other shore
of the Madeira but you cannot
see across the Amazon. , .
Place the mouth of the Ama-
zon at New 'York and its arms
would reach up into Canada and
down into Mexico and almost to
California. Straighten out the
kinks, and the smaller end would
stretch twelve hundred miles
out into the Pacific. (It seems
unbelievable, but figure it for
yourself. The breadth of the con-
tinent is twenty-eight hundred
miles; the length of the Ama-
zon, according to corrected sur-
veys, a little over four thousand
miles.)
A11 Europe could be placed
within the Amazon basin and
have room left for half a dozen
Japans.
The Amazon is not satisfied
with Brazil. it sends its feelers
far up into Bolivia, Peru, Ecua-
dor, Colombia and Venezuela and
the Amazon basin includes gen-
erous portions f these nations.
The sources of the great river
are high Andean lakes only
eighty miles from the .Pacific
coast. - From "The Amazing
Amazon," by Willard Price.
ILLITERACY
If you live on this planet, it's
3 to 2 you are illiterate. There
are 1,200,000,000 totally illiterate
people in the world.
New Mercantile
Bank Acquires
Property
The Mercantile ,dank of Cana-
da, chartered by Aet of Parlia-
ment on March 31, 1963, has ac-
quired the Hanson Building, 252
St. Jaynes Street West, as temper -
arty Bead Offices and banking
quarters.
The bank has also bought land
and buildings on the north-west
corner of St. Janes Street and
Victoria Square, where it will
erect a made= head office build-
ing at a future date.-
The
ate.The announcement of these
property purchases was made by
Mr. Henri Moquette, in behalf of
the Mercantile Bank's provisional
directorate.
The provisional Canadian day-
ectors are, Senator P. H. Boutfard
of Quebec, and the Messrs. Ar-
thur Cross, Montreal industri-
alist, and B. Carswell, promin-
ent consulting, envillein' • Of Va31-
enuver.
The Victoria Square site, oceu-
pying a frontage of 177 feet on the
Square and 130 feet on S. James
Street, is at present occupied
by several buildings, the largest
of which is known as Date Howe
and was formerly the head office
building :,f the Don -anion 'Textile
Company.
When the site becomes eva1l-
able on the expiration of teases,
the first unit of the Mercantile
Bank's Head Office building wilt
be constructed there. Plan for
this unit, and for subsequent ad-
ditions which will cover the entire
ground area, have been drawn by
Messrs. Lawson and Betts. Archi-
tects, of Montreal.
Duriug the interval before the
new building is erected, the Mer-
cantile Bank will utilize the Han-
son Building es Head Office prert.-
ises, and the main -banking etike
will open tor business us soon es
occupation can be secured and ire
terior alterations made.
The Mercantile Bank of Canada
is the first bank to receive a
charter from the Canadian gov-
ernment since 193:1. Capital for
its issue of shares has mainly been
subscribed by the Nationale Han-
dlesbank N. V. of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, of which Mr. Hemi
Moquette is a Managing Director.
Three Canadians and two nomi-
nees of the Handlesbank will
comprise the original Board of
the Mercantile Bank,
Mr. Moquette also announces
the purchase by the Mercantile
Bank of a property on Burrard
Street in downtown Vancouver,
where building operations will
commence within sixty days.
Other branches will subsequently
be opened in principal Canadian
cities,
The Mercantile Bank of Canada
will conduct a complete domestic
banking service in Canada, and
will also specialize in the Pacific
trade, through the widespread
facilities of Handlesbank.
These facilities include branches
in Japan, India, Thailand, Hong
Kong and Singapore, and through-
out Indonesia. as well as in such
Netherlands centres as Amster-
dam, Rotterdam and The Hague.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
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Handy -Cycle - French inventor Charles Duval, above, thinks
he's solved a big problem for cyclists. He claims that leg -
muscle strain ton be eased by switching to hand pedals which
he has mounted on his bike's- handlebars. Or, if you prefer
to snake a let, you con use both hand and foot pedals to
increase your speed. The gadget is one of many shown at
the annual inventors' exhibit in Paris.