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The Seaforth News, 1959-01-08, Page 7Boss's Grand Scheme Is Canada ne:lt . on Jimmy Hoffa's unionization timetable. Yes, says Peter C, Newman in current issue of Maelean's maga- zine. In an interview, the rough - and - tumble boss of the a c k e t- probed International. Brotherhood of Teamsters told Newman: —"The continued growth �t our union in Canada . , . is of vital importance," —"We reserve the right to organize- anything that's not organized, regardless what it's in." —"We're going tospend what- ever dollars are necessary for this job," "Hoffa's ainbition," says New- man, "tis to enlist a quarter of e • million Canadians in his Brotherhood within the next ten years. He is prepared to pay $3 million to get them," Where does Hoffa stand now in Canada? The Teamsters Brotherhood is the country's sixth-largest union. "Its more than 40,000 members," says Newman, "drive most of Can- ada's intercity transports, •in+ elude more than half of the country's 8,000 breadrnen, the majority of the milkmen." They also include the girls who fill chocolates at the Moire plant in Halifax, N.S,, and the disk joc• keys at station CFCO in Chat- ham, Ont. In Montreal, Team- sters' organizers are getting into a new field: They're signing up the city's hearse drivers, "To Jimmy Hoffa, a teamster is anybody who sleeps on a bed with movable casters," one unionist explained, "The ultimate plan of the Teamsters Brotherhood," says Newman, "is to establish a U.S.- Canadian power bloc of 5.0 trans- portation -union alliances. That would give Hoffa effective con- trol over the movement of everything on Wheels, 'in a continent that moves en wheels," To spearhead his Canadian op- erations, Hoffa has chosen h M. (Casey) Dodds, a deceptively mild-mannered former Windsor, Ont., bus driver who has been mainly responsible for doubling the number of Canadian Team- sters in five years. Dodd's first target: The warehouse a n d transport workers along the new St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. He is preparing to launch in March a massive cam•• Feign that Twill make a lot of employers lose a lot of pounds." —From NEWSWEEK. The ' Bright Army i` Theflowers that bloom in the Spring Tra la Have nothing•to do with the case, ung Gilbert blithely. Not this ease, perhaps. But they have everything to do with ours. London at thintime of year would be in a sorry case with- out them.. A thin yellow fog seems to hang permanently over the city. Daylight creeps into its kennel like a tired dog earlier each afternoon. A rawness sweeps across the open parks, and in the streets people huddle deep into their overcoats. Even the dogs shiver, and a few are pushed unwillingly into absurd little coats and jackets. Cats have withdrawn . from doorsteps and are flexing their claws sleepily on fireside rugs. The last American has spread his jet wings for New York or the sunshine of California. Eng - THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY — Sunlight and shadow produce like a .paper cut-out in this photo taken through a,giant window, Perched nimbly on .his ladder, the silhouetied window washer s•t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s acrobatically to sweep over the glass, land is in the grip of winter's siege. Except for the flowers that should ordinarilybloom in the spring, but have been coaxed by clever florists to bloom now. Like a relieving army they rush nto shop windows at Berkeley Square, Baker Street, and South Kensington, The top end of North Auclley Street is ablaze with them. They fling down the gage in Piccadilly, and Wigmore Streethas seen their bright, challenge slashing, the drab of traffic. Even little local streets have felt their impact, Sedate ranks of chrysanthe- mums are pierced and scattered by mimosa. Azaleas, forced to perfection, spread their lovely little branches in miniature shade. Prim violets in tiny bunches wait to be pinned onto a lady's coat. or to nestle on hes dressing table. Multifarious col- ored polyanthes toss lightheart- ed heads, and daffodils are trumpeting gloriously that they have done it again, earlier than ever. ' Narcissi droop modestly but smell more ,sweetly. •Stiff hyacinths parade like guards- men, blue and red and purest white. Roses are royal all the year round, gracing only gala, occasions, writes•. Rosemary Cob- ham in The Christian Science. Monitor. The flowers that bloom in the spring are the secret agents of the antiwinter warfare, They can capture a heart singlehand- ed; roll up an army of gloomy thoughts; tear down winter's blackout and fling color into every window.' They -liberate • the captive dullard, and cause children to laugh with glee. Even the baby will- pause in : his pri vete confabulation with himself and clutch greedily at their 'bright banners, Winter is no longer; an enemy, but Ii backdrop to this glorious pageant., This is London's vic- tory parade; its army of libera- tion anticipating the armistice. These early spring flowers are both the diversionary troops and the assault troops. They take winter by surprise each year; and they take us by surprise also. They are the re- curring miracle that smudges the seasons into one' blur of happiness. Pushing back the chair from our desk, we stuff , the housekeeping money into our pocket and make for their • stronghold. For what can keep house better than a massed' bat- talion Of anemones, and., what more delicious to geast upon than daffodils ,et dinnertime?.. ISSUE 1 — 1959 • • BOTANICAL BARBER . What's he doing? Why, he's giving a rack of barley a haircut: Research fellow Joseph :_Klingen- smith of the University of Michigan, trims the roots of a barley culture at the university's radiation laboratory. He's working under Prof. A. G. Norman in a project io learn how roots absorb minerals and feed them to a plant. ALL BALLED UP—Balancing neat- ly en one leg, a crane tucks its 'head among itsfeathers at a zoo in Chessington, England. Could be the bird is shy, or else just doesn't like to be photo- graphed. Is The Cat • A Walking Compass Standing in a quiet country lane in Devon recently, a school- teacher from Middlesex gave a peculiar whistle. Out from a hedge bounded a lean, grey 'cat . the family pet' -the school- teacher had lost in that lane a year earlier. ` • Last year, when his, car had overturned there. he and"his "son were injured and. had to spend weeks in hospital. Mitzi, the cat, fled from the car and vanished. This year the school -teacher. .went back to the lane, after mak- ing vain inquiries elsewhere for the missing Mitzi. The cat an- swered his whistle and is now safely back home. It is believed that it fed on scraps provided by kindly householders living near the scene of the crash, .which, it was reluctant to, leave. Cat experts are puzzled by this incident. They say that most cats have strong homing instincts and will usually, attempt to return to their • old homes, however great the distance may be. A famous British naturalist vouches for the story of Snooty, a four-year-old black and white cat who was born at . Winder- mere, who went with his owners when they, moved to Sandbach, in Cheshire travelling by car, and after three days in Sand- bach, :disappeared, That was in September, 1962. The following February, Snooty arrived back in Windermere. His 120 -mile walk had taken him five months. Fabre, the great French na- turalist, records that a cat be- longing to him was carried four and a half miles in a basket, Upon arrival it was confined to the house for a week in the hope that it would become used to its new home. But directly it was released the cat returned to its old home; when it arrived it was wet to the skin; and its body was smeared with red earth, evi- dence that it had crossed a river which had barred its way and afterwards gathered' up the dust of the fields, When Professor Herricks, an- other naturalist, tried to probe the mystery of homing cats he came to the conclusion that nei- ther' sight, smell nor bearing enables a cat to return to fa- miliar surroundings. "Instead of any of• these senses, the cat's inevitable return is due to a mystrious power of memory 'or its muscles," he decided. "It is as though within the muscles of the cat there is a compass whose' needle points steadily homeward, no hatter how many- twists anytwists and •turns the animal un- delacea in its journey away from home." Memories Of Two Great Players For one travelling the Ameri- can League with the Red Sox, it was always a pleasure to in- vade Cleveland's Municipal Stadium or Detroit's Briggs Stadium a couple of hours be- fore the game, because there was the chance you might run into Tris Speaker or Mel Ott. Sitting on a photographer's bench onthe field or in a front- -row box during batting prac- tice, Speaker loved to talk about the young players of today and, for those who could remember, about some of the great games' and stars of a new forgotten era. Eating a pregrame snack or playing a friendly• card game at the downstairs press room at Briggs Stadium, Ott was of the same mind. He would talk for hours about his days with the - Giants, under McGraw, and it was a feather' in thecap of any newsman who could . get Mel and Ted Williams into a dis- cussion of hitting. Tris and Mel — baseball was 'their life. They could 'have stayed away when their playing clays were over, but they pre- ferred to come back — preferred to mingle with the young"'"men now playing the .game and, oc- casionally, tp 'run into a friend who 'had been a .part of -their .playing, generations. There will be something miss-. lit : in ' Cleveland and Detroit, something that . warmed the heart of a visitor who admired these two gentlemen and their feeling fo% baseball. Ott, of course, went several weeks ago, but Speaker's passing has just now saddened the hearts of all who knew him, • Before settling into a scout- ing -coaching post with ,the -Cleveland club, Speaker, like Ott, wrote one of the really •great stories of baseball history. Tris was a . center fielder, and the standard he set at that key outfield position has been used as a yardstick down through the years. There have been the defensive skills of such as Terry Moore, Jimmy Piersall, the Di Maggios and a few others, but those who saw Speaker in most of his 22 years with the Red Sox, Indians, Senators, and Athletics •say that there has never been his equal in all-around. performance. Tris. could go and get the ball and he could throw it, ;but he could also swing a potent bat— .344 for 22 big league years. He posted such averages as .366, .386, .388, .378, .380, and .389, and would have won a string of batting crowns instead of just one (in 1916 at Cleve- land) if Ty Cobb had not been around, writes Rumill in the Christian Science Monitor. Speaker broke in with the Red Sox in 1907 and was still active while managing Newark, in 1930. He played on three world championship clubs, at Boston in 1912 and '16, and Cleveland in '20. He managed the Indians from '19 to '26. Tris had a .306 batting average for World Series play. Noted for his shallow position in center field and his ability to go back for a fly ball, Speaker was the middle man on what is still considered by many to be the greatest outfield of all time. With Duffy Lewis in left and Harry Hooper in right, Tris was part of a unit which Fenway Park still talks about, In recent years, though it has never been written, Speaker did 'much to help Jimmy Piersall walk the comeback trail. At every opportunity, while the Red Sox were at Municipal Stadium,. Tris would 'sit down with Jim, talking like a big brother, build - :ng up his "confidence, Jim Would listen like any eager kid would have listened to the counsel of the great Speaker, absorbing every word, every gesture. Tris always had time tor.a young player, " to praise his strong points and sug- gest. ways of overcoming his weakness. 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