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The Seaforth News, 1960-05-12, Page 3©1111Q ®©Ei©©©1:119 ripe �I' L1 ©liwri��++ ri ©©©f ll t •'©©iE Ill FS ®©I fir, Merin 0©D Y ©©1E121111Z1C118121! PEP ©©EIEI©© ©b� • &2Eflhi ©©©o' Q�IikJr� ©©LI© "7©I kJI . EIM o ©©: ©vv©a;:mora Hope From A Weed The familiar, blue -flowered periwinkle, frequently a gar- den pest, has long been valued In primitive folk medicine as the source of a bitter tea, claimed to possess curative properties for a wide variety of ailments. Now scientists are focusing attention on this humble, trail- ing evergreen as a possible ne v weapon against cancer. The American Association for Cancer Research, meeting in Chi• cage, was told that laboratory experiments have yielded a peri- winkle alcaloid (vincaletekoblas- properties in the treatment of tine) with impressive anti-cancer properties in the treatment of acute leukemia. The chemicial, known as VLB, has been tested, to date, on only about 30 pa- tients. But reports by American and Canadian doctors on these 30 show: Improvement, including some ISSUE 18 - 1960 remissions, in types of leukemia resistant to other cancer drugs. Consistent reduction (by more than 50 per cent) in white blood - cell counts, which soar wildly in leukemia. Suppression of growth and ac- tivity in certain solid tumors of the placenta, which refused to respond to other drugs. The findings were jointly made by the Eli Lilly research labora- tories of Indianapolis, Ind„ and Collip Research Laboratories of the University of Western On- tario, London, Ont, It was emphasized that more work must be done to evaluate the usefulness of VLB in treat- ment of leukemia, and that side effects (constipation, urinary re- tention, temporary hair loss, and mental depression) must be over- come. But its striking effective- ness ngainst types of the dis- ease previously untreatable have raised high hopes. And discovery of this anti-cancer chemical . of plant origin,: rare in medicine, is expected to trigger much wider investigation in this field. Man Powered! Flight Starts A New Age or Flappers by Tom Cullen Newspaper Enterprise Assn. London - Is it a bird? Is it a > plane? Is It Superman? Some Britishers hope it will be a "superman" flying like a bird, While the Soviet Union and •the United States hasten to reach the moon, Britain, in some ways, seems more concerned with just getting a man off the ground un- der his own steam. Present aerodynamic studies which indicate such flight may be possible, have inspired Henry Kremer, wealthy British indus- trialist to offer a $15,000 prize for the first British Common- wealth subject to complete a figure-eight flight in a man- powered aircraft, around two py- lons spaced a half mile apart. The French are interested in a similar venture. Icarus was the first to try his operates largely on muscle - power after an initial take -off boost. Hartmann hasn't yet tried fly- ing with the foot and hand con- trols which flap the wings, but be has had his oi'nithopter out on trials -towed by a motor. ear at 40 miles an hour. Terence Nonweiler, an earo- nautics lecturere, offers a more scientific approach. Nonweiler has designed a machine which is known as the "heavenly tand- em." It is a two-man craft, resem- bling a tandem bicycle enclosed in a fuselage, and coupled to a pusher propeller at the rear. The main burst of enegry will be needed for take -off, and Non- weiler assumes that the first pilots will have had some ex. perience in sprint cycling. Daniel Perkins, a senior avia- tion experimental officer, ingen• wings, according to ancient Greek legend. He soared too high and the sun melted the wax -fixed wings sending him to his death. Leonardo da Vinci tried his hand at designing man -powered flying machines in 1505 In 1900, a Frenchman plummeted to his death by diving off the Eiffel Tower in a bat -like costume with flapping wings. The only successful man -pow- eyed flight recorded is that of two German engineers who man- aged to fly 200 yards in 1936 by pedaling a weird contraption. Roughly, there are two British approaches to the problem: the fixed wing and the 'Raping wing, A leading wing -flapper is Emie1 Hartmann , a London sculptor, wile. has designed what he calls an "ornthopter" which iously offers a light -weight ma- chine design with an inflatable wing operated on the pedal prin- ciple. The rules governing the $15,. 000 Kremer prize favor all -or - nothing sportsmanship. Inflat- able wings and oxygen masks are out. No storing of energy before take -off is allowed, except a deep breath. Also, "no part of the machine shall be jettisioned during any part of the flight." There is no limit to the num- ber of crew, but "no crew mem- ber shall be permitted to leave the aircraft at any time during take -off or flight." Attempts are to be made over level ground and in "still air," defined as a wind up to 10 knots, and the aircraft must be in con- tinuous flight over the entire course. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Equivalence 4. Yarn 8. Short jacket 12. Unrefined :natal 13. Astringent 14. Carry on a lawsuit 11. In a line 18, Lyrics 10. Cylindrical 21. Woo 22. nighty Polished 28. Kind of puzzle 20. To come by 80. lrtteglnn Indian 81. Musical instrument 52. nonce step 22. word of assent 24. nudge of a .minuses family 25. Limb 29. A language 27. Salad plant 80. Refuse wool 40. Girl's name 42. Old oath 4e. Renown 48. Vett fete for nit travel 00.1'9rat ratan 81. Largest nrannistn 22. Artium of tnwniry 62, traits of weight 64. Where the sun risen 4a. Witt. View 8. Muse of ly rte poetry 9.. Wearisome 10. American Indian 11. Different DOWN 20. Give out 20. 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Per capita consumption of poultry in Canada shot from 18.3 pounds in 1943 ' to 26.0 pounds in 1958 following appli- cation of grading and marketing regulations at the retail level, E. D. Bonnyman of the Canada Department of Agriculture, told the United States turkey indus- try. O * * Mr. Bonnyman took part in a panel at the National Turkey Federation convention at Min- neapolis. Over 6,000 attended. He told the Americans that while the regulations could not be credited with all the increase ?n consumption, they were a big contributing factor. Consumers reacted favorably to purchasing poultry on a graded basis, be said, and the policy had a stand- ardizing effect on overall mer- chandising. * * * Per capita consumption of turkey rose from 2.2 pounds to 5.9 pounds in the same five - Year period. Regulations had no upsetting effect on trading, Mr. Bonny - man said, due largely to care= fully laid groundwork. An Ad- vance program included (1) in- dividual grade marketing of birds at registered grading sta- tions, (2) meetings with whole- salers, registered station opera- tors, retailers, consumers and producers, (3) extensive display work at the retail level, "Application of these regula- tions requires checking at regis- tered stations and at the retail level, but on the whole there is no particular difficulty with re- spect to enforcement, with the producer and consumer being the program's greatest boosters," said the Canadian official. * * 4, The results .of selling poultry by grade have included: -Greater demand for the top grade, with a wider spread in price between grades. -A higher percentage of Grade - A birds due to price in- cen Live. -Trading between wholesaler, retailer and registered station facilitated. -More attractive birds on dis- play and increased per capita consumption. * * * Summed up Mr. Bonnyman: "Canadian consumers like to buy graded and grade marked poultry, and good producers like to see the grade of poeiltry they produce carried through - to the consumer". * * There were 8,568,217 hog car- casses graded in Canada last year, the second highest number in history, Only in 1954, when wartime food production hits Its peak, did federai autliorltles re- port a larger number. In that year, 8,80;,178 carcasses were graded. ' The increase over 1958 was close to 2,110,000. A Canada Department of Ag- rieulture report shows that on the national scale, 29.5 per cert were Grade A, an increase of nearly one par cent over 1958, and 48.3 per cent were Grade B1 - seven per cent higher, * A Elgin Senn, chief of the Grad- ing Section, Livestock Division, said that changes in official grades last October 5 would have little effect on the overall percentage, since a wider range of weights of Grades A and B1 were balanced by a tightening up of the back fat measurements for the lighter carcasses. "We will have to wait a year to know accurately what effect the changes in grades will have," he explained. o * * Ontario, the leading hog pro- ducing province, recetded the sharpest grading increase --- from 2,183,078 carcasses in 1858 to a staggering 3,011,981 last year. Quebec grading shot ahead by 374,056 to reach a total of 1,50:3,- 045. Busiest month for grading operations was March, when 895,639 carcasses were graded. Provincial totals with increases bracketed: B.C, 40,337 Alberta 2,265,430 Sask. 908,343 Man. Ont. Que, N.13. P.E.I. (13,767) (453,244) (204,142i 663,682 (189,262) 3,011,984 (828,406) 1,503,045 (374,056) 51,747 (16,167) 95,365 (18,259) Atlantic Provinces, which trail in numbers, nevertheless con- tinued to be front runners in quality. All three eastern prov- inces had slightly smaller per- centage of A's, but a larger per- centage of B's than in 1959. P.E.I. boasted 53.3 per cent A grades: N.S. 48.4 per cent, and N.B. 45.2 per cent. Each province had lesa than three par cent C grades. Alberta i'emsined lowest in qual- ity, with only 223 per cent Grade A and 13.8 per cent Grade C. Gardening is A Crowing Business To the plan or woman who grows them, plants mean far more than a patch of color. They eomettn1es seem to take on a personality of their own. Thieves once grabbed a bunch of dahlias from engineering company exe- cutive Conrad E. Faust's garden in Atlanta, The next day, his wife spotted the culprits - by recognizing not the thieves, but the flowers. "Dahlias are just like people," Faust explains. "Each one is an individual." The postwar back-to-the-soll movement springs partly feoro an atavistic creative urge. "It's like a fever, this hidden urge to plant," says nurseryman Frank A. Smith of Atlanta. Speaking for gardener:, Dr. Maurice Weiner, a Detroit pediatrician who rises at 6 on summer morn- ings to tend his G00 rose bushes, calls gardening "a primitive re- action" from modern tensions. "Everyone wants beauty, and flowers let them have it," adds president William Harris of New York's Goldfarb's, one of the few among the 25,000 U.S. retail nursery firms with a multi- million -dollar business. The trek to suburbia gave this primeval passion an outlet. "There are just more gardens now," says Vaughan's Charles Keegan. And the industry has followed the customers. Seed stores, Dr. Carleton notes, have virtually disappeared from the cities (though other retailers still stock seeds for the window -sill set). In their place, "garden cen- ters" have been springing up - huge, supermarket -style affairs that cater to every garden whim. Goldfarb's first outlet of this type, Harris recalls, developed 25 years ago by accident when Sunday drivers began stopping by his firm's Long Island green- houses. The fifth' and latest in the firm's Eastern chain of "Ar- cadian Gardens," however, was no accident. Spotted on a New Jersey highway, it cost approxi- mately $1 milion and Harris ex- pects to do 32,750,000 worth of business there this year. eFf SCU001 ,,LESSON By lieu. 8. 13 Warren, 13.A„ 18.I.. The Pure In Heart. Matthew 5:8, 27-37, Luke 9:61.62, Our memory selection gives the subject of our lesson: "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." Matthew 5:8. Jesus was a heart specialist. In- deed, his emphasis on the neces- sity of a pure heart was one of the chief facto's in his incurring the disfavor of the religious lead- ers of the day. Theirs was 6l religion of observance of many laws and rules affecting the ex- ternal. Jesus called for purity of heart They recognized the sin- fulness of murder but Jesus called for more than refraining from .murder. He said. "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and perse- cute you." When the Apartheid question of South Africa was being dis- cussed in the United Nations, the Indian delegate reminded the members - of the great percept, 'Love thy neighbour." Whereas the religious leaders viewed adultery a.: a sin. Jesus traced ite evil to the hear t, say- ing, "Who.eoc.t.' r inoketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her al- ready in his heart." Obscene literature- and much that e0102 out of Hollywood - which has many famous aclltltel'er'.., - teed the fire.; of adulterous thinking. The re'1::;i011s lead:--rs sane• tiered divorce as long as the: men gave his wife a writing. Jesus saw divorce as an frre?u- larity and contrary to the Divine plan fur marriage,'. He con- demned divorce on every ground except adultery, By nature man is sinful. Out of the heart "proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornicatione, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lescivimis- nes:, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness." We need for- giveness for these sins, "If we confess our sins He is faithful end just_toforgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all un-. righteousness. The disciples re- ceived this inner cleansing when baptized with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost: "purifying their hearts by faith."Acts 15 9. Jesus called the scribes -and Pharisees, .hypocrites and •com- pared them to whited sepulchres, beautiful without, but within full of men's bones, and all un- cleanness, Are we pure within? - Does the blood of Jesu* Christ cleanse us from all sin? 1 John 1:7. Upsidedown to Prevent Peel ing PUSSY LOVES HER FAMILY -- Kitten in her mou til, Pussy moves another one of her family from its rooftop birthplace. The cat bore four kittens on the roof of a neighbour's house. To move them to her master's back porch, she hod to I eap from rooftop to tree, a five-foot jump AI! were moved safely.