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The Seaforth News, 1960-06-23, Page 7A Steering -Wheel in Her Hand For a woman who can't swim a stroke, I spend an incredible amount of time in pools. And when I think of all the oppar- tunitios I had for being a spin- ster! But no -- I got married! And what does marriage lead to? Children. And what do chil- dren lead to? The educational pracess. And what does the edu- cational process lead to? Car pools. The next time I have to fill out one of those blanks that ask im- pertinent questions such as "Date of birth," "'Weight," etc., I shall certainly W rite: "Occupation: 'chauffeur." Chauffeuse, I suppose it should be, although it really Ls a man-sized job, For anyone wishing to make a serious study of pool procedure, here are some directions. Let us begin at the moment breakfast is over, teeth are brushed (what there is of them); coats are but- toned (such as they are); and lunch money deposited in wallet and purse respectively, I advance to the big kitchen calendar. I look for the pencil. I say, "Today I am going to tie that pencil to the calendar." When the pencil is found (up in Juliet's room acting as a perch for the parakeet, or down in the basement impersonating a log in the gondola of Austin's elec. tric train), I write beside the date everything that each child is wearing or carrying - every- thing Losable, in fact. (Some af- ternoons I even remember to check it when they come home.) We insert ourselves into the car (a very essential ingredient for a car pool). We stop two doors down the street and I honk delicately for fourth-grade .Jimmie. I am always in a quan- dary at this point if Jimmie and his little sister, Karen, do not emerge promptly. To honk again sounds peremptory. Yet, if they didn't hear It the first time-. Jimmie comes out, immaculate, with hair parted geometrically perfectly and brushed back in an enchanting swirl. He still reeks pleasantly of hair -stick 'um and peppermint toothpaste. His sweater is handmade. He looks like the Hope of America. Kar- en's coat is a new school coat, not an old "good" coat. We proceed down the street to the little colonial cottage. Dora is always late and so I have no delicacy about multiple honks here. Dora holds up the car pool after school, also, because she has a teacher who is a keeper - in. Every car pool has one. There are now four children in the back seat. "Buttons down," I carol, "two middle children, sit forward; two outside children, sit back." This is the ritual to be used after each new child ent- ers the car. Next is small Carlie. His mother has two younger boys and a baby. He arrives with sticky crumbs on his dimpled cheeks and usually - like the Mad Hatter - a piece of bitten toast in his hand. I forgot to say that this is Orchestra Day (it is always some Day) and Juliet has her violin with her, and Carlie a large air- plane model he is carrying for show -and -tell. Juliet has also her Glee Club surplice and Dora has her violist. Austin has his re- corder, and Dora is bringing her pet turtle in a large bowl rather unnecessarily full' of very liquid water. Karen is bearing a large iced cake for her class party. And Jimmie has his cornet and case; How thankful I am none of them takes tuba lessons! On rainy days, of course, there are raincoats, helmets, goloshes, and umbrellas besides. And that damp, wooly smell, writes Ne- dra Newkirk Lamar in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. Mrs. Briggs has telephoned (while I was out in the garage looking for Austin's recorder) to say that Sandra is not going to kindergarten today; so we don't stop at the gray shingled house this nwrnin.g. I check up. "Lamar, Water- ford, Carson, Briggs. Sandra is absent and we don't take Tony Page in the mornings." (Pony is in the afternoon kindergarten) We travel two blocks and then Dora recall, something she for- got --- her lunch money. I don't have my purse with me and sa we go back to Dora's. She carries her violin case in with her, Her another is up in the attic and takes some time coming to the door. Meanwhile, the other chil- dren are speculating, rather un- graciously, about whether the last bell has rung. Dora steams back to the car. The car door slams, We move off, "I left my violinl" Dora bleats. At this point I try to count my blessings. I'm sure I must have some. But even the fact that I've lost eight pounds and two inches and you can again see niy earrings from front -face seems insignificant, When they noisily clamber out at school, I shout, "Watch fin- ers!" Two doors slam, I go home and face my day. On tete return trip I must re- member that Sandra is absent, Dora stays for Scouts, and Jim- mie has been excused early for a piano lesson. But I do pick up Tony. His mother has brought him et noon. She's in a noon pool with another woman, whose child goes home in still another afternoon pool. The neighbourhood is simply riddled with car pools. I myself in four pools and a puddle, all. with differing personnels, of course, There's the regular grade -school pool, the Friday night dancing -class pool, the pool for the Girl Scouts after school on Mondays, the Satur- day morning concert puddle (thiswitty designation is due to the fact that there are only two mothers in it), and the pool on Tuesday afternoons for the girls who take swimming les- sons at the Y. Naturally we call this swimming arrangement the pool pool. Might as well get what fun we can out of it! At a -PTA meeting last month I heard Dorothy Page talking with two of the car-pool fathers. "Tomorrow is my regular day to drive the school pool," she said, "but Rosalie is driving instead, because I drove the pool pool last week for Lola, and Rosalie is going to be out of town next week and Lola will drive for her. So Rosalie wants to make it up in advance and she's go- ing to take Lola's trip for me tomorrow." The husbands sank aghast on two of those PTA folding Chairs, congratulating themselves that all they have to do is to pay for the gasoline. NAMED PRESIDENT - Arthur W. Eckman of Cambridge. Mass.. was named President of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ. Scientist, in Boston Mass., at the June a Annual Meeting. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 2. banish coin 8. Adolf ted to the ministry M Intertwine' 5- Alaok 6.Pose tsa mode 7. Moving brisk y 1. Make entreaty 4. Malden 8. Went faster 12. TM wrong' 12, Dismounted 14. Sound In body 15. Consecrate 17,Inereaso In mire 18. Summer drinks 18. Removed dead branch OF 21. Descendant 28. Tell a yd1'n 24. Sharpen 25. Becomes more roinnlr e 29. Simian 90, Than 81. rare of a pitcher 12. 9lel l ing from house to house 84. Smooth 80. re/myenty body 27,1l re 41, 41, T.511111 .0 o' Zig" earth of ndhth 42.Indication nn 47.Bnond 47. nrfroSt t! Windt! S. rvmbeemb alo 4). wor nit re sword 00. Me tlei sion ill. e0mMt me DOWN 1, Dynodes 8. Contracted 00. 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Encouraged by prospects that foreign markets will absorb all the rapeseed Canada can pro- duce in 19130, farmers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are planning to devote up to 1,000,- 000 acres to the oil -yielding crop this year, compared with the 218,000 acres they had in rape- seed last year. These three provinces are the only parts of Canada where rapeseed is grown commercially. (In the United States, production of rapeseed has become so in- significant commercially that the United States Marketing Serv- iceord, of sincft.e) 1958, has kept no rec- Countless numbers of prairie farmers are planning in seeking an escape from producing more surplus wheat and to capitalize on the demand for a crop which now offers them better returns than cereal grains, They expect to pocket an average of between $50 and $60 per acre from rape- seed this year. Despite an extremely dry spring, which reduced both the planted acreage and yields har- vested, western Canada's farmers last year garnered 180,000,000 pounds of rapeseed and obtained $7,200,000 for that production * e The farm price for the crop averaged four cents a pound, and many growers harvested yields averaging 1,500 pounds of rape- seed an acre. Lesser numbers ' had yields of 2,000 pounds an acre. In most cases rapeseed doubled the monetary returns from wheat, the biggest single crop for the prairie provinces. Practically the entire 1959 pro- duction of rapeseed now has been exported to Japan, and that country has been joined by France and Italy in seeking large volumes of the grain this year from Canada. Only recently a purchasing mission from France toured western Canada nego- tiating purchases of more than $12,000,000 worth of rapeseed. * * * Rapeseed, which resembles wild mustard and is a drought - resistant crop, yields a vegetable oil that is edible and one which also can be used as an oil base for high-grade lubricants. Although a relatively new crop on the Canadian prairies, it has suddenly become exceedingly popular with western farmers because it provided them with handsome returns last year, is assured of a. guaranteed cash market by firm contracts, and now is in great demand for the export trade. Another important and attrac= tive factor is the short growing period required by the crop. Even the most northern agricul- tural regions of Canada can plant rapeseed in May and have it harvested by the middle of August, writes George A. Yacku- lic in the Christian Science Monitor, Rapeseed also appeals to far- mers because it is not subject to restricted grain delivery quo- tas such as apply to wheat, bar- ley, and oats. When these limited quotas are filled, the oereal grains back up onto farms. Many prairie fanners still have wheat to market from the past three or four crops. * * * A contract -signing stampede for rapeseed developed across the prairies as soon as the Wrench puchasing mission disclosed its ISSUE 25 - 1960 {dr Ml aaa PARIS - Is 1,,1, h 1*r sas r-.-.1 D tlsees' 4'. k. NAPLES Sa. . SWEDEN 25.14. -,5555.4u55--..� lr0 sa POLAND• 27141, I 37 eat CHINA PERU :‘..•.-46.44i, CHINA 94 611,,,. SEE THE WORLD - The world really is shrinking if these signs are accurate. They are but don't worry. They're all towns in Maine. needs, farmers and seed firms staging an outright rush to cash in on prospect of expanded fore- ign markets for the crop. Rapeseed contracts for this year guarantees farmers initial payments ranging from two to three cents per pound of rape- seed. Additional payments will be determined by the market price of the crop after it is har- vested, While the bulk of the rape. seed acreage is aimed directly at markets in France, Japan, and Italy, not all of Canadas 1960 rapeseed crop will be raised un- der contracts guaranteeing mar- kets and prices. Many independ- ent -minded prairie farmers pre- fer to "wildcat" with rapeseed - that is, growing the crop on their own and then search out the highest -paying markets themselves. In some years "wild- catters" have obtained double the contract prices but were bur- dened with more problems than contract growers. ,: * Rapeseed was introduced to the Canadian prairies in 1942 on an experimental basis, and for the rest of World War II was. grown mainly to provide oil for- ming a base for marine lubri- cants. After the war it was raised for its edible oil and to provide livestock feeding meal. During the past year rapeseed oil, was proven to have superior lubricating qualities for pre- mium oils and standard greases, and its use for these purposes is increasing in western Canada. An extensive survey of the prairie provinces the other day revealed farmers were almost falling over each other in the rush to grow rapeseed. Hundreds of wheat farmers who had never seen rapeseed were signing con- tracts to raise the crop this year. Those who grew it in past years were contracting substantially larger acreages. Making estimates of rapeseed acreages for this year, various agricultural authorities placed the minimums at 200,000 acres for Alberta, 450,000 acres for Saskatchewan, and 50,000 acres for Manitoba. Last year's acre- ages for these provinces were 30,800, 171,000, and 16,000 respec- tively. Possum Plague In New Zealand A plague of opossums in New Zealand is causing almost as much anxiety to the authorities as that of rabbits in Australia. Schemes are now being launched to wipe out this small animal which was introduced from Aus- tralia about a century ago. Possessing fifty teeth apiece and terrific appetites, opossums are causing widespread havoc. They eat the leaves, stalk and bark of shrubs, destroy crops and orchards and make off with all the eggs they can find. There are about 25,000,000 opossums in New Zealand. They vary considerably in size, some being as big as a cat, others as small as a mouse. Half a crown is paid for each opossum caught in New Zealand, which accounts for about a mil- lion a year. Another million are trapped each year for their fur. In tropical America there is a species called crab -eating opos- sums, which live on crabs, as their name indicates. They fre- quent marshy places in order to catch their prey. Many species of opossum carry their young on their backs, as they have no pouch. Hunting opossums with dogs at night is very popular in the au- tumn in the southern states of the United States. At this time the animals make excellent food, as they have a layer of fat all over them. The opossum hides in a tree and is either shaken down or shot as it hangs by its tail. When caught they try to feign death and it is this habit which gives rise to the expression "playing possum." UNE SC11001 LESSON 11y Rev. it 1:. Warren: B.A., 15.132, BEARING GOOD FRUITS Matthew 7:15-33t Luke 13;6-3 Memory Selection: Abide be Me, and 3 in you. As the breads cannot hear fruit of Itself, ex., rept it abide in the vine; tie more can ye, except ,'e abide Ira Mc, John 15:1, There bare always been hypo- crites. When they get into the ranks of the ministry, they ars more dangerous. Jesus said, "Do. ware of false prophet.,, which conte to you 111 sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruit:*." But the fruit is not immediately apparent. Haw the kow? Here are twit Scriptures which are good India• catara. "Now if any man lava not the Spirit of Christ, he 11 none of His." Romans 8:9. "Tho fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long sui':ering, gentleness goodness, faith, meekness, ten perance." Galatians 5:22,23. The final doom of the .false prophet is set forth in the words, "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and east into the fire," A profession of religion may pass with men, But Jesus says that even prophesying in Iiia name, casting out devils and do- ing wonderful works are not sufficient, Workers of iniquity may do these things. Satan is a deceiver and his followers fol- low his example. The parable of the fig tree em- phasizes the requirement for all of us to bear fruit. The Lord is very patient but it we 00n- tinue to be barren and untruit- ful we shall be cut off. We have been saved at great cost. We can never repay. At our best we are unprofitable servants. But we must show forth the fruit of Spirit in our daily walk. If we think and talk and walk like the devil we. are certainly nut on our way to heaven - our church standing or past religious experience notwithstanding. A drunken man was telling rat: of the high offices he held in his church. I asked, "Do you think God is pleased with you in that condition?" Drunkenness is one of the work of the flesh of those of whom it is said, "They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Galatians 5;21, We are saved by faith and not by works. But out of gratitude to God for His marvellous grace we should be diligent in good works. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking s 9gdg ON /I-4 1' /13'<C0 i0 { 1d37Olty 1.5W03WO .': 3.1./V 3N3-1 z'N I1Q43d dr -1,0'43N : sN3Qt M 3 N 0k d ?Id S -7 J. V 3 Q V Q 3d 1 r QS y V l O �0 0 0 M ON HIND FEET -- Two vehicles which collided in a Chicago street ended up doing the cha cha. DOUBLE TROUBLE - Two Swedish motorcycle racing stars battle on a turn during a London„ England, competition. Cyclist Ova Fundin on the outside t&en the tire -killing race.