The Seaforth News, 1961-06-01, Page 7Ike And e'ck Sound
Like Sc . e Losers
Suppose there had been no
22nd amendment, Would former
president Dwight D. Eisenhower
have run for a third term? Ike
raises the question himself in
the Saturday Evening Post, and
Answers it somewhat'hedgingly.
Lacking a crystal ball, he would
have said no; he was happily
confident of turning over the
reins to Richard Nixon, But, Ike
asks himself, what if he had
foreseen Nixon's"•defeat? Flow
then would he have answered
the hypothetical third -term
question? "I think I`know — hut
how can 1 be absolutely sure?
I . do not see what more one
can say than qua sera, sera."
Whatever that answer meant, it
hardly added up to a huzza for
President John F. Kennedy --
who, incidentally, is never men-
tioned by name in the first in-
stallment of the Eisenhower
memoirs; Ike refers only to "my
successor," "the President-elect,"
and "the new President."
* * a
In dark blue suit and heavy
make-up for the bank of televi-
sion cameras, Richard Nixon
toyed with a Salisbury steak,
signed autographs, smiled and
chatted' with his neighbours, oc-
casionally studied the manu-
script of his prepared speech.
The grand ballroom of Chicago's
Conrad Hilton Hotel buzzed with
the table talk of 2,200 lunchers,
Just below the long speaker's
rostrum, the press was out in
force.
It might have been the autumn
of 1960 all over. again. But it
was only at the recent meeting
of the Chicago Executive Club
and Nixon, as he hastened to
remind his audience, was not
running for anything, "I shall
speak as a private citizen," he
said, "saying those things 'I be-
lieve are in the best interests
of the nation without presuming
to claim that my views repre-
sent those of my party or of
the Administration of which I
was a member."
' For the next twenty minutes,
interrupted 21 times by rousing
apply" ti,a former Vice Pre-
eident and defeated Republican
candidate for President crisply
supplied the sort of GOP meat
upon which Midwestern busi-
nessmen prefer to feed. He rak-
Id the spending proposals of the
Kennedy Administration, noting
that two-thirds of the $15 billion
program is earmarked for such
non-military items as health,
education, housing, and public
works. He also compared. Repub-
lican reaction to the Cuban fias-
co with Democratic criticism that '
followed the U-2 incident — to
the detriment of the Democrats.
That evening, in another
twenty -minute address to more
than 5,000 at a rally of the Re-
publican Citizens League of Il-
linois, Nixon waxed perceptibly
tougher. His daughter Julie, he
told the Republicans, wouldn't
go to the inauguration of Presi-
dent Kennedy last January be-
cause, she said, "if they had
counted the votes right we would
have won." (It was in Chicago,
of course, that the Republicans
charge that the election was
stolen.) "I am against stealing,"
Nixon went on, "and I am sure
that every Republican and De-
mocrat in the country feels the
same way:"
As for Mr. Kennedy, he said,
"the first '00 days — there has
been ^ .ord set in these first
. of more words and
.:ardity of deeds than at
,ime in the history of our
country." - From NEWSWEEK.
•{
RED WAVE — Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko waves
an arrival in Geneva for the
Laos Peace Conference,
What Happened To
Those Crown Jewels?
'Were King John's jewels really
lost in the Wash? Or were they
recovered and,stolen? This 745 -
year -old mystery may be solved
any day now for a team of
treasure -seekers believe they
have found the spot where the
gems lie buried.
Digging is expected to start
soon near the five -mile causeway
which links the Norfolk village
of Walpole St. Andrew and Long
Sutton, in South Lincolnshire.
It was on this causeway that
King John's treasure -laden bag-
gage train was swamped by a
tidal wave, horses and riders
were drowned arid the Crown
Jewels vanished.
Some historians claim that the
royal heirlooms were not lost
but were recovered and stolen,
But Dr. G. F. Tagg, an elec-
trical engineer, believes that the
treasure is still there. He and
his team began tsearching four
years ago. Undissayed.by false
alarms and barren cf(lee they
worked on. '..y.
According to legend, even
greater treasure lies buried in
the bed of the River Busento, in
Southern Italy. Withina five -
mile stretch,. say experts, Alaric
king of the Goths, was buried
secretly, with all the gold and
jewellery he had accumulated in
conquering Greece and Italy.
Having ravaged Rome in 410,
he died a year later and was
committed to this river - bed
grave. Strictest secrecy was ob-
served to ensure that no Romans
ransacked his remains to get at
the treasure. Even the slaves
who buried him were afterwards
killed.
Now the Lerici Foundation,
backed by a $100,000 research
fund, has invited prominent
scientists and archaeologists to
recover the treasure. The King
of Sweden, who is a keen ar-
chaeologist, is expected to help,
this ambitious project.
Apart from these major pro-
jects, there is always a possibili-
ty of treasure being unearthed
whenever new land is ploughed
or excavations are made for new
buildings.
In Britain finders now receive
from the Treasury a cheque
based on the article's market or
bullion value, plus its' archaeo-
logical worth.
Similar rules apply behind the
Iron Curtain. In Hungary two
men working on a new factory
site near Szony unearthed an
old jug.
Picking it up, they poured out
a stream of Roman coins - 118,
in all,' The workmen received
$1,500 reward,
Maybe They Did It
In The ,Winter
The most famous, and most
enigmatic, monument of English
prehistory is Stonehenge — the
massive time -worn stone blocks
set in concentric circles - which
was erected 3,400 years ago on
the verdant` Salisbury Plain,
Many of the rectangular sand-
stone blocks (called sarsens) and
the smaller bluestones have top-
pled by now, but the questions
"they raise haven't, Anthropolo-
gists and historians still argue
about the builders, history, arid
reasons behind the Stonehenge
project, Some cite the cremated
human remains found buried
there as evidence of Stone-
henge's use for ritual sepul-
chers; others paint out that the
massive stones line up with the,
position of the sun at summer
solstice, suggesting that Stone-
henge was a center for sun wor-
ship by Bronze Age Britons.
Beyond these profound cul-
tural questions, there is another,
relatively mundane puzzler:
How did these primitive people
manage to lug 81 sarsens, rang-
ing up to 100,000 pounds each,
all the way from the nearest
sandstone quarry to the building
site 21 miles away before the
benefits of the wheel or the
beast of burden had been dis-
covered?
In' the current issue of the
journal Science, Canadian geo-
logist Patrick Arthur Hill at-
tacks this weighty problem. On
a field trip through the Salis-
bury Plain three years ago. Hill
did what' the ancient builders
must have done in 1500 B.C.: He
searched for the easiest and
shortest course, and found one
that was downhill all the way
except for a gentle rise during
the first 3 miles.
As for the means of transpor-
tation, Hill writes,, most earlier
studies have cited .a combina-
tion of log rollers, sledges, and
the blood, sweat, and tears of
at least 100 men per stone.. Hill
suggests there is an easier way
than dragging the stones across
the bare slopes — namely, drag-
ging them across the ice.
-"On ice," 11111 suggests, "the
sarsens could have been moved
by a comparatively small num-
ber ' of men using sledges, One
man can move a 2 -ton Eskimo
komatik (sledge), so 25 men
could move the largest, 50 -ton
sarsen. The best combination of
snow and ice for heavy-duty
transportation would be 'ice
roads' made from packed snow
by the repeated passages of
sledges or by the spraying or
spilling of water ... (With such
a surface), each stone could
have been moved . at a slow
walking pace, and its total time
in transit could well have been
less than a week."
Hill's theory has one bit of
logic on its side. Winter would
have been abetter time for such
labours than summer. In the
summer, the local hands would
surely have been working in
the fields and Project Stone-
henge would have been jest the
thing to while away the long
winter months before planting
time rolled around again.
It's the Baseball Season: One
officer worker misses his old
roll top desk, His portable tele-
vision set looks so conspicuous
on the flat -top variety.
RACE DAY AT CHURCHILL DOWNS — This scene, lust prior to the race, sums up the conditions
which prevailed at Churchill Downs Kentucky Derby. Trainee J. A. Price holds an umbrella
against the "downpour as jockey John Sellers stands beside ultimate winner Carry Back,
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Tragedy Lurked In,
A Staunch Topsail
The 40 -year-old brigantine Al-
batross was wearing 75 per cent
of her sail; including topsail on
her square-rigged foremast, She
was sailing almost due east from
Mexico's 'Yucatan Peninsula for
Nassau, the Bahamas, and mak-
ing perhaps 6 knots in a light
wind and gentle sea. Her posi-
tion in the Gulf of Mexico was
125 miles west of the Dry Tor-
tugas; 190 miles due west of Key
West, Fla, It was 9 o'clock in
the., morning, and while light-
ning flicked from ominous skies
and occasional rain splatted on
the teak decks and steel hull,
the reassuring aroma of cooking
breakfast wafted topside from
the galley. David (Tod) John-
stone, 17, was at the wheel, with
the skipper, Christopher Shel-
don, close at hand. The Alba-
tross was a '4floating classroom";
her crew was almost entirely
made up of teachers and pupils.
Now eleven persons ware on
deck; eight below.
When the squall struck, it
struck with such sudden, savage
fury that there was no time to
act, It caught the high -flying
topsail full on and toppled the
Albatross on her starboard side
like a bathtub toy, hurling those
above deck into the- sea. Her
steel hull filled, the Albatross
went down in 60 seconds, Six of
her company went down with
her.
After 24 hours of tossing in
lifeboats on the stormy Gulf,
the thirteen survivors were res-
cued by a merchant ship, and
the grim tale of irony and tra-
gedy began to unfold.
Among the more bitter ironies:
The survivors owed their lives
to the fact that the Albatross'
lifeboats bobbed up from the
sinking vessel. They had been
secured only by old line, which
gave against their buoyancy as
the 93 -ion ship went down.
As a traditionalsafety pre-
caution, the topsail was the old-
est canvas in the ship's suit —
purposely selected to give way
under such wind pressures. It
held firm.
• Christopher Sheldon bought
the Albatross in 1959 (and regis-
tered her under the Panaman-
ian flag). A sailor since he was
15, Sheldon — now 34 — realized
his dream, a -sailing prep school.
With fourteen teen -aged stu-
dents signed up (at $3,250 each),
and with his wife, Dr. Alice
Sheldon, 30, a physician, t w o
other teachers and himself as
faculty (Sheldon also holds a
Ph.D.), he set sail from Ber-
muda in October• for an eight-
month school cruise to the Gala-
pagos Islands, planning to return
to Mystic, Conn., on May 28. On
this fateful, final cruise, the Al-
batross carried only one licensed
seaman, George Ptanacik, the
cook, who went down with the
ship. Sheldon's first mate was
one at his students, 15 -year-old
William Bunting, son of presi-
dent Mary I. Bunting of Rad-
cliffe College.
If the vessel had been regis-
tered under the U.S. flag. she
Would have needed a licensed
skipper, mate, and an engineer
-- which would have sent the
cost of operating her (as U.S.
maritime operators know) sky-
high.
Sheldon himself said:
"What we had was a sort of
apprentice system, which has
existed for centuries,, mostly in
Europe, where boys pay to sail
and learn the sea. We were actu-
elly'a tutoring service, with ap-
prentice seamen, I did not think,
of the boys as passengers. hut
as crew."
Whatever the basic cause of
the tragedy, Sheldoli gat no re»
criminations; he had suffered his
own loss, One of the victims wait
Dr. Alice Sheldon, his wife,
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250 acres of level, loam soil under cul-
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All spring grain planted and growing.
Also some beets planted. New cattle
barn, 45'x100' with attached. silo 14'x40'
and cement barnyard 00'x100'. Hog pen
30'00', Other barns, implement shed,
granary, hen house, double garage, all
good repair. Rock well water gives
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one-quarter mile elevators one-half
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Ross Insurance Agencies, Realtors, 27
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ONE-WAY 44 foot Case disc plow,
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17 • 49
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