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Zurich Herald, 1957-07-18, Page 7Big Field For Soap -Box Derby The All-American Soap Box Derby at Akron on Sunday, Au- gust 18, will have the largest field of contestants and the rich- est array of prizes in the 20 - year history of the famous boys' racing event. The 161 champions from the United States, Alaska, Canada, West Germany and the Philippine Islands will vie for #15,000 in college scholarships, 10 beautiful trophies and valu- able merchandise 'awards. A special added prize this year In observance of the 20th anni- versary of the All-American .is a two-week all -expense paid trip to Europe for the national champion, W. G. Power, execu- tive director of the All-Ameri-, can, said. • Power, adveiaising manager of Chevrolet which sponsors the Derby, stressed that the trip to England, Ireland, France, Bel- gium, Germany and Italy is in addition to the $5,000 first place scholarship and other honors to be bestowed on the winner. • The national champion also will receive the Chevrolet tro- phy pd a gold Ringmaster ring similar to that given to the win- ner of the Indianapolis "500." The list of 161 champions tops the previous high of 155 who raced in 1956, Power said. The toys, 11 to 15 inclusive, will drive homemade gravity - pro- pelled cars on the 975 -foot downhill course at Derby Downs in quest of prizes and glory. Champions showing outstand- fxig skill in car construction and design will receive special awards at the Banquet of Champions following the race. • Five trophies will be present- ed to the boys whose cars have the best brakes, best construc- tion, best design and best uphol- stery and to the driver with the fastest heat of the day. Besides all this, each local champion is awarded the spe- cially designed E. N. Cole Plaque. Along with it goes .a Soap Box Derby racing diploma, a wrist watch, and, of course, the coveted Derby weekend in Akron with a full calendar of excitement and entertainment. Just two days following the race at Akron, the new cham- pion will leave on his European tour, departing for- Ireland by Pan-American Air Clipper. His journey will take him to such famed world capitals . as Dub- lin, London, Brussels, Paris and Rome, and to Frankfurt in West Germany. Before leaving for Europe, the champ will be flown to New York and entertained there. Power said a. feature of the 1057 race will be a spepial race for the contestants from outside the United States for an inter- national trophy. . The All-American is co-spon- sored 'by Chevrolet, leading newspapers; radio and television stations and fraternal and civic service organizations. UNCONQUERABLE Although most ' of the more serious diseases have been, con- quered, the great killer on the highway has yet to be control- led. Every year, traffic accidents take a greater toll of life; every car, more and more people are year, and often crippled for life. The motorist who drives when . he is sick, overtired, emotionally upset or otherwise Impaired in mind .or body,. is a menace to -himself and to other drivers. Anyone who has heart trouble, diabetes or any ailment which could suddenly incapaci- tate him, should never drive. !nog distances alone. Schedule all your worrying for- a- l;pecific half hour about the middle of the day. Then take nap during this period. ALL .IN FUN—"Sleeka", one -year-old star attraction at the St. Louis Zoo, seems to be having a very good time with her pIly- ful antics. But Dick McGraw, zoo lion tamer, is in a more • stoical than amused mood. McGraw's trouser leg was ripped open but he wasn't injured. Rocky Wilderness :Aides Vast Wealth Canada's Pioneers Never Suspected At the turn of the century an American school geography des- cribed Canada as "a country, cold, barren, and uninhabited, lying to the north of the United States; a vast expanse of rock and muskeg (bog), with great forests of worthless black spruce" The authors of this piece of •bleak prose were preceded and followed by many writers, econ- omists, and geographers who took an equally dim view of Canada's future; for approxi- mately a half of this country lies within the . rocky, infertile embrace of one of this planet's ancient pre -Cambrian shields. Until recent times not even the Canadians themselves — who from earliest beginnings have lolled their stern'homeland with an ardor not readily un- derstood by their American and British cousins - could find much to say in defense of 1,800,- 000 square- miles of: rock, mostly granite of a 'quality too inferior for commercial purposes. Today this rocky wilderness is the established economic corner- stone of Canada, for most Of the fabulous mineral wealth of re- cent years has been found with- in the shield's stern crust. Some 95 per cent of Canada's copper, 85 per cent of its iron, all of its nickel, platinum, titan- ium and uranium, as well as less -well-known minerals like lithium, columbium, and the rare earths, come from the shield. ' Also within- the shield lies most of Canada's fabulous hydro- electric power potential. But of all the Cinderella sur- prises of recent years the stunt- ed forests of the shield head the list. For pulp and paper made from the scrubby stands of spruce, poplar and jack pine have become a mainstay •of the Canadian economy. Pulp .and • paper now take precedence over wheat as"the major source of ex- port revenue. Crude Horseshoe The Canadian pre -Cambrian shield is a' vast plateau, uneven- ly dotted with hills, lakes, and DREAMS OF GLORY—This youngster; surrounded by ancient cannon, assumes a hands -on -hips pose in 'the, African Museum En RStne, Italy, perhaps dreaming of stirring •military exploits. The weapons are relics of Italy's 1410 campaign in Libya; muskeg. In some areas it iscut with fiords. In Labrador the Torngat Mountains rear bleak heads 6,000 feet above sea level. In outline, the shield is a crude horseshoe, with its ends on the Arctic Ocean. Embracing the whole of Hudson Bay, it stretches east and northeast to include. Labrador and northern Quebec. To the south it narrows to a point on the • American side south of Lake Superior. The famous iron deposits of the Mesabi Range in Minnesota are in this extension of the Cana- dian shield. The shield has a saucerlike shape, the high edges of the rim sloping toward the central de- pression of Hudson Bay. In pre- historic times ice planed off the deep soil formed by centuries of;. weathering, thereby destroying the possibility of widespread agricutural settlement. In earlier days in Ontario and Quebec barren rocks wrecked the hopes of many courageous farmer -pioneers. Even today there is little at- tempt at farming within the shield except for the scattered areas of rich clay or fortuitously placed pockets of clay near some of the mining settlements. So closely does the weight of the shield press down on the settled areas of eastern Canada that only 50 miles separate Ottawa, the capital city, from a wilder- ness that extends, uninterrupted- ly, to the lowlands of Hudson Bay. • Planet's Oldest Mountains The shield is very old.' So .old that visitors to Ottawa, standing on Parliament Hill, looking across the valley -of the Ottawa River to the purple -blue haze hanging over the Laurentians, •are looking at the oldest moun- tains on this planet. At best, it is a strange land, mysteriously • attractive to the Canadians who have loved it enough to want to understand it, repellent and grim to men bred in softer lands. The earliest French settlers knew there were minerals in the rocks of the shield. Indians led them to the crude, primitive workings of copper deposits on the shores of Lake. Superior. But in those days no one cared. In more recent times men were baffled by the complex nature of the ores when dis- covered. Metallurgy had • • to catch up with the prospector before- the shield could come into its own. On oft -quoted example was the discovery of copper at Sud- bury during the building of the Canadian Pacific 'Railroad in 1883. When a construction gang cut into a rich mineral deposit there was much excitement un- til 'it was learned that the cop- per was of little value because of the abundant presence of a worthless metallurgically ex- asperating white mineral calied nickel. Today nickel is one of modern industry's most essee- tial minerals, of which Canada is the world's greatest producer, Canada also is gaining ground rapidly as a producer of iron ores. The pioneering geologists of. the Geological Survey have known of the Labrador and Un- gava deposits ' since the early 1890's. i ,crognition of 'their tre- mendous importance came with the phenomenal growth et the American steel industry. Steel output is undergoing rapid expansion in many other countries, including Canada, the Uftited Kingdom and Germany. But it is the expansion Of the Ui'1"ted States steel industry that h ,s' stepped up production of t l , on ore business. .the beginning of World War II„ he United States steel in d ry had an annual capacity of 8'naillion tons, Today this has gown to 126 million tons. ecause iron is still "the mo- t of industry," one of the re -eons for the speeding up of t building of the giant St. L rence Seaway by the two c, *'tries was the necessity to g ' entee continuing supplies of eh; i'essential mineral to the great A erican steel industry, as well to its rapidly expanding C adian counterpart. ut of all the shield treasures, ne .has captured the public ineegination• as has uranium. It scatted in 1930 when Gilbert L4Bine, who %ad first gone to the'. Northwest ' Territories in search of cotter and silver, fond pitchblende, the ore of raium and uranium. 1. The discovery of radium was big. news. No one was interested in ethe. uranium. Nevertheless al- though not realized at the time, 'this presaged the day when, following World War II, Cana- dian uranium began to make front-page- news. Pioneer Courage woday Canada is the world's second largest producer of uran- iti n and one of tleis century's recognized "atomic powers." Flying over the,, wilderness, looking down on the endless forests and muskegs;' the lakes, and myriad tiny potholes, it is difficult to grasp the, courage of pioneer fur traders, explorers, prospectors and geologists who by their tireless travels and en- during interest made these things possible. With respect to national unity, the shield has been a problem child, complicating attempts to reconcile the divergent pro - HEY, MARTY!• Ernest Borg- nine, star of award-winning "Marty," looks- pretty .happy about his page-bcy bob. Actu- ally, the false locks are for his • latest movie role, that of a brutal sea war lord in "The Vikings," which will be filmed in Norway. He'll also „year a bristling beard. blems, of •East and West, for 1,00.0 wilderness miles lie be- tween the heavily populated province of Ontario and the prairie provinces , of Manitoba, Sapkatchewan; and Alberta. In '-earlier 'times more than one Canadian argued the folly of trying to builda coast-to- coast ,nation because of the shield, .with its geographic lin- gual, and religious sectionalism. Inthe past decade the shield - has.. played a reverse role in bringing about a closer rel`ation- sliip between Canada, and the United States. This relationship, always greatly handicapped by Ameri- can' ignorance of Canada and indefference to the true nature of 'a- complex country and its viewpoints, has been jolted out of tmmditional, attitudes in both countries. For interest in the treasures of the shield has done more than jut attract the American capi- tar which has helped speed up their development. 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