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Zurich Herald, 1955-12-01, Page 3About 2,000 horizontal silos were in use in Canada at the beginning of 1955 according to a preliminary survey conducted by the Field Husbandry Divi- sion, Department of Agricul- ture, Ottawa. The majority of these silos were in the provin- ces of Quebec, Ontario, Manito- ba and British Columbia. Most of them were of the ground surface type, requiring no ex- 2avation. Experimental work on this method of ensiling crops, particularly for grass and le- gume silage, was started at •the Central Experimental Farm in 1951. Results of this work have been sufficiently encouraging to secure growing adoptionby farmers of the horizontal silo. * k Beef calves with only an open shed as protection from the wind appear to make as rapid and economical gains as ...ani- mals wintered inside a barn. L. A. Charetter of the Ex- perimental Farm, Kapuskasing, reports that twenty shorthorn steers were placed on test in the fall at an average age of seven months and continued on test for 196 days. At the end of this period they were put on pasture. One group of steers was wintered inside a dairy barn while another group was placed in a shed where the doors remained open all winter. The animals in the shed had access to outside paddocks at all times. * * * During these trials the steers in the open shelter made an average total gain of 174 pounds compared to 191 pounds for the steers wintered inside the barn. * * * Th calves wintered outside consumed a daily average of 5 pounds of hay, 18.7 pounds of grass silage and 1,4 pounds of grain while the calves inside the barn consumed 5.5 pounds of hay, 18.8 pounds of silage, and 1.4 pounds of grain. * * * Since the steers were watered and fed inside the shed, this .limited the number of hours they would spend outside. The OUCH 1 = Just looking at Julia as she and her partner rehearse ►heir act in London can make /our bones ache. But Darvas and Julia, specialty dancers, lave trained for this sort of >f thing, which is why they ap- 'eared before Queen Elizabeth n the Royal Variety Perform - ince at Victoria Palace Theatre. ,daily average of hours spent outside was 2.3 hours. It was observed that animals would go outside even on cold days, how- ever during stormy weather they looked for shelter "else- where. During the trial tempera- tures dropped as low as 25 de- grees below zero. * *, The question as to whether or not beef calves can be wintered with a limited amount of shelter without seriously affecting their growth and increasing their feed requirements has been dis- cussed by cattlemen and agri- culturists for years. The trials at Kapuskasing and other re- search centres across Canada are supplying valuable informa- tion on the subject. * * * Artificial lights to maintain egg production d u r in g the shorter days of the winter months, will make a Laying flock more profitable. However, the effectiveness of lights will depend on their proper use, re- port poultry officials at the Brandon Experimental Farm. Lighting should 'commence in time to maintain a 12 -hour day once daylight alone is inade- quate. This is sufficient while production is on the increase but should be stepped up to a minimum of 13 hours, when production levels off. * * * Once started, the, lighting schedule must be regular. An abrupt reduction in either length of time or strength of light may cause egg production to stop. A time switch is con- sidered essential to insure against forgetfulness. When lights are started in fall, there is nothing to be gained by do- ing this gradually. However, when they are discontinued a gradual 15 minutes per week reduction is recommended. * .1 * Laying houses should have one 40 -watt bulb for each 200 square feet of floor space. When all-night lights are used, this. intensity may be reduced to one-third. The location of the lights will depend on the • type and width'.. of the 'house.. In houses not more than 24 feet wide, the lignts should be placed in a single row at intervals not exceeding 10 feet, midway between the roost- ing quarters and the front of the house. In wider houses a double row of lights is neces- sary. The lights should be sus- pended about 6 feet from the floor. The greatest light inten- sity should fall on the water fountains and feeders, with a lesser amount on the roosting quarters to induce.. the hens to leave them. * * * Aside from convenience there apparently is little difference in the various methods of supply- ing light. If morning light is provided, feed and water must be available at the time the lights come on. When the birds are receiving light and feed in the evening, it s necessary to have a dimming device to in- duce them to return to the roosts. NEEDED FIXING Bang in the middle of her''first driving lesson Mrs. Williams complained to her husband: - "Albert, that little mirror up there •isn't set right." "What's .wrong with it?" "Well, all I can see in it is the car behind " CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1. (Haber 5, Tough 8. Norwegian name. 12 Composition for two 1S Coulter 14 ia'aeien.r 13Small island tb Speaks or 14 Principal ZD two-pni.,teel tacks 21 Greek ptovinee 2' Anger 24. ISetainlnt; wall 27 err 38, Imitated 41 Uruguay 00).1 32 Draft animal 13. Among ,54, Pleasing 36 Urge on 47 hollow $4aionrneYa 42 ilespir1tiory sounds 4e Dweller 47 Masculine nickname 48 i reehold eight (''or.) 49. Turmeric'' 69Diminutive ending 4t. Aftet•noorl parties 4.fltlirh Kut, Steins 0011,x 1. Or an ode 2 Hurry 3. Coedited 4 1-lardened 5. "Uncle • • 4. nrinh< 7. Kept up 28. Poorly 8. Steal (slang, s. 11 )1.11 9. Stringed 12 Cl ntelved instrument 34 0111 10, Stave 15 A ways 11. hlendland bona•). 17. Sour 311 A Inset, 19. Proper 38. ,kg 22. 'those v, ho 39. It terpret import 11 ren,, illegally 40. On tile "Chan 24 Scale sheep 41.1.1117;e knife 25. )"inia) 43 (; •111 Ielt !i. h,uuder tl er.1 27 A'uteneall of 44 Witnelsv** mind 411. Ai the lent hr,, f1lBi5We Iswhere 01) I pass;, s 1l "MOUTH -PAINTED BY MERLE" - Two years ago, Merle Chisholm, pretty, 28 -year-old wife and mother, was a commercial, artist, Today she is polio -paralyzed from the neck down. But she has wasted no* time in self:pity. She set about to learn to draw and paint again with a pencil or brush clenched in her teeth. She wore that ba the and has built a new artistic career with a collection of exclusive "mouth -painted -by -Merle" Christmas cards and personal note paper. Her husband, Robert, is also cm artist. Here their fou r -year-old son, Gary, watches in fascination as his mother draws a picture. KANGAROOS LED TO U FO 1 TUNE Uranium fever now grips Australia. Not so long ago, mining experts rejected this radio -active ore as dross. Now, as the raw material of atomic fission, it is more coveted than gold and, when stockpiled, im- measurably more useful -and dangerous. Uranium is bound shortly to revolutionize the world, wheth- er used for power generation, transport or defence. Sources fit for mining' are far scattered. Canada struck one of the rich- est fields beside the Great Bear Lake, but lying within the Arc- tic Circle, 800 miles north by air of the nearest railhead, - its inaccessibility impedes rapid development. The Belgian Congo's mines are more advantageously plac- ed. Apart from that, small but valuable ore beds of high radio- active yields have • been lo- cated in the United States and Africa. Yet now, with •Australia's en- try into the production field, the picture of uranium distri- bution changes. For no one can accuse the Western democracies of irresponsible optimism in suspecting that "down under" contains the earth's richest strata of this coveted ore. And, as in so many remark- able enterprises,. it was left to a single individual, a man of very ordinary attainments, to set Australia's atomic prosper- ity moving. Jack White, a brawny prospector of the pick and pan school, has spent a life- time amid the Northern Terri- tory's alternately sun - beaten and rain -drenched wastes. Always • he lived rough. Some- times he fossicked for gold, keeping himself alive on kan- garoo meat, and sometimes he farmed until white ants devour- ed his buildings and pests de- spoiled his crops. Then one day in 1949, driving his ramshackle jeep, he set out from Darwin to hunt kangaroos. in Run Jungle, a waste land of green mangoes, broken hills, gum -tree scrub and crumbling, ant -eaten R•A,A.F. hut encamp- ments. The 'roos were scarce. But while searching for them, White chanced to stumble on some green and canary -yellow lumps of rock lying on the site of some long abandoned copper and tin workings. Uranium ore oxidizes a bright yellow when exposed to the atmosphere. That he knew. And he knew too that the colours of the rocks at his' feet fitted in with des- . criptions of the now oro he had read in a Bureau of Mines palm ohlet Putting down his gup and fetching a sack from his jeep, he filled it with rock lumps, then flung it carelessly on the jeep's floor. Back at his shack, Jack post- ed off his samples to the Min- ing Bureau's offices at Alice Springs, 900 miles distant He didn't hope for much. "After twenty years in the scrub." he afterwards remarked, "one gets tired of looking for new things. C just • picked 'ern up. not parti- cular like." But when the expert at Alice Springs ran his detector over these ,samples it vibrated. as if smitten with hysterics. Soon, a swarth of scientists descended on Rum Jungle, probing it with • their geirter counters Then, in conditions of secrecy, exIeri- metli'll glllft•fi were sunk. Dia- mond dlillinac direlosPd how PV.1^11G1C*r v,'os tit'‘ field. 'Lick Willie, listed out of ob- A NI ! scurity, blinked irritably on dis- covering himself to be a cele- brity, a national hero. Grizzled and slow -speaking, he never- theless pocketed the Govern- ment's maximum reward for his find, a cheque for $75,000. Yet when invited to join disting- uished guests at Rum Jungle's opening ceremony, in Septem- ber, 1954, Jack White stayed away. At the very moment that the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, pressed the switch, setting in motion one of the world's greatest and most costly uranium oxide extraction plants, Jack was enjoying a quiet drink in the bar 'of the Adelaide River Hotel, Darwin. Despite his fortune, he dwells still in a simple galvanized iron cottage. He is without running water, electricity, or any of civ- lization's domestic amenities. When atomic power opens up this corner of Australia he'll probably be the last to use it! But he has equipped himself with a • new jeep. And, when re- porters pressed him to disclose his new ambitions, all they got out of him was, "What I want is to be left alone by you guys, and grow peanuts." So the mighty atom has transformed him from a casual propector in- to a full-time peanut farmer. Now, at Batchelor, the old R.A.AF. township in Rum Jun- gle, a new town on stilts has arisen. All the new buildings, shops, messes and primary schools stand on stilts. They are, also "louvred," or heavily shutered, so that internal air temperatures can be easily con- trolled. The spot has the great ad- " vantage of being only sixty miles from a port and of lying on the main highway from Darwin too Alice Springs. Australia has started off her premier produc- tion plant with tremendous phys- ical factors in her favour. Formerly, in this wild terri- tory, many adventurers and tough breeds lived off the coun- try. Provided they could shoot, they need never fear starvation. And with a little prospecting knowledge they sometimes stum- bled across gold, copper, tin, wolfram and other useful min- erals. Now, since Jack White's ter- rific luck, these wiry old pros- pectors have a new look and new tools. Instead of the . fa- miliar gold washing pan and sluice -box, the more go-ahead have equipped themselves with four -wheeled trucks, g e i g e r counters. (these alone cost about .$300), ultra -violet lamps and modern camping equipment. But keen eyes, patience and energy are still the prospector's stock -in -trade. Uranium oxide does not cause geiger reactions . r LL1 .) . rkWt:J J 'Six tents postage due? I know wlsa,tt's from and it's not worth that(" if embedded below a foot of rock or three feet of soil. So many a man may walk over riches, as thousands of Austra- lian war -time airmen did around Batchelor in the war years. Lately the Federal Govern- ment carried out an aerial sur- vey of 4,000 square miles of this territory for radioactive mineral deposits. Twelve areas were found worthy of ground pros- pecting, mostly in the Rum Jun- gle vicinity. And in these areas the surveying aircraft's atom detector, or scinntillometer, made 900 strikes. The Government still offers substantial rewards for fresh uranium ore discoveries. Where a commercially exploitable lode is found, the full $75,000 will be paid. Spurred by such induce- ments, Sam Macumber, a 59 - year -old brewery worker, and his younger brother Bill, a rail- way gate -keeper, spent last win- ter's evenings studying the symp- toms of uranium -bearing rocks. Then recently, acting on a hunch, the two began a search at Mount Kangaroo, near Ingle- wood, a smaI1 township some thirty miles from the famous old gold -mining town of Bendigo. They took out a mining licence. Prespectors are also attacking Mount Isa in Western Queens- land in a spirit as lively as any shown during the Klondike gold rushes. Here one group of eight men, headed by taxi driver Cle- ment Walton, hit on a hillock, 200 feet wide by 400 feet across, which they now call Mount Atom. It appears to be solid with radioactive ore. The Australian Oil Exploita- tion Company has bought out their claim for $750,000. But, wisely, the lucky eight have contracted to receive a share in the mine's gross profits as well. The excitement of sudden riches proved nearly fatal for taximan Walton. He collapsed after a severe heart attack. But fortunately he pulled around. Now, regaining his strength in a first-class convalescent home in Adelaide, he's smiling afresh. He sees happy days ahead in which to enjoy his astounding uranium luck. The artificial flowers and feathers industry has grown from four firms with a gross production value of $117,671 It. Barclay Warren. B.A., 0.1M , Meaning of Discipleship Luke 9:23-36 Memory Selection: If any Inas 'will come after me, let lalata deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follows' me. Luke 9:23. Jesus Christ did not gain his followers by making rosy pro- mises, It was a call to self-denial and cross -bearing. "For whoso- will save his life shall lost itt but whosoever will lose his lie for my sake, the same shall find it." So the self must die if we are to follow Christ. There is something very beau- tiful about the crucified life. Pride is absent and Christ is seen. The desire is to lose one's life for Christ's sake. Dr. Albert Schweitzer is a modern example. Now in his eighties this great philosopher, theologian and mu- sician is not resting on his laurels but is ministering to the needy in his leper colony in Africa. There is so much self-•,, seeking today. It is refreshing to meet and hear those who have said 'NO' to self and are bearing the cross for Jesus. It isn't by chance that Luker follows these words on disciple- ship by an account of the trans- figuration which took place eight days later. It was a heavenly experience to see something of Christ's glory. Moses and Elias talked with Jesus of his decease but it was in a heavenly atmos- phere. The cross is always lightened when we think of the coming glory. First the cross, -then the crown. That is - why Christians are wiling to suffer for their faith. A native teacher in Kenya was called out of his house by Mau Mau adherents who profes- sed to be police. They said that if he did not take the Mau Mail Oath they would kill him: Fie replied: "Everyone must choose which world he wants, You have chosen this world, but I have chosen the world of Jesus and his kingdom. Come and kill me if you will, and I shall go to him." Thereupon he was shOt and went to be with his Lord. "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him." 2 Timothy 2:12. ODD WAY OF GETTING EVEN Many, many years ago ther existed a feud between the: people of Little Basle and those of Basle, in Switzerland. Sepa- rating the two quarrelling towns was the Rhine River, spanned by a bridge. The people of Basle hit upon an idea for displaying their 'con- tempt in a manner easily un- derstood. On the bridge, facing their rivals, they erected a huge, ugly stone statue. To the hide- ous face of the statue was' fitted an automatic device which every fifteen minutes caused the figure to stick its long tongue out at Little Basle.. Upsidedown to Ptevenl reeking LOOK AT THE BIRDIE -- Not exactly a dirty bird, but kind of earthy, is this potato sculptured by nature to look like a bird. It was found by Jesse Bedwell, above, while digging potatoes on his grandmother's farm. The only thing Bedwell, 25, added to complete the similarity was the paper wings. I813 x x Ztl ■■ ■ ®II 26 ,4tik L7: la BO II lI..i`1 ■ II AIIIII Mil ii mvsa. ■1.z•d Y iiii114° 11.1111111111111111101111 11111111117, ■® 1111 111149 liiiIIII 111.1111111i11111111191111 �l��®aA'�'�528■11® �le � ,a . f1lBi5We Iswhere 01) I pass;, s 1l "MOUTH -PAINTED BY MERLE" - Two years ago, Merle Chisholm, pretty, 28 -year-old wife and mother, was a commercial, artist, Today she is polio -paralyzed from the neck down. But she has wasted no* time in self:pity. She set about to learn to draw and paint again with a pencil or brush clenched in her teeth. She wore that ba the and has built a new artistic career with a collection of exclusive "mouth -painted -by -Merle" Christmas cards and personal note paper. Her husband, Robert, is also cm artist. Here their fou r -year-old son, Gary, watches in fascination as his mother draws a picture. KANGAROOS LED TO U FO 1 TUNE Uranium fever now grips Australia. Not so long ago, mining experts rejected this radio -active ore as dross. Now, as the raw material of atomic fission, it is more coveted than gold and, when stockpiled, im- measurably more useful -and dangerous. Uranium is bound shortly to revolutionize the world, wheth- er used for power generation, transport or defence. Sources fit for mining' are far scattered. Canada struck one of the rich- est fields beside the Great Bear Lake, but lying within the Arc- tic Circle, 800 miles north by air of the nearest railhead, - its inaccessibility impedes rapid development. The Belgian Congo's mines are more advantageously plac- ed. Apart from that, small but valuable ore beds of high radio- active yields have • been lo- cated in the United States and Africa. Yet now, with •Australia's en- try into the production field, the picture of uranium distri- bution changes. For no one can accuse the Western democracies of irresponsible optimism in suspecting that "down under" contains the earth's richest strata of this coveted ore. And, as in so many remark- able enterprises,. it was left to a single individual, a man of very ordinary attainments, to set Australia's atomic prosper- ity moving. Jack White, a brawny prospector of the pick and pan school, has spent a life- time amid the Northern Terri- tory's alternately sun - beaten and rain -drenched wastes. Always • he lived rough. Some- times he fossicked for gold, keeping himself alive on kan- garoo meat, and sometimes he farmed until white ants devour- ed his buildings and pests de- spoiled his crops. Then one day in 1949, driving his ramshackle jeep, he set out from Darwin to hunt kangaroos. in Run Jungle, a waste land of green mangoes, broken hills, gum -tree scrub and crumbling, ant -eaten R•A,A.F. hut encamp- ments. The 'roos were scarce. But while searching for them, White chanced to stumble on some green and canary -yellow lumps of rock lying on the site of some long abandoned copper and tin workings. Uranium ore oxidizes a bright yellow when exposed to the atmosphere. That he knew. And he knew too that the colours of the rocks at his' feet fitted in with des- . criptions of the now oro he had read in a Bureau of Mines palm ohlet Putting down his gup and fetching a sack from his jeep, he filled it with rock lumps, then flung it carelessly on the jeep's floor. Back at his shack, Jack post- ed off his samples to the Min- ing Bureau's offices at Alice Springs, 900 miles distant He didn't hope for much. "After twenty years in the scrub." he afterwards remarked, "one gets tired of looking for new things. C just • picked 'ern up. not parti- cular like." But when the expert at Alice Springs ran his detector over these ,samples it vibrated. as if smitten with hysterics. Soon, a swarth of scientists descended on Rum Jungle, probing it with • their geirter counters Then, in conditions of secrecy, exIeri- metli'll glllft•fi were sunk. Dia- mond dlillinac direlosPd how PV.1^11G1C*r v,'os tit'‘ field. 'Lick Willie, listed out of ob- A NI ! scurity, blinked irritably on dis- covering himself to be a cele- brity, a national hero. Grizzled and slow -speaking, he never- theless pocketed the Govern- ment's maximum reward for his find, a cheque for $75,000. Yet when invited to join disting- uished guests at Rum Jungle's opening ceremony, in Septem- ber, 1954, Jack White stayed away. At the very moment that the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, pressed the switch, setting in motion one of the world's greatest and most costly uranium oxide extraction plants, Jack was enjoying a quiet drink in the bar 'of the Adelaide River Hotel, Darwin. Despite his fortune, he dwells still in a simple galvanized iron cottage. He is without running water, electricity, or any of civ- lization's domestic amenities. When atomic power opens up this corner of Australia he'll probably be the last to use it! But he has equipped himself with a • new jeep. And, when re- porters pressed him to disclose his new ambitions, all they got out of him was, "What I want is to be left alone by you guys, and grow peanuts." So the mighty atom has transformed him from a casual propector in- to a full-time peanut farmer. Now, at Batchelor, the old R.A.AF. township in Rum Jun- gle, a new town on stilts has arisen. All the new buildings, shops, messes and primary schools stand on stilts. They are, also "louvred," or heavily shutered, so that internal air temperatures can be easily con- trolled. The spot has the great ad- " vantage of being only sixty miles from a port and of lying on the main highway from Darwin too Alice Springs. Australia has started off her premier produc- tion plant with tremendous phys- ical factors in her favour. Formerly, in this wild terri- tory, many adventurers and tough breeds lived off the coun- try. Provided they could shoot, they need never fear starvation. And with a little prospecting knowledge they sometimes stum- bled across gold, copper, tin, wolfram and other useful min- erals. Now, since Jack White's ter- rific luck, these wiry old pros- pectors have a new look and new tools. Instead of the . fa- miliar gold washing pan and sluice -box, the more go-ahead have equipped themselves with four -wheeled trucks, g e i g e r counters. (these alone cost about .$300), ultra -violet lamps and modern camping equipment. But keen eyes, patience and energy are still the prospector's stock -in -trade. Uranium oxide does not cause geiger reactions . r LL1 .) . rkWt:J J 'Six tents postage due? I know wlsa,tt's from and it's not worth that(" if embedded below a foot of rock or three feet of soil. So many a man may walk over riches, as thousands of Austra- lian war -time airmen did around Batchelor in the war years. Lately the Federal Govern- ment carried out an aerial sur- vey of 4,000 square miles of this territory for radioactive mineral deposits. Twelve areas were found worthy of ground pros- pecting, mostly in the Rum Jun- gle vicinity. And in these areas the surveying aircraft's atom detector, or scinntillometer, made 900 strikes. The Government still offers substantial rewards for fresh uranium ore discoveries. Where a commercially exploitable lode is found, the full $75,000 will be paid. Spurred by such induce- ments, Sam Macumber, a 59 - year -old brewery worker, and his younger brother Bill, a rail- way gate -keeper, spent last win- ter's evenings studying the symp- toms of uranium -bearing rocks. Then recently, acting on a hunch, the two began a search at Mount Kangaroo, near Ingle- wood, a smaI1 township some thirty miles from the famous old gold -mining town of Bendigo. They took out a mining licence. Prespectors are also attacking Mount Isa in Western Queens- land in a spirit as lively as any shown during the Klondike gold rushes. Here one group of eight men, headed by taxi driver Cle- ment Walton, hit on a hillock, 200 feet wide by 400 feet across, which they now call Mount Atom. It appears to be solid with radioactive ore. The Australian Oil Exploita- tion Company has bought out their claim for $750,000. But, wisely, the lucky eight have contracted to receive a share in the mine's gross profits as well. The excitement of sudden riches proved nearly fatal for taximan Walton. He collapsed after a severe heart attack. But fortunately he pulled around. Now, regaining his strength in a first-class convalescent home in Adelaide, he's smiling afresh. He sees happy days ahead in which to enjoy his astounding uranium luck. The artificial flowers and feathers industry has grown from four firms with a gross production value of $117,671 It. Barclay Warren. B.A., 0.1M , Meaning of Discipleship Luke 9:23-36 Memory Selection: If any Inas 'will come after me, let lalata deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follows' me. Luke 9:23. Jesus Christ did not gain his followers by making rosy pro- mises, It was a call to self-denial and cross -bearing. "For whoso- will save his life shall lost itt but whosoever will lose his lie for my sake, the same shall find it." So the self must die if we are to follow Christ. There is something very beau- tiful about the crucified life. Pride is absent and Christ is seen. The desire is to lose one's life for Christ's sake. Dr. Albert Schweitzer is a modern example. Now in his eighties this great philosopher, theologian and mu- sician is not resting on his laurels but is ministering to the needy in his leper colony in Africa. There is so much self-•,, seeking today. It is refreshing to meet and hear those who have said 'NO' to self and are bearing the cross for Jesus. It isn't by chance that Luker follows these words on disciple- ship by an account of the trans- figuration which took place eight days later. It was a heavenly experience to see something of Christ's glory. Moses and Elias talked with Jesus of his decease but it was in a heavenly atmos- phere. The cross is always lightened when we think of the coming glory. First the cross, -then the crown. That is - why Christians are wiling to suffer for their faith. A native teacher in Kenya was called out of his house by Mau Mau adherents who profes- sed to be police. They said that if he did not take the Mau Mail Oath they would kill him: Fie replied: "Everyone must choose which world he wants, You have chosen this world, but I have chosen the world of Jesus and his kingdom. Come and kill me if you will, and I shall go to him." Thereupon he was shOt and went to be with his Lord. "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him." 2 Timothy 2:12. ODD WAY OF GETTING EVEN Many, many years ago ther existed a feud between the: people of Little Basle and those of Basle, in Switzerland. Sepa- rating the two quarrelling towns was the Rhine River, spanned by a bridge. The people of Basle hit upon an idea for displaying their 'con- tempt in a manner easily un- derstood. On the bridge, facing their rivals, they erected a huge, ugly stone statue. To the hide- ous face of the statue was' fitted an automatic device which every fifteen minutes caused the figure to stick its long tongue out at Little Basle.. Upsidedown to Ptevenl reeking LOOK AT THE BIRDIE -- Not exactly a dirty bird, but kind of earthy, is this potato sculptured by nature to look like a bird. It was found by Jesse Bedwell, above, while digging potatoes on his grandmother's farm. The only thing Bedwell, 25, added to complete the similarity was the paper wings.