Zurich Herald, 1956-09-27, Page 3To See Ourselves
Our earth seems so large, so
substantial and so much with
us, that we tend to forget the
minor position it occupies in
the• solar family of planets.
Only by a small margin is it
the largest of the other similar
planets. True, it does possess
a moderately thick atmosphere
that overlies a thin patchy lay-
er of water did it does have a
noble satellite, about one fourth
its diameter. The pair, as view-
ed from a suitable position in
space, say from Venus . .
would undoubtedly provide an
inspiring sight. . • .
Unfortunately there are no
large mirrors in space to em-
power us to see ourselves as
others might see us. There is,
nevertheless, one very poor ap-
proximation to the mirror in
space - the dark side of the
new Moon. At this phase of the
Moon, when it lies almost in a
line with the Sun, the light e -
fleeted from the Earth illumin-
ates the otherwise unlighted
black hemisphere. . . . Measures
of the earth -shine on the Moon
indicate that the Earth is a good
reflector of light, as are the
other planets with atmospheres
The Earth, therefore, when
viewed from outer space must
be a bright planet, almost as
bright as Venus.
Whether an outside observer
could recognize the continents
is somewhat uncertain, but
surely in time, by carefully
plotting the positions of all the
surface features, he would find
that the huge cloudbanks moved
and changed, while certain
areas remained fixed.. . .
One peculiarity that we can-
not observe on any other planet
could be seen by our hypotheti-
cal astronomer outside the
Earth. He would be able to ob-
serve the direct reflection of
the Sun from our oceans, when
the Earth was properly turned.
The phenomenon might be a
great surprise for a Martian
astronomer, who had never en-
countered large bodies of wa-
ter. He might very well at-
tribute the bright pointlike re-
flection to a smooth crystalline
surface on the Earth, as the
early astronomers visualized the
Moon th be a perfect crystal
sphere. - From "Earth, Moon
and Planets," by Fred L. Whip-
ple.
ROMANCE ESPANOL-Romantic
as an old Spanish love story,
Christian Dior's dramatic even-
ing gown is a froth of delicately
etched black French chantilly
lace over layers and layers of
pink tulle. The strapless gown,
with a big bell skirt that just
grazes the ground, is worn with
a wide black velvet sash and
matching mantilla.
SHE'D RATHER ROLL THAN ROCK - Miss 011ie Robinson, 75,
pilots a tractor -sprayer rig through a cotton field on the Robin-
son farm, which is operated in its entirety by a quintet of sisters
who range in age from 61 to 80. Children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren of Lillie, the only sister who ever married,
are learning farming under tutelage of the five self-sufficient
sisters.
THE FARM FRONT
Jokulaasell.
. • • fsfr4A.•
Horne vegetable storage may
be marked by extensive spoil-
age during the long winter
months. This problem is usually
traceable to a lack of knowledge
of specific storage requirements
for the several classes of vege-
tables. •
In general, vegetables are
classified into four categories on
the basis of temperature and
moisture needs when kept over
an extended period. Onions,
pumpkins •and squash must be
exposed to a dry atmosphere
and a temperature Of 40 to 45
degrees F. Cabbage, cauliflow-
er, turnips and potatoes stored.
in open bins or shelves require
damp air and a temperature of
38 to 40 degrees F. Carrots, beets
and parsnips keep best when
packed in a 'generous quantity
Of dry sawdust at 38 degrees F.
Celery must be kept growing in
storage by re -planting it in sand
on the basement floor aft'- e ik of
the foliage and some of •-,e roots
have been trimmed off with a
knife. A cellar temperature of
40 to 45 degrees F. is best for
celery.
* • •
Full maturity is essential in
all vegetables intended for stor-
age. This is indicated in onions
when the tops fall over volun-
tarily in the garden, in pumpkin
and squash .when the rind is so
hard that it cannot be punctured
with the thumb nail and in
crops such as cabbage, carrots
and beets when the tops develop
a paler color often associated
with a noticeably ewary leaf sur-
face.
All vegetables placed in stor-
age should be sound and free
from bruises. Therefore mucll.
care. is „required in harvesting.
Boxes and pails are preferred to
gunny sacks as containers for
conveying the produce from
garden to storage.
Where facilities and time per-
mit much can be done to assist
the curing processes of vegeta-
bles prior to _storage. The time
honored practice of braiding
binder twine and oniontops,
with the bulbs attached, into
long ropes and hanging these on
the sunny side of a building to
cure is conducive to good keep-
ing when placed in storage. At
3
CROSSWORD 0. Larbiszeitiy::
10. Pertaining to
a wall
11., Asserted
12. Puts on
17. Stripling
20. Because
22. True
24. Toper
20. Moccasin
28. Book of the
Bible
PUZZLE
ACROSS 2. Inflammation
of the ear
3, Al ouse genus
4. God of love
5. Singing voice
6. Needy
7 Purpose
1. Heavenly
body
6. Elapse
10, Ripe
11. Unclean
IS. Harmony
14. Love apple
35. Decay
16 Of the Sun
13 Large weight
19. Egyptian
sacred bull
21, Rodent
22, Minus
23, Abatement of
a disease
21, Dethrone
27. And not
29. Period of
tight
30. Agent
38. Variety of 1ily
E. Ruh away
38. Dolly
40. Pertilt soil
41. Spike of corn
42. Small prairie
in a foreat
44. 'Young bear
45. King Arthur's
abode
47. Hair ointment
49. HevolVing
Parts
SO. Snapping
beetle
51, Nerve net-
work
82. 111S.rry again
DOWN
1. Covering
20. Taste
01. Charge V. t
gas
32. Batter
34. !Piaci the
position
35. 1?raisecl
36. Cblor
37, Dread
39. Candle
42. Central part
43. Only
411. Quantity
48. Animal's
atom
Ariswee
elsewhere on
this
Page
the Morden, Man., Experimental
Farm the onions with the tops
are harvested when .the first se-
vere frost threatens arid then
placed in a blast of hot air at 85
to 90 degrees P. for 8 to 10 days.
This is an excellent method of
curing the bulbs. Pumpkins,
squash and the root vegetables
keep well if they are placed in
small piles in the field and cov-
ered with vines or plant' tops to
cure before they are transferred
to storage.
* *
" Plant breeders at the Canada
Department of Agriculture For-
age Plants Laboratory, Seska-
toon, have what they new be-
lieve to be a variety of sweet
clover adapted' to the area and
almost free from cOurnarin.
* *
Livestock deaths from "sweet
clover poisoning" had been
traced overtwenty years ago. to
'the presence in the plant of an.
organic compound known as'
coumarin, in itself not harmful
though it gives sweet clover a
bitter taste, but under unfavor-
able conditions in the curing Of
sweet clover hay or silage the
coumarin changes to dicumarol,
a substance which even in small
quantities is toxic to all warm
blooded animals. It acts through
changes •in the blood that leng-
then the clotting tine of . the
blood to. a point where the ani -
n1 will bleed spontaneously in-
ternally or from any type of ex-
ternal wound, Death often re-
sults and several animals may
be stricken at the same time.
*
The new variety of sweet clo-
ver is simply one that contains
very little coumarin, but retains
other good qualities ,of the stan-
dard varieties, but it has taken
20 years of careful research to
'produce it. J. E. Greenshields of.
the Forage ,Plants Laboratory,
Saskatoon, where the work was
done, says: "Some of the early
workers, such as Dr. T. M. Ste-
venson and Dr. W. J. White,
would have required special
courage had they known the
years of breeding and the
amount of work required before
a variety void of coumarin could
become a reality."
In 1935 a method was devel-
oped by which coumarin was
extracted from plant material
with alcohol and the amount , of
coumarin determined by the use
of an indicator. On the basis of
this test the Forage Plants La-
boratory produced a variety
"Pioneer" in 1940. It was soon
discovered that alcohol will not
extract all the couinarin in a
sweet clover plant. What is
known as "bound" coumarin re-
mained. When the total cou-
marin was extracted by the use
of sodium hydroxide (caustic
soda) Pioneer proved to have as
much as the variety "Arctic"
from which it was selected.
MOCTRFUL
In a recent contest to find the
longest word in the English lan-
guage a student won hands down
with this word, which is to be
found only in a medical diction-
ar9: pneurnonoultramicroscopte-
silicovolcanokoniosis, simply an.
other word for miners' T.B.
Second prize went to a word
found in most standard diction-
aries : floccinau
whose meaning is "estimated as
being worthless." Third prize
went to a word in the English
language of nineteen letters of
the alphabet without a repeat:
blacksmilh-forged-PYx.
NDAY SC11001,
LESSON
BY REV R BARCLAY
WARREN, B.A. B.D.
A Vision of the Church
Victorious, Revelation 1:947
God's people are sometimes
tempted to wonder if it is vain
to serve the Lord, In Malachi'S
day they said, "Now we call the
proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are set up; yea, they
that tempt God are even de-
livered." (3;14,15) David said,
"I was envious at the foolish,
when I saw the prosperity of the
wicked. For there. are no bands
in their death: but their strength
is firm. They are not in trouble
as other men; neither are they
plagued like other men. -Verily
I have cleansed my heart in vain,
and washed my hands in inno-
cency. For all the day long have
I been plagued, and chastened
every morning." This thinking
was very painful to David until
he went into the sanctuary of
God. He writes, "Then under-
stood I their end. Surely thou
didst set' them in slippery places:
thou castedst them down into de-
struction. -It is good for me to
draw near to God." Psalm 73.
Malachi had a good answer for
his generation, too. (3:16-4:3)
"They that feared the Lord spake
often one to another: and the
Lord hearkened and heard it,
and a book of remembrance was
written before him. -They shall
be mine -in that day when I
make up my special treasure;
and I will spare them. -Unto you
that fear my name shall the Sun
of righteousness arise with heal-
ing in his wings." It is a most
heartening passage,
Today's lesson gives a preview
of the great triumph of the re-
deemed. They are a multitude
which no man can number. They
are clothed in white robes and
have palms in their hands. They
have come out of great tribula-
tion and have washed their
robes and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb. God
shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes.
Kingdoms come and go. Caes-
ar, Napole0n, Hitler and Stalin
have had their day. Now Nasser
wants his place in the sun, but
his day will end. Sooner than
we expect the angel will sound
and great voices in heaven will
say the words of our memory
selection: "The kingdoms of this
world are become the kingdoms
of our Lord, and of his Christ;
and he shall reign for ever and,
eve." Revelation 41:15.
'Dangerous' Lion
Only A Model
011e Strandberg, the Swedish
travel -writer, has made some
scathing comments on the tour-
ist invasion of Africa.
In "Jambo!"-a Swahili greet-
ing meaning "How are you?" -
he says Nairobi has become the
- centre of astourist industry, which
"sells" Africa to would-be specu-
lators, and big safari firms com-
pete in providing extra -ordinary
facilities. The tourists -as dis-
tinct from the genuine hunters -
fall into roughly four categories.
Type A, the "murderer". or
"sporting butcher," has an im-
pressive equipment of rifles, en-
joys slaughter, and buys the
most expensive game licence en-
titling him to four lions, two
.elephants, two rhinos, and an
immense number of giraffe,
beck, gazelles and other innocent
creatures.
He feels "red blood flowing in
his veins" when he has himself
photographed .with one foot on a
slain lion or elephant. He does
That live as dangerously as may
appear, for he has a constant
bodyguard of white hunters and
gun -bearers Who intervene if the
Situation becomes critical,
' At times he Is seized by a sOrt
of Tartan cernplex, runs round In
leOpard
- pants, bathes where
there are crocodiles and insists
on sleeping in a tree.
Type 13 is the "savanna snob"
who goes on safari for the same
reason that he has polo ponies
he can't ride, a sea -going yacht
he can't sail. He may be an
American playboy requiring to
bolster up his sell -esteem and
manly prestige or an English lord
who has taken to gin and big
game to forget his last divorce.
Type C is the fanatical spe-
cialist who means to shoot a rec-
ord specimen of the bongo an-
telope or track down some rare
kind of buck. He measures its
horns with a tape -measure, his
great aim being to get his name
on the list of record hunting tro-
phies.
Type D is the appreciative, en-
thusiastic sportsman whose
greatest joy is not to kill, swank
or collect, but watch. He con-
siders his camera as valuable as
his rifle, and the safari com-
panies specialize in supplying
him with subjects.
For a relatively small fee he
can have a rhino placed in the
exact middle of the savanna with
Kilimanjaro's ice summit soaring
in the background, be piloted to
a convenient distance from the
carnera-blase family of lions at
Serengeti, even photograph hippo
from below at Amboseli by get-
ting into a little glass -walled
"hide" specially built by Walt
Disney.
Strandberg adds: "It is true
that the camera hunter is nthe
cause of snapshots of lions and
rhinos having become appalling-
ly commonplace, but he has also
helped to bring about a more
sensible and less costly approach
to Africa's game."
Round about Nairobi there are
specimens of lion and rhino
which have become photogra-
phers' models, and Strandberg
was himself there the day the
city's pet, an aged, magnificent
lion, was accidentally killed on
the Mombasa railway level -cross-
ing and has his obituary notice
reverently printed in the 'East
African Standard.'
He had long been a popular
model for many a picture repor-
tage or film "from darkest and
most dangerous Africa" -as was
also Molly, a tame rhino who will
sometimes even allow people to
ride on her.
Strandberg was south of Lu -
hero when a long caravan of
lorries belonging to a large sa-
fari firm came winding up the
road to Kabasha Gap. They
were loaded with tents, pneu-
matic naattresses, folding veran-
das, bales of mosquito -netting,
Separate vehicles carried bath-
tub, wash -hand basin, water
tanks, then came a gigantic lorry
with refrigerator, cases of whis-
ky, beer, champagne, and a
Danish chef.
Station -waggons conveyed the
staff -in white suits, red turbans
-including gun -bearers, trophy
preparers, bar -tenders, water -car-
riers, dealers in -empty bottles. hit
a truck equipped with wireless
transmitter sat two white hunter*
in khaki, looking rather drows3r
after a night playing canasta
with their clients,
Last Of all, in a skysblue Amer-
ican car, sat two men and two
women. The two men wore Ha-
waiian shits printed with pine-
apples or palms and hula-hula
girls; each chewed grimly a black
cigar. The women were in apri-
cot sharkskin coats and skirt;
with complexions like milk,
mouths like blood, hoarse voices
that swore magnificent oaths its
quick succession.
They had come to select tho
scenery for the next big Cinema -
Scope film of the wilds, about is
white hunter who endangers hie
reputation to save Ava Gardner
from (1) a rhino, (2) Frank Sin-
atra, but finally falls a victim to
one of Frank's dum-dum bullets
during a lion hunt.
After which Ava withdraws to
a nunnery on Mount Kenya and
has found peace when Frank
suddenly pops up, hotly pursued
by Jomo Kenyatta, the Flaming
Spear, and his Mau Mau terror-
ists. Ava hoists the Stars and
Stripes over the nunnery, Frank
fights at her side, and with his
last shot drops Jomo as he's
climbing the flagstaff to replace
it with the hammer and sickle,.
But the nunnery is now on fire,
and the two, reconciled, sit side
by side on the organ bench, with
the flames licking at their feet,
playing with four hands "The
Bells of Mount Kenya" -and die.
In the final scene, Strandberg
was told, we would see Ava in
nun's habit walking in a cloud
across a savanna full of zebra,
rhino, leopards, Watutsi dancers
and lions,
"We have tried to utilize and
fuse the experience gained by
'King Solomon's Mines,' Joan of
Arc,' and 9.VIogambo,' " said the
man with the pineapple shirt.
"If we can squeeze religion, gla-
mour, un-American activities and
a complete zoo into the same
film, it's bound to be a success -
but we must have a wide screen
if we're to have room for it all
at the same time."
Strandberg's own safaris with
photographer Rune Hasner, co-
vering over 60,000 miles, are the
real thing, brilliantly recorded,
vividly illustrated and very read-
able. . 1)
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the first National Dog Caddy contest.
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Ariswee
elsewhere on
this
Page
the Morden, Man., Experimental
Farm the onions with the tops
are harvested when .the first se-
vere frost threatens arid then
placed in a blast of hot air at 85
to 90 degrees P. for 8 to 10 days.
This is an excellent method of
curing the bulbs. Pumpkins,
squash and the root vegetables
keep well if they are placed in
small piles in the field and cov-
ered with vines or plant' tops to
cure before they are transferred
to storage.
* *
" Plant breeders at the Canada
Department of Agriculture For-
age Plants Laboratory, Seska-
toon, have what they new be-
lieve to be a variety of sweet
clover adapted' to the area and
almost free from cOurnarin.
* *
Livestock deaths from "sweet
clover poisoning" had been
traced overtwenty years ago. to
'the presence in the plant of an.
organic compound known as'
coumarin, in itself not harmful
though it gives sweet clover a
bitter taste, but under unfavor-
able conditions in the curing Of
sweet clover hay or silage the
coumarin changes to dicumarol,
a substance which even in small
quantities is toxic to all warm
blooded animals. It acts through
changes •in the blood that leng-
then the clotting tine of . the
blood to. a point where the ani -
n1 will bleed spontaneously in-
ternally or from any type of ex-
ternal wound, Death often re-
sults and several animals may
be stricken at the same time.
*
The new variety of sweet clo-
ver is simply one that contains
very little coumarin, but retains
other good qualities ,of the stan-
dard varieties, but it has taken
20 years of careful research to
'produce it. J. E. Greenshields of.
the Forage ,Plants Laboratory,
Saskatoon, where the work was
done, says: "Some of the early
workers, such as Dr. T. M. Ste-
venson and Dr. W. J. White,
would have required special
courage had they known the
years of breeding and the
amount of work required before
a variety void of coumarin could
become a reality."
In 1935 a method was devel-
oped by which coumarin was
extracted from plant material
with alcohol and the amount , of
coumarin determined by the use
of an indicator. On the basis of
this test the Forage Plants La-
boratory produced a variety
"Pioneer" in 1940. It was soon
discovered that alcohol will not
extract all the couinarin in a
sweet clover plant. What is
known as "bound" coumarin re-
mained. When the total cou-
marin was extracted by the use
of sodium hydroxide (caustic
soda) Pioneer proved to have as
much as the variety "Arctic"
from which it was selected.
MOCTRFUL
In a recent contest to find the
longest word in the English lan-
guage a student won hands down
with this word, which is to be
found only in a medical diction-
ar9: pneurnonoultramicroscopte-
silicovolcanokoniosis, simply an.
other word for miners' T.B.
Second prize went to a word
found in most standard diction-
aries : floccinau
whose meaning is "estimated as
being worthless." Third prize
went to a word in the English
language of nineteen letters of
the alphabet without a repeat:
blacksmilh-forged-PYx.
NDAY SC11001,
LESSON
BY REV R BARCLAY
WARREN, B.A. B.D.
A Vision of the Church
Victorious, Revelation 1:947
God's people are sometimes
tempted to wonder if it is vain
to serve the Lord, In Malachi'S
day they said, "Now we call the
proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are set up; yea, they
that tempt God are even de-
livered." (3;14,15) David said,
"I was envious at the foolish,
when I saw the prosperity of the
wicked. For there. are no bands
in their death: but their strength
is firm. They are not in trouble
as other men; neither are they
plagued like other men. -Verily
I have cleansed my heart in vain,
and washed my hands in inno-
cency. For all the day long have
I been plagued, and chastened
every morning." This thinking
was very painful to David until
he went into the sanctuary of
God. He writes, "Then under-
stood I their end. Surely thou
didst set' them in slippery places:
thou castedst them down into de-
struction. -It is good for me to
draw near to God." Psalm 73.
Malachi had a good answer for
his generation, too. (3:16-4:3)
"They that feared the Lord spake
often one to another: and the
Lord hearkened and heard it,
and a book of remembrance was
written before him. -They shall
be mine -in that day when I
make up my special treasure;
and I will spare them. -Unto you
that fear my name shall the Sun
of righteousness arise with heal-
ing in his wings." It is a most
heartening passage,
Today's lesson gives a preview
of the great triumph of the re-
deemed. They are a multitude
which no man can number. They
are clothed in white robes and
have palms in their hands. They
have come out of great tribula-
tion and have washed their
robes and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb. God
shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes.
Kingdoms come and go. Caes-
ar, Napole0n, Hitler and Stalin
have had their day. Now Nasser
wants his place in the sun, but
his day will end. Sooner than
we expect the angel will sound
and great voices in heaven will
say the words of our memory
selection: "The kingdoms of this
world are become the kingdoms
of our Lord, and of his Christ;
and he shall reign for ever and,
eve." Revelation 41:15.
'Dangerous' Lion
Only A Model
011e Strandberg, the Swedish
travel -writer, has made some
scathing comments on the tour-
ist invasion of Africa.
In "Jambo!"-a Swahili greet-
ing meaning "How are you?" -
he says Nairobi has become the
- centre of astourist industry, which
"sells" Africa to would-be specu-
lators, and big safari firms com-
pete in providing extra -ordinary
facilities. The tourists -as dis-
tinct from the genuine hunters -
fall into roughly four categories.
Type A, the "murderer". or
"sporting butcher," has an im-
pressive equipment of rifles, en-
joys slaughter, and buys the
most expensive game licence en-
titling him to four lions, two
.elephants, two rhinos, and an
immense number of giraffe,
beck, gazelles and other innocent
creatures.
He feels "red blood flowing in
his veins" when he has himself
photographed .with one foot on a
slain lion or elephant. He does
That live as dangerously as may
appear, for he has a constant
bodyguard of white hunters and
gun -bearers Who intervene if the
Situation becomes critical,
' At times he Is seized by a sOrt
of Tartan cernplex, runs round In
leOpard
- pants, bathes where
there are crocodiles and insists
on sleeping in a tree.
Type 13 is the "savanna snob"
who goes on safari for the same
reason that he has polo ponies
he can't ride, a sea -going yacht
he can't sail. He may be an
American playboy requiring to
bolster up his sell -esteem and
manly prestige or an English lord
who has taken to gin and big
game to forget his last divorce.
Type C is the fanatical spe-
cialist who means to shoot a rec-
ord specimen of the bongo an-
telope or track down some rare
kind of buck. He measures its
horns with a tape -measure, his
great aim being to get his name
on the list of record hunting tro-
phies.
Type D is the appreciative, en-
thusiastic sportsman whose
greatest joy is not to kill, swank
or collect, but watch. He con-
siders his camera as valuable as
his rifle, and the safari com-
panies specialize in supplying
him with subjects.
For a relatively small fee he
can have a rhino placed in the
exact middle of the savanna with
Kilimanjaro's ice summit soaring
in the background, be piloted to
a convenient distance from the
carnera-blase family of lions at
Serengeti, even photograph hippo
from below at Amboseli by get-
ting into a little glass -walled
"hide" specially built by Walt
Disney.
Strandberg adds: "It is true
that the camera hunter is nthe
cause of snapshots of lions and
rhinos having become appalling-
ly commonplace, but he has also
helped to bring about a more
sensible and less costly approach
to Africa's game."
Round about Nairobi there are
specimens of lion and rhino
which have become photogra-
phers' models, and Strandberg
was himself there the day the
city's pet, an aged, magnificent
lion, was accidentally killed on
the Mombasa railway level -cross-
ing and has his obituary notice
reverently printed in the 'East
African Standard.'
He had long been a popular
model for many a picture repor-
tage or film "from darkest and
most dangerous Africa" -as was
also Molly, a tame rhino who will
sometimes even allow people to
ride on her.
Strandberg was south of Lu -
hero when a long caravan of
lorries belonging to a large sa-
fari firm came winding up the
road to Kabasha Gap. They
were loaded with tents, pneu-
matic naattresses, folding veran-
das, bales of mosquito -netting,
Separate vehicles carried bath-
tub, wash -hand basin, water
tanks, then came a gigantic lorry
with refrigerator, cases of whis-
ky, beer, champagne, and a
Danish chef.
Station -waggons conveyed the
staff -in white suits, red turbans
-including gun -bearers, trophy
preparers, bar -tenders, water -car-
riers, dealers in -empty bottles. hit
a truck equipped with wireless
transmitter sat two white hunter*
in khaki, looking rather drows3r
after a night playing canasta
with their clients,
Last Of all, in a skysblue Amer-
ican car, sat two men and two
women. The two men wore Ha-
waiian shits printed with pine-
apples or palms and hula-hula
girls; each chewed grimly a black
cigar. The women were in apri-
cot sharkskin coats and skirt;
with complexions like milk,
mouths like blood, hoarse voices
that swore magnificent oaths its
quick succession.
They had come to select tho
scenery for the next big Cinema -
Scope film of the wilds, about is
white hunter who endangers hie
reputation to save Ava Gardner
from (1) a rhino, (2) Frank Sin-
atra, but finally falls a victim to
one of Frank's dum-dum bullets
during a lion hunt.
After which Ava withdraws to
a nunnery on Mount Kenya and
has found peace when Frank
suddenly pops up, hotly pursued
by Jomo Kenyatta, the Flaming
Spear, and his Mau Mau terror-
ists. Ava hoists the Stars and
Stripes over the nunnery, Frank
fights at her side, and with his
last shot drops Jomo as he's
climbing the flagstaff to replace
it with the hammer and sickle,.
But the nunnery is now on fire,
and the two, reconciled, sit side
by side on the organ bench, with
the flames licking at their feet,
playing with four hands "The
Bells of Mount Kenya" -and die.
In the final scene, Strandberg
was told, we would see Ava in
nun's habit walking in a cloud
across a savanna full of zebra,
rhino, leopards, Watutsi dancers
and lions,
"We have tried to utilize and
fuse the experience gained by
'King Solomon's Mines,' Joan of
Arc,' and 9.VIogambo,' " said the
man with the pineapple shirt.
"If we can squeeze religion, gla-
mour, un-American activities and
a complete zoo into the same
film, it's bound to be a success -
but we must have a wide screen
if we're to have room for it all
at the same time."
Strandberg's own safaris with
photographer Rune Hasner, co-
vering over 60,000 miles, are the
real thing, brilliantly recorded,
vividly illustrated and very read-
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canine caddy to find the stray golf ball, but he's trying hard.
The Great Dane, owned by Dominick Colucci, was entered in
the first National Dog Caddy contest.
THERE ARE 47 MORE -Volunteer carpenter, at left, has 20 of 67 children to watch him as he
cuts lumber for dormitory in which to house th e huge brood at. Bowmanville, Ontario, Fly*
are children of Mr and Mrs. Bert Whyte, who have taken in the other 62, all from broker)
homes, because "we just can't say no" to nee dy children. Mrs, Whyte will take her outsizat
family to New Yolk City where she'll make co TV appeal for funds to supplement income el
her factory.worker husband,