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Zurich Herald, 1956-09-27, Page 7Mutiny On " A One Man Voyage He was far out in the Pacific, alone on a balsa raft, fishing. Sudderi.y there was .a gigantic heave that threatened to snap .his line. He hauled in as fast as he could and found he had hooked s shark. He dragged it half -way up across the end of the logs, with its tail in the water and the hook, in the corner of its mouth, thrashing fiercely with Its tail. He didn't want that shark, but he had to have the hook, so holding the ilne in his right hand he reached for the gaff be- hind him with his left and hooked the shark through the lower law with it. Now began a terrific fight for the hook. The logs were sea - weedy and slimy. The raft roll- ed. Bracing his knees hard against the. log, bending over farther and farther, he stretch- ed out his right hand to twist the hook from the jaw. The shark's mouth was open a foot wide and its evil piggy eyes watched him balefully. With a last push, he got the hook out. At that moment the shark thrashed so fiercely that the gaff jerked out of his hand, he lost his balance and went head first into the sea. Shooting out his left hand to grasp some- thing, he thrust it blindly into the shark's mouth, and was se- verely gashed. Struggling in the foam and swirl of the wake, with the raft sailing away from him, he thought, this is the end. It was certainly 61 -year-old William Willis's most desperate moment on his 7,700 -mile lone voyage from Callao to Samoa, with only a cat and a parrot for company. In "The Epic Voyage of the Seven Little Sisters" he reveals ?low he struck out desperately, then checked himself, feeling that the effort was useless. Then he realized that the wire leader of the fishing line was still around his right arm, with the other end tied to the raft's erosslog. He still had a chance — if the line held. The raft was now 200 feet away. Hand over hand, he began pulling himself along the line towards it. His clothes were leaden, his canvas slippers drag- ging him down. His gashed hand streamed with blood, crimson- ing the water around him... . The shark had made off af- ter the struggle, but what if the blood drew the other big fel- lows .he'd seen yesterday? If a shark got him anywhere it would pull back at once with Its tremendous breastfin lever- age and so break the line. Willis decided that he'd have to lash out with all his strength the moment a shark came close, and kick it on the nose. He'd fought sharks before and knew them to be cowardly -- but tre- mendously strong, cunning and }Persistent. Foot by foot, making double turns with the line round his righthand and resting at inter- vals, he struggled on and on. 'Until at last he could grip the top of the iron rudder, then the ehain controlling it, and so pull himself up on to the end of the logs where he'd landed the shark -- to lie face down in the sea -wash, all in, his head spin- ning. He'd made it, made it. IEIe was saved! But he had to stop his gashed hand spurting blood. With a SPLiT-SECOND TIMING -••• Byron Masterson tiptoes the water daring evolution of a double somersault dive during Have: - tante (Havana-Aticvntic) diving, finals. Alsoexhibiting excellent form is the photographer who caught this split-second picture of perfectit>•n. DOG HERO OF THE YEAR—Lassie, a Shetland sheepdog owned by Gary Gustafson, seven, has been named the most heroic dog of 1956. Lassie summoned help for her master when the lat- ter suffered a hemorrhage in the middle of the night—a week following 'a tinsillectomy. Physicians said the boy would have bled to death in another 15 minutes. Lassie received a $1,000 U.S. bond, a medal, a gold leash and collar, and a year's sup- ply of dog food at a dinner in herh onor. The Hili That's Quicker Than The Eye Most people thought we were crazy; but not all of them. Some thought we were coming home from a well -celebrated all-night spree. It was about 7 a.m. and at the foot of each downgrade in the highway our little roadster chortled to a stop and waited silently, as if it needed to get it .breath before attempting the next rise. It was understandable If far- mers carrying pails of milk from their barns suspected that the three occupants of the car were having a convival swig every 200 yards. One who sauntered over must have been convinced of it. "Having trouble?" he asked. "Oh, no, thanks," was the cheerfully earnest reply. "We just wanted to see if we could coast back up this hill." We were on the Mountain Road—once an Indian trail, later piece of fishing line and a mar- lin -spike he made a tourniquet for his forearm, then sewed up the gash with needle and white thread, greased the wound, and bandaged it. He mixed some coffee, ate some sugar, freed himself of his soggy clothing, and felt in such good spirits af- ter his escape that he began. roaring a song. Constantly on the long voy- age he sang lustily, shouting against the elements. "It took me about fifty minutes or so to go through my songs," he says. "They were songs from everywhere, bits from all cor- ners of the earth . songs of men thinking of home and loved ones, songs of sailors when their ships went down, songs of the exiled." "Every day brought some crisis. With new decisions ,to make about the sails and the steering, new winds and a new sea, and a new arrangement of centreboards, I could take noth- ing for granted. What worked one day would wreck me the next. It was a struggle for sur- vival every day and moment." Each day he wound his clocks and watches, but his mind was almost a blank, he lived in a vacuum and didn't trouble to look at his chart because it would have been too much effort to take it out. He had to save every ounce of energy for the tricky business of handl- ing the raft. Making sixty to ninety miles a day, sometimes even more, after 74 days at sea he sighted Raroia, where the Kon-Tiki ex- pedition bad ended. It had also started from Callao, and had taken 102 clays to cover the 4,-. 500 miles. But the Seven Lit- tle Sisters was winter -sailing with stronger winds and its design gave greater speed. Before he could land on Bri- tish Samoa he had to coast along the islands and find a way through the perilous reefs that would have wrecked him right at the end of his great ad- venture. He made harbour et Pago Pago an hour after mid- night, his epic journey over at last. Willis has made a fine story of .his daring adventure, with notes of others in his crowded, eventful life. Everyone who Was thrilled by Ikon-Tiki will want to read it, Well illustrated with vivid photographs, some in colour• a pioneer wagon route — which leads from Moncton, N.B., to- ward the gentle slope of Lutes Mountain. It was a crisp. June morning in 1933 and three Saint John newspapermen — John G. Bruce, Jack Brayley and I—were on an exploratory jaunt that was to have a big impact on New Brunswick's tourist trade. Half an hour and 10 stops .lat- er, six miles from Moncton, at the last dip before 'the dirt road climbed up to meet an inter- secting highway, we were ready to give up hope. "If this isn't it," philosophized Bruce as he switched off the ignition and put the gears in neutral, "we'll have a nice 250 - mile round trip anyway." Brayley and I were almost too sleepy to answer. (We had left Saint John after putting The Telegraph -Journal to bed at 3.30 •rim. shortly after which, we would have rolled into bed too.) Then slowly, eerily, startlingly, we began to move—backwards— up the hill we had just de- ceriaed? Gathering speed as we went -- we' 'coasted up what seemed to be a gradual but distinct incline about 200 yards long. This, at last, was the "mag- netic hill" we had heard about from Alex Ellison, superinten- dent of the newspaper press- room, who we felt sure was pul- ling our collective leg. Wide-awake now, we tumbled out of the car. Bruce, who had brought engineering instruments, checked the lay of the land. I got busy taking pictures with an old -type Graflex camera as big as a woman's hatbox. Bray - ley scribbled notes. Any, idea that something mag- netic in the soil had actually drawn the car up the slope was washed out when we noticed the water in the ditch was flowing "uphill" too. The whole thing was an optical illusion, created by the extraordinary and decep- tive downsweep of the entire landscape: this "upgrade" was really a downgrade, a less steep continuation of the downgrade that faced it. Oddly, no mention of the phe- nomenon had ever appeared in print, as far as we knew. Few farmers, even in the immediate vicinity, had observed the pe- culiar characteristics of the hill. 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Then you feel better sleep better—work Hotter, Ask for ISodd's Kidney Pills at any drag counter. is the same time, watched us in Puzzlement from the intersect- ing highway above, In giving us our tip Alex Elli- had claimed he sought out the hill and tried it himself after hearing the tale from his broth- er, who in turn had heard it iron a clergyman years before. "It was the most astonishing thing 1 ever experienced," the minister was reported to have said. "I was bringing some chil- dren home from a picnic when a thunderstorm broke. I stopped my car at the bottom of a hill to put up the side curtains — and the automobile started to run up the next hill!" Even after the pictures and story appeared in the "The Tele- graph -Journal" the next morn- ing, people were skeptical. Some of them, too, possibly doubted our sanity. A Moncton paper published a small item headed: "Silly Story in Saint John Pa - par." The following Sunday, however, the "skeptical" flocked by the hundreds to the hill. Almost overnight, Cinderella - like, Magnetic Hill was trans- formed from another dip in the road to one of Canada's most widely -publicized tourist at- tractions — its magnetic quality being evident in the Fact it has drawn s continuous stream of visitors ever since. Strangely, more Americans than Canadians seem to know about it. In 23 years more than half a million cars have followed Bruce's 1931 Ford roadster to sample the ex- perience of apparently gliding "uphill" with the clutch disen- gaged, The site has blossomed. Be- side the hill today is a modern gift shop. It contains a post office which caters exclusively to the itinerant public: outgoing mail is stamped "Magnetic Hill, N.B., Canada" from May 1 to October 31. Across the road is a provin- cial park where .orphan wild animals picked up by game war- dens — deer, bears, fishers, beav- er, foxes — peer out curiously through the wire fence at the strange, chortling, shouting ant- ics of human on wheels. The provincial government considerately sidetracked Mag- netic Hill and detoured the main highway to let the coasters coast undisturbed — also to avoid a chronic traffic jam. I visited the hill last sum- mer for the first time since 1933, And was surprised to find that Mrs. Ludwig Sikorski, who runs the tourist shop, is the former Muriel Lutes who 22 years before had sold us an ice-cream break- fast. She remembered our event- ful excursion. -"I moved clown from the other road in 1935," she explained, "but I still specialize in home- made ice cream, as well as New Brunswick buckwheat -and -but- termilk pancakes with our own maple syrup, and I still sell Im- perial Oil's gasoline." 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