Zurich Herald, 1950-02-09, Page 7Queerest Mine
In The World
Jolin Clayton Gillibrand, bespec-
tacled, noddle -aged citizen of Chats-
worth, California, has become
wealthy "disl!ing up" oysters 10,000,-
000 years old! He's not a restaurant
! owner but a 111iner with the most
unusual diggings in the world—an
oyster Irvine situated on a mountain
up half a mile above sea level,
This southern California rancher
accidentally stumbled oil the huge
bed. of oyster fossils while strolling
out
r
over his property one (lay about
twenty years ago. It has made him
rich,
Gilbrand's ranch' is not the type
that most farmers yearn to own -or
rather it wasn't until the discovery
was made.. Situated -in a hot; and
section 2,400 feet above• sea level,
little vegetation can grow in the
rocky soil. Giliihrand's shall herd
of cattle failed to thrive on their
sparse diet, and he was hard Put to
grow enough garden produce for
his own table.
One day, in debt and discouraged, '
Gillibrand inade a tour -of his proper-
ty, wondcring whether to sell it.
Kiicking' disconsolately into the
loose earth oil top of Tapo moun-
tain, an ugly hill right in the centre
of his ranch,: he noticed a handful
of prehistoric sea shells. He Out a,
-few in his pocket as' curios.
Some time later lite showed the
fossils to a geologist and took him
to the spot where they had come to
the surface.:Gillibrand's friend tried
to conceal his excitement, and a few
days later he reported that Tapo
mountain was, in reality, a huge
mound of prehistoric oyster shells
and other fossils containing 97 per
cent. calcium, a product in big de-
mand as poultry feed and fertilizer.
Scientists explain that the unusual
deposit—the largest of its kind in
that part of the world—is, the result
of a tremendous earthquake which
occurred millions of years ago. The
convulsion lifted the ocean bed a
half -mile into A. mountain. The mar-
ine life died and was converted into
nearly, pure calcium during the
thousands of centuries that followed,
The Tapo bed was found to colt-
taiu oysters of all sizes, some of
thele as much as three feet • in dia-
meter. These form the top layer. of
ail estimated 50,000 -foot -deep ac-
cumulation of marine sediment. Test '
holes have proved that Giilibrand's
oyster 'mountain is at least 2,300
feet deep and probably deeper.
The rancher, however, isn't wor-
rying about the, full extent of the de-
posit. Even at the rate of his present
mining operations, digging and the
processing 100 tons a day, he says
he has enough unmined shells to
keep his crew of fourteen men busy
for 500 years.
Gillibrand did not rush out to sell
mining shares in order to finance
his new business. He bought an old
lorry and a second -had rock -crusher
and for several years mined, crushed
and packaged the product with his
own hands. Gradually, the business
was expanded from the profits. To-
day,.Gillibrand has more than $150,-
000 invested in equipment, and
profits ., are estimated to be over
$500 a day.
Wort The Bet
The song' writer was a guest at
a party. He loaded himself with food
and drink, and then began annoying
the piano keys. When he finished,
the host walked up to him.
"While, you were playing," smiled
the host, "I made a bet with a friend.
What was the name•of,the:song you
played?"
The song writer. sniffled proudly.
"You've never heard it before," he
boasted. It's one of my new compo-
sition':."
The host Rodded. "Then I win
my bet," he said happily. "My friend
insisted the piano was out of tuneT,
WORE RUNNING FOURTH!
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It, 19 9 a stamp was issued show -
IT GI(xHT BE WORSE— Postage, Stamps ipg-ttiq heads of Pope and King 00
That Caused T roubl* the same oblong, In that same year
w stamp in the series issued 1n com-
memoration
this design of a stamp memoration of Goya, tise great
3:1?' hieves far-reaching affects. Two Spanish painter, bore a reduced f
ac -
A the
�i a<a fftsimile of his famous painting of the
I+t '�. strikng examples of stampfssr which
caused much mischiDuchess of Maya. This lady was
ti illi ef are, painted once clothed, once unclothed.
original issue of Sudanese stamps Those responsible for the Span-
r r under the Anglo-Egyptian Tondo" ish postal issues chose the unclothed
minium: and, second, an early issue version.
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peasants Scandalized
With the coming of peace its the In the "Maya" issue the enemies
!''lll'lEl;llll'.'lll,l;l 'raking the United Stater as equal to 'ilt,I ,
{i!l63liat;,1 1 jI{.i•j((}, 100 per cent, this chars` shows what .;q i; Sudan British, ,local commanders of the: Crown saw their great ap-
ll!i,•,IitalttilEt+(I 1,311113„ proportion of the American worker's iiiiliil were concerned with converting p Irtunity All over the land they
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with pernicious malaria.
an hour every morning and every
it or not, there's• still another layer,
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A post-war addition to Britain's
larder, about which there has been
a good deal of controversy, is a
fish called "snoek."
John Seymour, in London Call-
ing, tells of catching sone off the
coast of South Africa.
For a typical day's fishing in
Walvis Bay waters, each vessel car-
ried a crew of from eight to 13
men, with Swedish or Portuguese
skippers and colored or half-caste
crews from the Cape. We would
sleep the' night hove -to, right out
on the ocean, and at dawn we would
muster and get the ship movings.
either by setting the sails to draw
or by starting up the engine. Theft
we would.take.our places round the
stern, standing between the gull -
wale and a fence of planks, which
was to keep the fish from getting
under our feet.
Each man had a short, hand -line
fastened to the rail. Oil the end
of the hand -line was a fire trace,
then a heavy, conical lead, then a
steel hook, the size of the outline
of a man's hand, with no barb on
It.
Tied to the eye of the hook was
a frayed piece of shark skin, which
flashed through the water, and
looked like a pilaha'rd- at least, the
:snoek thought it did.
As. the ship sailed slowly along,
we jerked our lines in the water to
attract the snoek. We might keep
'this up for an hour or, two without
getting a bite, and then, suddenly,
every mail's line was. whipping and
cutting through the water with a
dish on it.
We had to pull in our lines with
all our strength. It was like hang-
ing on to a bucking bronco; and if
you did not pull in right .smartly;
young fish would weave about and
tangle up other people's lines, and
then you would hear some very
dhoice Cape Dutch.
All around was frenzied activity
—every man pulling fish ill and
swinging them out as fast as he
could, the fish leaping and jumpjng
shout on the deck behind, people
swearing and shouting, and people
bowling for the cook to leave his
pots and pans in the fo'castle, and
come and fish, too. I have done
many bhin•gs, but I have never done
anything more exciting than get-
ting in a good'shoal of snoek.
The battle might last an hour, by
which time the stern was heaped
high with fish, which were falling
over the fence of planks slid •get-
ting mixed up with our feet. Then
was the time for the skipper to give
the order to "head," but it was al-
ways a job for him to get us to coil
our lilies, for every snoek that we
caught meant more money for its.
"Clo's for de missus an' shoes for
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de babby!” Old 'Petrus, who stood.
next to me, used to shout.
"You mean dop. for Petrus!"
some cynic would reply — "dop°
being the South African for brandy..
But, at last, we would consent to
coil our lines, and each man would
take up a great carving knife and
begin to slice off'the heads of the
snoek as fast as he could, and
throw them overboard. The snoek's
gills are filled with little thorns, and
as you have to put your fingers into
the gill to hold the fish, it is rather
painful. However, we gaffed the
headed fish forward out of the way,
swilled down the deck, and returned
to our lines. Maybe, we could
start catching,again immediately, or
perhaps we would wait an hour or
two before striking them again.
Meanwhile, two wizened old
Cape Malays were busy at the
flecking tables. One would pick up.
a snoek by the tail, lay it on the
table, and, with four quick strokes
with a little knife, lay it open along
the back so that it was flat like a
kipper.
Within a third of a minute from
being picked up, the fish would be
flying through the air into a wash-
ing tank. From there, it was,pitch-
forked out again and taken to a
salting table. It would be tubbed
in the salt, then flung into one of a
half -a -dozen huge, wooden tanks,
which took up most -of file space oil
the deck.
It would lie there pickling in its
own juice for, perhaps, 24 Hours,
and then, after dark, when the fish
would not bite, it would be my
privilege, as mate, to pitch it into
the hold with, perhaps, 1,000 others,
and stow it into a neat stack.
Save the ,Surface!
Consider the automobile. Though
it is a rugged piece of machinery,
its owner, aided by the designers
and the accessory trade, pampers it
with protection.
Once the radiator was the front
of the automobile. Now it is cov-
ered by the hood and protected by
a grille. Then the girille must be
defended by a bumper and a bump-
er guard.
The metal of the body is covered
with the finest, hardest, and shiniest
of enamels. Yet the careful car
owner covers the, enatvel with wax
or a plastic finish—he must protect
the paint that protects the metal.
Even underneath, the modern car
now usually wears a rubber under-
coating to guard it from mud, sand
and rust.
Inside, the manufacturer selects
his upholstery for style and dura-
bility; and a salesman persuades the
buyer to put oil seat covers to pro-
tect the upholstery from being
'soiled—or seen.
Remember the cars that stood in
a few salesrooms before the holi-
days, wrapped in cellophane like
Christmas packages? We fully ex-
pert some day to see one of those
being drivels down the sbreet—The
Christian Science Monitor,
One-Tixner
Nlaybe you've lie ard the one about
a passenger flying over Canada,
"Say," the man next to hiss, sud-
denly inquired, "did that Dionne
fellow ever have any more quintup-
lets?" "Certainly not"_ "I knew it,"
maintained the other triumphantly -
"I always said that guy was a
flash in the bats•"
r I WINO SMEON9 14,
MOLD MASH 'PNAT
p.ADO oN'PNg tOaicll
MIXT poW., ITS WN11,1e
a ris
'Ag Argumenit In States Regar ing Smalle t;
Experts are beginning to think
that Americans are at last ready
to start buying small cars.
They're dead sure millions of Am-
ericans want a car priced a lot low-
er than the, cheapest 1950 models
ow being shown.
n
Since mass production of auto-
mobiles began in the U.S., car
makers have kept a vigilant eye on
the market to see if Americans, like
Europeans, would demand any
great numbers of tiny cars. From
time to time companies have tried
to sell midget autos in the U.S.
Most of them failed. Only two or
three managed to keep going any
length of time•, on a small scale.
Now, however, several, factors
exist which might, change the situ-
ation, In the auto industry it's a
burning question. The present pros-
perity has given thousands of
families enough income for two
cars. A shall car might be the an-
swer for the second one.
On the other hand, the greatly
increased costs of new cars has put
thean beyond the incomes of thous-
ands of other families. This might
create a big untapped market for a
snappy small car selliing for less
than $1,000. There's also the chance
of a small car becoming a lad,
American tastes are unpredictable.
There is much evidence that the
fondness for great big cars has
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Import: Sales of: British cats,
like this Austin, have
doubled its the U.S. in past
month.
Straw in the Wind: Experimen
$1000 or less, i? touring the '
waned. Owners .have complained
that they are too hard to handle
in city traffic and too hard to park.
Women drivers are the biggest
kickers on this score.
The Nash company has led the
field in reviving the shall car ques-
tion, It made one sample model
of a car which will sell for $1,000
or less, if the company decides to
start making them. It is taking the
auto around the country to sample
opinion. If enough potential custo-
niers are discovered, the company
will start to make the cars in quan-
tity.
It has a foreign -Made motor,
gives up to 507miles-per-gallon, and
has a maximum speed of 65 In.p.h.
Its size is halfway between the
smallest European cars and ordinary
U.S. cars. It seats two persons and
has no fancy chrome trim or ac-
cessories, but most people who have
seen it agree its the best designed
"little" car yet made.
At the same time the market for
imported small cars is having a sud-
den revival. For tlse past year sales
of small British cars in the U.S.
averaged about 500 a month. Last
month sales more than doubled.
Only part of this increase is ac-
tal Nash, which could sell for
U.S. to' test public reaction.
counted for by the devaluation.
Sensing this new attitude toward
small cars, U.S. salesmen for this
shall' ETench Renault, which sells
for slightly more than $1,000, hav4
increased their sales rcently and
report greater interest in the auto.
Convinced that this trend is more
a demand for a cheaper car; the
Kaiser -Frazer company is planning
to start manufacture of a new
standard -sized low -price model,
which may be, offered to undersell
Ford -and Chevrolet, It will be pow-
ered with a new "supersonic" en-
gine, to be produced by the Willys-
Overland company. Low original
cost plus cheap operation will be the
car's features, Other details of it
are secret.
Despite this e'videneq, the bigger
auto makers stili don't see a $1„000
car !sitting the market any time sooty
CharlesE. Wilson, president of
General' Motors, said flatly that the
people- won't go for one that could
be sold for that price, at this time.
However, a spokesman for the com-
pany, qualiflying Wilson's state-
nsent, says GM is watching the mar-
ket very closely, and if a big enough
small car demand is detected, the
co npanp v; ill start making thele.
By Arffiur Pointe
FVDDLrA...Gr.5 IT MUSTbE,
I;MPIOD&D'fc'
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pares stalups comma
blunder. calculated to offend the
had caused. the shadowy shape of
dancing -girl to be seek outlined
The scary of the egg is an in-
Most of us take - for
sensitive prejudices of Moslems:
this time of the Indian variety,
a .
against the shadow of the King's
teresting one:
granted that an egg has a shell
The stamps, designed by Mr.
King George
cheek!
inside of which there is a yolk,
white, and an air dell. Close
McKennal, showed
V wearing the Imperial crown,
Faces Death
a
examination will, however, reveal
inside the
robed in ermine' and collared with
the chain of the Order of the In-
770 ''files
several more parts. Just
are the outer and. inner shell
dian Empire, from which chain de -
shell
membranes. Next to these mem-
pended the miniature model of an
is the badge of the.
A human guinea pig in the. cause
braves ran be found the white,
elephant whirls
of science—a young British civil seT-
Close observation will show not
but three layers of white. Next
Order.
Now, on none of the stamps is
vant, Charles Howard—has volun-
tarily faced death 770 times.
one
td the shell membranes is a layer
it very clear that itis an elephant
Experiments were conducted with
known as the outer thin white. And
which Is intended to be represented,
mosquitos specially fed for fourteen
then comes the dense or thick
white is
but on the two annas and three
values it seemed to be clear
days with blood already infected
For half
white. Inside the thick
the inner thin white. And, believe
annas
to the outraged Moslem Indians
with pernicious malaria.
an hour every morning and every
it or not, there's• still another layer,
that the artist had drawn not the
afternoon for three days, Mr. How -
easily seen by the eye, which
noble elephant, but the lowly hag—
and plunged his arms into a cage
not
the yolk and goes by
an animal regarded by every Mo-
swarming with the disease -bearing
surrounds
the fancy term of chalazifelous
hammedan as unclean, Once again,
issue was with-
Bisects and carried three jars filled
layer of white, This layer is pro-
uproar. The whole
with them on his legs.
longed toward the ends of the egg
drawn,
With arms and legs swollen from
in which two whitish cords are
and
The strength of the Spanish mon-
lay, it is well known, in the
hundreds of bites, he developed
twisted in opposite directions
tend to hold the yolk in the center
archy
loyalty of the Spanish land -worker
pernicious malaria and' was ready
clinic. The physicians remov-
of the egg•
layer
to the Crown. The peasantry, indeed,
was stumbling bock to the plans
or the
portion of his followed elose'ly the exactbe-
Within the chalaziferous
andwhite and around the yolk is
the countryside was for the King
lt
anda
before
,conjecture
the vifelline membrane. This
in 3 round
tof he toren of the he 1 cities feared to aconaries, and
had bean now
fa�t,
toto keep the yolk
The is made
listedsupport of
turned m
ttof
scientific
eaday,f t is hoped
sbape. yolk
layers and closely ass o
the peasantry away frohich
experiments andao
lead to a final cure.
several
vrith the yolk is the germ spot.
the King.
a
Consider the automobile. Though
it is a rugged piece of machinery,
its owner, aided by the designers
and the accessory trade, pampers it
with protection.
Once the radiator was the front
of the automobile. Now it is cov-
ered by the hood and protected by
a grille. Then the girille must be
defended by a bumper and a bump-
er guard.
The metal of the body is covered
with the finest, hardest, and shiniest
of enamels. Yet the careful car
owner covers the, enatvel with wax
or a plastic finish—he must protect
the paint that protects the metal.
Even underneath, the modern car
now usually wears a rubber under-
coating to guard it from mud, sand
and rust.
Inside, the manufacturer selects
his upholstery for style and dura-
bility; and a salesman persuades the
buyer to put oil seat covers to pro-
tect the upholstery from being
'soiled—or seen.
Remember the cars that stood in
a few salesrooms before the holi-
days, wrapped in cellophane like
Christmas packages? We fully ex-
pert some day to see one of those
being drivels down the sbreet—The
Christian Science Monitor,
One-Tixner
Nlaybe you've lie ard the one about
a passenger flying over Canada,
"Say," the man next to hiss, sud-
denly inquired, "did that Dionne
fellow ever have any more quintup-
lets?" "Certainly not"_ "I knew it,"
maintained the other triumphantly -
"I always said that guy was a
flash in the bats•"
r I WINO SMEON9 14,
MOLD MASH 'PNAT
p.ADO oN'PNg tOaicll
MIXT poW., ITS WN11,1e
a ris
'Ag Argumenit In States Regar ing Smalle t;
Experts are beginning to think
that Americans are at last ready
to start buying small cars.
They're dead sure millions of Am-
ericans want a car priced a lot low-
er than the, cheapest 1950 models
ow being shown.
n
Since mass production of auto-
mobiles began in the U.S., car
makers have kept a vigilant eye on
the market to see if Americans, like
Europeans, would demand any
great numbers of tiny cars. From
time to time companies have tried
to sell midget autos in the U.S.
Most of them failed. Only two or
three managed to keep going any
length of time•, on a small scale.
Now, however, several, factors
exist which might, change the situ-
ation, In the auto industry it's a
burning question. The present pros-
perity has given thousands of
families enough income for two
cars. A shall car might be the an-
swer for the second one.
On the other hand, the greatly
increased costs of new cars has put
thean beyond the incomes of thous-
ands of other families. This might
create a big untapped market for a
snappy small car selliing for less
than $1,000. There's also the chance
of a small car becoming a lad,
American tastes are unpredictable.
There is much evidence that the
fondness for great big cars has
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like this Austin, have
doubled its the U.S. in past
month.
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$1000 or less, i? touring the '
waned. Owners .have complained
that they are too hard to handle
in city traffic and too hard to park.
Women drivers are the biggest
kickers on this score.
The Nash company has led the
field in reviving the shall car ques-
tion, It made one sample model
of a car which will sell for $1,000
or less, if the company decides to
start making them. It is taking the
auto around the country to sample
opinion. If enough potential custo-
niers are discovered, the company
will start to make the cars in quan-
tity.
It has a foreign -Made motor,
gives up to 507miles-per-gallon, and
has a maximum speed of 65 In.p.h.
Its size is halfway between the
smallest European cars and ordinary
U.S. cars. It seats two persons and
has no fancy chrome trim or ac-
cessories, but most people who have
seen it agree its the best designed
"little" car yet made.
At the same time the market for
imported small cars is having a sud-
den revival. For tlse past year sales
of small British cars in the U.S.
averaged about 500 a month. Last
month sales more than doubled.
Only part of this increase is ac-
tal Nash, which could sell for
U.S. to' test public reaction.
counted for by the devaluation.
Sensing this new attitude toward
small cars, U.S. salesmen for this
shall' ETench Renault, which sells
for slightly more than $1,000, hav4
increased their sales rcently and
report greater interest in the auto.
Convinced that this trend is more
a demand for a cheaper car; the
Kaiser -Frazer company is planning
to start manufacture of a new
standard -sized low -price model,
which may be, offered to undersell
Ford -and Chevrolet, It will be pow-
ered with a new "supersonic" en-
gine, to be produced by the Willys-
Overland company. Low original
cost plus cheap operation will be the
car's features, Other details of it
are secret.
Despite this e'videneq, the bigger
auto makers stili don't see a $1„000
car !sitting the market any time sooty
CharlesE. Wilson, president of
General' Motors, said flatly that the
people- won't go for one that could
be sold for that price, at this time.
However, a spokesman for the com-
pany, qualiflying Wilson's state-
nsent, says GM is watching the mar-
ket very closely, and if a big enough
small car demand is detected, the
co npanp v; ill start making thele.
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