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gg Codfish Catching i by Modern Method SEY = ----- a" + = 5 i ~ Ae . fish a i (} A - Ee S88 sean fu N . 5 wo Wow a " *"hand-lining, ! _ successfully - carried -- overdue ----unripe apples or too- many ripe ; g ----r-- [Crete 2gla ol The mew experimental long-lin- dng method of: catchipg cd in the off-shore waters of Newfoundland + is proving successful and for many ~ "fishermen _it 'wii mean the end. of century -old methods' of 'catching by; trapping, : trawling, or, This method is now being 'estab: lished at, Bonavista, Newfoundland's ; largest - fishing town, where the } - experiments were first tried. : This. type of fishing requires larger boats than fishermen now : use, Harbors of safe anchorage will also "be needed." With the type of craft used" fishermen will be able to fish longer than they'now do, "some of them. throughout tlfe 'whole year. - In the cold days of laset Febru- ary two seasoned sea skippers-- Captains. Denis Bruce. and Mich- ael Burke of Long. Harbour 'in Placentia Bay were off to the deep.' water grounds fishing for cod' the _long-lining way. These skippers were each in charge of a converted Labrador schooner and hooked ' encouraging catches.. Daily average ranged from 2,500 to 4,000 pounds of cod a trip... : Bie To get these catches nicans set- ting and hauling about a hundred lines each. trip. 'Each liné is about' fifty fathoms -with hooks about a fathom apart." Rh "The fish-they catch is sold fresh at the fishing port of Burin. Long-lining experiments are al- so being carried out at Isle-aux- Morte farther along the southwest coast. Experiments have also been out at St. _ Anthony, on the northern tip of the island. : + Long-lining is a new and "mod- ern method of fishing resulting in - larger catches for the fishermen than the outdated methods ft "for him. Yims \ his well' mark the beginning of a long change in our fishing. methods which' haven't changed ~very much during the past three "hundred Hears. - : new method might very * Bg x EES v AWA High, Clear Voice--Preparing for any. possible complete severance of communications 'between Western Germany and West Berlin, workmen ascend a 450-° foot very-high-frequency tower at Heckeshorn, in Western Ger- many, fo prepare .it for trans- : "mission. Heckshorn station can route messages throughout Western Germany. "An Apple A Day Though it is doubtfui whether one day will keep the doctor away in- definitely, it is quite true-that fresh apples protect one's health. One. goog:sized apple a. day will provide-suflicient Vitamin C for the average adult; and Vitamin C is' of_gerat importance in. combat- ing diphtheria, typhoid, pneumonia, and whooping cough. It is even alleged that people who delight in cating enough apples wiJl ~ develop more intelligence and walk and work faster than their fellows, Chew Well It is not necessarily true. that in- digestion will result from catipg: ones. "The indigestion comes be- cause the apples are not being chewed sufficiently. The hardest and greenest apple can be eaten with no ill effects providing the flesh is thoroughly mixed. with saliva"and other juices. of the moutl: A few years ago a barber in Pennsylvania ate 366 apples in two: hours and five minutes, yet suffer- ed no. 'indigestion! Li Apples -breathe, and their health' «depends largely on how frequently they take in breath, The faster the apple breathes the sooner ft: de- cays; and thé problem in storing them is not to give them too much air, SN 'It is generally held that the Ro- 'mans were the. first fo cultivate - apples in Great Britain, but it is quite possible that the crab apple, from which the majority of culti- "vated: apples are derived, existed In England long before the Romans 'came, re i "centre; takes about 250,000,000 years | -brightest in the Galaxy. The light |. would be. impossible' for life to + A a Frozen Or Fried ulin * Astondmers operating the 'world's most powerful telescope at "Mount tographed a huge exploding star, the light from which had taken 150,000 light years to reach us. : One light year® is the. distance light can travel in the course of ~ 'a year-=and the speed of light is "about 186,000. miles_ a: second, Such tremendous disfances stag- ° -ger--the imagination, but they are; discoveries scientists are now mak-, 'ing about the universe of which our world 'is such a tiny ,insignifi- cant part. ha i : he Milky Way We now know "that 'the Tsun, - around which our earth revolves and on which we rely for the con- tinuance of life" itself, is a mem- ber of a great disc-like system, the distant members of whieh are visible to us as-the Milky Way. The Galaxy, as it is called, -con- --tains- about 100,000,000,000 stars, beside' a great deal of semi-solid matter in the form of gas and dust which has not yet condensed into stars. i 5 Every star in_the Galaxy is re- volving round "the centre of the system. The sun; which is about 30,000 light years away from the - to complete one revolution, travel-" ling at the tremendous speed of 170 miles. a second. and carrying us all with it. win The star nearest to us is twenty- five, millon 'million miles away and its" name is Proxima Centauri, meaning the nearest star in the group- called Centaur, Light from this star takes several.y€ars to reach' us. 3 On a clear night it is easy to spot the. Pole Star, one of the from it, when it reaches our eyes - tonight, started to travel in the reign of King Henry the Sixth, five centuries ago. ~*.. T- Modern telescopes have added to our knowledge of what is going on - inside the sun, It was formerly believed that over millions of years the sun's heat would gradually di- . minish as it burns itself out, with- the result that our. earth would be- ° come colder and colder: -until it survive. homme Palomar, California, recently: pho- | only a small part of the wonderful |" Ls v % SAH bi FACE SE LS J wi ty Sadi a ch pd od cb 5 "re > 5 - - wr or ' --- LT BANE, . . « Music Hath Charms . . . And "Fang", mascot of the 1st Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, seems delighted with the bugle solo of Pte. Art-Furnass of the Battalion's band. The picture' was taken in. Korea where the PPC Ll. are now -serving with Canadian Forces. : ahi Aighe 35 Getting Hotter Latest theory, however, is that instead of getting cooler, he usn is - gradually becoming hotter. In about ten billion years it will be so hot that all life-on its plancts "will be burned to death, not frozen.- After some fifty billion years it will swell up' monstrously and con- 'sime the inner planets, including "the earth. Iventually its heat will begn to fade and---it will cruise through. space "without throwing off any light, surrounded by its outer planets. : : "Astronomers now believe "that there "are at least 100,000 solar" systems_jn the universe which are capable of creating and supporting life as we kpow it. | ; They. compare our. world -to a speck of pollen floating in the Pa- cific. Ocean and point out how pre ~ sumptuous we are to assume that life is monopolized exclusively by this one tiny planét. i e 2 Far too few Canadian housewives make an -éxtensive use of herbs in their cookery. It's a -great pity, too, because so ffany 'dishes fall short of "perfection just for the lack of. that "touch" which only herbs can give. * * * Ard jit isn't necessary to Mgrow your own"--although it's a fascin- ating pursuit if you have the time and space to: do it. | Es 3 'However, 'popular demand has - made freshly dried products readily: available;. and they only await in- creased knowledge of. their use. to become as necessary to 'good food seasoning as salt and pepper. * * * Commercial herb "growers in various sections of the country do a thriving mail-order business. di- rectly with the housewife; while "the shelves of most specialty food shops "in. large cities are well - stocked with jars -and boxes. of separate varicties and blended mix- tures for specific uses, : * * * _ Perhaps the following will serve as a guide to the beginner in the use of. the more common varieties. Mint-- 3 Soin For peas, either fresh or:in soup. Sprinkle on boiled potatoes and carrots. : ¢ ; One-half teaspoonful in currant jelly for. roast lamb. } : A dash in cream cheese for sand' wiches. ; HY A pinch in apple sauce. EER * * * ; Basil-- : Improvés- any dish' containing © tonrato. Sprinkle over scrambled eggs. Add to stuffing for baked fish, Spriiiklé over 'boiled or creamed potatoes. . Mix with cream and cottagd cheese. Dust on vegetable salads. * » * "Thyme-- LEI aY "Add to fish chowder. - Add to oyster stew...' Add toVturkey stuffing. Include in beef loaf. - Improves pot roast. " * . * Savory-- Flavors all beéans--lima, shell, so Add to staffing for turkey, veal, fish, duck, goose. " Sprinkle over fish or 'vegetable salad. HEY . Marjoram-- ~ Sprinkle over roast pork: - Flavors squps. ¥ Add to stuffing for chicken turkey. Add to sauce for fish, 1 string, "rt 3 i TABLE TALKS 2 dane Andrews Parsley-- - 1 Flavors cheese. Sprinkle on poached eggs. Sprinkle on fricasseed chicken. Add to melted: butfer sauce for vegetables. fon Flavors tomato soup. Sprinkle over boiled or mashed potatoes. } * * * . Sage-- 5 Add to stuffing -for veal, pork," goose and turkey, ..¥ Sprinkle over broiled pork chops. Sprinkle over any dish of-cgg- plant. : . * * -* blend makes a flavoring pow- The following most satisfactory der: 7 6 ounces marjoram '6 ounces savory 3 ounces basil 3 ounces thyme "3 ounces tarragon Combine theroughly and_keep in small jars so that the whole mix- ture is not open' to the air at once, This is an excellent combination for stews, soups, and ragouts, In the use of powdered herbs, it is always well to bear in' mind that they are more potent than fresh - ones, therefore a smaller amount will.be required. The flavor should be subtle, not dominating. Capsule-size Motor Runs Electric Watch An experimental electric wrist- "watch has been made which has no main spring---nothing but a battery and "a. capsulé-size motor -that de- livers power at a constant rate. The Elgin Watch™ Company has built such a watch- in America and "the Lip Watch Company in Erance. "When the two companies learned that they were independently work- ing along the same lines they de- © cided it-was.common_ sense to join forces and exchange information. Electric clocks are old" Hence an electric watch seems: a 'natural evolution, The late T. Albert Pot- 'ter, president. of the Elgin Watch Company antl later chairman _ of its Doard, suggested the idea to George C. Ensign, the company's research director. Potter learned that Ensign and his' men had long been working on thg idea, ~ - 3 Contrary to 'expectations, it turn- out that an electric .watch had to be something different from a min- jature electric clock. It was. not enough to reduce the size of an electromagnet 'that was good én- ough for a clock, The reason is that the working force of an electro- magnet decreases at' an unéxpected rate with diminution in size, View of Peru -- Airline hostess Isabel Carrion of Lima, Peru,' - holds one .of the 1500 pieces of in Chicago. The exhibition, which « runs September, traces the artistic development | of the ancient Peruvian Mochi- ca and Nazca Indian tribal cultures. : until "Designing a suitable electric mo- tor was no. mean task. Nor was it obvious how the flow of electric energy to the motor could be=con-- trolled, or how enough energy could be diverted -to drive the hands: The energy capsule. presented a wohle sef of problems. in itself, if high voltage was fo. be maintained. Con- ventional - principles no longer ap- | 'produce only otic seventy-five: mil- lionths of a horsepower. At first it was thought that the type of ccll used in hearing aids would do as a fource of power. That proved to be wrong. After much research a cell was developed which is smaller than a penny and for more than a year. The-voltage is constant to the very end. Time keeping is perfect. The motor. presented more dif- ficulties. Finally sub-miniatire coils were developed that are slightly more than an eighth. of an' inch in diameter and one thirty-second of an inch long, waund with 3.000 turns-of-insulated copper wire one- sixth cas thick as a human hair, > POOR" UMPS "Joe. Page, the Yankce relief pitcher, says he dreamed one night that he was in heaven, and was assigned the task of forming a baseball team. of all the great: stars. available there. "But who'll we play capainst?? he asked. Just then the Devil telephoned and challenged him to a series. "Four games out of seven," suggested the Devil, "and no miraclés on either side" "What Page. "Every great ball player goes to heaven when he dies!" "I'm not worrying," the Devil told him. "I've got all the umpires." THE ancient. Peruvian art on display | plied -to mechanism that was to - which will drive the wafch motor - "Gruesome Tale Peggy Wood, the "operetta star, watched the" rain pouring down. - one night from the: haven of a warm, friendly. drawing room, -and remembered this story she had heard years ago. in England, A country doctor, cursing the "luck that Tatled him out on the worst night of the year, was splash- ing. his way homeward on his motorcycle, on arr--old road full -of bumps and holes. Suddenly he heard a cry for help. 'A luckless motorist _had skidded ff the road; . and _his "car was. up to the hubs in mud in a ditch. : "Obviously "1 cannot pull you out with this motorcycle," said-the --doctor, "but if you'll hitch on he- "hind nie, I'll ride you into tewn. [t's only, three or four miles, and welll find somcope there to. drive "vol back and get your car on the, road again." : 2 Yefore- the grateful motorist climbed "aboard the cycle," he was advised by thé doctor to reverse his raiiicogt, back to front, to pro- tect him a little better from the driving ridin. Then they set out con the rocky road to town. The doctor said nothing until he saw the first lights of the main street flickering through the storm. "Here we care," he "pointede out then, "We'll, soon haye help far Fon." When there was no reply, the doc- - behind "him, was tor looked He ~ alone on the motorcycle. "Good - heavens," he thought, |" from 'the ' | Story Teller's Story . a "The other morning, > couple of days before retiring after thirty two and 'a half . years of..telling York Public Library and the New York State Psychiatric 'Institute, Mrs: Eleanpr H. "Nave, a' small, 'fairy-godmotherlike * woman of 65, bustléed daintily through the. front East Seventy-ninth. branch on' 1: Street, She, almost; 'but not 'quite - sprinted up a steep: flight of stairs to the children's room onthe sec- "white 'rhododendron she had "brought along, sat down in a child- sized chair at a child-sized table and told a grown-up. about how she tells stories to children, Library -officials estimate that Mrs. Nave has told her stories to and given puppét shows for (she . does her own dramatizations, cos- + 500;000 and a million young people --generally fiffeen to seventy-five at a time. ne "Tal' 'has been about the most successful story here and at the of sixteen adventures about a nor- mal, but- occasionally" mischievous .child who "says "I'nt sorry' at the' right time." (She said that '"T'al" was written by Paul Fenimore "Cooper, a grandson of_the author "of "Leatherstocking Tales.) "The stories-have wisdom, humor, pathos and mystery," she com- mented; "all of which have a great "appeal for the young mind. These are very normal stories with Kappy endings. pleasant children and the stories, and anyhow the always want the prince princess to get married in the end. For that reason 1 hardly ever tell the story of Little Red Riding 1lood. 1 don't care for the wolf clement. And I've never told Bluebeard." = What could, the youngsters ex- Mrs, Nave's "hours?" .i 4 #1 usually tll two stories an hour. No; 1 -dont 'actually read "them; but TF leave-the book on the "tahle to let them know where they can find the story to re-read if a little poetry at the énd--=Walter de la Mare's poems are among "the best for our purposes." " Ihe children come to the library, Mrs. Nave related, check their lolli- pops and comic books at the door, sit down - quictly and, 'these days, demand stories about men from Mars and atomic explosions: "Yes, television has had an" influence on their requests," Mrs. Nave. said, chat [completely hsregard what they want. © tell them classic fairy tales or stories dealing with folk- lore. 1 guess my favorite is a New Zealand folk tale called 'Maid of the Mist. The prose is poetic. It sings. It is simple and direct and siitable for « ond floor, without dropping. a petal bunch of - fuchsia and Institute," she began. "It is a book - I don't like to tell un- FT CL TIE NE Ree stories to children for the New ° door of the library's" Yorkville. ~tuming and productions) between, "pect when they: came to one of - they want to. And then, as a rule, - It's exquisitely written, more time 'telling - their children stories. I- recommend :-that they: memorize and' tell the story rather than' read it. Children prefer it and child: likes to haye a time set aside for him--a quiet atmosphere, an _ uninterrupted session. It is some- and a time in "his life that he'll never forget */ oops 3 Mrs, Nave said she was going to. continue. her: voluntéer work at " the 'Indtittue. "I'm:. a registered nurse as well as a librarian; and o Said i . » "1 find the, work there as gratifying as: any lve ever done. I remem- ber one afternoon many years ago "at the Institute I was doing a pup- pet show, 'Rumpelstiltskin.' There was a little boy in the audience-- ~ he couldn't have been more than § --who had never. spoken .a word in his-life. Che mother it thewstory sings: -- " ? 'My daughter. hae spun five skeins i. . today. J My daughter hae spun five skeins. today.' . boy all of a sudden started to sing along with, her. It was one of: the most exciting experiences -of my career." "a at Mrs. Nave added that she wants to enroll next year for wark with the blind. "I've always wanted to see 'Tal' written in Braille," she said. "I hope they'll accept me." Left-Handed Rats "Has it ever occurred to you that. many animals are .l¢ft-handed? left paw more thai their right. And most bears are left-pawed for some unexplained: reason, Doctore--~and--seientists have for years been studying left-handedness. 'in human beings and animals. They know that the cause of Jeft- handedness is concerncd with brain development and that in right- handed men- the left side of the handed the night side is~bigger._. But a recent medical survey sug- gests that many left-handed people are not left-handed as we thought, Seventy left-handed -and 35 right-handed men were studied, sO called "themselves left-handed were really ambidextrous, although they --did--not-realize it. AIR : "a N HS of V-2 rockets hive, shown that the atmospliere is evenly mixed up to a. height of 36 miles, said Prof. Arthur Pancth at a recent meeling: of the British "Chemical Sgciety. - Above 36 miles -there is evidence of #ravitational separation of 'the argon and neon," 2? 5 Ne xs "the poor fellow must have fallen older children and adults as well. % oA ME off" He turned the. cyclé- about The only trouble is that it has a i : and" began retracing the grotand. A tragic ending." 2 Fo - MERRY MENAGERIE mile back-te came upon Tis erstz Mrs. Nave went onto say (hat pe a Fan -while passenger, lying. motionless boys like to 'listenri- to fairy tales, wins tong Fe 43) on- the road, sirrounded by a too, although they are a little hash- : x 11 group of wet and bedraggled cot- ful about admitting it. "You know," : Bp - taggers. "erie =. she said, "you'd he surprised atthe | ~ \, kL "Is he badly hurt?" cried: the people who enjoy listening to a doctor. : story. Children come here volun- |° "I'm afraid so." answered one of _tarily, and frequently their mothers the cottagers. "We were in our come with- them. At the Institute house yonder when we heard his doctors and nurses listen. | tell mivans- above the wind - and the stories and show picture books fo Ba storm. When we found hint he was the toddlers out in Carl Schurz | in terrible shape, sir.. His head had Park: There nurses and niaids show been twisted "clear around! . My an interest. 'Even the park: attend-- son and I twisted it back just 'as .| -ants. and policemen occasionally TY Why Toor "far as we could, but ever since |.sidle up to the edge of the circle." RTE 616 he hasn't moved gor made a single a "It would he wonderful," she "Her husband waddled away sourd ' . continued, "if mothers would spend with 'another woman!" 5 4 mag * Ld - E et 7 wr a CI. Tank Lifter--Designed for moving artillery pieces, tanks, bridge sections and trucks is the jet- powered XH-17, the world's largest helicopter. The tank-carrier is powered by two turbojets which send power through ducts up the rotor shaft and out to. the tips -of the giant rotor blades. The king of the 'copters straddles a cargo, picking up loads by attachments to the landing gear and body. } : : : : By Arthur Pointer thing 'that is! ve ry precious to him "As she was singing the little. the Lighthouse, an organization for: Rats, for instance, often use their: brain is bigger, while 'in the left- . and it was revealed that many 'who © Air saniples taken from the noses . appreciate. the personal touch, A + L 5% SSS . 4 er ar i 2 . . - : > ad 3 * g 1 i : | &77% ADA Ra , LA Lr Hoth 3 pi 7 ERE {a i . Sr bit Hay BY E nisl £ \ { . ! FIRS Po, - +1 ' he i