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Eh ba Pi "wh . Fp = i ¢ : . ' LE - 54 si) " . 4 . 3 4 ' - RR Perr SERRA SPARTA Y Sf WEF FICE MET. I AA 4 WORLD'S TOP AIR SURVEYOR - DOOMS OLD PROSPECTOR By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent Ottawa, Canada -- (NEA) -- One of Canada's colorful insti- tutions, the bush prospector, has been done in, That hardy breed of fortune seeker got the axe by one of this country's most dramatic post- war businesses, typical of the kind of imaginative enterprises going on up here. Spartan - Canadian Aero, now the world's largest air survey outfit, is the firm which has laid the trudging prospector to rest. In the process the company is revolutionizing the technique of finding hidden natural resources around the world. It also oper- ates the world's largest private helicopter service. Spartan services have been an "JOHN A. ROBERTS: An aerial view of hidden resources. important factor in the tremen- dous mining boom now going on all over Canada. Its airborne, clentific prospectors discovered he existence of tremendous iron ore deposits at Marmora in Southern Ontario for-the Bethle- hem Steel Corp, for example. It did the same thing for the American Cyrus Eaton Enter- prises at Knob Lake in northern Quebec. It spotted the huge urst zinc and copper ew Brunswick, the oil bearing geology in sev- eral areas where oil production is booming. And there is one case where a Spartan flier ac- tually predicted the site for an oil well, which when dug, im- mediately became a producer. One of Spartan's earlier jobs was helping Canadian and U.S, defense experts select 'the sites for the Distant Early Warning 'radar line which now protects the North American Continent against surprise air attack. The phenomenal growth of Ppartan from a tiny enterprise with a' couple of broken-down World War II planes to a multi- ew Bath- eposits in It revealed - fit. million corporation with more than 500 scientists and pilots op- erating a huge fleet of planes all over the world starts with the threat of Germany's V-1 and Ye missiles during World War In. « RCAF pilot John A. Roberts and -his.- navigator, Russell L. Hall, \yere assigned to help lo- cate theSg missile launching sites. In the process a new aerial mapping technique was devel- oped. So when the war ended these lads quickly began apply- ing this technique to practical private enterprises. They started with forestry mapping and then began map- ping for new rail lines and irri- gation projects, The Korean War got them into the mineral hunting business, They began using an electronic device called the magnetometer and detecting iron ore bodies. Then they add- ed the electro-magnetometer for locating non-magnetic ore bodies such as nickel, Spartan's experience in oper- ating over the rugged Canadian wilderness put them several 'jumps ahead of foreign competi- tors. This enabled Roberts and Hall to begin getting their boom- ing firm aerial survey jobs in British Guiana, British Hondur- as, Colombia, India, the Philip- Pines and even England and the With their electronic devices and their own technique of high altitude surveying, Spartan ex- perts can produce accurate min- eral reports in a few weeks which would take yéars to make. by prveious methods. Their work has proved a boon to un- derdeveloped countries by locat- ing previously unknown mineral deposits of tremenduos value. In India, for example, their electro-magnetometer was able to pierce through hundreds of feet of earth overlay to reveal the possible mineral-bearing ge- ology below. Spartan's reports have Indian officials anticipating a new mining boom in that coun- Spartan's expanding helicopter fleet is being used for mapping and survey as well as for taking supplies to its own isolated for- ward bases. - It is becoming an aerial taxi and guide service for the whole Canadian arctic and 'sub-arctic. It has its own school for helicopter pilots. The Canadian government is one of Spartan's biggest custom- ers for all of its services. There's no stopping this _out- Looking to the future it is doing research on -the aerial feeding of forests, for example, an idea which holds great prom- ise for the paper. pulp industry up here, As Spartan's President Roberts says, "Our goal is to find a brand new aerial service to sell each year of our existence," ELECTRONIC PROSPECTOR: Magnetometer dangles from plane on airborne search for magnetic ore fields. CROSSWORD PUZZLE Leading aviator Mild Wings - ACROSS . Weary . Bearing weapons Mother "Our Miss Brooks" Bargain 8 Withdraw Frozen dessert Depart i. Greck B 5. Cordial 1. Spring festivay 9. Cornered jurmese tribe 2. 1 4 3. 1. 9. Floor covering £ Rent again 2 . 3 iA 8 1.1 2. Circle of Hght 4. Vat : 26. Unit ot welght 29. Important occurence 31. And not 33. Self 31. Accomplish 35. However 37. Auto fuel 39. Near 40. Cotton-seeder 42. Horse 44. Gray stone 46. Redact 48. Boon companion 80. Encourage 61. Divinity 68. Pork and « - - ¢ 65. Warm over '68. Celeatial belrigs 61. Skill 62, Cook dnan | evea 64. Pincn 45. Dance step + 66. Musical sounds '$7, Evening meal D i. Tropleal fruit 10. 11. 16. 18. 20. 22, 23. 25. 21, Amer, Indian 38. jneiezan anguage Needlefish 41. Perlods of Sarcasm darkness Mournful 43. Idle talk Ask for 45. Not present repeatedly 47. Drive \ Turn aside 43. honing y Shun | agreement Swamp 62. Arrow Marble 64, Insects . Religious 65. O14 Irish coin' composition 66. Period of time . Decade 67. Likewise Oriental ship 59, Untruth , captain £0. Mineral spring .Gentle stroke £3, Article Answer elsewhere on this page. 4 Narrow Squeaks Philip Roodtman, a miner in Northern Rhodesia, lazily swung his feet from his bed one morn- ing and began to dress himself for work. on his right shoe when he sud- denly froze with horror. Something was wriggling un- der his foot; then a whiplash tall curled up from inside the shoe past his ankle. The petrified miner recognized the tail of a deadly bush adder and, squirming with horror, he realized that he must have his heel on the snake's head! "Help! Snake!" His cry for help brought several men run- ning to the bunkhouse where a hasty conference was held. It Roodfman tried to remove his foot from the shoe the snake would strike as soon as its head was freed, There was only one way to deal with the emergency: the snake had to be killed while still inside the shoe. One of the men raced over to the mine hospital and told the medical officer what had hap- pened. In a flash the M.O. grabbed a bottle of colourless liquid from a shelf and raced to where Roodtman sat in a cold sweat, pressing down as hard as he could to keep the snake un- derfoot while its tail writhed around his ankle. The doctor uncorked the bottle and dumped a goodly quantity VANISHING SKILL -- seen these days in these j-arts, stilt - walkers still ply their trade in other countries, Some 24 feet tall (on stilts), "Noe-Noe", an Englishman, is shown stumpipg along in Oslo, Norway. Purpose; to advertise a circus. Seldom of the liquid into Roodtman"s shoe. An over-powering smell of ether swept up from the shoe. "Just hold it for a minute," the doctor said. Roodtman waited. In half a minute the snake was still. "Right -- get your foot out ""nowl"the doctor ordered. . In the bottom of the shoe, where it had gone to sleep the previous night, the fourteen- inch adder was out "cold" under the effects of the anaesthetic. It was a simple matter to dispose of it. But perhaps the oddest narrow squeak was.that of a Nyasaland native, Simon, who was cycling home one evening along a 'wild bush track. Overcome with heat and exhaustion, Simon lay down next to his bicycle and fell asleep. He awoke to find several lions sniffing his body, plainly pre- paring to drag him off to their " lair for breakfast! "The terrified Simon lay very still. But he knew enough about lions to realize that feigning death wouldn't help him at all. Cautiously he reached out for his bicycle pump, removed it from the frame, and, gripping-it, let fly with a blood curdling yell right into a lioness's snout. Left and right he lashed out with the pump, yelling like a maniac. The bewildered beasts forgot about breakfast and scampered off into the bush. And Simon lost no time in hopping on to his bike and .peddling away as fast as he could. I have read so much lately about the ill-effects of smoking I have given up reading, (Collie Knox) He was just putting oe RN ea a % F {54° ie Ji ¥ : forint Wild atndd dg dit sien LY PP a iia COTTON ROYALTY -- Crowned and resplendent in royal raiment -- all of cotton -- the King and Queen of the annual Cotton Carnival, Berry Boswell Brooks, 55, and Lila McGehee Wrape, 20, strike regal poses. Brooks, famed big-game hun- ter, gave up a tiger hunt in India to preside over this year's affair. Miss Wrape, a college student, is a nationally known horsewoman. Two recent changes have been made by the Health of Animals Division, Department of Agri- culture, Ottawa, in the vaccina- tion of calves for the control of brucellosis. The changes are ex- pected to assist in the area test- ing and eradication of brucel- losis program announced by the Minister, of Agriculture, Rt. Hon, James G. Gardiner, re- cently, in the House of Com- mons, Health of Animals regulations have been amended to permit official vaccination of calves from the age of 4 months to 11 months. Formerly the age limit was from 6 to 8 months. The change will not apply to cattle offered for export to the United States as officially vaccinated, without a blood test, as their regulations still require - such calves to have been vaccinated at from 6 to 8 months of age. LJ LJ * A new desiccated or dried vaccine has been developed and is now being made available by the Division to veterinarians for calfhood vaccination. This vac- cine can be kept under ordinary refrigeration for as long as fif- teen months, whereas the via- bility of the former liquid vac- cine was approximately 40 days. The Federal-Provincial Calf- hood vaccination program was begun in 1950 when 140,643 calves were vaccinated. In the present fiscal year it is estima- ted over 750,000 calves will be vaccinated, bringing the total from the beginning of the pro- gram to over three million calves. . . . Calfhood vaccination, along with testing and removal of in- fected animals from individual herds, if continued for a number of years, reduces the level of infection of brucellosis to a point where it is economically pos- sible to proceed with a test and slaughter program on an area basis, as announced by the Min- ister. The regulations under which the control plan will operate will be announced shortly. . . . t has been estimated that bfucellosis in Canada causes an annual loss of about nine mil- lion dollars. After a survey made in the various provinces in 1955, it was estimated that the na- tional level of infection in Ca- nada at that time was 4.2 per cent of the cattle, though the percentage varied considerably in the different provinces, Set- ting up brucellosis free areas on a similar basis to that followed in the T.HB. free area program is a logical step in the eradica- tion of brucellosis, LJ LJ * An area testing program was started in Denmark in 1946. At that time 25 per cent of the herds contained brucellosis in- fected cattle. By 1054 the in- fected herds had been reduced to 2 per cent and 1957 has been set as a goal for eradication of the disease from all herds. LJ LJ - In the United States, an im- portant, market for Canadian - cattle, the level of infection was estimated at 11.5 per cént in 1935. This was reduced to 2 per cent by 1939, following the test- ing of 33 million cattle. During the years 1935 to 1954, $193 mil- lion of public funds was spent on brucellosis eradication. To- day, seven states and over 6QQ counties have been declared modified certified areas. Eradi- cation programs are under way in nearly every state of the Union, and the work is being speeded up In hope of having the entire country declared a modified certified area for bru- cellosis control by 1960. . * . A new technique for bean processing has been developed by the Horticulture Division of the Lethbridge Experimental Farm, Canada Department of Agriculture. As a 'result of this development, dry beans grown in Southern Alberta can now, in spite of the normal low mois- ture content which is detrimen- tal to good bean processing, be successfully processed for the pork and bean industry. Under normal processing me- thods which involve a twelve to fifteen hour soaking period, a certain percentage of beans from this area_do not absorb sufficient moisture "and consequently re- main hard, thus reducing the quality of the finished product. G. Strachan, Food Technologist, of the Lethbridge Experimental Farm, says this problem can be overcome by heating beans in water at a temperature of 160 to 190. degrees F., for three or four minutes, followed by a soaking period of three to four hours. A reduction in soaking time of approximately one-third is also a great asset to the bean processing industry. LJ . . Processors of pork and beans require a relatively small bean, free from splits, discoloration and other defects. The moisture content must be less than 18 per cent to ensure long storage without molding, A minimum of 11 to 12 per cent moisture conte.it Is preferred for effective processing by the long-soak me- thod. This minimum {is difficult to maintain in southern Alberta due to extreme low humidity, especially during Samples taken from storage In- dicate that a range of 4 to 8 per cent moisture content fis more common for that area. L * LJ The presence of hard beans, that is beans that fail to soften when soaked in water, even though in small quantities in commercial pack, reduce the quality of pork and beans. Com- mercially these hard beans were generally removed by hand picking after the long-soak me- thod of softening, but they are very difficult to observe on a sorting table. To further compli- cate the problem, hard beans cannot be removed by the flo- tation method as there does not appear to be any difference in density between hard and soft beans. » * LJ] The development of the quick pre-soak boil technique has un- doubtedly opened up new out- lets for dry bean production in southern Alberta and possibly other areas in Canada. Also, the adoption of this method should greatly increase processing plant capacity as the twelve to fifteen hour soak requires a large num- ber of soaking tanks. By redu- cing this period to approxi- mately four hours, a greater volume could be handled with less equipment. Advice to young preachers by the famous Charles Spurgeon: 'When you speak of heaven let your face light up -- let it radiate a heavenly gleam. When you speak of hell your ordinary face will do. - the winter. . Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 1 AL ) A al3 J a SV[TIN3 AL V3 nN) a 3[Wdlv Vid 1INDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A, B.D, Abraham and His World Genesls 18: 20-33; 10:20 « Memory Selection: Arise, Q Giod, judge the earth; for thog shalt inherit all nations. Psalm 82:8, In his last great prayer fog his disciples Jesus sald, "I pray not that them out of the worl thou shouldest keep the evil. world, even as I am of thg world." John 17:15,16. Abrah was in the world but not the world. But he was a gres$ intercessor for the world. The wickedness of Sodom was greater than he thought and s9 the city was not saved through his prayers. However God ree membered Abraham and sen} Lot out of the midst of the overthrow. So Abraham's inter- cession was not in vain. Many thousands around the world are praying now for the Billy Graham campaign which has just begun in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Dr. Paul S. Rees, Assocl- ate Evengelist with the Team writes in the New York Cru- sade News as follows: "New York City: With a high. er skyline than any city on the planet: With amusement enough to make every day a Roman Holiday and boredom enough te keep the world's biggest con- but that thou shouldst take em from They are not of the centration of psychiatrists busy . round the clock: With culture smooth enough to please an Athe- nian and corruption enough te blanch a Judas: With people enough to start a nation and re- sentments and hatreds enough to start a war: With din in her ears -and speed in her blood and sweat on her face and the 'Un- known God' in her nebulous longings" So much of our praying cen- .. ters around ourselves. We are selfish. In the ministry of inter- .cessory prayer we pray fox others. Our own soul is enlarged as we bear the needs of oth before God in prayer. The goo we may do in this ministry we" cannot evaluate In this life. Itisa blessed experience for ourselves. - Abraham was called the friend of God. Let us enter more in~ timately into fellowship with God through prayer. In the words of Rev. J. D. Blinco, Bri- tis Methodist Leader with the Billy Graham team: "The short- est route to New York from any point in the world is not by the magnificent air lines that serve this fantastic age, but through the heart of God on the wings of prayer." PRACTICES WHAT HE PREACH ES -- Believing that the odors from waste treatment plants will smell only half as bad if the grounds around the plants are prettied up, W. T. Blackman Sr. fashions a bushy cat out of a hedge at the Murfreesboro waste treatment plant of which he's. superiritendent. - YOU WON'T FEEL A THING (MAYBE)- Pedro, a full-grown Chihuahua, seems dubious about that big needle. But i's for his own good. Pedro happens to live in Memphis, and Memphis happens to be in .the midst of a drive to have oll canine residents inoculated against rabies, wl i oh - " Wie I pe BO BT SSR A . N - NIL