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On Stolen Gas "8 ; A wet evening in Guernsey, | : crossroad and flung him and his Ran Ambulance. { Reg Blanchford, a youth of nine- teen, took his girl to her door, klased het § ight remounts 'his motor-bike, and roared offs into the night. Two minutes la a taxi swung out of a ~ machine © with © terrific against a house, He was so badly injured that surgeon who later attended him said that he was "theoreti- cally dead." For eight days he force was unconscious, for ° three months on the critical list, but he recovered. That grave mishap inspired him to dedicate his life to' re- - liev the sufferenigs of others. In the 1930s Guernsey's 40,000 people were served by only one ill-equipped ambulance with a spare time driver. Prompt first- aid, Blanchford realized, would have minimized his injuries and suffering, < He joined the island's newly formed St. John Ambulance unit, bought a second-hand ambulance with voluntary subscriptions and started a rival service based in a small shed. How he developed this into a first-class land, sea and air serv- ice and earned the G.M,, M.B.E,, and the Life-Saving medals by his bravery and resource, Don - Everitt relates graphically in "Samaritan of the Islands". Suspended on a rope he made many hazardous rescues from _ Guernsey's perilous cliffs. In wartime this meant running the gauntlet of hidden minefields. One fisher-lad, climbing a cliff, had trodden on a mine. It blew him on to a narrow ledge twenty feet below. To reach him, Blanchford and his four helpers had to slither down the cliff, grasping for hand-holds, fearing that each piece of grass and jut- ting rock concealed a mine. Rain soaked them; a cold wind lashed their faces and numbed their fingers. When they reached 'the body it took twenty minutes to get it off the ledge and strap- ped to the stretcher. Several times on the way up, ing. his money - The two men heaved the drum and and steamer tickets, = "It's all part of the service" Blanchford told the scoutmaster, During the German occupation he kept his ambulance going on tolen or smuggled gas, char- sor horses. Once he and his stant, Charles Froome, re- ed to raid a locked German gasoline - drum store not 100 yards from a German billet. The penalties if they were caught 'would. be a long. prison sentence and maybe a concentration camp. They drove up with their van under a cloudy three-quarter moon and unscrewed the rusty hinges from the door. They grunted and heaved to roll one of the heavy drums up a ramp of two planks into the van. Then they heard a car approaching rapidly. : "It's the 'greenfly' (Germans) all right," Froome whispered. "They look like officers." The vehicle came down' the middle of the road. Blanchford knew that its masked headlights would pick out the lower half of the van. The moon suddenly broke through clouds. It was as it a spotlight had been turned on them. He closed his eyes in despair, Then he heard Froome whispering: "They're turning off. They're going to the house over there." Climbing noisily from the car, the Germans vanished into the house. The night was silent again, return rail into the van and rolled out a second. It was halfway up the ramp when one plank snapped with a crack like a rifle-shot. The drum thumped to the ground. Both froze as an up- stairs window in the an billet opened and someohe pedr- ed out. Another window opene and there was a conversation in German. Then the windows closed, No search party emerged. Desperately, the two men jam- med a piece of the broken plank under 'the intact one, heaved the drum into the van, shut the store doors, rescrewed the hinges and drove off at full throttle. The ambulance would have gas for some time to come. Once when a gang of thugs i ve with darkness falling, one or blocked the path of the ambul- other of them slipped, nearly ance, Blanchford accelerated and dragging the rest down the cliff. forced a way through. A man On top at last they had to thread leapt on the running board and their way through a minefield tried to grab the wheel but overgrown with gorse and find Blanchford swerved and flung - gaps in the brabed wire. Then him off. The ambulance forged ~~ they collapsed, utterly beaten. on, picked up the patient and "Ill with worry and overwork took another route back to the in 1950, Blanchford went to Petit | hospital. } Bot Bay for a week's hard- By 1954 the land-sea-air serv- earned holiday with his wife. ice, run on subscriptions, had While sitting on the beach he eleven men and two secretary- © noticed a boy climbing a near-by nurses on the permanent staff. It cliff. also had &m deficit of almost "Rona," he said, "I'm sorry, £2,500 before the States author- > but we'd better go back. Sooner ity came to its support. Last year . or later that boy. will get stuck the men worked 10,800 hours of up there, and the way I feel I voluntary overtime, an average . just couldn't face having to bring of twenty hours a week on top him down." of their routine forty-four. The boy did get stuck, on a Blanchford himself has been tiny ledge seventy-five feet up. continuously "on call". for nearly Blanchford phoned the ambul- twenty-five years. This splendid ance control room, guided the story of his pluck and determina- crew to the cliff top, and, despite tion is a monument to the Order protests, donned a canvas har- of St. John motto: Pro Utilitate 8 : . : ness attached to a 250 foot rope Hominum, For the service of and swung down, As he sighted mankind. 3 the boy, clinging to a sheer slab Service, indeed, and enough of rock by toes and fingers, the drama for twenty novels! rope dislodged a large piece of --_-- rock above Blanchford's head. PLAINTIFF BECOMES _ It fell between his face and the DEFENDANT cliff, hit his stomach, knocked Te ' s ' ; William Shaw, 58, called bow Cons and Sok Xin Rochester, N.Y., police to report 2 sng BRA sping -ac that someone claiming to be a ? ) ; policeman had snatched his wal- When he regained his senses he let containing $80. Detectives swung himself towards the boy, who arrived on the scene ar- grabbed him by the waist, pulled rested Shaw for public intoxica- him' off the ledge, and lowered tion. him foot by foot to the cliff bot- -- tom. Then he collapsed, bruised I won't say that I'm unlucky and bleeding, into a rock pool. But let me tell you something, After rescuing a boy scout who Jack, had fallen into a cliff gully, he: If I started on a shoestring went down a sceond time to re- Button shoes would soon come trieve the lad's wallet contain- back. - 9. Treats 33. Chess pleces CROSSWORD: fii st coier : 11. Poultry 37. Perch product 39. Tennls stroke PUZZLE 16. Sphere 41. Partot u 17. 8nrend skeleton 20. Fellow 42. Constelluticn ACROSH 3 Degrade 21. Made over 43. Wild anima] 1. Craze 4 Divislon.of a 22 Fitting 45. Commanded 4 Sheltering window 23 Toba, ir i Jshotie 4 UE aoan B.5tupld person 24. id 49. Stockings N 32 Chin 6 Kindled 26 Thinks 61. Twitchin 13 Cert toa 7 Detace 27 Body ioint 62. The least bit continent 8 Obstruction 94 gorrawful 55. (reek M 14 read of dog feollond 20, Cammil theft 57. True 15 Protesting - 12, Nafore 1% Came hy 20 Crnetacean 2° Infant's food 25 Dank af carde 98 Faw! + 20 Taste 21 fale ahila -\ 2° Tixlat ud "in fichtar 125 Farth gaddese 3R Cat fora nleture AR Aiaranresent . 40 Clamor Q 41. Noaturnal animal 44 Pariod UK Seale Jes. Mia antiseptic acl 8. Exrlamation 0. Indian mulherr, 81. Br! ian onghird EAP LA ig ag. FERIA RY & MONSTER CO NGA LINE? -- What se>ms tumed girls performing a ritual called the the SAEP (Southeast Asia Peninsula) games to be the high point of an outdoor party Is cos- "long finger dance." Scene was the opening of in Bangkok, Thailand. ~ THEFARM FRONT Shipping apples to British Columbia is like carrying coals to Newcastle, Yet that's what happened last year. } Apple production in British Columbia last season was the smallest in many years. About 4.2 million bushels were har- vested, compared with six mil- lion bushels the previous year. LJ * LJ To take up the slack, Ontario and Quebec producers shipped McIntosh apples to the west coast for the first time in the mem- ory of veteran officials of the Fruit and Vegetable Division, Canada Department o! Agricul- ture. Normally, B.C. ships apples eastward -- especially later var- ieties and varieties not produc- ed by growers in the east. * * * The sudden reversal in this trend has brought a warning from the Plant Protection Di- vision of the federal agriculture department that eastern ship- pers must live up to regulations : laid down under the Destructive Insect and Pest Act. A W. A. Fowler, chief of the division's plant inspection sec- tion, points out that the move- ment of apples from Ontario to British Columbia is prohibited unless fumigated under the supervision of an officer of the division. This is because of the Oriental fruit moth. * * + 'Further, since the apple mag- got is known to exist in eastern apple growing areas and not in B.C, apples may be exported only from orchards shown by inspections to be apparently free 'of the maggot. * * + Economists with the Canada Department of Agriculture have revised an October quarterly forecast of hog marketings, in the face of a marked slowdown in production. They now predict an October- to-December marketing of 2.2 million hogs, an increase of about seven per cent over the same period in 1958. The earlier forecast called for a boost of 19 per cent. LJ * * A spokesman for the market- ing section of the Economics Di- vision said he looked for a 15 per cent increase in eastern Canada during the last three months last year, and a two per cent decline in western Can- ada. * * * This year? Indications are for a decline of roughly 15-per cent over last year's booming hog market. The total output in 1959 is ex- pected to be 8.6 million, where- as this year it may fall to 7.5 million or lower. In revising their figures, the economists predicted a decline of four to five per cent in the firs quarter of 19860 instead of the two per cent mentioned in the October prognosis. * + . The Agricultural Stabilization Board's support of the price of hogs by outright purchase ended January 9, and after that date support was to take the form of deficiency payments. * Ll * Producers who have not regis- tered for participation in the de- ficiency payment program should apply immediately. Forms may be obtained by writing the Ag- ricultural Stabilization Board, Canada Department of Agricul- ture, Confederation Building, Ot- tawa, or from the nearest office of the federal department's live- stock division, * Ld * Application cards for regis- tration are being mailed to pro- ducers. These should be com- pleted and mailed to the Data Processing Unit, Canada De- partment of Agriculture, Ottawa. * * * In the case of a farmer hvaing a son or a partner who owns some of the hogs marketed, only one name may be registered Ese Leas THIS OL D HOUSE IS NEW -- Under construction 1 ead i PRY n Charlottes- AIR BOMBER? -- Richard lada, 19, stands in Detroit, Mich., po- lice headquarters after being accused of threatening person with bombing from 1 air if they did not pay him money. for one farm enterprise. This means that all hogs from a farm unit or enterprise must be marketed under one registration pletely separate operation Is necessary to qualify for regis- necessary to qqualify for regis- tration as 3 farmer producer. That Forbidding North Atlantic In Europe, seamen have always known the North Atlantic as the Western Ocean. In the early days the untamable and little- sailed sea, which sent its vio- lent storms to lash at them and beset their seaports and thelr beaches with the nolsy, fearful challenge of its gales, seemed un- conquerable. The march of these wild Atlantic gales against all Europe is most severe in those areas where men are the best seamen, and yet seafaring pro- gress here was slow at first, as compared with that made in kinder seas. Arab, Perslan, and Indian dhows crisscrossed the monsoonel waters of the Indlan Ocean at least two thousand years before European seamen could manage anything other than coastwise passages in the open waters of the North At- lantle, and the Mediterranean was at least a galley-tilled sea while only the Sargasso weed drifted on the surface of the broad Atlantle, The conditions were very dit- ferent. In the tropic waters of the Indian Ocean there were clearly defined seasons which brought their own winds -- the good north-easter, with clear visibility and ideal sailing con- ditions; the turbulent south- wester, which could blow hard but at least provided easy means to -sail home again. There was a wind to go out with and and another to return with, and, in the northeast season, there was 'a reasonable assurance of con- tinued good weather, Fishérmen working = from open beaches could develop craft suited to their purposes, and mariners could learn to extend coastwise passages to ocean wanderings as far as the monsoon blew. Primitive ships could suffice, in such conditions, and did. Even in 1956, many such ships con- tinued to sail Eastern seas. But in Europe it was not so, changing directions twice a year, to help mariners on their way. On their way to what? What lay in the West, beyond all that bitter sea? In the East were silks, spices, jewels, gold, The Old Worlds turned east. The long spice and rich silk roads led there, and the European em- poriums for both centered on the Mediterranean. India, Per- sia, Araby "The Blest," were the sources of riches and of trade. What point was there then in sailing out into the Atlantic, bound for nowhere? European seamen had no incentive to make bold transoceanic voyages. So the Atlantic was not crossed by ships for centuries and, in the end, its opening was a chance by-product of the quest for a sea route to the East, Scholars had long theorized that to sail west would bring ships east, it they sailed far enough, and it was the East they sought.--From "Wild Ocean" by Alan Villiers. Saving Water By Treatment Municipal water systems and their customers, the citizens of larger United States municipali- ties, are overlooking a ready water supply through waste wa- ter treatment, according to Mark N. Hollis of the Federal Public Healtlr Service. Mr. Hollis said that, some six or eight years ago, the Amerl- can public was spending $200 million a year for waste water treatment plants, but it had re- cently jumped this figure to $400 million a year. But he thinks the rate should be "above $500 mil- lion." He did not say '$500 mil- lion"; he said "above $500 mil- lion." Members of the great bureaucracy at Washington are cagy about putting a limit on any estimate of any future spending. If Mr. Hollis said how much water was being conserved by these treatment processes, the news story did not quote him. Possibly the reason that we are making slow progress In this field comes from the fact that we talk too much about the cost and too little about the amount of water we will derive from it. The treatment of contaminated water for reuse by the public has been fully demonstrated. It was in wide use in Germany before World War I. But there is an obstinate popular prejudice against turning to it in America. Waste water conservation at any such figures is not good campaign material. This treament of waste water Is going to be especially Import- ant in Texas as time goes on. Our surface water comes pri- marily from a number of rather small parellel rivers, nearly all of which are contaminated with various forms of waste materials. The time is not far distant when we will be consuming the total capacity of these rivers to pro- duce fresh water. We should adopt, first, a much stricter pro- gram of prevention of water con- tamination in these streams and, second, a program of condition- ing this water for reuse. The two programs will supplement each other because the less con- tamination, the cheaper the re- conditioning, -- Dallas News. "And what's your name?" the teacher asked the little boy. "Julie," was the reply. "Ah, you mean Julius. We never use abbreviations In my class. Now, little boy, what's your name?" "Billious." By Rev R. Barclay Warren B.A. B.D. The Converting Power of the Gospel Acts 16:13-15, 25-34 Memory Selection: Believe om the Lord Jesus Christ, and thom shalt be saved, and thy house, Acts. 16:31, Next to the scene of Paul's conversion, perhaps the next most fascinating scene in the story of his life is that of his night in the Philippian jail and the conversion of the jailer. It was no pretty sight as Paul and Silas lay with their feet fasten- ed in the stocks with their backs bruised and bleeding. The beat- ing had broken some of the blood vessels, Some of the blood had clotted. These men were no criminals. They were God's messengers of the Good News of the Gospel. In the name of Jesus Christ they had cast the demon out of a young lady who was a sooth- sayer or, as we would say to- day, a fortune teller. The men who made money from the girl's work were angry and instigated an uprising against Paul and Silas. They should have rejoiced that another had been freed from the clutches of Satan but thele greed for money blinded thefe eyes to the glories of the Gospel. Missionaries still meet with this type of violent opposition. In our own land the opposition is more subtle. But the forces that make money on the weaknesses and sins of others are well or- ganized and can fight back with vigor when disturbed. If one emerges from one of the more desperate gangs, his life may be in jeopardy for a time, at least. The prayer and praise of Paul and Silas were heard by the prisoners. How unusual it was! Then God intervened with an earthquake. The prisoners were loosed. The convicted jailer ask- ed that most Important ques- tion, "What must I do to be saved?" The answer, which fis our memory selections, was a simple one, We are saved, not by what we in our strength can do, but by trusting in Jesus Christ and what He has done for us. We are saved by grace through faith. The jailer was a new man. After he was baptized he washed the blood off the stripes that had been laid upon them. How ten- derly he must have done it! Then he fed them. It was a happy home. Jesus Christ had come into their lives. And it came about through the faithful wit- nessing of two of God's children, while enduring suffering for Jesus' sake. ISSUE 4 -- 1960 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking - 4 +75 ville, Pa., is a replica of the house called Shadwell where nn . oR IT'S REALLY HERE -- You know winter Is hera for good when he . rection of ty eath . Expunges 5: raws forth ent . The North Atlantic, beyond the "Rest wn Thomas Jefferson was. born. The site is not far from MonN- tropic's edge, could blow gales RCE cello, Jefferson's famous heme. Built in the 1730s, the original at any season, and there were the small ones drag sleds around whersve they go. This no seasonal winds, obligingly ' Answer elsewhere on this Page Shadwell burned down in 1766, youngster samples the white stuff from a car