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iS ARIS VE YE sgn Ley $3 tPA REE, REY ERE -~ a : 34 Oi BETS + Cgbalola + Iss af oo YS i » BE - " Fe : mY Sle -~ eh 4 ; ' WHILE, sm aa aan a I ls LL LL, .-_--Sr is 3 Sn -- Grandpa's Records Caused Trouble When the lines: were being drawn for the Battle of Gettys- burg, the 16th Maine Volunteers were the first Union soldiers to ngage the South, Company 1 be- fs composed mostly of boys om our neighborhood, and my grandfather, a sergeant thereof at the time. He had been dojng the work of company, clerk, but as of that critical moment in history his job fell to pieces around him and was never the same again. The history book describes the engagement," one in which the . eventual outcome of the Gettys- burg contact hinged, and tells how the gallant 16th Maine held back the tide long enough for a more orderly arrangement of the larger forces. In the evening the book says the regiment was with- drawn, *. . . if 36 officers and men may be called a regiment." Grandfather, facing the book- work - after the excitement was over, was himself a boy of 19, schooled as far as the second book, and had no occult method of foreseeing what was going" to happen in later times. He there- fore called the shots as he saw them, and set up a couple of situations which caused him keen embarrassment in years to come. Inasmuch as the volunteers came from around here every- body knew each other, and in some instances were close friends. One such was Frank Farrar, officially listed as Benj. F.,, but nobody except Uncle .Sam- ever called him Benjamin. Frank and Grandfather were tentmates, and my own father was named after Frank when he was born in '78. This should - show that the two were close, ' and In the general posthaste of approaching the great Gettys- - burg engagement Frank had drawn special duty. It was one of those spur-of-the-moment things. Frank was assigned to some passing officer, not of his -.pwn regiment, as an orderly. Immediately after, the officer slapped himself on: his horse, applied the rowels, and dis- appeared out of Frank's life forever, leaving him an orderly without an officer and nothing t0 do but go back to his com- Py and pick. up where he left Grandfather, laboriously enter- Pr LICENSED MOONSHINE -- The bootlegger's. "white lightning" goo respectable in Albany, markets 90-proof corn whisky _In glass fruit jars, the same type container favored by the. moonshiners, Only this has a government tax stamp. CROSSWORD PUZZLE "where Viking Distillery - 11, Unwanted it ola te ing each item meticulously in his company records, duly noted that Benj. F. Farrar had been assign- ed as orderly to Major X, but in the. press of the ensuing af- fairs neglected to note that the job didn't come off as advertised. Frank was indifferent about it then, but 50 years later he got mad. $ } On the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg Uncle Sam assembled the veterans of the fray for an expense-paid bivouac on the scene. Surrounded by the honors that had accrued, these Grand Army comrades waved farewell and entrained for a re- union. All except Frank Farrar, who was one of the 386 'officers and men retrieved that day at nightfall, but who persisted all 50 years as a historical orderly off on some major's errand, Such- Is the attitude of things like a Pentagon that no amount of rea- son, explanation, and persuasion could now change the recorded word. Gramp's moving finger had writ, and that was that. Frank went to the reunion be- cause he was a bona fide vete- ran of the first engagement at Gettysburg -- but he paid his own fare. For this he never truly forgave Grandfather, and when- ever he unbraided his tentmate Grandfather would feel bad and apologize, The other situation concerned Harry Anderson. As the first Confederate onslaught struck the Union line, precisely where the 16th Maine was scarcely ready, the pressure caused a falling back in such a way that a smal- lish knoll came about the middle of the fracas. Later on in the day many prisoners were taken by the South, and this knoll be- came a deciding factor in their fate. Those on one side went to the Libby Prison; those on the other were.exchanged or paroled a few days later. Harry Ander- son was one of those unlucky enough to be on the prison side. Again, the confusion and ex- citement of the moment left Grandfather to complete his company records as best he could. Those who were later paroled were checked back, and concern-- ing them his minutes proved to "be proper. But those who had been sent back to prison disap- peared and there was no im- . mediate way to know about them, There had also been consider- able deserting about this "time 'and this was one matter every clerk was expected to record ~ properly. Somehow, the way the thing went, Gramp included Harry Anderson amongst those officially listed under "deser- tions." Harry, meantime, was in a case where real desertion would have been wonderful, and didn't know that he was enjoy- ing this distinction willy-nilly, thanks to Gramp. So the war went along, and one day after many campaigns Harry Anderson showed up. He'd had a hard time, but he was all right, and he rejoined 'his com« pany with much good feeling all around. The "boys" liked Harry, "him back, but glad to learn he had never been a deserter. The war moved along. Harry with it, and Grandfather never thought twice about the entry he had made the day Harry returned. Since Harry had first been listed as a 'deserter," Gramp had duti- fully entered that he had "re- turned from desertion," This - made sense, bookkeeping-wise, and peace returned. Then came the pension, and , Harry Anderson was denied a pension because he had been a deserter! He approached Gramp with fire in his eye, and Gramp had to lay down his farm work, dress up,- and take the steam- cars to go and swear that his own faithfully kept recordsswvere wrong! By John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor, 3%. African tree 34. On the ocean 35, Removed fruit pits on birds sed In 3 i. agp Ease Z ° ara's 1. pACRes ' Amal ik lental sauce Jiantation { Argosy carnivores ¢ in ing 3 folat (rare) | Rn oy 4. Doctrine Tras . (archaroy 1. Liquid . Anthropol MAX bn po puinar measure ob) BARE they Pant played 9. Color of a it fismess got i Taro pasts ° e ¥ or gh WR 10. Thor wiee Commoner" Dicinity (ab,) Tantalize Expédite Painted or rawn_ Come forth Priest's vestment Silkworm Unsorted wheatén meal . Spoken . a uff . Site . Tibetan ox . River {sland . Large plece of paper , Art lover . Small tower . Browns bread » Oat snus . Dowel , Boft metal BOND at bk ut dk TAS Gare SWIMS o I nq Bandai edo 088s ee arom > = 2 » 5 oo Ed 3 2 ad ually tly of Cow \ i athe ribs or olan ratagem » 4 - Answer elsewhree on this page RR and were not only glad to see ° a DEATH TUMBLES x 3 Neh. 5k ON THE TOWN -- A car, right, lies Rs a & > pans beneath the wreckage of a building after a slag heap avalanche swept down 'on the mining village of Moulin-Sous-Fleron, Belgium. Several bodies have been located in the rubble. a, 2 During the first nine months of this fiscal year, the Farm Credit Corporation loaned $56,000,000 to farmers across Canada. In the next three months, this figure will likely be stretched to $60,000,000. Moreover, it is esti- mated that during the next fiscal year loans will total $75,000,000. This underlines the popularity - of the new Farm Credit Act which was introduced to October, 1959, to bridge a widening gap in the agricultural industry. Re- sponse to this Act is even more -signiticant when it is relaized that in 1935-56, loans extended by the former Canadian Farm Loan Board were only: about $6,000,000. * * Ll Why this sudden upsurge in farm credit? A new outlook has been brought to bear on this whole . matter. When farm credit was under the Department. of Fi- _ nance, there was a natural tend- ency to resist releasing large amounts of money in this man- ner. On the other hand, present thinking is to use credit to. help competent farmers to re-organize their units and to put them on a profitable basis -- thereby con- tributing to the economic well- being of the agricultural industry as a whole. They are not dealing carelessly with the taxpayers' money in ad- ministering the new Act. Just the contrary. With every loan, the FCC counsels the farmer on how to work out a program that will not only assure repayment of the debt, but will raise the income from the farm. LJ - * In this connection, some farm- ers consulting: the FCC receive larger loans than they originally sought. That's because the corpora- tion's highly trained staff can often outline ways of boosting ~the overall "income by a bolder - investmeent than the borrower had foreseen. This, of course, works in re- verse and an application is turned down if it appears unreasonable according to circumstances. In the first nine months of this fis- cal year, 7,224 applications were dealt with. One-quarter of them were rejected or withdrawn be- fore or after appraisal." Loans vary in size up to the maximum of $27,500. The aver- bio loan from April 1, 1960, un- tll the end of the year was $10,883. © = * * * Farm credit works hand-in- glove with other legislation that has been introduced in the past three years -- particularly the Agricultural Stabilization Act and. the Crop Insurance Act -- and it was not by accident that the Farm Credit Act was passed after the other two. It is the solution to the problem faced by Canadian farmers who were un- able to modernize their units be- cause of lack of capital on suit- . able terms. That it is meéting this need is evidenced by the figures produced to date. LJ LJ Ll High quality hogs give Cana- dian hog producers a decided ad- vantage in competing on this con- tinent, according to Ralph K. Bennett, chief of merchandising - in the Livestock Division, Canada Department of Agriculture. Mr, Bennett recently told the annual meeting of the Nova Sco- tia Federation of Agriculture that Maritime ahd Ontario hog producers were "on reasonably equal terms" competitively, with producers 'in the American corn 'THE FARM FRONT belt. The corn belt is the cradle of the U.S. hog producing indus- try. The price support policy, man- datory under the Agricultural Stabilization Act, is one of a number of advantages Canadian hog producers enjoy. Others are the premium paid on grade A "hogs; higher average price per cwt.; lower cost of production due to the higher number of pigs per litter (weaned and raised) in Canada compared with the United States. LJ Ll] Ll] Because it takes more feed to put on a pound of fat than a' pound of lean meat, high quality Canadian hogs have an™addition- _ al advantage, Mr. Bennett point- ed out. United States demand for top quality cuts from Canada, par- ticularly hams and backs, Mr. Bennett sald, works to the ad- __vantage of the Canadian hog pro- tressed Sharon Robbins, 16, a sophomore at Cambridge High). The muskratters didn't really get interested, though, until the event for which many of them had come: The muskrat-skinning contest. Twenty-five contestants showed up this year with razor- keen skinning knives and a deep- rooted passion to demonstrate that they could peel the pelts off five muskrats faster than any man alive. The new champion: A 41-year- old Sewards, Md., trapper named Russell Insley, whose father was a three-time winner and who had won twice before himself. His record time for skinning five muskrats: 1 minute, 17.9 seconds. ducer. "Apparently US. consum=-" | ers associate "leanness" with " hams and backs and, therefore, these cuts bring a substantial premium in price over the re- mainder of the hog." Because of U.S.-demand for lean pork products, some Cana- dian cuts, go to the U.S. even when the Toronto price is con- siderably higher than the price at Chicago. Exports of pork cuts to the U.S. in 1960 averaged about 3; - million pounds week. . Ll] . L] Canadian hogs, he said, are of than U.S. hogs. This is reflected in average lard production. Pack, ers in Eastern Canada obtain a yield of about 18 pounds of lard per hog. This is rendered from about 24 pounds of fat trimmings, including the leaf lard. Ameri- can packers' average yield of lard per hog is about 29 pounds, rendered from about 39 pounds of trimmings, the leaf lard in- cluded. The difference is reflect- ed in the average prices of top grade hogs at Chicago and To- ronto during 1960 where Cana- dian dressed carcasses brought almost $3 more than the Ameri- can price. Muskrat-Skinning Champion Repeats Drowsily adrift on the sprawl- ing marshes of the Choptank River, in the Deep South atmos- phere of Maryldnd's Eastern Shore, the town of Cambridge (population: 12,000) stirs slight- ly each fall at the bellows of duck hunters' shotguns and rouses itself in months with R's when the. oyster boats pat out for the beds in Chesapeake Bay, But Cambridge, the seat of soggy (70,000-acres of marshland) Dor- chester County, really comes alive in midwinter. That's when hundreds of strangers from over a good part of the U.S. and Can- ada descend on peaceful Cam- bridge to take part jin a tradition- al folk festival that is concern- - ed with the wholly commercial business of muskrat skinning. A few weeks ago, the muskrat skinners were back in Cam- bridge. For the 24th year in a row they had come to town from the swamps of Louisiana, th bogs of New Jersey, the fens o Delaware, They Jooked on tolerantly while lumberjacketed woodsmen vied at sawing logs, perkéd up a bit at exhibitions of skill in getting jumpy, jagged. jawed steel traps, admired the pretty teen-agers who competed for the title of Miss Outdoors 1961 (winner: blue-eyed, auburn- per - a previous NDAY SCHOO! LESSON By Rev. R., Barclay Warren ' B.A, BD, . The Lord of Life and Death John 11: 17-27, 38-44 Memory Selection: I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth 'im Me shall never die. John 11: 25-26. The Old Testament tells of three people who were restored to life: the widow's son, (1 Kings 17:22); the son of the Shunam- mite, (2 Kings 4:33); and the man whose body touched the bones o! Elisha, (2 Kings 13:21). In the New Testament we read of Jesus raising the daughter of Jairus, (Mt. 9:33); the son of the widow of Nain, (Lu. 7:13); and Lazarus of Bethany. Also, many Saints arose at the time of Jesus' resurrection. At the prayer of Peter, Dorcas was re- stored to life (Acts 9:40). Euty- chus was taken up dead but came to life as Paul ministered to him. (Acts 20:10). When Je- sus arose from the dead, He con- quered life forever and brought the keys of death and hell with him. There are three incidents re- corded of Jesus and the family of Bethany. In the first, Mary was commended for choosing the good part as she sat at Je- sus' feet and listened to Mis word while Martha was oum- bergd about much serving. That second incident forms our lesson. When Lazarus was slek they sent for Jesus. Too many have little or no thought for Jesus ti trouble comes. It is well to have acquaintance with Him. In the third incident w see Mary's great expression gratitude as the re-united family ate together. Jesus is Lord of lite and death. Recently I heard an evangelist before a large audience, offer $3.00 to anyone who could guar- -antee that he would be alive -- tomorrow. No one moved. If he had asked, "Will those who hope to be alive tomorrow, stand," doubtless all would have stood. tary person could guarantee that the would-be alive: Our-lives-are-- in God's hands. But Jesus is also Lord of death, In conquering death, He has opened the way for us all to rise from the grave. "Even now He can give to us' eternal life which indeed Is hea- venly. Blacksmithing In Early Times The skills and tools needed to A 513 BATRA PRAY 130 Rahs < of failing his exams anda - ETF T LB8 sf; £4 Ri aR Le LE Pledmont or in the Grea 961 was more inclined to hl own blacksmith shop wii and small forge, Here, Il make nails, sharpen plow mend wagon tires and. the many accidents com serve at the ironware of that cor which w much of it was badly ma ¢|osed wit" pure, and more brittle tf - own. Seldom did - the, Jae ey farmer have the skill as' oe 3 to shape a horseshoe antthday" to on, or make a grubbing |g for hom as a result the blacksom ong of the most importt Greetings in any community. and Gordo Any frontier com noo! We 'would have been helplest Guitar i out blacksmith tools andh. able to use them. Still," . not say the blacksmith 'My night, foundation o! all pione assembled So complex and intefarkinson. was the world about thnyd's Praye ade walls that each skill, 4ce Beaco depended upon anothe blacksmith, for example, 'her Heayn to function had to have, a letter fi tubs; too heavy and unhlygopted ch bring by pack horse, Ramsey had his made tl neighbour, most probab: liam Overall, an early¥ill be swit with a set of cooper's tld. The blacksmith also. nn gya Hy hot fire; he could use ss, . hickory, or even oak boo cart ithe pioneer blacksmith lil erations before him work Who with charcoal. One of tftables of e things made around any; kind and station would have beacly swelled form of charcoal kiln, y was infor nothing more pas a Stitude to t arranged stack of split he logy Tail fo thay jgiomes sche burn slowly. -- From "St . on the Cumberland," byy¢ assisted otte Simpson Arnow. thter Jean. sum was p lewnhams Real Tough Way, Stop The Noise || oa Bang! Bang! Bang! withce, asa ile driver, as constructiopors bookec olled day and night sider a fli Tokyo street. In his 1) had receiv above, 21-year-old Mitsuhfiies ave nently cho: Owing un voiced 'agawa, bonipg up for hi icine is t and Bro Re? {RB attes oo pass his law-school entral®stnt to h ams, angrily picked up hi!" roll. M -and-moved out to-a:quieteddeas as to ageveral blocks away. r annual Su No sooner had he movw the usual the banging started agali,,. Bob Sn his window, another c me 0 possible. Then, one dd wedding "month he figured out am-.the New ~~ rate way to escape the Crs. Ja De rent River same time lodge a dramag Vick test against the noise. ickery into the street, the young h Mr. and placed his head on the ht Oshawa. the pile driver just as thls, R. Butsc ton weight came hurtling a Bu Bang! a n to Toron Have You Noticed? Thi Sportsma beautiful the valley vidi -- -- -- better quality ~on--the average || LIFE IN AFRICA -- Woman in Embu, Kenya, performs an un- _conscious ballet as she frightens birds away from her husband's rice plot, The field was deve- loped under a governmeht plot to create farmland for the use do at least the rudiments of | blacksmithing were not peculiar to the pioneer farmer. The iron "of the day, tabouriously cut -and-- wrought by charcoal fire and water-driven hammers, was sold in long bars of a thickness suit- able to the making of tenpenny nails, The farmer, who wished to save a blacksmith bill, would, using the fireplace as a forge ---and a block of wood covered with a thick piece of iron as an anvil, cut his own nails in the evening with chisel and hammer, Most farmers, save those in-san- dy Tidewater, had to have at least enough iron for horse and ox-shoe nails, and the thrifty New Englander could earn a bit . "1M 'he "had asked, I those |, gang with!another. £10 Se pes tn beedilve tomor. | - pile driver started dighy cvohamy, a ROT : not' all, Pe AER G. Beacog = 2, SN would have stood. But'not a soll-" | Mitsuru stood it ag@ysalad plate A Ps Rox re more likely a superhighwa slice through it. ISSUE 8 -- 1961 bo Lvs -. movi Upsidedown to Prevent A es ing, March tle Churct of Kikuya tribesmen, So four of money by buying iron and We sha acres were given fo each man selling or exchanging nails. ve sled and the new crop planted. The well-to-do farmer on the a < Si ===st happens oa vspace this | tivities; tl ~~ SAYIT WITH MUSIC = OfBhwat loader George Meladhvino hav a-sadsong for he burgh ™s: SU who have sacked his London house twice. His ditt take. f re always 1 in Brownies meet. We » have a ge i let us mal ¢2 {ch Parade lind girls a esday, Mar A. are hol the Chure "% ibe a progr: .i: tnd Hymns. i adjourn t "Flower % trial time t A i Np + j anchester ( "Jv who die . 'rom their | dto Eddie « dto Walter gVe extend 4 to come a Sur gt #i Eas y makes it clear that there's nothing more