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a re ALE IT an ' most unusual 4 4 Nea Nes ) 20 fown vary TIMES-GAZETTE, Thursday, January 15, 195% Men Talk In Whistles On Canary Island of Gomera language. matches the prowess of the singing birds of the Canaries. For centuries the people of Gom- era have used one of the world's i languages, the Na- tional Geographic Society says. Theirs iis no ordinary whistling, but rather a clear, rippling sound much. like the song of a nightin- gale. Using it, the islanders can communicate munication. They noted varying tones, rhythms and inflections, sometimes soft and melodious, sometimes sad, sometimes shrill and imperious. Yet no one knows how or when this human bird-talk began, ' AS IF WITHOUT TONGUES In a 15th century chronicle is found this explanation: '""The coun- try (Gomera Island) is inhabited by people who speak with their lips as if they were without tongues, and it is said that a great prince for no fault of theirs had them put into exile and had their gonuges eral miles. wilitle language unique over distances of sev- studying the have called it among man's ways of com- cut out." More probably the language arose because of the Canaries' crumpled topography. On Gomera, deep €anyons or (HaITancos row the island from mountains to the sea. Across these stéep:sided gorges, the earliest people must have found it easier to communi- cate by whistling than by shouting, and a whistled code gradually evolved into a full and varied lan- guage, The whistlers do have tongues, hich they combine with lips and ingers to produce the sounds. Each has his own individual style. The whistled words and sentences tra- verse the precipitous valleys above the constant sighing of the trade winds. Near the shore, whistled conversation can override the roar of the surf smashing against lava cliffs. It is a handy way of talking. Until recently, Gomera herdsmen paid taxes only when they wished. Warning of a tax collector's ar- rival was whistled from one end of the island to the other. The unlucky official then found himself refused board and lodgings on dubious pre- texes, and often he returned empty- ', handed to ihe boai which brought him out, DOGS OF THE CANARIES Men talking like birds would seem to match the real song bird which originated on th. Canary Is- lands. Strangely enough, the Can- aries were not named for the birds, but the birds took the island's name, which can be traced to an extinct species of huge dogs found there by early explorers. The Latin word for dog was "canis", and there is ample evi- dence that the Romans used it to designate the Atlantic isles, They were known also as the '"Insulag Fortunatae", for early geographers considered them to be the 'Isles of the Blest" of Greek mythology Some thought them to be the last vestiges of the lost continent of Atlantis, When the Spaniards conquered the islands from the oboriginal Guanche people in the 15th cen- tury, they heard the natives talking by whistling. Columbus landed at San Sebastian on Gomera on his way to the New World, and may have heard the people whistling. Since then, the Guanche whist- ling language has been transform- ed into Castilian, the spoken lan- guage of the Spanish conquerors. Today Spanish inflections can be recognized in the whistled notes. The Guanches as a separate race have long since disappeared, but one of their most curious customs lives on. TRUCKER DIES IN CAB PERTH (CP)--Stewart Haynes, 40-year-old truck driver from Co- bourg, was found dead Wednesday in a truck of the Richardson Trans- port Company of Cobourg. The truck, travelling from Ottawa, had pulled off the side of No. 7 high- way a few miles west of here. Po- lice said the exhaust pipe of the truck had deteriorated through rust and corxosion. The art of making glass bottles and drinking glasses was known to the Romans early in the first cen- tury. Red Tape To Long Suffering MOSCOW AP -- Pravda's latest portrait of life in the Soviet Union depicts the woes of a gastritis- suffering miner who tangled in red tape. Pravda called for wiping out '"'every: manifestation of a formal bureaucratic attitude" in telling the story of Georgi Burkal -of Sakhalin Island on the Pacifi tinent taking treatment for his coast. He travelled across the con- stomach troubles. He was refused admission to a sanatorium because his admission papers had expired the day' after he was given them. No allowance was made for the fact it took him 16 days to reach the hospital. It tcok him three days to ski to a railway station. Then he travelled by trail 24 hours as far as outh Sakhalinsk. There he Ties Red boarded a plane and hoped across Siberia .- Twelve days later he arived at Yessentuki sanatorium in the north- ern Caucasus. The chief doctor told him his documents were not in order, and nothing was done for the patient, He decided to come to Moscow. Downcast and without funds, he telephoned Pravda, which in turn got in touch with the mine union headquarters. Finally he was pro- vided with an up-to-date pass which the hospital authorities honored. Pravda also had a critical look at one J. Shapiro, 'one of the most prolific literary hacks to come and Shapiro and Shapiro, Veterinary science by Shar horse gripe by Koliakov. Shapire; teeth ; surgery by Olovke Pravda said Shapiro displayed precedented in veterinary scienc but actualy was an editor for publishing house specializing # agricultural literature, done no scientific work. and h by Gagoliev, she. i piro and Sinev; bone by Glasgloe 1. breadth of scientific knowledge un i + BURGLARS GET PAYROLL | OAKVILLE (CP)--Thieves b! roll for employees of : Comstock Company working at the site. Police said about $2,000 $20 bills was taken by chippin through a back wall of the buil ing to reach a vault. 2 along in a long time." Shapiro's into a temporary building on th # site of the new Ford of "versatility" was uncovered in a veterinary encyclopedic dictionary, confined Australia and n as witneses these titles: 2 boring islands. Kangaroos are almost entirel J... @ Men's Nylon Anklets SPECIAL! 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