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in MILD WEATHER SKIING ENSEMBLE The fine weather of the past weekend seemed to make ovoryons happy The skiing fraternity was not deterred even though the weather wsa unreasonably mild Larry Em TractorTrailer Unit Overturns Driver Unhurt As Brakes Fail gt tractortrailer tnlck went out of control on Highway 400 late last night and rolled on its iright side into snowfilled ditch partially blocking the ins lersecllon of Highways 400 and 12 Police said the accident oc ufired when the trucks brskca ed The vehicle owned by TransA Provincial Freight Carriers oi Scrolls Find May Change JERUSALEM tAPlA Dead Sea scroll found six years one may change some of the word ing of the Old Testament psalms as they now appear in the bible gt biblical scholar said Saturday full English translation of the scroll to be published by Dxford University Press has been prepared by James sanders 34 curator of the Fab Jestine Archaeological Museum Divlnity School Rochester NY Sanders said the Dead Sea acroll translation will appca in yolums IV of the series Dis eoveriea in tho Judean Devrt Jordon Sault Ste hiarie was driven by Norman Crow 32 of Alex Cab of the truck rested in the ditch with the trailer partly on to the roadway The vehicle had not been moved this morning and will not be moved until the extent of damage to the under side of the truck can be deter mined It may be necessary to tom porarily block traffic at the in lerscction of the highways to move the truek The Bible The scroll was discovered by Bedouins in cave in the Valley of the Wilderness in 1056 The goatskln scroll is little more than three inches wide and about Is feet long It is written in Hebrew and is the best pre scrvcd of all the Dead Sea scrolls Ths scroll contains 36 canon ical or biblical psalms plus eight nonrcunonlcal compositions not found in the BiblejSaacters said of the eight noncanonical three are known he said One of these is Psalm 151 known only in Greek Latin and Syrian translations Now we have the 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horses as Sword Dancer and Cavalcade and an heiress to the Dodge automobile fortune Santa Monica CalifEdward Sobol 7o veteran producer and director of stage and television shows Oxford EnglandDr Christo pher Maude Chnvassc 77 re tired Anglican bishop of Ro Chester LondonSir Philip Gibbs 94 author of 80 books and one of Britains best known pioneer war correspondents MontrealMrs Dora Stern 59 founder and immediate past president of Mizrachi Zionist lgomcns Organization of Can By TorontoHenry George Ham mond 89 founder of the boy scout movement in Canada and Ontarios first boy scout com mlssloner TorontoMary Ethel Macin tyre of who served it years on the staff oftToronto normal ut lntcr called teachors original llebrcw The other two have no Illtmhors rtid known only in UIBISyIlJC lation but new we now the original Hebrew yftem which these translations were made The remaining five of the eight rotiipcsitinns were totally unknown to us One is prore compolvition telling ofDnvlis musical wmpohltlnns It says Davldwrote 4050 psalms and songs for various services in the temple MANY VARIATIONS In the 3f canonical psalms there are hundreds of variations from the version appearing in the Bible now Sanders said This scroll he added is Lona years older than the earllBt Hebrew scroll psalms known previously These variants are extremely interesting and some of them may very well influence future tragslations of psalms Sanders sai The date of the scroll is the second quarter of the iirst een tury tAD 2550 he said Barn Raising Ventures Recalled By Pioneer ly BRIAN BAKER There are few people in Slmv one who have actually known and seen true pioneer who played part in clearing the viigin forests from the County BL Howard Cooper 88 of RR No Cookstown well remem bers his grandfather the late Matthew Cooper who cleared the bush off the farm still owned 9mm his granIdsons ence on the bunti line of lnnisfil According to Howard Matthew paid WwtbemeuiIi 1838 to take out patent on the land and obtain the deeds in 1842 he and his family including Ho wards father who was then three months old moved up to their lnnlslil holding from filin igins Corners near Markham dont quite know how they came up admits Howard but they ropbably came up the old Penman Rood now Highway ii They probably didnt have many possrssions What they did have they mint likely brought up on type of stone boat called jumper hauled by team of or BUILT CABIN Before Matthew could start clearing the fomt consisting chiefly of pine and ash he had to build log cabin The cabin he built was prob ably lust about tlis same as the one my father built and was bomuioathofannnowowned by Howard Lund says Howard it had sldu of either pine or elm logs sei on cedar log foundation It had shingle roof with gable ends The dowmtairs part had two bedrooms up one end and the general living room and kitchen at the other and At this end big stone fire place was built with chimney almost large enough you could dfive team of horsa through Beside the fine place stairs led up to two bedrooms The walls were of board there win no wallpaper then But it was always warm the winter Nails and glass were about the only items that had to be bought Then it took only hard work to build house Now it takes money And then there was the land to be cleared Contrary to the popular idea that all land was cleared by large getherin of neighbours in Lh are at it was the general each man to clear mm working alone lelfli more all of the ole mule I1 of arm and an onJiia Nobody had owi heard of moment say then remarks Howard Iilltfllont think those men mulilli handle an axe They could chunk out of big tree in no time They would cut group of trees so they fell into pile where they could easily be burned when they dried up There was almost no demand for even the heat timber It all had to be burned to get rid of LOG BARN Like other barns built at that early date the one Matthew built was made of logs flIre size of the barn was about 40 feet by 60 feet The log sides ran up twelve feet to abingled roof with gabled ends Sloped agairut one end was the livstock stabl as can lust remember seeing my grandfathers barn it was only one saw with the fill lilll IIIIE IIIIEII III the athletlc typol Strong selfconfident loving outdoor sportswriting from an African safari you would naturally include Your corrospondents full and correct postal address Your own name and return address ln upper left corner AND THE CORRECT POSTAL ZONE NUMBER IF YOU ARE WRIT ING TO QUEBECMONTREAL OTTAWA TORONTO WINNIPEG OR VANCOUVER Help us to speed your mallchock the yellow pages of your Telephone Directory for full postal Information AD rot stable outside of the main barn built onto one end rays Hov ward other farm that used to have than peculiar log banis are those now owned by Harold Par ker Les oarsis Lorne Mason and Howard Land the latter having been on the farm the late Matthew Cooper Junior took when he left the home farm anICK BOARDS On our driving shed says Howlrd there are boards 22 Inches wide sawn down at the leaner mill But if theylook wide you should have seen somew of the threefootwide bum this mill cut can remember when the mill burned downaround 1890 My lather went down to help save some of tho lumbeer eluding some he himsell had list bad sawn up As Howard remembers it all farms were not forested with the same typa of trees Some had more spruce balsam and cedar others had more maples and elms pines or ash in different proportions BTUMP PULLING The farm now owned by El mer Graham the Fourth line of lnnlsfll favored heavy growths of white pine Even to this day descendants from those pins forests grow in the ravine running through his farm Howard remembers see ing two stump pulling contrae tors from Stroud pulling pine stumps out of field by the road on this farm The stump pulling assembly consisted of three great posts about twentyfive feet long erec ted ovcr stump in the form of tripod seven pulley block fifteen inches In diam etor hung from the top of this strong rope hitched to team of horses was passed through the pulley block and hooked down onto one root of the stump to be pulled Most of the thousands of frametypo barns still being used in our County today were built before Howard was born and when he was boy And most of them wers not built on stone foundations Fifty to eighty men would come from all around each day to hclp build barn Some would give day or so some would give week They made real party of it recalls Ho ward The most exciting part of barn buildin was when two HANDY HANNAH HAIR DRYER COLGATE DENTAL CREAM hr have rm EMILY SIZE PHILLIes MILK or MAGN ESIA TABLETS 79 am 49 ifié 89 sort 9400er sHAVB usein 69 FREE osu captaios called up two teams of men and raced to sea which team could get their side of the barn roof raftcred first You could hear the men shouting and whooping all over HAND HEWN 111a beams used to build the frames were hand hcwn out of logs team of men chopped knicks down one side of lot guided by chalked line Then skilled man swinging huge brood air with fifteeninch wids blade slashed off snuars face The three remaining ft ccs were treated the same Some of thus beams were 35 feet long and lb inches by twalve some were sixty feet long by ten inches square It took immense trees These beams were all can fully mortieed together on the ground and raised in sections Every place had to fit like fiigsaw puzzle Wooden ins ammored through mort ees held the frames together liaising of these barns onto stone and concrete foundations really started in earnest in the later 1500s when farmers be gan growing more crops and keeping more livestock Tho first barn Howard can LOCAL AND GENERAL 51 PATS DANCE Both adults and teens are in vited to the St Patricks Dance at lilidhulst Township Hall Fri day night The dance sponsor ed by the lifothers Committee of the Mldhurst Girl Guidee will feature the music stylings of tho Royalalres The groups mem bers include Tony Baxter Elli Stone Hick Hamilton and Andy Dyrrient remember being raised was the one he helped raise in law on the farm now owned by Milt Bettcridre RR Thornton row of bottle lacks operated by two men each were used to lift first one side and then the oth er few indies at time Al it war being raised our crib bing cones of posls were built up to support the barn Then atone masons built tha stone walls under Howard later had his own barn rnlscd onto stone foun dation lilr hfcliinaman con tracted to do the entire job for use With five stons masons he completed the lob in ten days Howard had to board the men supply the sand and lime the barn How could these stone masons cut square faces on rocks so large team of horses could acarcely haul them Those stone masons were tough fellows daclarca How ard They used twentypound stonecutting sledge hammers They knew exactly where to strike rock to get square face and they could swing those hammers easier than most people can swing an eight pound hammer Things have really chang ed remarks Howard can remember my father speaking of how my grandmother used comonns itd GASOLINESMOTOR OILS for plaster and haul rocks to BARN RAISING is seldom seen activity tit days Earns were placed on stilts ready for the masons to move in with field stone and plaster to walk from the Fourth line of Innisiil to Newton Robinson to buy groceries Now some people almost jump in their cars to run down to their mail boxes cANADlANS OPERATED aY canaoian OIL SLIMITIO DEE SAVES Vt sanenu vacuas can cross wears TAMBLYN TISSUES mmmtono PLASTIC BANDAGES New mom stzs are as 65 BRYLCREEM HAIR DRESSING rm Good Grooming km 45 gas sac TONI HOME PERMANENT VERY Dunlap st at LARGE SIZE SALE DRISTAN FOR RELIEF OF SINUS CONGEsTION AND HEAD coco MISERY DRISTAN REG 375 289 TABLETS RELIEF FROM HEADACHE AND COLD MISERY 30 100 REG 534 REG 129 43 97 LISTERINE ANTISEPTIC MOUTH WASH GARGLE STOPS BAD BREATH are 73¢ HIVEA CREHE FOR SKIN CARE FOR NORMAL SKth kw 402 REG 133 GE SIZE 259 REG 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