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» I* Uraninite Find in Haliburton â€" Northern Hali burton County is experiencing a rush of pros- pectors since the proving of a commercial ore body of uraninite at Wilberforce, on the prop- erty of Fission Mines. Tliis property may be producing uranium by the end of th-e year. Radium I^ake (above) is on the Fission Mines property. Gravel and silt on the lake bottom have been foumj to be radio-active. The ore is flurospar and uranium, the lighter ore with purplish tinge indicating tli-e presence of fluori te, from which fluros^r is obtained. /5HDIlT5fi9f<V Secret Off the Locket By EDWARD LEE Silas Henhury, wedged into a chair tilted against the counter, was •lipping into liis regular after-dinner â- rooze when the door opened. .The ctjstomer was' an elderly woman. Silas rose and the chair creaked ht relief. lie clumped behind the "â- â€¢'iTi.er and said: "Good evening, ira'am. Soniptbing I can do for you?" "Why-why, yes, I suppose so. At least, 1 hope so." "Anything within reason. That's why I'm called 'Uncle Silas.' My customers are just like relatives to me." "That makes it easier. I never had to pawn anything before. But . . ." Her voice trailed into silence. Silas knew that when she continued, throughout her story would run the tame tlieme as countless others to which he had listened during his 4(1 years in the pawnbroker business. He nodded his head encouragingly. "This gold locket," she taid, un- folding her hands to reveal the trinket, "was presented to me by my husband when we were married. No matter how often we moved trying to better our circumstances, they never improved. After his death last year things became worse. I sold most of my valu- ables. But this ... I just couldn't. I only want a loar on this locket, for some day I shall redeem it. "But to every pawn shop I've gone, they refuse to lend me any money. They say it is not valuable enough to be held as security. "We'll soon tec," said Silns. He lightly scratched the surface of the locket with a penknife. Into that shallow furrow he let fall a few drops of acid, then shook his head as a greenish tinge appeared, say- ing: "I'm sorry, hut this locket's only value is as a keepsake. It's tin." The woman looked bewildered. "1 ... 1 rnn't understand it. There she this must be some mistake. Look here," she directed, unfastening the trinket. It's two heart-shaped halves swung open and she pointed to metal that encircled two miniature portraits. "See how bright and solid that is?" "That photograph favors you, ma'am, even though it was taken when you were younger." "Forty years younger, to be exact, when I was married. The opposite one is of my husband. It favors him too." "I'm sure it does. Looks like he was a fine man." "He was. Folks said he was un- reliable and irresponsible. I sup- pose Henry was, in a way. Hut they were his only faults." "Pardon my asking, but, you loved him a great deal?" "Yes, and, I still do," she answer- ed. Then, regarding him with a quizzical look, said; "Why did you ask?" "Well, I just kind of thought a woman wouldn't stay married forty years unless she loved her hus- band a great deal." "^'|>u make nie feel udhlc. replied. "Now concerning locket." Her words recalled Silas to the business at hand. He said: "I was mistaken. The inside was what con- vinced me." Silas gave her the money she re- quested and closed the deal. Her fervent thanks made him glad that he had gone through with the de- ception. For, he had recognized Agnes Trumbull's picture. That was how â- he had looked when she had re- jected him to marry his cousin, Henry, v^hose photograph appeared in the locket's other half. Silas had known Henry was un- reliable and irresponsible but he did not criticize him to her. Leaving home, he had never written or re- turned. Thus, Silas had lost all trace of Henry and Agnes until to- night when he had recognized her picture in the locket. Silas knew Agnes still loved Henry and would be hurt to learn the truth. And, Silas still loved her so much that he had created a cer- tain way to insure her remaining ignorant of Henry's deception. That was, to advance so large an amount on the locket that she would never be able to redeem it. MOPSY lyGLADYS PARKER ^09sy5 Qr^ â- Lf\L/lilO INVITCP gentlemen invite:d/ A^entine Keen Competitor In Cattle Market Those who have been arguing that Canada is chasing a will o' the wisp in trying to hold any part of the British market for surplus Can- adian beef will find their argument strengthened in a Buenos Aires dis- patch stating that a new high for Argentine cattle was' established the other day. The price was 58.6 centa vos as against an average of 38 cen- tavos in l'J45-4(). Which according to the â-  Lethbridge Herald, means that the Argeniinians are now get- ting C.:t cents live weight per pound for their beef cattle as against a former price of four cents. Alberta cattle producers, who are telling us that tlicy cannot feed coarse grains at present prices to 15-cent beef and make ends meet, will wonder how Argentina ranch- res can sell for C.:i cents a pound. Argentina is a .South American couniry of just over 13,000,000 people, mostly of Spanish descent. It is a greaf livestock producer and has some 33,000,000 cattle and 44,- 000.000 sheep as against our 8,000,- 000 rattle aiul barely 3,000,000 sheep. Being in the northern part of the South Temperate zone, it has no Winter feeding problem so far as livestock are concerned, producing them very cheaply on native grass of the range lands, called the Pam- pas, on alfalfa, and on rye and oats cereal pasture grown for winter pas- ture and used in much the same way as we use our cover crop while the native grasslands are resting. Canada's only outlet for our sur- plus of good beef animals is the United States. L'nde Sam has of- fered us a quota of 400,000 head a year at a duty of I'/j cents a pound liveweight. We had better forget dreams of the British market for beef and get down to a realistic consideration of the only worth- while market which is available to us. Some Notes From The Farm Front Of Special Interest To Rural Readers By John Russell If you want more eggs on less feed â€" and hei-it-iie. hens too â€" keep your layers confined in sum- mer as well as in winter. At least, that's what an expert at a State Agricultural College says. Ex, eriments recently carried out showed that roi fined flocks laid 13 eggs more per bird, ate a pound less feed per dozen eggs, returned 18 per icnt more rofit and had 1.5 per ceni less mortality than flocks that were turned out during the summer. The fresh air and sun shine the birds get when outside are n jt eiio-gh to offset the diseases thcv ,)irk up. « * • Her,;'s a tip for orchardists who grow peaches or pears. How the same stunt wouln ork with apple o. otl. fruit trees we cannot say. Most orchardists try to keep their trees as low as possible, consistent with good yields, in order to make spraying and picking easier. But a man out on the west coast has gone even further. His trees have practic- ally no trunks at all. When he plants a pear or peach tree h "uts it o'f, heading it back so that the three to five leaders sved are about eighteen inches from the ground. Then, -yiihen the trees mature, they ajre. -iev?r so high that he can't piclr^^./ fruit with eight- foot ladders. .â- .'.;".'• How about yielJsy'-XVell, he has ten year old peach trees bearing 18 tons to the acre. « * • There's no easier way of starting an argument almost anywhere than to mention Government price con- trols â€" and farmers have more reason to tak" deep interest in such things than most folks. So 1 thought that you might find worth-while reading in the following quotation from an article ' ., Henry Hazlitt appearing in News Week Magazine. However, before you start, I might warn you that both t' magazine and the writer are dead set against every s ' of Government control or infer- 'erence with "free enterprise". The Argentine Government sells wheat for export at $5.0 or more per bushel in United States dollars â€" Mr. Hazlitt says. It pays the Argentine farmer the equivalent of $1.59 to $1.83 a bushel and pockets the uifferencc. The Canadian farmer is allowed only $1.35 a bushel plus a "partici- pation certificate" worth about 20 cents. The United States farmer I s a free market price of about $2.80 a bushel. (Prices cited are those p. vailing when the article was written.) What has been the consequence of th^^e policies? â€" the writer goes on to ask. In spite of the desperate world shortage of wheat, the 1947 acreage of wheat in Argentina was 2? per cent below the I!i35-in39 level. In Canada the 1947 acreage of wheat Skin Eruptions Hon* iw n <*lc;:ii. Hiitiiili'ss. iioiii-tri'litii: ttntlieptio oil that brlnicB HPoeiLv r*>ller frnm the Hclilni and discomfort. Not onlj does this hpallnK anllnrptlc oil promote raiild and hralthy hrHllnic In open â- oreb and woonds lm( IioIIr Hnd simiile ulcerB are also rellrvrd. In skin affections the ItcbtiiR or l<:r£enia Is quickly stopped. Pimples â€" Hklii eruptions drj up and scale off In a vers ttw dnyH. The same Is true of Burber's Itch. 9nlt Rbfum, Itchlna Toes and Feet and other /nflammatonr skin disorders. Ton can obtain Moone's Enieruld III! In the orlRlnttl bottle at any modern dnis store. NH(Urii»t'«ii nr niitnivt h;irk. was down 7 per cent below prewar. Neither decrease can be blamed on the weather; in both countries th« acreage for the two preceding yean was also below the prewar level. in the United States, on the other hand, wheat acreage expanded as pil es rose. In 1947 it was 29 per cent abo- e the prewar level. In brief â€" the writer sums it up â€" farmers in his hemisphere re- sponded to price incentives or their asber rather than to verbal ex- hortations. The farmers obliged to take lov wheat prices contracted their acreage. The farmers permit- • ' high prices i creased theirs. and whether the writer is rig.it or wrong when ' e maintains that Government controls spell "dis- aster" 1 am not prepaied to even guess. Certainly he neglects to men- tion what would happen to all those U.S. farmers wh. have sunk their everything into increased wheat acreage should there be a sudden and drastic slump in prices. At all event there's fooi for thought, and material for argument, in what he says. It Paid to Insure In Those Days Back in Colonial days, the fir« insurance companies are said to have enjoyed a profitable "tie-in" with some of the early Fire Brigades, When a house was reported to be on fire, and the brigade came dash- ing to the scene, the brigade leader would examine the front of the burning house, and take a glance at nearby properties. Then, as like as not, he and his men would just sit down and watcl the house burn to the grotind. These doings were cau=ej by a system known as "House .Marks". Metal plates bearing the emblem of an insurance company were plac on the fronts of all houses and buildings that were insured. If such a plate was on the burning building, the fire brigade went into action. And if notâ€" not. Very often the brigade leader was himself an insurance man and if the building was not insured by his own or a friendly company â€" and if its burning did not endanger the property of any man in the brigade â€" the fireman simply wouldn't bother to fight the flames. Next to cotton and jute, iron ranks highest among India'.^ indus- tries. Boxer Braves Smoke end Flames to Rescue Child WINS DOW AWARD ARMAND SAVOIE OF MACKAYVILLE, QUE., risks life to rescue 3-year- old from burning home Xhe fire had started between the walls ot the two-storey house in Mackayville, a few miles from Montreal. The flames were al- ready spreading rapidly by the time Mrs. Prince had succeeded in getting four of her children to safety. Five of the others were at school â€" but 3-year-old Gisele was trapped-upstairs. DASHES INTO BUILDING Running into the house the instant he heard of the child's plight, Armand Savoie climbed up the stairs through the heavy, hot smoke to the bedroom. The little girl had hidden herself in terror behind a bureau . . . and Savoie had to crawl underneath the bed, which was blazing, and then grab the youngster from behind the smouldering fur- niture. The smoke had become almost impossible to bear . . . and both Savoie and the child were choking by the time they fol downstairs and outside. The oxer quickly applied artificial respiration . . . but, in spite of his and the hospital's efforts later, little Cii.sele died the next day. The gallant 18-year-old boxer, a member of Griffimown Club, who has just won the Quebec Golden Gloves finals in his weight class, and an Olympic candidate, deserves great praise for his heroic and unselfish action. We are proud to pay tribute to Armand Savoie of Mackayville, Que., through the pre.sentitrion ot The Dow Award. THE OOW AWARD u a citation for outstanding hero- ism and includes, as a lungihie ixpression of apf>reciitli<m, a $100 Canada Savings Kotul. Winners are selwlfd bv the Dow Award Coinniitree, a groufi of editors o/ leuding Cdiifulmn new&paf^en. Hearing that 3-year-old Gisele Prince was trapped in a second-floor bed- room, the young boxer dashed into the burning hou«e and climbed the stairs through dense, hot smoke. Armand Savoie, after crawling under a blazing bed, managed to grasp the terrified child and carry her, choking and almost suffocated, outside. LISTEN TO THE DOW AWARD RADIO SHOW SATURDAY-8,30 P.M. JITTER By Artiiur Pointer 4 % * } 4 4- '« 4 4 • 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 i -4 * 4 4. â- Â» * m r 9- « I »- ^ . *â-  V » \: 4