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PAGE EIGHTEEN THE DAILY TI MES-GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1950 Crab Leg Bonanza Pays Off Fishermen of Cordova, have struck a crab leg bonanza. With their daily earnings run- ning up into three figures, it looks as though the strike is as rich as any of the lucky oldtime sour- doughs' early day gold findings. Good as Nuggets "A yarn that a couple of men were AKG he "would arouse lacer strike wi Yerrific Bp scitement," writes Clar- ence Martin, Cordova Times pub- lisher. "Yet the crab fishermen are making that kind of money--and it is just as good as if it came in nuggets." yl is one of the big pro- ducers of canned and frozen crab. The species is kown on the Pacific coast as thesdungeness. But until recently all of the Cordova area catch was taken. from Prince Wil- liam Sound, adjacent to the town. Because the Sound's crab beds al- ways supplied enough of a catch to make a good living for the fisher- men, few of them ever ventured outside. It was during the closed season in the south that a venturesome fisherman decided about a month ago to try his luck in the Gulf of Alaska -- the vast body of North Pacific water that washes the breadth of Alaska's southern coast. $450 for Day He put out his traps and brought in a first dgy's haul of 3,000 crabs. A Cordova packing plant paid him 15 cents a crab--$450 for his day's efforts. : Soon a half dozen fishermen were working in the same area, each with from 100 to 150 traps. After several weeks of fishing, the boats cotinued to bring in from 1,800 to 2,500 crabs each. Small boats are manned. usually by a man and a boy, or by two men at most, so the daily take has been running $150 to $250 each. Since the fishermen already had the traps for their Prince William Sound fishing, jus tabout the only additional expense is for the bait and the boat operation. The fishermen like it because they can leave early in the morning, run out to the gulf, pull their traps and be back in town be evening The town likes it because it is the = gest flow of steady money it has seen for a long time. Shake Meat Out The men and women who process the crab meat are making big pay cheques too. The packing plant crab "shakers"--they literally shake the meat from the shells--are the elite of the packing crews. A skilled "shaker" can remove about 450 pounds of meat a day. At 9% cents a poud, that's $42.75 tor a day's leg shaking. The crab meat is either canned or quick-frozen in gallon cans and shipped to brokers in Seattle and San Francisco. All this is happening in a season when the crab catch has been slim in such normally happy hunting grounds as Washington State coastal Waters. ' Happy Cordova fishermen believe they have tapped a vast storehouse of crab meat, and that they have have only touched the edges. Wrote Play As Prisoner In Japan London -- (CP) -- Londoners have been given a new play, "Sayonara," appearing at the New Lindsey Theatre, which its Author Ken Attiwill admits was written "under somewhat trying circumstances. At the close of the opening per- formance, he gave members of the case some of the details. The play, he said, had been written in secret during 3% years he was held a prisoner-of-war in Japan. "I had three difficulties to over- come," he said. "What to write the play on--as paper was almost un- obtainable; how to write it without being detected by the Japanese guards; where to hide the script." Attiwill found a solution for each problem. The play was written on the back of soup can labels. All the work was done at night by the light of the moon. The script was hidden inside a model yacht he carved with a razor blade from a piece of teak wood, 'Thinking' Decril By Youth Official Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, Eng. (CP) --Hitch-hiking can be harm- ful, says E. St. John Catchpool, secretary of a British youth move- ment. | Criticizing what he called the "false rumors" spread by praising the spirit of adventure in hitch- hiking, Catchpool told an Interna- tional Youth Hostel conference that people who travelled "on their thumbs" were made to appear al- most heroic in the newspapers. He suggested a country-wide "youth saving for travel" scheme and cheaper rail-and-boat fares would counteract the trend. Oth- erwise, he said: "Hitch-hiking may, if not faced squarely, lead to a 'something for nothing attitude and loss of self- respect." SCOUT FOR NEW HIGHWAY Toronto, Sept. 6--(CP)-- Survey parties of the Ontario Highways Department are scouting the west- ern part of the province for the best route of the proposed new four- lane highway from Toronto to Windsor. Plans call for the new road to by-pass Guelph, Galt, Kitchener, Waterloo and Preston, swinging south to a point below Woodstock and continuing between Highways 2 and 3 to Windsor, in order to re- lieve he two existing highways of Mrough traffic. Alaska, |' --Central Press Canadian According to Mrs. Virginia Gogerty of Seattle, Wash,, her soldier son, Cpl. William F. Gogerty, 20, captur- ed 16 North Korean soldiers single- handed before being wounded and sent to a hospital in Japan. Mrs. Gogerty also said he has been con- tributing to the support of a Japan- ese child, with whom he is shown, since the first of the year. Police Boat Covers Long Harbor Beat Vancouver--(CP) A 93-mile nautical beat where tots may be "lost at sea" or sailors stranded on sand bars is the responsibility of two Vancouver city constables. In their 40-foot police crash boat, John Knight and Roy Chapman job so well that when two years ago the service was eliminated as too expensive, the outcry brought them back in two months. Both Constable Knight, who skip- pers the former R.C.AF. crash boat, and Constable Chapman were sailors before they joined the force. It comes in handy. Skipper Knight usually handles the two- motor craft in rescuing stranded sailors or persons overboard while Chapman lugs them aboard. In the harbor mout*'s tricky waters, there isn't usu... more than one chance to get near the swimmers. They have had to act as emergen- cy lighthouse keepers and search for missing children--in all likeli- hood playing pirate somewhere along the harbor line--as far away as Nanaimo, 30 miles across the Gulf of Georgia on Vancouver Is- land. Their work calls for such inciden- tal knowledge as the facts a rip tide may travel six knots an hour through the harbor mouth and that an ebb tide combined with a west wind makes conditions far worse. Marine men consider their work "absolutely essential" -- especially boat livery operators who day in and out are in touch with week- end sailors handling small craft. Welding Contest For Alliston Plowing Match The Ontario Plowmen's Associa- tion, who always. try to keep up with the times in their Big Inter- national Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration, have this year added a farm welding compe- tition to their list of events. The new feature is designed to encour- age farmers and their sons to learn and understand the art of welding as it applies to the repairing of farm machinery, Competitions will be conducted in both Arc and Oxy-acetylene weld- ing each day of the big show. On the final day the top prize winners will compete for the championships. Entry fee is one dollar and the petitors will have the opportunity of winning prizes worth much more than that. Indeed, the champions will receive welding machines worth several hundred dollars, machines with which they will be able to carry on their welding at home. The competitions will be open to all, except on the opening day when this competition, like the plowing, will be open to persons from the counties of Qufferin, Grey, Ontario, Simcoe, and York. The Plowmen's Association are very in- terested in this new competition, for they feel that the importance of farm machinery repair in today's farming, makes welding of interest to every farmey. They are receiving substantial support in the prize list from the Dominion Oxygen Co. Ltd., Canadian Liquid Air Co, and Cana- dian General Electric Co. Ltd. This year's match is being held at Nottawasaga Valley Farms, Te- cumseh Township in Simcoe Coun- ty, near the town of Alliston. Open- ing or Local Counties Day is. Tues- day, October 11th, with the Inter- national Competitions being held on October 12, 13 and 14. are protectors of the city's harbor | front water line. They've done the into flames. Dead were: Marie, Ont.; C. D. Perkins, Fonthill, Five men died in the seats of this Provincial Air Service 1 Bay, 200 yards from the safety of Maille Lake. Sidney Hutnick, Windsor, Ont.; W. E. Geddes, Windsor; C. W. Tyrell, Saulte Ste. Government Plane Crash Kills Five when it hed 50 miles north of North The plane pancaked to Ont., and R. P. Phillips, Hamilton, the ground, exploded immediately ~--Central Press Canadian. ? --~Central Press Canadign. A view of the battered bow of the 15,000-ton freighter Mary Lucken- bach which rammed the U.S. Navy hospital ship Benevolence in a thick fog off San Francisco. No one was hurt on the freighter, but 18 persons Evidence Of Ocean Disaster Taking 18 Lives The Benevolence lies, plainly visible, on her side in 80 feet of water a few miles from shore. --Central Press Canadian. died on the Benevolence, which sank 30 minutes after it was ram- med. A fleet of rescue craft saved 500 of the 518 persons aboard the mercy ship. New Roman | Dogma Seen Causing Rift By ADRIENNE FARRELL Vatican City, Sept. 6 (Reuters). -- For the first time in 80 years the Roman Catholic church is to add a new dogma to its articles of faith-- a dogma which threatens to stir up new and bitter controversy be- tween Protestants and Catholics. In a solemn ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica Nov. 1, Pope Pius will proclaim that the bodily as- sumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven is a revealed truth in which all the world's 420,000,000 Roman Catholics are bound to believe. Since long before the sixth cen- tury, when the Feast of the As- sumption was first instituted, Catholics have believed the Virgin Mary was taken up bodily into heaven at the end of her life. Nevertheless, the announcement of the new dogma shows every sign of becoming as controversial a topic between Catholics and Protestants as was the last dogma, proclaimed in 1870 and stating the infallibility of the Pope. Already, the Archbishop of Can- terbury, Dr| Geoffrey Fisher, has spoken for the Church of England. "There is not the smallest evi- dence in the Scriptures or in the teaching of the early church of be- lief in the doctrine of (Mary's) bodily assumption," he said. Despite any regret which Catho- lics, as well as Protestants, may feel at any widening of the gulf be- tween them, the decision to pro- claim the dogma of the. Assumption is backed by Catholics all over the world. The movement had been growing over the centuries. In 1946, Pope Pius decided to .ask the opinion of all the bishops and leading clergy. Results of the replies, published by the Vatican, show the overwhelm- ing consensus in favor of procla- mation of the new dogma. CORNERSTONE LAID Goderich, Sept. 6--(CP) -- The cornerstone of the new $50,000 addi- tion to Huron County Registry Of- fice was laid Tuesday afternoon. No official ceremony marked the event. EXAMPLES OF LOANS 15 MO. 24 MO. 154.19 1529.59 |756.56 Monty |$12 | $28 | $40 Even § Payments for in-between amounts are in proportion (Can.) 24 MO. $ Cash You Get * We say "YES" to 4 out of 5. Outsiders not involved. YOU select payment date. Credit Card estab- lishes your credit at over 475 offices. Fast, friendly serv- ice. Come in, phone, or write today. Loans $50 to $1200 on Sig! e, Furniture, or Auto Phone: 5690 © F. Elton ~ Porsonal FINANCE Co. 2nd Fl., 117, SIMCOE ST., N. (Over Bank of Nova Scotia) MAT LIKES TO SAY ves" Anderson, YES MAMNager Loons made fo residents of oll surrounding towns * Personal Finance Company of Canado Winners In Plow Match Go Overseas Winners in both the horse and 13th, marking the close of the plow- man's classic. Seconds prize winners in the Trans-Atlantic classes, which are sponsored by Imperial Oil, will each receive a silver medal and $150 in cash. Twelve other cash prizes will be awarded in each .class. The tractor competition is open to all "Esso Champions' Tractor Special" winners at Ontario Plow- tractor "Esso Champions Trans- Atlantic" classes at this year's In- ternationdl Plowing Match will be awarded gold medals and a four weeks' tour of the British Isles with all expenses paid, Roy Shaver, president of the Ontario Plowmen's Association announced today. Bhe 1950 International matches take place at Nottawasaga Valley Farms in Tecumseh Townsaip near Alliston, October 11, 12 and 13. At a special ceremony on October 11 Hon. W. E. Harris, minister of citi- zenship and immigration, will offi- cially open the annual event and tour the "tented city" that will house the latest in equipment and labor saving devices for the farmer. Premier Leslie Frost will be the guest speaker at a banquet in the Beeton Community Arena on the men's Association branch matches 'and all plowmen from other pro- | vinces. Previous Trans-Atlantic trip | | winners will not be eligible. In the horse-drawn plow class | all plowmen who qualified at branch | | matches after October 15, 1948 may | compete. Gold medal winners in| this class in previous years will not | be eligible. This class is also open | to plowmen from other provinces in Canada. During their all - expense - paid trips to the British Isles as the guests of Imperial Oil, the gold medallists will attend a number of old country plowing 'matches, visit outstanding farms and livestock | stations and see many historic sites. They will be accompanied by a manager appointed by the Ontario | Plowmen's Association. The tour will take about four weeks and in- cludes a short stay in New York | city, Union Men Confident Of Arbitration Outcome Government arbitration holds no cause for unhappiness on the parts of railway union representatives, They are glad that the strike is over, and make no secret of their A. R. Mosher, left, and Frank Hall. Negotiations with railway management will resume soon. jubilation. --<Central Press Canadian, Hand-Made Lures Get Top Results Winnipeg (CP) Jack Platt's hobby is making fishing lures -- and the lures he makes have a fish-fooling quality. His hobby started in 1942 at a lake near Hudson, Ont., when his only plug hit a rock and the head broke cff. He took the remaining piece and whittled a new head. The repaired plug had a' different action. It danced through the water with a tantalizing wriggle that hooked a fish on almost every other cast. Mr. Platt experimented with hand-carved plugs of the same shape and after several months perfected the plug. He fastens on special treble hooks imported from Norway and gives them a primary coat of wood sealer to make them water-proof. To obtain the scale effect which makes the plug look iike a minnow, Mr. Flatt holds a piece of curtain in front of the lure and sprays paint through it. Every plug is identical in shape. Mr. Platt -- a Winnipeg resident -- gets letters from anglers in many parts of Canada and the United States who have seen his plugs in acticn and want one. THE IDIOJ\Y BHA (O)\\ [SFA \ 1 3¢ Ww vou 'CAN DO MORE THAN TALK ABOUT ARELOON CANADA NEEDS MEN IMMEDIATELY FOR THE ARMOURED CORPS © GUNNER OPERATORS Go Active--Serve Your Country tg ad Hy | by strengthening Canada's Armed Forces today to build up the defences against aggression everywhere. EPORT RIGHT AWAY TO------ Room 2218, /C" Building, Lisgar St., OTTAWA, Ont. 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