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The sergeant's company command- er said later that it was worse even | en- | than the concentrations he dured in the Hochwald forest dur- ing the Second World War. But for the sergeant it was the "first time ever" under anything Uke it. It was his first all-out battle, although he had been in action before with the 2nd Bat- talion, Royal 22nd Regiment in Korea. It was cold, dark, and his men were deep in mud. They were guarding the most vulnerable ap- proach to the Canadians' stout perimeter on the ridgetop. There were gully-approaches to their left and right. Directly ahead was Mount Kowang, abandoned by United Nations troops half-hour bombardment and ate tack by Communist forces now poised up there to swoop down again, as they had done seven times already. Stretched out behind, along the crest, was the rest of the company -- or what was left of it -- cling ing firm despite the shelling, de- spite Chinese a bare 150 yards away alop the peak at that end, and despite the brief loss of part of its position, later recaptured. The job was simple. Sit and take it. Beat them back if they come, But hold at all costs. "I knew we had to," the ser- geant said later. "I heard the lieu- tenant ask the major when 355 Mount Kowang was gone what our line of withdrawal would be. The major said there would be no re- treat. "We had no sleep for the whole five days. We got so mumbled songs to ourselves to keep awake. We sald our prayers. "And then the shelling. You musn't let it get you. You get afraid, of course you do, but you talk it off. If you keep everything to yourself you go crazy. You talk and joke if you can, And you say your prayers, and that helps. The section held its fire so as not to give away its location, then let loose with grenades as the Chinese assaulted. There were 30 in the fire wave and the sergeant estimated 25 were blown to death by the flying shrapnel. Following Communists fell back to regroup and retired right into mortar con- centrations called down by the Heutenant. The company's stand was & re- tition of the sergeant's story on e whole platoon front, And still the Chinese kept coming. Individually and together the sergeant, his lieutenant and his major praised the bravery of the enemy. Direct of eye, and every inch a soldier, the t is 26-year-old Denis Laplerre of Quebec. Christmas Party At Prince Albert ¥. E. SMITH Correspondent Prince Albert ~~ The United Church Sunday School Christmas party held on Friday evening was well attended and a very enjoyable time was had, A short programme consisting of songs, dialogue's etc, put on by the boys and girls and community singing made entertainment till time for Santa to arrive. He came --regardless of muddy roads and green grass. The same happy old Santa was there to hand out to a gifts from a pretty Christmas tree. After the.jolly old fellow went on his way refreshments were served. children visited recently with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Harper, Saintfield. Mrs. Grant Hunter visited with relatives at Havelock one day last week. Congratulations are extended to three local girls who received their Junior matriculation diplomas last Friday at Port Perry. They are Elva Bond (now Mrs, Jack Brain), Bhirley Vance and Shirley Smith. Shirley Vance also won a medal for Senior Athletics, a crest for Track and Field competition, and after a | tired we large number of youngsters the | : | ° [0 Sniper Fungi i Fascinating Study Topic By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE Minneapolis (AP) -- Moulds or fungi spoils bread and give you penicillin. But have you heard of those that shoot like anti-aircraft guns? One such fungus infects and kills houseflies. Then it does an amaz- | ing thing. It pushes thousands of | stalks out through the fly's body. The tip of each stalk has a spheri- cal spore, the seeds for more fungi. Suddenly, this spore tip is shot into space. If it hits a fly, it ger= minuates, grows into the fly's body, and kills it. If the spore tip landd on grass, soll, or leaves, it germinates, sends up a shorter stalk, this time with a smaller spore, That one gets fifed off, too. The fungus can re- peat this -several times, on the chance of hitting a fly, before its energy to grow again is gone. Take another fungus, philobolus, the cap thrower. It grows in horse | dung. Its stalks point to the light | on the tip of each stalk is a hem- | ispherical, black cap. | At maturity, this cap is sudden- ly shot off at an "initial speed { close to 30 miles an hour. It tra- | vels four to five feet, sometime | further, measured horizontically. | The shooting usually occurs in the morning, when the stalks are ine clined at a 45-degree angle, point- ing at the sun. Artillerymen use about this same angle, to get the greatest distance with their shells. Illobolus' black cap is sticky, so it will stick to leaves, waiting to be munched by a horse and start the cycle over again, Dr. Clyde M. Christensen tells of these fungi or tiny plants in a fascinating book, "The Moulds and Man," published by the Univer- sity of Minnesota Press. He is a mycologist in the university's plant { pathology department. His own | research aided in discovery of bet- ter moulds to make penicillin, and in other problems. SCAYENGER SPECIES Fungi and moulds--which are a class of fungi--are essential for life on earth, he writes. They are as important as green plants, For most of the 100,000 species of fungi are scavengers, turning plant and animal rembains into rich soil. And rocks as well, Lichens, a com= bination of fungi and algoe, ac- tually decay rocks into dirt. You find fungi everywhere. They help man, but also cause many plant, animal and human diseases, The human ailments include allergies. Tons of spores of one fungus, ale ternaria, float at times in invisible clouds, They are a common cause of "Afr-born spores of fungi often determine not only what people will eat, but how much, and how good." Spores of stem rust of wheat have been caught in the air near the North Pole. Fungi are prolific. An average-sized smut gall of corn contains about 25 billion spores. Living things often have curious partnerships with fungi. Most for est trees depend upon fungi on their absorbing roots for much of their nourishment, the scientist writes. Many plants have no root hairs, and fungus partners do the drud- gery of absorbing food and water from the soil. Some ants and other insects depend upon fungi for food or for protective houses. Fungi and moulds often are pests, but "there's no general, a purpose fungicide." Ome kind of fungi even likes creosote, used in wood to protect it from fungi. Paint is delightful food for others. Fune gl and moulds atack cotton, lea ther, other fabrics, and "many a svelte figure is kept in shape by a mould girdle." ANCIENT BUILDERS The first bridge across the Thames at London, England, is be- lieved to have been constructed in Mr. and Mrs. B. Snelgrove and{ AD. 43. Inter Badminton. Shirley Vance was also the outstanding student in Graduating Class in Scholarship and School Activities and won the Lion's Club Scholar- ship value $10.00. She also won the A. M. Lawrence Trophy for Science in Grade XI¥. Shirley is completing her fifth year at Port | Perry High and intends attending {normal school next year in pre- | paration for teaching. MUSEUM BASE FOR TEACHING Toronto (CP) Six young women are promoting, under the wing of the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum, a broadening experiment in cultural $dicarion probably unique in Can- a. They are the nucleus of the museum's division of education. From the museum"s galleries they gather relics of a bygone age with which to fashion something sing- ularly 20th-century: An audio-vis- ual program of instruction which has all Ontario for its class room. The program is under the sup- ervision of brown-eyed Toronto - born Catharine I. Steel, who holds degrees in English, history and sociology from the University of Toronto and Columbia. She drew the assignment six years ago; since, with her assistants, she has travelled thousands of miles given hundred of lectures enhanced by exhibits in the museum, the na- tion's largest. The audio-visual 'program, fin- anced partly by the Toronto board of education, partly by the Uni- versity, can be broken down into wo phases. Instruction is given at he museum to those children with- in travelling distance of Toronto. The balance is given far afield, as far distant as Fort Frances, 1112 miles away. Crisp, straightforward Catharine Steel hopes classroom teachers, in each case, will take up where the abbreviated museum - sponsored lectures end. Toronto public school children are requi to attend at least one museum & year but hundreds take more. They pick their own subject -- archaeology, geology, etc. -- and are divided into easily- handled groups for visual study. KEEN STUDENTS © Pupils lu outlying -districts-don't obtain as comprehensive a train- ing. The number of portable ex- hibits in the museum is, naturally, relatively small. However, these students generally show greater keenness. They are becoming fam- iliar with everything from a bur- { gonet (a steel helmet of the mid- | dle ages) to fahlband (an ore re- day cake.) The six women do much of their travelling in winter when condi- tions are toughest. Explanatory literature regarding the current courses precedes them, Last year, they carried 10 cases of exhibits and covered rural schools around Sault Ste. Marie region. A com- plete sweep of Ontario takes four years. ' In 1950, nearly 59,000 school chil- dren -- representing 90 public schools in Toronto and many out- side -- were given varying periods of instruction. But Miss Steel and sembling a piece of ossified birth- | her five aides also lectured before school attendants, normal school attendants university extension classes and a multitude of other groups. They manage to keep it all within an eight-hour day (travelling time, extra) but direc- tor Dr. V. V, Ben Meen of the museum says no one realizes the prodigious amount of work they tackle. The program has been boosted in | several quarters. In one instance, business and professional girls in Picton, Ont., paid for the chartered buses required to transport 200 Prince Edward county pupils to Toronto for one-day tours 'of the museum. Says Miss Steel: '"We never shut down." LEARNED GROUP The National Geographic Society was founded in 1888 at Washington, D.C, for the increase of geographi- cal knowledge, Dock Barber Is Expert In Weird Styles Southampton, England (CP) -- If British males want up - to - date North American haircuts, the place to get them is Southampton docks. Robert Massey, owner of a bar- ber shop inside No. 2 dock gates, knows most of them. Every day style - conscious sailors in drape suits, velvet jackets and jazzy ties stroll ashore and demand such cuts as the 'Rhumba - ba," the 'Curly top", or a Canadian number, 'Sil ver Dollar." "They're that particular you'd be amazed," says 39 - year - old Mas- sey, who clutched his first pair of clippérs at 14 when the most com- plicated cut was "short back ax, sides." \ Today Robert can name 50 diffe ent styles, Among the first pos war crazes was the "Boston" - extremely thick with shaved iim straight across the nape of th neck. That was started by sailos on convoy duty who didn't wal their hdir spoilt by an amateur, Latest number is "The Chit." object seems to be to leave th hme looking as if it needed cu 8. Massey laments the fact ths | most British men are conservativ | about haircuts. It takes about | year for new styles to be accepte | in most towns. 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