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THURSDAY, MARC!! l7th, 1g49 tEE CANADIAN STATESMAN, ROWMAN'VILLE. ONTARIO PAGE VIVE Radioactive Commercial Prospects Stil in B ealm of Speculatioi States Chemisi Jack C. Burger The Bcwmanville RotayCu at Friday's luncheon irin the Bal- moral Hotei, listened with ab- sorbed interest to one of the most euridite, scientîfic addresses ever recorded in club annals. The speaker, Mr. J. C. Burger, chief chemist, Port Hope Radium Re- finery, told the general history of the discovery and application o! radium and its by-prout and particularly its entry int h ecMirnic picture of Canada. It 4, yond the capacity of this erter to record ail the tech- nical terms and phrases used by the speaker but it was gathered that the commercial application of radioactive substances for power and heating stili remain in the hazy reaim of speculation. In fact for current uses a gram of radium casts about $30,000 on today's market. The Speaker Mr. Burger, a tali, sauve, hand- some chap, iooked pretty yauthfui for the important job he f ilis, but Lin Mitchell, who introduced hlm, said he was snapped up by the government'after briiiiantiy grad- uating frorn the University o! Alberta, ta help speed up war production in plants requiring scientfic developments. Then, more recentiy he was called ta the Do'minion Government Plant at Port Hope which was opened ta refine pîtchbiende concentrates shipped forward from Great Bear Lake mines. It is r'ow known, said the speak- er, that the first uses of radium came from deposits in Czechio- vakia when, almost 100 years ago, taîlings were thrown aside as useless in the recovery of silver. But around the turn of the cen- tury it was found that this pitch- blende refuse could be treated for coloring pottery red and orange. Further experiments led to more precise isolations and scientists came ta appiy the term "radium" to these l»minous agencies. Like deposits occurred in Cornwal but they were too low-grade for com- mercial exploitation. Worid Sources Once established as a new and precious minerai, deposits were found in Portugal which supplied Great Britain and Europe wîth infinitesimal amounts for research in medicine. Some deposits oc- curred in the U.S.A. which were also too iow-grade for pprofitable working. The world's greatest discovery of pitchblende occurred in the Beigian Congo, which still remain.. the worid's chie! source o! suppiy, despite t he later, spec- tacuiar discovery in Canada. Mr. Burger told of the dramatic discovery on the shores o! Great Bear Lake by the noted prospec- tor Gilbert LaBine. Exploring by airplane he saw shore cliffs 3 TOP TOBACCOS VIRGINIA BURLEY TURKISH Wlinchester CIGARETTES with silver and purpie stains and returned the following year equip- ped for an intensive samplîng. Sure he had discovered pitch- blende deposits he made his dis- covery kncwn and steps were taken immediateiy to develop this new source of national wealth. Utterly remote in the fringe of the Arctic Circle, transportation was the main. problem to over- corne. Port Hope Plant The great chain of rivers and lakes were used to bring the con- centrates out for re!ining. Thé' choice of Port Hope for the refin- ery was made as being central to established chemical plants and an empty bonded building was avaiiable at the town. The refin- ery was set up and the concen- trates brought aiong to extract the radium and its aliied products. For every ton treated it requires 7 tons of chemicais. The residue o! radium and uranium added up to about one ounce for every 751 tons of concentrate or about one ounce from 4,000 tons o! the orig- inal ore. Mr. Burger went into the tech- nical problems which yielded the above results and told of the extreme care required in handling these very powerful radioactive end resuits. He outlined the theory of the structure o! the atom by comparing it with the sun and the universe as a larger perspec- tive in light radiation. In dealing with radium, its rays in respect of penetration were classi!ied as Alpha, Beta and Gamma, with a rising ratio o! penetration in the order named. By the very nature of its composition, radium is sub- jeet to rapid disintegration and on account o! this as weil as the danger in its handiing, it is stored hermeticaliy in lead tubes which are in turn, made more secure in lead vauits. Uses of Radium The speaker went on to trace the uses o! radium in treating cancer and its commercial uses in manufacturing, luminous dials on, watches and airpian panels. New uses are being discovered as time goes on and some of the impor- tant ones are the X-Ray of metais ta discover flaws, the control o! static electricity in industrial plants, and more recently the use o! neutrons for university re- search. O! course many other important uses are under study at guarded atomic plants, such as Chalk River, but the speaker de- clined any prophesy of what was going on there but results would be known when it was safe ta re- lease them. Concluding his informative ad- dress Mr. Burger said the price o! radium is finding its level in the current campetitive world market and now hoids between $20,000 and $30,000 per gram at the Port Hope Refinery. But the mine and production is under con- trai o! the government. Properly stored to prevent disintegratian a gram o! radium used as an active agent has an estimated period o! usefulness of about 1700 years. It is anyone's province to speculate on the vast horizon yet ta be ex- piored ïn the human use of these spectacular mineraIs. Business Bob Stevens moved the vote o! thanks which drew great applause. Visitors inciuded Rev. Gea. Tel- ford, Cyril Scho!ield, Nick Jen- kin and Everett A. Loveli, al Oshawa Rotarians. Harry Aluin received birthday !iowers. Regret was expressed by President Howard Rundie that sang-leader Jack Clayton wouid be ieaving the club, having been transferred ta Cornwall. WaIt DeGeer announced next meeting as a Dad and Lad dinner, with a programme o! movies and a speech by Art Mullin, Hamilton. Place, St. John's Parish Hall, time 6:30 p.m. Forbes Heyland as- sembied corps o! workers ta rush out Easter Seai envelopes. Splendid Work Done by Red Cross NOME eomi8 Hello Homemakers! There may be many ways ta serve fish, but baked in aluminum foil will suit me anytime. The main reason is perhaps the good flavour we get when we >eat it at the table in preference ta the aroma in the house at bedtime whenever the fish is f ried. Fish is really steam- cooked when you wrap it in cookery parchment foul or paper so you do not see any brownness but we smother it with egg or toato sauce anyway. tom ove fish makes a favour- teftoeinr come cokesfis itef dishcinbthe rmof ckes ors and mashed potatoes well, beat- ing until fluffy and. free from lumps. Then chill the #iixture until it can be handled easily when shaping into cakes. Use only sufficient fat ta caver the bat- tom of the frying pan. When yau look over aur tecipe you w;ill see that fish cakes are easy ta make. And if you make your meal prep- aratians well in advance the patties are better. They may be mixed in the morning, covered and set in the eiectric refriger- ator. Then at dinner time they can be cooked in 8 minutes. Even the sauce ta serve with them may be cooked in advance and re- heated whiie the cakes are browning. BAKED STUFFED FILLETS Dip two large fillets in saited milk (1 tablespoon sait ta 1 cup miik). Place on ouled aluminum foul in a shailow baking dish. 'Caver each fillet with stuffing made as fallows: Mix 4 cups saft bread crumbs wîth 1 cup chopped ceiery, 3 tablespoons chopped onion, 2 tabiespoons melted butter or shortening, 3 table- spoons chopped parsley, 1/z tea- spoon savory seasoning and one-haif teaspoA sait. Dip two more fillets in salted milk and place on top of the stuf!- ing. Wrap paper over fish. Bake in very hot electrie aven (450 degrees) for 15 minutes. Reduce heat ta 400 degrees and bake 25 minutes longer. Serve with ta.- mata sauce or egg sauce. Yield: about 8 servings. EGG SAUCE 3 tabiespoons butter or shorten- ing 1'2 teaspoan dry mustard 11/- cu.ps milk 3 tablespoons flour U teaspoon sait 2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped Meit 'butter or other fat in top part o! double baller. Add flaur, mustard and sait and biend. Add milk and cook over hot water, stirring canstantly until thick. Add chopped hard-cooked eggs. Serve hot with fish cakes. QUICK TOMATO SAUCE 2 tablespoons fat 2 tablespoons chopped green celery 1 can condensed tomato soup 2 tablespoons chopped onion 1/ cup water 1/4 teaspoan chili powder or a few draps tabasco sauce. Meit fat in heavy saucepan or fryng pan. Add onion and green celery. Cook gently for 3 min- utes. Do not let anion become too brown. Add water and simmer gentiy for 5 minutes. Add tomato soup andl chili powder or tabasco. Hea, and serve. FISH CAKES 2 cups coaked fish 2 cups mashed patatoes 1 beaten egg 1 tabiespoon margarine sait and pepper milk Ta the fish, add the masheri potatoes which have been pre- pared as for the table use. Add beaten egg, melted butter and sait and pepper ta taste. Add a little milk if the mixture is too dry. Shape into flat cakes, place in greased pan and brown in skillet pan-about 8 minutes. Serves six. THE QUESTION BOX Miss J. C. says: The cherry sauce that we sug- gested for serving on pancakes is wonderful topping on ice cream. She serves a pitcher o! hot sauce when the ice cream has been portioned ta each.ýone. Answer. We agree. Mr. T .F. says: What seasoningetan be used for !ish stu!!ing instead o! poultry seasoning or anion. Answer: We like cheese with the salted crumnbs, or rice with tamatoes and bacon as a stuffing for halibut or whitefish. Miss A. M. asks: Why do poached eggs stick ta the bottom o! the pan. Answer: Water may bail tao fast, pan miay be too thin, or sait will cause eggs ta stick. Sait vhen you caver them and set off the elemnent ta cook slo\wl. Anne Alian invites yau ta write ta her care o! The Canadian Satesman. Send ln your sugges- tions on homemaking problems and watch this column for re- plies. NORTHLAND PLUMBING &HEATING EXCHANGE 52 Lapp St., Mt. Dennis Ont. Phone MUrray 4377 I NEW and USED 1 Plumbing and Heating Fixtures - Bought and Sold - Write ta: '5 Northiand Ave., Mt. Dennis, Ontario. Canada's Red Cross ]ends a hand with warm, colourful patchwork quilts to tuck around sick. orphaned or negiected children in British nurseries and institutions. Here young Bobby, age 6, in a Dorchester- Home. beams his approval. Red Cross Women's Work Committees sent more than 2500 cases of clothing, bedding and supplies overseas in 1948. WEDDJNG POOLER - KERSEY Hampton United Church par. sonage was the scene of a pretty aftfrnoon wcclding an March 5, when Marlon Elizabeth, daughter o! Mr. and Mrs. S. Kersey, Hamp- tan, was united ln marriage with Kenneth Earie Pooler, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Siomnon. Rev. E. S. Linstead ofticiated. The bride wore a blue-grey gabardine suit with black hat and veil and corsage of pink rcses. Miss Audrey Kersey xvas her, sister's only attendant. She chose a powder blue suit with black accessories and pink carnation corsage. Mr, Mel McCune acted as best man. For the reception at the home o! the bride's parents, Mrs. Kersey and Mrs. Sioman received the guests, the former wcaring a grey flowered crE:ipc- dress and the latter wearimz a blue crepe frock. Foliowing the reception the happy couple left for a short wed- ding trip ta Toronto. Woodpeckers are found ln nearly ail treed areas o! the world. rIt's a Queer World If some sensible persan from another planet happened ta pay! us a visit we might flnd it a bit, difficuit ta explain some o! the news he would find in almost any daily paper, remarks the Finan- cial Post. It wouid not be the lurid reports of aur iatest crime wave that wouid baffle hlm, but the staries of aur weird and wonderful attempts ta throttle wNhat this whoie world needs most - production. Varlous provincial milk boards have warned dairy companies which wished ta seil their product a little cheaper than the minimum these boards have sanctioned. Pubiic money is available in certain parts a! Canada ta dis- courage products like potatoes and apples from reaching people who would be glad ta eat more patataes and apples. And right now in several prov- incial legisiatures ways and means are belng discussed ta pre- vent manufacturers o! margarine, from making their produet at- tractive and cheap. Not oniy would we have a dif- ficuit time expiaining these things to a vîsitor from Mars; if we go much further with this nonsense we may not be able to explain it to ourselves. Club 15 Holds Dance To Buy Washer for 'Nursery at Hospital On Friday evening, March 4th, Bowmanville High School audi- torium was transformed into a Winter Wonderland as "Club 15" acted as hostesses at another of their seasonal dances. The hall was decorated in the true spirit of winter with skaters in old-fashioned costume on ponds banked with evergreens. On one wail was a fuli-length pic- ture depicting ahl the thoughts of winter-chiidren playing in huge snowbanks, skiing on snow-pack- ed trails and cutter-riding on winter roads. Ahl the decorations were made by the decorating committee un- der the convenorship of Mrs. Bert Johnston. Among the prizes given were gifts donated by Marr's Jeweliery store and Hooper's Gift Shop and Varcoe's Dance Pavilion. Proceeds were to aid in pur- chasing a washing machine which was on dispiay during the even- ing. This washing machine had been donated ta Bowmanvilie hospital for the sole use o! the Nursery in order that it may give the Nursery laundry indivîdual care. If present plans develop, the Club is hoping to sponsor anoth- er dance in April. Ir. Farmer's Ass'n. Annual Meetincr at Guelph, April 24-26 Annual meeting of the'Ontario Junior Farmers' Association, will be held at the Ontario Agricul- turai College, Guelph, on April 24, 25 and 26. Registration will begin at 2.p.m. on Sunday, April 24 in the Com- mon Roomn of the Administration Building. On the samne day live- stock barns, greenhouses and MacDonald Institute will be open from 2 to 4 p.m. for those who wish ta visit. A Junior Farmer Church service wiil be held in Memorial Hall at 7.30 p.m. fol- lowed by a Fellowship Hour. Opening of the Conference will take place in Memorial Hall on Monday morning. Theme o! the conference will be "Wtorking To- gether." Many subjects will be discussed including an interest- ing review of "Etiquette." Banquet speaker will be Donald F. Sullivan, a young nfan of Junior Farmer age, representing the United. States National Com- mission of United Nations Eau- cational Scient.ific and Cultural Organization. Mr. Sullivan is an able speaker and from reports will be worth hearing. Among the resolutions to be dealt with wil be several froni county and local associations, while an entirely new consti- tution for Junior Farmers of Ontario has been prepared and wiil be presented for approval. Names of ail delegateas who purpose attending, must b. ln the hands of the local Agricultural Representative by April 13. Each county lu expected to eiect a provincial director prior to the annual meeting. 91eCC5 AT QUINTE v E hundred miles of shorelinef Fvitli fine sandy beaches ring the Isle of Quinte. Swimming .. . fishing ... sailing ... golf -whatever your brand of holiday fun, you'1l find it here. Take highway No. 2 ta Belleville - on the main Toronto- Montreal rail uine, then No. 14 south to Picton. YoulIl find hare excellent lodgc, tourist home and cabin accom- modation. For f uil information, write ta Prince Edward County Publicity Committee, Picton, Ontario. !'LEM' MAKE THEM WANT TO COME BACKI you were the General Manager of A&P Food Stores . a lVhat would you do to make your A&P a better- place to shop? Have you ever said to yourself, "If I were the General Manager of A&P, I know what I'd do" I think there are many A&P customers who would like the op- portunity to express themselves on the subject of their A&P. -1 reali'y believe that froin your side of the counter, you know A&P best. That's why I ask your opinion. You can help to miake your A&P a better place to do ail your food buying by send. ing me your suggestions... criticisms ..., and opinions. For instance, what about our service? Is it as eourteous and help. fui as you would like it to be? Is it prompt and efficient, too? Do you aiways find ail items plainly and correctly price. lagged - as they should be? What in your opinion are we doing that we could do even better? Or what are wg flot doing that you leed we should do? 1 INVITE YOIJ TO WRITE AND TELL ME HOW TOUR A&P MAT SERVE YOIJ BETTER We of the A&P want 10 make our stores the finest places of ail in which to shop. That is why your suggestions, criticisms and opinions will be grate- fully received and acknowledged. .You see there are thousands of em. ployees of A&P in Canada jealousiy guarding the A&P eeputation for courteous, honesi, and efficient service. They neyer want to fail you in any way, but if they do, I arn sure that they, as well as 1, would appreciate your writing nme. L. W. 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Drop by Cosl the cover, for 15 minutes.JU Y & L V L Bowmanvilie . . . .. . . .. .15 Ring St. W. Phone 778 THURSDAT, MARCH 17th, 1940 fHE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE. ONTARIO PAGE riv