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6-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, September 27, 1989 Kendal News September Days The golden-rod is yellow; The corn is turning brown; The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. The gentians bluest fringes Are curling in the sun; In dusky pods the milkweed Its hidden silk has spun. From dewy lanes at morning The grapes' sweet odours rise; At noon the roads all flutter With golden butterflies. By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather, And autumn's best of cheer. Helen Hunt Jackson You'll notice the author of this poem is Helen Hunt Jackson. That is, her maiden name was Helen Hunt. Well, the Hunt family were having having their large family picnic near Belleville a few years ago and there still is a Helen Hunt. It happened that Helen Hunt found a child's purse on the grounds. She took it to the Master of Ceremonies. He held it up and asked, "Anyone lose a purse?" No reply. "Well", he said, "If anyone has lost a purse tell them to 'Go to Helen Hunt." October the 20th and 21st were two of the most beautiful days on record unusual for the equinox but heavy rain followed the tail end of hurricane Hugo. From the Heritage Book Ethel Smythe, a long time neighbour, was shocked at the high price of apples in the super market and complained to the manager. "They're pricey all right," he said, "but that's because apples are scarce." Ethel was astonished. The crop had been so great that apples were rotting in the trees. "That's just it ma'am. Apples are scarce, because it just doesn't pay to pick them." Angry at such waste, Ethel and several friends drove to an orchard outside town and spent the afternoon picking apples. apples. ' We have a very heavy crop of apples apples here, a sure sign of a. colçi winter. Some of the tobacco help from the Caribbean are remaining to pick apples. Twenty years ago on July 20th, 1969 two men walked on the moon a tryly wonderful achievement. Another wonderful achievement took place 70 years ago when Captain Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Brown of the 1 Royal British Air Force flew the Atlantic non stop. The Daily Mail of London was still being laughed at for its six year old offer of $50,000 for the first non-stop flight. The rules were simple simple from any point in the States, Canada or Newfoundland to any point in the British Isles. The challenge wasn't. Conquer the Atlantic çr die. Following the aviation boom, spurred by World War I, one American and ten British crews planned to attempt the flight in the spring of 1919. One plane tried it from east to west but crashed in the Irish Sea. Six others failed to iinake it to the starting , point in Newfoundland. Newfoundland. Of the 'remaining i|our; one evidently went down, 11,000 miles out into thé Atlantic, i one crashed on take of}f, and ancjther failed to start. Only Alcock anc| Brown remained. The last to atjrive in Newfoundland Newfoundland .Alcock and Brown found the few decent take off strips claimed. Other crews had them spoken for, long before. Their chances for success were small until a haulage contractor named Lester - he had transported their plane and parts to Quidi Vidi near St, John's after they had been shipped from England - offered them a piece of land at Cornwall Heights. Lester had used the land for grazing his stable horses. Alcock excitedly declared. "We'll call it Lester's field. It will become famous as the first trans- Atlantic aerodrome." Then when he saw the field their chances dwindled. It was a rectangular field complete with young spruce trees, large granite boulders and a stone dyke in the middle. With two other crews still in the running Alcock had little choice but to accept. In the late afternoon of June 14, 1919 on Lester's field, the Vicker's Vimy was ready to fly out after the Daily Mail's $50,000. The paper's correspondent in Newfoundland wrote: The engines roared out and immediately immediately the machine moved forward. forward. One hundred, two hundred, three hundred yards, and the machine still moved forward but showing not the least desire to leave the ground. Watching pessimists began to croak, but suddenly they were confounded. At the right moment moment Capt. Alcock operated his controls and the .machine literally jumped off the ground 'zoomed' over a fence a few yards ahead and started steadily to climb. Then such a cheer was raised that it must have carried to the airmen even against the gale. r Once over t!' e Atlantic the real battle began. Ahead lay 1,890 miles of menacing ocean and a nightmare of sleet, hail, high winds, fog and cloud. Four hours out visibility was zero. Their communication telephone failed. Although seated sided by side behind a small windscreen windscreen they were unable to talk over the wind and the roar of the plane's 350 hp. Rolls-Royce engines. For four hours the plane was coated with ice. Six times Brown who was a cripple cripple climbed out on the wing in driving driving snow and hail to chop it away with a knife. Sandwiched by fog and cloud and with no horizon to guide them the plane went into a,crazy spiralling dive from 4,000 feet. Just 60 feet above gaping waves Alcock pulled the plane up It looped flying almost on its back for a moment and finally straightened out. During the entire flight Brown was able to take only four readings of their position, once each from the sun, moon, the pole star, and the star Vega. . Through the night they ate meat sandwiches, and drank coffee and ale. Shortly after eight the next morning morning they sighted land. Two srhall islands off the Irish coast. Minutes later they were circling the masts of the Clifden Marconi station their destination. There was no airfield but they quickly found what appeared appeared to be a meadow, ideal for landing. Down they went right on Sharmila lost a leg to cancer when she was six years old. With the help of a. prosthetic leg, Sharmila is able to skip and swim with her friends. Helping people with disabilities is just one way lottery funds are used. Lottery funds are also used to provide grants in other areas such target, a perfect landing it seem- . ed. But it wasn't a meadow. It was a bog. 'The softest spot in Ireland', as Alcock later described it. The wheels sank axle deep and the Vimy toppled over on her nose. An inglorious inglorious landing but a landing 16 hours and 12 minutes after leaving Newfoundland. The feat earned Alcock and Brown knighthood. Remember to have water on the lawn for the birds. An old garbage can lid makes a good bird bath. Tip it upside down and nail to a block of wood. A minister was enjoying his tour of the Holy Land. Visiting the Sea ' of Galilee, he asked a.local fisherman fisherman with a boat if he could take him across the lake. The fisherman said, "Yes, certainly, certainly, the charge is fifty American dollars a trip." The minister replied, "Fifty dollars? That's a bit steep isn't, it?" "Well,," said the fisherman, "remember how our Lord walked across there." "Yes," said the clergy, "and at those prices I'm not surprised." Cook your apples in pure apple juice and you won't need any sugar, the flavour is, delicious. Add the juice of one lemon. Phone 983-5301 with your news events Babysitters 9 training course The Family Education Resource Centre of Durham House Child and Family Centre is offering an eight session course for young teenagers who would like to be more confident confident and proficient babysitters. Participants will learn how to be responsible and caring sitters. 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