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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. JULY 25, 1957 Toothpaste Saved Sailor's Life Tony Mendoza was dying. All night long his fever-ridden body had sprawled helplessly in the bottom of the drifting lifeboat. By morning his nine companions knew he would be dead. After eighteen days adrift since their freighter, the Saint Anselm, was torpedoed in July 1941, the ten men were without food or water. All they had was a half tube of toothpaste. "I think I'll mix a little toothpaste with some seawater," the first engineer said. "It might make Tony's end a little easier." In a little tin he scooped up some seawater and squeezed toothpaste into it, stirring it with his finger. Then he held it to the dying man's lips. Mendoza gulped the mixture down eagerly. Within an hour Mendoza's breathing eased. His body broke Out in a sweat; by dawn he was sleeping peacefully, the fever broken. When he regained consciousness two hours later, he was again given a half pint of seawater mixed with toothpaste. Some of the other men, who had been without water for two days, tried it. The same afternoon, a Spanish freighter appeared on the horizon and picked up the drifting seamen. Later, in London, they told officials about the toothpaste. The manufacturers were asked whether it contained any ingredient which would account for the dying seaman's remarkable recovery. The reply was that it did not. The war at sea has produced many remarkable rescue stories. When Henry Heinson's ship was torpedoed in the spring of 1943, he was flung into the sea on an inky dark night. He bumped into something and found it was a piece of the wrecked ship still afloat. Heinson climbed on to it and discovered that it was part of the pantry with one small compartment still intact. In is was a cabbage! Behind it he found a small jar of distilled water. Heinson, bearly able to keep the piece of wreckage afloat, lived on the cabbage for seventeen days. His small supply of distilled water he eked out with snow and rain collected by means of a piece of canvas. In his pocket he had a photograph of his wife which he used to prop up and talk to for hours. Both his body and spirit survived and after he was picked PRACTICING "SCALES" - Metropolitan Opera star Jerome Hines practices running a type of scale other than musical as he spearfishes off Canturce, Puerto Rico. up and landed in London, Heinson was awarded the British Empire Medal for his remarkable endurance. Captain Donald Blyth a one-legged ship's captain, found himself in a shark-infested sea with eight of his crew after their ship was torpedoed. "Come on, boys, let's swim around," Captain Blyth shouted, and he set the example when a hopelessness gripped the freez-ingly cold men. For eleven hours he swam around with his men keeping up their spirits by singing war-time songs. He was still singing hoarsely, hardly able to keep his head above the water, when an R.A.F. seaplane came overhead and dropped two rubber dinghies to them. For his bravery Captain Blyth received the Order of the British Empire. When his ship was torpedoed in 1940,. Ira Starling, a young seaman serving in a British tanker, found himself the only survivor in the sea. Near-by he saw a holed lifeboat still afloat. He had just clambered in when the U-boat opened fire on him with machine-guns. Starling jumped overboard and hid under the water. The U-boat circled the lifeboat. Ira Starling promptly dived and came up on the other side of the lifeboat! Soon the U-boat went on its way and he climbed into the lifeboat where he found a tin of ship's biscuits and a gallon of slightly tainted water. On these biscuits and water, Starling lived for twenty-two days. On the twenty-third day, he saw a small shark nosing around the .lifeboat. The young seaman leaned over and waited. Just as the shark passed under the stern, he shot out his hand, gripped the great fish by the tail and flipped it into the boat. He battered it to death and, with his pocket knife, sliced off shark steaks which helped him survive until he was picked up by a Portuguese ship six days later. Perhaps the strangest rescue story of the war concerns the San Florentino. She was struck by four torpedoes and broke in two. The forepart up-ended until it floated vertically, with the stem protruding 100 feet in the air. Two men clung to it and, as it slowly sank, they climbed up the fore topmast until they were high above the sea, clinging precariously to stays. Twenty hours later a British freighter came on the scene and the men were saved For Hikers When the youngster,, at your house announces that he's starting at once on a big expedition, a beeline hike through the woods to the pond, you can be sure a hearty sandwich of two is expected from you pronto. That tenacious favorite, peanut butter, can be modified a bit and still please him. Fry 4 strips of bacon, crumble them into Y2 cup peanut butter, and add a teaspoon of minced onion if he likes it. When this is spread on the bread, place on top bite-size pieces of tomato. Tomato provides welcome moisture, and with bite-size pieces, there are no unwieldy, large slices to cope with. This sandwich travels well to work, too, and won't get soggy if you use the firm part of the tomato. Another good peanut butter combination adds chopped cooked prunes or apricots -- Vi cup fruit and 2 teaspoons lemon juice or fruit juice to V2 cup peanut butter. Next thing, we suppose, fishermen will be asking the government for a guaranteed annual catch. crossword iSSSS. puzzle ------20. Pry ACROSS DOWN 22. Contend 1'! Split pe 14. Soft dri 35. Biblical Sfi. Or. letter 37. Simpleton 25. Father ' Geraint 28. Swiss 6. Gourd i 4 J 9 j 11 : 5 15 vi b ■ i4 Ay 21 1 25 a 28 29 So 31 a 33 ::;.....■ 34 37 v 42 m e ...... os m D2 53 it M s3 56 5/ sa Answer elsewhere on this page. THEFABM FRONT )oka\12i«seU. This is the time when farmers should be on the lookout for armyworms in their spring grain, fall wheat (if still green), corn, and pasture and hay fields, advises Dr. W. E. Heming, Head, Department of Entomology and Zoology, Ontario Agricultural College. Reports of damaging infestations have been received from Welland, Lincoln, Wentworth, and Brant counties to date. Three of these infestations were in fall wheat and the other was in pasture. Since fall wheat is beginning to turn coleur and the leaves to toughen, the worms are moving out of that crop into adjacent, more succulent crops. Courtesy London Free Press This year outbreaks have not been general except in one or two areas of the southern United States. Elsewhere damage has been relatively slight and more or less local in nature. However, it may be different in Ontario, and farmers are urged to inspect susceptible crops as soon as this warning is received. The worms, or larvae, are known by sight to most farmers. Spraying or dusting by air, the use of equipment, or baiting by hand (if labour is available) will provide control. Additional information, and the necessary control recommendations, can be obtained at the office of the agricultural representative. The striking effectiveness of serum, together with vaccine, in preventing rabies in a group of people severely bitten by a rabid wolf in Iran, and in similar experiences of a less extensive nature, were accepted as clear demonstrations of the usefulness of this method by the Third WHO Expert Committee on Rabies meeting in the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Until recently victims of the severe head and face bites from rabid animals often succumbed, despite prompt inoculation of rabies vaccine, probably because the infection had become established before vaccine could take effect. The combined treatment with serum and vaccine now gives assurance of success even in the most serious cases, as the serum appears to check the disease until the vaccine can begin to work. During the past 15 years, among victims of rabid wolves treated at the Institute Pasteur in Teheran about 40% of these bitten in the head died despite vaccine treatment. A trial was therefore organized there by WHO to represent the severest proof to which the serum could be submitted, and to attempt to remedy the situation created by the failure of classical methods of treatment in severe exposure to rabies. From 1950 to 1954 only isolated cases were successfully treated by the new method, and their number was not sufficient to reach a definite conclusion. However in August 1954, a rabid wolf attacked 29 people in an Iranian village in the space of a few hours. This provided the opportunity for a decisive test. The victims were taken at once to Teheran and treated on arrival, with conclusive results even among the 18 patients who suffered severe head wounds. The most striking case was that of a six-year-old boy whose skull had been crushed by the wolf's bite and who survived, despite the fact that rabies virus had been, so to speak, directly injected into his brain. He was given six injections of serum and a course of vaccine. A new Technique for protecting persons whose occupations expose them to the possibility of bites of rabid animals was outlined at the Paris meeting. Veterinarians, laboratory workers, postmen, workers in gas and electrical industries and delivery services, must often undergo repeated treatments with rabies vaccine and this car- ries a danger of post-vaccination complications. The new approach Involves providing basic protection by giving very small doses of chicken embryo vaccine, or a few doses of ordinary nervous tissue vaccine, followed by a single booster dose after they are bitten, instead of the long (14-21 day) schedule of inoculations now performed. Rabies in wild animals, particularly in foxes, jackals and wolves, is a problem in many countries. It also exists in insectivorous bats in areas of North America and it has long been established that rabies is transmitted to men and animals in Latin America by blood-sucking bats. The finding of rabies in insectivorous bats in Yugoslavia indicates that this problem is not confined -to the Western Hemisphere. Wild animal reservoirs present special difficulties and it was agreed that extraordinary measures must be evolved to combat them. The serum-vaccine treatment, an important advance in the fight against rabies, is the result of international collaboration, co-ordinated by WHO. The Expert Committee members, whose laboratories are situated in India, Iran, Israel, Spain, France and the United States, have been working together on problems of rabies control since 1950. In A Dither Anxiety and tensions are a natural -- and protectively useful -- part of modern living, Dr. George S. Stevenson points out in his new booklet, "How to Deal With Your Tensions," released by the National Association for Mental Health. The time to watch out for them is "when emotional upsets come frequently, shake us severely, and fail to wear off after a while." Some of the danger signals: • Do minor problems and disappointments throw you into a dither? • Do the small pleasures of life fail to satisfy you? • Do you find it difficult to get along with people? • Do you fear people or situations that never used to trouble you? • Do you feel trapped? • Do you feel inadequate, suffer the tortures of self-doubt? If the answers to most of these qestions is "yes," Dr. Stevenson suggests these ways of making life more bearable: • When something worries you, don't bottle it up. Talk it over with some level-headed person you can trust. • When things go wrong, don't make yourself "just stand there and suffer." Escape for a while (not permanently) in a brief trip, a movie, a book, or a game. • If you get into frequent quarrels with people, stand your ground when you are right, but do it calmly, and remember that you could be wrong. • If your workload seems unbearable, remember to take one thing at a time. Shun that "Superman" urge that makes you expect too much from yourself. • Don't feel that you must "get there first," no matter how trivial the goal. • If you feel "left out," neglected, and rejected socially, try "making yourself available" instead of waiting for others to make overtures. -- From "Newsweek." "Is it true that it's good luck for a black cat to follow you?" "Depends whether you're a man or a mouse" Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking EEE BBCDEIS BEE EEE EEBEE EDS EBBED DEE EEE EEEEEE EEDE _ EEEEKI EEEIEE EEEB GDEEEE1 BE DEE BBREE EEE gn EHBBE EEEE ESEfflE EEEEE EBEIS EBEGSHE GQEE BEE EEBEE EEE EEBEE BEE EBB EEEHB BEE PDKH001 LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. Gideon, Foe of Paganism. Judges 6: 25-32. Memory Selection: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20: 3. The Israelites were greatly impoverished because of the repeated attacks of the Midianites over a period of seven years. They began to call on God. A prophet reminded them how God had delivered their fathers from the Egyptians. He rebuked them for their disobedience and bade them have no fear of the gods of the Amorites. Then the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon commissioning him to deliver his people. He hesitated, saying, "My people is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house." But the LORD said, "Surely I will be with thee." That night under cover of darkness Gideon and his men destroyed the altar of Baal which his father had built, cut down the sacred grove and used its wood to offer sacrifice on an altar to the LORD. His father, whose conscience had probably been pricking him stood in defence of Gideon before the men of the city, saying, "Will ye plead for Baal?--If he be a god, let him plead for himself." About 724, the English monk, Boniface, apostle to the Germans, similarly defied Thor, the god of thunder. In Upper Hesse in the presence of thousands of enraged heathen and trembling half-Christians he cut down a sacred oak consecrated to Thor. When he was not stricken by a bolt from heaven the people were utterly amazed. Thor-worship v received a body blow. Gideon prepared an army of 30,000 men. God said they were too many. "Lest Israel vaunt themselves against me saying, 'Mine own hand hath saved me'.** When the fearful were asked ta leave 22,000 went. Another 7,70$ failed on the next test. They were not sufficiently alert and keen for the battle. The remaining 300 "stood every man in his place round about the camp." It was a great day of victory. Gideon asked for and received signs from the Lord to encourage him in his work. In this day of fuller revelation we should not be so insistent on signs but should obey God in the simplicity of faith. Sensuality, wealth and fame are some of the gods worshipped today. Let us point the way to the true God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Two groups of farmers, their wives and friends leave Toronto on the Ontario Goodwill Crop Tour to the Pacific Coast, Board ing the train are A. H. Martin, left, secretary of the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, Mrs. Elsie Mitchell, of the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Louis Roy, of the Canadian National Railways Department of Colonization and Agriculture. Altogether, more than 100 goodwill ambassadors will spend 2 weeks visiting everything from model farms to the Kitimat aluminum plant. CNR Photo BRIDGE GIVES WAY UNDER FREIGHT TRAIN-This a 50-year-old wooden bridge buckled under a 77-ca engines and two freight cars plunging into Albem but tha other two ara missing and feared dead. was the scene near Edenton, N.C., after freight train, sending five crewmen, two rle Scund. Three of the crew were rescued.