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Swamped By Dust In Mid-Ocean "The bells! The bells! The bells!" Chips, the ship's carpenter, whispered hoarsely in the mate's ear. "Hear them bells, Mister? The bells o' the sea, ringing for the dead!" The mate grabbed Chips' shoulders and shook him. "You are going balmy," he said. "The heat has affected your brain! One more word from you about bells, and you'll be locked up until we reach Melbourne!" But the next day Chips was at it again. Running from his shop, eyes staring, he sang out to the deckhands. "Listen, mates, listen! Hark at them bells, the bells o' the sea! We'll never reach port, I tell ye! We're all dead men!" With a screech of horror, he climbed on the barque's rail, holding on to the fore shrouds, pointing ahead. "Pull him down!" the mate roared. "Grab him before he goes over the side, and lock him in his shop!" Locked in he was, but he stuck his head out of the port, singing out in a voice of doom: "The bells o' the sea foretell death and destruction I can hear them ringing!" Sir James. Bisset, ex-Cunard Commodore, says it happened in mid-Atlantic doldrums in the County of Pembroke, the first barque he sailed in as apprentice in '98. The sequel was as strange as any in sea annals. For. next the lookout man, Rhys Davies, came bounding down from tha •forecastle, eyes wide with fright, crying: "Mister! Mister! I hear bells ... on the port bow, ringing over the water, and there's no ship or land in sight!" "Have you gone mad, too?" the mate demanded But he ■ordered all hands forrard to listen, and himself heard a bell's deep note tolling over the empty expanse of sea on the port bow. "Holy mackerel!" he gasped. "Nothing in sight, and we're hundreds of miles from land! Call the captain!" The captain came, focused his telescope in the direction indicated. "Indeed to goodness," he exclaimed. "It's a bell buoy! 1 can see it, very rusty, with no top light, but the clappers are working well enough. What's a bell buoy doing in the middle •of the ocean? It must be adrift. Bear up for it, Mister'" Fetching a rifle from his cabin, he sank the buoy with a number <A shots, ignoring Chips' frantic appeal: "Don't shoot, sir! If? bad luck!" What puzzled them all was HE'S NOT EMUSED - A dim view of all that snow is taken by this baby emu in the Vin-cennes zoo near Paris, France. Emus, birds resembling the ostrich but smaller in size, are native to Australia. Their chief purpose: to fill three - letter blanks in crossword puzzles. LONG ODDS - Quintuplets in ings. Mother sheep, left, beat the James Risk farm. Four of the world of sheep are expectable about once in 20,00 lamb-the percentages and came up with five healthy youngsters on the Risk children display the prize family. how Chips had heard that bell days and nights before anyone else, Sir James comments in a stirring account of his first six years under sail: "Sail Ho!", written in collaboration with P R. Stephenson. Was the discovery of the real bell--a million-to-one chance in mid-ocean --just a coincidence at the very time he'd gone off his head with a touch of the sun and imagined he could hear bells? Another strange thing happened on the voyage ba"k, 900 miles off Africa, when the masts and yards were given a fresh coat of white paint. The mate noticed a drift of reddish dust swirling in the corners of the poop deck, then discovered that the wet paint on masts and yards was completely covered with it. "A ruddy dust storm, sir, during the night," he told the skipper incredulously. "Dust storm?" said the captain. "We're nearly a thousand mlies from land!" But he went aloft and saw for himself that the unbelievable had occurred. A whirlwind from the Sahara had presumably carried a dust-cloud high in the air for 1,500 miles or more, to deposit it in mid-ocean on that new paint! Sir James says he's never heard of it happening to any other ship. He's never heard, either, Of a ship with burst seams making port safely, held together with cable, until a shipmate, Mick Mulligan, told him it happened to the fully-rigged Kingsport when he sailed in her on her maiden voyage from Saint John's, New Brunswick. Wooden - built, she hadn't enough iron bolts and tree nails to hold her hull together. But the owners decided she was good enough to sail to England to be finished, with a cargo of sawn baulks, boards and battens which had been frozen hard, lying out in the open. When she reached warm Gulf Stream weather the timber thawed, swelled, and as the hull wasn't properly fastened, burst her seams; she began leaking like a basket and became waterlogged. Pumping couldn't keep the water back, so-Captain Mul-cahy ordered a length of the anchor cable to be unshackled, hauled under the ship's bottom on a line and up the other side, and made fast to the capstan with wire lashing. In nine hours they put one length round her by the foremast, one by the main, and a third by the mizzen,' and thus trussed--with rails under, only poop and forecastlehead showing, galley washed out and fo'-c'sle belly-deep in water--made Holyhead after a forty-day voyage, and were towed into Liverpool by a Mersey tug. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 28. Peacefully 30. Baby bear 31 Enclosure fiddler S. Supplicate , 8. Obey 12. Fencing 15. Hosts 16. Catch up 18. Old Fr. coin 19. Home of 15 .~20,LCers°sened «. Watercoursi (Hindu) 23. Infirm 24. Charaeterisi 25. Plaything 28. Legal action 29. Injured 3t!Tree trunk 33'. Payabl* 34. Stogie 42 Ltfe-woi Ireland 25. Digit 26. Litany 5. Telephone, supplic Answer elsewhree on this page THEPAEM FRONT Jolm12uWiL Just because five of the largest dairy products companies in the country have their operating headquarters on the West Coast is no sign that the smaller firms in the region are being crowded out. Far from it. In the last four or five years some 250 smaller concerns have started up in California alone, and one equipment supplier was bidding on 12 jobs simultaneously a few weeks ago. The rise of these new. smaller concerns located close to the large centers of population is one of the outstanding trends in the western dairy industry, according to Mrs. Virginia Jones Baker, publisher of Western Dairy Foods Review. Many of them are drive-ins, where women using the family car for jitneying children to and from school or for shopping expeditions can easily swing by and pick up the family milk for less money. One of the newest and largest of these "producer to consumer" dairies, located in Hayward, in the San Francisco Bay area, has four service lanes, 3,000-car daily capacity, for expeditions handling al cash and carry customers. A large sign centrally located between the service lanes lists merchandise, complete with prices. It is the outcome of an idea of four active dairy farmers producing Jersey milk. One reason for the ability of the smaller producers to compete is the "feed-lot" system, where pasture is dispensed with, cows are penned up in as smail an area as possible and fed store-bought hay and supplementary nourishment. This brings its results in milk: California's annual output of milk per cow is reported as 8,000 pounds, compared to Wisconsin's 7,600 and the national average of 6,000. For the Los Angeles County dairyland, or "milk shed" as it is frequently called, figures of 13,500 pounds per cow ere reported. The country's milk volume is the greatest in the country and greater than 22 of the states. Another reason is truck transportation, which permits a small plant to process milk from groups of farmers located a considerable distance away. With. the development- al refrigerated transportation, milk- can be hauled many miles; in fact, it is trucked from California's San Joaquin Valley to Phoenix, Ariz., a good thousand miles, with only two to three degrees change in temperature. The so-called small milk operation is nevertheless a good-sized business. It must have from 80 to 100 fresh cows to be profitable, according tt> Mrs Baker, ?nd must be highly mechanized. Today's ultimate is piping the ■ milk direct from the milking machines attached to the cows to holding tanks, and thence by pump into the truck's tank. This is part of the picture of the growing West, whose milk production for the 11-state area is expected to increase from the 14.8 billion volume of 1955 to 20.2 billion pounds in 1975--and still not be able to meet the demand. Despite this 37 per cent climb for mil k, the expected population increase is 67 per cent. At present the West produces slightly more than enough to meet its demands, according to a study by Dr. R. G. Bressler of the G i a n n i n i Foundation of Agricultural Economics, University of California. In terms of total dairy products, however the region has a deficit equivalent to some 2.2 billion pounds of farm milk production, roughly equal to two-thirds of the butter consumption of the western states. Shipments of butter, cheese, and other products from the Mid-west maka up the deficit. Bright Ideas There was a time when many companies who paid any attention at all to their employes* ideas, paid a $10 bonus for improvement suggestions. And they got ideas worth only $10 in too many instances. Since World War II many companies have upped the bright-idea ante. They pay off a percentage of the savings that can be made on an employe's bright idea. And both the companies and the employes have been cashing in handsomely. Latest such cash-in is that of two employes of the Gary Works of the U.S. Steel Corp .The steel-workers, Oscar M. Dansler, 61, and Salvatore Lumella, 39, each received $10,000 for figuring Out a way to separate molten iron from slag as it flows from the furnace. Dansler was quite frank in admitting he put his mind to the problem only when the company announced the suggestion contest 18 months ago. Since then the Gary plant has paid out $67,000 to 1,500 employes. This shows that when management is willing to learn from the workers on the job, employes can be inspired to think in terms of the company's problems. That is, if the employes have the same incentive that management has -- namely, money. Hundreds of companies are learning this lesson and are paying out millions for bright ideas. -- Chicago Sun-Times. SCIiOOl Jesus Teaches about the End of the Age. Memory Selection: Take yt heed, watch and pray; for ya know not when the time is. Mark 13:33. Many who used to scoff at tha idea of the destruction of this world have changed their mind since the coming of the atomic age. The following statement from 2 Peter 3:10, doesn't sound so fantastic now. "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; on the which tha heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therin shall be burned up." The destruction of Jerusalem, including the temple, happened in 70 A.D. just as Jesus predicted it on our lesson. His personal return is still delayed. Some would-be prophets have set the date for our Lord's return. "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no not the angels which are in heaven." It i is not for us to speculate as to the time of His return but rather to take heed, and watch and pray. "The prophecies with regard to the first coming of Jesus were minutely fulfilled. So will tha Scriptures concerning His return in glory be fulfilled. Our business is to receive Him now into our hearts as Lord and Saviour. Then we shall be ready to meet Him when He returns. An old Rabbi used to say to his people, "Repent the day before you die." "But" said they, "Rabbi, we do not know the day of our deaths." "Then", said the Rabbi, "Repent today." That is timely advice. We should live today with the full awareness that it may be our last day. For, even though Jesus Christ may not come, death may come. Let us therefore walk with God. "If we walk in tha light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." 1 John 1:7. If you are not on speaking terms with soma member of your family or your community, do your best to clear the misunderstanding. Let us prepare to meet God. English Becoming The World Tongue The important change in tha postwar years is the extent to which English is spoken, and as a form of communication between those of other nationalities. In Palermo a French woman speaks to hotel employes in English. In Florence, Cubans haggle over price in English. In Hamburg, an Indian and a German argue politics in English. To stimulate this trend, the Ford Foundation has announced grants of $600,000 to expand and improve the teaching of English as a second language. This money will be used to upgrade tha quality of instruction, ch-.efly in Africa and Asia. It is now being predicted that only extreme national pride or a complete collapse of the economy, both unlikely, can prevent (the English language) from becoming the accepted second language in most countries of the world. --Kansas City Star. 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