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dais eats wouldn't get hurt, Page 2 The Haileyburian Thursday, July 21, 1960 THE HAILEYBURIA™ and COBALT POST Publisked bw Temiskaming Printing Co. New Liskeard, Ont. Ltd. Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Issued every Thursday, from The Haileyburian Office, Broad- way Street, Haileybury, Ontario. Authorized as Ottawa. In Canada -- $2.50 per year In United States -- $3.50 per Second Class Mail Post Office, Department, in advance. year in advance. | See by THE PAPERS LONDON -- After years of re- search, a London doctor has dis- covered why cats always land on their feet. The discovery was announced by Dr. Donald McDonald of St, Bar- tholomew's Hospital who, on the basis of his report, must be consid- ered a leading authority on falling cats. The problem he set out to solve was why cats, when dropped up- side down, crossways, or any other way, always manage to hit the ground on all fours. To find eut he used a high-speed camera, capabie of taking 1,500 frames a minute. It was none too fast, He dis- covered that cats can spin through their aerobatics in one-sighth of a second. This, says Dr. they do it; Cats have the unique ability to twist the forward section of their body without twisting the tail sec- tion, and when dropped upside down they use the rear area as fix- ed weight on which 'the front unit can turn. Then while the front is stationary, the back is spun around, When the rear assembly tends to overspin, the tail is used as an air- brake. McDonald, is how However, the doctor's report | says a blinfolded cat always lands in a heap. Dr. McDonald used a rubber mattress for his experiments so PORT ARTHUR -- A 12-year-old boy walked into Police Chief Wil- liam Allen's office and said he wanted police help to break the law. The law: A Port Arthur by-law prohibiting purchase of cigaretts or tobacco by juveniles. The lad explained he and his chums wanted to present some pipe tobacco to their favorite school crossing guard on the last day of the school term, But every shop they tried refused to sell them to- bacco. Chief Allen quickly dispatched a constable with the boy and the law Was successfully bent, MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Allen S. Vaughan, a retired homeloving fel- low, might 'be the man of the house but a little queen bee runs it, besieged by in their own He and his wife, bees, are prisoners home. Outside, the little insects swarm against the windows and dive bomb from the tree tops. And 'inside, Vaughan and his wife just sit and wait, The siege began three weeks ago. A part of the swarm took up residence between the inside and the outside wall of the breakfast nook. "Bees scare me to death,"" said Vaughan, "'But I managed to plug the hole," Then his troubles really began. "Tt wasn't until about a day later that I realized what I had done. I had sealed the queen bee and the colony in my wall. The rest of the colony is on the loose, and they want in -- bad."' Whenever the Vaughans make noise the bees attack the house. That's not the half of it. They keep a watch on the doors and "they smack up against the windows and get up and do it again," said Vau- ghan. Expents tell him just to be pa- tient and wait for the bees to die. "T've been patient -- I've waited three weeks. I want to mow my lawn, pick my apricots and spray my orchard." NANAIMO, B.C.--Michael Cross, assistant lighthouse keeper at Sher- ingham, on the west coast of Van- couver Island 40 miles north of Victoria, told this fish story. A month ago he placed a note with his address on it in a bottle and threw it into the Pacific ocean. Recently he received a letter from a girl in Lewiston, Idaho, that said she found his note and bottle --inside a 4714-inch salmon. She had caught the fish in the Snake River, a tributary of the Columbia. The two places are about 400 air miles apart. LONDON -- You ithink O Canada is tough to sing? Be glad you do not live in Nepal. The king of Nepal is known as Sri Pansh Maharajadhiraja, and they have managed to get his name into their national anthem. It starts out like this: "May glory crown you, cour- ageous sovereign, you, "The. gallant Maharajadhiraja, our glorious ruler." This and a fount of other fascin- ating information is made public in a new book entitled National An- thems of the World, the work of two Englishmen, Martin Shaw and Henry Coleman. This book includes O Canada and The Maple Leaf Forever neatly Haileybury, Ont. HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR : j FAMILY MONUMENT Sy For your free copy of Rock of Ages' new illustrated booklet *'How To Choose Your Family Monument" visit us today. AUTHORIZED DEALER SANDERSON MONUMENT CO. LTD. illia - LOCAL. REPRESENTATIVE T. G. TULLOCH Aa \AGEs/ Ont. ------ Phons OSborne 2-5218 | CAMERA INTRIGUES SOPRANO. Talented young opera singer Teresa Stratas is interested in the cameraman's view of the shooting stage between "takes" of a filmed interview with her at the National Film Board in Montreal. Miss Stratas is one of several entertainment stars interviewed for two half-hour films examining artistic dev elop- ment in Canada. Some of the others appearing' in are John Drainie, Frances Hyland, Christopher Plummer. "The Performer" Oscar Peterson, Celia Franca and sandwiched between Cameroon's Chat de Ralliement and Ceylon's Namo Namo Matha. In general, it seems, the smaller the nation, the more bristling the words to its national anthem. There are exceptions, though. Lyrics of the Jordan anthem, in toto, follow: "Long live the king, long live the king. His position is sublime, his banners waving in glory supreme."' Bahrein modestly contents itself wth 40 notes in seven bars, and no swords at all. Qatar is more aus- tere still -- 35 notes in eleven bars also without lyrics. It is impossible to take exception to the national anthems of Jordan, Bahrein or Qa- tar, even, if you are the type who picks fights in saloons. Denmark, on the other hand, is almighty bloodthirsty for a coun- try its size. Its anthem begins: "King Christian stood by the lofty mast "In mist and smoke. "His sword was hammering so fast, "Through Gothic helm and brain it passed Me Cuba also has a chip on its shoulder, with a stirring national march which goes like this: 'Swift, oh men of Bayamo, to battle! "Proudly watching, your mother- land accepts you. "Fear not fighting to fall; glory waits you! "For your ceuntry to die is to live."' When Greek meets Greek they don't always open a restaurant. Sometimes they collaborate on an- other verse for their national an- them, which at last count had 158 already. (Monaco's anthem proclaims "your soverign is better liked than a king." He should be. After all, he's Prince Rainer and he brought Monaco Grace Kelly. QUALICUM BEACH, B.C. -- Giuseppe Roat's natural history museum in this Vancouver Island community is for sale and he says it's all because of television. The long, low log building con- taining snake skins, stuffed cou- gars, turties, a humming bird nest complete with eggs and many other exhibits was built twelve years ago by Mr. Roat, now 80. "Everyone stays home to watch. television,"' he said sadly. "Even when they eat they watch it. I made only $100 last summer. I used to make $3,000 a year." Born in Italy, he left San Fran- High Production -- At Siscoe Metals Silver production at Siscoe Me« tals in the first half of this year are down slightly from last year, This is largely accounted for by ex. ceptional production in June of 1959,, when 150,453 ounces were produced, compared with 117,666 ounces in June of this year. ° However, the management eu ates that results in the second ha of this year will approximate last year's record production. In the first quarter of this year, Sisco produced 332,012 ounces, compared with 330,891 ounces in the same period of 1959. In the sec- ond quarter the mine produced 348,296 ounces, compared with 390,- 699 ounces in the second quarter, of 1959. Total production figures for the first half of this year come to 680,308 ounces, compared with 721,. 590 ounces in the same period of 1959. cisco after the 1906 earthquake and settled here. One of his prized exhibits is a model of Ogopogo, Okanagan Lake's legendary monster, made of driftwood and a whale's jawbene. PICTURE FRAMED 12 New Mouldings to choose from -- Temiskaming Printing Co. Ltd. NEW LISKEARD Classified Ads Bring Results Haileybury REPAIR -| vmzosasae BEN J. BOURGET General Contractor and Estimator Houses Built Repairs and Alterations Boats Made or Repaired ~ - HUNTINGTON UNIVERSITY (of the United Church of Canada) In connection with the Laurentian University of Sudbury opens its LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE in September, 1960. In cooperation with the Federated University College courses leading to the Laurentian University BACHELOR OF ARTS degree are offered, with majors in the main disciplines. Students are invited to apply for information and enrolment forms to PRINCIPAL J. W. E. NEWBERY, 83 LARCH STREET, SUDBURY, ONTARIO. 22,28 BAi25