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5 lil 2 § ~- » / mem » mat in oger then, the Russian Fred Green ttering the 40 miles across Lake On And T minutes, 41 seconds. of Saskatoon became Women's Open. '1954 was a fin Records Went Crashing A-Plenty Bannister - Landy Topped All ly Stor Ferguson ® And so passes the most amazing year in all the history of sport, Amazing because of the shattered records tha dot its trall, Amazing, because the Brit- ish Empire, long an international door- sport, arose : contribute to the saga of 1954 the most astonishing of all sports feats, That was, of course, the double Miracle Mile, In fact, ou might term it the Double Double Miracle, First England's R annister crashed through the mental sound with a 3.59.4 mile, But the in records page when along came slim John Landy, from the Empire outpost of 'Australia, to reduce the mark to 3.58. Ang the Miracle of Miracles, both these great athletes broke the 4-minute mark in their unforgetta the British Empire Games in Vancouver, These were the feats not merely of the year, but of the century. In a year when records fell like clay pigeons, these two stand out like beacon lights. The 5,000 metres mark fell so fast and so often Lou could scarcely keep track, Kirst Zatopek the Czech en aldimir Kuec, then England's great red-haired Chris Chataway, then Kuc again. And there was England's A #45 -mile mark, And 1954 was a big year for Canada in sport. Marilyn Bell amazed the world as she fought icy waters to swim the tario, an almost unbelievable feat. om Parker, a chunky Canadian distance swimmer from Hamilton, Ont. thrashed across the treacherous Cat- alina Channel in the record-breaking time of 13 hours, 25 It was Canada's year on our golf courses, tog. Bot Canadian Open events were won by Canadians, Pat- Fletcher the first native-born Canadian to win the Men's Open in nearly 50 years, Sapturing the Sea- gram Gold Cup and its rich . On the side, little Miss Marlene Stewart captured the Canadian For Canada, for the British Commonwealth as a whole, e sports year, indeed. - its might to arrier had scarcely dried on the le battle in cash awards distaff Royal Bank Assets Top $3 Blillon Mark The Royal~Bank of Canada closed its-fisoal year ending No- vember 80k with assets of $3,- 026,805,8 the first Canadian charterg to pass the $3 billion ..m >The Annual Bal- ance Shee t released, shows assets have -increased by over + $181,000,000 as compared with a 4 3 'Ww year ago, Loans and Deposits are at the highest levels ever attained by any Candian bank. A notable feature of this year's Statement is a major change in the capital structure of the bank. As a result of the issue last July 1st of 700,000 additional shares of Capital Stock, the paid: up *eapital of the bank has increas- ed from $35,000,000 to $41,809,- 863. From the sale of this addi- tional stock the bank also real- ized a premium of /$18,619,726 : which, tdgether with $16,000,000 transferred from inner reserves .-has been added to the Rest Fund. In addition the bank has, for the fifth year in a row, trans-' ferred to the Rest Fund a por- tion of the current year's net earnings, the figure this year being $4,000,000. As a result of these transactions the Rest Fund now stands 'at $103,619,726. Capital Funds thus total $146,- 933,664, a figure which sets a record high level for all Can- adian banks, When the instal- ment subscriptions for the new Issue are fully paid, the Capital and Reserve Funds will stand at $42,000,000 and $104,000,000 re- spectively, which, with undivi- 'ded profits, will make the total Capital Funds of the bank $147,- 804,075. 22 Deposits have attained the im- pressive total of $2,797,548,149, of which over $1,126,000,000 are personal savings_ deposits pay- able in Canada. Déposits by the ublic have increased by nearly 90,000,000. No. 400 Is In The Net---Maurice Richard ( the Black Hawks in Chicago. Canadiens' : historic goal, Is at left. The ; ; Loans, exclusive of mortgage loans under N.H.A,, total $1,188,- 022,047, an increase of $43,875,- 823 over the 1953 figure. Call loans at $156,395,203, show a moderate increase, while other loans, including commercial loans in Canada, have increased by $36,761,004 to $1,031,626,844. The degree to which the Royal Bank participated in mortgage lending under the provisions of the NHA., is reflected in the figures shown under the new heading "Mortgages and Hypo- thecs insured under the N.H.A. (1954), namely $22,672,390, "The liquid position of the bank is strong. Liquid assets amount- ing to $1,881,900,848, are equal to 65.34% of the bank's liability to the public. Included in these liquid assets are Dominion and Provincial Government securi- ties totalling $969,888,546, © Profit for the year amounted to $20,913,511, From this amount $2,079,466 has been set aside for depreciation of bank prem- ises. and $9,276,000 for income taxes. After the above deduc- tions net profit was $9,558,045 as compared with $8,635,136 in 1953. Out of net profit, $5,569,345 was paid in dividends to sharehold- ers, leaving $3,988,700, which added to the previous balance of $1,515,375 totals $5,504,075. Of this amount $4,000,000 was trans- ferred to the Rest Fund leaving ~a balance of $1,504,075, NO WONDER The doctor was puzzled. "You ought to be better by now," he said. "Have you carried out my instructions?" E "Well, doctor," said the pa- tient, "I've 'done most of them, but I can't take the two-mile walk every morning you ord- ered. I get too dizzy." "What do you mean--dizzy?" "Well," said the patient, "per- haps 1 forgot- to "tell you, but I'm a Bglihovss hsapar." Carpet Indusiry Soon a living-room carpet will be available which has .been known to withstand the drench- ing of a hurricane, outlast an oak floor and clean with a basin of soap suds, This is one ci the latest de- velopments in the carpet indus- try which has experienced only two revolutions in the past 100 years. The first made it poss- ible for almost every family -to own a parlor rug, It was the invention of the carpet power loom in 1839, The second revo- lution, after nlany years of ex- perimenting, is now in progress, It involves the use of new ma- terials and methods, which are finally putting the carpet on an equal footing with advances in other flelds of household furn- ishings, When the outbreak of the Korean War caused wool to double, then triple and finally quadruple in price, manufactur- ers realized that'all quality car- pets need no longer be made of wool any more than they are still made by hand in the Ori- ent, - They started experimenting with cotton and synthetics like rayon and nylon, Cotton rugs proved attractive, and fairly durable, although there are a few carpet authori- ties around who still regard them as enlarged bath mats, When a sturdier type of rayon was developed, it brought 'the advantages of price stability and an affinity for the light and neutral colors currently in de- mand, The rugs' which have proved almost' indestructible in' the United States are now in the final stages of experimental work in Canada. Made of ny- lon, they have been subjected to the most rigorous treatment in: American hotels, country clubs and private homes, One installed in a main thor- oughfare of a Miami Beach ho- tel has survived seven years of wear as well as a recent hurri- cane: with damage. Another, -bbught five years ago by a golf club in New York State, was pummelled by nearly a million pair of golf spikes. Recently the club de- cided to turn the carpet end to end to equalize any wear at the entrance, but after shampooing found it impossible to determine which end had been at the door. At the same time the constant procession of golf shoes had so chewed up a nearby uncarpeted oak floor that it had to be re- placed. - According to laboratory tests, nylon carpets should wear eight to ten times longer than stand- ard rugs of the same construc- tion. These tests have also estab- lished that when nylon is com- : i a Gad 3 Lot Of Bull--This 19-foot, seven- inch plastic-and-steel bull is on " his way to pasture atop a 90- foot-high pylon in Kansas City, provided for him by the Amer- ican Hereford Association, EE econd from left) glides awa after scoring against enny Mosdell, who started the play for.the Rocket's Hawks are Frank Martin and goalie Al Rollins, economical ." _ ance to soiling. scarcely a sign of ° Horse Of The Year--Determine, with Jockey Ray York up, nuzzles the hand of Trainer Billy Molter just after winning the $25,000 Added Golden Gate Handicap at Albany, Calif, His $15,300 purse brought the gray colt's winnings to $328,880, - ------ Ld 1 bined with wool, rayon or cot- ton, the life expectancy of the rug is lengthened considerably, For instance, when nylon is added to wool in quantities of 20 per cent, the rug should last 80 per cent longer, while the addition of only 15 per cent ny- lon results in a boost of 43 per cent in wear life, ' Experts regard the quality of the pile to be the most impor- tant feature of a rug. Pile qual- ity is determined by its resist- ance to scuffing, its springiness and strength. Other important elements by which a carpet should be judged "are subdued lustre, flammability characteris- tics, ease of cleaning and resist- . Though some pick up and retain less dirt than others, all rugs grey down a shade or two after six weeks' use. Since cleaning may not restore the original color, shop- pers should keep this in mind it they are choosy about their decor, Overtime Was For Referee's Benefit = Soccer fans at Naples, who have made it necessary for ref- erees to escape from the Stadio Vomero ground disguised as firemen, and have threatened to lynch offending radio commen- tators, grow no milder. Earlier this year they provoked an ex- traordinary incident which eventually resulted in their club being heavily fined and having to forfeit twa of its points, The occasion was a home match with Genoa, in which Naples © were not doing well. Viney, the team's Hungarian left back, badly fouled an op- ponent, and was ordered off the field by the referee. The crowd immediately became extremely menacing; and Viney, although he had sworn at the referee, was allowed to play on. The crowd's temper was such that the referee realized that he would be lucky to escape with his life. . He. therefore adopted the stratagem of refraining from blowing his whistle when it came to full time, and allowed the game to go on. On and on it. went, for some ten minutes, until at last Naples attacked and a Genoa defender controlled the ball quite lawfully in his own penalty area. There was no semblance of a foul--but it was the chance the referee had been waiting for. Without hesita- tion he awarded a penalty, from which Naples scored, thus "win- ning" the match, As soon as the ball was in the net the ref- eree blew for full time! 3 Thanks to his quick thinking, he escaped unscathed; though the result of the game was later reversed by the Italian Feder- ation, When Dickens Visited America No reception was ever given to any foreigner in the United States quite like that accorded to Boz. The visit of Lafayette a few years before (1826) had been an-occasion of greater na- tional honqur. The later visits of such people as the patriot Kos- suth called forth larger crowds and more public tribute. But the young Dickens was hailed with a warmth of personal affection never manifested before or since. They welcomed "in him all the geniality of Mr. Pick- wick, all the appeal of little Oliver and Little Nell, all the charm of old English Christ fas for the people of a newer England, And Dickens at the first met it with a boyish and buoyant delight that matched his . welcome. He was full of - life and power and of speech that never flagged: "Here we are," he sald in his clear and merry .person, "voice: as he entered the old Tre- mont House. Later on, after dinner, he was out in the snowe bound streets, merry, boistere ous, exuberant, delighted with everything, Boz was just what Boz ought to be. No wonder, they .smothered him with adula ation, The country simply went wild over him, The time of his com- ing was fortunate. There was at the moment no particular na- tional excitement. The tumult over "nullification" had died down, and secession had not yet come up. It was midway be- tween two presidential elections. There" was no cable to bring news of foreign wars, and no foreign war to -bring news of. Under these circumstances the arrival of young Boz became a first-class national event. The proceedings opened with a rush of reporters to meet the ship, a sort of procession to the Tremont House, where Dickens was to stay, and 'a crowd of eager faces lined up on the side- walk to get a look at him. Then followed calls and invitations in a flood. Dickens' table at the .hotel was soon piled high with unopened letters. He had to ene gage a young man, a Mr. Put- nam who wrote an account of it all. He gives us a picture of Dickens "and his' wife break- fasting in their sitting room at the hotel, Boz tearing open let ters, dictating, eating, and talk- ing all at the same time, and a local sculptor of note (a Mr. Alexander) making a bust of him at the side of the room and occasionally walking around to get a "close-up" look at him, There were dinners and recep- tions in all directions, Boz was introduced to the leading liter- ary people of Boston and of Harvard. He was taken out to Springfield to see the Massa- chusetts Legislature, where, we are tald by the press, "his ap- pearance in the Senate cham ber created quite a stir among the members."--From "Charles Dickens His Life and Work," by Stephen' Leacock. : OE She Nearly Caught A Falling Star When John Donne wrote "Go and catch a falling star" he _ thought he wag creating an im- age of impossibility, But a Mrs, Hulett Hodges of Sylacauga, Ala, who pérhaps doesn't read John Donne (few people do, these days), very nearly caught a falling star, Rather, it very nearly caught her. She was struck on the hip and hand by a meteorite that ripped . through the roof of her home while she was taking a nap. It was only a nine-pound meteorite, an astral fragment which the skies will never miss, But to Mrs. Hod- ges, it is her meteorite, her per- sonal evidence that stars once really fell on Alabama, Now they want to awdy from her, "They" means the Air Force and the State Museum of Natural History, The Air Force has® taken possession of the meteorite and says it will be sent to Washington for scien- take it tific research, The museum, lo- cated in Tuscaloosa, says it wants the meteorite for display purposes. Mrs. Hodges says she wants the meteorite as a sou- venir to talk about when folks drop in, : Science, of course, must be served, and perhaps some kind of a compromise can be worked out whereby the Air Force can conduct its experiments and re- turn the meteorite forthwith to Mrs. Hodges. In her turn, she might be willing to lend it to the museum occasionally, say on' alternate Sundays. But it might well be made the law of the land: any meteorite (alling on any person shall belong to sald Let others catch their own falling stars.-- New York Herald Tribune, -° Tree That Never Dies Africa's toughest tree, the baobab, survives fire, storm, girdling {#ripping off all - the bark) and all ds-of {ll-treat- ment. It is sometimes called the. "cream of tartar" tree be- cause the acid in the fruit pulp is) tartaric acid. Its Toots go deep but its bran- ches are short and stubby and for most of the year are bare of leaves. It rarely grows higher than sixty feet--which is low compared with the girth of its trunk. When the tree is found in dry inland regions the branches look 86 much like roots that local native legend says "an angry devil planted the baobab upside down." Though the baobab takes many centuries to achieve its full size (a trunk with a diam- eter of thirty feet is quite nor- mal), its timber, unlike most trees that mature slowly, is soft and pulpy and quite useless, Its leaves are not unilke those of the horse-chestnut, Africans have found that is fibrous bark makes excellent ropes and even tough fabrics. The fruit, known as monkey bread or sour gourd, has a vari- ety of wges. The seeds and the acid-tasting pulp make a gruel which natives quite enjoy. The pulp juices are invaluable as medicine to combat various swamp fevers, while witch-doe- tors use them as cure-alls. The __natives have found, also, that When cooked the leaves have a spinach-like flavour, They feed them to their cattle when other crops are in short supply. . ; we baobab its bark id aks quently girdle the tree, s plog the bark off Earp gh as they can 'reach. This would kill any normal tree, but the baobab is unperturbed. It simply grows another bark round its 100 feet of girth and meanwhile goes on growing, Frequently natives carve gantic caverns inside the h leaving only a foot-thick outer "skin," and then use this cave as a dwelling, or to store things, Sometimes they fill the cave with water and use it as a res- ervolr in dry periods, Even forest fires, which have swept other trees of apparen sterner stuff into dusty ash, t to destroy the baobab. Stunted, blackened, it soon puts forth new branches which in time are again covered (in: season) with leaves, 1 It can, of course, be cut down. But it is a tough task. Famous David Livingstone saw this foe f, when he ordered one $0 be chopped down, At last #8 fell. But not to die. Months later he noted with amazement that the "dead tree" had grown another inch since it had been felled to the ground! TOPPED HIM Two boys were arguing about the strength and all-round abil. ity of their respective fathers. "You know Ocean?" said one. 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