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CRY OR Lp aout TTY a er He ERC a _-------- a ER GU i i DHA btyles In Picnics 'Way Down East Our old "Merchants plonics" came to mind n he : day as I ref] ot or ing popular ty iC ) summertime i ig 1t is quite a crowded calendar. The poultrymen were the first 40 hit the big time, with their annual "Broiler Day" -- at ""which the industry hands out an oversize feed at bargain 'prices, and entices people by the thousands. They have a chicken queen and numerous other at- tractions, and have even gone to the tub:thumper extent of lining up 'a' professional aston- isher. Truly, it is a big time, No. doubt the success of this gave the lobstermen an idea, for a dozen years ago they started their "Seafood Festival," which is dedicated to the gastronomic extermination of the Maine lob- ster. A crane lifts tons of these delightful picnic companions in- to vast cookers, and in a three- -day frolic they feed some 20,000 people deployed within sight -.and sound of the lobster's native heath. Neptune comes forth from the briny, a a Queen cavorts amongst the crowd, and nobody needs to go away hun- gry. (Incidentally, these. mon- .strous picnics are all over for this year, and tourists who miss- -ed them will have to wait until 1960.) This year, after a preliminary tryout last year, a new one burst upon the olfactory scene --a Baked Bean Festival up in the old C. A. Stephens country at South Paris. Deep bean-holes were inserted into the ground, lined with stones, and huge iron -cauldrons of prime Maine dry beans were cooked slowly. Just as in the old logging camps. 'The event re-created all the old baked -bean lore of Maine; everybody brol:e out the le- .gends and recipes. It was hailed as a huge success, and is now established as one of Maine's gala summertime affairs. . So, you can see why I reflect- ed on our old Merchants' Pic- nic, I think somehow ours was a far more wonderful outing, -one reason being 'that there was no cashier at the head of the line, It was free. The town's storekeepers, grateful for the past year's business, kittied up and shared the bill. Every one of them, from Gus Derosier to Dennis Bibber, would say to SNAIL STUFFING -- In the time-honored manner, Pat Su- zuki, of the Broadway show 'Flower Drum Song," stuffs snails back into their shells be- fore baking and eating. She sampled the delicacies at a food show. sry customer who came in the weeks before the nic, "See you at the picnic, -- bring your appetite." ~ "How big was the town? We were told it was "about 2,500." And we were a lobster-eatin' people, so only the babes in arms would go to the picnic and not join in. Lobsters, then, were retailing at not over 20¢ a pound, and you could often get "shorts" and "pistols" for the taking. I have no idea why a one-clawed lobster was known as a pistol. They'd get. fgihting, and clamp one another's claws off, and the maimed were home-table fare. Besides the 3,000 to 4,000 lob- sters' piled up (you didn't think we just ate one, did you?) there would be ample clams. I used to dig .clams now and then, and got as much as a dollar a bar- rel for them. A dollar was high. Today you can drop $3.50 or $4.00 a peck for clams, and it's a good thing the steelworkers haven't heard what a clam dig- ger makes. But pollution was scarcer then; the grass hadn't invaded the flats; and easy shipping hadn't created the demand: The town was jealous of its own flats, and was careful about non-residents, too. They'd cart in barrels of clams, dripping and shaded [rom the sun with 'rockweed, and steam them_ as long as anybody wanted to eat. Oh, yes -- these were the great- necked clams, not the tough, by those who don't know clams, Probably an event of this kind, it staged today, would draw fewer people. I think the 20,- 000 people who go to the lob- ster do, relatively speaking, is a poorer percentage than we old-homers, and even then we had a few summer residents who "spent the season." But it was for the town, and the town only, and scarcely anybody missed it. They'd have a ball game, and some sports for the childers. You could go swimming if the tide served, and if the tide was coming they'd have a cunner- catching contest for town champ, One year, I remember, they\ had a "cunner skinning" contest. -- a prize to the person spiny--critt some kind of a is sweet and makes a magnifi- cent chowder, the difficulty of preparing them deters wider use. The demise of the Merchants' Picnic coincided precisely with the appearance of the absentee- owned chain store. Two or three of them were set up, distressing the home-town owners, and hat for the annual picnic a new note was heard. Managers, not empowered to make such deci- sions for their distant corpora- tions, said they would take. it up with the home office. Home offices, of course, didn't know what the managers were talking about. There was some- thing distasteful in feeding free lobsters to people who traded at the Cash & Carry. The town, as it had.been known for over a century, had a divided front street. "I -had an awful good time at the picnic!" was the way we greeted storekeepers, but we had no reason to say it again. Perhaps these mammoth sum- mertime gorges in festival style serve their own generation full as well, Perhaps. -- by Joha Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. In Hay, Australia, when two cars collided head on in the mid- dle of the road, the mayor step- . ped out of one, the chief of po- lice out of the other. chewy quahogs known as clams had. There was some influx of who dressed a dozen cunners neatest astest. They are a . sea -pérch, and while the meat. 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In their royal palace at Pnom- penh one evening recently, Cam- bodia's King Norodom Suramarit and Queen Kossamak paused for a moment before leaving their private apartment behind the throne room. The acting protocol chief of the royal household, Prince Norodom Vakrivan, had just brought in a package new- ly arrived from Hong Kong. The accompanying card said that it contained a "gift for the King and queen" from a U.S. engi. neering company that had helped build the 134-mile Cambodian- American Friendship Highway running from Pnompenh to the seaport of Sihanoukville, Opening the parcel, the prince found a lacquer box. Inside -it was another box tightly encircled by adhesive tape. The plump, balding King, 63, and his hand- some queen, 55, decided they could not wait for the unsealing, and left to meet with Cambodia's delegation to the United Nations. They had scarcely reached the reception hall when the palace trembled as a bomb blasted the room they had just been in. Prince Vakrivan was blown apart; a palace servant was kill- ed and four others seriously wounded. While the King and queen be- sought their faithful subjects to remain calm, Cambodian security police began an investigation, soon announced that the card from the U.S. firm was fraudu- lent and a "crude attempt" to stir up anti-American sentiment. Who was guilty of the outrage? Observers pointed out that neut- ralist Cambodia's- relations with _ its pro-Western neighbors, South Viet Nam and Thailand, were on the mend after several years of tension, 'Only one group stood to gain from chaos in Cambodia: the Communists, LAOS ROUNDUP -- Nowsmap (1) spots where Red-dominated Pathet Laos troops are reported massing for a major assault against the Laotian govern- ment, Ventiane (2) is receiving point for airlift of several planes from U.S. to Laos. Alr- lifted planes were assembled In Bangkok (3) and readied for flight to Ventiane at Saigon (4). Laos has great need for air- craft because of rugged border terrain. How Oklahoma At Last Went Wet When Oklahoma's 52-year-old "noble experiment" with prohi- bition ended recently and the state's, 500 new retail liquor stores threw open their doors, the Sooners had suddenly be- come "laters," each a bit reluct- . ant to be the first to partake le- gally of the long-forbidden fruit. But thirst and curiosity won out. A few furtive customers started drifting in. One embarrassed Oklahoma City woman pointed to a bottle of wine, blurted out "whisky," and ended up with a bottle of gin. A man bought a bottle of bourbon and quickly slipped it out of sight under the front seat of his car, just as he had done with his bootleg liquor purchases for years. By mid- afternoon, the new liquor stores had lost their strangeness to the furtive. Customers flocked in and liquor in Oklahoma was big business -- and legal, too. To some Oklahomans, the lig- uor trade (expected to run about $70 million a year) looked like the 'biggest thing since the dis- covery of oil. Even before a sin- gle bottle was sold, Oklahoma -collécted more than $4 niillionin - = liquor taxes ($2.40 a gallon on a 1.5-miNfon<alloh Trvéntory) ahd Ticensing fees (up to $2,000 a year for wholesalers, $600 a year for wretailets). Of special importance: Towns ".and - cities,".many "long strapped for public funds, event- ually will share in a third of the windfall, Big business also brought its problems. Oklahoma's vast le- gion of professional bootleggers were legislated out of the liquor trade through strict licensing regulations, and as a result, all liquor-store owners are new at the business. "Most of our cus- tomers," professed one Oklahoma City retailer, "know more about liquor than we dd." Q KHRUSHCHEV WANTS TO SEE HIM -- Roswell Garst, 61, above, examining a stand of hybrid corn, is one man Soviet Premier Khrushchev says he wants to see while in the United States. Garst, who has twice visited Russia, met Khrushchev previously. A reduction in the acreage planted to potatoes this year has been accompanied by higher prices for most Canadian pro- ducers. Potato plantings have been estimated by the fruit and veg- etable division of the Canada Dep ent of Agriculture at 295,400 acres -- five per cent smaller than last year's acreage and 11 per cent less than the 10-year average of 331,000 acres. Although there was some slackening off as supplies ine creased in volume, prices in eastern Canada to the middle of August were running about dou- ble those of 1958. All provinces outside the prai- rles reported acreage decreases from last year. Prince Edward Island acreage was reduced by 10 per cent; New Brunswick by three per cent; Nova Scotia by eight per cent; Quebec by nine per cent; and both Ontario and British Columbia by six per cent. Increases in the prairies rang- ed from 13 per cent in Saskat- chewan and eight per cent in Manitoba to one per cent in Al- berta. How much milk must a cow produce to show a reasonable profit for its owner? Officials of -the - Canada De- partment of Agriculture have found the break-even point for a 20-cow herd, where the oper- ators receives five per cent in- terest on his investment and $220 a month for labor, requires a production of 10,500 pounds per cow. LJ * This was determined in a study Involving herds at the Experimental Project Farms at Duncan, Nanaimo and Courte- nay, B.C. The production figure arrived at was almost identical with the District Herd Improve- ment Association average for the province. LJ * LJ The interest, depreciation, and cash operating costs for a 20-cow would be about $8,500 a year and for a 35-cow herd about $15,000. Income would have to be large enough to cover these costs and allow for family living. LJ L . Prospects for adequate suppli- es of registered and certified seed of wheat, oats, barley, rye and flax and corn of recognized 'and recommended varieties are good this year. Production of pedigreed cereal seed in the Atlantic provinces is down from last year. In Ontario, spring oats and barley and winter wheat and barley production is lower. Prospects for good crops of soy- 'beans, white beans and corn are good in Ontario. v * 1] . Manitoba seed crop prospects are variable. However, prospects " for expanded registered and cer- tified cereal seed crops are good. Pedigreed wheat acreage in Manitoba is expected to be in- creased over last year. In Sas- katchewan and Alberta an aver- age or lower seed production of pedigreed cereal seed is expect- ed. ' ' LJ] . LJ An average or below average alfalfa seed crop is expected. Last year's alfalfa crop was only HE FARM FRONT slightly more than half the 1949- 58 production average, [ ] [ J LJ The prospect for a seed crop of single cut red clover is about average. Last year's crop of over seven million pounds was double the 10-year average prod- uction, It is expected the alsike seed crop will be considerably smal- ler than last year. Western Ontario timothy seed production is expected to be in- creased over last year, but east- ern Ontario and Quebec timothy will likely be lower than last year. In the Maritimes, produc- tion Is expected to be lower than last year. Preliminary estimates indicate that Climax timothy acreage will be increased over last year. A Smart Bird-- The Kingfisher Bard stared through the tops of the trees. He watched a cat- bird sail over the tops of the trees. He followed the bird with his eyes until it lighted in the top of a birch, fluffed its feathers and then glided out of sight. He had watched the birds along the river for a long time. He: had even learned to mock the catcall of the gray catbird. He had learned the call so well that he could often persuade the bird to answer his call. And yet the cat- bird was strange to him, It spoke in a strange language. It was true the catbird had answered his call. But what had the cat- bird sald? Or what had he said in mocking the birds that had persuaded it to answer him? He knew that he did not belong com- pletely to the world of Dan Tuckett. He had not been with the river long enough. Bard started unriver again. And then suddenly he stopped. A chunk of clay tumbled down a spot where the was steep and bare, He squatted and turned to face the steep bank. His eyes rested on a small hole that had been dug in the side of the bank. A smile came to his face. A king- fisher slowly stuck its head from the hole and looked all around as if it were trying to find him squatted beneath the willows. The bird stared, turning its head from side to side. And then it glided quickly through the trees and was lost from sight. The gird would be back, Bard thought, as he straightened up. The kingfisher, he thought, had gone to the sand bar to search for a minnow. Inside the bank Bard knew would be dried leaves and grass that the kingfisher had carried there in her bill, And this time of year there were apt to be eggs in the nest. The kingfisher knew the river. It was one of the smartest of all birds, according to Dan Tuckett. It did not build its nest in a tree where wild animals, humans, or even a heavy wind might des- troy it. Not even a snake could hold to the side of the steep bank. From high up the bank the king- fisher could spot an enemy a long distance away, and peek from the hole above until the danger was gone. Bard wondered if the king- fisher was smart enough to know how lucky she was being able to live so close to the river all the time. To sit at the mouth of the hole at night and watch the moon sparkle on the water and listen to the hum of the river. And then to be sung to sleep at night by the lazy sounds of the winds through the leaves of the wil- lows. -- From "Riverboy," by Billy C. Clark. Joe Palooka's Future Uncertain Will Joe Palooka's wife Ann have a boy or a girl? Last month hundreds of thousands of comice strip readers were speculating on the birth of the aging heavy- welght hero's second child after ten years of married life, but be- cause of matters legal, not medi- cal it was not even certain that the baby would ever be born. Reason: Moe Leff, longtime col- laberator on the strip and {ts producer since the death in 1088 of Joe's creator, Ham Fisher, had sued to end his 20-year conract with Fisher's estate, quit draw- ing the dally strips distributed by the McNaught Syndicate to some 650 U.S. and foreign newspapers. In the midst of a legal snarl over royalties, Leff posed some big questions about Joe's fu- ture. He had planned the birth of a baby boy. Buddy Palooka, for the end of October. Soon afterward, Leff meant to have Joe retire from the ring as un- defeated champion, plunge into youth work and life as a family man. Only when boxing-world conditions "took a turn for the better" did Left intend to bring Joe's younger brother Steve along as the next heavyweight champion, With a new McNaught Syndi- cate writer-artist team set to pump fresh ink Into Joe, his prosects for an early retirement have faded. Best guess is that Joe's son will indeed be born. But poor Joe may never see the life as the worker for good causes that Leff had planned. Instead, to earn his living -- and contrib- ute to the McNaught Syndicate's income -- Joe is more than likely to be tossed back into the ring with the rest of the palookas. In New Castle, Pa. police, looking for a parking meter thas someone had uprooted, found it at the bottom of the Shenango River. Rev. R. Barclay Warren, B.A., B.D. Ye Shall Be My Witnesses Acts 1:1-14 Memory Selection: Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon yous and ye shall be witnesses unte me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unte the uttermost part of the earth, Act, 1:8, At last the Committee that sets up the Sunday School lessons has made a move for which Bible students have been agitating fog some time. Instead of jumping from one book to another, Sune day by Sunday, we are to study the Book of Acts for the next six months. We shall take ap- proximately one chapter a week. This should prove a great incen- tive to Bible Study. The Book of Acts tells the story of the early years of the Christian Church. Luke, the author, addresses this book te Theophilus even as he does his record of Jesus' life and minis. try. Theophilus means 'beloved of God'. He may have been a Roman officer. Luke describes the ascensiom of Jesus. He also gives the ime portant prediction given by the men in white apparel, that, "This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall s@ come In like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." In thig space age we do not under stand the 'how' of it all, but we know that Jesus is going to re- turn and we shall see him, The memory selection is the last command which Jesus gave to His disciples. They obeyed. About 120 of them with one pugw pose tarried for the gift of the » Holy Spirit. Among them w. Mary, the mother of Jesus other women. Next week w@ shall see the fulfillment of the promise and the beginning of the witnessing. It continues throughe out the book. During these days i | emerged as the leader. He the choosing of someone to take the place of Judas Iscariot whe died by his own hand after hig betrayal of Jesus. Matthew 27:8, Of the two men nominated, the lot fell on Matthias. Some have thought that this was a mistake since Matthias is never mentioned again, But neither are any othe# of the apostles except Peter, James and John. And in the case of James, only his martyrdom is recorded. One of the reasons for the sue- cess of the early Christians was their practice of prayer. Referen- ces to this are seen in practically every lesson. They continued in prayer in the upper room (Verse 14) and they prayed before they chose another apostle (24). If we fail to pray, we fail. 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