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i a ' hee TP PL LAT OY, 25 ati 2 é A Gold Strike That Never Was! Through the farmsteads and orchards of British Columbia the magic whisper spread. "A feller's struck it rich in Scotty's Creek." _ Gold! Farmers sold their "farms: workers threw down their tools. Responsibilities, families, homes were forgotten. The yel-, low god beckoned and nothing else mattered. 7 Within a féw days the gold rush was in full spate: Scotty's . Creek was invaded. Some of the prospectors were ordinary hard- working citizens, others adven- Jurers and gamblers. They came on horse, in waggons and on foot, some clutching pathetic bun- dles which contained their total worldly wealth, Some old: some young, and all fired with the same consuming ambition -- to get rich quickly. They pegged out their claims on every ayailable piece of land. Then the prospectors settled down to work -- and hope and pray. co But despite the sensational news which had swept British Columbia, not one grain of yel- low dust rewarded their labours. Except in one spot. An old fellow named Rowlands, whose discovery had been responsible for starting the gold-rush, still seemed to be doing very nicely. He had several Indians and Chi- nese on his pay-roll, and every time the stage-coach left Scotty's Creek for Ashcroft, a small town some twenty miles away, it car- ried some of Rowland's dust. "The other prospectors scratch- ed their heads. It seemed dis- tinctly impossible that the only gold in Scotty's Cregk could be confined within the limits of Rowland's own claim. Yet the evidence "was there, plain and' undeniable. Rowlands was lucky, that was all, they decided. ~ But eventually two, more ob- servant than the rest, noticed a peculiar thing. Never did Row- land's hired hands find that gold which he ge regularly dispatched *. on the stagecoach. Always he dug it himself, usually when his men were having a meal. ) After talking it over, Johnny Wilson and Doc English, the two prospectors," decided something fishy yds afoot. But what was Rowland's game? After all, there seemed no point in a man pre- tending to have discovered gold- if he hadn't. And anyway, where did all that dust of his come from? But once their suspicions were aroused Johnny and Doc couldn't ignore the matter. They watched Rowlands and his men carefully, held endless discussions, but still: they made no progress. And all the while Rowlands was sending . gold on that coach. ____Then Johnny -- or it may have | been Doc -- recalled an incident | which---had--occurred --a-. few months earlier. ©" A man named Bill Parker was driving an overland stage-coach. Under his seat was a box con- taining two gold bars worth about a thousand dollars each, and gold-dust to the value of thirteen thousand. He was taking this small fortune to the Ash- croft Bank, All went. well until he reached the bottom of Bridgé Creek Hill, "about fifty-five miles from his destination. There he was hailed by a man, and Bill reined in his horses. He would welcome com- , pany for the journey. - But his cheery welcome died on his lips. He. gave a vicious curse. The man held a gun point- ed __unwaveringly _at__Parker's heart. Bill hesitated for a mo- ment, then put his hands up. The hold-up man nodded ap- provingly. He was elderly, Par- "had noticed of impartance was lt ker noticed, with ice-cold eyes. .- "Now," he ordered, with a threatening stab of the gun, "chuck down that box.-- then beat it!" Sullenly, Parker heaved at the heavy box and threw.it on the' ground. Then, raging with anger, 'he drove away furiously. . That was the episode which Johnny Wilson and Doc. English recalled! They remembered some- thing else too, something equally significant. ;The stage - coach driver had been able to give only a sketchy account®af the hold-up man's appearance. All that he that his eyes were as cold as ice and. that he was elderly. 'And Rowlands, that most un- cannily lucky of prospectors, was enough for Wilson and English. They were certain that Row- lands was the bandit, and that to avoid his sudden wealth arousing suspicion he was using this pe- culiar method to'dispose of the stolen gold. But what could they do? Al- though convinced that they had solved the mystery they had no proof -- and to take action on such uncertain grounds was dif- ficult. Eventually they took 'the only step possible. They went to the police; and to their relief the police agreed" with their theory. They wasted no time. Row- lands 'was arrested and put on trial, He strongly protested his innocence, and the evidence was thin. Nevertheless. it was considered strong' enough to convict Row-- lands. He was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. He didn't serve anything like that period. Two years or so later he escaped, and was never traced 'Neither was the gold he was al- leged to have stolen, apart from the dust he had sent to the bank. Many years later the box which had held the gold 'was found in a ravine. Lu Scotty's Creek? No more dust was discovered there after Row- lands' arrest. It seemed obvious, therefore, that he. had perpetrat- ed an extraordinary hoax. ~ A QUEEN -- Not very Siamese- appearing is Queen Sirikit. She wears a mink stole to visit Westminster Abbey in London. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 6. Tended the 30, 8p. title sick 31. Situation 1. Food ish 32. Transgress 8. Place 33: Man's 9. Not genuine nickname 10. Law ofa 35. Mangervant church 37. Frult~ ACROSS 52, Tubér 1. After the 63. Correct manner of 4. Female ruff ' Fastenss 56, Buérgroen 1. Bright star 1 in Virko 1. DN aie 13. Ostrichlike_, 3 yiElIBent i [} Pe tevous bird 14. Consisting "of people 5. 15. Disposessing 18. Indefinite article 19. Surface layer of earth x 20. High rocky 21. Skilltully 24. Scouting . roup 26. Numerous 26. Parsonbird 27. Young goat 8. Partofa - hridle 9. 1 + zed ' inlaw wheel wos WN + 26.'Russian Answer elsew 11, Showing 38. Barly Hebrew resentment- prophet 16. Shaft of light 39, --de Janeiro 17. Electric 40. 1aro Paste 21 22 "Blinking * through an old man too. It was good . | at ence. TT About Lumumba From The Congo "The passenger arriving at Idlewild airport one evening last month .looked more like a beatnik student. hurrying oft for a midnight poetry reading than a Prime Minister urgently bound for. the United Nations. glasses, Patrice Emergy Lum- umba, first \African Premier of the Congo, adm bothered and slightly bewildered. His nervous expressive hands kept fingering his wispy goatee, pulling at_his bow tie. Then U.N. Cadillacs took his party to a pastel suite in New York's Barclay Hotel where he breakfasted hurriedly on bananas and grapes before taking off in a rush -- and an- other' Cadillac -- for the Ghana- ian- Embassy. " "Un gargon formidable," his traveling companions: said of him -- a phrase the Belgians are also 'using now. For Lumumba, whose very name sounds like muted drums in the rain forest, 1s a driving, kinetic leader, a persuasive orator, and a fana- tic Corygolese" patriot ; 'who means by* hook or crook to build and lead a unified Congolese state. He lacks administrative judgment; he tends to feel that every detail requires his per- sonal attention. Lumumba also 'makes snap decisions and sectks snap solutions - (as witness his recent frantic® outpouring of messages to 'the U.S. the U.N, the Soviet Union). But if Lumumba 1s impatient and inexperienced, the fault is by no means all his. Lumumba was not trained for leadership -- and neither was any other Congolese. Born into the Ntentela tribe in the Central Congo on July 2, 1925, Lumtimba "sometimes sug- | gests that his father was a chief by 'donning a feathered sheep- skin cap, a chieftain's traditionai headdress. In school he 'went as far 23 the Belgians would let him™ go: Through ~ high school. Then, at 19; he went to work in a post office where' for twelve years he sorted letters and studied French law by mail. An_ introspective youth who "never smoked and took only an occasional swig of local home- brewed liquor, Lumumba be- "came an expert dancer and a dedicated nationalist. By 1956 he was under arrest for embezzling $2,400 to help his nationalist cause; Lumumba: proudly --ad- "mitted it- and--spent a year in jail i Released, he became salesman for Polar beer, rolled up a for- tune, made his European ward- --- iube into one of the best in the Congo. (He likes dark gray cr tweed suits," and bow ties.) Si- multaneously, he founded 'the Congolese National Movement (MNC). Its goal: Indepedence -- As the winds of change howled - across Africa, the Belgians ac- cepted the inevitable. Independ- ence was set for June 30. Lum- umba- left his shy young wife and, three children (a fourth is expected) at home and threw himself into electioneering. By putting together a clear major- ity of 83 seats in the 137-mem- ber legislature, he earned the job of Premier, "~Some "Belgians have called him-a Communist, but most ob- servers believe that Lumumba's goal is to build in the Congo the same kind of strong African -nation that President Kwame Nkrumah has created in Ghana. As he flew in to the U.S. last month, Lumumba himself had ~this--to say: "Iam not a 'Com- munist. I. am deeply attached to the soil of Africa." -- From NEWSWEEK. Dorothy Had The Last Word ! "It's about time the country forgot the last one -- so 1 guess it's time to make another," crack- ed Bob Hope, confirming a re- Jport'that he and Bing Crosby in- article .. 42. Scottish: " " partic] : en IS tend to make another road" . Spar 43. Mythical - film: "The Road to Hong Kong. 23. White bivod monster "| It will be the first of their foot- corpusclé 45. Jap: coln ; 3 RAR Tatil -blchd CoN ore 24. Accomplished 46. Potential -. - it --loose frolics since "Road fo Bali meta 47. Bash ful 48. Point in tennis 49, Ju rudénce community 11 barrel on this page (1952), and the seventh in a wan- dering saga that began with "The Road to Singapore" (1040). Left in the dust: Dorothy Lamour, 45, sargng-clad_ siren-heroine of. all the previous roadshows. Vintage roadsters Hope (56) and Crosby (68) want a younger traffic stop- per. In Milwaukee, where she was singing at a supper club, Miss Lamour said she still goes swimming in the 'same size (12) sarong she first wore in "Jungle Princess" (1936) and humphed: "Another - woman? - Who else could put up with Hope and Cros- Ly. for-six-weekg?!t-om rr RRR COE TT Any old stamps and marma- lade jars? An attractive pencil holder for your desk -may be made by gluing foreign stamps to the outside of a china marmalade jar. A coat of shellac will provide a shiny protective surface. 'thick-lensed . HEAR UNITED NATIONS DEBATE -- The wives of six U.S. Air Force men shot down by the Soviets over 'the Barents Sea stand near the United Nations building in New York. They were attending Security Council debate on the incident. Hull-less seeded pumpkins may become a valuable crop of Canadian gardens and farms, federal agricultural scientists predict. New strains are now being de- veloped at the Morden, Manito- ba, Experimental Farm. Hull-less seeds o! pumpkins are tasly and nutritious as a confection and a source of oil for cooking. * * . Seeds of ordinary pumpkins have hard hulls that may be difficult to remove. Seeds of hull-less vdriéties are ready for use as soon as they are removed from the pumpkins. Oil content of hull-less pump- kin seed may be as high as 43 per cent. For this reason it is known as the "oelkurbis" (oil squash) in Austria, where it has. been grown extensively for many years. The seed has serv- ed "as a valuable food supple- ment during difficult economic __periods _and--in times -of- war. The fleshy part of the pumpkins" is useful primarily for livestock - feed and fertilizer. ee The Austrian oelkurbis ma- tures late and is unsuitable for growing in short-season areas. RE * . At Morden, it" was crossed with early - ripening, common varieties for developing suit- able hull-less -strains.-Some of these have compact, plants that produce many fruits and many hull-less seeds in each. They are well suited. to fieid production. and may be adapted to mechanical, seed-harvesting methods. Seeds of these new strains - being developed at Morden are not yet available for general distribution. + * » In the face of increased de- mands for federally inspected . meat and because of advanced technological changes taking. lace in the meat industry, the Canadd Department of Agricul- ture organized a school for the officers of its meat inspection division. Twenty meat inspection as- sistants from all parts ol! Ca- nada have just completed an in- tensive six-week training™tourse at Kemptville, Ontario. + nN . " "Senior officials of the Health | cf Animals Division supervised the course; assisted by profes-_ sors = and associate, professors from "the Ontario Veterinary College at Guelph, representa- tives of the Food and Drug Di- rectorate, scientists from the federal Research Branch, and. research and development per- sonnel from industry. : It was held at the new Kempt- ville Regional Veterinary ~La- boratory, operated as an.exten- sion service by the O.V.C. LJ] * 1 Subjects under study: meres ot. Bacteriology; anatomy, isto? "| logy, pathology, parasitology, toxicology, poultry diseases, the Canada Meat Inspection Act and its regulations, the act and re-. gulations for humane slaughter of food animals, and the Food and Drug Act. Ti Special attention was given @ bushy . ante and post mortem veterin- ary examination of food ani- mals as well as plant sanitation. * * wv The lectures on diseases most commonly encountered in pack- ing plants were supported by use of specimens and the tech- niques of laboratory diagnosis. The course is designed to as- sure continuance of Canada's recognized high level of effi- ciency in meat inspection opera- tions. It is the first to 'be .held in Canada and its value is yet to be fully appraised bv federal authorities. . + + Shipments of rabies vaccine are being prepared by the Health of Animals Division, Ca- nada Department of Agriculture, for transport by government vessels to the Arctic. About 8,500 dogs are vaccin- ated annually in the Northwest Territories. © Ld . * The vaccine is distributed and administered by RCMP officers for use on their own dogs and as many native dogs as can bea vaccinated. ' There is continued evidence that the current outbreak has markedly diminished. During April, May and June © this year, 76 cases were report- ed. In the same period last year, |. there were 235 cases. * ' LR More skunks are being found rabies infected than in previ- ous scasons. From April 1 to June 30, rabies had been con- firmed in a total of 18 skunks' _-- 15 in Ontario, two in Mani- toba, and one in Quebec. At the spme time, the number of rabies infected foxes has de- creased considerably, In the same three months rabies was - confirmed in only 14 foxes com- pared with 68 for the corres- ponding period in 1959, ISSUE 34 -- 1960 © $700,000 Big Head: Finally Got Holes In It! In Saigon he was known be- Lind his back as "Le Salaud" {"bum?"), a knile-slinging racke- teer whom the French finally chased out. In Marseilles, where he ran a bistro for pimps and hot-gem thieves, -he was known as "Cabudu® ("Big Head"). This reflected the impressive size of his hats. Big Head was born 46 years ago .in Corsica and christened Jean-Thomas Giudicelli. But to his home town he was "Mon- sieur le Maire," an honorary- absentee title, reflecting his gen- erosity: He bought a new organ for the church and on every visit passed out 10,000-franc notes to school children. With an income reckoned at $2,000 a .day, Big Head lived in a $140,000 villa at Cap d'Antibes where to his millionaire neigh- bours he was known as "the man in the white Cadillac." To police, however, he was "Corsi- can Johnnie," a gangland chiel- tain whom they suspected of everything from throwing acid in the face of a chiseling pros- titute to complicity in the day- light robbery (at machine-gun point) ©! the Begum Khan's worth of jewels. in 1949, Big Head only laughed. A mil- "lionaire "among millionaires; he - liked to sit on his terrace sip- ping a Scotch and soda and watching the sunset, He was doing just this one evening last month when a gunman crept up behind him and fired four shots into his back, and another into his head -- for the "coup de grace. - Wailing relatives and taut- lipped friends chartered a spe- cial plane to take Big Head back to Corsica for a lavish funeral. "Yet police feared this was not the end of the story. There was an evil portent: A cousin was seen dipping his finger Into Big Head's still-warm blood and raising it to his lips in the tra- ---ditional-Corsican-gesture of -ven-- geance, , The fears were justified. Two days after Big Head's burial, Cap d'Antibes' soft night air was shattered by seven shots heard not far from Big Head's homa. Police. found no body, only pools of blood on the grass, and concluded that vengeance had been swift and sure, By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A, B.D. gs Isajah Denounces Social and Personal Evils Isaiah '5:11-24, Memory Selection: The Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judg- ment, and God that is holy shall be 'sanctified in righteousness Isalah 5:16. In U.S.A. awoholism is the 4th most prevalent disease, being ¢x- ceeded only by heart discase, cancer and mental illness. The Yale Center of Alcoholic Studies states that there are about 5% million alcoholics. According to the National Institite of Mental Health, alcoholism is the third highest cause of admission to mental institutions. Many thous- ands of these alcoholics were di- agnosed as having permanent brain damage from alcohol. Tha picture for Canada is not signi- ficantly different. No one is immune to heart dis- ease, cancer or mental illness But the abstainer will certainly never become an alcoholic. Many social drinkers who boasted of their ability to 'take it-or leava it', have, under stresses common to life, become alcoholics. Of course the beautifully coloured advertisements never suggest tha numberless tragedies that befall so. many that partake: the high- way accidents, broken homes, ruined careers, various diseases, ete, Apparently there were alco- holics is Isaiah's' day. Isaiah says, "Woe unto them that rise up carly in the morning, that they may follow strong. drink; that continue , until night, "till wins inflame them! --Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink." Wine was in thelr feasts and they regarded not the work of the Lord. The distinction between evil and good becama blurred. Our lesson, writ Isaiah over 2700 years a r very fitting description ditions as they exist in today. Recently a young man phbned me at 4 am. He had been drink- ing and wanted to stop it. His home was gone. He had spent a month in a clinic and learned much about the disease of alco- holism but when he met the old gang again he returned to drink. We talked together and praved He confessed his sin and believed in Jesus Christ. He looks differ- - ent and acts different. He fs praising the Lord for deliver- ance. We are praying that he may continue the rest of his life in the faith of Jesus Christ. Thus he will have a happy and use- ful life. Jesus Christ can save alcoholics and all who will coma to-limer--o Most times a man gels to thinking he's a big shot, some- body fires him! Precious plants may be safely left while you are away on holi- day. Water each plant well, thea slip a polythene bag and tie the lop around the stem. This keeps moisture in the soil. i Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking A & FASCISM VISITS WASHINGTO World War Il Berlin as Geor N -- Downt head of the "American Nazi Party," and his s wastika-banded away by police. - fi own Washington, D.C.. bears a resemblance to pre- ge Lincoln Rockwell tries to revive the ghost of fascism. Rockwell, companions were hauled a »4 egy pin of eo .: Pa os