The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

: " 4 weap i 5 KE ahn. uStely eid Ey PAN] 7 When The Kids Were Snowed In At School "There won't be many people soming to the store today," Papa paid, looking out of the kitchen window. one wintry morning. "Snowing hard -- blowing too. A Good day to begin Inventory." f . "Maybe it's too stormy. for us to go to school," I said, though v not very hopetully, It wasn't that . IT didn't like school, but a change in routine was always welcome. "Maybe I could help take Inven- tory. I could hand things--" But Mamma shook her head and said firmly, "It won't hurt warmly dressed children a bit to walk less than half a mile on a straight road to school." Our Deer Forest school was not in the village but nearly half a mile out, for it had to be located in the centre of the district it 2 served. "We used to walk a mile and a half to school when I was your age and think nothing of it," she added. "A 'little snow-' storm never stopped us." "And I walked three miles -- glad of the chance to do it," sald' Papa. "Milked seven cows first: and did a lot of other chores." He had often told us of how he worked for his board and room so that he could go to: schoo! when he first came over from Norway. I could easily see there wouldn't be any use to press my request," "Come and have some buck- wheat cakes and sausages and you'll feel like getting out in the snow," advised Mamma. "And you can take your dinner." This was such an unusual concession I was almost reconciled to go- ing. It always irked me a "little to be _told that I didn't have the - same hardy outlook on life Mam- ma and Papa had had in their early youth, and I was somewhat cheered to find, on arriving at. school, that the farm children ' who lived any distance had stay- ed at home this stormy morning. Apparently they wern't as hardy Miss Ellen seemed pleased that - 80 many of us had managed to get there. Indeed most of the village children, excepting the "very little ones, were on hand, - and we gathered around the big, redhot stove, spreading out our * coats and mittens to dry on va- cant seats. . Miss Ellen said she would start the day. by reading "The First Snowfall" by James: Russell Lowell, and I listened enraptur- "ed as she' began: ] wird EAE ~~ "The snow .had- begun in the. : gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping fields: aid highways With a silence deep and white. 4 _ Mr Lowell might have been right here in our little Wisconsin vil- lage. Our fields and highways were certainly heaped "with a silence deep and white." With our smaller numbers, _ lessons and recitations went-more--{- "quickly than usual. We had time for a song or two before the noon hour, and then. we. gathered - around the stove which some of the big boys from Miss Crab- tree's room upstairs kept :well- filled with wood from the stack in the hall, and opened our din- ner pails. Hearty. sandwiches of w meat and homemade bread, cake |° and wedges of pie, doughnuts, and cookies were exchanged. Most of us went home at noon so this was a great treat. Miss Ellen ate with us and told us stories of her own childhood in South Dakota, and of how they would sometimes be snowbound for days and have to dig a tun- "nel from house to barn in order to care for the animals. "Like in 'Snowbound,'" I said eagerly, for Mamma had often recited part of that poem to. us, Miss Ellen nodded and said if we kept on with our work at the _. as their parents had been either. |. "ed for games, ) rate we'd been going, she'd read some of it to us. By this time I was enjoying myself so much I hoped the snow "would continue for several days. It never occurred to me that there might be any trouble about getting home. But as the after- noon went on Miss Ellen glanced oftener. and oftener out of the window, an anxious look on her face. She was reading "Snowbound" "and had just finished "A smooth white drift the brush« pile showed, + A fenceless drift what once was road" - when there was a tap at the door; As Miss Ellen answered it I caught a glimpse of my sister Ethel standing there and it seem- ed to me she looked frightened. "Miss Crabtree would like to see you," she said, and Miss Ellen, with a parting injunction to us , to be quiet and study while she was gone, disappeared. She was back dn a few mom- . ents looking very serious. She glanced out -at the storm once more then turned and faced us, . her eyes steady. been no sleighs on the road for much over an hour. Miss Crab- tree and I couldn't send you out on these drifted roads. And we're not sure that anyone can get « through tous. It may be we'll have to stay here all night." "A gasp of surprise and dismay seemed to go up from the whole room. For one swift moment I wondered if Mamma would be worrying about us. And what about supper? "Most of us had food left in our dinner pails which we can share," Miss Ellen was saying, her voice quiet and matter-of- fact. "We have plenty of wood: at hand. We can spread - our coats on the floor for Slecping, if necessary." "Like Snowbound," -someone said. Someone else giggled. Suddenly Miss Ellen smiled, wand that warm, bright smile lift- ed our spirits. "I needn't have warried about you. people," she | saids"Granddaughters and grand- " sons 'of pioneers, I can see that!" We finished the afternoon ses- sion in fine style, and then Miss Crabtree came downstairs, since our room was easier to heat. Miss Ellen got out a little sew- ing-kit that provided items need- We felt very grown-up playing, "Button, but- ton," who's got the button?" and "Hide the _thimble" with the; older boys and girls, ~~ Miss Ellen and. Miss Cais ce "and a few others stole anxious glances toward the window when they thought no one was look- ing, but dusk came early, the kerosene lamps were lighted, and any view of the snowy world - was. shut out, "Most of us were having too good a' time to care just then, and it was fun to open the din- ner pails once more and see what kind of a supper we could pro- vide. It wasn't very hearty, but 10 otie complained. 'Supper over, I suddenly 'began : to want: very much to see Mam- .ma, and I knew some of the others were feeling pretty for- lorn too. ~~ Miss Ellen seemed to realize it, for she said briskly, "Now, we're going to do some singing. - What shall it be?" One of the big boys called out, "Jingle Bells" and it was so ap- propriate that everybody laugh- ed. We began to sing so lustily we didn't hear the knock at the _door. But Miss Ellen did, and when she flew to answer, we all stopped singing and trooped af- _ter_ her. - There stood Papa and Mr. Gus- tafson from the livery stable, _ looking like snowmen, their big fur overcoats and caps caked with white. I flew at Papa, Snowman or not, he never. look- ed so good to me. "We had a time getting the ACROSS 2. Manipulate + Motor coach 8. Buceeeding f . Bquitahle parts A ever 4. Mock attack i nr A 5. Melody "mother 1? 8. Makesangry 7. As regards 3. [reland 8. Melilot '14. Tardy 9. Made ® 18. Make hain cereal ox necessary A 11. Public 1 i5deing house fie iid air. 1 aE. HRP SN RI aphar ~ 24. First game : ina serles » . 1. Dispose of (gL. 84 Whit £ / FRY i . Heat a justice i . Briat! : ! Risoctiet - a bf 3 name * AL ni loth Bi A) court hives isis . : Twi wai chy le Weupoh 22. Equine 4 10. Shoshonean 33. Turn ndian backward . 11, Fencing 35. Sra dumm walt 16. Russian 38 ial mountains 0 Shing . Wished 38. £ Orcolain . Flutters 40. Wild uffalo 21. Pointed 42. Maple genus 44. Needle fish 5. Bitter herb 23. Usher in 47. Suffix : HH The cream denoting tH] etecting 'nativity evice ; 48. Failure to 29. Hawaii get on base 3 rjand 49. Mead E28 ressing 51. cop per coin influence (a b) [io "There have - * glowed "blue-white "turned the water in the core's cooling jacket into steam, sleigh through -- never saw the roads drifted like this," he sald. "Some other fellows with sleighs are out there too, We ean get everybody into Deer Forest - all right, arid any children from the country we'll find place for in town." Never had coats and caps gone on "faster, Descendants of plo- neers we might be, but home safe and comfortable, Ms very appealing. All the way there we sang 'Jingle Bells." Mamma didn't say a word when we got home -- just hug- ged us. After we were fed and tucked into bed, I heard her say to Papa, "This is something' the girls will remember all their lives." She gave a big sigh, "And so will 1." By Alta Halverson Seymour in the Christian Science Monitor. Flies Could Bury The Entire World The whole "world covered .in flies to a depth of forty-seven feet -- it's a horrible thought! But this could happen if ideal breeding conditions were to last for a mere twelve months, say anti-fly campaigners who every winter think up new ways of fighting the menace of the com- mon housefly. In certain circumstances, say the experts, there might, be enough flies to bury every..city in the world. But luckily. for us, cold weather and casualties in- variably. make this impossible. But with every female fly lay- ing 800 eggs which within three - weeks can become adult flies, the world already has far too many of these pests. BAD NEWS = Wallace Gelger whose wife Burnice admitted embezzling $2 million from the Sheldon (lowa) National | Bank Jan. 17, peeks around-e- doorway. at Sheldon. Mrs. Gel. ger, 58, the well-liked daugh- ter of bank president W. P, Iverson, didn't reveal what be- came of the money she sald she took over a period .of years. Still Dangerous "Stuff To Handle At 4 o'clock one afternoon te- . cently, two young soldiers and a sailor entered SL-1 -- Station. sry Low Power Reactor One -- at the Atomic Energy Commis- sion's National Reactor Testing -- Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Their job was to hook up the contrql rods that keep the ura- nium core of the reactor from fissioning too fast and running away. Then SL-1, which the AEC is developing for remote Army posts, could be started up after a ten-day layoff. At 9:02, p.m., the alarm bells in the fire station nearby started clanging. When rescuers entered the reagtor| building, they found a radiation' level of over 1,000 roentgens (450 to 500 is lethal), The three young men were dead. " What probably happened, ac- cording to several experts, was this: A slip-up with the control rods occurred, and the nuclear core started an uncontrollable chain reaction. The uranium fuel with heat, and the sudden blast of heat, steam, --and radiation killed the three men instantly, But the task of determining the precise . se- quence, AEC Commissioner John A. McCone explained, "will be difficult because of the. presence of radioactivity." The three deaths were the first to be'caused by a reactor, in a delicate enterprise whose safety record is almost perfect. But the accident worried the AEC none- 'theless, SL-1 is situated in- an isolated. spot, but what if there -should be a slip-up in the huge atomic power 'plants now being | I + bullt near large cities? Logarithm -- Folk songs of lumberjacks. READY TO TAKE OFF? -- Rome street salesman is lost amid his wares, THE FARM FRONT Diluting the finishing rations "for pigs with ground hay in- creases the number of grade A carcasses despite the fact that fibrous feeds in finishing rations usually reduce the rate and ef- . ficiency of gains. This was the conclusion reach- ed by C.D. T. Cameron, of the '| Canada Agriculture. Experimen- tal Farm, Lennoxville, Que, tol- lowing tests there. [ [J - Mr, Cameron said that a standard finishing ration was compared with' one in which ~--ground hay (a timothy-red clover mixture) was used to replace 23- percent of the barley meal In a similar ration. The two finish- ing rations, one standard and the other altered were fed to separate groups of 24 Yorkshires, from 1 pounds to market welght. -. --® . Results showed that 92 percent of the carcasses from the herd fed the ration contalning ground ay -graded A-corripared with 71 | t of those from pigs fed he standard, or unaltered ra- tio. But the pigs ted the. standard ration giined weight more rapid- y Daily gains, according to Mr. ameron, were 1.74 pounds for pigs on the standard ration and only 1.3 pounds for those fed hay in the ration, This, he point- ed out, means that pigs on the ration containing hay require 10 days longer to reach market weight. This extra 10 days, figur- ed in cost of feed and labor, amounted to an increase in the overall cost of the animals of $15. - J leis - F Cowid on Courtenay, B.C., never had it - so good. And that goes for the : saved another 42 minutes. dairy farmer, too. ~ The Courtenay, dairy farm, has cut chore time In half by switching over to a milking parlor and bunker silos. The new system replaces one where the cows were kept In a loafing barn and tied in the old stan- chion barn twice daily for miMe- ing and feeding.. Bags of gfdin and silage from an upright silo had to be man- handled into the mangers. L] L . Replacement" of the stanchion barn by a double-six, herring- bone milking parlor and of the upright silo and mangers by bunker silos now permits one man to feed and milk in the same time that it formerly took two 'men to do the job. Total chore time was 241 min-. "utes for- a 30-cow herd under the - old systém and only. .139 minutes for 38 cows under the new system. This represented an average saving of four min- utes per cow. . Ld LJ " The milking parlor proved to be the greatest time saver. Daily milking time was cut by 30 minutes, The pipeline milker' In- stallation of.a bulk tank is ex- pectett to cut gnother 20" minutes from chore time, : . LJ * : At the Courtenay farm, now, the grain is fed automatically into the milking parlor. Open- a dairy farm at 4 ing the gate to the bunker silos takes but a minute compared with 47- minutes for feeding grain and silage under the old system. While a total of 22 minutes is still required to wash the milking parlor, this is offset by a saving of six minutes in wash- ing the milking equipment and" of several hours normally re- quired for cleaning the barn. * * . Extra milk sales are expected to result from the recent intro- duction to Canada of--a-varlety | of new liquid dietary foods, most of which are built round a basis of skim milk or skim milk solids. More than 40 new prepara- tions of this nature are being. sold in the United States and some are gaining widespread acceptance now in Canada. A spokesman for the Canada De- . partment of Agriculture said this development should Provids.. a wider market for_solids-not- _ "fat and non-fat milk. Some pro- _ ducers in the U.S.A.- claim that - the dietary drinks are Zompelng against fluid milk sales and they demand that milk products. go- ing into dietary drinks should be classified .as whole milk. LJ . * Those who are interested In losing welght usually do not drink - whole milk and it Is more likely that consumers of the liquid diets represent - new business to the milk industry Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking - + occasion, 4 bh 3204 and not converts from whols milk dlets. Jt would be time to go Into this aspect whem the impact of the new produgt on the industry was better known. Skim milk in both dry and liquid form has been a surplus problem in Canada and an process which promises to absor more of it should first be given smple opportunity to establish tgelf among Canadlans who feel 'that dietary liquids are the best answer to weight problems. Plants Cause Plane Crashes A beautita] 341 strangial lo at work. It ls the floating, Blug- purple water hyacinth which is threatening to choke whole stretches of the River Nile along some of {its 4,000-mile course. Water hyacinths there are growing so fast and luxuriantly that in places, after the clumps have drifted together, they are -a yard thick, blocking the water- way. Drastic steps are being taken to check the fantastic growth of the hyacinths which make a great blaze of colour but are hated by navigators. It is a seri- ous problem when there is dan- ger of ships being held up by mere flowers so the work of clearance has been speeded up on- the Sometimes the pllots of alr- craft have mistaken hyacinth- grown stretches of river for landing strips in parts of the "North and South American con- tinents and the 'planes have bean lured to destruction. ~ Recently the weed has been making fishing and navigation difticult on parts of the River Congo and its tributaries and has become a grave threat to the Nile water system. "A single rosette of the plant is sufficient to cover a large water surface within a few months," says an official. "Once it is firmly established, the com- plete eradication of the water "hyacinth is almost impossible." Not only do clusters of water hyacinths drift together on varl- ous waterways in many parts of the world, but their roots also interlace In such a manner that the beds form, a solid mass, choking up vital channels. The St. John's River in Flor- ida was once so completely clog- ged by water hyacinths that even big steamers were unable two tug-boals did manage . do tow one ship through the mass ~ of plants. Some years ago, Mississippi flood waters burst through man- made barriers and endangered the lives of thousands of people. Rescue work was held up not only by storms but by a far more sinister menace -- the deadly water hyacinth, Enormous masses blocked the river and jammed against the "bridges: Tt became so difficult to carry on that relief squads had | "to use dynamite and then saws to clear a way through the entangl- ing roots. Until 1936 hyacinth growth on many rivers of the world was checked by spraying with a solu- tlon of arsenle and soda, but the danger to human beings and livestock led to this method be- "ing abandoned. Even flame - throwers have been tried. Petrol was sprayed over the hyacinths and ignited. All exposed portions were quick- ly destroyed but in less than a week the unharmed, submerged roots put forth fresh tentacles. HIGH ABOVE SUSPICION Police of Santa Monica had to* question William Howard regarding a robbery. That Howard was not the wanted man was proved when he verified his statement that, for the previous 27 days--which included the-date of the robbery --he had been pole-squatting at the top of a 65-ft. high flagstaff as a publicity stunt. : f i IRF RAAYY BPS Nile in recent months. e 3 Vidds Vivi ~~ Fa rs /, DS A » By Rev. R. Barclay Warren BA, BD. Christ Satlsfles Vito's Huoger John 6: 25-40 Jesus' teeding of of the multlt was another of His miracles thal led to a great discourse, I re member hearing a sermon of sixteen years of age, a few months after I had surrender ny. life te Jesus Christ, The preacher's was from oue lesson, Ap is v Tad herd, which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes." The lad gave his lunch to Jesus who blessed it and fed the crowd. I took courage that day. I didn's have much but I saw that with the Lord's blessing, my little in His hands, could feed many. Jesus can still do wondrous things if we give ourselves wholly to Him. As the disciples gave out, there was more. So it is; the more we give, the more wa have to give. Besides, each disci- ple had a basketful left over. The next: day Jesus unfolded to the people the deeper signfi- cance of the miracle. -the words that form our mem- ory selection, "I am the bread of lite: he that cometh to Ma shall never hunger; and. he that believeth on Me shall never thirst." John 6:35. Jesus Christ, and Him alone, can satisfy tha deep hunger and thirst of tha human heart. One day, a hearl- hungry woman living in an ex- pensive ranch bungalow with the best of furniture, said, "I know there is more to life than a beautiful home." Many are finding' this true. Many are dis- satisfied and do not know what Is wrong. We just can't satisfy ourselves on things. When God formed man from the dust of the earth, He breathed Into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. We are immortal spirits who will live forever. We are never hap- py until we get into harmony with the Great God who created us. We find this place of rest and peace when we turn from our sins and believe on Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour. He is the BREAD OF LIFE, to cut their, way through. But Zj=--. LIGHT STEPS -- French shep- herd wears fog lights on the stilts he uses to get around the marshy, fog-covered flat- lands of southwestern France near Mont-de-Marsan, He uses the lights to see and be seen. ISSUE J -- 1961 FINGER PAINTING MASTERPIECE ~ Some critics say this painting fs {ust boing as art. Others, including its owner, Mrs. Thea Tanner, who displays it in Stock plod off olm, Swe- den, think it's great. The piece was executed by painter Stellan Morner, who First presiad his hands in paint, then onto thé canvas. 5 x F ros LAIN at EEL a of SNES Butoh Gove ih) He spoke - Tah pn Ry SAE A a { $ |