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Port Perry Star (1907-), 8 Nov 1962, p. 2

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AS A oY CSTE Pigeons-The Poor Man's Race-Horse A slat-sided truck drove into a field near Charlottesville, Va. one morning last month and bumped gingerly to a halt. A man got out, walked to the rear of the vehicle, and raised the sides. At once dozens of beaked heads on gray, feathery necks shoved forward, beady eyes peer- ing suspiciously. The man jump- ed back as a few birds flapped out of the stacked crates, follow- ed immediately by more and then still more--1,400 in all, fly- ing truck-high for several yards and then swarming upward, their wings beating out an angry roar, like a baseball crowd greeting a Roger Maris strike-out. This was the start of one of the big homing-pigeon races of the East Coast fall season. The birds would travel all day at about 40 miles an hour--with occasional tail-wind sprints up to 75--and reach their home roosts around New York City, 300 miles away, by sundown. Sal Russo tigured his best bird for a likely winner, but she fin- ished fifth. A Bronx accountant, Russo is an example of the new type of pigeon fancier and a far cry from the stereotyped slum boy wistfully tending his half- dozen birds on a tenement roof. "Keeping pigeons is an expensive hobby," he says. "With training and shipping costs, 1 spend $40 a week during racing scasons, and about $1,000 all year around on 100 pigeons. Some of the racing birds are worth $200. I've turned down $500 for a female breeder." But the returns are also high these days. At some of the larg- er meets, prizes and betting pools yield thousands of dollars to the owners of successful birds. If the financial stakes have risen, the hazards of the sport remain the same. For pigeons are not the most dependable of creatures, and they are capable of disastrous mistakes. Thirsty racers in California have been known to swoop low over oil sumps, thinking they were water, and oil-log their wings. One pi- geon, released outside Los An- geles and aimed for his home 25 miles away, was ultimately dis- covered perched in some bewild- erment on a tree beside a lock of the Panama Canal. And once a "bird gets lost he's forever useless for racing; his confidence is gone. Some fanciers go to great lengths to coax maximum speed from their racers. For example, they use motherhood ruthlessly. A setting pigeon will suddenly become aware that one of her eggs--which she had assumed was several days from hatching --has mysteriously become al- most a point. Not realizing that -a-substitution-has-been made, the bird will be outraged when she is taken abruptly from her nest, crated, and {transported to the race. Once released, she will fly back to her eggs with the great- est possible speed. Such tactics are condoned in the best pigeon-racing circles, from California and Texas to Michigan and Pennsylvania. The fanciers have matter-of-factly ac- knowledged their fierce competi- tiveness by adopting cheatproof mechanical timers for their con- "courses, where victory margins are measured in split seconds. The lure of the sport was caught very simply not long ago by Pau! Bothner, a California high- way patrolman who has raced pigeons for nearly 30 years. "A racing pigeon," Bothner said as he waited for his own birds to finish a concourse," is a poor man's race horse." --from NEWSWEEK WINDOW CLEANING -- Arno Meyei, who sailing model of the "Eagle of Lubeck' is really a window cleaner. He builds the ships in West Berlin, Germany. built this large Tough Year For Channel Swimmers Upwards of $60,000, according to one reliable estimate, has been spent this year by . swimmers from as many as a dozen coun- - tries trying to conquer the Eng- lish Channel. Yet not one has made it. If anyone does make it now, he or she will set a new record for lateness. In 87 years of Eng- lish Channel! swimming nobody has managed it later than Oct. 14. That was as long ago as 1927 when a Yorkshire housewife, Mrs. Ivy Gill, crossed from France to England in 15h. 9m. After mid-October the water gets progressively colder and conditions generally more uncon- genial. Not that they have been at all congenial in the period that passed as summer, 1962. Water temperature was seldom more than 61 degrees Fahren- heit (16 Centigrade) and favor- able tides and winds rarely com- bined. i The only successful amphibians at the time these lines went into print were those artifically aid- ed. On July 11, New Yorker Fred Baldasare fulfilled three years of frustrated effort by making an underwater journey from---France to England in 19h. 01m. Eighteen days later, Lon- doner Simon Paterson, also wear- ing a frogman's outfit, completed the same journey in 14h. 50m. There is no official record of channel challenging kept. Any- body can walk into the sea at Dover and strike out for the coast of France, or vice versa. Soma people do just that very thing, requiring no fuss at all Others, usually sponsored, seek all the publicity they can get. In most cases, however, an authentic aspirant to swim the English Channel is one who has proved himself in other waters. He wants to pit his strength and skill against a strip of water no- toricusly unpredictable and re- garded as the supreme test by most of the world's greatest long- distance swimmers. Shortest distance between Eng- land and the continental main- land of Europe is 21 miles. But a swimmer must be expected to cover a distance at least half as much again on account of tidal currents that sweep up and down the Straits of Dover. A good "swimmer can turn these tides to advantage, leaving on an outgo- ing one and sweeping in on an incoming one, To get best advice in this di- rection it is necessary to engage the course in an accompanying motor launch. The pilot knows the times of the favorable tides and proposes that the swimmer should be ready to go at a speci fied time. The swimmer orders the boat and boatman, an experi- enced pilot. He plots calls for an observer from the Channel Swim- ming Association, and retires for eight or nine hours' rest before embarking. During that nine hours a great deal can happen. The winds whistle up and the currents, liable to sudden change on ac- count of the ever-moving Good- win Sands, play havoc with the best-laid plans, writes Sydney Skitton in the Christian Science Monitor. Between Aug. 7-12 this year, for example, when the neap tides were favorable and several well- known challengers were encamp- ed on the coast, gales of such ferocity whipped up the channel "that ferry boats were stopped a number of times. { Despite this, and as a matter of interest on the growing vol- ume of traffic between England and the mainland, a record 2,- 200,000 passengers had crossed by Aug. 20. It was 170,000 up on the previous summer. For the channel swimmers, of course, it was disastrous. They spent money engaging boats and pilots and in most cases had spent their allotted waiting time too. One who remained longer than others was the 25-year-old Amer- ican girl from Detroit, Mary Revell. She made an attempt as late as Oct. 10, but after getting halfway to France retired on ac- count of cold after five hours. Temperature of the water was then 55° degrees Fahrenheit (13 Centigrade). Miss Revell, who arrived there with successful conquests of the Straits of Gibraltar, the Darde- nelles, and the Bosporus to her string, first tackled the channel on Sept. 24. She wanted to be- come the first woman to make it . there and back. But she gave up after about gix miles in 4h, 33m. Argentina's Antonio Abertondo made history last year as the first man to make it there and back. Miss Revell"s boat and crews, pilots and board, are understood to have cost something inthe region of $1500. That upwards of $60,000 has been spent through- out the year gives some idea of the number of people who still believe there to be a future in challenging the channel. PERFUMED GASOLINE! If anyone manages to steal gasoline from a United States naval base in Florida, it won't take the Navy long to get on their scent, To thwart potential thieves the Navy is adding quantities of sweet and pungent perfume to the gasoline in all the base's storage tanks, All the sentries at gates on the base have been instructed to question 'drivers of cars and other vehicles which smell too: Paying For Damage Not Sufficient There are in Monte Vista, as in all places, recurring incidents of .vandalistn. The problem is worse at some times than at others, perhaps worse now than in earlier days. But the most worrying aspect of the problem is that nowadays so many of the vandals, when caught, seem to fee] that paying for the damage '--a broken window, for instance --"makes everything all right." They don't seem to feel that the vandalism was wrong, but simply that they erred in getting caught. Irrespective of the dollars and cents damage caused, which may be minimal or great, vandalism shows a lack of respect for the rights, as well as the property, of others that augurs a lack of moral values. The tradition] li- berty of Hallowe'en has been borne with and conducted for many years--but we can't have Hallowe'en all the year around. And even on Hallowe'en, tricks should no longer be considered within bounds when they be- come destructive. As Christians, and as members of a democratic society, Ameri- cans have tradiiionally believed in the right of the individual. But this inalienable right carries with it the obligation of accord- ing to the rights of others the same rights which we enjoy our- selves, Individual rights do not include the right to destroy the peace or property of fellow citi- zen:--even if we're willing to pay for the damage, if caught. It is to be hoped that we will never allow the "Almighty Dol- lar" to replace the Ten Com- mandments. --Monte Vista (Colo.) Journal # GROWING PAINS -- Joe Sny- der, 5, is almost ready to take part in a football game, but he'll have to.grow a little, first. The New Gypsies Of The Space Age Gold Rush--with a different kind of prospector. Teday's prospec- tors are highly educated scien- tists, engineers, and - technicians who move across: America like an undulating wave. Most of these new migrants are in the aerospace industry -- an indus- try cmploying approximately 1,- 900,000 skilled scientists and en- gincers, 14 per cent of whom are in constant movement, transfer- ring from one company to an- other, or from one location to another within the same com- pany. Sade Why do they move? To work the new gold veins. Some move by 'choice -- jockeying for posi- tlon in the new world of space and missile research and devel- opment, Some move. to.find more challenging problems, or a better scientific climate, Most of them move because they must. When a contract is canceled or cut back, or when an activity is phased out, these skilled men, educated to a specialty within a special- ized field, "have no alternative but to follow the missile money. Why is contract . cancelation necessary? Because the speed of technological advance is so great it cannot be anticipated. What is a dream today is a reality to- morrow, and obsolete a few months latér. Since 1050, over 52 major missile programs ("ma- jor" meaning-a contract in excess of $1,000,000) have been cancel- ed, .at .a .cost ..of .more .than $6,000,000,000, There are 736 prime contractors and over 100,- 000 small confractors in the mis- _environment to meet their needs. preferably at bargain prices, (When the Navaho was canceled, scientific personnel took as much as $200 a month cut in salary just to remain in the area.) When the man finds he must relocate, he takes what- ever job is offered. The more specialized his skills, the higher the position he held, the higher his academics degrees, the higher his salary, the more difficult it is for him to find another job. Re- locating then becomes the least of his problems. These aerospace industry scien- tists, engineers and technicians call themselves "missile bums," a term they use affectionately, within the confines of their own close-knit group. They know that crop, their specialized needs have made boom-towns. out of way- stations, The three self-styled "space capitals of the free world" are representative of dozens of these new "instant cities." Cocoa, Flor- ida (metropolis for Cape Canav- eral) had a population of 12,000 in 1950, 40,000 by 1960. Lompoc, California (metropolis for - Van- denberg Air Force Base) had a 1957 population of 6,665, a 1960 population of 32,000. Huntsville, former cotton capital of Alabama, had a 1960 population jump to 70,000. Helping these instant cities take on a character for the fu- ture are the thousands of root- less, transplanted men and wo- men who have devoted a lifetime to specialized study. These are the men whose work in research and development, individually and as part of a team, will make tomorrow for the entire world. These missile bums, representing a combination of all the scien- tific disciplines, are the men on whom the future depends, ac- cording to Max and Nikki Pape in the Christian Science Monitor. Their wives, usually well-edu- cated, bring to their new envi- ronment an interest in curremt affairs and a desire for intellec- tual activity. They organize little theater groups, discussion groups, book review seminars and form local chapters of the American Association of Univer- sity Women, and the League of Women Voters. The nomadic: life is not an easy one for them; it is a steady drain on emotional and financial resources. For the professional woman, the constant moving often spells the end of her own career. It is a sacrifice demanded by the nature of the industry. The aerospace industry has in- fluenced every feet of American life. It has added words to the language (15,000), has changed the physical face of America, and has made migrants out of the technological work force. But no matter where the new gold pros- pectors settle, they change the ~ In their wake come new housing developments, with names like "Countdown Acres," or "Van- guard Homes"; bars and restaur- ants with names like "Launch Luncheonette," "Atlas Eatery," "Missile Inn," and highly accel- erated educational, recreational, and cultural activities. : Prospector, missile bum or nomad -- call them what you will, they are today's new fron- tiersman. They are of the same stock as those who, a century before, pushed west in covered wagons. Today, they are opening new frontiers of knowledge; their monuments are being built in space. DRIVE WITH-CARE-K Fy SALLY'S SALLIES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES NURSES WANTED 'NEW INVENTIONS ; NEW PRODUCTS 5 MOMEV" NEW IDEAS WE develop. finance and sell ANY PROFITABLE IDEA HU 9.4443, BOX 154, POSTAL STA. 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ISSUE 45 -- 1962 HOT SITUATION -- Steel beams and guard rail of over- pass on Chicago, Ill., express- way begin to buckle from heat of blazing gasoline truck. sweetly of perfume as they ap- proach the various exit gates. sile/space industry, Cancellation {E BLUE GOOSE ESS -- Two REA ne | ope Po on pa THE BLUE GOOSE EXPRESS -- Two thirds automobile and one-third locomotive. a unique vehicle transports personnel between U.S. Gyp gc ; CAB £ : Officials report that several | grams affect employees of both : sum Co.'s plant and quarry at Plaster Ci NEW SLANT. ANT + i ch hibi arrests have been mage in recent the prime and the. indy Calif.' Dubbed the Blue Goos e, the 34-foot-lung, 6,000-pound rail car 'des along at % eit of France's leading ski champs exhibit weeks, A few days after an announced m.p.h. on eight steél-cord tires with flanges attached:to the inner hubs. It's powered by a contract - cancelation, recruiters from rther companies try to pick up the cream of © the working ther skill on a jade ski run, which forms the centra- ece of the | ational Winter Sports Exhibition held in glond's Alexandra Palace in London, ; 160-h.p. engine positioned between two. 1953 Chrysler bodies and f emergency brakes, insulation, air conditioning and to way radios No Ta I Girls who wear tight trousers Blue Goose around after its: 26 mile run, for each cab hus separate controls, usually get a lot of Stern looks. ': : : SH . : : AT 2 § vis Ret a i EET <

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