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Spuds And Automation

Automation is beginning to play its part in potato production. as in other agricultural pursuits. It has already taken most of the work at a big potato farm in Sin- cum. Rhorle island; and a descript- ion of the operations there. which are said to be the most successful in- the. northeastern States. might be of intorcst to our own producers.

The farm is operated by Mr. Winfield Tucker. a graduate in agricultural engineering from the University of Rhode Island. who owns some 800 acres and leases as many as 200 more. By operating two harvesters requiring two men each. Mr. Tucker is able to cover as much as 2‘1. acres in an hour. His labor costs have boon cut in half with mechanization. After the potatoes leave the field. conveyor belts place them in the large store.- house under controlled conditions of heat and humidity.

Since the potatoes are sold for potato chips all year long. it, is very important that they stay fresh; and this is achieved by a temperature scanning dm‘ico with recording cables in each of the 20 bins. which instantly reports conditions indicat- ing spoilage. and warns when a bin must be quickly unloaded. When potatoes are. ready for shipping, most, of them headed to Miami. Florida. by truck. samples from each load are. sliced and fried for texture checks.

Some of Mr. Tucker’s fields have produced over 400 bags of potatoes an acre through use. of scientific soil preparation and planting meth- orls. He also applies pesticides by plane and helicopter for efficiency and to keep the soil from becoming packcd by much machine usage.

What. Is worth noting is that. with the help of his engineering background. this farmer always tries to moot problcms in his opera- tion with new devices. He has en- gineered most. of the tech nical operations on his up-to-date plant. Many of those have been used by other producors. and there. is no doubt that this trend toward auto- mation will become more and more general in future.

When The Presses Stop

One. of the most interesting features of the newspaper strike in New York has been the proof which it affords of the impossibility of filling the. vacuum in other ways. Radio and television have‘done their best to moot. the needs and have. given good prrblic service; but the strike has served to illustrate

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the differences b e t. w e e 11 these .

media. on the one hand, and the newspapers on the other. ' News announcements of all kinds are now being broadcast. But the difficulty is that unless a person is present at the time of the broad- cast. he misses the item and Is without a means of reference.‘ Moreover. it takes a long time to give have in detail. with the re- call: that the listener or viewer is "being drowned in Words. He cannot select which items of news really interest him; he cannot pick and choose. He may have to listen at length to almost everything, while wetting for the particular matter he wants to learn about. And hav- ing heard it. he has no means after- wards of being euro that he rightly member-elf. ’

More than this, the time taken- bcwa at length, imbued of

invading the set number of hours that broadcasting has at its dis- posal. Other programs are being pressed off the air. so that sched- ulcs are described as “fouled up.” It is the special capacity of the newspaper. of course. to be avail- able when and where the reader wants it.

This is only one aspect of the problcm of living in a big city with- orrt newspapers. The housewife no longer has the store advertisements to look over. People seeking work don't have the classified columns. Employm‘s are without the usual means of ndvcrtising for workers. Real estatc dealers are having dif- ficulty in rcaching clients. Land- lords rcnting apartments. or ten- ants wishing to rent them. have no meeting place in the papers.

Businesses have postponed the announcement of new appointments. Stockholders hardly know whether they are winning or losing without their familiar financial pages and the. closing quotations. and news of the business world. Girls are get- ting cngaged and oven married with a silence and sccrccy they do not care for. Even obituaries are miss-

,cd. and the number attending fune-

rals is Comparatively small. Many pedple. in fact. do not know whether their friends are dead or alive.

A striking example of the. truth of the old adage that yort never miss the water till the well runs dry.

The Work Goes On

As noted in a Canadian Press story. although the Trans-Canada Highway was declared officially open in September, many hundreds of milcs along the 4.860-mile route have not yet been brought tip to standards set by the Federal Gov- ernment. Only four provinces have finished their sections: and it is a matter for satisfaction that Prince Edward Island is among them. It shares this distinction with Mani- toba, Saskatchewan and 'Alberta.

Other provinces are mostly en- gaged in bringing already paved roads up to standards, except for Newfoundland where the route stretches across difficult terrain that was entirely unpaved. Because of its unique problem, the New- foundland g0vernment has urged Ottawa to pay 90 per cent of its Trans-Canada costs. It has complet- ed only about one-third of its 540 miles.

In Nova Scotia, efforts in 1962 were confined to grading and pre- paring 12 miles at a cost of $1.- 600,000. In New Brunswick. with 213 of 390 miles completed, work in 1962 included 21.7 miles graded. 14.6 miles paved. 11.9 miles sealed and four bridges erected. Our own 71-mile section was completed in this province in 1961.

Other parts of Canada are well along with the exception of Quebec. which got off to a late start because it entered the federal-pm» vincial agreement 11 years after most other provinces, and has com- pleted only six of its 399 miles.

The continent-spanning highway was to have been completed in 1956. The, deadline has been extend- ed twice and now it is Doc. 31. 1963. There is no doubt that a further extension will be required, but this is not uncommon in tremendous undertakings of this kind.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Asked what it did in 1962. says the London Economist, the world can reply curtly that it survived: and it will be excused if. breathing hard. it declines to prophesy about 1963.

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Egyptian professors have solved the mystery of a painful allergy af- flicting archaeologists working among ancient. mummies. These el- Iergies caused severe inflammation of trho nose and throat and have been traced to tWo kinds of micro- scopic fungus, which have survived 1,500 years

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The Japanese claim that their cattle produce the beat beef in the world; better even than the Scot- tish Aberdeen-Angus. And, they say, it is because Japanese cattle arefedonbeerend bemoth massage their cows with ahochu, I powerful native beverage which in produced from the sweet potato. This name distributes whet le claimed to be snow-white fet eval- 1y through the meat.

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SALVAGE-El OPERATIONS

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

Year End Chills Proved Memorable

People living in Ottawa today will proudly recount to their grandchildren how they surviv- ed the historic New Ycar's cele- brations at the close of the year 1962

Ibwnsn'l thc parties that men- aced us. although engagement books show that Ottawans were

hosts and guests at more con-1

viviality than ever bcfore. No. the danger lay in leaving the gay and hospitable warmth of a party to return home.

The year-end nCWspapers headlined the trouble briskly: "Bitter cold and blizzards hit Ontario. No relief expected un- til 1963."

So Ottawa was not alone In the Big Frccze. But Ottawa, with no settlement bigger than a cluster of igloos between it» self and the North Pole. gener- ally feels very much chiller than other Ontario centres. At this time of the year. we Ottawans

envy balmy Oshawa with its,

lakcshore beaches, and Welland deep in the Banana Belt.

Other parts of Canada felt the .

year-end chill too, as did the Countries in the Old World. One Ottawa newspaper reported: “It was cold today In the Yu- kon. High temperatures for the day were 51 below at Dawson City. 44 below at Snag, and 34 below at Whitehorse."

Does that make you shivcr'.’ Well. here in Ottawa it was 66 below, or a mere 98 degrees of frost on the Fahrenheit scale. when I switched on my car on New Year's Eve. (It's a Chev- rolet. it startcd ~— Ad.) DEGREES DON‘T COUNT

"Sixty-six below in Ottawa? That's impossiblel': you may say. Well. it was the equivalent of sixty-six below when you take into account the. Wind Chill Factor which I. as a shivering veteran from points deep in the

Arctic, know all about.

It took the highly organized Canadian Army to begin measure what the Eskimoes and l the fur-traders had suffered for l centuries without arithmctic. I Living. working and perhaps

fighting in the Arctic, the Army ! had to know just when to give I up battle and concentrate on t bare survival. So the Army took 1 p new system of measuring

the effective temperature. call ed the Wind Chill Factor. T h is derives from the human but un- scientific discovery that cold feels much colder if there Is a strong wind blowing too. As the Army's pamphlet on Arctic Survival asserts: “Tem- perature alone does not give a true picture of the relative com- fort. of outdoor activiticsz” Hu- man comfort depends upon the rate at which heat is lost from the body. The number of color- ies which will burn up off'on e square metre of skin in one hour is called the Wind Chill Factor. At a WCF of 100. one can S u n- balh in comfort: but when the.

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WCF rises to 1400, exposed flesh ;

Normal January conditions on .

the airficlds at Vancouver. Ot-

tawa and innipeg respective-

ly show WCF's of 780. 1200 and

1450.

On Now Ycar's Eve in Ottawa the tcmpcraturc was a not. un- bcarablc nor unusual fifteen be- low. But the wind blew at a rare and bitter 35 miles per

i hour. That combined to give

, an intolerable WCF of just over

12000. equivalent to sixty-six below in still air. At that WCF. according to that same Army pamphlet. "exposed areas of flesh freeze within one

is l l l lminutc. Travel. and life In I l

which

temporary shelter, becomes dangerous." Ignorant and per- haps blissful. the entire popula- . lion of Ottawa was risking dan- lgcr in order to travel that

Freeze now nor more than chap- ped ears and broken finger . nails. Ottawans are thinking of petitioning the local meteorolo- gists to annnounce not the tem- perature which we can expect. l but the Wind Chill Factor which we must fear — just as they do lway up North at Fort Church-

Samuel de Champlain. Can- ada's leading entry in the lists of the world‘s interesting people. had the endearing quality of oc- casionally being wrong. His ad- venture wjth the strange bird in

good sample.

First. he went on another of his Invasions of What Is now the US. Some historians frown on these expeditions. but others hold that the Iroquois would have fought the French any-

PUBLIC

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OI.D "Y" PHOTOGRAPH

Sin—The Y.M.C.A. has avail- able a photograph of the old Y.M.C.A. on Richmond which Is to be hung In the present “Y”.

As a matter of historic record it would be of interest to estab- lish the year in which this was taken. The only clue is a car In- cluded in the picture -— e Pon- tiac sedan bearing license plate n u m —- the figures showing as a dark color on a light-colored plate. At a guess the date ls perhaps between 1948 -—- 1953.

Possibly some reader of your Public Forum might be able to assist in this matter. ‘

I am. Sir. etc, B. FRANK TINNEY

‘ Charlottetown.

MASS DESTRUCTION

Sin—What is wrong with the citizens of this city who allow fine historical buildings to be flattened? Thousands of dollars wasted and hard work reduced to rubble. Were not these old monuments something to be treasured? Take. for instance. the old Cabot building; thou- sands of dollars have been spent on it In recent years. This flne old building lent quietness and dignity to the once uti-

vlnclal building standing alone. I design of e her a.

I I'll. Sli'. etc" EVERETT FOSTER

statements of our political lead- ers must mean. It was refresh- ing to me, therefore. what General Louris Norstad, retired Supreme Allied mander in Europe. had to say at Ottawa concerning Canada's role in this matter. This dedi- cated officer made it clear that Canada will not be living up to It: NATO commitments if it doesn't accept. nuclear warheads under a bilateral agreement with the United States. For it is patently obvious that our air div- ision and army brigade group in Europe, without nuclear cap- ebllity. are "sitting ducks" in the 375,000 Russian troops in East Germany armed to the teeth with full nuclear

powe .

Moreover. lt ll common know- ledge that the air defence of the North Amerlcen hemisphere was in so one perdy during the recent Cuban crisis. when Can- ada’s elr arm in NORAD lack- ed the neceeery nuclear punch.

Since last month's Kennedy- Mechllen meeting at Nassau. the clerk fact emerges that Bri- leln is no longer a first-class military power. and indeed. de- pends for Its survival tlike Can- ede) on the nuclear protection of the United States.

The time Is opportune for e M eppreleel of Canada's ermed forces. along the lines of unification. end ultimete inle- tretlou with lhoee of the United mm. It wee e Ilreleglc error

under the of the lrltllh Army of the too. The RCA! to Europe did not repeat. tlrle mistake. r North American continent

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way. over the fur-trade routes. Champlain attacked a fort near Lake Oneida in Nelson Rocke- feller's state.

He failed to take the. fort. He then rcgroupcd to the north. across what is now the Cana- dian line and. while there was still some likelihood of a count- er attack. went out hunting and lost for three ay "having followcd a certain bird that seemed to me peculiar," as he reports in his Voyages.

Champlain says that the bird “had a beak like that of a per- rot and was the size of a hen. It was entirely yellow except the hen which was red. and the wings which were blue, and It flew by intervals like a partrid- ge." He followed it “from tree to tree for u long time unfll ll flew away in good earnest."

After that. Champlain took three days finding his way back to the other hunters. his Huron allies. Among his mistakes. he had forgotten to bring along the compass he had used in chart- ing uccurabely most of the northeast coastline of the Ameri- can continent and to gain the Atlantic-crossing record. He held this record of finding his way for so long—e century end more—that nobody has been able to beat him.

This time. however, he says that the Hurons “begged me not to stray off from them any more. and never to forget to carry my compass." .

Champlaln‘s description of the strange bird he followed may have been set down after his mixed-up days in the woods. This could explain the difficul- ty of trying to figure out whet bird it was. Hen-elm. with e parrot beak, “entirely yellow. except the head which was red and the wings which were blue. and it flew by Intervals like I partridge."

WINS CANE

TROIS-RIVIERES. Quc. (CP) The moo-ton Deullh freighter Helge Den. carrylng general cargo from Hemburg. Antwerp and Liverpool, errived New Yeer'e Day to become the fire!

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Larynv Cancer Not Elusive One

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dolle-

CANOER of the larynx is not an elusive or sneaky tumor. .It produces hoarseness early in its development and at a stage when cure is possible. In addi- tion. it usually is located in an eree that is easy to examine with a special mirror.

But there is a limit to how long these growths can be ne- glected Hoarseness is caused by a cold as a rule or misuse of the voice but investigation is In

This Pig 3 must even though there still Is a good chance that some- thing other than cancer is re- sponsible for the r o u g h a n d froggy voice.

Why the rush then? Every cancer is a potential killer and must be dealt with sooner or Ia- ter. But early treatment has an additional advantage so far as concerns this tyoc of canccr. A small growth often can be re- moved without destroying the vocal cords. This means the victim retains his voice in ad- dition to having his life spared.

The longer the de ay. the more extensive the operation. Statistics obtained from surveys covering thousands of patients over a quarter of a century

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small malignancies requiring a .-

sirnpler or conservative opera-

tion. On the other hand. there Is

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no choice when the malignancy . has invaded most of the larynx .

The structure must be removed and in many instances the near-

by glands ln the neck must be . dissected out. The voice of the 1

individual is lost but he [can learn to speak again. utilizing artificial aids such as a transis- torized larynx. It is surprisrng

how well these men and women . _ do after several

practice ses-

sions. ‘ Individuals who have under-:

gone this operation have organ- ized into an international asc- cialion for rehabilitation of those who have lost the larynx to cancer. It is called the Inter- national Association of Laryn- gectomces and the American

:Edward Island and Manitoba ‘ respective y

Cancer Society can furnish in-. formation on the club In you r

area. a (Dr. Van Dellen wtll answer

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everything for no reason. He also brags about himself and knows everything. Do you think he needs mental care?

E? A psychiatrist may help. pro- vided ycur husband can bc con- vinced of the need for this type

rghl. : of care. A more thorough inves- | With that Memorable Big

ligation would be needed to de- termine whether his behavior represents an anti-social person- ality. PROTECT EYES

J.P.R. writes: I‘d like to keep my summer tan by using a sun lamp for 10 minutes ev- ery day. Is it safe to do so. keeping the eyes closed. or should dark glasses be worn?

REPLY

Wear dark lenses just in case you should open the eyes. This Is emporlant because sunburn- lng the eyes may lead to Irrep- arable damage.