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Flesherton Advance, 11 May 1949, p. 3

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• ^^ m ir â- ar 1 r I r i 3 i «. I t r <â-ºâ- â-  1 41 Low-SIung Streamliner Hugs the Rails â€" TLic tirat iraiii ever to lje built in Aincnca lja>i.U uu the Spanish "Pateiites Talgo" is now ready for testing and demonstration. The revolutionary streamliner, above, literally hugs the rails. The locomotive is two feet lower than a standard diesel-electric and coaches are four feet lower than present-day cqiiiijnient without loss of interior space. A floor level only 18 inches above the rails brings pas.<cn;^ers down to the level of people standing on the station platform. Each coach unit has only one pair of wheels, in the rear. The front is supported by a special coupling arrangement on the unit ahead of it. The engine rides on conventional type trucks. Low center of gravity isexpci-ted to reduce "rocking." Due to its unique desig'n and all-aluminum construction it weighs nearlv 75 per cent less than an ordinary train. Mr. Diggles On Duty Br MARY WHITEFORD Mr. Diggles kept his head down M though he were studying the Brescription, scarcely hearing Mrs. Tompkin's voice through the noise tof blood thudding hi his temples. When he tried to speak, his lips were dry and his tongue moved nervously over them. "I beg your oardon, Mrs. Tompkins, what was fliat you said?" "I said if you haven't a delivery *oy I'll wait for th« three o'clock l>us. but I'm anxious to get back as loon as I can." He looked again at Dr. Price's •ramped handwriting. "Oh, I'll de- Mver it, Mrs. Tompkins. I'm sorry to learn Mr. Tompkins isn't well." "I told him it's just his bad dis- position coming out. I told Dr. Price I certainly hated to drag him out in weatlier like this just for a stomach ache. Doctor says he'll bt til right n a day or two." Mr. Diggles took the handker- •hief from the pocket of his grey tlpaca coat and wiped his forehead. The moment he used to dreaiu of jrtars ago, was here at last. This would cost Dlr. Price his practice. Dr. Price sac down and mopped his forehead. The pity was. Dr. Price would never know he could have saved himself, if he hadn't made it So clear that a tnan who mixed prescriptions wasn't supposed to know about diag- nosis. Dr. Price would never know what he'd done to himself when he told Mrs. White she might as well give the twins a chocolate soda as Diggles' Own Whooping Cough Mi.\ture. Because of Dr. Price's new ways of doing things, no one bought Diggles' Ready Rheumatism Re- liever now. Shots it was, the doctor was giving for everything. Not pre- scriptions.- Manslaughter, they caded it. He wet his lips. Well, no one could ex- pect to interfere with Dr. Price's prescriptions again. Not a second time. Though it was so many years ago, he could feel the flush of anger that flooded his face remembering the day he'd called Dr. Price up and sug- gested that maybe the heart medi- cine he ordered for Mr. Vcnable* was too strong. "I know what I'm doing. Just mind your own business, Diggles, and I can mind mine." He looked again at the prescrip- tion. There was no mistaking the symbol and he'd fill it as it stood. He reached for the bottle and re- moved the coik. Carefully, he meas- ured out the prescribed dose. Mr. Diggles straightened sudden- ly, staring at tlig partly filled mortar. A feeling of nausea swept through him as he snatched it up and tlung the contents into the sink. His hand, replacing the bottle on the shelf, trembled. Outside, the wind howled and flakes of ice made a cold noise beat- ing the window pane. Slowly, he walked toward the tele- phone. .\ftcr all, just as many people swore by Dr. Price as trusted Diggles. As he waited, Price's telephone shop door opened down the recever front. Dr. Price listening to Dr. bell ringing, the Mr. Diggles put and went to the was on the mat. stainpng the snow from his feet. "Diggles, will you let me see the prescription Mrs. Tompkins just brought in?" "I was just trying to call you about it. Dr. Price. I felt there was some little inaccuracy." Dr. Price nodded. "Something told me. But I wasn't really wor- ried. I knew you'd catch a mistake if there was one. It's a great com- By Tom Gregory jbVEN IN THIS DtU&HTFUL A6e OF LUXURIOUS BATH- ROOMS eVERYTHING IS NOT ALWAYS PERFECT. FOR IN- STANCE, SOMETIMES THE RUBBER BALI. VALVE IN A BATHROOM FLUSH TANK HAS A TENDENCY TO STICK OR DOES NOT CLOSE QUICKLY .*•' ENOUOH AFTER BEING TRIPPED, here's WHAT TO DO TO REMEDY THIS: INSTALL A SMALL WEIGHT ON THE BALL STEM. SUCH A WEIGHT CAN BE DEVISED BY CLAMPING TWO LEAD WASHERS ON EACH SIDE OF THE EVE AT THE UPPER END OF THE STEM WITH A BRASS BOLT "^ AS SHOWN IN THE lUUSTRATIOM, If you HAVE EVER TRiEO TO CLEAN THE OIlAIN OF A BATHTUB WITH A PLUMBERS FORCE CUP VOU PERHAPS HAVE FOUND IT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT BECAUSE Of THE DIFFICULTY OF SEALING THE OVERFLOW OPENING OF THE TUB AGAINST THE ESCAPE OF AIR. MOWEVER.IF THE STOPPER IS PUT IN PLACE AND HELD SOLIOP/ WITH A HEAVy WEIGHT, THE PORCE CUP WAv 'MEN BE USED EFCECTiuliLV Mouse "Dairy" â€" A miniature suction pump milks a mouse at the Columbia University -Pres- byterian Medical Center's "Mouse Dairy," where scien- tists announced that they have i.sulatcd tiie virus of breast can- cer form mouse milk. The new development is expected to further science's attack on hu- man cancer. The ''dairy" houses more than 4000 mice. Each yields approximately one cubic centimeter at a milking. fort to me to know that a substan- tial man like you is checking up on me, Diggles." "I have to do what I can. A man has to do do his duty. He smiled and stood up. "That's right, doctor. I guest duty becomes a habit If you do it long ejiough." The wind screamed into the shop as Dr. Price opened the door and went out. It was a bleak, bitter day, but in Mr. Diiggles' heart it was suddenly summer. The Snap-Back Of Democracy "Dictatorship Is brutal because it is brittle. It cannot bend; it can only break or be broken. It cannot lead its people, it can only drive them. "l.'icniocracy, on the other hand, is resi'icnt. It bends without break- ing. It sways to the left or to the right, and returns to the point of normal balance. It calls for leaders, not for driven. A free people can be led a greater distance and to greater heights titan a slave people can be driven." â€" David Sarnoff. VS lion a man returned home to Nttwkirk, Okla., after an absence of twenty-five ycnrs, he discovered that he was legally dead and burled, with his tombslone over a body identified as his. THIPMM PKONT Jolva12as^eli ;.^*«ta»*jfc::i:^ r'/.fm^*^ Dairy farmer are having their troubles right now â€" (for that mat- ter, who isn't?) â€" so I thought it might be timely to talk about some- thing new along their line. It's a new process for canning fresh, whole milk, without first evaporat- ing or condensing it; and there are those who think that it might rev- olutionize the whole dairy industry. * * « There are still some i)rob!ems to be worked out before it's perfect; but already milk canned by this process has been kept, without re- frigeration, for more than a month in the can, and for -.everal days after being oi)ened. * * «â-  The process was devised uy Dr. Roy Graves, a real dairy cxi-crt and he's backed by Jack Stambaugh, a farmer and implement dealer. They believe that the process will change the whole very expensive bottling and delivery system ot milk hand- ling. What's more important they predict that it will save consumers five or more cents per quart â€" AND, AT THE SAME TIME,- BRING BETTER RETURNS TO THE FARMER. * « * Here's how the thing works. Cows are milked with a pipe-line milker, a milking machine in which the milk goes to one big vat, in- stead of into buckets on the milker unit. Such milkers are now made, and new models coming into pro- duction are expected to be cheaper than bucket-type machines. * * * ' When the last cow is milked, the vacuum space In the vat is filled with nitrogen gas. Keeping air com- pletely away from the milk is one of the main features of the process. • * • Next the milk is homogenized the flash-pasteurized at 190 degrees for 19 seconds. From the pasteurizer the milk flows to the canning ma- chine, where sterilized cans are filled and sealed in a nitrogen-fill- ed chamber. Then the cans are sterilized for 3 to 4 minutes at 260 degrel;s. to kill any last bacteria. « * • .Main problem to be so'ved is to get rid of a slight cooked flavor in the milk .\ big can company is now working on a can lacquer which will liel|) reduce off-flavors. * * * Graves' research is aimed at find- ing sterilized time and temperature which will not affect the flavor of the milk. » » ♦ How will the system work on the farm? Craves thinks that there are three way>. • • « One is that big dairy farms â€" 500 cows and ni> â€" cou'd have their own canning plants. * « « Another is that a group of farm- ers could go together aitd milk their cows at one central point where canning equipment was installed â€" a milking canning co-op. A group of dairymen in one of the western states set up a central milking par- lor for their farms several years ago. « * * A third way would be for individ- ual farmers to have pipe-line milk- ers connected to portable, insulated vats. By jiilking at exactly the same time every day to fit in with clo.sely- timed truck schedules, their milk could get to near-by canning plant* within the VA hour limit Dr. Graves says it is necessary to main- tain. The truck would pick up the full vat and leave an empt> one. Those Hats Here is a story which will appeal to all hu?l>ands who are puzzled by their wives' taste in hats. Which probably means â€" just all husbands. It is told by Frances Perkins, the former U.S. Secretary of Labour. She was in a picture show, and suddenly realised that a man was sitting behind her. Turning to hinu she said: "If my hat prevents your seeing this picture, I'd be hai)py bo take it off." "Please don't," said the man. "The hat's much funnier than the movie." Double Killer.'â€" The Fill n. Washinffton checked on the bullet that killed Metropolilaa Opera tenor John Garris in At- lanta, in an attempt to clinch or clear the case ag'ainst paroled c o p-k i 11 e r, Grover Pulley (above). UNARMED MAN SAVES FARMER ATTACKED BY ENRAGED BULL WINS DOW AWARD GEORQES M.ARTEL of l*ortn*uf, duB.i pvHt 78-Ymar old mm fe tafWir Edouard Freneite, 78, was walk- ing through the yard when a bull cfaarged and tossed him into th« air. Landing on his back he was again being attacked when Geor- ges Martel, passing ia his truclt« stopped and raced to the seen*. Without thinking of hli owa safety, Manel rushed at the bull â€" shouting and waring his arou. The trick worked . . . and th« animal turned awaf . . . giWog Martel time to drag the hrm* out of the field. We are proud to present C7eoe> ges Mart*! with The Dow Award. 1. Before Frenette, who is quite dea^ knew what was happening . . . the bull had tossed him brutally into the air. He landed on his back. 2. From hU truck, Georges Martel saw what was hap* pening and nished to the rescue. Unarmed, he som«> how managed to turn the bull away from its Wetioi. 3. Quickly Martel pulled the badly gored farmer from the held, saving the man's life . . . and took him across the road to the house. He gave him first aid and summoned a doctor. DOW BREWERY BNBl NATIONAL BREwemes uMireo THE. OOW AWARD U a cUaUon pr^tnltdfor aW« Vri^rtiAM JWofMn and Indudm a SIOO Canada Savinf Bond. TStU^ Auford CommfttM. a group qf adUor* cj leading Canadimt 4^m nmotpap^rt, at h a lt imin«ra from r^eommtndailon* mmdt J^m notional ty v*oM>n notm organitaiion. MONTRIAL M.M^ LISTgN TO THB DOW AWARD SHOW, MONDAY THROUQH PRI D A Y â€" 7 . U P. |^ \

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