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OCTOBER 3 CANADIAN BOY THE MAGAZINE FOR ALL BOYS OCTOBER 1964, VOL. 1 NO. 7
CONTENTS Alex. M. Watson EDITOR Norman Brown Football is a Running Game by Syd Young 6 ASSISTANT EDITOR Rescued by Sandy Morton 10 Richard T. Logan ART CONSULTANT Can Canada Top the Record Charts? by Sandy Gardiner 13 Margaret Large EDITORIAL ASSISTANT baby bitting Is Not Just For Girls 17 Jack Young ADVERTISING MANAGER Ine JBaaen Powell Story 18 Merle Lang CIRCULATION ASSISTANT L-ton Wall Game by Paul Brock 20 George N. Beers MANAGING DIRECTOR
Award for Valour 22 CANADIAN BOY is published by Boy Scouts of Canada, 1345 Baseline Road, Ottawa 5, Ont. Chief Executive, Fred 1/1 J. Finlay. Advertising Office: 696 v^areers — ounaing jvien into i outn Yonge Street, Toronto 5, Ont. Single copies 25c. Subscription prices: In Canada, 1 year $2.00, 2 years $3.50, 3 Canadata 26 years, $5.00. All other countries, $3.00 per year. Authorized as second-class mail by the Post Office Department, Pen Pals Ottawa, and for payment of postage in 27 cash. Contents copyright by Boy Scouts of Canada. Characters and names in fiction stories in CANADIAN BOY are The Coin Collector by Peter Degraaf 28 imaginary. Contents may not be re• printed without written permission. All manuscripts submitted must be Records by Sandy Gardiner 29 accompanied by self-addressed envel• opes and sufficient return postage. While the publishers will take all reasonable care they will not be re• Stamp Corner by H. L. Woodman 30 sponsible for the loss of any manu• script, drawing or photograph. All editorial correspondence should be Books by Morocco Bound 31 addressed Editor, Canadian Boy, P.O. Box 3520, Station C, Ottawa 3, Ont. Puzzles and Games 32 CHANGE OP ADDRESS. To avoid missing copies, please send your change of address before you move to: How To Make A Book Rack 33 Subscription Department, CANADIAN BOY, P.O. Box 3520 Station "C", Ot• tawa 3, Ont. Please give both your The CB Flag Poll 34 old and new address, and any letters or numerals appearing on the address label. If you are a member of the Boy Scouts of Canada also give the Rib Ticklers 35 name and number of your group.
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OCTOBER Most of the great runners of Canadian foot• ball are "naturals". Fabulous broken-field runners like Willy Fleming, Leo Lewis, Don Clark, Jackie Parker and others are only do• ing "what comes naturally" when they leave opponents strewn all over the field on their dazzling touchdown runs. Runners like these seem to have a sixth sense which tells them when to change direc• tion, change pace, cut, or pivot away from tacklers. They do amazing running tricks that cannot be taught by a coach, since they are something that a player is born with. Something you may not have realized, though, is that all of us are born with a certain amount of this sixth sense. And while you aren't all Flemings or Lewises, you can de• velop your running ability by means of prac• tice to the point where you can be a pretty darn good football player. Remember—your natural talent will lie dormant unless it is brought out by repeated practice with the help of a good coach. Football is basically a game of quickness, agility and mobility, and most of the top ball carriers are men of speed. Football running requires a good 100 yard sprinter, not a half miler or a miler. That is why football players spend a great deal of time practicing short sprints at top speed. When you have to get some place on the football field during a game, the faster you get there, the better you can accomplish your purpose — to knock down a pass, tackle a runner, evade an onrushing tackier, or cut down a defensive opponent. Once you are launched on serious football practice your slogan should become "sprint."
THE ART OF EVASION Ball carriers should learn to start moving quickly, like a sky rocket, and run with knees high, head up, and weight forward and low. Between sticks, tie a number of lines at eye level and another set of lines about six or eight inches above the ground. Run this course at top speed. You will learn to keep low and well balanced and to keep your leg action high. Car tires or boxes placed close together could help you train for broken-field running. Learn to run this course while stepping into each tire, keeping your head up. At first, lay the tires out in a straight line so that you can learn to run straight. Then you can add a few new features. Arrange the tires so that you learn to cross-step. Place a series of markers along the course so that you can learn to shift the football from one hand to the other in order to keep it on the side away from potential tacklers. The shift is made opposite each marker in the course. From the early sessions, backfield runners must practice the "stiff arm". This is a tech• nique which will often enable you to get past the tacklers, especially if he is not thoroughly aggressive. A stiff arm is usually combined with a pivot step to aid in the evasive manoeuvre. To execute the stiff arm, strike out with your hand at arm's length and try to force the tackier to run into the hand of your outstretched arm. Try to nail him some• where on the head or shoulders. He will usually be moving toward you and your stiff arm should knock him off balance. When executed with a cross step to the right, in which your left leg crosses over to your right, this heel-of-the-hand contact with a jab or a short arm shiver will often enable you to keep the tackier off. If the tackier ducks down under your stiff arm in making his charge, bring your hand down harder on his shoulder or back and push him into the ground while you vault or swing your legs clear of his clutching arms. Occasionally, an unthinking tackier will make a grab for your extended arm. If he is that foolish, simply pull it away and keep right on going. The change of pace is a manoeuvre de• signed to trick tacklers into slowing up, or misjudging your rate of speed. Ronnie Stew• art of the Ottawa Rough Riders is an ex• ponent of this manoeuvre. Sometimes the change of pace will make them try to inter• cept you at an angle which is impossible once you pour on your real speed; other times it may enable you to combine it with the pivot or cross step for very good results.
SOME TRICKS TO TRY As you approach the point on which you and the would-be tackier will meet, run a little slower than your best speed. Two paces before you meet, burst into your top speed and try to run right past him. If you are very fast you can often get away with this trick. An adaptation of this is used when you are approaching a tackier who is dead ahead of you. You must run over him or veer off to give him an angle shot at you. Your best bet here is to get him to stop dead by feinting quickly, first to the left, then to the right, while you continue running straight towards him. He will very likely plant himself and wait to see which way you will cut. This is just what you want. Keep running straight at him until you are within a few steps, or, until he begins a forward run preparatory to his tackling lunge. Then you cut sharply at an angle toward one of the side lines. Since you already have a running start and he is starting from a standstill you should be several yards ahead of him on your race towards the side line, which is enough of a margin of safety to enable you to cut back straight down field again without being overhauled. Your stiff arm will often be a valuable aid in completing the job which your change of pace starts. You should certainly learn com• binations of all your evasive manoeuvres after you have made them part of your natural running game. The pivot is an especially valuable manoeuvre for a back who has just burst through the line. Straightarm the man who is coming up to plug the hole, turn sharply on your inside foot and run in a new direction; make your spin and run with short, high steps, keeping low to avoid injury in case you run into a new man coming in from the outside to get you. A pivot may also be made with your shoulder establishing contact. If you hit the line and find solid resistance, drive a few hard, choppy steps with legs well spread. Then pivot on the outside foot, using the re• sistance as a lever, and try to go around it. Always practice these manoeuvres with a football under your arm. The hip fade, the limp leg, and similar dodging techniques are based on the principle of offering the tackier a target which you withdraw after he has committed himself by lunging at it. Sometimes a violent wrench of your hips away from the tackier will get you completely out of his reach. If your oppo• nent tackles you loosely, or with an arm tackle, you can often break loose by driving hard with knee action to break his grasp. Always drive extra hard when you are hit. This is the moment in which it is still possible for you to break away. At the very least, you can gain those extra yards that may mean first down.
USING YOUR INTERFERENCE A ball carrier must remember that he has eleven other fellows on his side. His team• mates will be carrying out their blocking assignments to help his journey down field, but with some help from him their jobs will be much easier and he can run for longer gains. When you are carrying the ball, learn to use your interference properly by feinting potential tacklers into a position where your blockers can best handle them. One of the best bits of broken-field run• ning ever seen was done by Ron Stewart of the Ottawa Rough Riders in a game against the Montreal Alouettes at Molson Stadium in 1960. Stewart broke through time and time again and set a new Canadian rushing record. In many instances, five or six Montreal players had a shot at him but Stewart side-stepped, pivoted, straight armed, bulled through op• ponents, feinted and used every device in the repertoire of a skilled broken-field runner. But more important, he knew how to uti• lize the help of his team-mates. He wove back and forth setting up blocks for his mates time and time again. He used his change of pace to enable his own blockers to catch up, and always he was moving forward. There was no unnecessary dancing and dodging. Even when he ran laterally across the field, he was keeping the running angle on the tacklers, forcing them to run to a point ahead of him. Always before they got to this inter• ception point, Stewart managed to manoeuvre A rubber tire obstacle course can one of his blockers between himself and the help you learn to shift like . . . would-be tackier. When that was impossible he got past on his own swivel-hipped shifti• ness and speed.
RUNNING DRILLS AND GAMES Young ball carriers can learn much from running like this. If a tackier is approaching you from the right and your nearest blocker is on your left, cut to your left so that the blocker can get a good angle on the opponent. When the tackier is coming straight towards you and you spot one of your mates away off to the side, cut sharply towards that shown here cuttin sideline, drawing the tackier along with you back after to where your man can get a crack at him. faking tackier, Stay behind your interference as long as it is needed, but put on your best burst of speed and run away from it when there are no more opponents in front of you. Let your est if blockers protect you from behind and from the side in such instances. Occasionally, you'll have one blocker in front of you and an enemy attacker approaching from dead ahead. It is easier for your blocker to make an angle block rather than a straight away one, which might even pile you up with the entangled men. Try to keep in directly back of your man until you are ready to cut, then show your opponent one of your shoul• ders to make him think you are going to cut over in that direction. Simultaneously, in a low voice you may be able to call your interferer indicating the direction in which you will make your cut—always the direction opposite to the shoulder which you have shown the tackier. Now, the tackier will be drawn over far enough for your man to get a good blocking angle on him while you will ... do the same thing when go around them, shielded completely by your practising. blocker's body. The set of boxes or tires is basic equipment for practicing broken-field running. A charg• ing sled or blocking dummy is used for prac• ticing the stiff arm in combinations of evasive pivots, and cross steps. If you have no charg• ing sled available to you, it is possible to get some practice with a heavy hanging dummy which you stiff arm as you cut away. A friend may steady it for you. Touch football will give you some good broken-field running practice without expos• Always run with your weight for• ing you to the battering that a similar amount ward, knees driving...... of "live bait" tackling might bring. The worthwhile game for your own back yard is to set sheets of newspaper all along a course laid out in the yard and sprint at top speed around this course without touching any of the papers. If the day is windy you can get some dodging practice trying to keep from touching any of the shifting papers.
PROTECT THE PIGSKIN Always carry a football in practicing your broken-field running techniques. Learn to carry it properly and practice with it until (Continued on page 27) touchdown. i 1
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1 BY SANDY MORTON "I'm not even taking Ralph with me this time," he said as he chained his big German Shepherd to his kennel. Ralph certainly helps us get home when we're exploring in the woods, thought Peter, but he'd just be in the way exploring mines. "I don't care," said Clare. "I'm going, or you're not borrowing my flashlight". "Going where?" asked Tim Naylor who had just come through the front gate. He lived next door to the Wil• son's. "I'm going with you and Peter to explore Simpkin's old fluorspar mine." "Holy cats," said Tim. "Do we have to take you everywhere with, us? Climbing down a deep mine is too dangerous for a girl. And it's awful dark and dirty down there too. You wouldn't like it at all." Clare knew she could climb just as well as her brother and Tim, but she thought she'd better not say it or they might get really mad and run off and leave her. Clare wanted desperately to go. She had heard her older brother, Jim, talking about what it was like down in the mine, and she wanted to go and see for herself. Jim was interested in becoming a mining engineer and Mr. Simpkins had let him work under• ground in the mine during the summer so he could get some real mining experience. Before the summer was over, however, the ore had run out and now the mine was deserted. Jim had told Clare and Peter a lot of interesting things about the mine, but they had forgotten the most im• portant thing he had told them. Jim had warned them never to go near the old mine. "It's dangerous, now," he said. "It's over three hundred feet deep. You could fall in and be killed. Or if you climbed into one of the tunnels or drifts you could get lost. Don't go near it. It's too dangerous!" "Let me go with you, Peter," begged Clare. "I won't be in your way. I'll do exactly what you tell me." "Well," said Peter slowly. The idea of bossing his sister, who was two years older than he, sounded like fun. "OK, OK. You can come. Just remember it's my expedition, and I'm the boss," said Peter. He turned to Tim. "You got your flashlight, Tim?" "Yes, sir, captain," said Tim. "Right here, captain." (Continued on next page)
11 "Well, let's get going then," said making crazy shadows on the walls yelled Peter. "Look out. I'm going to Peter. "We'll have to hurry if we're quite a way ahead of them. They throw some out." going to get there and back before hurried to catch up to him. Tim and Clare stepped back, and dinnertime" "I'm going to have a quick look three pieces the size of their hands The Simpkin Mine was about a around and see if I can find some fell at their feet. They picked them mile from the Wilson's house. They mineral samples," said Peter. up and looked at them curiously. The could see its headframe above the "Let's not, Peter," said Clare. "It's fluorspar crystals shone watery green trees as they walked towards it. too scary down here. Let's go home." under Tim's light. Mixed in with the "They build the headframe to hold Peter was beginning to feel a little crystals were soft clay-like pieces of the cable that pulls up the buckets of scared himself, but he wasn't going to white barite and hard grey limestone. ore and lowers the cage the miners let Tim and Clare know. "Come on, "Aren't they beauties?" said Peter, go down the mine in," said Peter. Tim. Let's go," he said. as he swung back over the side of the "Yeah," said Clare. "Jim says they Tim was wishing he hadn't come car and stood beside them. have to build them high so they can too, but all he said was: "OK, Peter. "Yeah, they're OK," said Tim. lift the ore higher than the top of the But not too far, eh! No one knows "Yeah, OK," echoed Clare. "And ground. And sometimes they use it we are here. If we get lost, they now, let's get out of here. We're goin' to lift the big timbers which are used might never find us." to get enough heck as it is when we to keep the walls and ceilings of the Sticking closely together they walked get home." tunnels from caving in." carefully over the rough pieces of Soon they were back at the mine Peter glared at his sister to be quiet. stone that covered the floor of the shaft. "You go up first, Tim," said He knew she knew as much about the tunnel. They followed a pair of nar• Peter, "and then we'll shine our lights mine as he did, but he wanted to tell row railroad tracks that wandered off on the ladder together so Clare can about it himself. into the darkness. see to climb up." When they got to the mine, Peter "They used to run ore cars along Quickly Tim swung himself onto flashed his light down the shaft. It these tracks," said peter. "They put the ladder and started climbing. His was dark, and smelled damp and the ore in the cars with a mechanical fluorspar sample was too big to put musty. The light beam just reached shovel and then pushed them to the in his pocket, so he had to reach up the surface of the water in the shaft elevator where they were hoisted up and grab the ladder rung with one about thirty feet down. Jim had told to the mill at the top of the mine. hand, then change his ore sample and him pumps had been used to keep the Jim used to push one of the cars." flashlight to that hand so he would mine dry when it was running, but As they walked further along the have a hand free to grab the next now that it was closed up, it was tunnel, they beamed their flashlights rung. nearly all flooded. ahead of them. Small bits of quartz Slowly he eased himself up to the "It looks kinda scary," said Clare. sparkled at them as their lights flashed second rung of the ladder, and the "I told you not to come," retorted on the tunnel floor. They could see third, switching his flashlight and Peter. rusty stain marks on the walls where fluorspar as he went. The old ladder "Hey! It looks like there's a tun• the water had run down. The huge swayed ominously. nel on the right, part way down," said beams that held up the ceiling cast Then, as Peter and Clare watched, Tim, as he flashed his light up and strange shadows when the lights hit horrified, the ladder pulled away from down the side of the shaft. them. the wall and swung across the shaft "And there's the shaft ladder," said so that the top was on one side and Then their lights picked out two big Peter. "Jim says they built ladders the bottom on the other. Tim's extra square shapes standing on the tracks down the side of the shaft so the movements had been enough to jerk like mighty monsters guarding the miners could climb out of the mine the old ladder loose. depths of the tunnel. if the cable broke down. I'm going Peter stood rigid with fear as he "Holy cats," whispered Tim. "What down to explore that tunnel." saw the ladder swing slowly away are they?" "Gosh," said Tim. "That old ladder from the wall. Clare's scream echoed looks awful wet and greasy. What if Peter stopped walking and held his crazily down the tunnel. They were you slipped and fell?" light steady on one of the shapes. sure the ladder would break and Tim's "I'll be alright," said Peter. He was Then he laughed. "They're the ore body would come crashing down into only half listening to Tim. Already cars I was telling you about, silly. the water below them. he had one foot over the side of the Let's have a look in one of them. But miraculously, the ladder stayed shaft and was starting to climb down. Maybe we can find some fluorspar." in one piece, while Tim clung to it Clare and Tim watched anxiously As they came up to the side of the for dear life. When he felt the ladder as Peter lowered himself hand over first car they could see they were starting to move, he had instinctively hand down the rickety old ladder. made of heavy steel plate brown with wrapped his legs and arms around Carefully he eased a foot and a hand rust from the dampness. The sides the rungs and uprights. His fluorspar down to the rung below, and then were bumpy and scratched from bang• and flashlight had fallen into the brought down his other hand and foot ing against the narrow tunnel as they water, but he was still alright. Al• beside them. When he reached the carried their heavy loads of ore to the right, that is, if he could make his tunnel he stepped off the ladder and mill. way back to the foot of the ladder and into the tunnel before the old disappeared. Peter quickly climbed over the side ladder broke in two. With Tim's full Slowly, Clare and Tim climbed of one of the cars and started bang• weight on it, plus the way it was down after him. When they reached ing around inside. the tunnel, they could see his light "There's some fluorspar in here," Continued on page 25
12 CANADIAN BOY CB ON THE BEAT: BRITAIN TOPS THE RECORD CHARTS —CAN CANADA DO THE SAME? In five years Britain did what the billed as "English added attrac• geance. U. S. thought was impossible— tion." After the small first disc dose, beat the Americans at their own What a slap in the face. I Beatlemania finally got off the game. remember Cliff telling me that ground with "Please Please Me" The game was pop music, the he would never have gone if he which more than pleased The field was the world and the U. S. had known he would have re• Beatles by giving them their first had never really been beaten. ceived that type of billing. There No. 1 hit. The Beatles were on But the bigger they are the must be thousands of U. S. teens their way, but far too late to harder they fall and when a giant who saw Cliff on that tour, yet topple Cliff from the top rung. vacuum cleaner of British pop still don't know who he is. As Beatlemania "spread in the music swept across the Atlantic Cliff then postponed any fu• U. K. other groups came along. via The Beatles, the U. S. was ture U. S. plans to concentrate The buy-American, it's-always- finally sucked in and dusted into on his career in Britain. It blos• good tag dropped, and in its place second place. It was the culmina• somed. He made two films, came—if-it's-not-British, it's-not- tion of five years' work that "Serious Charge" and "Expresso good. Only Presley, Orbison, and started in 1959 with the rise of a Bongo" and had hit songs in both the late Buddy Holly survived as young British vocalist called movies. He outdistanced Elvis British discs swamped the hit Harry Webb. Presley in a nation-wide popu• lists. For two years no American As Presley, Orbison, The larity poll in 1961. At the same single topped the charts. Everly Brothers, Boone, Sedaka time a group called Johnny and But in the U. S. and Canada, and the late Buddy Holly cashed The Moondogs were making a teenagers were still unaware of in on the Old Country, Britain bit of noise in Germany but no what was to follow. I received could only at its best muster British impact at all. the Beatles' first Canadian release around five hits in the top twenty. As Cliff paved the way others in February, 1963, and gave it In 1959, the big reversal start• followed. More British songs top-rating. Then in September I ed with the year of Harry Webb made the grade in the U. S. but wrote an article on Beatlemania (alias Cliff Richard). He was always just one at a time. which Capitol Records later used singing on a British beat TV show Then roaring back from Ger• to promote the quartet. As a re• called "Oh Boy" when his first many came Johnny and The sult, Capitol also took a quote disc, "Move It," was released. Moondogs, cut from a five-mem• from the article and reprinted it "Move It" did exactly what the ber group to a quartet when one on the cover of "Beatlemania," title implied and the American was killed in a car crash. They their first album. stranglehold on British pop music also got themselves a manager Last Christmas I went to Lon• was lifted. I spoke to Cliff just and a new name—The Beatles. don and cabled a report on the after his debut winner and recall Meanwhile, Cliff, sitting at the outbreak of Beatlemania. It was him saying it was just a matter of top of the British ladder, went just a matter of time, I was con• time before Britain gained rec• from strength to strength. By vinced, before the Beatle bug bit ognition across the Atlantic. now he had a score of hits and here too. The initial breakthrough was was in the process of making his One month after my return gaining recognition at home. fourth film, "Summer Holiday." Beatlemania hit fever pitch in With Cliff and a host of beat The Beatles went to their na• North America. Their new re• singers copying his style, the tive Liverpool and their manager leases, and old ones—some made British hit parade slowly but sought a recording contract. as far back as 1961—flooded the surely began to look more British. After 12 rejections it was lucky market and the charts. Then Cliff went to the record• 13 when Parlophone recording At last Britain was recognized. ing studios, a year and five hits manager George Martin heard For the first time it was Amer• later, to deliver a vocal punch on them. ica's turn to wait for British re• wax titled "Living Doll". It But they were accepted with leases instead of vice-versa. What kayoed the Yanks and slipped one change. Their new record• topped the charts in Britain auto• into the Canadian best-sellers too, ing manager didn't like drummer matically became a hit on this to give Britain their first real beat Pete Best as a musician so they side of the Atlantic. million-seller. were forced to hire a new one. It had been a long struggle. For the first time British beat His name—Charley Starkey, bet• Five years of making little gains music was recognized. Before ter known now as Ringo Starr here and there before finally "Living Doll" the only winners because of the four rings he al• topping it off with the big disc Britain had attained in the U. S. ways wears. touchdown. were either jazz, big band or folk. "Summer Holiday" went on re• What are Canada's chances of Cliff's name became known in lease as The Beatles first disc, attaining the same measure of the U. S. but the face wasn't. So "Love Me Do" came out. success as the musically not-so- the wonder boy set out to tour the The title song from the Richard Old Country? U. S. Although American teen• movie shot to the top of the At the moment things are run• agers had recognized him on wax charts. ning on a smaller scale here, but he received no recognition from Then in Canada, "Dancing we've already made inroads into the promoters of the package Shoes" and "Bachelor Boy" made the U. S. market with artists like tour he joined. With 15 other it a triple hit. Across the border. Paul Anka, Jack Scott, Bobby names on the show, Cliff was Cliff again struck with a ven• Continued on next page THE BEATLES CUFF RICHARD
ie U.S. and British singers above are number one around the globe. Below and on the next page are Canadians who could top the polls. CANADA
MAURY LOGAN JACK scon
ANDY KIM PAUL ANKA BOBBY CURTOLA Curtola and Canadian-American Bob Paul Anka is undoubtedly Canada's and the U. S.? To be honest, the Goulet. most successful singer-songwriter. By answer is no. But within three years Recently, Lucille Starr — one doing both on wax he doubles his I forecast we'll take a large slice of half of the Canadian Sweethearts— royalties and this is why Anka shot the market and Ian and Sylvia have shown, via a to millionaire's row much faster than There's no doubt about our talent couple of blockbusters, that there's the average artist. You can count on —it's all around us, some hidden, more to Canada than Indians and one hand the number of songs the some already well on the road to Eskimos. Ottawa boy has recorded by other stardom. But if you want to take a look at songwriters for the teenage market. Looking across the nation, The statistics the trend is turning. In 1959 Canadian Sweethearts should be the we imported $1,900,000 worth of real BC Lions for us. Saskatchewan discs from the U. S. Two years ago and Alberta have more to offer than we imported $1,500,000. just wheat. In Manitoba there's a On an average over the last four group called The Reflections from years, we have been exporting ap• Winnipeg who I feel will sooner or proximately 50,000 records across the later throw some light on the charts. line. In the Maritimes several groups are Now there are approximately 40 • coming to the fore. Most notable is disc companies in Canada—some of The Gemtones, a bunch of bright these both distributing U. S. releases young instrumentalists from Moncton, and manufacturing Canadian products N.B. In the music publishing field there Quebec, too, has its share of stars are about 20 firms who handle this both in the French and English mar• side of the business. Distribution with ket. Pierre Lalonde has developed most Canadian companies now is na• into one of Canada's real bright pros• LITTLE CAESAR AND THE tional. pects. Then there's Michael Louvain, CONSOLS One of the most successful of the Andy Kim, Bob and The Messengers, Canada is also beginning to catch Jilliane Harris and Les Megatones to up with the U. S. and Britain in an• name a few. other musical department — that of Nova Scotia has its share of Ca• recording itself. The top equipment nadian chart possibles. There's The from all over the world is being Townsmen from Halifax, and the al• brought" to Canadian studios, and en• ready-established Halifax Trio from gineers trained either in Britain or guess where. south of the border are twiddling the Ontario, naturally, is our biggest control knobs with greater experience source of supply. In Toronto there's in balancing the sound than ever be• Pat Hervey, Little Caesar and The fore. Consuls, Ritchie Knight and The Mid• Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver nights and Bobby Dow. In Peter• are all vying for the title of Canada's borough there's the Count Victors. disc capital. The centres in the U S. London has the Fernwood Trio. Ot• and Britain are Nashville and London tawa has Vince Caron, The Claytons respectively. So far in Canada, To• and Maury Logan. Port Arthur has BOB AND THE MESSENGERS ronto is leading the way with the Lynda Lane small Canadian recording companies plush RCA Victor studios there. I could go on all day listing names is undoubtedly Tartan Records which Five years ago "the place" to go for but I feel these are the outstanding started with just one artist and now— a hit record was Nashville, Tennessee. ones. thanks to his record sales—is begin• The musicians and arrangers there Canadian radio stations are now ning to expand. were considered unbeatable. Then up getting smart to the fact that if Brit• The artist is, of course, Bobby Cur• popped Britain with a few ideas de• ain can gatecrash the U. S. record tola. Tartan Records was started by signed to lure the top U. S. artists party, there's no reason why we his managers, brothers Basil and Syd into recording there. shouldn't pull up our socks and do it Hurdon. Aside from managing and Artists like Roy Orbison, Bobby here too. Let's keep the maple leaf grooming the young Port Arthur boy Rydell and Gene Pitney while touring flying. for stardom, they also wrote his re• there suddenly found the excitement The more exposure Canadian radio cording material. Just look at every of the British sound, and the very im• stations give our discs the better Curtola disc to date, and you can be portant fact that recording in the Old chances we have of making it. Es• sure to see Hurdon-Hurdon under the Country was quite a bit cheaper than pecially important are the stations on songwriting credits. in Nashville. the border heard by American teen• Now that Bobby is a success the Now that the British sound is "in", agers. Brainwash them and we are in shrewd men from Tartan lease his more and more U. S. disc stars are with more than a twist and shout. master tapes to companies in the U. S. accepting tours across the ocean with If the public supports our talent and by doing business this way, rather an eye to recording there and using then Canada's chances of being dis• than selling the masters outright, they it for prestige purposes. covered are not as little as many make more on the royalties. Can Canada ever overtake Britain people think. $k
16 CANADIAN BOY NOT JUST FOR GIRLS If you haven't said it, you've thought In the performance of your job you backs are turned. Or by raiding the it. And you've been wrong. are entrusted with the care of the refrigerator without permission. Baby sitting is NOT just for girls. most treasured thing in life — a They want someone RESPON• Today thousands of Canadian boys child. And parents are not going to SIBLE. Someone who honestly likes are discovering something that girls children, who earnestly wants to do in general — from the brainy one in a good job and who can be counted your English class who never fluffs on in a crisis to remain level-headed and act quickly. All right, you say. I'm responsible. I don't drink, throw wild parties, sass my elders or beat up little children. Fine. But that's just the start. Before you spread the word around that you're available for baby-sitting chores you should bone up on just what your duties will be and what consider you good baby-sitter material some of the problems are that may unless they are assured you are re• crop up. sponsible. They don't want any part of you if the impression you give an answer to that cute but not-so- is one of wise-cracking carelessness bright gal who asks you to help her and blatant immaturity. They don't err! with her algebra — have known for
years: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY Baby sitting is one of the best ways CALU for a teenager to earn money. R3UCE-QI f>0 And as if that weren't enough, *3 you'll glean valuable tips on family DOCTOR-51 life that will come in handy later on. NEIGHBOURS (Let's face it, you're going to be a father some day!) You should know how to feed a child, put him to bed and supervise his play. It's unlikely you'll have to bathe him, but it wouldn't hurt to W 0 know how. Learn the ethics of baby• want you abusing their home by sitting: Find out what time you throwing open the doors to your should arrive and approximately friends for a party the minute their what time the parents will return. Come to an agreement on pay (by making a few enquiries, you'll soon
0 : find out what the current local rate is.) Be assured of transportation home afterwards. Find out if you are expected to An extra dividend, intangible \ mm prepare meals, wash dishes or per• though it may be, is the sense of well- form any extra chores apart from being that comes from doing a re• just 'sitting.' And remember, sitting sponsible job well. ) does not mean sleeping. Nor does it RESPONSIBLE — that's the key mean tying up the telephone for hours word in any discussion on babysitting Continued on page 27
OCTOBER 17 * THE BADEN POWELL STORY *
SAFER NOT TO TRUST THAT GENTLEMAN Th» Tru» Lifo Story LORD, PREMPEH S TOO PAR — GET THE MEN TO CUT of the Founder THE KING DRUMS TALK DOWN THE BUSHES AND MAKE A OP KUMASI of the Boy Scout AGAIN. WHAT KNOWS OF YOUR CLEARING — WE'LL CAMP HERE. M DO THEY APPROACH. HE SAY ? GOLD COAST, ASKS FOR in tha year 1895. COME IN PEACE After service in many countries, Major Baden Powell returns to Africa, where be and Sir Francis Scott lead an expedition against an evil king named Prempeh. After joining forces with the friendly King of Bekwai, B.P. sets out for Kumasi. the enemy H.Q., intending to meet Sir Francis Scott on the way.
STORY BY ALAN JASON'. DRAWN BY //yfjffiwn
Sir Francis Sco is party HELLO, MAJOR WE VE BEEN Throughout the day, WAITING FOR YOU. WHAT'S THE IDEA—GETTING READY the joint forces march FOR BONFIRE NIGHT ? on Kumasi until
NO, SIR. ALTHOUGH THE ASHANTI DRUMS TALK PEACE, I DON'T WANT TO BE CAUGHT NAPPING. IF THEY DO TRY TO RUSH US, WE'LL SEE 'EM COMING / YOU KNOW MY MOTTO BE PREPARED. JJk
WELL, WE RE HERE / THEY'RE W YES. KEEP YOUR WHY HAVE YOU COME TO WORRY THAT'S KUMAS VERY / EYES SKINNED, US, WHITE £ STRAIGHT AHEAD. WHAT QUIET. 1 SIR —THEY'RE MAN ? SORT OF RECEPTION \ AN UGLY LOOK• SHALL WE GET ? ING BUNCH COME ON I
BECAUSE WE HAVE HEARD EVIL THINGS OF YOU, PREMPEH. TOMORROW WE SHALL HOLD A GREAT PALAVER, AND YOU SHALL SPEAK TRUTHFULLY. I DON'T LIKE IT, • I AGREE, SIR. B.P., not trusting MAJOR. PREMPEH'S ! THOSE THREE- GOT SOMETHING JEYED CHAPS Prempeh, watches. HIS SLEEVE. WERE HIS EXECUTIONERS! I'LL DO A SPOT OF SCOUTING TONIGHT. LOOK! TWO OF 'EM COMING FROM PREMPEH'S HUT GET READY
draw and encircle Kumasi while the % leaders confer. t THE BADEN WELL STORY *
THEY'RE SCOUTS 3000 MAN .' LEAVE THIS AH —GOT Stoty SENT OUT BY ONE TO ME. of the Pound VY0U of the Boy Scout PREMPEH TO SEE Move IF THE WAY IS CLEAR GOLD COAST, n the ytor 1 895, After service in many countries, Major Baden Powell returns to Africa, where he and Sir F els Scott lead an expedition into the Ashanti country against evil Kins named Prempeh After joining forces with Ih Friendly King of Bekwal, B.P and Sir Francis march to Ku masl, the enemy II. Q., and meet Prempeh. They arrange palaver with him for the next day and then withdraw distance from the village. That night, B.P. goes scouting, companied by a soldier, and two men leave Prempeh' hut and come In his direct!
STORY BY AL '
DRAWN BY /, .- .
NOW I'VE GOT YOU — DRAW YOUR LAST BREATH, WHITE SOLDIER,'
NICE WORK ] AND THANK YOU —YOU SAVED MY LIFE. KEEP THEM PRISONER UNTIL t*&V THE TRIAL.
The next day, Kumasi is searched for incriminating evidence.
I THINK THIS If HEIR TREASURE HOUSE — IT'S RECENTLY BEEN SEALED UP. LORD — WHAT OF THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY THE CURSE THEIR EXECUTION GROUND THAT IS THAT'S A FETISH TREE OVER THIS BUT WHERE'S THE PLACE? TREASURE THAT THE ASHANTI KINGS ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE HIDDEN ?
BLOW THIS IS THE THE CURSE ! WE'RE TREASURE HOUSE BRING PICKS THROUGH LET'S TAKE JM OUICKLY — WE'VE CLOSER LOOK I GOT TO GET THIS WALL DOWN.
CONTINUED
Not for 55 years has a goal been of youthful invention. High spirits, garden. In "bad calx" the goal is scored during the Eton College Wall mud, and a fine disregard for the shins marked out on a tree trunk. Rarity of Game, played every year on St. of others, together with a confusing rarities is for the' ball to be "clean Andrew's Day, November 30. Brit• vocabulary, make the game. kicked" into the goal at the door or ain's famous school, founded in 1440 A furrow running parallel with a tree. by King Henry VI, sponsors the Wall wall limits the battlefield, and at either Mostly the game is played with the Game between the Collegers (those end a broad white line marks out an feet, but, just to confuse the onlook• area called a calx. One area is better pupils who live in) and the Oppidans ers, "shies" precede hand play. To than the other, and naturally the boys score a shy the ball must be lifted with (those who live outside the college). dubbed them "good calx" and "bad the foot only against the wall. The This year will be the 124th time the calx." player who manages this shouts with game has been played. Into the midst of the two teams of understandable pride: "Got it!" Goals are rare in the Eton Wall eleven each, the umpire tosses a rug• If his claim is allowed, the lucky Game. The last one was scored in by ball and the rest is up to the play• lad then takes the ball in his hand 1909! ers, who kick the ball (and each and throws it to his team mates. They Rules were first drawn up in 1849 other) with great gusto and varying pass it about, trying to hit the goal be• — possibly to reduce the abrasions degrees of intent. At half-time the fore the ball touches the ground or and bruises light-heartedly collected teams change over to neutralize the one of the opposite side. This feat was and dispensed by excited schoolboys. difference between good and bad actually accomplished back in 1858. Revisions were made in 1863, and "calx." Play goes on for an hour. Some• again in 1871. In "good calx" the goal is a door times, to the astonishment of all, boys As an example of a game that "just in another wall, at right-angles to the emerge from the game recognizable by grew", the encounter is a masterpiece wall "proper", which fences off a their parents — but this is unusual. ESKIMO SfiOl/T MA/S JAI a'N MARCH 17, 1962 , FIRE BROKE- OUT IN THE HOME OF DAI/ID AND HELEN BEARSK/N /Af FORT GEORGE, QUEBEC, A VILLAGE INHABITED AWARD FOR BY CREE /AID/A NS. BOTH PARENTS WERE ABSENT AT THE TIME AND FIVE CHILDREN WERE IN VALOUR. THE HOUSE . WHEN THEY TRIED TO LEAVE, THE ONL Y THIRTEEN- YEAR-OLD ROBBIE HEAD ARRIVED DOOR WAS BLOCKED BY FLAMES. AND GATHERED THE CHILDREN TOGETHER.
DISPLAYING REMARKABLE COURAGE, HE BROKE A W/HPOWAHP SAFELY EVACUATED FOUR CHILDREN- ROBBIE ESCAPED WITH BURNS OH HIS HAMDS £ CLOTHES
FOR HIS HEROISM, ROBBIE HEAD, SCOUT OF THE FORT GEORGE POLAR BEAR TROOP, WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL FOR MERITORIOUS CONDUCT.
THE HOUSE BURNED TO THE GROUND AND THE YOUNGEST CH/LD PER'/SHED, BUT ONL Y ROBBIE'S HERO/C EFFORTS PREVENTED FOUR OTHER LIVES FROM BEING LOST. m
22 CANADIAN BOY Letters On the first page there are plans for a hot rod which my friends and I rfR m Continued from page 3 J have decided to make this summer. How about some articles on diving •r • dous. The thing that really was inter• since I am taking it up. esting was the editorial on the third Norman Perry, Chateauquay, Que. page about how you kicked the habit of smoking at 14. I think that is a Dear Sir: good article to tell how bad smoking The fifth issue of CB was stupen• can be. dous. Your article on things to do this summer with diagrams, directions Your topic about 25 things to do and explanations explained everything. this summer was very encouraging. Robert Seguin, Ottawa, Ont. Some 12,000 Boy Scouts and Girl Guides marched May 30th in Hamil• Thank you Robert. However, many ton, Ont., in North America's largest people did not find the boat plans youth parade. An honor guard of complete enough. Anyone wanting 100 U. S. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts more complete drawings free of charge took part. should write to: Editor, Canadian Boy, Dear Sir: Box 3520, Station C, Ottawa 3, Ont. Here are some dog tricks: 1—How ft —Ed. to teach a dog to find something. Coat Dear Sir: a ball with some dog treat, show it The students in our school seem to to your dog, cover his eyes, and put enjoy your magazine very much and it in an obvious place. Repeat "Find the teachers tell me that the students it!" several times, and let your dog frequently mention articles that you search for it. Gradually, make the have printed. I have been using my hiding places harder and harder, then copies to start a file of back issues remove the treat, but reward him - in the school library. when he does it correctly. I feel that you should be especially 2. How to teach a dog to sit up. Gerry and Michael Crooks, Montreal, commended for printing the recent Hold a morsel high in the air, and Quebec, proudly display their CB hot short story written by a student. say "Beg!" as you do it, and gently lift rod built with plans and ideas from The articles on sport and condi• his forepaws up from a sitting posi• July-August issue. tioning are of interest to me as a tion. Then drop forepaws and give Physical Education graduate. Recent him the tidbit. Repeat at intervals, research, I believe, has shown that and praise him greatly if he does it deep-knee bends are harmful to the correctly himself. ligaments of the knee region. These Dianne Shielman, Toronto, Ont. exercises, I notice, are a part of many of the fitness programs you recom• THEY WANT HELP mend. If this could be brought to the CUFF LINKS Dear Sir: Actual size. Personalized with your initials in attention of your sports editor, I would raised Roman block letters. Gold or rhodium plated I am very interested in taxidermy, with swivel action. Quality and workmanship be very grateful. guaranteed. but I have one main problem—how Cuff Links in metal presentation box ... S3.00pr. Cuff Links in attractive cardboard box .. $2.70pr. J. R. Dahmer, principal, Cereal to catch my specimens? Could you PLATED IN GOLD • PLATED IN KHOD. • School, Cereal, Aha. PRINT INITIALS DESIRED IN THIS SPACE please give me some information on send money order to: how to catch a bird without a gun SAM KRASNOW & CO. or poison and for very little cost. 1214 PEEL ST.. MONTREAL, QUE. • Daniel Buckly, 44 Harrison Dr.. New• market, Ont.
Dear Sir: WOVEN My friend and I are planning a trip SHOULDER BADGES to Israel next summer. We hope to finance our trip by working on the (FLASHES) way there and back on a ship. We V%" WIDTH The 109th "A" Pack Westworth- also expect to spend one month work• are again available from Winners of the Hesketh Trophy pre• ing on a collective farm and another sented annually for 35 years to the month touring the country by scoot• top cub pack first aid team in the er. greater Winnipeg area. (Front row, We would like to know if any of BOX 116 BELLEVILLE, ONTARIO left-to-right) John Brown Jr., Kent CB's readers has ever tried anything • Johnston, George Grant, Randy Gies- of this nature; and if so, his or her Various Colour Combinations Including brecht, Jim Cormack. (Back row, left- Black and Navy Backgrounds. results. We would also appreciate any • to-right) Ben Henderson, Trainer; suggestions. WRITE FOR SAMPLES OR John Brown, Akela; Wayne Kelly, ORDER BY CATALOGUE NO. 47-000. Bernie Weinstein, 2640 Bedford Assistant. Road, Montreal 26, Que.
OCTOBER 23 CAREERS
BUILDING YOUTH
INTO
MEN
Most of you readers of Canadian teach health education. educator with a real sense of reward Boy probably get a kick out of sports In community recreation, the and satisfaction. or other physical activity and recrea• physical educator will plan programs, How can you start getting ready tion. But have you ever realized you and supervise and instruct in games for a career as a physical educator? could make a lifetime job out of this and sports of all kinds. He may also Two ways—in the classroom and by liking for physical activity? You can act in an executive capacity, and do practical experience. In class, take —as a physical educator, either in the public relations work as well. mathematics and the sciences (espe• schools or in community recreation. In organizing camping, the director cially biology). These will give you the Mind you, not everyone is qualified and counsellor must supervise and background for the medical aspects of for leadership in this field. The essen• teach the various camp activities. This physical education training you will tial qualities are interest in people, a program usually includes canoeing, get at university. Remember, you need capacity to work with others, aca• sailing, swimming, campcrafts and top academic standing for a career demic proficiency, good health, lead• other activities. in P.E. just as much as for any other ership ability, a liking for physical There is a tremendous demand to• branch of teaching. activity and a fair amount of athletic day for people in these categories. Outside the classroom, take advan• skill. Our fast-growing school systems will tage of every opportunity for leader• The physical educator should have be able to absorb all physical educa• ship training. Student government, a capacity for hard work and also tion graduates for years to come. And running the intramural athletic pro• the ability to relax and enjoy rec• not only are jobs plentiful, advance• gram, and P.E. class leadership can reation himself. Perhaps the most ment is rapid. The teacher could be• all be valuable. So can camp counsel• important quality is a really keen in• come head of a department, a vice- ling, community recreation work and terest in his field. principal or principal. There are also participation in church young people's The duties of a physical educator excellent job opportunities at univer• organizations. vary with his job. The teacher of sities open to the P.E. graduate. In a After high school, the best path physical education in a school has to similar way, community recreation • is to take is to one of the universities help students solve their own health expanding, and jobs increasing. offering a course leading to a degree problems, develop good qualities of Salaries are on the upswing in all in physical education. There are character and good recreation habits phases of P.E. So are other benefits. twelve such universities in Canada, lo• through play and physical activity. And remember, much of the work cated in all provinces except Prince The teacher organizes and gives in• takes place in a pleasant recreational Edward Island and Nova Scotia. Fur• struction in games, sports, swimming atmosphere—often in the outdoors. ther information on these universities and other activities. Some will coach This, and the leadership he gives to can be obtained through your guid• teams in various sports. Most will his students, provides the physical ance teacher.
24 CANADIAN BOY I shouldn't worry. They're usually a "Hey, listen," said Peter. "I think I Rescued little late when they get back from hear someone coming." Continued from page 12 the woods. They're so busy looking at "You keep saying that," said Tim. sloping, it was even more likely to things they just can't seem to keep "It's only the water dripping." break than before. track of the time. "No! This time I'm sure," said Slowly, he inched his way down "They should have taken Ralph Peter. "I'm sure I heard a dog bark• the underneath side of the ladder, with them," said Mrs. Wilson. "Peter ing." while it creaked hideously. says that dog's better than he is at They all listened intently. Sure Peter and Clare watched, awe- finding his way home." enough, they could hear the sound of stricken, scarcely daring to breathe. "Gosh, that's right," said Jim. a dog's bark, coming closer. Finally, Tim reached the edge of "Ralph is home, isn't he. I wonder "It's Ralph! It's Ralph!" yelled the tunnel. He still had to work him• why?" Peter jumping up, excitedly. "I'd self around to the upper side of the "Because they tied him up!" said know his bark anywhere. We're res• sloping ladder and then push himself Mrs. Wilson. "That's why! I found cued! We're rescued!" away from it before he would be safe him chained to his kennel when I came "So what if it is," said Tim, "we in the tunnel. home." still haven't any way of getting out Carefully, he hooked one leg over "I wonder why they left Ralph of here!" the top of the ladder, reached over home," said Jim slowly. Then they heard someone at the as far as he could with his hand, and "You don't suppose they did it be• mouth of the mine shaft. then all at once swung his body over cause they were planning to explore "Peter! Clare! Are you there?" the ladder, and jumped clear of it the old Simpkin Mine do you? Peter's Jim yelled down. into the tunnel. been wanting me to take him down "Yes, Yes," Peter yelled up at him. He landed safely beside Peter and that old mine for ages." Then he quickly told him what had Clare. But the extra push had been "If they were thinking of going happened to them. too much for the ladder to support. down that old mine, that would be a Jim stiffened with fear, as he lis• One of the uprights snapped and hung good reason to tie up Ralph," said tened. He'd never be able to get loose. The ladder was useless. No Mrs. Wilson slowly. "They'd know them out before dark, he thought. He one would ever be able to climb up he'd try to follow them. Oh, Jim, I'm couldn't leave them and go for help; or down it again. scared. Take Ralph with you and try there wasn't time. He couldn't lower Clare started to cry hysterically. to find them. Something's wrong." a rope down over the water-filled "Now we'll never get home," she Jim looked up at the sky. It'll soon mine shaft for them to climb up, he sobbed. be dark, he thought. I haven't much didn't have any. Anyway that would ****** time to find those kids. I just hope be too dangerous! they're not hurt or lost in Simpkin's "Don't worry, Peter. I'll get you "Where on earth can those children mine. It would be too dangerous to out some way," Jim yelled down with be, Jim?" said Mrs. Wilson. "It's way work around that old mine shaft after a confidence he certainly didn't feel. past their dinnertime." dark. He shuddered at the thought of "Ah, don't worry, mom," said Jim. While Jim was talking to Peter, anyone spending a night in the old Ralph was running off in different "They're late half the time when they mine. go on those crazy expeditions Peter's directions. He had heard Peter's voice always dreaming up. You know your• Ralph strained at his leash. Jim and was trying to find him. He sniffed self you're always givin' 'em heck for kept a tight hold on it, but let him and whimpered at every hole in the being late." decide which way to go. He headed ground he came to. across the fields straight towards the Jim's right, thought Mrs. Wilson. Jim barely noticed him until he old mine. started to bark loudly from some ****** bushes a couple of hundred feet away from the shaft. "I'm awfully hungry," said Clare. "I Jim was about to yell at him to: CHOICE OF want to go home." The three of them were huddled "Shut up, and stop bothering him CHAMPIONS. close together. They had not moved when he was trying to think", when far—the worlds n popular table-top from the mouth of the tunnel. They suddenly he remembered something. racing set! just sat there, shivering, not knowing All mines have a second shaft or what to do. emergency escape exit. Simpkin's "We're all hungry," said Peter. mine had not been big enough or "But it'll only make it worse if we successful enough to sink a second talk about it. We'll just have to wait shaft. But they had dug the first until someone rescues us." drift so that it opened up onto the surface of the ground. The kids were FASTER SMOOTHER "That may take days," said Tim, fabulous Thunderjel "500" only on the first level, so the escape still frightened from his narrow escape rnr it your favorite exit would lead right to where they hobby Retailer .. $29.95 on the ladder. "Nobody even knows were stranded. The entrance to the we're here." tunnel should be just about where Clare started to cry again. Peter Ralph was barking from. and Tim sat looking off into the dark• ness, helpless. "Good boy, Ralph," Jim said softly for information write Box 243. Bexfja|e, Ontario ****** Continued on page 27
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Manitoba Maple B/acLcMapLe Mou/?Aa//7 MapLe Peal MapLe Continued from page 25 child alone for long anywhere. He is your charge. Keep your mind on to himself. "Good boy! Maybe I can him. save them before it gets too dark, after all." Don't let a creeping child play on PEN Moving quickly, he leaned down stairs, porches or window sills. Keep PAIS the mine shaft and yelled. "Peter, him away from heaters, radiators, don't worry if you don't hear from electric wires and appliances. Don't me for a few minutes. I think I've let him pull on a lamp or table that figured out a way to rescue you." might fall over onto him. Keep him out of the street. Peter was too tired to yell back or to be too curious about what Jim Use a bit of psychology, too. Pay planned to do. All he could think of as much attention to one child in a In response to your many requests, was how cold and hungry he was. family as you do to another. If you Canadian Boy is introducing this pen Jim worked desperately at the boul• don't, the neglected child may de• pal column. Anyone interested in ders that had been thrown over the liberately do something dangerous having a pen pal is welcome to write narrow exit to keep animals and and injure himself to get your sym• in. When writing, please include your wanderers from falling in, and soon pathy. name, full address, age and hobbies had a hole large enough to squeeze Don't open the outside door unless so we can find you a pen pal with through. The tunnel sloped down you know the person calling or unless similar interests. If you have any gradually, and he had no trouble you have a chain lock that opens it special preference as to where your working his way towards the main part way. future pen pal should come from, shaft. Keep matches, scissors and ciga• mention that too. Clare was the first one to notice rette butts (they cause nicotine poison• Gordon Pierce, 227 Cottage St., New the beam of light coming from the ing) away from children and, if you Glasgow, N.S., is 9. Ronnie Nelson, depths of the tunnel. She jumped up are preparing meals, beware of the Box 119, Devon, Alta. Joe Williams, yelling to Peter and Tim, "It's Jim! dangers of a hot stove. When feed• Box 393, Shelburne, N.S. S. Killey, It's Jim! He's found a different way ing a baby remember to hold him in 81 Kings Rd., Valois, Que. Ricki to get us out of the mine. We're a sitting position so that if he regurgi• Sidwell, 23267 - 27th Rd., Haney, B.C. rescued!" tates the food will dislodge and not Michael Butt, 26 Thompson Rd., St. strangle him. For the same reason, Then Ralph bounded towards them, Catharines, Ont. Benny Bless, 483 it is unsafe to leave a baby unguard• almost knocking over Tim. He Hixon St., Beamsville, Ont. Allan ed during or soon after feeding. Don't started licking Peter's face. Ward, 25 Medway Cresc, Scarbor• merely prop a bottle in his mouth ough, Ont. "Ralph! Good old Ralph!" said and leave him. Peter, burying his face in the dog's For those of you who want foreign fur. "I should have known you'd If you are invited to baby-sit in a pen pals, write Mr. W. Noel Reakes, bring Jim to rescue us." A strange home, start off on the right Pen Pal Service, Boy Scouts of Can• foot by arriving early and making ada, 319 Phipps St., Fort Erie, Ont. friends with the children before the parents leave. And when a child can• Baby Sitting not be managed by any other means, Continued from page 17 use neither threats nor promises but The Running Game Continued from page 9 with unnecessary personal calls. a firm command to make him under• Some parents may not object to stand that he's in your charge. carrying it correctly becomes as auto• your having a friend over, but it's Learn to distinguish between a matic as breathing. Plant it firmly better if you don't. You are supposed serious and a minor accident and how under your arm, away from the tack• to be at work, doing a job, and visi• to deal with blisters, bruises, mild ier. Carry the ball with one point tors should be taboo as they are in burns, cuts, hiccups, insect bites, nose• firmly held by the spread fingers and any business office during hours. bleeds, sunburn, skinned knees, splin• the other point in the armpit or high up under and against the arm. Use Besides, once the child is asleep, ters, croup and upset stomachs. both hands to hold the ball when you you have a golden opportunity to get It's not likely that a crisis will have been hit. caught up on your homework! occur while you are baby-sitting, but On smashes through the line, hold You'll probably be invited to watch there's always a chance that it will. the ball against your body with the television, listen to the radio or play Be prepared for it. tips pointing towards your elbows. The the record player. If so, have the Don't panic and don't frighten the right hand is spread over the tip sound turned low, so you can hear child. Have at hand, at all times, which is near the first elbow and the anything amiss in the child's room. the phone number where the parents left hand covers the point nearer the Remember, your prime concern is can be immediately reached and the right elbow. The forearm covers and for the child's safety. telephone numbers of the police and protects the length of the ball. If you See that he plays only in areas fire departments. You should also break into the clear you can shift designated by the parents. When you have the doctor's number and that of it then to the one-arm grip under cannot hold or watch a small baby, a nearby neighbor. either arm. You'll find that through keep him in a playpen, and when out• For the rest, the best and oldest practice and observation of star play• doors, stay within sight and sound of advice still stands: Use your com• ers in action you can develop your the playpen. Never leave a young mon sense. rife running game immensely. rife
OCTOBER 27 future coinage. This move is ex• THE COIN pected to eliminate the possibility of Canadian Boy's ~m 1964 U.S. coinage ever being worth a premium, thereby ending the hoard• ing of uncirculated coins which has been a nuisance to the mint and the banks in the U. S. FABULOUS!! In last month's column we men• tioned the possibilities of collecting coins by "type". This month we will list a similar method, only slightly simpler, as it eliminates some of the harder to get coins. This system of collecting is called a "Monarch set" CONTEST! and consists of a coin of each de• BY PETER DEGRAAF nomination of each Monarch. The is in full swing. Since our last column, many events complete set consists of 28 coins and Don't wait another minute. have taken place which have altered this series can be collected in any Get your entries in now. the outlook of numismatics. In the condition from Very Good to Bril• There are U. S., the mint has announced that liant Uncirculated. Beginning collect• no proof sets (sets of coins specially ors should always remember that a struck for collectors), will be made coin which is mutilated, damaged or in 1965, and as a result the price of has part of the detail missing does the U.S. 1964 proof set soared from not belong in a collection, and unless $4.00 to $20.00 per set. The Ca• this standard is upheld, it is doubtful nadian proof-like sets which this year if the collection would ever be worth terrific prizes feature a new Silver Dollar, com• more than face value. to be won! memorating the 100th anniversary of Many collectors who have com• the founding of Confederation, also pleted their Canadian collections are have increased in value, from $4.00 now turning to foreign coins and the 11 to $10.00, although it is expected coinage of Great Britain, Australia that the Canadian Mint will continue and many other Commonwealth coun• two second prizes of to sell the sets next year. The U. S. tries. Most of these coins are col• set with a face value of 91c normally lected by type, and a copy of "Mod• sells at $3.00 or $4.00 at this time of ern World Coins" by R. S. Yeoman year, while the original cost from the is a must. (A type collection con• mint is $2.10. The Canadian sets sists of a coin from each period two third prizes of (face value $1.91) usually sell for during which a change of design took Kodak Brownie Automatic 27 $4.00 at this time, while their original place). Once you have started to col• cost is $3.00 per set. The prices lect, the next step is to join a coin OUTFITS quoted could well be higher yet, by club. All the larger Canadian cities the time this column appears. now have at least one, and most clubs • Additional prizes of 12 have junior memberships. As a mem• Another development which has in• ° camera outfits and 10 ber of the club you should display creased interest in Canadian coins is nifty leather gadget bags. your coins often and those of you the announcement by the Mint that in who acquire numismatic knowledge, If you haven't entered already, fill out 1965 the Queen's effigy or likeness should be prepared to share this the official entry form below. See will be changed on all Canadian coins. knowledge with fellow collectors by September Canadian Boy for complete Decisions such as these always tend giving short talks on the subject. contest rules. So get with it — to make people aware of coin collect• The Canadian Numismatic Associa• ing, and in this case it closes off the tion held its 11 th annual convention Queen Elizabeth "Young Head" se• in Halifax, from August 27 to 29. ries from 1953 to 1964. As a result, For the C.N.A. this was the first many people will attempt to collect convention in the Maritimes, and it is all the coins of this series. This thought that many new collectors will should be simple in "circulated" or have become acquainted with coin used condition, but rather difficult in m collecting through this convention. "uncirculated" or brand new condi• - Use this Official Entry Form - * I attended this convention and tion. Novice collectors will be able Name expect to give a report in future to commence collecting the "Old Address columns. By the time I write our next Head" series commencing in 1965, by Age column some of you will have had a putting aside an uncirculated set each Where photo taken chance to write in, and I will try to year. answer as many of your questions as When photo taken The next item of interest is a bill possible. Send all correspondence to Name and addresses of people now before the U. S. congress which me c/o Canadian Boy. $$§fc appearing in pictures will "freeze" the date 1964 on all
28 CANADIAN BOY delling, playing sax, harmonica and guitar. FUND RAISING "Nino And April Sing The Great IT'S EASY TO RAISE Songs," Nino Tempo & April Stevens, $5000 $50000 or $500000 Atco SD 33-162 (London) Anthony Newley sometime ago stop• FOR YOUR BY SANDY GARDINER ped the world and really got off in a CHURCH, SCHOOL, SPORTS GROUPS The Gemtones are five boys from big way with a Broadway show. And New Brunswick ranging in age from (10, 50, 100 or 500 members) the funny part about it all is that Tony 15 to 19 who burst onto the hit re• FOR got his singing start playing a rock cord scene with an instrumental titled 'n' roller in a movie called "Idle On CAMPSITES, TRAVEL, "Reno" a couple of months back. Parade." Tony recorded the title song UNIFORMS, EQUIPMENT On their new LP, they include their and his singing career snowballed. smash plus a majority of chart-bust• Since then he has developed a style ers first put on the lists by The Sha• all his own. Warmth and feeling are dows. The album is an excellent show• all wrapped up in his songs, be they case for their talents and they can be happy or dreamy. His new set hits on heard gradually emerging from copy• the sad side of Newley, and these are ing the British group into their own the songs he does best of all. Ray style. It gets my seal of appeal. Ellis does a great job on the arrange• FUND RAISING SERVICES "These Fabulous Gemtones." The ments too. Gemtones, London RBS 1201 "In My Solitude," Anthony Newley, EXAMPLE Rhythm and blues isn't really get• An Ontario 100-member youth group made I RCA Victor, LSP 2925 over $1,200.00 in their spare time for a I ting the exposure it deserves in this campsite. I country. One of the best exponents of On The Beat: Ottawa vocalist Bob this kind of music is Marvin Gaye Harrington off to London this month
1. You do not have to send any money with your who has been scoring consistently in for a recording session. Bob will re• first order. the U.S. on singles and with Mary cord four songs, two by Canadian 2. Unsold items may be returned for full credit. Wells in the hit duet, "Once Upon A songwriter Dave Britten and two by 3. Your committee may choose one or more items to sell from a variety of nationally advertised prod• Time." an as yet un-recognized top-notch ucts, all guaranteed first quality, wifh a proven scribe from south of the border, Chip consumer acceptance. His greatest hits are featured in his Taylor . . . Lucille Starr squeezing in 3. Sales aids (order forms, lapel ribbons, etc., etc.) latest long groove and if you haven't to publicize club project, supplied free. Dummy the dramatic TV appearances on Hol• boxes or silent salesmen for booking orders, etc. heard Marvin's name before, listen to lywood shows like "Dr. Kildare" . . . his drivin' beat ballads, "Can I Get Halifax group The Beavers are head• ADDITIONAL SERVICES FOR LARGER A Witness" and "Wonderful One" and ing for bigger things after their highly FUND RAISING DRIVES you'll have a Gaye time. successful re-recording of the B i g "Greatest Hits." Marvin Gaye, Tamla Sports teams (baseball, hockey, rugby, etc.) school Bopper's original hit, "Chantilly Lace" bands, dance groups, etc., wanting uniforms or 252 (Phonodisc) equipment — with no cash outlay The British beat is still going strong, A. "EARN YOUR OWN CLUB JACKET" plan outlines how 100 or 500 members can earn their own jacket, so there is no reason why an album uniform or equipment, with no outlay of money by - your club and still have surplus cash for other on the Mersey beat shouldn't do well. expenses. The only hindrance is the fact that B. "INCENTIVE PRIZE PIAN." This plan stimulates interest and competitive spirit among members, par• most of the nine artists on the set ticularly youth groups, assuring better sale, thus assuring reaching your objective easily. aren't known here. C. PARENTS "LETTER-MAILING" for youth ond But names like Heinz, Dave Berry, athletic clubs. Bern Elliott and Beryl Marsden are D. How to organize ond conduct a successful fund- raising campaign. household names across the pond and they scream, shout and twist their way through 16 far out rockers. It's value for money. The Beavers
• "The Mersey Beat," Nine Great • r*.— KM Groups, London LL 3369 . . . Toronto's Jayson King easily the Probably my favorite duo on the mar• closest white singer to Ray Charles . MAIL THIS COUPON TO-DAY! ket right now are Nino Tempo and . . . A name to watch in the French lo Fred Thompson Sales Ltd., April Stevens, the brother-sister team market is Les Classels, a group from 48 Apex Road, Toronto 19, Ontario that has revived the old songs in 1964 Montreal . . . Winnipeg's Chad Allen For free illustrated booklet on further information idiom and still retained the melody— and The Reflections didn't do too well with no obligation unlike most up-dated treatments these with "Stop Teasing Me" but they still To days. have the potential to make the grade . . .Wes Dakus, leader of an Edmon• Title Their new set runs a musical gamut of standards done in different tempo ton instrumental combo, could click Organization by Tempo and given an even-Stevens in the U. S. with "Sidewinder," a good Address balance by April. It's an exciting half- guitar sound produced by the late Buddy Holly's manager Norman Pet• City Prov hour's entertainment on wax and spot• ty in Clovis, New Mexico j&r Let us assist you to raise funds lights their versatility with Nino yo•
OCTOBER 29 States stamps, we recommend "Post• COINS age Stamps of the United States," a STAMP publication of the U. S Government CHARITON'S 1965 COIN GUIDE WITH PREMIUM PRICES for Canadian, American, British coins and which lists every stamp of that coun• bills, 50c. Canada Coin Exchange, 49 Queen Street East, Toronto, Canada. CORN try from 1847 through to the Audu• bon stamp of December 7, 1963. In addition to the illustrations and de• HOBBIES
scriptions of stamps, there are tables HAVE FUN WITH A HOBBY. MAKE HOBBYLAND YOUR Headquarters for Electric Race Cars, Car Kits, showing designers, engravers, first Trains, Planes, Boats, Crafts, Send 25c for Cata• BY H. L. WOODMAN day sites and dates, together with logue. Hobbyland, 93 O'Connor, Ottawa. quantities of stamps sold and covers One of the most often asked questions cancelled on the initial day of issue STAMPS we get is "Where can I get Boy since January 1953. Scout topical stamps?" One very re• STAMPS FREE The book is easily worth several liable dealer whom we have been New Countries — Triangles — Rockets — Olympics times the $1.25 it sells for. It is — Scouts — Birds — Flowers — Animals. Also old patronizing for a great number of Canadian and U.S. stamps. Plus complete illustrated available from the Superintendent of Canadian Stamp Catalog. Send 10c for mailing. years is Sherman Pratt, 449 Angle- Gray Stamp Co., Dept. CR., Toronto, Canada. Documents, Government Printing Of• sea St., Baltimore 24, Maryland. He fice, Washington D.C., 20402. WITCH'S BREW. EXCITING MYSTERY MIXTURE. will be glad to send you a price list, About 225 foreign stamps 10c. Stampliner, Box which, due to its completeness, can First day demands for the J. F. 124, North Bay, Ontario. Kennedy Memorial stamp set a new double as your Scout stamp check• COMPLETE MINT SCOUT SET FROM AFGHANISTAN, list. record in the United States, with 2,003 only 10c with approvals. Stamps, 186 Carlton, 096 pieces of mail handled at spe• St. Catharines, Ontario. While on the topic of stamps with cial cancelling stations. Previous high a Scouting theme, we would like to was on April 22, when 1,656,346 RADIO & ELECTRONICS offer our congratulations to Arthur cancellations were made of New York SHORT WAVE LISTENING McKinney, our counterpart with World's Fair commemorative stamps. American Boy, who was recently Learn amateur radio by becoming o short wave A very interesting set of thirteen listener. Hear London, Paris, Rome, Moscow, as elected president of Scouts on Stamps well as amateurs, aircraft, ships at sea, weather stamps was issued fifteen years ago broadcasts, etc. Receiver covers 150 kilocycles to Society International. This is a 30 megacycles and can be built at low cost. Op• by the Nicaraguan government as a erates on batteries, safe, educational, easy to build. worthwhile organization and its bul• Code practise set also available. Send for free means of raising money to purchase brochure to Codar Radio of Canada, Tweed, Ontario. letin is alone worth the price of mem• a national stadium. Illustrations de• bership. We can send you an ap• picting sport and youthful activities plication form if you are interested. were used and it was, therefore, in• Cyprus has an active Scout Move• evitable that Boy Scouts should turn READ THIS CAREFULLY ment and last year its government up among them. The 2-c value shows BEFORE PLACING ORDERS recognized the 50th anniversary of a Scout and Scout badge. The others APPROVALS—Most of the stamp ad• Cypriot Scouting with a set of three featured pole-vaulting, cycling, diving, vertising in Canadian Boy make offers postage stamps. These were prepared the proposed stadium, yacht racing, to "Approval Applicants" or words by the Crown Agents in London and similar. This means: in addition to table tennis, football and tennis. An the special offer, you will receive their issue coincided with the begin• airmail set was also issued, using the stamps on approval which are yours ning of the Third Commonwealth same subjects but these were square in only if you pay additional for them. Scout Conference at Platres. Cubs, You may select the stamps you wish, shape while the regular issues were and return the balance along with Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts were oblong. payment for the ones not returned. worked into the designs. Some stamp companies may con• The Netherlands-Indies later to be• tinue to send approvals to you Latest Canada stamps are two 5c unless you write and tell them not come Indonesia, was also a Scout commemoratives featuring the floral to do so. stamp issuing country with a set of emblems of Ontario and Quebec. If the advertisement says "to ap• two for the 5th world jamboree at proval buyers" you will receive the These made their appearance June Vogelenzing. The design was two special offer stamps only after you 30. Eight others will be issued be• have purchased from the approvals. Boy Scouts in Uniform, with the staff fore the end of 1967. If you do not understand this, ask of Jacob which was that Jamboree's your parents to explain. Be sure that We had an interesting letter from symbol. This was in 1937. you include FULL NAME AND AD• Murray Fried, Secretary, Maple Leaf DRESS (Printed). Chapter, Scouts on Stamps Society TRADING DEPARTMENT—Allen International in Kitchener. The chap• Munro, 16 Greenwood Street, Ham• ter is very active and is promoting ilton, Ont., has European stamps to PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! another Canadian Scout stamp issue on trade for those of U.S.A.; Christo• Before you move: Send change some appropriate occasion in the near pher G. Haynes, 5 Spen Drive, Leeds of address to — Subscription future. 16, Yorkshire, England, will exchange Department, CANADIAN BOY, Our policy respecting letters is to stamps of England for Canadian make a personal reply to those where stamps; Bruce Stewart, 715 4th Ave., P.O. BOX 3520, STATION "C", the queries are not of general in• S., Kenora, Ont., is a general collec• OTTAWA 3, ONT. terest. Otherwise, the answers will tor and hopes to find a pen pal who Give both your old and new address, be made in this column. So, if you can swap stamps of the world. and any letters or numerals appear• ing on the address label. Send labels do not hear from us, keep watching Next issue, we hope to be able to if possible. If you are a member of Stamp Corner. continue with a few more paragraphs the Boy Scouts of Canada also give the name and number of your group. If you are a collector of United on Canadian postal history. A
30 CANADIAN BOY lumbia, where he goes with his father to search for a lost gold vein. Other people tell Jim mining is just gam• $2.75 bling, and he has to decide whether luck or hard work really pays off. Other action is hot and heavy, too, before the gripping climax. BY MOROCCO BOUND A Labrador boy stows away on a steamboat to reach town and sell a Animals can be as interesting as peo• precious silver-fox skin he owns. But ple—sometimes more interesting, as before he can sell it, he is tricked and is shown in five new books. One is robbed by a trader. And so, Lukey Mustang Roundup, by Paul Laune Stories, articles, puzzles, cartoons and six• Paul, the hero of Lukey Paul From teen pages of photographs showing Scouting (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $4.05). Labrador, by Adelaide Leitch (Mac- activities. This is a collection of 12 stories about millan Co., $2.50), heads out to sea the wild horses known as mustangs again to find the thief. His adventures to the early Westerners. Descended as he sails the coast of Labrador from Spanish horses, used by the In• won't let you put the book down 'til dians against the white man, then used you finish it. by the cow-hands of the West, the saga of the mustang is a glorious and As wild and turbulent as Niagara exciting one. The book tells the mus• Falls itself are some of the characters tang's history, gives tips on how to who have risked their lives on its $1.85 care for and handle horses, and is brink. All of these characters are filled with excellent drawings of su• found in Daredevils of Niagara, by perb horses. Andy O'Brien (Ryerson Press. $3.95). Included are the tight-rope walkers, Photographs showing young Cubs in action. The Annual also includes many puzzles and The more exotic types of wild ani• the barrel-plungers, the whirlpool stories. mals are found in three books: Three swimmers—all the strange and steel- Available at all booksellers -r Boy Scouts of Canada. Supply Services. Ottawa. Singles to Adventure, The Whisper• nerved men and women who have ing Land, and A Zoo in My Luggage, defied the mighty Falls. A collection COPPZCLARK by Gerald Durrell (Penguin Books, of weird and wonderful tales. 85c each). The first two books take For the history-minded, A Knight you to South America, the latter to and His Weapons, by R. Ewart Oake- West Africa, where the author is look• shott (G. R. Welch Co., $2.75), tells, ing for animals for his private zoo. in words and pictures, the story of In each of them, he fills the pages medieval weapons. Included are de• with animal stories, colorful tales of tailed descriptions of all kinds of local inhabitants, and about one swords, lances, battle-axes, early fire• funny story per page. These three hi• arms, and more, more, more. larious volumes for the older set A series of booklets on values in shouldn't be missed if you like ani• education is available free from the mals, travel, adventure, or just like Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, laughing. 218 Sun Life Building, Montreal. Wild African animals can also Some of the booklets are: Sports make wonderful pets, as is shown in Tips for Teenagers; You Can Get Gara-Yaka: The story of a Cheetah, Higher Marks; How to Get More Fun SAFETY FIRST by Desmond Varaday (Clarke, Ir• out of School; The Value of a Col• win, $6.25). This is the true story of lege Education; and Why Stay in ALWAYS how the author took an infant School? They're all worth reading. cheetah home after its mother was Well, it took us a long time get• killed by a crocodile. Gara-Yaka grew CUB FIRST AID KIT ting around to it, but we finally read Just what every Cub should carry for up to become as good a pet and friend Beatle John Lennon's book, In His small emergencies. A soft plastic case as even a dog could be. She slept and Own Write (Clarke, Irwin & Co., made to fit your pocket. Contents- adhesive tape, adhesive strips, oint• ate with the author, and generally be• Ltd., $2.50), and it turned out to be ment and gauze. came a member of his household. She well worth reading. In His Own Write No. 70-106 $1.00 also got into scrapes with lions, ele• is a collection of short nonsense stor• OFFICIAL FIRST AID KIT phants and leopards, plus many other ies that fracture the English language Ideal for personal first aid on hikes adventures—all of which are in this and rambles. Fits in official leather into some wacky and extremely funny handy case. book, illustrated with color and black new forms. Lennon also illustrated No. 70-102 $1.95 and white photographs. the book with some equally original drawings. If the "yeah-yeah-yeah" SUPPLY d AVAILABLE THROUGH For some exciting fiction adven• SCOUT DISTRIBUTORS boys ever disband, Mr. Lennon OR ture, look for Lucky Jim's Gold Mine, BOY SCOUTS OF CANADA, by Terry Baker (Thomas Allen Ltd., doesn't need to worry about a new SUPPLY SERVICES $3.50). It's the story of young Jim career as long as he can keep invent• SERVICES P.O. Box 3520, Postal Station C, Ottawa 3. Ontario Fraser's adventures in British Co• ing words.
OCTOBER 31 Read the answers in your mirror!
otV. I0r=- II?-- ISr >fM2JD6i.8'. IC. S6'. VS.'. ^q'. 19'. Doublets Cities and Rivers Lewis Carroll called this type of word puzzle Many of Canada's towns and cities were built doublets when he invented it in 1879. The on the banks of rivers, for rivers were once object is to change one word into another by the main highways of our country. Match altering one letter at a time. Each time you these towns and cities with the rivers which change a letter, you must have a word. For flow through or past them. example, change DOG into CAT: dog, cog, cot, cat. 1. Montreal a. Thames Check your dictionary to make certain your 2. Calgary Lewes steps are correct, and try to do the following 3. London St. Lawrence doublets, making as few intermediate words 4. Saskatoon-*^^ d. South Saskatchewan as possible. Our best is four words for the 5. Whitehorse "V Bow first, ten for the second, eight for the third, 6. Edmonton -~t Don and thirteen for the fourth. Can you do any - better? 7. Toronto-" ' g- Ottawa 8. Kami oops h. North Saskatchewan i 9. Hull i. Saint John 10. New Westminster Js? Red 11. Winnipeg Nc- Fraser 12. Fredericton 1. Thompson Change BOY to CUB; ONE to TWO; FOUR to FIVE; SCOUT to ROVER. Crossword Puzzle 12 savory 11 to prepare the way 15 spoken 13 wearing apparel DOWN 5 8th letter of the alphabet 17 monetary unit of Persia 14 high silk hat t cooking room 6 consent ,23 Permanent Commission 16 small rolled tobacco leaves 2 resist ^ French for "black" (abbr) 18 Central Registry Officer 3 doze 8 Hammerskjold's first name ,25 Cubic Centimeter (abbr) 19 Double N 4 not odd 9' horse's room 27 definite article 20 The Queen's monogram 29 wife (ham talk) 21 piece 30 keep alone 22 door clasp 31 reverential awe 24 finish 32 sword 25 pottery earth 33 25th and 14th letter 26 chooses by vote JJ4''rat 28 outdo 35 town living 31 one that fries 36 calcium (chem) 35 tissue sores 37 make possible 39 stingy 38 Royal Neth. Light Inf. 40 possessive (abbr) 41 in the year of (Latin) 39 legendary stories 42 a yelp 43 overturn 43 Fire Department (abbr) 45 God of love 44 to exist 48 short sixth day 46 whole 49 Atomic Energy Comm. (abbr) small 49 peninsula in SW Asia 51 shamrock land ACROSS >2f French Christmas 1 monetary unit of Denmark 53 handwritings 5 set by hand 54 story setting 32 CANADIAN BOY match each other and the slots for back and bottom should be at right angles to each other — you can check this with a book if you do not have a try square. Cut the sides of the slots with a fine saw and chop out the ends with a chisel. Each slot should be just wide enough to make an easy fit on the thickness of the plywood. The back and bottom may be any length and width, but the sizes shown suit books up to about 9 in. by 6 in. The two parts are the same, except that the back (B) is wider than the bottom (C). Mark out the slots together so that they match. 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It will be probably be de• bated in and out of the House of Commons in different ways for years to come. Nearly every group in the country has expressed some opinion on what flag we should adopt as our own dis• tinctive symbol. Nearly every group except those who will be most affected by the new flag—the young people of Canada. Young people like you readers of Canadian Boy and your friends will be the first generation to grow up and live under this new official Can• adian flag. We think your views on the flag are extremely important and should be known. Fill out the form printed below and send us your opinions on the four flags shown on this page. Read the questions carefully and answer them as accurately and completely as you can. As soon as we receive your answers, we will let everybody know what young Canada thinks the answer should be to Canada's flag problem. Please fill this form out and return to: Editor, Canadian Boy, P. O. Box 3520, Station C, Ottawa 3, Ont Which do you favor as Canada's flag? The Union Jack • The Red Ensign • Three Leaf Flag • Single-Leaf Flag • Why do you favor the flag you have chosen? Do you favor keeping the Union Jack as a symbol of Canada's Commonwealth mem• bership? Yes • No • Almost. V ristmas is coming up - - there'll be stockings to fill and presents to buy. Why not make it a Scouting Christmas? 'There are hundreds of perfect Cub, Scout, Venturer and Rover gift items available. See them all in theSupply Services catalogue your son received in the September-October issue of Canadian Bey. Or see your Scout dealer ipr Scout office for a handy list of I Scouting Christmas items. Make it a Scouting Christmas. Your son will be glad you did. "••••if