Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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It ' s a ' Lucky Boy ' for Summer Lucky Boy Shirts are always a boy ' s clioice and a must for motlier too, because of their long wear, easy care qualities White Short sleeved drip-dry Shirts 18 6 White Long sleeved drip-dry Shirts 27 6 White short sleeved broadcloth Shirts 15 . ALSO: Sports Shirts in stripes, checks, plaids, two tones 16 6 and 18 6 Gibbons Company Queen Street Hamilton

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21 That night, as the minutes ticked away, the U.Si.. Coast Guard picked up a distress message relayed by a Liberian freighter on the InieiTiatioiial Distress Frequency of 500 KG. Its contents explained the missing hourly report and darkened the hopes of distraught ship- mates. It cracked out of the lonely and stormy night . , . AircraR observed to cra:h in flames off: my port bow, followed by a series of explosions. Piceeding to recover possible survivors. There was little need f,or transmission of a second message, for those who live by the air and sea secretly acknowledged during their lonely vigil thajt Gcd had taken the crew of Easy Able Eight unto Himself. Yet, true to tradition, EA-8 ' s companion crews and planes commenced a gruelling search, accompanied by surface units. During the nexft three days hundreds of thousands of square miles of the raging Atlantic were criss-cr|0S3ed in a fruitless search — but there can be no crossing of the bar when some put out to sea. E. D. ANDERSON, Form 4L. My Dog I have a dog named Chummy A pure-bred mongrel he He likes to have a nice warm bath But how he hates the sea! At sound of postman ' s bicycle He rushes to the door. But is it as a friend or foe? Well, listen to his roar ! He ' s learnt to sit and beg for treats And how to shake my hand; But why he shouldn ' t chase the cars He cannot understand ! The paper boy will not come near When Chummy ' s on the run; But otherwise he ' s very good, I think he ' s lots of fun. R. BARTLETT, Form 41;.

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23 The Bermuda Cedar The history of the Bermuda Cedar began when Sir George Somers reported that the Bermuda Islands were clothed in a forest of green cedars. From these cedars in sixteen hundred and ten ships were buiit to carry the stranded people to the mainland. In sixteen hundred and twenty seven a law was passed for the preservation of the rapidly dis- appearing cedar; this law, however, was broken to a great extent. The Bermuda Gazette in seventeen hundred and eighty six mentions the human conditions of the hillsides which had been robbed of their greenery, the cedar. ' Although no one bothered to plant any trees, natural reaffores- tation took place. From this time onwards, that is until they were attacked by the blight, the cedars became more and more abundant. The cedar is grown from a purple berry which takes from three to six months to germinate. The small cedar is very slow growing, until it attains a height of about two feet, from this time until it is about twelve years old its growth is fairly rapid. Cedars have been known to attain to a height of more than seventy feet with a trunk diameter greater than twenty four inches. Such trees as these are believed to be over two hundred years old. The cedar is believed to have come from North America, being carried to Bermuda by birds or by way of the sea. Although it is one of Bermuda ' s endemic plants it is closely related to two other species of cedar which grow along the eastern coast of America and has probably developed from one oi the other. Up until the nineteen hundreds the cedars were reported to have been free from insect pests. But as the colony became more and more a tourist resort different plants were imported to give variety to the landscape. On some of these plants there were eventually,, introduced (scale insects), and the first damage was noted in nineteen hun- dred and thirty when some isolated areas were attacked by scale. In 1935 aphids were supposed to be the cause of some more of the yellowing of the cedars. In 1944 cedar trees began to die at a dis- astrous rate from ' oyster-shell scale in the east end of the islands and from ' cedar ' scale in Paget district. Tlie ' oyster-shell ' scale was soon dealt with but the ' cedar ' scale continued to spread rapidly. Outside help in the form of Biological control was called in after spraying was seen to be hopeless as the wooded areas were so mixed with houses. This help, however, was too late and approximately ninety percent of the Bermuda cedars died, leaving; the islarids in a sl-.ror d of grey. These dead trees did not help the tourist trade which w - now at stake. A very keen reafforestation scheme was started by the Department of Agriculture in 1949, and stepped up in 1952. All doaH