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John WAYNE • Robert RYAN in "THE FLYING LEATHERNECK" COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR

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The great South Paolfio adventurel

Gary COOPER

SEND ALLTE

Return to Paradise

South Soun let har by

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20th Century-Fox Presents TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL “17, 1954. ́*

JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK

Day Of Reckoning

THE problems confronting seemed to shrink still smaller as Mr Butler and those policeman showed his wife to which Willium faces, have a chair near the box.

"What did you carn some points in

week?"

common.į Each involves balancing a budget and making pro- vision for the present and the future while bedevilled by inescapable commitments from the past.

I

Last

"Nothing," said William. "The week before?"-"About £4"

"HOW

YOU GAMBLED. . . "OW have you been living?" Walam made his budget speech, and told the magistrats of the odd jobs he did around the markets."

Trailers Help Solve Housing Problem

Toronto.

Life in

trailer is a healthy, convenient and economical means of getting around the housing shortago, according to most of the 18,000 trailer owners in Canada.

Without any more thought than it takes to put a foot on an accelerator you can 'build' your home under an elmi- covered grove beside a wandering stream far from any- whore. Tired of the scenery? With the drop of a word from the wife you're off to look for better.

Trailer accommodation is and apartments, since you own slighly crowded all right but the trailer." He pointed out trailer wives answering the quiz how much cheaper It is than put by the Canadian Trailer renting and how difficult it is to Coach Association are quick to find a place to take the children. point out the advantages.

"Many people seem to thluk that traiters are cramped," Mrs William Baillie, a Burlington troller wife says. "Well, they are if you don't keep them udy. As for children, they have healthier and happier life in trailer park. They play out of doors more than city children, and and a greater variety playmates."

Mr Butter makes do with one Budget Day a year, but for William budget day falls seven times each week. Each morning, He was sent back to the dock. waking in the grey lodging-houre His wife took his place in the cubicle where he siceps, William witness-box, md was asked if must count his money, and plan she had any questions to ask the day ahead.

hlm.

She shook her head until Two shilings, he knows, her big ear-rings rattled. She will need for his bed at night-poured scorn on William with full, 58. for food and cigarettes. her eyes.

DODGING

The magistrate turned to less than 78. tumbles from Willam. "I don't think there's

hts pockets,

for what you've desperate any excuse mensures become necessary. done," he said. "You gambled William la obliged to do a job you wouldn't be found out, and

you were. work.

Go to prison for two Ho takes care, thus, of eurent months." expenditure, but piling up all the William ducked out quickly, ime, as remorselessly as the lost his wife's

glare, which him, were raining trouble William bus inherited blows upon his thin shoulders. Thie man from his own past.

She left a moment later, by nn- A court

ago other door, and went out proud some years ordered him to pay £1 9s. Of. ans an heiress which, if Witilom week to the wife from whom he should ever pay up, she would, is separated. Willian has man- in a modest way, become. aged to dodge mnking these payments for some years, until the sum he Owes his wife amounts Lo several hundred pounds.

of

National Debt, is

is the legacy of followed

The other day, Williamą nancial troubles came home to

roost at last.

WILLIAM'S WIFE AT The Old Street

court, A wanam, a hollow-cheeker, stubbly man, grey in complexion us in hair, though he is only 40, ploaded gully to stealing 20

| bottles of hair-cream.

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first erline. Was not his There were six previous convie- tlone against him, including one for stealing a piano. But in the dock, Williain seemed as appre hensive as any first offender, and from time to Lime he glunced uneasily over bla shoulder towards the witnesses' bench.

From

From there, д Woman B3 largely proportioned as he was lightly built, regarded him with a cold, continuous, unblinking stare.

'ANOTHER MATTER. . ?

THE police told Mr H. F. R.

Sturge, the magistrate, the story of the hair-gream thef! and then they ki: "There is another matter, sir." They told about the warrant that bud been out for a long time for William's arrest regarding the debt to his wife.

Wuliam was marched round to the witness-box to speak on outh of his means and explain why the money had never been paid.

What are you earning?" the learned clerk asked him.

"Well, not enough to pay any- thing,

really," he sald, and

Press

of

CHEAPER

UPKKER

According to Mrs Jean Fisher, a Hamilton trailerwife, you can pay for a traller within

threp to four years. She says its up- kcop is one leath of that of a house.

Then of course if the trailer- holder has an "on-the-movo" Job, In the case with a Sarnia of house pops, oil driller, the family is not His separted for long periods. trailer, has his sny too.

wite states "If we couldn't live mechanist employed at the

Hydro Ontario

this project nt

way, my husband would be Niagara Falls says trailer life away from us for three to five "la way ahead of renting date months at a mo."

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

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"The parking space was much too short, George-But I'll bet you're glad i didn't got a ticket for double parking!”

con-

About half of Canada's trailer population is made up of struction workers in the North, on hydro projects, bulldozing roads, drilling for oil and laying pipelines.

Others, under less pressure to Hve on wheels, do so because they like it. Some who swered the CTCA quiz said they bought their first trailer 19 A way out of the housing problem with the intention of saving and buying a house. Instead saved and bought trailer.

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"WC have bedroom, room, complete kitchen bathroom-everything but excess Пcor space in our trailer, Windsor car mechanic sold," "We Wouldn't trade our trailer for any house."-United Press.

New Varieties Of Cherries

Geneva, N. Y A 40-year search for better sweet cherrles at the Now York state agricultural experiment station has led to introduction of three new varieties, Seneca,

Socus and Gil Peck.

More than 2,000 seedlings from 100 or more crosses have led to cherries with improved colour of flesh, texture, acason of ripening and size and quality of fruit, according to Robert C. Lamb, a Cornell University fruit breeder at the station-United

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Tellkevsky's "Swan Lake."

Music

RUDY DIAZ & HIS ORCHESTRA

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GRACIE

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TO-MORROW: "THE CRIMSON PIRATE" Technicolor

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our

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