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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1955.
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News Stories
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A Concert Violinist Goes To Sea
Montreal.
A 105-ft, battle-tested former Canadian Navy süb- marine chaser has become the permanent home of a concert violinist turned sea- dog.
From Paganini to grizzled Rea-captain is a long way, but British-born George H. Lapen- Бел. Д 34-year-old musician turned skipper, explained that
he has been sea conocious most
of
hi
iite. So it didn't seem foo strange when he bought
war surplus craft.
the
"It's been my dream to own my craft and call the high seas," Mr Lapenson salch
the
Mr Lapenson changed name to "Tzigane"-the name of a radio programme on which he performed on a Canadin Brond- casting Corporation network.
Father Said 'No'
"The Captain,"
80
be now
calls himself, was born in Chat- ham, England, but spent his youth in Latvia near the Baltic where he acquired his first love. for the sea.
He had wanted to go
before
the must, but his father had different ideas and as a result George ended up rated as one of the Anest Interpreters of Paganini in Europe and as an Instructor at the Paris Conserva- tory of Music.
The sleek craft, anchored in
River, the St LawrencÓ
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An Ex-Serviceman From New York: Their Colleagues From Vancouver: Says Thank You'
To The Authors: Of A Bost-sallai?
Doctors Warn
To Use Penicillin Carefully.
Scientists And Ex- From Los Angeles: old Egg Sud-
From Brussels: pore
Plan Τα Visit Antarctica In Force.
A 100-your- denly Hatchas After A Flood,
Girl Guides Do Their Good Deed
By_Adopting "Grandparents"
New York. More than 500 elderly men been and women have "adopted" by teenage girls in New York in a unique project that is beginning to spread to other parts of the United States. As adopted grandparents, the old people suddenly find themselves getting cards on their birthdays, candy at Easter, unex- pected visits from young- sters and oven a night out now and ther.
MOST SUCCESSFUL
PROJECT
undergoing a complete mechani- One grandfather became so
cal overhaul.
would
Mr Lapenson said he rail by early spring. A (ive- man Latviari. crew hig been lined up for the first trip which will be a breaking-in
to Florida and then, it all goes well, to Europe.
well,
run
popular that the girls'
parents began
including him in family outings.
one of our most "It is
successful projects," a girl scout official said. Girl in the scout troops ·· only
metropolitan area started
Mr Lapenson, whose marine experience consisted of a short term with the Royal Navy during the war, wanted to buy
a boat after the war when there were many available, but
he didn't have the money that time-United Press.
guid
at
A Zoo Plans
- An Antelope's Dream Home
com-
Washington. Smart antelopes those: looking for a really fortable life will put up in the future at the No- tional Zoological Park,
Zoo Director Dr William to bulld Mann said he wanted Ainorica's smartest antelope house. Tentative plans call for modern design curves, all-year Florida climate, and a swimming pool.
We've
been looking over antelope houses all over the to country and now. we plan
bulld the best," Dr Monn said,
"I don't know what it will
cost yet. We're asking congress to pay for drawing
for $15,000 to
up plans," he said,
Dr Mann sald the model home for antelope would prob ably have about 40 enges. This would house from 12. to 20 varieties of antelope from ones the size of rabbits to ones almost as big ta cows,
They Like Swamps Also there'll be some tropiest buffalocs, wild Pigs kangaroos,
and
"Wo are thinking of curving cage fronts to break up the crackerbox look you soo in so many zons," Dr Mann said. "And we'll probably have A special pool for the sitagungn antelope They like to live in
swamps,"
Tho temperature will bo maintained at 65 to 70 degre39, Dr Mann said the general decor is being left up to tho architects.
The zoo does not expect any trouble in getting plenty of
:
the grandparent adoptions, "Nobody was interested in five years ago. Recently them," Mr Arthur Holtz- man said. "So any atton- tion the youngsters show. ed them was invaluable." Now, five years later, 8,000 girls have some part in the lives of 528 old people living in homes for the nged in five New York borougha.
other cities became In- terested in the idea, "The girls gain as much from it as the old people," old one director of an people's home said. "We didn't think of that when we first agreed to let them adopt some of our re- sidents. But the girls learn something about the way old people live. have grand- They rarely parents in their homes these days-there isn't room. So this is good experience for them."
A man started the idea. He was the recreation direc- tor for 1,800 old people living in a city-financed home and hospital on Welfare Island, A check showed the records of that 1,700 of the residents were never visited by relatives or remembered on holidays.
HE'D FORGOTTEN
HIS BIRTHDAY
Occasionally a prospective
grandparent is apprehen- sive. One old man worried that he wouldn't know what to talk about when his scout troop arrived for } a visit.
our
Doctors' Warning On Indiscriminate Use Of Penicillin
New York
Leading New York doctors are urging their colleagues to be cautious about using penicillin indiscriminately.
Some people are allergic to 4. An eczema-like eruption of In a very few cases it has the skin, particularly the hands, produced the rusting, sledge-feet, and groins.
hammer kind of allergic reac- All this show why most tion called anaphylactic shock doctors now ask if you've ever which can be quickly fathi. had penicillin before and if so;
was there any reaction.
Dr Sheppard Siegal of New
Dr Slegal added that severe York's Mount Sinai Hospital, fors of penicillin allergie also an allergy specialist, has
rections arc very rare in been one of the leading ugures childhood."United Press. in the move to encour and doc-
lors to use it discriminately. In # recent lecture at the annual meeting of of the the Medical Society State of New York he cold or antibiotics generally he did not want to "ingill fear"he wanted to "suggest a proper discrimina-
Four Reactions
"Enormous quantities of these life-sustaining "drugs have been world. employed all over the The Il effects due to allergic reactions affect but a minority of the vast numbers of patient who have. benefitted trom them....
Another troop discovered their adopted grandfather had forgotten his birth- day. They picked a day convenient for him, de-ion." . "signated it as his birth. duy, and invited him to a surprise birthday party, "We intend to keep
adopted grandmother as long as we are a troop," a group of girls from 10 to 18 years old wrote the 'National Scout Courell. "She is 94 years old now and we hope she lives to be at least 100." Individual attention is the Loy to the project's ___success, Mr. Holtzman believes. Generous groups visit the old age wards regularly to hand
candy cigarettes, other gifts.
For allergio reactions, penicillin is the "problem anti- biotic," he said.
1. "Delayed type," occurring at least five days after the peni-
Bre out cillin shot. There
cruptions-ually hives-ever and
and pain in the joints. This is the reaction of an allergie person to the first exposure to pent-
Suddenly A
100-Year-Old Egg Hatches
Los Angeles.
An egg which, scientists believe, was laid at least 100 years ago in the Mojave. Desert, hatched suddenly after a recent flash flood,
strip
The discovery was made at Bicycle Laka at Camp Irwin In his wide experience, he had past of Los Angeles. The lake bed was once used as a landing classified four types;
for jet planes: Then the flood came and left two feet | of water. skin Dr James Welsh,
Assistant at Los Professor of Zoology Angelos State College, described the discovery as "tredible."
The animal hatched wak ona to one-and-a-half inches long amal Veralon and resembled of the king crab. It had many body segments surrounded by a light shall with many legs un- in people who have had gent-derneath. De Welsh Identifled it
The visit ended with the girls sitting on the floor and their adopted grand-"But when 20 girls concen- father
them trate on the old person-clip. reading
that really does some. poems he had written and
and 2. Accelerated thing for him," Mr Holtz-mediata" type, not nearly kept carefully hidden
man said.--United Press. common as type one, occurs only
away.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith Thirteen
8-15
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"I know it's a sport car, miss! 1 oven know the game we've been playing for two miles-hide-and-seek!"
He Wants To Thank
The Authors Of
'Above Us The Waves
Vancouver.
A 34-year-old former naval pilot accepted with the windfall sum of more than $200 antelope onco tho deluxe some amazement quarters are completed.
from the British Admiralty.
"Moos of them come from
passenger ugent
Nations Will Send Expeditions To The Frozen
South
Brussels.
The lonely forbidding wastes of the Antarctic continent are going to be the mecca for explorers and scientists during the 1957-58 Geophysical Year, Thirteen nations have informed the Antarctic working group in Brussels of plans to visit and explore Antarctica with icebreakers, planes and helicopters packed with the latest scientific instru- ments and manned by top-flight scientists.
Countries concerned are | available to transport – medical Australia, New Zealand, Chile, | supplies and, it necessary, Argentina, Britain," Rusia, the | parachute doctors 'to distressed United States, Japan, Belgium, groups or stations' which may Spain, France, Norway and balolated by blinding LOWS
for weeks Africa,
оп end United All but Belgium, Spain and Press, South
Africa are beyond the
planning stage. The Antarctic
working
headacho
committee's
组
where to
getJet-Propelled":
That's The Word
these expeditions $0 that 4 maximum amount of informa-
tion can be gathered without opë mallon duplicating the work of another.
The Japanese base. in the Prince Harold area will fu a gặp in the, selentific
coverage
For US Police
New York. Commander George was Hatherill, Scotland Yard troubling the Antarctic: com-CID chief, has just spent
of the continent which
mitice.
1,000 Men
a fortnight in the United States telling Americans The nations and number of about his work and seeing
stations they plan to set up the Antarcile continent Argentina eight, Australia
itions.
..
how American police tackle their criminals:
two, Chile four, the United "Jet-propelled" was his word. States Ave, France two, Britain for the trip.
Soon after his arrival thero Japan
une, Norway one, New Zealand one and Russia was an outbreak of cling three. It is not yet known how and violence by teenage wangs. mpny basos the French and "The violence, that's the main Norwegian
expeditions will difference *between Lichton establish.
Dollca
problems and theirs," Commander Belgium and Spain are still sold
Hatherfi, doubtful because of lack of "Look at their armed hold-ups. funds. South Africa will We have nothing to compare occupy two islands in the with it.
.
Met Hoover: Africa and India," Dr 'Mann Airlines
"I spent the remaining two South Atlantio which are not Antarctic Islands but which eald, "But you can buy all Rodney Dove owes his sudden and a half years of the war as a
will
with the Does he think British police We
draying were want you
In this country. We luck to the Besson and Warren prisoner
Antarctic
should be armedt Above បន the basic male plus six shillings a benven't done this because we beat-reller,
At the peak of the season **Thero la no necessity for operational pay. did not have the facilition."
operational pay suddenly more than 1,000 oelestists and it's he sld. But American For example, the zoo was given a stagunga from Chicago War II, when he served
His story began during World stopped although we had been technickins will be roaming the police must carry guob. They promised that it would conblizzard-wept ice from the 53 are fighting armed, criminals.
stations. tinue, should we be captured!”
They have a very tough job Mr Dove said he came to Each nation will send mobile Indiced." Conada after the war, and for columns into the interior, to man from the Yard met The two-seater torpedo would got about the whole thing. report on glaceology,; meteoro-00-year-old J. Edgar Hoover be launched from the sub- Then came the best-seller | Jogy, temperature cosmic s*y*, head of the Federal Bureau of
etc. marine, and two frogmen would story of the daredevil-frogmen,
Investigation for 31 years. guide the self-propelled load. of "Above Us the Waves, which Station On "Fole""""" "I admire him a man of dynamite below the sun into an was also made into a Dim. The
The United States will have Hatherill said.
decided viowa, Commander onemy. harbour.
book mentioned that the capé Defying harbour defences, tured frogthen hadn't been
for Exchtingo of" wientists,” be«.
dillerent Kational 100 women. to the hull of an enemy chip, got the time they spent on prisoners woon
The stations in platod
Findl
a few years.
"I died," Dr. Mann said, sadly. "No pool. Not even awamp."United Press.
NOW A HAT
IS A HAT!
Now York.
been
Wayes."
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day
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they would fasten the torpedo thờ, six shilinge dall, RAH RAED (a station on the South 200. AAS-One mvetipig: ha sikiressed"
"Everything haw
a lime-gadget for the explosion, of Wush Auimical readil climinated," hat designer Join and attempt: to make it back to Froderick sighod, expressing the the walling submarine batore bon prodded the Admiralty nakit modern, woman's preference for the blurtsh
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Describing his oventual
and
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cillin before, It may come
within seconds of the shot or as a type of dairy shrimp.
one or two days afterwards,
There may be itching, hives, laboured breathing or asthma, chest and abdominal painor it may bloom into the completo picture of anaphylactic, Shock."?
3," "Hypererdie reactions, mainly more severe forms of type one..
on
un-
The animal, found in other parts of the world, is known for its ability to live in hatched state, for years.
The small lake became "pack- ed with animal and vegetable Le jus two and a half-wobits after the 1004 Ind Welsh said. The Talca is bow beginning to disappear,- United Press,
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Would your watch have kept
time on the sea-bed?
WEARING & Rolex Oyster Perpetual, a professor of Milan University went for a swim off "Capri." But the strap-buckle was loose, and his watch broke from his wrist, and sank to the bottom. Without much hope, the profesor asked some divers, working nearby, to keep an eye open for his watch. Surprisingly, seven days later, they actually found it, and it was still keeping perfect time.
It is not really so incredible. For this superb watch, completely protected from water and sand by the famous Oyster waterproof case, is automatically wound by the Perpetual "rotor" mechanism another Rolex invention,"
It is in their ability to stay accurate under such incredible tests of endurance that Rolex watches prove their immunity from the more normal ills that beset an ordinary watch.
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