YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22
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and
DORN today, you have terrifle amount of energy Bo
enthusiasm. You tackle every job with vim and vigour. You are determined to get what you want out of life and you let nothing or nobody stand in your way. This doggedness i dne provided it doesn't turn into pig-headed stubbornness at the wrong time.
You are definitely geared to urban living and will not be happy if you are forced to live in the country for any length of time. You have an active mind und aumetimes your nervous energy wears out your physical stamina. This is about the only temporary setback that you are forced to recognise.
You have an exceptionally strong emotional nature and this may and an outlet in drama or the crealive arts, If not, you may And that you are subject to sudden outbursts of temper of temperament which nee: to be brought more under control. There is remaner in your life and it is unlikely that there will Take a second look, however before ever be a dull mome:11, plunging into marriage or you may want to change your mind. Your loyalties are as deep as your cinstions when it is too late. ure volatile no that you will suffer in unhappiness rather than make a change.
Among those born on this date are: Mortinelli, noted tenor; Sarah Bernburdi and Cissie Loftus, netresses; Leopold Damir eh, mamelan; Samuel Warren Abbot, pioneer in public health; Charles Tannen Betor.
To and what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your biribany star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your dally guide.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23
LIBRA (Sept. 34-Oct 23)--- ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr, 20)-
just low
You If your
spirits are
the inspiration may find you will findi that rest.
you need in listening to a good icemton this morning. Why not
now.
relaxation and pleasant diver- slon restores them.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22}~ This is a fine thy on which you strould
that de
ખી deed! Someone may ask for help, s be co-operative,
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)—There is ronance in the air. If unwed, if married, your
and family home
bring you
cxceptional juy.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)-This is not your day for
A
vitn your
fect
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)-
day spent in the ouldoorn could bring you the renewed and vigour you may need now. GEMINI (May 22-Jung 21) - Divide everything you hear by two before you put your faith in it! Gross exaggeration is in the air.
CANCER (June 22-July 23)— Interest yourself in a rhures or community project which will running things. Lat stee bent it your entire neighbour- else take the initiative.
hood.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. LEO (Juty 24-Aug. 23)- 19)--Your church OF civic You may need rest more than кто
today. want In hold
mnything els
Eo why PHOT Be co- meeing at your Boing.
be lazy and get what you ned for a change. operative In good cause.
mily
PISCES (Feb. 20-3far, 20)— This past week may have been a little rugged, so why not rest
relax tensions. und
Do you good!
A
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 233---
change
Le of scene could wha!
you should have or 15 complete cesta.ion of activity can be the answer.
BORN today, you have originality and inventietness. This may
express itself in diverse ways.
You Uke something going on $ and wih see that there is plenty of activity in your either prose [I vicinity. You have a delimite erary gift in poetry, and parents of children born on this day should see that this star-given gift is cultivated from earliest youth.
All of you have a keen sense of the beautiful, a feeling for the unumut
the dematte and the talent for giving ne and
You
2013 are high-xtrung expression to your innermost idea subject to tensions. Learn to let down and relax at intervals or you will find that your general physical beadth does not stand up as you approach middle age.
You have a magnetle personality and it is likely that you will find yourself in the centre of some social group. Make sure that your time for serious work is not curtalled by sozial obligations at times when you should ne dey: ting your energies to your own work. Although your life muy not always be a smooth path toward succesi, you will eventually reach your goal.
Among those horn on this date are: Robert Bridges, post: E. W. Conable and Francis Hopkinson Smith, nuthors; George Saintsbury critic: William C. Kenyon, ɛduentor: Edouard Branicy, physicist: Robert Chambers, biologist: Gertrude Ederle, athlete.
To find what the stars have la store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.
9-16
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1955.
This Funny World
CDC FAILURES IN HONDURAS
Aft
31-Nang Bytdicate, Zew
"You shouldn't be teaching history, Miss Benson-
you should be making it
@JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Overruff Here
Loses Trick
BY OSWALD JACOBY
By JACQUELINE ENGERT
Belize, British Honduras. eburdontd in various stages, of of GRANDIOSE scheme construction. Twelve miles
fencing trails off over the hills to build up the eco-fencing in nothing. Eight nomy of British Hon- miles of firebreaks
SCTVE no terry and ferry- duras has quietly failed at a purpose. A cost of a million pounds to rond designed and bull by London engineers remain the British taxpayer, or unused. more than £12 per head on that country's 78,000 popu- Jation.
The bungling of the Colonial Development Corporation (re member the Groundnut Scheme, and the Gambia Eggs finscos?) over the past seven years has hurt instead of helped the busi- ness life of "BIL"
It has left Britain unpopular In what used to be one of her most loyal territories.
In 1948. and army of slarry- eyed CDC experts marched into the Central American territory with wads of London-drawn
• BY THE blueprints and high hopes. To-
WAY
By Beachcomber
A
day all but one officiul have slipped quietly away, leaving behind a story of CDC mis- management-and a map doled with CDC failures.
The Corporation's final costly This was effort closed in June.
has
a schema to grow ramic a linen-like Abre in which an clent Egyptians are said to have Two wrapped their nummles.
were thousand acres of land botight in 1950, of which 1,500
NOTE
increaring on the cumber of people who put
aerials on their roofs
10 im ress the neighbours 61bt me with suspicion,
Cm wo be sure Chat the vel e, which come from heures, riving 10 an eager audience te alls TH weather GIT the of how a dea | Fue 1. lands,
not the
RODAY'S hand is an unusual Tlustration
on the "BH Stock Farms" project:
The CDC official report
be "A stock farm might well local planeers as a cicline to cuccasful when undertaken by other netivities but not oni such a
Ecale as the Corpora- tion's
scheme." Loss on the catile experiment: £80,980.
CDC went in for bananas, and lost £230,000; for Cocoa,
and last £38,000
་
In 1950.
fic CDC bought Crumer Estates in another part of the colony for £46,154.
Fort George Hotel
The 1954 report regrets: “No economie method of develop- ing the estates has yet been dis- covered The Linues"
aerts were to be cleared and Brilze rounded
planted period.
over
Three-year
The Corporation built Ilve fender may gala a trick by re voters of the householders each houses with electricity and oil-
fusing to overalt. It dependstreinding to be the announet burning refrigerators for
the parily, in this eare, un dregiving in one to win loent prestige? management; homes for labour- the declarer,
I believe there are places 50ers; a ferry, an electric power Fullar | that robedy will speak plant and a workshop for fibre 10 a man who does not Isien processing.
Jak unlucki.y 11-
of
To the radio,
In passing
West opened the hearts, 1:1 South accades painst a ther
tod, he took the ace of hearys. got way,
the ace of clubs out of the bed the Bee of dia-
THE strike of African witch- foto ummg by Tan, sa pre est against
to
sami
a diamond in order tcid heart on the king of of clubs.
through
drew
{
us
Too Big
In 1954, the CDC annual re- qunek, will remind Europeansport explains: "The project was how difficult it is to distinguish begun on teo big a seale....The the one from the other. If a markets which were originally When this all wont
to have powdered in view spocar
been inan prescribes the ucessfully, South
fibres. olher too; of baboon steeped in the captured by breath and decided to cross-blood of a white rhinoceros
£186,468 has been spent and Fulf. He led a low heart from
is most of will have to be writ- a for whooping-cough, dummy and ruled in his hand, he a genuine wich-doctor or ramie can be grown in British
cure
aten off against proving that ruffed another dlumond 20 quack? It is not generally dummy, and ruffed the queen
that there known
is a little Honduras but that nobody wants of hearts in his own hand.
heit." at the clrcle of witch-doctors When South next cd is last
lewer end of Loxton Street. It diamond and ruffed with dum- iny's last trump, the queen of is they who have persuaded n
East discarded a club
tow rich women that if they Spaces, Instcail of overnulling.
they will Terence drink beetroot juice
As the new Rese, the rest English expert, remain as scraggy held the East cards and had de clothing demunds.
Return to Beethoven
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The huge "Borion Hamie" estate-hours, workshop, power- plant and ferry-remain idle.
search
to
on a
con-
Sunding
in most obvious memory of CDC operations in "B" is the Fort George Hotel,
beautiful, It is a
ocean-front building in modern tropical arhitecture, built
Attract tourists and businessmen p the colony's shanty-lown drained mangrove swamp. But few. people not on expense accounts can afford the £3, 10s. a
day comfort. With 35 double bed- rooms, the Fort George cost 4260,000-about £150,000 100 much, the critics said. A fur further £11,000 has just been spent on a swimming pool to attrnet more guests. "We have all ten fingers crossed," said one CDC man.
Only one Corporation project is really bearing fruit. A citrus project south of the capital- Lost £60,000-will bear its first Otherwise, all crop this year. CDC activity in the colony has stopped.
ignorance
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Each British Honduran has a different funny antedote about the London its extravagance,
of ignorance
local experts conditions and their disregard Seventy thousand acres of for local advice. But Hondurans lund wre acquired by CDC get really angry when they link for a entle scheme to pro- duce best cattle, pies, poultry and vegetables. Preliminary alche cost is sold that a les bit of "Investigations" Beethoven on commercial £3,258. An area of 628 acres for was felled. 20 acres "s.umped." television was interrupted
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itself
nicolic. so that he could discard with-ren
It is then placed in the tin and out obvious thought.
Declarer le the queen of kept in a refrigerator until
dummy and ruffed becomes non-salaginous.
then ready to cat. with the Jack in his own hand, whereupon West dis:brded heart. Now South didn't know who had the king of spades It was clear that each of the op- ponents had enjoyed a chance to overtuff but had refused do so.
SCORPIO (0a, 24-Nov. 22) TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)— You can make a dine profit Letters should be answered from a small investment if you will look around for right Opportunity.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 22) This is not the best day ta GEMINI (May 22-June 21)— talk over personal matters, even You may be able to get some with your tumliy or closest excellent advice from a close friend.
friend if you will confide your CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, problem. 20-If you are somewhat dis- CANCER (Juno 22-July 23)- couraged, closed friends who You may own something which understand your objectives con has a high market value. Today give you encouragement.
clubs from inight be just the time to make AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) a good sale, This tndy be your best day LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-Slick this month. A well deserved fairly closely to routine matters, promotion may come your way for you may find that you are without even asking for
not as keen as you might be. PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)- VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)- This may be the time to revise Self-reliance and determination some plans, Important to your will go long way toward help- future welfare, Do it wisely. ing you to finish a
dificult ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)-- It could be that your budget Some exciting news may come needs u lite checking it you to you either at home or at the have been somewhat extrava- office. You will be glad to get spades, he would have no trou gant lately,
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and
the information.
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an anagram of the word
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South was down to A-10-7 of trumps, and had to decide how to play for two of the last three tricks. If he led the seven of
to
ble. But South was afraid that East would be able to win with the eight or nine of spades and then lend a heart through allow West to make the king of West spades (assuming that hela the king).
Hoping for 1 2-2、 trump the ace of break, South led spades, after which
East was bound to defcut the contract by winning the last two tricks.
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1 Heart Clubs
You, South, bold:
Wert
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What do you do?
A=Bid two diamonds. You wiit bid four hearís at your next turn, thus showing a' band strong enough for a double ralin.but with its strength 'bonnentrated in śwo sulla: 4
APTODAY'S QUESTION,
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(ENTER an egg-marker, chasing one of the new electrle eggs.)
CHESS PROBLEM
By V. IVACIO Black, 3 places
White, 6 pleees. White to play; mate in three.
Solution to yesterday's problem.
1. P-Q4, any; 2, Q, R. Kt or F. (ch, or=Q) mates,
TARGET
How many words AT Tour Letters ...or more enn han 13an aje æ from the detter in the Koure ait the right ↑ in making each.
each of the
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the laren. Jatters in the Chellere,
CROSSWORD
occurred
of the British Honduras dollar. Rightly or wrongly many blame the Corporation's projects
which devaluation, suddenly after devaluation in the rest of the sterling area. It sent the cost of living rocket-
Now the cne stands forlorn- ing.
half-finished beside the Government and People's Storage buildings are United Parly Icader, Leigh Richardson, says of the Cor- poration: The Idea of CDC was fine but it was budly managed. Their plans were too big. Many of their experts were the most obnoxious people you'd ever meet. They planted want not baranas where local people told them they would not grow ond falled. They turned Indians off land which the.
Cor poration has never used. They spent far too muck on the
Across
1. This raises weighty. mattors i
(4-5)
B. Green tea tuning.
10. Expressing respect.
11. Dip. (5)
13. P.0.4 has these moments. (1 16. Pay on this for a quick bar
pain (4)
10 He raises the boat, 151
20. Yearn for an old Queen.
2 Demur, nu ductor. (3)
(B)
23. Orecian to a post. (31 34. They count for a living. (0)
1957
1. Drag hyena (anag). (9)
Designs are. sometimes. (9)
3. Bo's in part of the old Balkona
4. Paris nattor'a work (D)
Hhout paterically. (4)
6. The acid is drawn on 1 (6)
7. Wille Winkie was fi
Clothes or propulsion mediums.
345
V. The post is part of the stair
CMC, (6)
19. Alont of ine Netress finds a war
out. (01
14. Moves. (1
19, Rook of J
Nook, doubt
lem. 141
17. Hein Yos
the impover inked. 141.
10. The
is kept in Che wurUEVA
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things grue somo.
WORD GAME
least one nine letter word in the
No plurais; one forehan words to pfonasɛn Imes. TODAY'A TARGETS,TH AWSrda, good $2 words, very good woru, excellent,
on Monday FANA
hotel, sinking and resinking foundations and getting them- selves mixed up in a strike through their own foolishness,
"British Honduras would be boller off if CDC had never come."
Most Costly
Eng-
British Hondurans-an lish. Negro, Maya Indian and Spanish mixture are probably aiready the Empire's most ccosuy citizens. With a population less DI than one-eighth the size Britain's Manchester, the colony could not balance is budget for 20 years, until 1951, without a "grant-in-ald" from London. It has just received a £1,250,000 instalment for spending under the Colonial Development and Welfare programme-and it is asking for more!
The colony depends on its urbermahogany and pine which is running out. It urgently
agricul needs development in tura, Jamaicans in their crowded Island might well earn a better living from the virgin land of neighbouring British Honduras but British Hondurans refuse to admit them.
CDC is moving its head- quarters from Jamalco, where It set up offices specifically to ba within easy reach of Briusa Honduras-expecting a big, long- range development programmo. Now, it will operate chictly in tho southern Caribbean from
Barbados headquarters,
A
Private investors in Britain and the UB offar the only hope YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION! Date for the litle colong those are buller butt butter, plscouraged by the wealthy
BUTTERFLY) butir, butty fpit
Swift plute flutter futu greis fraise Corporation's fallure. At the
iffure, and there, must be at lysfæris«..
the GUDY ALPET | oconomically to the level of it
A long time to rise.
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