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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1957.
Parts Of The World
BUREAUCRACY RUNS WILD
79 Non-Existent Organs In Rome Drawing Money
By ELVEZIO BIANCHI
Rome.
It may be displeasing news to the taxpayers, but it will surely tickle any Italian horse's pride to know that four different and expensive government offices are looking over his welfare, regardless of other national problems no matter how serious they may be.
There is in fact one office dealing with horses in general, as a big equine family, with a different organisation and different personnel from other three offices dealing separately with each type of horse races practised in the country.
BUBBLES
(The Whale) WANTS A MATE
Palos Verdes Estates,
Calif. Marineland officials to day ordered a vast search in the Pacific Ocean to find and capture a lover for Bubbles.
*
of
This emerged during an in- Senator quiry carried out by Giuseppe Trabucchi to prepare elimination the ground for the
of superfluous government structures.
The result of the investiga- Non flabbergasted the Hallan taxpayer. It came out that 79 government offices, whose per- sonnel total no ke than 1,000
been persons, have
Out business for years but are still living on Government money.
Disproportioned
of
offices Others, like the four dealing with horses, have a field
activity ot
absolutely di- proportioned to their size (number.
for
sind
Trabucchi's discoveries would provide splendid material for a history of bureaucracy illustra1- ing the origin of useless offices
useless activities, Bubbles has a bad case son has started and the 14-foot and especially their successful spring lever. The spawning scamiraculous mushrooming growth
ight for survival. Globlocphala Scammoni (pilot
The inveagaling Benator whale) wants a mate.
found out, for example, that the government is paying inlaries to the personnel of bifices "working" on stich things as the tourist vilice of Italy's
defunct Africa empire, BA office which woized Jowish goods under Mussolini's racial law and which distributed another Unera
glits of peblekilin in 1945,
Bubbles was captured last February cft the Southern Call- fornia Coast and placed in a large tank at the Oceanarium here. The lovesick Bubbles is the world's only captive whale.
LONGINGLY
"She won't cat her dally of squid ration of 60 pounds anymore," William F. Monuhan, Vice-President of Marineland, said. "She just nibbles on anchovies and gazes longingly toward the Pacific."
Frank Brocato, Captain of the Oceanariurn's collective boat, Geronimo, was given the whale of tank. He was ordered to suka and reminded that Bubbles would remain sad unitas ho re- Aurned
with her Romeo,- United Press,
The Pool
That
Went Dry
Brownsville, Pa.
Numberless
t
Trabucchi's work was no casy;
More than going businesa,
he began Jooking year after through the most remote corners of the Italian state budget, the Senator is still unable to spell out the full name of numberless other government offices and
identified only sub-cdfices
by their initials, Euch
the Us Enadisfil, the Breed, the Esider and such like.
The
investigation ott the superfluous offices was ordered as early as 1954 by then Premier Giuseppe Pella,
The first startling revelatioris connected with the Investigation were made at the Senate last December. It was then that Trabucchi, having completed a preliminary search through the Government files, introduced a bill
proposing the outright
draft of law is still parliamentary
of the Tho
MEMBERS and elimination of op ont Nemacolin Country Club bogged down in
near here turned out for the dedication of a new $75,000 swimming pool.
water.
meandora.
A Mystery
It's
PLUCKED CHICKS
A rate of featherless chickens which do not nead plucking
that's ona of the latest developments of American science. When the ohlaks
hatch they are covered with down at the rear end." The down disappears ne tha chick grows until the bird is entirely naked except for a few fluffy feathers where the down weed to be,
The little black forthor quille, which are such a nuisance to romave when chicken la being dressed for the table never develop.
When two such chickens--AL pictured hero-breed, their young aro all nudiats, too. They are otherwise normal, except that they feal the sold. Express Photo,
BRILLIANT BOY YEARNED FOR
A GIRL FRIEND
London.
A UNIQUE POSTAL OPERATION
Young Girl's Airmail System-Through
A Fifth-Floor Window
New York.
A nine-year-old apartment-dwelling girl who "airmailed" a number of unaddressed pen-pal letters out a fifth-floor window has received several answers-one from Rangoon, Burma.
home with a cold last April: Somebody," asking that the 24, Janet Capron wrote severni | recipients
She answer them. Ieiters, addressed only to "Dear then tossed the letters out the
window,
FRIENDLY ADVICE
RAREST FLOWER PRODUCES SEEDS
THE rarest flower in the
THEO
The frat reply came from a soldier at Fort Bill, Okla. Ha
| said he knew what it was like
not to receive jollers, then gave some friendly advice to litto
Miss Capron
The
began:
letter from Rangoon
As I was sitting down under a pain tros in front of my home a sundown one evening, your letter came blowing into world has made horti- my lap driven by the first
monsoon winds, cultural history by produc-|
"Are you pretty? How old ing seeds which have ger- are you?" asked the writer, minuted "la captivity.” who said he did Bot read
well The plant is climbing vine English
and that the of the bignonta family. The only letter was being written for him single specimen growing natur- by an uncle. ally is on one of three small islands at the extreme north of New Zealand.
It turned out, however, that the post office had-aided Janet and the law of gravitation in the dispatch of the lettera to Fort Sill and Rangoon. Not to mention a man named David B.
ON THE GROUND
Magee, a neighbour of the found several of the on the ground.
PROPAGATED
Cuttings of the plant have Magee, gordens in England.
more
TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD David Mills was boas sent to Royal Horticultural one of the most brilliant students at Notting-plaats can be propagated fram ham University. But the brain his fellow seeds, home gardeners should be Caprons, students envied could not win him the thing he able to grow the plant and crass letters
I with "other members of the cheer the child, ho maitod
wanted most desperately-a girl-friend.
PROBLEM SOLVED AT LAST
Rome. taxation
Rome City officials tautfully solved a problem which for years has divided Kalluns,
Is Sophia Loren or Gina
Lollobrigida Ataly
ald movie star. pald
beat-
The tax experts tactful answer: neither. They are both equal' and decording to the City tax men each Carned 88,000,000 Fire
($128,000). Last year,
Thme both stars wil have to pay 11,520,000 Uro (38,330) as a local family tax-United Press.
UNINVITED
GUEST
SMELT
Sainte Maxime, France.
cilosts
He complained that he had no friends. But he brushed other aside the
of students to take him dances, and fix "dates."
Although he
longed to out, he spent night after night eliting alone in his playing classical records and reading Russian novels. Then,
same family.
To
them to a soldier brother at The plant was grown in Fort Sill and to another with at Auckland, the US Information Agency in search station New Zealand, from a cutting Burma. He askox! that "they *brought back from the Island in reply or pass the letter along
1060. Early this year the plant to someone who would. produced its first poda, each The Fort SWI Magco- containing about 200 winged Lieutenant Frederick H--did seeds. Experts believe that goats his own wrlling. Whether the must have eaten the seeds of the Burma Magee, Christopher, was original island plant.
the mysterious uncle who wrote the Rangoon-pastmarked letter ha not yet determined.
Janet, meanwhile-convinced that her alrmall system works- is continuing her unique postal operation.-United Press,
room,
on the night he was told he had passed his Russian Part I. examination "with quite
brilliant
walked out of
results,""
he
a celebration his drinking un own--and shot himself in his
party, went
IIKUTI
LOCKED DOOR
Before he fired ho sent & message to a tutor, Dr Robert Waterhouse, whom he thought hud let him down on a promise to find him a girlfriend and companions.
At
the Nottingham inquest Dr Waterhouse
MECHANICAL
BRAIN
LOSES AT CHECKERS
Cambridge, Mass.
told how A million dollar
bo hurried to Mills's
and pleaded with him, through mechanical brain that
been
A LAW ABIDING DRUNK?
New York. Thomas Corrigan told a judge he wasn't trying to
to the station house. Ho
the locked door, not to commit can make 40,000 calcu- escape when he left a Enfelde. Then came the shot.
Verdict: Suidde while thelators a second lost a police prison van en-route balance of mind was disturbed game of checkers last fall off and was trying to catch up with the truck, he said.
SNAKES GALORE
week.
The $2,742,000 computer, built by the International Business Machines Corporation for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, can figure out in a. minute a mathematical problem that would take a scientist more than a year London.
solve. DIDN'T ALARM But the mechanical
A customer raced out of the Spread Engla Bar and across the
wizard
+
Corrigan, 20, was arrested on a drunkenness charge. A patrol Wagon was sent to take him to police headquarters.
A SHADOW Policeman Walter Bichier sald that as the truck moved along, he saw a shadow on the pave ment. It turned out to be
Corrigan, who was quickly restored to his place in the paddy wago, the
A the inhabitaver
this exclusive Riviera | resort threatened today to! How much the plethora of ruin the thriving tourist luseless bodies is annually cost- | trade. *
is still The only thing missing wasing the taxpayer
It's a whale. Dead. unsolved mystery. Introducing The whale washed up on the ad to a patrolling polleeman: lost a game of checker to Som "There's a snake drinking my Weslow, furmer New England It developed that a shipment his bill last December Trabuch of pipe failed to arrive on time pointed out that only of the 79 Golden Beach with the tide, beer," he said.
Up the stairs from an under- and Canadian champlon, in less and club officials, anxious to run offices he mentioned had piled When the tide went out, the
whale stayed in. It was 12 ground comfort station came two than half an hour. than
The defcat didn't alarm the dedication off on schedule, up a deleit of more
8,001,000,000 lire, It was
a feet long and melt unhealthily, more men. "It's full of makes,"
Taken before a judge on a askell a nearby volunteer fró
Civic
they sale, pointing downwards, scientists, who said the new charge of escaping from custody, former
authorities, realising corporation operating company to pump water into the army trucks which were that the new inhabitant's smell Then pet shop owner, Harry machine has not had
Corrigan explained: new pool by hose.
"The truck pamed over a A LEAK
supposed to have been sold threatened to drive the tourists Palmer, came ponting up. Fifty time to build up
ail harraioas had yet. nine years ago.
bump and I was thrown from deelded on drastic action sickes, away,
The computer will be used to the van. I was just trying to escaped, he said. Five were The firemen obliged and spent But nine years after all are and mobilised a squad of local rounded up, including the one solve complex problem for New get their attention so i could 20 hours filling the pool with not many, if one considers that fishermen, 110,000 gallons of water. But only in 1955 the Italian govern-
in the Spread Eaglo-laying England schools besides, telling get back in. I would have sim They towed the whale out to happily in a pool of beer on the scientiate where to when it came time for the de- ment began paying daringes ces
aim their all the way to police headquar and blew it up
with floor.
The other 45, police said. | cameras to photograph the first fers, if necessary," - United dication ceremony, there was for Garibaldi's campaign dynamita-Unlied Press.
are still free.Unted Press, man-made moons. United Press. Pres. nary a drop of water left. It all 1860-United Prem
had strained out through an un-
derground leak,
A spokesman for Comby
Enough "memories"
Club, ssid the dedication would Teach Them Young PRACTICAL JOKER PUTS CITY IN UTTER CONFUSION
have to be postponed severni
wecke.-United Procs
Memphis. Motorists have begun to beed
signs of volunteer kiddie patrol which
Ham, Cheese the homemade
& Gelignite
Londop
warn
ofchildren at play,
"slow," and "stop,"
a
The sharp-eyed kiddies jot
Leyden, Holland,
praedion jokam DRITAIN'S
Cambridge Man Looked Like Cow's Leg.....
had this Frutol University City in
down license numbers of thing. mate of utter contusion a few who don't obey: the signs and wwel **,
the 'preme here turned out to Elsewhere in the Olty, the un-. road a paper sé a downtown
be a collection of, worthless TASU.
a
outh we at work.
turn them over to walije pollee. Nobody here belloves anything
Untied Press.
A suburban food store owner opence up last work to and his sale open, BOEING 2.800. missing and the walls and celling plastered with ham, bicon and
New York Choost.
The burglars had used sides | Two yellow flags at the end home and great of gunwar ning at Laguardia “of bacen, chonsu to mume the explosion Airport warn "keep clear" RO when they blew the safe open plane and other ·TILÁTRUŠONE during the night swikh gollgolto. | Phourant èggs hatching 'le the
United Frons,
rosson Unilad Přèsa.
ду
|iscoth, who' on06 “toni" a grand pisto on a London subway train, putted to Laydon
·Wock" opened l. the Haruo do abeir Hol
Then a huge, “kuihenfig" Look- print of "Cambridge Man" aid "ake. Tooth of Examina?" suddenly appeared on display In the lobby of the oily there. standing, non fo thow! km- pressive exhibits was a young ' lady, dad in university
And map, who was
velling of ÁZIMOZIONEnt WEB ANDORUSOGA.
_adolety.
Scorem of serious people now were inspicibus, senipture kaveru turned out Burgwaaster Dr van winschet for the onremonty.
kat' to spyber to- ostlers, that file was really {Bir. Ebución.
Tanden of the fanseus
Came the moment for unveiling
god the string was pulled.
There on a platforms were two Praotient jakër, Routh
· charming artists': modely fro
wis koorlog sikker, dover
Loudon, clad in Himy, ingery Bouth ITAM Ky ...ar sloth, thote Chota hóll vary
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