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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1987..
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BOYS PUT WIFE KNITS
KNITS ICE MAN VEST IN WIRE PC STOPS
SABRINA
ABOVE
MOTHER
London.
Who is every schoolboy's heroine today? When 400 Were naked to mama their choice Florence Nightingale topped the Ust, with Joan of Arc second.
Then surprise, surprise- came, yes,
She won
"Mother."
Jayne
Sabrina
third place from
were
Mansfield, Brigitte Bardot, and Diana Dors fifth, sixth, and seventh.
But Sabrina
Mansfield
Wero
naked
not included
NE row plain
Orl
London.
one BQ it
'Love In Every Stitch'
went. ол for 80 hard-} The sull-"there was love; knitting hours for house. in every stitch"--will be wilo Mrs Jacqueline one of six used In An-{ Adam,
tarello experiments in November, taking a lead ing part in teating body temperatures.
set of She was making a
vest and pants for her husband.
the The end product was
nattiest set of vest and pants a husband has over For got from his wife.
her needles were No. 4's -large and her "wool" an electrician's 700-yard reel of plastic-covered wire.
NEIGHBOUR
FED BABY THROUGH
LETTERBOX
London.
and Jayne A baby, left alone in a house for four hours, was fed by a neigh- bour who pushed bis- cuits and milk through the letter-box.
when the
Redruth boys--al County Grammar School, Com wall-were
for their Brigitte favourito Bardot was the choice, with Diana Durs second.
notress.
Who is every schoolboy's hero? Top of the list
Was
Group Capt. Douglas Bador
was
Sir Winston Churchill cecond, with Nelson and Stan- ley Matthews tying for third place,
Fourth and 11th were Elyk Presley and Tommy Steele.
SHUT-EYE SHEEP DO SLEEP
do
London.
The age-old theory that
sheep
sleep net throughout their lives was
sky-high blown
last
wook.
れ
They DO sleep and AO soundly it almost evil alarm-clock to wake them,
Research workers at Aber- deen Univerelty Farm found it out after painstaking observa- tions. And their representative, Dr Joan Munro, told the Bri Uish Association about it. 171
Dublin,
She produced pictures of soundly asleep sheep o
D
Д
dog was able to creep up and
lie alongside it.
ALARM CLOCK
She said that
other
shcop
under observation dke not wake up oven when their favourite foods-linseed cake or chocolate
waved -woro
noses.
Even
under
a loud-ticking
their
alarm
clock placed close to their ears did not disturb them,
Just one noloe startles them, soundly they no matter how
are aleeping-the striking of a match.
Lake How do they sleept
favour different humans they
their postures, Some lle sides, some curl up. But they never lie on their backs,
Оп
UNTIL NOW scientists thought sheep did not sleep because (a) food they grass is much poor
have to chew the cud all night und (D) they had to be con- alantly on tho alert attacked.
CARG
WORDS-WORTH
Chicago.
Last week the baby's father. 33-year-old labourer Robert Brown, of no fixed address, was gooled for six months for wilfully neglecting his doughters aged between 18 months and 12 years.
His eldest
daughter,
Margaret, told South Shields magistrates that her father got her out of bed at 2 am to cook mother him a neal while her
was working.
She bloo told of other occasions when he twisted her erms behind her back and hit ar the eye with some garden shares, Once, she said, he turned her barefooted into the street with her mother at 2 a.m.
Extra treats
A next-door neighbour said sho, was told by a painter that the baby was crying after being alone in the house since morning.
"I gave the child some milk in miniature whisky bottle and
bisculte MOZI19 through the letter-box," she told the court. Then she sent for the police who broke Into the house.
An NSPCC Inspector said the children were now in the care of the local authority.
Brown, who alleged that his eldest doughter caused trouble so that her mother would give her extra treats, said he had
Morgaret merely given.
the extra responsiblity normal for an eldest child.
SHOVEL YOURSELF
A FORTUNE
CONTEST
Landon. The Tabloid Dally Sketch. suffering failing elreutation
with alons
all London morning newspapers intro duced a "Shovel Yourself a Fortune" content.
“Can you Khovel maney" the newspaper asked in a trontpage offer.
has
This
newspaper boughs an iminense and glittering pile of 80.000- newly minted half crowds -£10,000 worth,
"The winner of this con- petition will be kiven the ebance to shovel half crowns into a bin for thres minutes....the winner gela all the money that la in the bin at the end of that tirar."
Or
"Bo get practising shovellers,"
tha Sketch advised. "Try 11 in the garden this week-end, Lytt in the coal collar. You'll be surprised how munh You can shift" a three minutes.” ---- United
ска
Two doctors are going from England to the American Antarctic base on a Na- tional Institute of Medical Research expedition. Dr Griffith Pugh, 47, and Major James Adam, a 37- year-old Regular Army physiologist, with three American colleagues will
test the reactions of the human body under eg. treme.cold,
Scientist Mr Heins Wolff, of Hampstead, invented a “sult” for them—the vest and pants. They run off a battery and enable body temperature to be easily checked at one point Instead of thermo- be Moters having to placed all over the body. His wife Joan, 29, experi- monted with the tricky plastic wire. But she is no knitter.
STEAK BABES!
'REVOLUTION'
ON FEEDING
London.
Five-days-old babies are boing fod steak and potatoes
at Lewisham Hospital in London.
The ploncor of this re- volutionary Idea is Dr Bruno Gans, who also reports that he has had great success in feeding premature babies with solid foods.
The hospital's babies are spoon-fed cereal for break- fast, finely-sleved steak or fish plus two vegetables for
lunch, and stewed trult and
custard for tea.
Dr Cans sald!'' “T. firmly believe that, under MY method. a baby in happier, healthier, mate alert, and more immune to diseaLIND.
"But it doesn't necmarily make the baby walk or get
its teeth any cartier."
PEANUT SUITS
BECAME A
5-YEAR FLOP
London.
Peanut suits are OUT. Production of a test-tube wool-like fibre made from the nuts monkeys like is ending.
So a material acclaimed by: Lextile und fashion experts as the new thing for mon's and women's clothing disappears before has been seen' by many people.
of
Scientists have long dreamed soft, warm, moth-proof fibre. .It syntheile wool-like was after ten years of research and experiment that ICI opened a manufacturing plant Dumfries, in 1951.
Envy of Paris
hear
The Strange
Tale Of A. Cheese
London,
GROCER'S assistant at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, cut open an 80lb, New Zealand A vast publicity campaign cheese and found- heralded the advent of "Ardil." Experts predicted:"Every man will soon be wearing an 'Ardil" suit." IL WRA
man-made answer ta the shortage of high-priced natural wool.
Mr Harold Wilson, MP, when President of the Board of of the first Trade, had one
suits to be made of the fibre.
·A PAIR OF GREEN SHIRT- As he
down the walked
wearing his SLEEVES, COMPLETE WITH Champs-Elysees donkey-brown coloured suit he CUFFS AND BUTTONS. was the envy of chic Parisians, That was the zuccess story.
Jumble sale
Dumtric
A pubila health inspector col demned the cheese as unft to eat,
THE SEQUEL
Last weekICI announced they are closing the
From Wellington, Now. Sem- plant, with It's £2,000,000 land, came news of a sequal. worth of equipment. The 220
The country's health depart men who wore there are beingmont regarde the shirtsleeves transferred or offered gratuities,
The conservative tastes of incident as "deliberato mlechler- making and a form of sabot- men, and a steep drop in world go“ mid Me H. Angrur, hond
prices
defeated the of the department's Halty
division.
.
Portsmouth, Obla, Patrolman Home Wobb re-wool Mra Srivia 9. Busso, o school | ported Acenaccia stolen seientists.
An official of the company teacher, is getting her words envelope of money from the
And he added: “If worth..
compartment on bla motorcycle said: "The abre, blended with in a read for while he was away ingging cars other materials, was soft and it trace the man responsible we speed" course at the Univeralty for overtime parking.
Was moth-proo of Chicago and wet e new record
She enrolled
The mosider ogpalatea of cons "But there is now no market for reading.comprehension, 1,770 tributio to the pollcuments for it. The sales have been very
disappointing
will prosecuto... so that
cou prove. to: Britain), Sigt
tou will not tolerate matter in osty, płodarta"
In stopped Mira Adam, the A LORRY
major's 36 - your - old French-born wife.
“I do an awful lot for my two husband and our young children but this was a very hard job," she sald when the vests and pants were demonstrated in London.
"The worst part was the talcum powder. We had to use that as a lubricant. It was all over the place. The second and third sets for her husband took only 80 hours each. Now her next job is to knit three more for Dr Fugh.
·AND 131
GET OUT
London.
Police motor-patrol man' Eric Williams stopped the pea-pickers' lorry and
ordered every-
body off.
Then he started to count pea- pickera: One, two, three, four... It wont on, he told the at Thorne, near magistrate Doncaster, to 191-ight moll, women, and 72 children. "They were losing like Howten in a vase," mald PO WELLBAREM.
amazing.
WIE
PLANES the tailboard. They carried
DROP
WATER
ON FIRES
over
Wellington.
"They were so lightly packed that it was difficult to release
baskets, stools, and bags, too, and were all standing.
And 90 more
"If the tallboard had fallen or there had been a puncture there would have been a serious accident."
Wan
Another lorry behind carrying 90 people.
Ernest Smith, 39, farm fore- man, of Grangé Avenue, Hat- feld, and CAMER Isles, 31, driver, of Asli 1111 Cottages. Halfeld, were fined £6 cachi for using a lorry with a dan- gerous number of passengers,
The owner of the lorries, farmer
Edward Dixon, of Stanforth Hoad, Barnby Dun,
Miro fined 28. All pleaded not guilty. Mr P. Allan, defending, sald both lorries were strongly built and none of the people
WEZI
Trials in New Zealand many months have proved that the fiercest forest fires can be put out with water from aircraft with "unerring accuracy.” Experts believe the method plained of being cramped. I will lead to savings of millions trol a mob of people who climb added: "A driver. cannot con-
of pounds in countries such as
con-
Australia and New Zealand. the lorry, no matter what where there are vast forest he says," lands often swept by fires,
Details of the method axc announced in a report of the New Zealand Soll Confervation Council.
IN TWO SECONDS
Testa showed that 200 gallons of water can be delivered every 70 seconds from an airstrip up to-one mile away.
that
In ane trial at Rotorua, three Beaver aircraft showed 200 gallons of water could be seconds to Jottisoned in two
douso
lash fires and simul- ated scrub fizer.
Half an acro of heavy scrub sprayed with oil and sat alight was put out with six loads wate from the aircraft.
of
1
JACKPOT
HITS MARTIN
New York.
Many a motorist has openly rebelled against a ticket- But Issuing policeman. Patrolman Peter Martin hit the jackpot. Or, more correctly, the Jackpot hit Martin.
Flogging down a loaded con- vertible for an improper turn
HAB & fire-fighting technique the tree dropping of water from aircraft has considerable possi-4 hifftjes," anys the report,,
Detroit, Neighbors of Stanley F, Hozyed didn't mind as long as he confined his bird collection to 700 pigeons. But when he bought a red rooster they drow the lina
At least the pigeons slept to reasonable hour
United Press,
Martin immediately ran up into storm of physical protest. All eight occupants — dorm FOR and four women →→pat upon. him, the men, punching and the women scratching and kicking. Martin said,
Witnesses called for policy re- inforcements. Four additional effects arrived, just in time to catch their share of the lumps. eight Finally subduod, the civilians were booked on felonious
obarges.- assault United Press,
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