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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1957.
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From All Parts
The
World
THERE'S
FRYING AROUND
WHITEHALL
Search
What They
*REPEL
BOARDERS WAS THE
CRY
Men In
Of A Sausage That Satisfies
London.
A smell of cooking hangs over Whitehall - the smell of frying sausages. Not sausages for the canteens of hungry Civil Servants, but sausages prepared for a clinical examination by Food Ministry experts.
HOBO BECAME
A GENT
BUT IT WAS
NO GOOD
London.
Hobo Ted Wellings return
ed to a flophouse in dis- gust after Anding that n shave, haircut and new Savile Row suit wrecked his chances on getting a Job.
Wellings, 38, who was picked from a group of unkempt, rogized down-and-outs by a hairdress
ftm for Д change-in- appearance demonstration.
ing
Stylish
He was given a stylish char- coal grey suit and a haircut and shave, installed in an expensive Park Lane hotel sulte and given more money than he notimally could bum on sidewalks in a month
Then he went job-hunting.
Ted's idea of a job was laumuter or kitchen porter, and tered construction sites and hotels looking for ene.
"A chap as smart looking an me in bound to land a job In any hotel kitchen," he told reporters when he set out But he didn't count on his newly nulty appearance.
Turned Away
"All the hotels Just turned me away," he said. "The ofeialn Just looked at me and said there were no vacancies."
He also visited three labour exchanges, but they said they id nothing suitable.
"I don't mind what I do, but it seems no one wants me," Ted nld. "And I thought this was my big chance to settle." United Press,
JUST DIAL C-H-I-C-K-E-N
FOR A ROAST
London.
who want Londoners
roast chicken by special delivery could get it today simply by dialling "c-h-i-c-k-e-n” on the telephone.
For three years a Iaboratory team of 17 have
sulpped, cooked, and tasted sausages by the thousand.
But not al recently was the secret of the
Bausages revealed,
Whitehall
Mr Derick Heathcoat-Amery,
been
Food Minister, who has taking pert in the investiga- tions, told the Commorft:
myself
"I am carrying out rome practical research Into peliability, Bul research is a long-term matter and I feel the need for extending my present researches for 0 ittle bil longer."
For no one has yet been able to decide when a sausage 16 a sauange.
Ending....
Ministry's laboratory in
The Fausage friers of the Great Westminster House, Horseferry Flood. are still seeking the answer and the Ministry anys:
"Something may be said officially in the very near future. The experiments are coming to
an end.'
Thin will please the manufae- turers who have been co-operai- the research from the ing in beginning. It should please the housewives, whose views have been sought in 30 towns.
It will please, too, Mr Norman Dodds Labour MP for Erith and Crayford, who demanded the Minister a minimum from
the meat standard to guide makers.
Sample
Mr Dodds and Major Henry Spence, 60-year-old Tory M.P. for Aberdeen West, were invited to a sausage-lasting party at a Mayfair hotel last week,
had
The manufacturers were better demonstraling that sausages are now on the way.
Major Spence, who
fried toothache, sample. "Ouch," եր Bald. racked dropping it as he was
pain from his aching with tooth.
severe
Two-Hour Battle Between Rival Captains
Algeciras.
The cry was "Repel boarders!" as 27-year- old Mrs Ellern Stevenson leaped from the quayside on to the mystery schooner Amphitrite, at Algeciras, the Spanish pori near Gibraltar,
Found In The Peanut
Butter
Birmingham.
A British food packing firm was fined £20 last week aftor a doctor testified that a jar of the com- Dany's peanut buttor consisted Margely rodent hair and skin."
The doctor, whom name tras not made available to the press, told a court that his family started using the peanut butter
to have before he decided analysed.
The analysis revealed the jar to have been filled with a mix- ture that contained ground pen- nuts but was "largely of rodent hairs and skin,” ho mld.
BELOW QUALITY
Granoge pleaded gulity of supplying "below quality" food. The judge in- posed a fine of £20.
The manufacturers, Foods of Walford
The doctor said he did not
know from the analysis what
type of rodent was involved.
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Alice Goes To
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Darby.
:
Captain No. 2, Jirard Parker of Turkey,
said afterward: "That fight Eileen was terrible. I am a peaceful man, never before in my life have 1 acted in such a way. We did not mean to hurt the girl—it was she who Alice went to Wonderland
last week. attacked us.” With one shoe lost she clung on deter- Clive Stevenson of Liverpool, England,
Alice Keeton, 80, has been a claims that he owns the schooner. Bo cleaner at a local steel factory minedly as a young seaman tried push her off the ship. Accompanying does Arthur San Juan, known in for 78 years. Last week, on the
of the day anniversary
she Gibraltar and Tangier by his fini started work in 1884, a Jimbu- picture was taken A two-hour hatile began between rival captains name, Art Rense. Parker is the cap.
sine picked her up at her tiny taln put aboard by Rease, who is in college, the ownership of the 169-ton
and drove her to the
for factory's boardroom the USA.
lunch
over
Amphitrite.
19
to
Mrs Stevenson fought side by side with Captain No 1, her 39-year-old husband Clive. Then she locked herself in a cabin until "peace talks" were held.
CD Hoax 'Calls Up' Wardens
London.
Mr Dodds offered sympathy Scores of people In Wisbech
and polished off the plateful.
WHAT GROUNDS
-ONLY
'CRUELTY'
Birmingham.
John Stuart Boddington, 52, won a divorce from his wife, Ethel, 48, after witness testified:
He had to instal = phone In hip pay home to stop her calling
office six him at the seven times a day to abUKO him:
or
and March, Cambridge- shire, are the victims of o Civil Defence hoax.
They have received two-page "Air Defence letters from the Executive" telling them they have been "called up" as ARP wardens for exercises cald to be planned in the London area and Horac Counties.
Now the rivals, after using fiets, are trying more legal methods. Ownership is to be decided in a Gibraltar court. Says Clive Stevenson: "We shall win our
case,"~London Express.
HUSH-HUSH ON
GIRL SLASHER
AT READING.
London.
Strict secrecy was ordered recently at the exclu- sive Abbey School at Reading about a girl who slashed other girls' coats and wrote anony- mous notes.
Mistresses hurried gates of the six-acre
to
the Another parent whope daugh-
attends grounds ter mon has been At least one
the 70-year-old Some of us feel hoaxed into replying that he and warned pupils going home: school said:
this should have been handled was "over 10 and certainly too "Don't talk about it."
have differently and disagree With old to be a warden."
Mar- clothes the headmistress"--Miss to replace the slashed spoke of the need for publicity garet Esme le Clerc Macdonald, and for drastic action against who ordered the secrecy.
Mr A.M. Salzmann, the offender.
The document, signed "R. U. Sampson, gives an address at
a non-existent A.R.P. depart ment at County Council head- quarters, March.
UPTURNED BRIM
But parents who will
after her two daughters to The father of one pupil said: taking "The matter should have been the school, said: "This has re mado
My public.
daughtermined a private affair for the of the girls and the It mentions "Defence of the came home with stories about sale
slashed in the parents," coats being Realm Act
of (Conscription
Borc nasly
with ScriD- Abbey School, Civilian Personnel)" and cloakroom
ture heading is subject 1st, has the Bishop of Reading, the Right Rev. Knell, as its Vice- President.
and
demanda that "conscripte" notes being sent to one girl." should report to the nearest
Bhe
hid his shaving
kit
Bho hid all, his shora ao that he had to turn
ARP dopot for equipment,
This is listed on the second
page, ghd includes ruch
lems an "Bucket and spade
and
up at the office in slippers;
Bho drank so
*
her
com-
A gimmick-minded resipura- tour offered the service plete with guaranteed rush de- ilvery by waiters on oight motor scooters.
Lelle Romain
started from
the discovery that if you dial "C-H-I-C-K-E-N” on à London telephone, you get Chiswick 2536.
SUBSCRIBER
Romain looked up the sub- berlber to the number. Chiswick 2938 and offered him a share in the venture, if he would donate his phone number to the project. The subscriber accepted.
bedroom drawers
of full word
Gin orange, squash bottion:
She constantly throw
thinge at him.
Deddington
divores on
won grounds "eruelty."United, Prest.
the of
Learning Young
Berlin.
to
to
(coastal district only)," Bables are going to learn "Steel helmets with upturned swim here before they learn brim to
touter walk. Conserve
supplies," and
Igniting
incendiary
which fall"
Private Problems
**The governors are satisfied that Miss Macdonald is hand- "Matches for The "Gorman
the situation properly.". Lite. Soving link bombs Society has announced it will he said.
In her study Misa Macdonald open next month a swim school
"How to three angrily shouted,
dar Coples of the document have for babies from ont been handed to the police. years-old.Unliéd Prose.
you interfere with our private problems?
5,000-MILE TRIP
Itoma then set up commu- alcations between the numbero most
the Dover Buttery-the T and Maylair Resthiman), which he operates. He aired eight young nion du motor soboturs.
ki, thought sasah ichheiten wak the sort of statek that wodd stick", ho id, "ohnt it aPPORTS |
Orders are 1o be working. pouring in. Qxich. Wo gei, under way wa shull extend it to com plete cooked meals Unlea
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STUDY TERNS.
London.
term 10 people the furt another eagail, but to 80-year-bid Dr John Michau Oulton It in a full-time Occupation.
For the past four years he has
dohe little elis except study | the hablis of thema. Now has en 5,000-mila voyage to find ther. out even more about One thing he waħite to abserva i -how this is their courting.
remit intensive study?
On lonely Ascension Island, in What wit
the South Aflantia, he hapes
tó find the answer to a my; stery which has long puzzled ornithofaglets: "Why do tha terns on the laland broad every ride months instead of Just onge a year like other bleda?"
A
#The island's terne are the only ones In the world that do, this," says the doctor, whose homa letni Oxford.. "ity only! dusas ta that it is something
"Who was the parent whe the handi- complained about
ing of this situation?"
She added: "Action is being Laken, but 1 refuse to say what was in the notes or anything about the costs."
Police have been no1⁄4ded, but said they were leaving action to the hoadihlátress, from hi
What were the moles about?
or any "I wouldn't they were hot vile like to say, Fit write a bit thing disgusting, but described about it i acma obscure scientific
publication, but the misfortune of another vir! EIGH won't lead to anything intren, at the school," hala polico,
between Parvista pay
it is just knowing what they and £63 m year to send their. đó thịt is importan
Dr. Cullen will and 18 inonthe daughters, to Abbey School, Island, on babait of which has a staff of 30 full- the Edward Gray, Institute of time toschaty,
on the
Ornithology. There won't ha
On, the boară (of' guvernore.
a minuto to spare-the place" nyt Bir John Wolfchien," throe
terria, he i klaarmaa, kwa emuhelllors,
is teaming with
and
champagne and caviar
with the firm'sødtectors.
1
The Board declāvā to honour Allee after hearing she started wark for the firm at the age of seven help her widowed Alice sald mother.
she was "honoured" but that she hopes the lunch party won't make too much mess.
"I'll have to sweep it up on Monday morning she said.— United Press.
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