Interesting
News
EVEN THE SANE
of an
New York. of the some drug in American
patients that some sor! British scientists sug-explanation was much in order, gest that the tran. And so they suggested one. quillising drugs tran- The drug is reserpine which
was the original "tranquilliser. quillise American mente "main effect" or mentai tal hospital patients patienio "seemed to the Brilsh scientists to be not on the mainly because
symptoms of the mental disease American mental hos- but "on the symptoms which arise as a difect result, of the pital conditions are conditions which are imposed on such that they'd rob even relatively sano people of their tran- quillity,
The suggestion was, made to the
American Prychlutric Association by three doctors whore investigallon showed that one of the most widely used of the drugs had very little effect ов extremely untranquil patients in English mental inspitals.
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In Great Britain, they said, the doctors kept a close checkc mental hespitals are smaller. on their blood pressures and Locted and overcrowded wards heart rhythms because rescr- do exist but "maximum security plue is a blood-pressure lower- wards are unknown, and there ing agent as well, 'an a tran- is a growing tendency to abolish | quiltser. In 10 of the 20 there áll locked wards." They elted were no changes in behaviour: "four showed light but definite Improvement."
psychotic patients overcrowded a Brkish study which showed
and locked words.
Undoubtedly
"Disturbed
that "the unlocking of wards produces results as gratifying and dramatic as those attributed to reserpine."
Their main investigation was with 20 "chruale, intractable"
who patterns
were of schizophrenics
diflcult nursing we sugges,exceptionally behaviour, would
Ten 'normal problems."
Avere dased undoubtedly occur in people under similar conditions,"cally with roserpine, and the Charles P. Gore, other len with an inert but continued Dr
and Donald identical-appearing pill, Later George P. Egan, Wallon. "In short, we are not the Arst ten got the dummy pills ten got the convinced that reserping or any and the second
avaliable reserpine.
were other drug currently
Thus, there place inke the
of an can
"controls," enlightened
tic approach to of many American investigations care of these patients."
were su
com. results
Their results pictely opposed to the
In addition to their behaviour patterns and meatal condition,
Open Wide Now...Ah-h-b
-MONEY BACK IF HE PULLS-
-OUT WRONG ONE-
Phem Pinh Pavement dentists still flourish
in Cambodia, and most of them operato
the alde.
you that this is the very stuff which causes the rust. He takes his time to examina the tooth of his cliente, and walks of Prom-Penh, the probes every tooth, until he capital. The travelling dentist comes to an agreement with
patient that ects up his little surgery on a
they have dluplays street, and
found the tooth Budy
Ja which
boxes
causing hax
the trouble, of toelh
If by he
some extracted In the past to show
misfortune the wrong the
knows his tooth has been extracted the
dentists
tha will take
re. and handa
chromium-plated
Instead of those made of Iron
the
The
....bingo..the tooth in out, and added to the collection. If It has a gold Ming he may make an offer for it, but if not the client gets it back.
Cambodian pavement dentist never pulls a tooth out with his back
the facing roadway. Legend has it that once upon a time a pavement dentist was struggling with a molar when suddenly it came free with the result that the dentist
back staggered
and and was passing
pascer-by he
business.
Today to
ablo to buy instruments
aponalblity
the money. Many dentiste
tavts Although be may explains that
|
back
claim that they been awindlod many mos by unscrupulous cliente those over this
system, but are the rules laid down many centuries ago and they are
fell into
the road
trodden
by
5
by the blacksmith.
hir little
Instruments
rusty, he
·
they are only in your mouth a few seconds anyway, and can-
not do much harm in such a short time..
Touching on the question of
antiseptic, the dentist will tel
still in force.
Having hagglad over the price, which is another of the rules, they get down to the job and
elephant.
Photo showe the
pavement dontlet giving a patient an injection by hypodermlo syringe to deaden the pain, in Cambodia.—Keystone:
Millionaires And Workers
By H. V. MACLENNON
Torre del Mare.
Paradise
THE MAN WHO WAS TOO KIND
+ London.
They also tried rescrpine in 34 "incurable" schizophrenics, In 21 there was no behavioural Patrick Farrell's trouble change, four zvere "slightly
is that he is soft hearted and that's the reason why he is no longer bailiff of St Pancras Borough Council,
BY
DELOS SMITH
cight worse,"
were improved, and one Improved--but his showed that he had hod previous periods of improve-
without bencft ment
of any drug. In both groups, alarming heart reactions developed.
He was fired for "gross in- efficiency"-failing to call On people overdue with their public service bills.
slightly
"I believe in being kind-its greatly boing humane."
67-year-old history Patrick explained to the com
mittee which dismissed him. “I like to think I have ti kind streak and I used to give people time to pay. I have been told I am too much of a gent.**
"On the basis of our findings it seems to us that reserpite is La no way curative, and has only a limited role to play In psychiatry." They reperied to their American colleagues, "Nor" should it be overlooked that It is a dangerous drug and chuse depression of suicidal intensity and even cardice
failure due to water
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NOT PLEASANT
Committee
Chairman Ivy Hort said, "We all know a bailift's job la not a pleasant one. But the Committee were
Of Gaol
Naples.
ONCETTA MUC- CARDO, who re. sorted to non-stop maternity to escape prison, got at least a partial reprieve today.
she
Concella's troubles started one day after World War II when selling contraband cigarettes. She was unable to pay the ne
was caught red-handed
and was sentenced to gaol,
born
But she was pregnant so the police agreed to hold off on the gaul term until the baby was Umberto, now 11, was the arst in " long line of children Concetla produce to keep from going to gaol,
Timely Births
The timely births of Adellna, Arsunia, Gennaro, Mario, Giuseppe and Cigino always kept Concetta one step in front of the law.
Last month the police came
satished that the charges foin-but a baby didn't. Con
Inefcitney
cetts had to go to gaol,
Kris may
proved."
retention
had
been
But Patrick is still smiling-- he was given another job with though given in small doses." the Coünell and el the same Valied Press.
salary-United Press.
Pinocchio-land Project In
Italian
Village
By H. V. MACLENNON
Collodi.
WOULD you like to tell a fib now and then? That is without your nose growing longer?
says
Fiorenzo
However, the Rome news- paper Messaggero today paid off 313,000 lire (HK$3,030) fine.
aggregate
But Concetta still is in trouble, During the long baby-gool-baby routine baffled police tried to impound her furniture. Coneelta succeeded in smuggling it out of the house before police could get their hands on t
This brought on a 211-day stretch in gaol.
Impounded
Payment of the fine keeps Concetta from serving the equivalent 780-dny gaol term biit it, does nothing for the 211 for Alching the Impounded furniture.
Messaggero noted that Itallwr President Giovanni Gronch!
can partion her. It called his attention to the case and urged an act of leniency.
While Concetta is in pool her unemployed husband is stuck with eating for the five oidekt children, The two youngest, "More Giuseppe, 20 months,
You can get special authority | authority," here with £ "Friend of Narducci, director of a Pinocchio" card which permits Placebio-land project.
a holder to tell one le a week. than half a million cards were many issued during the past year, this nearly 10,000 sold in America.
"I'B
people
amazing biow Uke
to have
Telegraphic Tabloids
Paris. In answer to a written Paris Police question
Chint Andre Lahillonne told the one man who shouldn't have to worry about the parking prob- Iem that there's garage, room for only 184,060 of Paris's 840,000 registered cars.
The questioner's last name is Lasaret which translates, in English as "the parked one." United Press.
Svendborg. Former Lars Braun, a cattle Everything at Torre del Mare breeder, salt a your bull for is of a radical design. Shops 17,000 kroner (HK$16,000). R and markets are on top of the was one day old--United Press. angular - rounded apartment buildings and reached by special elevators.
villas Most of the
conform with
of some of these vilins are made of glass.
Bonn
The Pinocchio-land project is a kind of Italian Disneyland. It began in 1951 when the mayor of Pescia commune, of which Collodi is an outlying village, suggested a monument of the ittle wooden puppett whose zose grew when he fibbed. And May 14. 1950, Italton Tresident Giovanni Gronchi unveiled a 15-foot statue of the fabled hero of children all over the world.
The Creator
The sialue stands at the entrance to the children's park of Collodi the pen name of the Italian journalist and
Lorenzini, who
writer. Carlo
created the story of Pinocchio. It' was a tale that was to spread as a children's favourite everywhere, Funds for the statue began rolling in from 26 nations and requests for subscriptions to the "Friends of Pinocchio League" still averages about 100 a day.
So great was the interesi in the Ploxochio monument Gad the number of tourists from afar who came to see it, totall- THIS is one of the
ing about 600,000 during 1957, most unusual sea-
that it was dockled to enlarge "Now that it is mino," he adds, Te on stilts to side resorts in the world."I want to share it with other the rocky terrain. Whele sides squire, published the
Fritz von Loersch, a German | on the original project,
following This included the monument It is a dream project, a people."
advertisement in the latest of Pinocchio and the "Blue First part of the project was
German Nability Archive.
Fairy", the story of the coden "millionaires paradise" to extend the small besch to
"Wanted, Two, well-educated puppet told in mosaics sur- for millionaires and about 1,000
A square feet.
housemaids. Girls may
bring rounding the statue, a library of section of it was covered for
herpes.United hundreds of ellions of the workers.
night swimming and another
OVEE alory published all
the Torre del Mare is a
arca Barrow covered
made for
world__nad a replica of the promontory near the coastal children.
"Red Lobster Ion" Town of Bergegel in north Italy not
from the French
was
INDUSTRALISTS
SUB TUR
But perhaps the most untisual
| sight al Torte del Mare will be
the "Sub-Tur."
their OWT Preas.
London.
This is a submarine autobusA personnal ad in the London which was recently patented on Times: a design-iden worked Tizzoni.
out, by Today 15 Daisy's, the He wanted some kind Pekiness's sixth birthday.
She
Stromboli
ot fast communication system wishes to send her love to all demand to ace all the with his island and the "Sub- mankind."-United Press, Tur" was the result;
Riviera. "Before work began on the resort there was just a small
Tizzoni, together with other sandy beach below a high rocky Ciuff. Now there pre strange industralists, bought up the glass villas perched amont the whale promentory as well as rocks and several
Shrubs, olive and cpartment the Island. buildings stop the promontory. pine trees were put down in
every available spz00 and It is a 60-sent autobus 'with lorraced along the aido. of the the roof and aides made of a promontory cla
strong loansparent plastic.
SO UNUSUAL
A small island off Torre del
Beeston, Norfolk, The Farmer Sam Wilberforce ins A. podium was made on the "Sub-Tur" will run along a rail taken such a liking to "gobbly." beach extending out to see and track on the sea-bod from the a 17-pound her turkey, that he Mare is also part of the resort besides being an excellent pro- promontory to the island. It refuses to kill her, and let her and It is this island which menade for evening walks, It will cost about US$1,200,000 and follow him round the farm and makes the project so unusual, was also planned for fashion w11 Include two undersca even into the farmholen.
Torre del More was started parades.
terminals in the middle of the Saya Mrs Wilberforce: "It's a Millan industrialist by
suda -The podium
fa 4 | tropical garden near the podium pity she's not house-trained." sportsman Pierino Tizzoni. One modern restaurant, the
floor restaurant.
United Press. day, low yoɑra ago, he ateca of which is made of glass. Further details of the "hak-. on the high rocky const of While people are eating they | Tur” operation have been. Rept Borgegg and locked out zerers can view a wonderful undereta | socret. It is hoped to sell, the the bay at the 'smat) island.
garden of tropical pleats and idea to other resorts to cover Mrs Dofothy Watson, an 60- Tizzoni anki theik, bez-would coal which were brought from | the high cone af. Ha passatruction. | year-old widow, was fined £25 give half his lim to possem it.) many parts of the world.
-United Prose,
for shrkruinVESPARMIO: PODOL.
And
Nowenalle.
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"But the children want more than this," says Narducel. They famous ebaracters
Jiminy Cricket, Gepetto, the "Blue Fatry in person, as well as Stromboli, The Fire Eater,"
With the help of Hello tymşinceznea, who have skyensky donated large financial aid, the get what children will soon they want,
After the completion of the "Red Lobster Inn which is under construction, an pere of garden at the back of: the ing will be set aside for creating the famous Island; of Plesmãe, wiik real donkeys, stupe Jugglers and “it positie, even e Iblis wisata "
directo Nandicenášed, Press
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