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THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1958,
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HIS CASTLE' IS IN A TREE!
Garbage Man Shares Home With Two Pets
London.
FRANK GUNNELL has been up a tree in
Powick for 28 years-and he likes it.
The Scottie Cindy Saved Makes
History
TICKY,
N Scotti
manthy to
recovering,
an
The 40-year-old garbage
collector live in the tren stout old willow which is about 500 years old He share his castle in the air with one tho
and one cat, both binck, radio, two record players and six stuffed birds.
GAC
Gunnell's castle consists of a "terrace platform made of rough loga 'kboat 20 for long- on which the hui In which he
| skrepa is supportę.
Lovely Life
It's a lovely life," the garbage collector Te stutis dented
London. that he ever gets lonely up 11-year-old there in the more-or-less blue. giran six Gurnell's (tee-top life started live, has modo as a holdaver from the boyhood
Joys
Camping out,
canine medical history by netually started doing it that way, living in a tent in various areas. But he was shifted around o much he finally decided on a relatively unshiftable tree.
Dalay
Nicky, owned by Miss Maureen Crossley, of Bank Cottage, Warsash, Hants, had a deadly blood disease.
A vet thought a blood trans- fusion was the only hope to save him, Up went a publie nolice orking dog twners to give their pets blood.
1
MONGREL
isn't as though he did not have a house of the orthodox variety, either,
more
He does his garbage collecting in Worcester, near Powlek and has a house in a
government
project there. But he let his Inther and married brother may
Bought Club To Be A Member
London.
BUILDER Pat Puteman,
42, was refused, mem- bership in a focal golf club, Bo he promtply bought the club's 120-kore links, clubhouse and all,
Three years ago Paloman applied to renew fla mem berehle in the Longellit Golf Club, Dear Lough- borough. But his applicationt did not receive the naces - wary support from two thirds of the commillos.
"I took a poor view of that," Patoman said. “Now the shoo ls on the other foot."
Pateman, who bought the club for an undisclosed sum, said that. "If I do not approve of two-thirds of the committee now can do something about it. "am under na obilge. tion to renew the loans."
He added that perhaps this will teach the com mitee a lesson.-U.P.1.
BLUE-TIT
A MOBILE
COWS MILKED Wanted To
TO SLOW SWING MUSIC
Co
Rome.
Call His Son
Gengis Khan: Govt Objected
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The story of a strange vengeanes!
Reisversal At
CHARLTON - JAKTY BUS
HESTON LEIGH WELLES Touch of Evil
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DOWS are milked to slow swing music on a
modern farm near Rome and food is brought By HENRY MACLENNON to them on a special conveyor belt in their centrallyENGIS Khan may not be STAR: At 11.00 cằm.
Gr the main you would
Iteated stalls.
Rome.
The farm is in the middle of thing exceptional. In Italy it is chooio for your young now- the Agro Romano, en arid and like an casin in the desert. born sön. But shopkeeper rocky, plain which half, circles Everything is mechanical, sys- Giorgio Gurbin liked tha the Italian capital. The farm emailsed, hygenie by the most sound of it and its atmo- situated about 30 miles out on rield standards, and at the same the Via Aurelia behind the Vatl-time highly efficient unlike most can City and is called Torre 10 farms in the district where
farmers at hand plough cowa are made to work,
Fleira,
Few Homans know much about Torre In Pletra farm ye! for 33 years they have haught lis rich creamy milk, lis big and pulpy romano arilchokes, Its impld muscat wines, its many fruit and vegetables And CA- pecially fis beautiful Bowers,
Even in the United States this farm would be even some-
IN
NESTS
NURSERY
London.
and
sphere of adventuro.
So on the great day, not long! ogo, he Alled in the birth certi Torre In Pjetra farm wasfente to register the name of his;
writing out the begun in 1923 by Senator Luigi son carefully Albertini, one-time director of letters of Gengis Khan.
Garbint, however, was in for the Corriere Della Serra daily newspaper, of Milan, and In n surprise. At the registry office collaboration with the well-e was informed that by law khown poiltlefan and Indus- foreign
cannot be triclist, Count Nicolo Carandini bestowed on Italian citizens. who was also ont of the tounders of the postwar Hallan airline Alitalia.
Awakened
1
names
FORBIDDEN
"Under prtlele 72 of the state. Civil Code" the official said, "It is · forbidden to bestow on babies in Italy foreign or foreign sounding name:"
Every morning at dawn the cows on Torre In Pietra farm are awakened by the sound of slow swing music played to Glargi Garbini refused to ac- them on Carillon bells. The corvscept this as defeat. Ho has taken are washed before being milked the issue to a high court. aid during this process they can But the Inw is explicit. Even get a ration of salt by licking the proposal of making Gengis at a salted paper which comes Khan 力 second name atter to them on a special conveyor "Paolo" was denied.
The feed for
BLUE-TIT that has chosen the boot of belt. 32-year-old Mr Ray Woolhouse's ear as her
the
Cows
Out of hundreds of volunteers, in the house while he keeps up maternity ward, travels 12 miles a day sitting weight and m
Cindy, a six-month-old mongrel¦ to his own standards.
ETL
stray, was chosen.
Nicky
nearly was given quarter of a pint of new blood, That was six months ago.
And last week Miss Crossley said: "He is Just like a puppy ngala. I Beard him bark for the first time ever. In March. And he can walk normally at last."
Sold the vet at Fareham: "I have been staggered by Nicky's recovery. He is now a remark-
The free house has practica! value, too. It is near the banks of the Tame river, which fre- quently overflows,
Bailing Out
Anyone who tried to live in a lent at that point would have to spend a lot of time bailing out.
When Gunnell gela a report
he
́serenely on nine eggs in her nest,
For three weeks, except for one day, she has driven happily with Mr Woolhouse, of Docken- field, neer Farnham, Surrey, on the six-mile morning run to his work, sat on the nest all day, and travelled back home for a night parked outside the house. Mr Woolhouse opened the
-of-the boot to find the nest sandwich between the spare wheel and the mudguard. "I was astounded," he said, "be- cause I had been driving to work
ably it and happy little dog that there has been flooding up We can hope that his span of the line in Wales, he gives it
the three days to get to where ilfe may
even exceed The blood transfusion Ilves and laya normal.
in supplies all the time the nest was being began the business of putting accordingly. He once spent two built." him an his feet,"
weeks happily marooned in his tree that way.
ই
SUFFERING
from
In a panic
The garbage collector majo's
A fortnight ngo he and his Nicky тая suffering
the most of his life-swimming, i wife went for a 150-mile drive to chronic lymphatle leukémia and fishing and all the trimmings. He Winchester and on to Brackle- his illness-rays the vet-hes teaches local children to swim
sham Bar in Sussex. The bird proved conclusively that dogs do and has reseugt no less than 10
went too. suffer from this disease, just like people during his 28-year
tenancy of the tree.
humans.
And, because of Nicky, i han also been discovered that the drug cortisone "appears to work with the discago."
The Royal College of Veterin-
J
And the bird that sits tight has otrazed the Royal Society
Mr Woolhbuso has a peep at the nest.
He also applementa bis in for the Protection of Birds. OLD. VICAR
gür- and
come from the Worcester bage job by tending cows sheep in nearby meadows and by
ary Surgeona and top fight vels growing vegetables and flowers have followed Nicky's case. for sale on a plot he has staked Because of its Importance to out near the tree. other dogs, Miss Crossley has not been asked to pay Nicky's treatment.
for
Man & Dog
Dive Out
Of Window
ARITZ,
London.
black-and-tan |
"Life," said the philosophie tree-dweller, "is always lighi," U.P.I.
Fans Put On The Best Fight
Rome. Fernando
Dobermann Pinscher SHERMAN police dog, couldn't wait to Spizzichino didn't like make his 108th arrest. the way a boxing match was going in Rome's Paluzzato
tracked
So when he and his bandler, ibolla last week so he took P.C. Stanley Dines, down two men to the waiting-off his brother Renate's shop room at Thames Ditton. Surrey and throw it at the referee. Slution last week "Frisky" Friz
When police warned Fertian
went into action.
As he leapt into the room-do, brother Renato
and seven
resented it.
All nine
friends with P.C. Dines still hanging of the irate fight fans ended up grimly on to his leash-both men
by being arrested,
solled though the window. “
Fritz just kept on going........up
and through the window....unding so did P.C. Dines,
They all Anished in 4 struggling heap 25ft. below.
SUCH A DROP
The man at the bottom came worst. His friend laned CIT squarely on his back and dashed off, leaving him screaming with pain.
P.C. Dines got away with n broken bone in his foot; Feltż with n winding.
Sold 42-year-old P.C. Dings, father of three, with 20 years in the force: "I didn't. realist (it was such a drop.
The station atantia party stilts, and the ground below stapes sharply.
"Still, it was funny réally. I felt like a man holding on to a_npretendis,"
Later
a man with back in- furtes was detained by přiled at, Kingston Hospital.
with. volence.
For blue-tits are notoriously bad nesters, and are able to abandon their eggs at the least disturbance.
FLOORS
Of the day the bird spoiled TEDDY BOY
its record of good parenthood, Mr Woolhouse satd:
"I was in a panis to find the nest empty when I got to work. But the bird returned when got home."
And when the eggs hatch out? "I will stop being the CBT. I've arranged for a friend to pick me up in his."
London.
This law on the veto of foreign la names for Italian children eame
weighed and raligned according into effect from July, 1939. and to the weight and milk produc-in still valid, despite the fall of Bussolini. The then dictator bp- Besides fruit and vegetables, proved the law because Immedi- wheat and maize, medical herbs ately after the 1918-15 war babies and flowers are also grown. In everywhere in the country were deed Torre In Pleira dowers are given all kinds of English and Famous. They are grown under Russian names, including such special movable, dëmed glass- embarrassing enes ns Trotsky, houses whore some of the must | Stalin and Lenin.
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exotic plants are produced.
Perhaps the greatest sehleve- ment at Torre In Pietra IN
Water can irrigation.
be seen Parents
the und
victims everywhere, in huge tanks, in of these names themselves later wide, deep canals, and in big desparately tried to have them pipes that criss-cross the farm. changed but the red-tapa in- And within every several aquare volved made it an almost im; yards there is an drtificial rain passible undertaking. apray showering the dry, rocky ground--U. P. Ï.
Que foreign name, however, is common throughout Italy and can be still bestowed on babies if desired. The name 8
This namto "Walter."
was
Medical World's popular in the trente-alte a
Robin Hood Is Imprisoned
Robbed The Rich To Help Poor'
London.
40-YEAR-OLD physi-
cian started a one-year
~69-YEAR-OLD vicor prison term for operating AS a medical "Robin Hood" floored a Teddy Boy and robbing the rich to who started swearing and "feed" the poor. annoying girls at a church club dance here.
Canon J. H. Parsons, a six foot two inches former England cricketer, strode
across distico floor and reized
Dr William Pitt was sentenced
Adige region under Austria, When Italy occupied the region It was forced to recognise. it as legal, For in no way con It be Italianised.-U.P.I.
Hooligans Offered To Smash Her Paintings
for fraud deplo a petition For Publicity
signed by hard-up patients who contributed their pennies to set tho up a defence fund for him.
Pitt was sentenced in War- detectives testihod charged wealthy
the
trouble maker by the scruff of wick after WINE LESSONS
FOR BOYS!
London. A group of 18-year-olds: at a
getting public school are lesson in wines..
a
The school, Denstone College, tastca
is giving the students of wines to teach them the good and band of the vintages.
out
that
ho
By DICK DAVIS
MERICAN pointer Botti
Paris.
show to her
an
his Teddy Boy jacket and drain-. pipe trousers, and threw him businessman David Humphreys
for more than 100 injections of Bethay loft Pasis with a a "rare" drug to oure, what he | "one-mian” told Humphreys was in almost credit and offer from rurable and potentially fatal Paris Hoollgatis to smash her liver disease.
paintings it she will pay thêm từ Hà II.
A club member eld, "When he came back he had blood on hle hands. He had flatted the Teddy Boy."
Canon Parsons said, "No com- ment."....U.P.I.
London.
'Rate Drug
After Humphreys paid
for
The good-looking
blonde
135 at £1 apiece, he sat another artist from New York City said
she medical option. Howa's bold
woo happy about her there was nothing wrong with exhibition's success,
The Bim-und that
involved
hooligans' proposition "examination" Plu gave him did not interest her onu bit,
Pitt twiddling she said.
home-made,
An Australian woman accused consisted
01
Two Weeks.
of a parking offence wrote to longba and mysteriously touch- They were charged this morn~ Sald Headmaster De B. M. W. the Rictamond, Surrey, magia-
thought the ing wires on a menace. Trapnell, "It is all part of our trates that she
Miss Bernay's paintings went offence, resistance and using plan to equip the older boys black and yellow "no waiting" useless machine.
The "rare" drug was common on display, at the Raymond bad language' against public for starting a carcér."
posts were barbers' poles. She
Dican Gallery here for two. officials. Many of the audience
will get a letter today telling Calcium
The prosecution, said Pitt also weeks. voted it the best fight of the He did not say what career-her the mistake has cost her a
ekarked 'women more than £100 £1 Anc. IU.P.I. evening.-U.P.I.
Just before the show bened, for treatment they should have the mid, she was approached bad free from Britain's by a "shady-looking men" wht nationalleod health service.
sald that for a nominal fee bo But Pitt's less well-heeled
could get "art atudents” 10 patients rated bim as a mort attack the gallery and destroy of Robin Hood.
Couldn't Leave His Job.
SO HE GOT MARRIED!
Staveley. blovanni Manvitato;, an' källan working in Eng-
land de Inbourer, fouisd bluswèlf in a MEDI When he won £31,000 va a topiball pool, Under the forms of tits employtiant, he could not dall Mà 25 a week labourera job to enjoy his winkinys, on turri 'to aŭmé lem arduous
But then Wanderlo found to could turn the trick.
by getting married," tuk klinding the sialos under, whichz ka entered. England. Sa be cla
it, and was nót such a mortilon at that (of) Mansueto, a 32-year-old bachelor.
The girl he took for a bride was Grizèlda. Hooley, pretly 18-year-old who lived near the town where Mànsueta worked.; ∙With Britis Hume Office perfalssion he quit bis Jab and left with Criselds on a secret hibsgutoon. After the Rónojnoon, he planned to buy a cafe li Blancheter, move into a £2,500 home! and set up in businern an his own--UP.,
Supplied Food
art
by
some of her paintings.
"ffe told me it. would be just They said that although he like the old days when cheated wealthy patients, houdenis attacked albwings helped poor one,
Pleasso", the
wild boawfully good prvilcity".
At one time, his defenders sild, he not only tolt a poor family to forget is 611 But suppilet them with free bread and flik for several week.
Even his richest viellin, Itumplireys silmilled # Was texas toalifying egalist à Robin Food
“Stungsly whagh, † will like King Hangbangs MASUPT.
said. "Ho sald
Turned Down She said she turned the offer. down hard and the man dia- appeared vilke smoke,"
"She said Kry her -enever had raba kivurd of iruchs. An urter, Boling made LD KEY MESSA Maywhere, UFIE
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