How's This For
Pet Fever?
I
By ROMANY BAIN
always astonishes
me to what lengths
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1958,
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
ONLY A COWBOY WITH A LASSOO COULD CATCH BRACKEN NOW, SAYS FARMER
Sally Pleads For Old Mare
Trip Wires Laid As Wives And Dogs Stand Guard
London
TRIP wires were laid across all approaches to Quarry Farm at Claverton, Somerset, last week as the 480 villagers'stepped up their battle to save Bracken, the 20-year-old chestnut mare, from being shot.
Ilousewives from cot-
tages und caravan sites are
keeping a constant watch for strangers. Five dogs
the British. will go for roam the meadows round
their pets.
Reconlly 1.12 read
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a young schoolgirl Gurgled over a murky easter canal for half an rescuing a kitten. " can
who
the farm
And eight-year-old Sally Anne about Vaughan took a hand. She is the granddaughter of Mr Cecil Doliencock, owner of Quarry Farm, and her own pony, Blacktiri, and Bracken are inseparable friends.
hour. swim
a litle but I don't think I'd have stood much of a chance If I'd fallen in,” she asick
Also 60 mourners walked solemnly on to the tarmac London Airport to pay
their Just respects to a budgie called Fred,
were
Flight announcements interrupled, caps were removed, and strong airmon were seen to
weep,
ת וגזמט wר
And then a young Boume- mouth
on National Assistance was asked to pay up £90 because she had failed to have
A Cangerous Alsatian destroyed.
SO DEAR
NOW £90
13 rather 11
excesive amount to pay But, in any case, I think a large hound is a much more expensive Jet than a baby,
For one thing you usually hive to buy the daggle in the window before you start to feed
So she sat down and wrote to Mr E. F. Longrigg, the Bath solicitor who wants to have? Bracken destroyed.
Broken heart
Curefully spelled out i capitals the Teller said:
"Dear Sir, I am writing this to ask you to save Bracken, who is my pony Blackbird's stable sale. Without Bracken I'm sure Blackbird will die of a broken heart. Save Bracken, for Black bird, please."
Sally look the letter to Mr
Longrigg's office after school last
week
Segregation
Was The
Order In The
Pig Sty!
London.
A COURT in Fare-
ham
spent 37
minutes last week de- ciding that a little pig on Alfred Cutler's farm could not rub snouts with ten big pigs.
As
result, Farmer freed of Cutler was Mr Longrigg arranged for charge of breaking & law a newly-bought destroyed after the death of the that says
Brocken to be collected and
old mare's owner, 80-year-old pig must not come into con- Mr Kenneth MacDonald,
tact with other pigs for
Policeman
Mr Longrigg says he gave Mr four weeks. MacDonald solemn promise" that the horse would be destroyed on his death to save it from the koneku's yurd,
Five dogs
Evidence showed that Farmer Cutler, who already had 10 big pigs, bought an eight-week-old
But Mr Hancock, who has piglet. Because of the law, ho the brute. (A St Bernard 1 stabled Bracken for 12 years, put the little pig in a sty by it- know imposed of, in one siling, sale: "Mr Longrigg's Interpreta-self. The sty was separated from 1b, ut steak, with two etion of Mr MacDonald's dying the big pigs' sty by a fence, yolk broken over it, at three wish is wrong. Fronths.)
"Mr MacDonald
Then police constable Duncan
happened frequently MacKenzie
gap."
slong.
I have known otherwise well made me promise that Brocken with laws about piga fresh in his ndjusted women go out to work would not leave my farm alive, mind. He spotted a gap in the 14 inches from the to keep their four-legged friends) and I intend that she shall spend | fence, in food.
the rest of her life here."
ground. My ng daily help had a c When approached Jast week "I formed the opinion," he called Charlie. It was so par- Bracken galloped away. "Only said in court, "that the pigs ticular about Rs diet you would cowboy with a lasso could could touch shouts through the have thought it had an ulcer.
He decided this would never do, and hauled Farmer Cutler into court.
Defence Counsci Royden Sherwell was no
Buthority on pigs, but he went down to the farm to study them and the gap in the fence.
No whiting or kippers for h. "Charlle only cuts Dover sole and never frled," Mary used to borst. And she scrubbed my floors twice a week to keep Charlie's digestion in trims,
M
SO HUNGRY
д
Y second help had a son
at Cambridge and daughter at the Slate, but she did my "ugh" to feed her two Great Danes. "They eat us out of house and home," she used to men quietly over the sink (5lb. of meat a day was a mere hors d'oeuvres).
"Customers today are terribly fussy whore nels ore en ceriod," says Mr Burlon. hewd butcher at my local shop.
No lamb trimmings for them. Leg beef at 29. 4d., or heart at 18. 10d. And we hive to lugh when they come in three, ilmes a week to make sure it's tresh. 'Not from the fridge fur MY dog, they say,"
other
"We have poople who say costs more to keep their animada than it does to keep them," says Mrs Morley, cashier in butcher's near my home.
And what about the damaste a big dag can create in a small room! Bastien Rix, ancient Labrador at Brian Simple Spymen" Alx, ramples on the baby, covers the carpets in hairs, and on an average does about £3-worth of damage to our new house each week," says his owner philosophically,
get her now," said Mr Hancock. "We have trained her to be shy of strangers."
The Duke of Beaufort, to whom the villagera hadap- pealed for support, told them he had "no power to Intervene."
67 YEARS LATE
This Is The New
Gulliver
THE first 'play sculpture of its kind in the country THE
Gulliver produced in reinforced concrete, has been installed on the Locksley Estate in the St. Anne's neigh- bourhood of Limehouse. It is the work of 52-year-old Trevor Tennant and was commissioned by the London
County Council-Keystone Photo.
This ODD World
Bad Hamburger Was To Blame!
A
Montreal
MAN was acquitted here of a charge of impaired driving when he pleaded that he struck a.. pole because he had eaten a bad ham- burger.
Tho accused fold the judge he had drunk pint of bere and caten a hamburger.
"The evening was cool and the car windows were closed," he said. "My muffler wasn't in too good shape and with the fact that the hamburger wasn't 100 fresh, I was overcome."
The Judge mid the explane-
Special.
He told the court: "It is a London. matter of opinion. We say set FUSTAL order for 18s, has the little pigs could not stretch been received by a Hertford high enough nor could the big ter was plausible. Ching Mall brewery for 18 gallons of beer pigs reach low enough for the delivered to a man in the district shouts to meet through that 67 years ago when beer was a gap.".
A relative of shilling a gallon,
The magistales whe included charlene OOGLID the man, who died many years la mer,
"The bill was not tant, a ago, wrote
surveyor and a house paid because he moved away wide dismissed the change. from the district."
U.P.I.
"A NIGHT TO REMEMBER"
FILM CAPTION CONTEST
On the right are six pictures in which Kenneth More; star of "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER". has appeared. No. 1 is of course "A Night To Remember". You are asked to write down the nomos of the other five films and to submit a suitable caption to No. 1 in not more than ten words,
The first four correct answers received will win one of the following four prizes?
lat. Prize: A Round-trip ticket for 2 parsons, to and from any point on the CPA system, donated by CATHAY PACIFIC AIR- WAYS..
2nd Prize:
For Men: A "SANDOZ” Watch;
donated by SHRIRO (CHINA) Ltd. For Ladies: One Beauty Treatment, donated by SALON D'OR HELENA RUBINSTEIN COSMETICS,
"When we went op holiday it cost us 109. n dog at the kennels." Saya bis actress wife Elspet Gray: "But we can't part with him, of course."
And whet do you get in
for nuch return
3rd. Prize: Selected expensive hobbles? Lifelong devotion, and no answering back, no doubt.
But is it worth 1?
TURF SCRATCHERS
THE
London, THE Gowor Bicycle Pola Club, the only sido In Wales, sought permisdon to use a Swan- sen municipal playing field for a match against "Landon team. The town parks commities wondered the game would cut up the tuft. "We'll Invite them to play a demonstration match for us feel" mid the chelman, Alderman Andrew: Morgu,
Crystalware, donated by INGENOHL LTD. Entries should be addressed to:
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· ·DISTRIBUTORS LTD, 201, Holland House, Hong Kong, and should arrive not later than
10th October, 1958. *. Results will be announced on *15th October, 1958, -
-Entry in the above Caption Contest is absolutely freo,
Major H. F. Stanley of The Hong Kong Tourist, Association has kindly consented to act as Judge of the
ontries.
DEAR! DEAR!
Isle of Wight was just a Jersey heifer, a zoo official admitted
Keeper Ronald Bateman denied there was any attempt at a hoax. He said the deer kep? escaping and, while the animal was being penned elsewhere, the kelfor was Buttercup allowed to use the decr’a run dòr DEATH PUDDLE gracing.-U.P.I.
A Winifred
Minely, Wilts. CORONER · ruled that Mrs Ponting, 38. London. drowned in a two-inch puddle Water Deer" of water into which
she tell UE "Chinese
petted by thousands of visi- | while running to get help for an tors to the Sandown Zoo on the † injured dog-UP.I
CAN YOU REMEMBER the names of these films starring KENNETH MORE ?
“A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" is coming soon to the LEE & ASTOR
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What Counts In A Nudist Camp? It's Personality
By SHERRIE KAHN
Granger, Ind.
ZELDA fingered her necklace and said it's
clothing, not the body, that is provocative.
Zelda is a nudist (they go by. their first names only), and
"Here," she said, "It's the A Inwyer trom Virginia personally that counts."
walked up, and told Zelda, "My. you're looking wonderful,”
He means my jewellery," Zelda explainat "here" in Sunny Haven Recrca-
Sho said sho tlon Camp where 350 meu, eyeglasses, earrings arid a neck- pearl women and children frolicked in lace to make herself noticed. the all-together at the national convention of the American Sun-body taboos," she said.
calls attention to bathers' Association,
"Clothing
Word
Zelda recalled a young man
Driving down the old road that, who held a rapt discussion of leads to Sunny Haven, my co-religion and philosophy with a panion another woman reporter young singer be met at Zelda's for United Press International
and I had a sinking feeling our stomachs.
Bathing Suits
nudist camp in Pennsylvania. Later, Zelda said, he confided:
"That girl has wonderful mind, but she just doesn't have any sex appeal."
He "I don't mind if others takeanid, when he saw the girl in off their clothes in front of a
clothes. Wo crowd, we told each other. "But adults and children, swimming strolled past groups of
me?"
Clad in our bathing sulfa, we drove through the gates. Wo expected the greeters, at least, to be clothed. But they were "au natural,
changed his mind, Zelda
and playing tennis, badminton and volleyball.
Our guides sald most of the men were professional people who spent their lives in the clothed world" As lawyers, doctors, teachers, ministers and sults left behind, we priests. toured the park with Zalda as Tho women were mostly
our kuldo.
housewives und mothers--URI.
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