THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1958
HUNDREDS OF POUNDS
POUNDS POURING INTO HOUSEWIVES POCKETS
This ODD World
THE FURRY 'GOLD MINE ONE-MAN STRIKE
People's Lives Being Transformed
London.
A TUBBY little animal costing £8 an ounce is
putting hundreds of pounds into the pockets
of middle-class housewives and their husbands.
Cages are being installed spare Bedrooins. httles. and garages "" cash In on the the mush- fantastic profits of rooming chinchilla brewing in-. dusty And men who got in on are making the ground födr fortunek.
furry
Chinchillas - Kroy rodents like plump squirrels originated in the Andes afs of South America.
They Use
Taxis To
Collect The Dole
Oldham.
THE mill girls here travel de luxe to collect the
dole in taxis.
The girls are on short time at the local cotton mills and am eligible to collect unemployment compensation for the days they don't Work.
Single women are entitled to
Their pelty make the softest and host experālve tura. A full- size coat costs up to £20,000:, stoles 2300 to £2,000.
Breeding
Breeding began bry Callifornia Iron
11 exptured specimens before the war. bucame a 200 million dollar (271,428,500); industry. Now is in catching on
o Drilain
One of the biggest importers is Ted Cary, 接 62-yfht-old elec engineer, of Green. Teach Lane, Worsley, Lancashire. His wife Margarul, started thêm on the path le a fortune four years ago when the pestered him for bobby
As article in on American mdit
Line Halsted ber chinchillas and they paid £250. for a pair wrom the United States
Now they are importing hip- dreds of chinchillas a year and breeding at four depots in this
They have Rolls coun
Royce and a Bolley, and a Californian Arm haa "Just appointed Ted its agent for the whale of Europe.
@getarians
Chinchillas are delizhiul little creatures with fur finer than silk. They are vegetarians and they have no VICES.
The cash turn they give is helping hundreds of propion rungli trom solicitors, and doct five shilings and eight pence folklo y se day and married women eight shillings and two pence,
PAYS OUT
to
and oven to
They cost bott £400 a p
But the Local Employment Ex-quality of the fur. chooge pays out only two days produces an avenugr a week and the girls are usually you a year wo working when they do. So they £500. That is
hire a taxi to gel to the Ex-profit, and you change in a hurry
Have
The original pair xaich Will go on
Five Pirls share the one tax breeding for ap to eight years.
If all the young “hre kept for
at one hilling a head.
But the dole rush in gettingbroedie a single pau will show hectic. Five of the town's cha grofit of up to
order to
the Ex.
taxis have a standing ord do the weekly dasa Indr mills to the Employment change-U. P
BEE INVASION FORCES FAMILIES OUT
Came
22,000 in two years at present prices.
day, Food costs elxpence and the animals are so clean that they can be kept th the house without worrying the most fastidious housewife.
Play All Night
They sleep during the day and bounce kilently found their cages at play pil
Meat. Five. mautes fention is all they require.
EVOTY home in
with cust
TWENTY ASJAMP had be Abe fronted for stings wa Ja
and Rep arwin moved out
of that JomSF.
pound of Rigney Fruled on
of blog.
Indat cause the
scooter
the inai
near
of hemits
of bet
Trafie was
by were
the road
Kung
are at
in 1pro
⚫ becs and
It took down cleaners A
road-Workers several houICS
clear the quad and
besi heveral
which cost act
Head
day Uke Casey Worsley is crowded Jured by tales of
ed.
Alexander Kentworthy
4
Houdini Outsmarted
IMOTHY DUS Russell of
Bray, Berkshire, Britain's 20-year-old escapologist has
even beat the master of this Art. Houdini, By acapin From a fermetically acalad both of ice." This Teat Was pracused often by Houdini, but he never perfected it be fore he died. Timothy has now performed this difficult feat twice at Eastbourne bo fare convention of the International Brotherhood of Mapiplans.
Top Picture shows Timothy "Sitting on his ice coffin before ho at into it in the second
where the coffin
Fee
being Alled up with snow and in the middle ploture the last heavy slab of ice forming the tid of the ice box if Alf into place as Timothy Dava Inst peop and smile before ha joined 129 degreas For 20 degrees of frost
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in the leat ploture the $49. pound coffin is carried to an Ice-creamyan,, The doors are then sealed. to allow Timothy to make his baning excaps
secret, daly in anick Large-Inch
"Ico". Räbs cradled with three-inch metal stra
-Reuter photos
NYLONS OUT
IN VILLAGE OF BI-T-E-S
London.
Terstoke Hampshire. Even for dates and
hardly a girl in nylons down dances they wear thick woollen stockings or users. For the village is plagued by monster
Soldbank manager Mr laundry to stop the Itching. Now Victor Flynn: "They are bigger most of kin dhida senar laseks," kong or the African deseTË." iund, New Zealand, took a dur- The Insects swarm under hished house in Alverstoke last Romford. dition following repented blows the girden druit trees. They month for her English holiday. CORONER'S Jury ruled on the head was "comparable bile so hard they draw blood. "We are astonished to find mos
Knocker Died than anything I naw in Hong- Mrs Muclei Norman, of Auck-
A that man died from exers
with the condition found in And they leave a scar and quitoes bigger than ever wo aco'
accumulated injuries "causad,
by repeatedly" khicking "fli head on the for joof of his garden shed.
A vordiel of pocidental death
who
drunk."
were punch 23-Year Period
Coroner Louis Beccio sald Cun
back bone, cho said.” ugly-avelling
"Few' vitangers have escaped. Luckily we packed a most- Children are a favourite target. qultő net by mistake before we the fod. We visa it to cover Mont are covered with bites."
Sad Mr Kathleen Fur: cot of out Zen-month-old nell apparently coatsed small In- "As soon "as you step ouvido baby.” juries to his brain over a 23- they setde. Ils chiantly, The Andes Meanour Nicholls, "of ebusell thould treat this as Bury-Crescent, fak The bruten bit my ankle no bedly- that I'
period.
wie roluried an Ah& fuME BRYGOLIJFamer were very innor In-Tecnorkońcy ***
we can
THE WEED SHOW SOLVED PROBLEM
Sheffield.
Gardeners' Associa- here had decided Its annual flower titions : because
ling - summer somebody got why not a
the only things siliccssfully be
of the constant 'Föld," he Clarence
Palter agreed. Members had
So Smokers Will Ring HYP For A Cure
A
London. HYPNOTIST who found
AT GIRLS SCHOOL
Leyton.
ALBERT CROWTHER, 68-year-old caretaker at a girls' school, returned to work after staging a one-man strike because a teacher made
him take his cap off in school.
Albert profested to local Manor School Hondmistress reus Bolle had "ordered me round like a youngster." my cloth tap in the school it was the fast straw," he said, I Fold I couldn't because I'd entch cold in my head. She lugged i
Charged Him
"When she told me to take off]]. Canal sk
afford the train fare to visit him has boon granted permission by the Post Office to practise hypno- Ham by telephone,
"Mr Sixty-year-old
Henry Bythe, of Torquay, believes that this will be the world's first such service. Last week the telephone
Miss Bonello admitted renet- husky voleva Mr Blytho explained how he will helping to from her less than Ove feet and removing his cap after his long-distance patients 10 giving him a "ticking off over give up smolding, slim, or stop the way he did his duties and chewing their fingernails:-
other disciplinary matters."-- U.FI.
THE GOST
and abbec a penell something like it in my hand.”
lo show one specimen weed, half sad them a photograph Fish Gulper
potted up."
The judges ayed the colourful entries and awarded first-prize to a handsome, spreading plant which completely balled them.
Nobody in the show tent could tell them what it was not even winner Mry Evelyn Cotter
Second prize was won by a magnificent plant with broad green leaves and a superta' show of sects
of myself to paste up by the
side of the telephope. The
shall tell them to sit firmly
Varallo Sesla.
or
so there is no danger of fallingTALIAN Marco Morsiglo, 35, off the chair hold tight to missed by o fall in trying to
the the receiver, and concentrate devour
FUFTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD
Dr Robert F. - Lèrge beran his attempt to swim the Panama Canal-the oldosiman "over to try 2814-mile course.
And did the US. authorities
the
supland his
No, their first soilon was
willant swimt
to charge him a canal toll of 73 centa standard minimum |öharge' } fó?^a one-ton-or-andur Yel
not carrying care.
Evidence When The Single Man
on the eyes of my photograph. approached by a fish warden.
Warden Anselmo Bertoll
I là a very piercing close-up grabbed the tail of a 12-inch,
Trembl Marsiglio
and
I had specially taken. Then I make my stronk, ne-pound positive sugallons that they was trying to swallow
they charged him with fishing out of don't want to smoke,
Third prize went to the x-
have no desire to amole, they season.-U.P.I. hlbiter of a three foot, four lose all lyding of Inca tall flowering thistle.
Potter Sald weed contest" would be included in all future shows ET.
'FINGER TIP' ARTIST HAS GLASS CANVAS
cigaret
Mr Blythe reckons that three
x-menile conversations (cost 23 34 plus the price of the telephone calls) will rofora thest mokers Summing inces forver.
Backward-Flip
Stockport.
Railway Station
is Under-Staffed!
Edwalton.
the ALTHOUGH he was the
stood sull for a brief:
yesterday,
entire staff of the focal
moment the hours rolled back.
Jarred by a thunderclap, the railway station here in Bri- electric clock in a house here toin, Porter Bli Larab had. Stopped for a moment. Then the an ideal life-
bhekward, U.Ŕ.I,
other day.
Dear Kiss
Now We Have anto swept Parking Meters For Dogs!
until the
Sixty freight and pinach ser Jersey City. Irking thunder through; this UNION City housewife is station every day, Nons ever London.
asking $10,000 for a stolen stops.. SMITH, OF
Mrs Margaret Cosgrove, * Stevenage.
But the other day one did. ARTHUR
Green Lane, Hatfield
charged in BRITISH city father of her thirties,
It was a football special from damage cult yesterday" that (Herts).
artist= "" new town, come MP Wohnhes Pries, the landlord in Mansfield to London, An without brushes or canvas.
with the latest thing in town the building where the formerly Lamb that meant: For "Arthur paints" with his Anger Ups, and his "canvas" planning parking meters Ved, grabbed her in a hallway
nhi kissed her against der aa alicet af plass.
for
A caller for many years, Mr. Smith specialises in painting's pedestrian shopping centre "in of ships and the sea.
Stevenage plans An all-will-UFI
the heart of town and was Dog Lover
Madison.
In a
and for
PREPARATION
Opening up master's "office
Lho
station-
a.m.,
| brushing the platform;
Issuing
**
the-
"T" diaw, the straight lines wearied that dogs might" spoil such as spars and ""rigging on its appearance, town officials the front of the glass, then ih zaid in a news coniferened. A RESTAURANT Wer here 12 tickets for local football fans, in the various colours with thy Tacir answer: dog kennels is mighty anxious to see a preparing oll ampe for finger lips, on the back of the fitted with coin Kota and timing man about a dog.
special's return at 203 a. The man excused himself to the detribes at entrances glass," he says.
He has just completed
Last week, touching up the 2 centre. The shopping housewife from where he had just printing of a full-rigged wind will park Fido in a kennel, drop fumed '$2.25 dinner saying he white lines ha had painted
The
wanted to step outside" Fahd | the edge of the platform earlier White-crested coin in the set and pick check on his dog. By the time he salk "Hecile! Any moro 1ammer.
scading clouds "and the dog when shiboping WAVES
officials said. Uie' owner checked on the man this and I'll have to blowing vil have all been through the
UP.I. painted, with his finger tips.
more
DEPA he was long goner U.P.I.i
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year-old Aft cery clark who diede i fic: Juries which he would not take 'Her 23-year-old daughter wouldn't get my shoe on pital from bealhtendcrnog 'olion ot at the time," the Ante, a schoolteaching, coth Bald De Pava Petched, the KOWLOON:
Relatives nullo cum coroner kaid. "But they all added merted con't wear my health official mall, who was tall, ofjes knocked up mid pródpodd this condition. The Jumpa aliow „Shotaka froer everywhere for miong his hand on n'a low board when There is no other explanation theri.???
SANTE ME Boonstra of the damp, We
he went into the mót in his than this low beam in the alledi Emundey girl Joan Murao; 16,3 ona mam desmaiakean tim
eden. Dễ Cym Rhebben," which would account for it."— of ayır Hond,, Maka pathologist, said tad pan's Bool {UP.L
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