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THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1957.
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World
HEARTBREAK BABY CRIES-AND LIVES
Sara Before
-THE- MATADOR
SWORD, SPURS
AND ALL
OF THE
-GUARDS-
NAPTAIN
CAPT
London.
J. R. S. Besley, Grenadier Guards, turned out rea- plendent in tight blue uniform, gold braided cap, white gloves, aliver spura, and ceremonial sword to den with a mad bull last week.
He was on duty as adjutant when the call came. There was no time to change.
Pausing only
No-Freeze Operation Succeeds
London.
SARA LAKE
cried
and made British The medical history. Baby who Couldn't Cry in case it killed her had whimpered and lived. After last week's opera- tion on Sara; the world knows, for the first time, that a British surgeon can mend a severe "heart-break."
For nine-month-old Sara was born with holes in her heart.
AL home 12 Sandban Cottages, Smitlerfield, near War- wick, her parents stopped their other
ploying children from with her in unae sho became ex- oted and cried,
Before Christmas she went to Great Ormonda Street Children's Hopital, W.C. She took just her teddy bear. Father Christ- mas was asked not to call; sho got no presenta,
For weeks doctors made
examinations
find the extent of Sara's "heart- break."
prelinimary to collect three fellow-officers, a rifle, and A Land-Rover, he drove to а playing Held at Slough, Bock- Inghamshire, where the bull was cornered after three hours' liberty.
Hit by train
To increase its anger it had been struck a glancing blow by a West Country express when I strayed on the railway line, The Guarde were not daunied, Captain Besicy ordered Lieut,
D. Fanshaw, armed with
303 ie, on to the root of the Land-Rover. It drove slowly to within 30 yards of the enraged beast. Two shots killed H.
a
Police called in the Guards from Windsor, Victoria Barracks, after an attempt to lure the bull into a lorry with a cow falled.
Pats on back
When it was all over, Licul.
Fanshaw
the from leapt Land-Rover and straightened |
Guards late-grey
patied
hin long.
overcoat,
Policemen
him on the buck. Farmers Congratulated him.
He blushed.
A
**The
least Fald
about this the better, you know," he said.
brother officer smiled at woman in the crowd.
shooting, madam?"
"Good
he said.
"We are all good shots in the Guards. But Fanshaw is one of the best,"
The End
Ole
f
They had operated before le repair a single hole in the heurt, but only by lowering patient's temperature to ircez- then it JAK was thought that this was the only way.
point,
Then decided freezing.
No freeze
Mr David to operate without
AL 6,30
Was
Wasterton
Sara wheeled into the operating theatre. She WAN suven nominal anaestholic. Her parents were phoned The surgeon worked for three and a hall hours.
SAJU:
Sara After
STREET CALLED ELVIS PRESLEY JUST THE NICEST THING
THAT EVER HAPPENED
Brighouse.
Over the Transatlantic phone from Hollywood last week Elvis Presley, Number One Rock 'n Roll singer, told Yorkshire that naming a street in Brighouse "Presley Drive" was "just the nicest thing that has ever happened to me,"
The 6,000-mile phone call linked Presley with 17-year- old John Jagger, of Fixby Road, Huddersfield.
For it was
young John who thought of the idea of naming a new street after "The Pelvis."
He put the suggestion to his father, who is bullding a new housing estate on the outskirts of Brighouse, the 30,000 popu- Mr Westerton refused to dis-
lation Yorkstilre town which so cuss the operation but actar has been famous only fot kagur
"Operations of
wool and brass bands. this sort have been going on for
WANTS TO COME sume Line,
Tired of thinking up not Victorian-type street Danes only young John said: "Dad, let's heart-have something modern. Let's blown name a street after something or we somebody the young prople
know."
"They are rare, but unheard ul. It L'i Americans who can mend breaks. We just haven't any trumpets about what could do,"
But before Saro is fully cured she will have to undergu more operations. Mr K, W. G.
Treagus,
those the deputy governor "More
of the hospital, said: than one hale was found,
KU
"If I get anything lika a chance I will certainly come to Brighouse. What is more I would just love | to come and open that street."
John asked him if he'd ever heard of Brighouse.
There W.
Σ memury. wracking piruse, Then Elvis admitted: "I
must confers 1 never have."
WAITED 9 HOURS FOR DOCTOR ·
IT
London.
John asked bim if he'd ever
brass band.
heard of Brighouse and Rostrick
Elvis replied: "Yes, I think I've heard of that somewhere, but it's not quite in my line."
The Rock 'n Roller could not promise, when he would be in England.
YORKSHIRE ROLL And he refused to sing over the telephone.
oskod
But whon John him: "How about getting
Brighouse Rock
Yorkshiro
or a
Roll com-
posed?" he replied: "Woll that would certainly be worth trying."
The Juggers were delighted with the Presley
their idea.
reaction
La
But there is a sharpish con- troversy going on in Brighouse over the whole thing.
One letter to a local paper on the subject last week,
was 2 a.m. when the doctor's phone rang. A man had said: fallen and injuret his head, he was told. Would he come to see him?
news-
that dic-
to
First they thought of Alligator-walk and Croco- dile-crawl. They rejected G8 * littlo too undignified.
"I should have thought Then John said:
an out-of-tune voice, bad "Why not expected, and there were other Presley Drive?"
tion, and hopeless guitar playing abnormalities.
So the whole of the Jagger
Instead of going the doctor would not have come family gathered
"the gave the caller instructions round
West Riding standards, phone to talk to Elvis.
treatment, asked him to tele- "It Is true that Presley gives to many; So docs "John, that is the nicest thing, phone again, and went back to pleasure
bed. im-quite the nicest that has
whisky, but I never saw Thappened to me” sald the singer.
street named after it."
was
"Some repair
carried out, and as a result Sara's health
be considerably should
proved."
Two shots-and the bull fall dead in the playing field at Slough,
ever
on
When he did call nine hours later his patient Wils dead- from hemorringe following Ε skull fracture.
Ser- Surrey
Last week the Medical vices Committee of Health Executive recommenced that the doctor should be cen- sured and fortelt £100 of his pay. His name was not revealed. SECOND CALL
The committee's report says the 23-year-old patient lived only a mile and a half from the doclor, who was doing duty for the man's own doctor.
At 9 am, when the patient's condition wig worse, another brother telephoned and the doctor promised to call. AL 10, the man's father contacted the
family doctor, who rang Doctor
X
and the
It was 11.10 a.m., patient had just died, when Dr Xranched the house.
Saya the committee: "He should at least have responded to the second call." It considers him guilty of a serious failure to comply with the terms of service for medical practitioners.
UNDER THE STAIRS HE FINDS
West Wickham.
Mr Alan Cailes sat down in an empty house and counted £9,000 in £1 notes and fivers. Mr Calles, 34-year- old electrician, found the money under the stair floor- boards--In Romanhurst-gardens," West Wickham, Kont.
Ho was looking for the electrical lead to fix power points. He found two black cash boxes.
After counting the money he phoned the police. Then ho went out "to have a drink and get over the shock of it.” Finally, after the police had taken the money away, be finished putting in the power points.
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£9,500
The house has recently been sold. It was occupied until October by Mr Clifford Turner and his family, now of Park Avenue, Farnborough, Kent,
Said Mr Turner: "I haven't a clue.”
What about Mr Turner's father, who died last May? He owned six sweet-shops in the West Wickham area,
"He wasn't the sort of man to stuff money in tin boxes and tuck it under the floorboards," said Mr Turner, The Turners had lived in the house since it was built in 1930,
Meanwhile Mr Calles of Crantock Road, Catford, BD, is wondering whether he will get-a-reward.
up
ก
has
But Brighouse Council already approved the name and it Well 00
up on the the notice board as soon housca are erected.
-And Another
Named
After A Clerk
West Lothian,
W new
WORKMEN have nalled up
nameplates in 4 Winchburgh, West Lothian, trees. For the village's Miligato has been renamed Dura Place- in honour of slim, attructive, 25-ish Mary Dunn, clerk for the past five years to the council of Kirkliston and Winchburgh,
But villegers lving wrong to name the street after Millgate's 32 houses think it
"a mere girl working in the council oficos." And 50 of them have signed a protest pell- tion
The counell reply: · "We have renamed the street in apprecia- tion of our young clerk's valuable services. The county counell, who have the petition, have already approved the name change,
Sald Mias Dunn; "I know there are whispers Koing on against me, but I'm ignoring them. It was, a very nice gea- ture on the part of certain councillors and I appreciate it, but it hasn't made
me very
happy. I'm beginning to wish
the couneli had never done it?”.
Nine Baked Beans For Breakfast'
Caerleon. NINE baked beant word counted out and put on a slice of bread and mar- garino.
With it boys at a children's home were given a small help- ing of cereal and milk for breakfast, a former assistant mother at the institution has told the Home Ofice. Ten was browed from previously used.
T
Complaint by the "molaer," Me A. Rees, has led to an inquiry into the ad- ministration of the Vale View Children's Home at Caericon uy Monmouthshire County Council, Mrs Rees said: "I was upset when I was given a small tin of baked beans to share among nine boys.
each.
counted out nine beans
"After the staff had had their tea I was prevented from throwing the fea leaves down the sink, I was told to pat them in a white jus. They were to be used again with boiling water for the boys. They like it that way!
was told.
'SAUSAGE TOD'
"There was no need for it, Plenty of food was supplied by the county council.
"When I complained of other things, I was told I did not fit in with the organisation, and when I refused to resign I was dis- missed."
Mrs Base, matron of Valo View Children's Home, said it
was wrong that the nine boys shared only a small tin of beans,
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