THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY - 24, 1989,
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
The Porker Who Got CANINE AIR The Things
TV Leaves No Harmful
Effects On
Children Survey Shows
London.
TELEVISION Viewing
leaves
no
harmful
Pickled
London.
SALLY, the sozzled sow, became bacon because she couldn't resist being a hog. Also an alcoholic.
Now a 25 tombstone is well- ing to be put up as a reminder of what happens to porkerz who get pickled
The anga of Sally, who weighed halt a fen, started in her aty in the grounds of St Mary's Convent in Rottingdean, Sussex.
Got Bored
Yes, Life
Can Exist
On Mars
effech on children, a two-with convent life, and strayed Says U.S. Scientist
year study showed. In fact, it oven may do some good.
The study Television and the Child," sponsored by the Nuffield Foundation, was published by the Oxford University Press. It Included interviews with 4,300 youngsters aged 10 to 14 in Ave moin English cities. Each was askeu more than 400 questions, teachers and parents also were Interviewed.
Summing Up
The summing up:
Sally apparently got bored across the road to where retired Navy Commodore Andrew
genan lives. The Commodore's wife, Pixie, makes home-made wine and stores it in a shed at
Randolph Field,
Texas.
the bottom of their garden. UNITED STATES
Sally found the shed. In it gallons of wine she found three years or more old, and really too good for anyone to quaff in largo slurps.
It had just the right ixuquet. And Sally made a ply-line for the nearest far.
But just as she was getting
Air Force biologist, Lieut.-Colonel John D. Fulton, is convinced that basic "earth life" could survive on Mars-and he bases his opinion on
the mood, Commodore studies conducted at the' Egman heard her, He chased
in
"Television in not as black
as
it is painted, but neither is it a harbinger of vulture and lightenment."
CD-
her in the moonlight,
Bround
Įhis rose garden, around out-
houses, and around
the wine
The study found that televished. Ho lasscoed her and tied Flon has about the same effect her to a sycamore tree.
on children se do, books, maga-
zines, motion pictures and radio.
It does not make
do badly at school.
It doesn't make
captive viewers.
children
Ly
them
It does not cause listlessness. loss of sleep, bad dreams, lack of concentration or eye atrain.
children It does not make
either more passive or more aggressive.
I don't make them read Jess. "While children vléw a great deal. .there is little truth in the stereotyped image of the mesmerised,” voracious child viewer," the report said.
The chuldren averaged slightly under two hours' TV time daily,
Certain Gain
It sald there was a certain
Sturped Up
The Commodore went back to bed. Saily sicalthily slipped out of the rope and back Into the shed, after ramming through the flimay door,
Sally squinted pigilke at the raws of bottles and jars. She up- turned jars and smashed 60 bottles of Elderberry, Dandelion, Parsnip and other wines.
and
She
slurped through seven gallons and two quarts, carefully licked up every drop on the floor.
of
at
Air Force School Aviation Medicine Randolph Field during the last year.
For 10 months mary organdams found on earth were kept "Mars Jars" under con- ditions believed 10 exist on Mars.
Some of the organisms not enly suvived but thrived in their harsh now world.
Mountains
But Colonel Fution, who against is a biologist, cautions concluding that any kind of
the Red people could exist on Planet. The studies only show that "life. As we define It, can exist there."
Kruč
021
The organisms, tested in the Then the burped and burped "Mars Jars" normally live and burped, and the Commodore ! lay" mountains
barren jnguin heard her.
déserta. They also include |bacteria-mosses. lichens and elgue, "schweoda" present in the green autam found on ponds.
Memorial Fund
He followed a weaving path of cloven trotter-marks to an old well, and found Sally's hind trotters showing.
The Commodore hauled her with a block and tackle.
She was dead The Com-
gain in knowledge from watch-modore said it must have been
ing television, but "on the a lovely way to die.
whole" it was "very slight,"
being most marked in younger, duller children.
Among the favourite pro- grammes of children, In the 19- 11 age group were crime dramas, westerns, panel games, variety
serlous programmes,
drama shows and finally, children's programmes.
The study sald children usually were more selective in their choles of programmes than their parents.-U.P.I.
Then, in San Antonio, Texas,
臆 radio commentator, telling
Usteners about it, suggested they
| might like to give three cents
each to a memorial fund.
wants to
They contributed 26 182 30. ...and a monumental mason gave the £75 tombstone. Now the radio station know a charity to send the money to and if an airline or shipping company will bring the stone 4,000 miles to Britain, where it should be put-UP.I.
UNION TO PROTECT
HUSBANDS MAY
SPREAD TO BRITAIN
T
A
Newark, N.J.
the
|
They lved in a Martian atmosphere of pure, dry plim- gen. Atmospheric pressure was maintained" at the level which a pilot would and 10 miles above the earth.
DRUMSTICK LOVERS' DELIGHT
A
Manchester.
DRUMSTICK lover' dream turned up here -plucked turkey with Your Irgs.
But a spokesman for the Co-operative Wholesale Society's Fish, Game and Poultry Department sald the fowl would be burned. The four-legged bird
turned up unhefälded in a box of six turkeys plucked and packed by private producer who apparently badn't noticed the oddity, -V.P.L
COMFORT
Arriving aboard a Scandinavian Airlines System DC-7C, this gentleman has experienced a new high in airborne canine comfort. The secret: a new type of kennel, available in three sizes, which is accepted on all airlines belonging to the European Traffic Conference.
This means smooth interline connection for both dog and owner. The kennels are also built to accom- modate other guests, including cats and turtles. There will be special "For Animals Only".compart- ments in SAS' new DC-8 intercontinental jetliners.
This ODD World
IT TOOK 45
45 YEARS TO BECOME CLEAN'
London.
FORTY-FIVE years ago, Arthur
Wooster,
absconded with £30 from the loan fund he organised with several fellow employees at the Brompton Cemetery.
He returned, a nearly blind | prowess of their cook, Mrą nan of 78, last week, to pay the Violent Round.
story in the Lordon Dispatch, "I feel clean agalp," he said... U.P.I.
Mice Means money back, according to a
Money To Stephen
UNION for husbands-known as Married Men's Protection Association-hás proved so successful in Newark, New Jersey, that -its members are thinking of starting branches in
England. The union's primary purpose is to AE is no bar to enter
Sydney.
Mental Fish
FV committed to insillution. prise in Sydney's boom-
white mico
Their faces were red when Mrx Round had been exposed as Mra Violet Matthews, a convicted thief who had served threo gaol terms,
What's more, court, testimony. sliowed she had been stealing money from the Police station canteen.-U.P.I.
Logansport, Ind. AIVE thousan goldfish were
mental
They are part of a cargo of Too Cold! kurned over on a highway. Abqui] -
London.
bone d'atriot yesterday bond
reverse the trend of domesticity that is overtaking ing white mice industry. $6,000 • goldfish in a trunk that
Professional husbands."
breeders Bike five-year-old 10,000 were given a new lease on The Association doca
not that woman is increasingly as-Stephen Munday are getting 2/-the in the Wabash River and ADAR parked in the Maryle
for each walte mouse they sell the rest were sent to a mental preach a return to the technique | mining the dominant role in
to Sydney's Royal Hospital for hospital to be exhibited U.P.I. this sign: of the cave man. "We just marriage."
Women, for use in pregnancy 'Red' Bobbies want to empobasike the fact that
FOOTNOTE. — HADply tests. we are the top dogs in our married for 10 years, Mr Stephen is proud of his pro- homasy" bald lawyer Mr. Robert Heinach is the embol of suc-duct, and beamingly extols the Hemsch, the founder,
CESS to his fellow
union superior quality of his mice to members--"because I've yet the hospital staff on each selling The union has a leve to be seen wearing an aproni" trip-China Mail Special. committee which listens to all the complaints of hempecked |amonaadedansakuluskangashi Ambikapur
members. After a discuition a course of action is outlined for
the husband,
Protest duing atión
As a last rekorf, e “protest dolégation" la-fit, 10 call on the offending, wif
The medtirik
held', regu
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London.
*No Hand Signals--Téo Cold.” ---UP.I.
OR months, policemen at the Pte's Head!
East London Aldgate Police station boasted about
Girl SHOWS Men How To Shave
pany, teaching -men-- how
New York. PRETTY:" girl with n petal-like complexión, is | Among” the men ahe – häus "America's foremost pogos shaved are. Cary Grant,
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-Into HustHe tins : their | Item Schoen and
the
That Get Lost On Airliners
ANYONE
London.
loso дл eight-foot blowgun with a quiver of darts? Or a brassiere wrapped around a full set of male- | sized false teeth? Or a packet of curry powder wrapped in a bath towel?
If you can lay claim to these lost articles or others like a complete set of fire-enter's implements or a collection of glass eyes officers of British airlines are the people to see.
Stocktaking
Ertish airlines have just com- pleted their annual stockisking in lost property rooms,
And some of the things they've turn- ed up provide pegs oh which the romanlleally-inclined - con hang ja nice short story or two.
Toke the bowler hat, for in- stance. One brand-new, typical- ly-British bowler hat, thrown furiively into a corner of an airlinen carrying American tourists back to New York,
Why did the American tourist buy the bowlet, fly with it all the way Now York and then toss it away? Lost nerve about wearing it in the U.S., where such things are objects of ridicule, perhaps?
Or take the blow-gum dad darts, which could easily 29 | dipped in polson. No wild" man from Borneo is listed on the trans-Atlantic passenger Hats, but that blow-qun camo f somowhere.
Anybody's Guess
معلم
The glass eyes, the CUITY powder in a bath towel and the brassiere enclosing mala testhorn anybody's quest,
But five gold bars found in an aircraft lavatory tell a plain furtiva muggler, story. A spying_a_G-Man lurking on the New York air fuld, pantos and Jettisons $12,000 worth of illicit gold down the drain.
That "lost" item nover will be claimed.
probably
And neither, in all probability, will a lady's bulging handing on the lost property. The handbag bulges with "borrowed" airline owned cutlery ---U.P.I.
Man Grows Second Pair Of Eyes!
London. AUE Sunday
THE
Pic-
torial claimed that
0 45-year-old man whose eyes were rev. moved when he was a baby has
begun to
grow a new pair.
The Pictorial said Victor Chittock, who lost his eyes because of scarlet fever at the age of 10 months, now has "lightly new eyes larger than
peas" showing blue pupils in the back of his eye soc kets,-U.P.I.
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