LIFE'S
LIKE THAT
AT KITCHENER, Ontario,
Magistrato A.; D.
Burrow ordered erring driving instructor Perry Gardiner, charged with failing to ro- port un accident, to "write out in longhand overy word of the 107-pago Highway Traffic Act and Regulations."
*
Etives scored
PSOM Young Conserva
a 92-18
victory over Leatherhead Young Liberala in a debate on "This House would wel. come the
of i
return
Liberal Government."
RE
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ECORD CORNER
chicken belonging to Mr H. R. Mutton, of Gravo- send, has laid an egg weigh. ing eight ounces... After 67 years Mr William Deacon, 69, has rotired from St Androws church choir, Deal .... Six years ago Mr Tom Calster, of Ryo bought a packet of seeds and started a cocti collection-now he has 300 specios Stondon, Beds., schoolboy Michael Brown, 14, landed an 182lb. carp at Henlow,
..
-London Express Service).
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1980.
TACKY'S DIARY&
Last night Mommy read me a Story CallED THE Fox & The GROWS
STOR jes
"JACKY Mendelsohn
Age 32%
It Was All about Thist Lapy Crow Who HAD found a Piece of Chees
You See The Fox figgered if he could Jet THE CROW to open his MOUTH The CHEESE Would fall out & He
Would Get it
WOW YOU
So then The Said
SURE LOOK
today?
Beauty full
The Crow felt Highly) flattened, only She
Still Wooden Talk back.
oh Boy
She Was just SonNA Eat it I when OliveR Sudden this heRE FOX CAMe Who also LikeD Cheese,
So fiNeLY THE Fox Said: EVERY BODY Says What A LOVELY Voice You got, Ii Would Love
to heRE YOU SING Some THING
(Snif
1960 King. Features Syndicate inç, World Rights Reserved.
The Crow WAS SO flattened by this Rimark That SHE STAPTED into Sing.
8-14
ROCK & CRY BABY in the TREE! TOPS...
[So The fox Said:
Gee, it
(SURE a Love. LY DAY aiNt It?
Only The Minuet
She opened Her) (mouth, The Cheese. fell out & THE` Fox ate it all up/
• ONLY THE CROW did'nt ANSep HiM.
The Morale of this STORY IS:
'Don't TALK With Your Mouth full of Food, EstesHullY
to
Fox
YR. Friend
JackY
REALLY, THE THING Shostakovich Albert Finney's
IS LIVING AFTER IT
THIS 督 a roport on the people whose lives are closely linked with tho Bomb. Already examined: the men of the RAF who will actually deliver
Today: the
OVE
it.
people who would carry out the rescue work if the Bomb were dropped on us. Some call it Civil Defenco, But, as someone says be- low, perhaps a more cor- rect title would be Civil Aid.
By TOM POCOCK
Harkness, who operates from a Nash house overlooking Regent's Pork with a portrait of his last cruiser on his desk.
VER tea-cups the arts, crafts and hobbies ex-
hibition is being discussed. The Teddy bear, He said his "war duty estab. in tartan trews Miss Noble made
Dundee son's
cake "Budgies," by Miss Hall.
the
MITRI SHOSTAKOVICH, top Russian composer who
Secret: 'Suddenly
Dhates travelling, flew into London the other day on I couldn't act
any more... then I left my
wife and
baby'
BY PETER EVANS
his second visit to Britain in two years.
Last time it was to receive an Russian heroes during the last honorary degree at Oxford. This war, he was severely rapped on time he has come to hear the the knuckles again by the Party Leningrad Symphony Orchestra in 1940 for writing music.com- sidered 100 complex for at the Royal Festival Hall,
ordinary people. But once again. He Is attending all of their the composer, after a shame- three long-sold-out concerts, faced public "confession," when London bears his new climbed back with a handful of Cello Concerto for the Brs "popular" works that cleared time, and when the Leningrat him with the officials and left "We obviously cannot offer a orchestra plays his Eighth Sym- him free to write as he chose.
Yet all the time his reputation defence against nuclear explo-phony. signs." he said..
Soviet At 53, the
composer in Russia
up and has Jigged
it has of leading down on seesww. "A more realistic name for us has the same sort
Benjamin steadily mounted in the Western Britten has In Britain. Ha is world, and Shostakovich has
A LOT has been written about Albert Finney place in Russia that also one of Russia's richet doggedly gone on composing.
since success came to him recently for his men. But It hus I always
Musle of all kinds has poured performance in the play "Billy Liar." been so. The lot of a composur
Soviet Russia has been phonics and Alm music, operas dimcult еле depending and cantatos celebrating some whether he was in or out cf
Soviet achievement or other,
And though to music lovers favour with offelat polley.
Shostakovich, who looks like in the West the music he has hos under pressure worried, bespectacled sinal wrilicn
has had more ups often seemed trivial, the rest has shopkeeper,
curries the spirit of his own After being praised the
true personality and the marks and downs than most bright boy of Soviet music he
of lasting greatness. first fell into disgrace as early as 1036, when a piece of his I am sure Caplain Harkness music failed to please Stalin.
Restored to favour with a would agree,
London Express Service). Seventh Symphony in praise of
would be the Salvation Army." lishment was 130,000 which U at Islington they agree. Mrs Wil- meant that that was the number we're not defending anybody," embroidery, of trained men and women that said a warden. "Why don't they
would be needed actually on duty call us Civil Aid?" Et any one time in an emerx- LT.CY.
in
Then, more exciting, there is the day trip to Boulogne to chat about. It is a cosy social occasion Islington.
There is a film show, An American film, in colour. The audience sits silently as a panorama of the Nevada Desert, misty blue in the heat, flashed on to the screen.
But
this is no ordinary Western. The ringing voice of
the
That this is a useful idea is suggested by the reaction of Dr As most would work in shit's Donald Soper, the Methodist the real total would be much high friest of unilateral nuclear Ligher, Also reserves would be disarmament who told me that needed because after a nuclear he considered Civil Defence "a tack Civil Defence workers sheer waste of time, futile, would it possible be sent back to dangerous and unrealistic." relatively safe areas after they hed absorbed balf the Immedi- lely dangerous dose of rudia-
Major Whyte. He. In fact, irleston. to fure visitors into the training hut for social evenings, then persuade them later to sign on,
proclaims, commentator "...and now we have a husky, medium-lype bomb, Four...
three....two....ane....
The screen goes blank while." There counts a tinge of yellow and then in the middle of the screen the burning Cyclops eye uf
the fireball.
The flame glows darker and the fireball slowly balloons up- ward over the distant .moun-
Opposition
Opposition is tough.
Captain Harknten sald his present strength was something He wanted five 34,000. times that number.
over
Until 18 months ago recruits under the age of 30 could not be
Mrs accepted. Now although the
Christine Smith, who works lower limit is 1, there has been
in tax office and has been in no influx of released National Civil Defence for 10 years, told me: "When you say you're in Ctyll Defence some people to
toins trailing its dirty smoke you to get your brains tested, shroud.
They think that the hydro-
Service men and the average age is about 40.
Captain Harkness was-like
all his colleagues-surprised and hurt by the violent attacks on
evil Defence by the Campaign
From the back of the hall gen bomb will wine out every
靄 dis body and there's nothing you for Nuclear Disarmament~CND
comes the clicking of
approving tongue,
the
Big problem
So begins a training night al the Civil Defence hut off Aboul Holloway-road.
women are there. 60 men and mostly carly-middle-aged, nearly all From the lower income Aroups.
་ན
A Labour George Barnard,
can do about it."
and CD posters are sometimes
seen side by side-and the Far
Mr John Glibert with 10 Left. years' service, said: "People have that tomorrow-will-do atti-
tude and do not want to learn how to face danger," He thinks recruits can be attracted by "our very strong social aspect.
Defeatist
"Civil Lo do with
Bomb.
"At best," he said, "it is Civil Salvage."
Answer to a
space
problem-from
the sea depths
fortile from his
mind-sym
What hasn't been said Is that ogo Finney suddenly n your fourd he couldn't act and more.
He turned away from himself
on the and sat
soda again. "When I'm old," he said "I'd rather be sorry for what I've The bright talent which mare done than what I've not done." Then almost before he had him Sir
Olivler's Laurence
"Kids Bro understudy at Stratford before finished, he said;
funny
things, aren't they? You he was 23 suddenly went out.
And the other night for the know Simon, When I visit him first time Finney
get the feeling he can see talked about I
It's awful. the past year of year and fallure, right through me,
other "I was thinking the NOEL GOODWIN The fear that he would never
be a great actor. The fallure day, if I'm not going to be his he's not of his
to June father 100 per cent, marriage
going to be as I would wish.. Wenham.
Hig natis billen down to And that's sad.
"But this is match his heels. Finney slowly There's nothing I can do about picked out his words like a man It. I'd just drive myself round pleeing together શ
London Express Service).
The World of Science
by Peter Fairley
defence has nothing BRITISH and American scientists have developed a new way of mak- ing metals stand up to the fantastic heat and strain of space travel.
British
nuclear
"They
-
nitro- can
dimcult
me, you see.
the bend trying to cope, trying
d been getting good to be a proper father."
Then, I don't know,
and
I
I
His fear
notices. something happened couldn't
act Bray more.
I said: "What worries couldn't put words together. I couldn't relax. The whole most at the moment?"
Firmney smiled for the Arat business became painful.
you
He
"I felt I was, in a cage. So ime in almost an hour, 1 escaped, I left Jane and the sald: "My biggest fear is that baby. Simon. That's his name, I won't be able to justify my Simon. He's nearly two. I left," attitude.
"May be I'm not such, a
-[London Express Service),
Finney stood
up. "I wi have a drink. He poured a good actor after all Scotch and laid himself on a couch the Way one imagined people do when they're talidng to their psychiatrists.
"It was like having claustro-
phobia of the soul. Personal
TALKING
POINTS
relationships drain me and rob "We have barbecues and go to weapons." he protested.
It calls for underwater blasting.
concentration and Ice shows. Last year we went to would persuade our potential
and everything. aim and drive Another type of "cocoon" is publte opinion as yet unsatisfied me of my Calais for the day and now enemies
abandon nuclear The busle metal, or alloy, is
"I mean I'm very pelish. I we're going to Boulogne, Train-
The team say they have been demand a lot of attention and councillor, Mr
ing is friendly and we hold weapons before attacking Civil put in a dle or mould. A small being tried out by the Ameri- as to safely is more cautious.
oľ chorge
INT or
air force-for returning is chairman,
able lo
Invitation warmth and love. But I'm no neeept the competitions with
They other Defence.
encourage glycerine is inserted in the astronauts. the fullume Civil Defence Officer
boroughs,"
apathy, a defeatist attitude and contre. Then, in the bottom of It consists of a plastic "over without cominilting Britain an
Nature is God's Old Tes-. is Major Robert Whyte, a lorge,
of The a pool, the charge is exploded, suit which the fler wears over any way. They will merely re-good at giving it buck. It was confidence to the Britisn like that during rehearsals. I'd 'bland" retired soldier with the
"When I came to London exaggerate the power
Anti finging the metal outwards into his normal space sult. Attached port
myself thinking about tament. right mixture of maleness and from Newcastle two years ago,"
THEODÓRE PARKER. the shape of Its container at to it are tanks of foaming plas Dental Association. authority for his command. said Miss Olga Hall. "I was a
Certainly, if the toothpaste some stupid domestic problem get angry and resentful. "We admit that we could do speeds up to 500 feet per second. the and a mixer.
**
* bit of an introvert. I joined
The result has been com- Idea is that the baled-out proves all it is made out to be, and
lauralry Whyte's present. problem is Civil Defence to learn first-aid nothing for the unhappy chups
metals harder and man pushes a button, inflates it would be one answer to critics Gas bills, coal bill,
Every woman is at heart · them. Everybody has balls, recruiting.
*toversolt" There are 198 men and give me something to think too near the explosions. Our job pound
and it the of moss-fluoridation, and women now enrolled.
But for me they're too much, in rake. Of about. I really wanted to would be to help the survivors," tougher than any yet known to the
man. No welding is needed airspace between it and his body
-POPE these about 80 turn up once a become
They defeat me," an ambulance driver. month for training, 60 have shift But I got so interested I did London has been divided into the complete component is in with the foam.
shape, correctly right five slices radiating from the
stressed Charing Cross "each with a chunk of the bull's-eye.'
work jobs and can only come the warxien's training." once a quarter and the re-
mainder soom, temporarily at
least, to have drifted away.
How many recruits dans need? "At least 3,000."
he
At Islington the shortage was put down either to the fact that potential recruits were too fright ened of the hydrogen bomb or Bot frightened enough. There was certainly apathy.
The blame
In Lambeth, too, I found the
problems. A
same
rescue
This hardens, forming a heat shield-cum-spongy-cushion, No
Caviare crisis
His anger one has yet revealed whether PLACK caylare may become still more expensive and the clinging plastic is easy to
himself on to Finney lifted huge dam strip off or if the astronaut rare. The
slation and dyke building pro-drink for pleasure or consola- wears it for life.
undertaken by
tlow, I know not which. Russians along the Volga
"Well, now I've had good had unexpected repercusilans on notices, I'm a success of sorts. caviare-caters,
power his elbow and sipped his than haste,
Cautious.
British
professors, #
zramme
tho Ja
**
** Manners Nothing
require time. la more, vulgar
----EMERSON.
* Holiness is an unselfing
**
chromium-based material on to will r to America shortly to that provided spawning grounds mirror as if to chock that it Moral
**
Prettier If war threatened, Civit Defence mobile columns wordd TAINLESS steel can now be assemble 25 miles from Central shade in pretty colours. London under the command of Black, brown, red, green ey squad in steel helmets were the sub-regional controllers: a
and blue alt have suddenly clambering about an elaborately retired rear-admiral. major-
Dosalblo thanks ruined training orea.
to TWO
For all that concrete has But what do I think now about of ourselves,
--F. W. FABEIL general, brigadier and two air become
a new technique of painting a dental surgeon and a doctor stopped the heavy spring floods having Jane and Simon?"
He stood up and walked to a ** #
** They blamed meagre publicity, commodores. for lack of recruits-Lambeth
Indignation has less than a quarter
After the black they would the steel, then baking it at high investigate the toothpaste withs for sturgeon in the delta, of the
the Inulit-in fluoride,
Millions of fish just aren't was really he talking.
Ho add: "I've been so busy jealousy with a halo. Caspian caught by required and try to move up-wind, away from temperature.
Who wante coloured steel?---
-H.-G. WELLS. the main fall-out by the ring fenes but had only appeared at several said that they had only ronds before penetrating lato the Housewives, for matching sinks tion has accepted the new pro- fishermen any more. At last going through my own private
* short CLYR
it hng Defence
been and and appliances. Motorists, for duct. They say
one year in three, the areas hell, remembering the feelings ruins with their rescue
of anger and sadnog are high and dry. mumu proved to be "an effective anti- medical teams,
earnings. Furniture facturers and bullders,
caries dentifrice."
The scientists have been told, everything, storing the expert But Britain, with three ex- Now they are drafting plans to once for future use as an actor, not simply good: be good But in one respect Harkness But it may be several months
homes to add bulla still more dama so, that that I haven't had tiene to think for something, M many others agree botore samples reneh the mer perimental
going
THOREAU. cali those who
Civil ket, so don't rusla to your shorkle to water supplies as yet areas can be flooded in rotatlon what they might be
through." a measure of by manipulating slukkes,
London Meprase Heruser), MANOL minished-nod
Booren had joined Civil De- munpowar
one or two evening clamen und heard eventually been struck off the through friends,
fint.
I
Romiting is for worse in "We should not have to make Central London than in the people commit themselves, to suburbs. I visited the director of and joining before they have seen at the London region, a retired with first-hand what we do," sakdi naval officer. Captain Kenneth Defence “a fraud.”
dealer,
The American Dental Associo-
being
sní
Aim above morality, Be.