BOY OF 12 IS SEEKING A GAME OF FOOTBALL
Wistful Eddie Hillier, a 12-year-old London schoolboy who wants to play football, climbed into a Convair plane at Northolt recently-and into the pages of medical history.
He was first aboard in a party of 15 children -five girls and ten boys aged eight to 14-bound for Switzerland to get treatment for asthma.
footbull.
never a
open-air
game DI
residential
Minimum cost of their; Hospiti ellules, stay in Switzerland will be hook-but £3,000. The money will bel paid by ordinary men and Under the Health Service, he women of the Swiss Econo- went to a shie mic Council. They stay anonymous as "Friends of Britain." Swissuir carried] the children free from Northolt to Zurich.
The story of white-fared
Edward William Hillier, of Hlavinfontein roast, Shepherds Bush, in the story of every child. | For lic, with the face of ai 1950 raudatis. suffers from dronte arthread) treatment for rúne years.
Leakage Baffles BBC
001. Same Improvement was shown. But, like the others, he
all waits back in London.
The Swiss Eronomie Council, n private roup, offered free
catment
chalet. in a Swins 5.000. up on a mountain near St Moritz.
IN
Salt
ADMIRATION ...
M. Alfred Renost, secretary: "We offered his antressenk-to-the-London.County Council's wont cases, Why? Because We nimire your Counity. This is t practical way of showing il."
Ju Switzeland, Eddie will Fret the hot fr Specialists
will visit him not mark his pro- res. Report will be sent to Londra. He will have proper schoolian. at the LCC ha: sent his schoollooks with him.
AL County Hall, an LCC
ald: ww BBC executives are prob- | spokesman
about predicting ing the mystery of how pro- utimus gramme information leaks complete cure for the children,
out, often months in ad-
vance.
The
but we are luping.”
ure
#
But the Swits say: "Two- dards of the party will come madelack completely it"
information in available to song pluggers, who try to percig performers to put their numbers into the pro- Krombacs.
There have been a number of cases recently in which a pro- pramme h
beg tentatively decided on and an artet ap proached to zre it the tales are suitable,
Within 24 hours performers jave been Inoded Withi telephone calls and telegrams and personal walls from
people anxious for their songs to L broadcast.
10-WEEK GAP
This has been happening to cases where the idea for a pro- !
has gramme
brea discu.20 only by a small group.
EVEN THE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1950.
Shell-Case
Pyramid
Gls form a pyramid in South Korea from the 105mm shell cases which multiply very
fast when U.N.
batteries find an enemy target. (Aeme)
Little Oak Tree Starts Big
Problem
Village
Farmer M. T. Coon planted a little ook treo
near
his farm at Ditton, Kent, and started a big village con-
troversy. The oak sapling was planted on land which DON'T KNOW villaders say is part of their green, but Farmer Coon says
EXPERTS
Modern science has been
able to solve
not
He Has Power To Arrest Anyone
Mr Henry Head has been given a job which he cannot refuse. It is juntor constablo (unpaid) of Sark
Sark's newly elected Court DI Chief Pleas gavo Mr Head- The Court's chlef critic-the job under a law that dates back to Queen Elizabeth's reign.
Mr Head sits in Chief Pleas tania tenant. Ilo discovered thint the constitution of the island was illegal and forced the recent general election.
Now, s constable, he will thare with another man the task of ensuring that hedger cut, roads repaired, no- counts
and taxes collected, visiting celebrities attended and wrongdoers Imprisoned.
arc
has the power to arrest anyone In the island.
*NO FEAR OR FAVOUR'
When he attended bis urst Douzaine meeting It was a lively
one, with Mr Ilead opposing: nearly every motion before the court.
The Seneschal (Mr W. Baicer) said: "Me Tend is here to cause Everyone kaows
trouble. that."
But Mr Hend said: "I'll carry out the law to the letter, with- out fear or favour."
He all in the Chief Pleas, after his appointment 03 Constable, that Sark would need a larger gaol.
to
Asked about licensing laws, Mr Head and he would have
take notice if public-houses and ans were open before eight in the morn- ng and after ten at night, but he admitted he Wan not absolutely sure yet of the laws he would have to paintster.
12 MONTHS'
the site is manorial waste land and that he was entitled EXPERIMENT
to n'ant the tree.
The parish council con- elted Kent County Council,
the Tithe Commission and one other bodies. But still there problem-how to cook cab-is deadlock between them bage. This is agreed by ex-and Mr Coon. pert (12 <iict, Mr T. F. Macron.
rural
The problem has now been to Malling Mr Maerea's opinion is given alerted 441 a report by the Britishnell.
Dietetic Association
One radio star reported he, Foul Education Society.
and
the
was oppranched by sont pluggers | He says that even now experts lack knowledge on the best way of cooking green vegetables or a large sende,
ten weeks before his series was due to be broadcast. For two days it was Impossible to use his telephone for outward calls.
There is no evidence, so far, that any money is involved. But the BBC is anxious to plug the leak, and performers аге anxious to be spared this puster- Ing.
It is not known how much water should be used, and it be cut before
greens should cooking.
There are also conflicting statements concerning the addi- tion of baking powder.
were told
by
This council their clerk, Mr F. Miskin, that the more the matter was inves
igated the more complicated at had become.
Mr H. J.. Diprose, Ditton's - presentative on the council, said that Mr Coon mowed the land near the tree and kept it ike a lawn, with the result that children were afraid to go on it because they thought it was Mr Coon's property.
If any money is proved to have been paid, then under the anti-plugging agreement be- tween the BBC and the music publishers, the catalogue of Lac offending publisher would be
To get the most nutrition FOOTNOTE. During the banned from the nir. The per- from them they should be controversy the title oak tree former concerned would also be eaten as soon as possible after has died, although it is still
cooking. suspended.
standing.
Mailing Council have decided But the experts agree on one to ask their clerk to talk the point: It is und to keep matter over with Mr Coon. vegetables hot for a long time.
Exercise
Rainbow
AMERICAN gluvy: “Lanks/ned: infantry troops cross the Main River near Hanau, Germany, during "Exercise Rainbow." Troops of the Western European countries "foined the Americans in the US. Zone in a mock defence action.
(Acme).
Showgirl Chili Was
Cut Up
FOR REVIEW
London schoolchildren's white-coated trafic patrols will know this month whether they are to be sack- ed or have their numbers increased.
The patrols, who ree thn! lildren crus
bury streets in safely, were officially allocated Chili Williams, bosomy to their various areas in October blonde "polkadot girl" of GI last year by the Metropolitan pin-up fame, was injured Police, one recent early morning when, police said, she tried an experiment, and Scotland The scheme was regarded as to crash her way through a Yard decided to review it after window of Television Pro- ducer Mike Stokey's Holly- wood apartment.
12 months,
Several local councils and road safety committees have asked the Home Oflee for more Police reported Chili called at street crossing patrols, but they Stokey's apartment, hammered have been told they must wait.. on the door and then smashed the window with her Asts when he failed to admit her.
PASSED ON
A Home Office spokesman For her pains, she suffered a sold: "These requests have badly cut ip caused by flying been parsed on to the Com- glass,
missioner for Pollec, but his office will not incressé any local Neighbours aroused by the allocations until the scheme has commotion called the police, who been reviewed this month." found Chili weeping hysterically
on the steps, tree, hands and clothing covered with blood.
"IT'S MY BUSINESS”
The statuesque showgirl and model was taken to Hollywood Receiving Hospital, where she was quoted as saying:"
Among the requests for more patrols is one from Lewisham, where 200 crossings tuve been scrapped between the Council and the Ministry of Transport, because they were "unncees- sary."
UN FLAG FOR
My business why 1 TROOPS IN KOREA
wanted in there. What have
you got me here for?"
London, Oct, 22.
A United Nations' flag, which Delectives R. R. Christopher зуда and F. R. Couch
unfurled questioned
la London's Trafalgar Square today by the Stokey, handsome young pro-Prime Minister, Mr Clement ducer of "Pantomime Quiz," and Attlee,, will eventually be Klown sald be admitted having known by the Commonwealth troops in Chill for soine time, but could Korea.
think of no reason why she
should want to get into ไปล Marking United Nations apartment.
Week, the flag will flutter in the heart of London for the The episode was dismissed as next seven days. Then it will an "accidental cutting" on the by plane to the treadquarters police report and Chill went of the British Commonwealth home with friends.
Brigade in Korea-Reuter,
Dummy Detector Aids, Atom Training
Firemen training for defonce against "atom warfare can now usɑ a: "home-mado" dummy dotector. It has been made from pieces of war surplus òquipment by Me R. A. Wilson and Mr.A. P. White, both graduates of the Institution of Fire Engineers,
It includes a dummy the instructor regulates a click- probe, à loudspeaker and noise. Instrument panel, most of The rule varies from about five a minute to · almost con- the apparatus being continuous clicking. talued in a wooden box.
When the probe "paists avCK. Two men use the equipment. Įn. predetermined “radionetive" While the firemen bei-e frained spot the clicking rate is adjusted uns the probe around a spot to the same as would be heard boing tested for radio-activity on antivin detenten salade
Students
Row
To
Rome
FIGHTING the Tiber River currents, 12 Spanish students, pilgrims on a Holy Year visit to Rome, arrive at their destination. They left Palme de Mallorca ou August 15, and covered 500 miles in their specially-built, lightweight canoes.
(Acme)
Open-Toe Helicopter
THE new Sikorsky HO4S Navy helicopter, which has the power plant easily accessible for maintenance, is unveiled in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Designed for general utility work with the' fleet, it can carry a load of 2,000 pounds and has a range of more than 400 nautical miles. Its rotar blades can be folded compactly, so the copter can fit into an aircraft carrier elevator. (Acme)
Drop
Of Seven Miles
AFTER a drop of nearly seven California Desert. When it
“falling rocket la recover