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£88,000,000 Yearly For War Pensions

The report of the Ministry of Pensions, states that the national total of pensions being paid for disablement in the last two wars is 1,047,423 and expenditure over the last year was £88,175,000, while Scotland, the largest region in area, has 103,060 pensioners.

There are 144,750 in the North-west and 177,980 in London. Of the 2,204 seriously disabled pensioners in the North-west, 323 live In the Manchester district,

Bronze Age Finds In Cyprus

A Bronze Age sanctuary

and

of three thousand years ago, with an open court altar, has been discovered in Cyprus after three months' exenvation during the sum- and autumn by two archaeologists directing a party of eleven Oxford and Cambridge students.

mer

women

and there are another 9.500 limbless pensioners.

The Minister of Pensions, Mr

itilary Marquand, discussing the report at a press conference, re~ ferred to the "misleading" ille of his Ministry. They had tried to develop is health and wel- tare sides, and its functions were much wider now than the name implied. Last year, for example, they had spent about £2,400,000 on behalf of the National Health Service.

Mr Marquand said that 3,500 seriously disabled pensioners were now taking part in the homecrafts service introduced this

was too early to year. 11 report progress in detail, but there was evidence that pun sioners were deriving a stood deal of benefit from it. were many dificulties in marketing of the goods pro- duced, however, and as the suc

of the service would de- pend on their satisfactory dis- posal, close attention was being given to the problem.

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GENEROUS

There the

The report states that con- The directors were Miss Joan siderations on which policy has been based during the past year du Plat Taylor, of the Institute

have been the generous and of Archaeolojty, Regent's Park,

sympathetic treatment of those and

Seton Miss London,

"balanced really needing help Williams, Melbourne, Australiu,

with due regard to present and the stringency The site is at Myrtou, and was nancial Drst discovered inst year by need for economy in all Miss du Plat Taylor when she branches of state administra- | noticed pieces of pottery stone wall where villagers had

well. dug for

The sanctuary covers about square yards. hundred four

that the Evidence was found main buildings, erected in the late Bronze Age, were destroyed

î earthquake by an centuries later, and that the site

abd

Most of the reduction in cx- penditure of £1,700,000 over the previous year was in the cost of inedical treatment, and this was due to free provision under the National Health Service of treat- ment

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Prodnose: It would be easier to walk along the pavements,

in

the

An American millionaire went Attice 20,000,000 for the to Downing Street to offer Mr Six Counties, so that he could hand He them over to Mr Costello. was told he must ask for an ap- pointment,

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Myself: Doubtless. But very soon traffic will spread over the pavements, and pedestrians will use the roofs of buildings to get from one place to another. Then people will begin to live the jammed vehicles, until Government throws them and installs civil servants. that time pedestrians will bc using holes in the ground. Prodnose: And then? * Myself: Fearful monsters will crowd out of the Thames and eat us all up.

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You are honest, sincere you

and

to have may seem

more loyal in your close attachments. than your

share of opposition, However, there are times when You want to be alone. but if you maintain your ideals you

continual contact of you will

reach weary eventually

in with people and it would are very success.

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few formerly paid for by the SUET, Esq. has suggested tuitive and have a strong mind well

was reoccupied after an interval

of

The reduction in the number of pensioners had not been re- flected by a corresponding de- five hundred years.

se in expenditure, and of some

and there crease of local consisted The altar

lind been a virtual increase of dressed limestone blocks.

present annual

value Rare cylindrical sens belong £6,780,000. For unemployability ing to the Late Bronze Age, about and lowered standard of occupa- 1300 b.c. were found: they are tion. the increases in allowances £700,000. amounted to made of stone and are about a paid inth long. They were used to Expenditure on allowances mark household and other pro-wives and children of pensioners perty, and each one carried had increased by £3,500,000 the owner's personal muck. One year since 1946.

seal was carved with two deer

and a winged disc.

A "DARK AGE"

Finds belonging to the later period of occupation were a

PRIVATE

for

quantity of pottery, including TOOK OVER

some local painted pottery and

a few Greek imports, a brooch and an iron spear, all belonging datable to the Iron Age and from 1000 b.c. to 800 b.c. Some of these are now on their way to this country.

Miss du Plot Taylor sald in an interview that the importanco of the excavation was in the light it shed on a "dark age" in the history of Cyprus. The temple was bullt at a time of

when great prosperity

the Mycenean people from the Greek mainland had either traded with There or occupied the island.

of a were obvious indications

A TOWN

Alderman J. Henson, of Hull, formerly of the 10th, Bn., East Yorkshire Regi- ment, recalled at a recent old comrades' reunion that as a private in "A" Com- pany he once took town for a few days and was the "governor."

over a

Ho

the told them he was only private in the British lower standard of living in the Army to act as Town

luter period of reoccupation,

The expedition was nanced

Major.

This was at St Catherine when he was an orderly room clark. The real Town Major was Jointly by Ashmolean Museum, hurriedly called away for some Oxford; Sydney University; and

Heason toolt days and Pte. New the

Museum, Otago Zealand.

Mechanical

Listener

over,

Private Henson also claimed to have fired the first shot in

they the battalion after

left England in the 1914 war. They were on the Minnewaska bound for France, and Henson was on boat guard. By accident he fired his rifle and the shot went through the upper deck. There listener was an inquiry the next day, re- but Henson's explanation was whose accepted.

The BBC has one who never buys a radio ceiving licence but opinion It accepts deepest respect. He

the with

The reunion also heard the troopship story of a soldier BBC Electronic Man. The part who complained they were sick played by him in broadcasting of feeding on dripping. "Drip-

is revealed

In the BBC Year Book for 1951.

Until recently the Corporation had men listening to the output of its transmitters to ensure that quality

ping." mused a major. "Why, Webb trained on dripping and he swam the Channel in record

me."

"Yes, Sir," said the soldier,

was maintained. "but I thought we were going Now these watchers are being across the Channel in a troop- replaced

by the automatic ship, not that we were going "electronic Ilstener."

to swim it" The men still got |

It is possible by the use of dripping! these

robot monitors for BBC in London engineers to know that the

programme which is

being sent to, say, the Scottish transmitting station at Wester-

is being glen,

radiated by Westergien at the same quality

had when it

Snuffing Out

The Cold

reduce

as that which it left London. Should inter- A successful attempt to ference or distortion occur after the loss of production caused by the programme has left London, the common cold by issuing an alarm can be made to sound their work with penicillin or at Westerglen, anuff is reported by Apcles and in London, which will draw the attention Pollock, Lid. of Birmingham. It of the staff to the fault,

in claimed that if the workers

The robot also spot the mis-

who feel a cold coming on draw.

take if the wrong programimo a packet of the snuff from the

arrives at a transmitter through faulty switching."

works ambulance room and take it as directed the cold, "Just vanishes", The firm emphasise that, the snuff-taking: will not

THE DAILY ATOM cure a cold but will only prevent

its developing.

The first nowoprint 'made

The experiment has been in with the help of atomic

progress nearly two years, and materials from Chalk River has the works medical officer states been made at Quebec A minate There is no doubt that this amount of radio-antivo fodine was used to make it possible to treatment has saved us a great dend of fost tiine' 'and' our em- trace thio meshing and Integ twining of mbetences na news ploreca a lot of discomfort. We about tha print is made, so minute, radios are quito-happy. aštirity dies in a few days, and

results and we are continuing that there is no the triktment. "I know that it

of

to be

irritable.

By OSWALD JACOBY

DON'T you know enough to

take

your tricks when they're offered to you," declarer asked disgustedly.

a receptive intelligence. specific times to rest and relax. that all vehicles should and

right for each Usually

in your first Otherwise, you are apt to get "Sorry".. use a different road

soid Larceny Lou day of the week, to nvold con- impressions

and little people

You enjoy abjectly. "My cards were stuck, gestion. When it was

music. These and I could'nt and that queen pointed situations, you must not permit good books and whatever road they out that

an of spades to save my life.” will offer you yourself

persuaded two fields used on any given day

would

Of course the card became un- be jammed, Suet said. "Not it against this original opinion or avocation, if not your life pro-

fession. Since your affections stuck

few very quickly they went in opposite directions you will err in judgment.

deep and strong, you can moments Inter when Larceny on alternate days." It was ad-; You have exceptional per- be influenced through them vanced that every day would sonal magnetism. This can be even though you are stubborn Lou really needed that queen of

spades.

arc

stor be

your

daily

Д

be an alternate day to half the a great asset for success in and can't be pushed.

But it can also be traffle going in one direction on public life.

Lou, holding the West cards, danger: one road. Suet said, "Not if the a

you must guard To find what the stars have in opened the jack of diamonds. half of the traffle which was against attracting the wrong store for tomorrow, select your Declarer put up dummy's queen, going in one direction on one people! But, since you seem birthday star and read the cor-East covered with the king, and road chose the day on which to know instinctively whom responding paragraph. Let your South won with the ace.

can trust, Jet your

in birthday the

other half of the traffle was you

en tuitions again be your guide. сп

guide. going in another direction another read." They said, "But there wouldn't be anything

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8 alternative about that, as to days, but only as to roads ard SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.

"Not 22)Bo politle directions." Suet replied. if the road and direction on superiors at the office.

pushing. alternate day cor- be every other responded with the road and arguments.

the day direction on

itself."

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. They then howled in exaspera-20) Other people

may have tion, and Suet laid his finger on

to good Ideas! Listen some down

them. Mako future plans his upper lip and blew

with considerable care.

his nose.

yenry

Now declarer Was in some difficulty. He realised that he might have to lose two trump tricks and therefore could not GEMINI (May 22-Juno 22)~ afford to lose two diamonds. In- with your You can adjust yourself

Don't change. Caution avoida cidents if working chinery.

out Коер

of

to stead of relying completely on a ac-successful finesse for the queen of trumps, South decided with ma-end out his three top clubs in

CANCER (June 23-July 23) Your good

nature may invite some to impose upon you. Don't permit it just now.

to

the hope of discarding a diamond from dummy. This plan would

opponent had work if each

it would cost three clubs and nothing important if the spade finesse should succeed.

His

dia- it

AQUARIUS (Jan 21-Feb. 19) LEO (July 24-Aug. 21)--- When South led his third top Stockings made of arrowroot,

-Conserve your resources. Ex- If you have been postponing a club, Lou did a little fast think- ment made of asbestos and un-pansion in social, domestic or job you dislike,

get it done ing. It was evident that South of business ventures 19 ill-advised dried verdigris, glass made

had started the hand with five today.' It won't do itself!

clubs and four spades. ground feathers and resin now.

eagerness to get rid of VIRGO (Aug. 24-Bept. 28)-- Lenge

01 0 these are some of the improve-

FISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)—

made ments which will be seen at the Improve home decoration. Make Be considerate of the entire mond from dummy Willesden Exhibition of Subsll-purchases for increased ef- family's plans befons making a clear that he had three diamonds

decision. tute Materials next ficiency as well as beauty.

In his own hand as well as in Enjoy seelal assets.

Therefore South the dummy. LIBRA (Sept. 28-Oct. 28) could have only one heart. Advances in your work can b made now If you think things

carefully before could win nothing in hearts or clubs and therefore needed four making suggestions.

tricks in spaces and diamonds If he trumped with SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov. 22)- combined. TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) ------

pride interfere with the queen, dummy would surely An open mind on all things is Don't let'

do~ in an advantage, especially the settlement of some problem, discard a diamond. The

able to when asking a favour. Make a A relative may prove very fence would then be

take only

and one diamond, helpful. new friend

East could hardly be expected to take two trump tricks in ad- dition to Lou's queen.

will be opened by Sir Turber, who was for

many ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)— chainman of Turber, Be positive your credit is on a Turber und Turber. A feature sound basis. Be sure of your of the Exhibition will be a stand | self when you make commit- devoted to charts, showing the

Check Your Knowledge

1. Name the president of Czechoslovakia at the time of signing of the Munich agree- ment.

2. What is neutron?.

3. Aro lyrics the words or the music of a song?

4. Did the Germano entor Moscow when

Russia in 19417

they invaded

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5. Mindano la an island in what group of islands?

0. What is the meaning of the phrase "per so?"

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Lou therefore ruffed with the eight of spades instead of with the queen!

Dummy over-ruffed with the out the cost from the price con-nine, and now declarer was back where he had started. Ho still tral list

had to lose two diamond tricks and had to play the trumpa so

It takes all kinds of people to as to lose only one trump trick. make a blonde.

He led a small trump from dummy, East played low, and South misguessed, by firessing a the jack.

The modern girl makes good mother.

But father,

poor

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It takes two to make a gain, but only one gets it.

trick:

and

Lou pounced on this with the queen of spades cashed his two diamonds. Later: bar-lon, of course, East took the ace :

of spades for the setting trick.

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