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PENNY, a 20-year-old hunter, is THE LOOSE BOXES at Balaton Lodge once housed having ultra short wave diathermy for Lady Yule's racehorses. Now they are occupied by

strained tendons.

ponies used for research.

B

ANTHONY, an Irish Red Selter, has an X-ray examination. Holding him is Mise Mary Goodbrand, records officer. Wearing gloves is nurse Mollý Shepherd. The dog research station at Kennett, first in the country, occupies

12 acres.

ANIMALS' HARLEY STREET

R. M. MacCOLL

who

Animal diseases Britain $60 million a

And the

American Column

gets

By DENISE RICHARDS

against

The first year's bill will be more than £15,000.

"We have A staff

and general secretary,

pastures

and how

Virus diseases ("distemper is an cutmoded word")

are also

flat's

ALATON LODGE, once In other boxes white- "An infinitesimal amount famous as the New coated scientists and compared with the loss of

cf 30, in- being investigated. market, training veterinary surgeons are at animals," Bays Colonel

cluding 10 women nurses, lab. The "killed" of these is part- have been George Barnett, secretary

assrsian's and stales of Lady Yule, the work. Stables

kennelmaids," distemper, or hard pad, which been recognised ence said ali, sun-anned Mr Frank has only "fairy godinother of race- converted into laboratories at Balaton Lodge, and a

Luker, who ran a boarding ken- 1946, and 19 as formidable as horses," is today making and surgeries.

member of the Royal Army

Experiments are being made hels before becoming Kennel's lnfantile paralysis in humans. history as the first horse

Veterinary Corps for 30

"The National Greyhound As- with worm-killing drugs cost years. "Harley Street" or research

methods of making

There are 100 dogs at Kennet, soolation help us and the bulk Work divided into financial worm-free.

two sec- of our work is designed to at year station in the world.

Balaton

Work is tions-disease investigation and greyhounds," said Mr Luker. Outwardly there no in death and loss of produc- support from racecourses,

Is

Great progress has been breeding.

At Kennelt, too, there is an men and the Tote and from

turf made

Ha the dogs change. Precise lawns and tion.

sterility. The

are mongrels. advanced animal hospital service. and enthusiasts for the benefit pride of Balaton is a 14-year-old Remainder are Red Irish Setters, Beween the flower-beds still surround women working here,

two stations Park, mare which are being bred because Lanwades

a 20-roomed three other research of racehorses. But 50 of the worthiess" thoroughbred the red-brick mansion and al stables. But in the loose stations started by the 56 animals on the eight- given to the researchers in 1949, these dogs suffer from hereditary house, divided into steff

and 130 acres of paddock where She had no: fcaled for many gh: bindness. Animal Health acre estate are ponies. They years.

"Night blindness is serious as Jeddah, 1898 Derby winner, is boxes you will find, instead voluntary

one day

sub- to are cheaper research

An infection was discovered, it can of long-legged thorough- Trust, hope

cause atrophy ending in buried.

Staffs at long total blindness," said one of the

the stations have The thai figure. Main- jects than racehorses.

mare was given a breds, ponies of all shapes halve

course of penicillin and vaccina- senior restarch officers,

money and accommodation prob- lems. Stofled stare tenance of the four stations and

scientists sizes

BTQ lion treatment. Today she is in curiously back.

will cost £200,000 a year.

needed, and some of the best in foul and worth £1,000.

the country are employed. But In Balaton's surgical depart-

good scientists are in great de- The staff of 30, whether ment, instrumen's and drugs once

"We have to establish

how mand and have to be paid high they are the grooms, char- used only for human beings are

horse surgeons. many go bind through heredity salariss. women or "back-room now used by

many acquire it and

Some members of the staff live Operations once thought impos-

why. We know that can follow in houses on boys," have all learned to sibls are performed.

the estates, but distemper.

others have to travel up to 10 deal with the animals with- Main problem is post-operative

"Bindaces is usually incurable, miles a day to get to work. treatment a horse cannot be out frightening them.

*Twenty" - one-year-old Melly The animal hospital af bed and ordered to stay to prevention is our math job.

"Our discoveries benefit Shepherd, slím, dark haired there. Experiments are going on Balaton is as important as is solve this,

humans because we can find out nurse, cycles from her home "in the research work. Electro-therapy is used to cure me things more quickly than a village three miles away

lameness and sprains. The Agathe Ophthalmological Institute.. Veterinary surgeons can

**Blindness does not cause a mare three-year-old send animals to a specialist Shahanshah is getting electrical dog geat distess. He relies on in the same way as a

doc- treatment

a: Balaton for knee his sense of smell more than his

sight.

I like the job so much K's worth tor sends his patients to trouble.

Proof of this was in one of it," she says. Harley Street or a specialis-

'he larg: compounds where 20 Molly trained with a veterinary ing clinic,

Dogs reamed happily round and surgeon for 18 months before Electrocardiographs have shown rushed to the wire fences when joining the research station two Racehorses worth up to £15,- Sattle on one investiga- gisa arst bent know

often sent that more the C00 £20,000 are

horses suffer from called Ten of them were totally years ago.

ophthalmcs- Children of the workers on Con- for this hospital treatment. hear: trouble than was realised. blind. Without an than brilliant counsel to the Washington

!!! was Impossible to dis- both stations are encouraged la gressional Crime Committee another is in full cry.

The research work is divided But it has also been discovered cop

heart affeolions are unguish blind dogs from those befriend the animals and play when its Washington and New into four main sections at pre- that many

who could see.

with them. Foreman William And now the big York hearings

televised sent -- infertility,

parasites ourable.

The breeding unit is sur- Harrison's daughters Elizabeth, fcals and surgical circulation magazine Look

Four miles from Balaton, in the Spring

village

vermin-proof 18, and Doreen, 14-spend of Kennett, is the Trust's rounded by says that yet another, one THE WEATHER here is too work requiring anaesthetics.

the stables other Biggest problem is a small 12-acre dog research station, the double fence. The outer fence is their spare time in

pegged two feet into the ground or riding. of the biggest of the lot, is horrible for words (the

Vorm which causes loss of first in the country. day, I went to Juneh, it was red

as

The trust's two ether.research just around the Congres- stowing and thundering simul condition dea'b to young

Here again stables have been to stop rabbits burrowing and sional corner.

horses. These worme can bur- converted into laboratories. But an overhang prevents rats climb- stations taneously).

1,000-acre 15 But St. Louis, Missouri, row through the intestine, invade these are to be extended and ing the wire. Humans have to poultry are at lihe This one, it says, will

a period of three change into boller suits and rub- Houghton Grange, near really

the blood system and kill by rebuilt ever wailing those blues. concern a very special type has just had the worst mow-

ingdon. blocking blood vessels.

Jears. Work has just started. ber boots to enter the unit. of "lobbyist," the man who storm in 39 years. The city's has served the U.S. Govern- industrial life has been almost ment in some capacity or totally crippled.

AN EYE ON Mr RIPS AND Mr ALK

NEW YORK. only did much of his CARCELY does the dust paigning the

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other, has now retired, and THE NEW YORK DAILY is allegedly acting as the NEWS, no respecter of per- agent of a foreign Govern- sons, runs an editorial entitled:

"ike was a terrible bore." ment, seeking quite openly It adds: ""The Eisenhower to influence American junket was reported at length

the this 'VE been down at policy in its favour, usually in the papers, including

Houses of Parliament che. But the stuff that got in- on financial matters.

to print about it bored us al- finding out what it's like to

Since we It cites the case of Messrs. most to extinction.

are not so different from any-

new MP, and what I Rips and AIK.

Serge Rips, born in Poland, one else in our likes and dis say is: "Brother, you

Ukes we have A powerful citizen

War, then was

the then with

of

too.""

for wearing

be a

by BERNARD

WICKSTEED

ed to keep you from striking your opponents, you cad!

Back in your constituency you rather fancied your free- and-easy platform-style.

as

But

3.

it can coat on a peg, but even such populace, recognises no it won't do here my boy, All speeches are mede, to the Now where is the new boy Speaker, so unless you are re- is a 44-year-old economist who bunch that the Ike visit bored keep the job. AND the a simple operation as this licensing hours for itself,

ferring to him personally.. you is now an American

the bejibbers out of the great £1,000 a year that goes is fraught with parliamen- going to sit? He worked for the Board

tary tradition, because at- He knows he can't sit on the must never say "you" in Economic Warfare in the last majority of newspaper readers, with it."

tached to the peg is a loop front bench, but if he takes a speech.

You must never mention by seat in one of the rows behind Foreign

Getting yourself elected of red tape that seems to

name the House of Lords be- he is liable Economic Administration and LOTS of Americans: (ais nothing; it's the things have no possible purpose.

cause to find it

it in the Commons the Greek Economic Mission Detest the tashion among

In 1947 he became economic teen-aged

doesn't exist. You refer to it girls

you've got to learn when

It is meant for hanging your belongs, by

"the other place.” consultant to Siam. His joo cowboy jeans. (b) deplore the you're in. Why, it's worse sword on, but how is a harm- unwritten was to get for Siam a clear lack of obedience among

nothing the than joining the Army. less new boy with

1 a w

to title to the £15,350,000 in young, (e) are worried by the

more lethal than an umbrella

come aging Siam's gold held by Japanese general lock of self-control Up to

Parliament you to know?

legislator among faults.

drive with your chest full Swords. (and spurt) are bar-

who has Bos of pride at being top of the red in Parliament, and have So a story from New plus the Order of the White ton, Illinois, gives cause poll, and the first thing that to be left in the cloakroom. A had it for. Elephant.

weep on all three scores,

Scottish mumber was called to enerations.

I he sits on Mrs Delbert Ferguson

a policeman order once for appearing with benches beyond the Bar, eg, There,

happens is And Ak? Ho is a lawyer, smacked the face of a head- comes up to you and says a knife in his stocking. who used to be chief counsel mistress because she refused to you can't park your car in of Foreign Funds Control

let two of her six daughters the Palace Yard without a the U.S. Treasury, Now in wear blue jeans to school. She private practice, he gave Rips said she could

not afford to permit from the Lord Great legal buy dresses, She is cut on 500 Chamberlain. fce dollars ball.

banks during the war,

He succeeded. Fee-£76,000,

to

1

Somewhat

Your hat

You

any of

the

Above all, you must never mention another member's name, Ho is always the honourable-member-who-bas. just-ant-down or the honour- able-and-gallant member-for- -to-and-so.

Your notes

those at the opposite end to

to

the Speaker, he can listen what goes on, but he won't be You mustn't read a news- allowed to speak himself,

Your speech

paper, oc book in the House. You shouldn't oven have notes of your speech (though most members do), because they might fall into

Ito

VOU, used - to have to know a lot of advice on the

an awful lot about when ins and outs. His

and where to wear your hat in £30,000,

A DOG saves a life in

deflated by Erliament, but you can now AT last, having parked his the hands of the King. TALKING OF FEES, you

car When six this setback, the new MP leave It on the peg with your A

correctly, retrained You see, the King was once remember those. Utah Indiana brand new way.

peace, because the from smoking in the corridors, the bugbear cf Parliament, nad who

of year-old Louis Dorosa, of New tries to creep in without mind at won B judgment

only occasion It is needed is in hung up his sword and re- he wasn't supposed to know 31,000,000 dollars-odd from the York, fell dve storeys down a being noticed, like a

new the rore event of a member moved his spars, the new boy what was said there. Government In return for stairwell to what seemed cer- boy at school, but on all wanting to raise a point of or catches the Speaker's clusive If the new member Onds it. their seized lands the other tal death, he landed smack on

boon eye and steps out into on Alsa- sides officials stare at him der after a 'division has

the getting dark in the House he dey? Well, Lawrence Wilkin the back of Prince,

gangway to make the specch doesn't just ask Forneane son, who, helped by 70 other tian. Ho got off with bruises and whisper to each other called. lawyers, fought tho ense and shock. So did Prince, till he's sure he's going to Then there's shoking. The that will move the world.

"Candles? through the courts for 13 long ANOTHER election story

That's only the start of the yoors has been awarded a fes concertis Mr and Mrs Abe Kin be thrown into the Tower of new member le dying for

puff to soothe his nerves, but ting cries of "Order, order, London. of 2,600,000 dollars. And that of New York's West 11851-

for stepping into the gangway new boy's education. If you ho'd be well advised not Is the third largest in Amer.- street.

parliamentary want to know the rest of his '". Actually be is being light up before he sees some- to speak is a can history.

Last time they voted was 84-

handy book there are times and places It is also à sin to put RUDOLPH HALLEY, elected yours ago in Russia. The stared at only because the one else doing it, because president of New York's City kept hoping to return here, officials want to remember where this is a fearful offence, much as a ton over the

red ice by

by bir "Thosties bracho. Council, learned about his vio- but now they have given up his face.

On the other hand, he cat lines at the edge of the Cham The lui edi because

whatever hardships are two and a half sword- the lengths "apart, and are designe member hange his hat und Parlament imposes, on

t

At once there are devasta out on the lights. He calls

sin.

tory the comfortable way-via and become Americans. The Once inside, the now get a drink whenever he likes, bergreen carpet: These ines the bu

TV. This is held to be highly trouble will Kin was that they appropriate, becauso 'ha, kot never heard trumm kith,

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