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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1954.

Interesting News Stories From

All Parts Of The World

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TIRED

EYES

Latest Theory- Loch Ness Monster Is An Eel

London.

A British scientist climaxed an inquiry into "sea serpents" by cautiously advancing a theory that the famed Lock Ness monster may be an eel. Dr Maurice Burton of the Museum of Natural History made some qualifientions, however, to avoid climbing out too far on a scientific Imb.

Even so, Burton is the first scientist of note to even admit there might be such a critter,

All A Matter Of

Taste

Christchurch,

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The following news item carried in full from the Chrir le Church Star-Sun:

Leen

Burton sakki he had listening for 30 years to stories from sailors and other sengoeta who claim to have sighted some unknown unimal of plant size. And for the past three decades Burton has been investigating these reports.

Many stories turned out

10

be opúcu ilusions, imperfect observations, plain hoaxes and practical Jokes.

But other reports came from competent observers and Bur {4001 could not dismiss them as "INVERCARGIL. Southland responsible or inaccurate. whisky connoisseurs entertained

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unawares

**The ballevers in sea serpents than

moro

numerous

angel

recently. Some time

ago the Licensing are far Trust bought 25 cases of an ex- might be supposed," Burton nive whisky that was warmly end, "It many who and tho recommended to them. One of evidence credible are afraid inanagers who hadny so for fear of ridicule."

the hotel

Burton said there was

д гр

to

Leen most persistent in his de- mand for a really good whisky was finally pucified with a pre-markable similarity between sea ise of a few cases of the very end reports and the "sight-

ings" of the fames! Denizen Irst,

Loch Ness,

The

Boutch with The 1112-

was sent

pronoticeable

down to him. Soon afterwards there was a wail of anguish.

Hang it all." he said, that's worse than

have trything we had yet. I'm getting nothing but complaints.

USUAL DESCRIPTION

!

The life of

Scottish country gentleman has now really begun for the handyman-farmer, 12th Baronet of Mochrum, Wigtownshire. Sir Adrian Ivor Dunbar, Here Sir Adrian, withi his wife, are seen with a 14-pound salmon which Bir Adrian pulled out of the River Bladnoch, which run through his Str Adrian is a 60-year-old naturalised American who

this year inherited the title. — Reuterphoto.

cstate.

The Best Maple Sugar And

Syrup Comes From The

Governor's

Estate

Quebec City.

Film Stars Turning

To The Night Clubs

Hollywood.

Hollywood stars with an eye on fat pay cheques are invading the nightclub feld, with customers soon able to get even Esther Williams and Fernando Lamas

with their stenks and Scotch.

Comedians. dancers and seasoned

to be singers used the veleran entertainers In

But

is the day of fewer movie jobs the stars aro whipping up dels and braving the saloon elrcult.

Esther, minus a pool or bath- log sult, plans to show she can do something besides a side- stroke when she opens at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas mexi summer. The gambling city is

<«ffering

tempting money to movie

name that ΓΑΜ offer a good routine.

arty

Mac West, Terry Moore, and

iannas, Jeft Chandler

opera star Helen Traubel аго working

up acts.

Kecfo Brusselie, Van Johnson, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Shelly

WI

made kave

Inters and Sonja Henle al- ready

nightclub debuts In Las Vegas.

Two enterprising filmtowners who are cashing in on the trend

Earl Brent,

writes whe

Dre

nightclub

When it's maple syrup and maple sugar time in Quebec, even the Lieutenant-Governor taps the 525 maple trees on his estate to serve his guests.

Walking along the trail of trees giving up their sap. of Lieut-Governor Gaspard Fauteux followed his Superin-Bregman, acts, and Huddy Lendent Emile Gauvin and his assistant Benoit Borgeren, They specialise in doing material testing the sugary sap. I was dumped into an oak for actors who are wetting their barrel attached to a sled pulled by a horse "le Blond" who has taken a fancy to sweets,

指

lengh

I drick It would be a shame Fauteux sald as he watched the to deprive our guests from tasi- | rich sap All aluminium cans

our trees."

hanging from aluminium tags.

"They generally refer to

considerable best

on remaining proving swiftly,

for short perlods the surface

Beries of humps It was also put mito variis above the waterline as its mosting a product of Bottle stores and in the bar of Ustinetis feature," Burl Lie Grand

Hotel Custoine; 9 | said.

would come in, buy it and after the first mouthful look wildly round for succour.

Finally it was relegated to a place out of sight.

Then two English tourists talked about whisky and criticised one particular brand, "We have a worse brand than thal utd the steward cheerily.

At their

and with

This is the general discription the Loch Ness monster whleh perations of Scots and visitors in the lake have been broad- casting to a skeptical world.

But

Hurton said the humps baffled scientists who could not imagine such an undulating spine. now he thinks he has a possible 13:14WET.

BBC Adapts American TV Programmes

London. request he went From personal observation An American watching out the back and returned with Burton አበዊ determined that British television might get

The unpopular Ave-foot conger vels can undu-

above the waterline. lot of it somewhere before.

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bottle

branel.

of

Their eyes goggled. Where

chick you they gaspent. 10% whisky In the wrokt'

uppear

get that "

best fresh water, and rise to the sur-ally complain

face unly Infrequently.

everyone

During the spring, in Quebec taps every maple tere on his property.

musle

arranger,

feet in saloons for the first time, MENTAL ATTITUDES "After an actor comes to us. it takes a week to know each other." Brent explained. "During that time we talk to the

person to find out what he can do.

"We've turned down some nets because of their mental attitudes.

Soon to be the pride of Welsh Boy Scouts is this fearsome- looking thunderbird being carved in Canada by Indian totem pule maker Mrs Ellon Necl, of Vancouver. Mrs Noel in d member of the Quiquisutonuk śribe and the totems she makes relate symbolically events from the tribe's history. — Reuter-

photo.

After 58 Still

Years He's

There

Winnipeg.

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Skipper Holst came to Canada in 1896, with hospitals, the idea of staying until he made à fortune and returning to his native Sweden.

He's still here.

HISTORIC

NEW

FINDS

They ask you to write material, IN EGYPT

but then they start telling you The annual pllgringe from how it should be done. After a tive to tree belongs to a custom long drawn-out fight they do Inherited from the Indians, who what they want and it's em- laught the French and the Eng-barrassing when they open in a

h how to get their sugar from club,”

One of their reccat ac- complishments was Д night- In the early days of colonlull-club routine for Kent Taylor, sation, under the French re- the "Boston Blackle" of televi- game, maple trees helped mission, who had "never opened sinuriès

Christian his mouth to sing before."

Brent also wrote_the night

the land.

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teach

Indlan

the

children

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which

Abydos, Egypt. Archaeologists have unearthed from under a palm grove hill in this ancient city a complutely new wing of the plitard temple of Pharaoh Seti I, the warrior ruler of Egypt 13 centuries be fore Christ

sand-clearing

CXCRYO- 10 light an un- liona brought charted hall of the temple ex- tending on its southern side, as well as a massive enclosure wall bearing coloured battle secues of tho wirs Lin

the Pharaoh fought. Gruy

These buried and forgotten vestiges of Seti's reign in the 19th dynesty

were dug up after months of arduous ahovelling deep into the heart of the bill by teams of diggers before the archaeologists could

could reach the temple's new southern wing, hidden for centuries under the mound. The rubble-filled hall was found flaniced by pillars on both sides, and the floor was

ved with

large limestone

late the ixxly so that humps the vague idea he's seen "bribing them into the school club act for Jane Powell while They also can live in salt ur In fact, critics hero occasion-cabin for a piece of maple sugar Bregman is in demand

or a palette of la tire (toffee), arranger for such entertainers their that what

according to

veleron as Joanne Gilbert, Kay Thomp- nationalised, one-channel, non- I turned out that it was a

Quebecer.

Johnson, Joel Burton pointed out that

son. Van a commerical network is show- pure malt whlaky, unblended. three-inch tarva of the common ing

Even

Bols De and Anna Maria Alborghetti. today, Even is too often American TV that came from the Httle Scotish fresh water

Coulonge.

Ro cel grows

"A star no longer can get up the Vice-Regal into a with

an English accent. village of Luphoraig. The two three-foot adult. Recently, he

sidence has

1951 its in a not

club and sing 'Indian Among the

programmes Englishmen bought All they said, larvae three feet long have

character. The 525 maple were Love Call," said Brent. "Their ruutel

standard been found, indicating an adult "What's

sees are such panel gamtepped at the start of the maple name is a or It. 1 the

drawing card, but My Line," "Down price-in

England they would 36 feet or longer.

my

anet season,

employees made they have to have talent and a You Go," and "The Name's the have paid 24 u baltie for

A Danish expedition dredged Same."

These arc re-staged syrup gathering a daily routine, good routine."United Press. and went away highly delighted up a larva six feet long which

Some 1,000 gallons of maple The British the uncivilised taste

"Cubane presumably would have become with British casts.

also were turned into New

Broadcasting Company Zealand publie United Press.

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with

the

11.

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an adult vel 72-foot long. Burton | said.--United Press.

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for the first time

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"By tapping the maple trees

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Another American idea "You are There" which will

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A dignited Chinese and sugar

dressed in a long gown, reproduce

in events

British

syrup according to the instrueman, though history

they were

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ed blanket and proceeded "the Charge this standard we make a syrup of the Light Brigade."

and sugar which has no better." make himself comfortable But the

the evening. sald Fauteux, programmes generally serious and the BBC

Informed by police that such allowed the ageing takes an adult stand toward its on our estate we are not trying was not viewers

to show off, but only making gentleman inquired if "it might One

those be possible for me to spend the of the most popular an effort to lavite all weekly programmes is a round-fellow citizens of ours who own evening in your honourable table discussion by members of land on which stand maple goal?"

and other parliament

public trees to use them to the im- The police,

somewhat it Agures, Recently debated provement of their holding."

Chinese, reluctantly apologised homosexuality and the arresta

prominent

evening but suggested train ride to southern Formosa and his family---United Press,

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SALTY DIALOGUE

the BBC permits Similarly. controversial discussions of religion in plays and salty dialogue that would never get by American networks.

Comedy programmes,

in contrast to those in the United States, are well down on the popularity list. The TV comedy names are Terry Thomas, the team of Jimmy Jewell and Ben and Warles (a sort of Abbot Costello act) Bob Monkhouse, Vie Olivier and Norman Wis dom.

The British go for topical Jokes and will seize от Any news event and work it to death for laughs. Even espion-

age.

Comedian: "Ehh. These secrot plans for a new British plane aro known only to four Britons and the Russion

General

ra Stall."

But a great many jokes aro the same on both sides of the

Atlantic. Bob Hope, Henny Yongman and other American comedians playing here have often commented on how com- pletely their gags have precoded them.

The most popular programme in Britain is the nightly news= zval

Second is the televising of bila

of current plays

and musicals direct from the theatre stage. Third are plays them- selves, and hore non-com- morelal TV bas a distinct advantage becAUMO

limited by time schedules can do plays and" oporus

not

sund

their entirety oven if they run

disconcerted by his cultivated

The Luke of the Woods gold rush was on when Holst arrived here, and he intended to find the gold. He won't o lucky prospector, and after trying his hand at farming, he heard talk of a railway project running through the Minnki

In Ontario,

בחינם

Skipper Holst was never a man to lose on an opportunity,

50 he took possession of อ

large tract of the wooded from Gunn Lake to country the Winnipeg Tivar junction. guessed that a railway Holst

would bring workers project

to with money

ba spend, so built a store.

That was in 1900, and Holst still had no intention of staying In Canada permanently. HU store prospered, first with rail- construction workers' money, and then in 1909, with vacationers.

way

TOURISTS' LODGE

He met the influx of tourists by building a lodge which could, end did, house as many as 129 tourists at one time,

"People didn't mind doubling up in those days," he said, "and they didn't need a private bath, either."

Tho Summer visitors kept coming even though Holst didn't advertise much. A Pittsburgh millionaire and Winnipeg

for

more

businessman stand out in Hia A elue the archaeologists are now following In that the level inemory, because they returned of this hull is four and one hair each year

thar 20 metres above the rest

summers. of the

his temple. This hap spurred the Skipper Holst operated

for 39 years, belief that there may be yet tourist business other

even though he didn't intend to sections of the temple

live blocked under the sands in the

in Canada permanently. same hilly region.

When he reached the age of 74

The

discovered Bowly enclosure woll stands three

coloured To not want to brag about

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Today, at 36, Holst still spend TYPHOON

he decided to sell his business THE "POST"

the lodge, but metres high and more than one kept his own cabin at the lake, metre thick, on the eastern side

six months of the year at the of the ancient temple, Multi- hieroglyphic inscriptions on the popular

battle Scents and camp which he developed from MAP

uninhabited bush land to the product of this estate, but that the gaol was packed for the wall represent an account of the visitors.

resort for summer

many wars Setl I waged 1д

Every few years he travels to Palestine, Syria and Asla-the crowning successes of his reign, other resort areas, and cruises to Florida or the Caribbean or In the area

between the

But California.

cach timo enclosure wall and the temple when he returns home, and gets

I feel it is fit for a King or Queen,

Fautoux Bald-United Press.

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used for water storage by the beautiful spot in the world

ancient Egyptians,

Construction of the temple

was started by Seti 1, and after

his death was completed by his

Son

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