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́THE CHINA'' MAIL, ¦ SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1986.

Interesting News Stories From All · Parts

Where They Plan To Give "Bonuses" To Taxpayers

Edmonton.

People are making NO much money in this oil-rich Canadian province that the Government is seriously contemplating paying "Lonuses" to taxpayera,

One elty, Medicine

which the late Rudyard Kipling

the "all hodes for a bipart metit," he pondering visitnating all but schwol tokes,

Albrata has a population of just over 1,000,000 but the praviner reported a net surplus of about

$40,000,000 at the end of Jost financial year after spend-

SUS 600,000 na 10 d., public buildings, parks and contribu- tona to small towns.

It is in such good shape finati- borrowed eauty that 11 anuszal

21 years and bor money for

I down du pay-w-you-go plan, fus IT enpital expenditures such a highways and public hulidings since 1935.

An uparently unlimited sup- dy of on and natural gas and un equally unlimited determina- fon by thousands of Canadians n: Aawaleans to cash in on it ure did the boom

CATEWAY TO NORTH

Also Edmonton Is the gato- way to Canada's te nurth, a zorraphical

that hos

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In massive flow of watory

olher trame thaeuph Ine toward the snow Vountry

Fremier Ernest Manning, who is also Mormoni Minister,

inalte de la pot fooling when he talk of proving people 'bonuses' based on the boom In a bud- wet, he proposed talattal r

of citizens' "perfeiptaum dividends."

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A convention of his Social por by endol 10.Jation is ex-

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take several years

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From Paris: Snack Bars Take Over From

The Business In A Paris That Is Fast Becoming Americanised.

From New York:

A Man Who From Works In Manhattan's High Altitudos Has A Story To Toll.

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Of The

World

Hobart: A Washday Jigsaw Is Necessary To Piece Together The Badly Laundered Banknotes Of Mr Down.

Edmonton:

So Wealthy f This Stato That The Government is Considering Paying Bonuses To Tax- payers.

The Peculiar Things That Happen

AT THE TOP OF THE

EMPIRE

New York.

Frank Powell has spent 17 years at work at a height of 1,050 fect over Man- the hattan, scattering ashes of deceased human beings over the city, acttling beta, and greeting every conceivable breed of visiting celebrity.

He's

the observation tower manager at the Empire State Building. The 1,030 mark his lowest working level. often gela up near the 1,472- fool top of the building

Things are

up there.

Riwnys happenin

"Just the other day." said Mir

Powell, this fellow comes and

*are Bays,

you Mi Powell? 1 told him yes

soto

rays, 'I'm a trumpet

I'd like to play my trunget

top of the building

+11

myle I've wanted to

All

hands me his card-Sammel

J. Coury. Balem Depol, N.H.

"Well, he seemed like

chap.

rive

10k him in go ahead.

1 even went out and listened. You know what he player!! I'm sitting on lop of !?ht

When he world. Fine tune.

left. I got to figuring he'd go home and brag about it and have no proof.

"So I got one of CHET giant Bounir posteards and wrote on that this would certify Mr Coury had played his trumpet up here at such-anti- such an hour, and I put the offers! building sang un and shoved it in the malt hlin,"

IL

walked storeys Mr Powell into the restauran! at the 86th floor observation terrace DOC

day and found a man lying flat on his back, eyes wild, but breathing normally.

How

Much Does It Sway?

building and I lost my balance," plained the man,

The man's friends were at

table, staring glumly at him, "Blimey, the

ipped

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n

ht an Flux of all men, Be-etting is an old story with

tay xaN Many Mill

the observation tower people. work in the endled Ps, Others

The most frequent bet is on; quit when they failed to strike

how much the building sways. bis

played in

Mi Prowell has had telephone | call from

such plures 당시 London, Mexico Cily, and 550 Frapelten to selle wagers on the subject.

other Jobs,

$1,000,000 nual urplus Air

Medicine Hat self boasts a

unbly enly ring lar E

That makes so much out of oil it averiges

Veiner Mo By Met eine far! may become л tux-free oasis within

Anys

three

years except for school levies. -United Press.

'UNEMPLOYED'

-GROUNDS

FOR

DIVORCE

Carliste.

Mrs Gladys Sleightholme sued for divorce recently on charges that her husband usurped her wifely duties doing all 130 housework.

Her husband, George, coun- tered: "She will be restored to her proper place" if she will "put my name on the rent book, dam my socks, let me have a ray with the children..

and turn the house frem.The pigsty into a palace."

judge decreed that WUS supplanting his wife in the minds and affec- tions of their children and awarded Mrs Sleightholmė divorce--United Press.

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'Sunday School

Should Be Compulsory'

answer:

"In

it

an

Powell's stendy wind of 50 miles hour, it moves out of line a shade less than an inch and a half."

In many cases the bel

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visitor swayed in the other direction so far he fell to the floor.

In

Mr Powell has participated

several acatierings of crema- tion ashes. The original one was the case of a man bom family in Manhattan whose

Car Indiana moved to an when ho was yourg. His will

directed that his ashes

be loused from the building's top. Jis widow performed the rie, walling for a day with a brisk witid.

Soon It Will Be 25 Years Old

CITY OF GOURMETS

May Become CITY OF

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THE SWIMMER THAT GOT AWAY

Melbourne, Eight-year-old Brian Hamition will entry a abarke'a tooth-marks on his teus for the rest of his ilfe.

Brian, from Murtod, Victoria, was swimming in the sea at Coigt, with-east of Melbourne, when a shark seized his legt.. illi father raced to his holp and scared of the shark, Brian has rows of multiple feeth marks on the back of hia legt. He was not seriously hart.—China Mall Special.

GOURMANDS Ice And Cold-But They

Puris,

One of France's largest Still Come To Lourdes

daily newspapers predicted mournfully recently that in 10 years there will hardly be any classic French res-

Call Dr Watson taurants left in Paris.

New York.

Police said they were a bit apprehensive about the fact that members of local branch of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers were going out on strike for high trages. The local branch is made up of men who service Dur- gier alarm, systema in the New York area.-United Preas.

They Stop A Lake Freezing

Geneva.

The rare spectacle of a frozen Lake Geneva has Vanished for over thanks to modern mechanical selence.

The 70-mile-long "Lake" is The latest one

was the case of virtually part of the Rhone The River, which flows into it at a New Jersey woman. first day she met her falure eastern tio near Montreux husband, he took her to the and Rows turbulently out again

Lire top of

Empire Sinle, through the city of Geneva ot They

there severni went

the other end of the lake, The times afterwards, and on me constant movement due to the of those ocensions he proposed river usually prevents it from In very cold Sven to her. When she was dying freezing to winters. she told him she wanted

her be cremated and

So more is solid le on this ashes scattered

that

usually earns from the building

out her wish,

inkera

lop. He wept as he carried special mention in historic documents when it does happen. Only once in recorded history The building will be 25 years has the entire take frozen solid, old next May. Nearly in the year 762 A.D. Again 16,000,000 people have gonsin 885 the Western end froze so to its top. The

was that chariots could cross on the 101, the youngest 13 days.-Ice from Thonon in France to United Press.

oldest

Hyon on the Swiss side.

This Year-- Almost

The so-called "Little iske," or

WASHDAY the port of Geneva, has frozen

JIGSAW

four times a [over three or

century in the prst. The last tume it was sold enough to bear walking all the way across wus In 1891. It froze again briefly In 1929. And almos, clos-d Hobart.

over again 10 years later. Mrs Reg. Down, of Launceston, This year's prolonged cold ex put her husband's shirt in the wave, accompanied by many obviously washing machine--and mashed

of the cold north wind visiting Engilshman, "I ' deres £35 in notes in the called the "Bise," would have can't help it

the others pocket.

adace one more freeze-over to the didn't lose theirs."

history of the "Little lake" if, She gut suspicious only when man had not stepped in to pre-

vent it.

Questioning developed that the man had had a rough Atlantic erossing but all the while the ship was pitching his friends had told: This is nothing

you

compared

with what

get when you got to the top of the Empire State Building It sways 18 feet and more."

The man told Mr Puwell

she saw the corner of a £ 10

nute Buating amid the soap suds.

Her husband

cleaned

Protected boat basins were al the ready almost packed with float- machine out thoroughly and ing foes, and leebanks several found 700 pieces of paper. His yards wide stretched out from the shoreline when the gates of bank told him he would have to

the electric

plant in the centre they put them together before

the city were opened. could be replaced.

The outrush of water lowered

of

Mr and Mrs Down, with their the level of the take far enough the eleven-year-old

daughter set to breaks up the ice formations about the task and six-and-a-

they before

could finally

With such a weapon constant-

09

Quilding had Upped just he hund up his hot. Mr half hours later had afted the solidify. Powell examined the hatrack. jigsaw together. The bolt holding i upright had come loost.

When

ly at hand, local experts said, the The bank handed Mr Down Lake Geneva would never again hat was hung, the rack had crisp new notes. — China Mail | be allowed to freeze over com- swayed forward, and the

Special,

Santa Mystery Now Jeeps Herd

Salon, Mass. Thomas Manseli, 6, won- dered how Santa Claus gol doun narrow chinneys.

Tommy fried it recently while playing on the roof of a shelter hut at a plaj- ground. Firemen had to use hammers and crowbara to break him United Pres).

10020,-

ROMANCE BY RADIO

Darwin.

Mr David Fogarty and Miss Joyce Crowson courted by radio 1,000 miles apart- pedalling na they talked to generate electricity for their radio sets..

pletely.-United Pres.

Buffaloes

In The (Not So) Wild West

New York.

The wild West is dying. It's so far gone that even the sight, of a horse makes the buffalo nervous. They're used to being herded with jeeps.

Mr Les Price, proprietor of leves the mature buffalo bull la: "It's never been done before, the country's

largest buffalo the most powerful living thing and if I have anything to do herd, and superintendent of the on the North American con- | with it, I never be done 72,000-acre Custer State Park in tinent, short-tempered, un again," he said. "We uned air South Dakota, said this recently. predictable-a sort of bulldozer cover and every other means to

"The buffalo herdsmen have with jet speed.

round

up about 1,000 head. We They're so anti-social-that's got 'em started by noise-blow jeeps now, and the herd is used to them," Mr Price said In an what saves the tourists, he horns and set off a couple of interview. The buffalo will sald. "They'll leave you alone charges of dynamite. People Ritnck a horse and kill it, now. If you ride out in there among cm with a horse, you're In trouble."

Conservation

Mr Star's Narrow Escape

A

If you don't bother them" | Burnetimes ask me, how do you

truffalo A full-grown

bull stop them?” You don't The weighs 2,400 to 3,000 pounds, only way to stop a buffalo slands 0 feet tall, faster stampede is lot "em run until than a horse. Almost unan!- they're run out.” $2 A Skin-Then

mously they refuse to ba buffaloed - by anything. The Custer Park herd numbers Price recalls one instance of about 1,500

head after the buffalo in the road in the way "winter kill." The herd has to of a bus loaded with tourists.

'The occasion was the timing of "The Last Hunt," a picture David ved at Mulga Park be reduced twice a year by ex-

Bull In A Temper

built around the big buffalo cattle station, in the heart of pert markamen to keep it from

sidughter of the 1800'. The Boston. Australia, and Joyce lived at going bigger than the range's FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover Montejinnle #tation, in the grasslands feeding caprelly

The driver decided to try to picture shooting was dovetailed Mr with the park's "spring kill," ways every child in the United | Northern Territory,

measures hava nudge him off the rond." brought the North American Price said. "Well, a bull loses thinning the herd for its own States should be compelled to

when the park narkomen were

attend Sunday school.

They had known each other buffalo population back to hle lampor Just like that, This preservation He made the statement in an for years but heard from each around 10,000, Mr Price said, one nudged right back. Interview with a Roman Catholle other only seldom until a pedint from its low of fewer than 6,000 busted up the front end of the "The movie actors shot blanks,” priest.

radio was installed at Mulgo around the turn of the century bus, and they had to get another he said. "The only real shoot- Mr Hoover and be would urge | Pork.

when hunters slaughtered them bus to leke the tourists out. ing allowed was by Our inen ailendance at church There

"Wo'vo got a was already a pedal for the skinsat $2 each. Bo-

dozen jeeps that doing their regular job., Lot me regular and re-establishment of religious radio at Montejinnie. From fore the white hunter came, 60 we use, in herding. A jeep tell you, I was plenty scared. exercises in the home.

then on, the couple romanced to 100 million buffalo roamed weighs about half what a maturo Take: Just one instance. Robert He Fald the church "must by radio every night.

over an area now covered by 34 | bull does. I'vo soen h. buffalo |Taylor was supposed to ba provide two-flated

bull and our forthright Finally David made the two- | states,

eave in the back end of a jeep shooting a ̈ Bla who are not afraid to day ear trip to Montejinnie and The modern buffalo has been with one kick,"

ridemen stopped the bull four tramulo оп toes. when

Mr Price staged a big buffalo foot from Taylor's shoes. Th*t's the proposeď, They were marrjad Improved somewhat by breeding honour of God or country is at in Katherine, 200 miles south of but he's one of nature's ornaries stampede for the movie camscar | where his nose his the groupid.” stake."--United Press,

Darwin-China Maia Sipačist - eriitärm "Me-Prior mid he bei) last summer,"

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men

Ho

They'll all be transformed Into American-style snack bara, the Paris Press-L'Intransigeant unhappily no.ed in a six-cohimn spread

analysing the trend from the six-course, two-hour dinner The Frankfurter-on-a-bun on-the-fly.

to

rcs-

Lourdes.

Americans are showing up more and, more among pilgrims at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes.

of

Authorities report that 6,000 coins to regard as a sourec Americans came last year to divine miraculous healing. pray for restorallon of health at It was on Feb. 11, 1850, that the site where the peasant girl Bernadette is said to have seen beautiful indy Bernadette Soubirous is said to

the image of shining have soch

down at her from tho "Lady In smiling White" almost 100 years ago.

Mussablelle Grotto at Lourdes. The

of number American In

the the next few days pilgrims has increased sharply vision reportedly reappeared 17 since 1980, when they made up times to Bernadette and guided among her to the source of a spring. a comparative hundful

2,000,000 Europeans who Four years later the Roman visit the shrine every year. Catholic Church officially an American children recognleed the event as have prayed at the shrine and appearance of the Virgin Mary. ba.hed in its icy waters within

MIRACLES RECOGNISED the past two weeks. The latest to arrive is 13-year-old Mancy Hamilton of Californiu,

the

Three

who

Bernadette died in a convent has already lost both legs to a at the age of 86 and later was disease called "lypho-heman- canonterd

satrl. At

as

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"In 10 years," they quoted a restaurant director as wailing, "there will be only 300 classic type restaurants in Paris. The will have been 6.700 others transformed into snack bars, self-service entes."

There would be three kinds:

The #nack bar "A taurant where the tables aro smali, the gents with violently covered coloured plastic, the manu limited to grilled food and cold plates; Auorescent gioma. Doctors say her illness | Lourdes, stories of the healing lighting, and rapid service

in incurable and she has only powers of with the

Bernadotte's service charge from two to five years to live. often included in the bill. The pizzeria: A sunck bar. also in the modern motit, but in Italian style it is generally of a higher type than a snack bar, The self-service cafetería: A snack bar where one can get other foods besides those from the KT United Press.

month. as for

DOOMED BOYS

as medical science concerned.

These children parents have

the water from spring began drawing pilgrims from through-

out France and eventually from all over the world.

has

Since 1858, the Church Two leukaemia victims, Randy Eckmann, 7, of Chicago, and recognised Bi miraclos con- 4, of Ohio, nected with visits to the shrine. Craig Glarnamore, vislied the shrine earlier las In addition, 1,800 cases of cure *-incx- They are also doomed have been classified as

plicable according to scientific and natural laws" About 4,500 have where and their casee

persons declared themselves cured found Lourdes

following It is not

vlait

to Lourdes have been studied by Romna Catholic authorities without any dinalston.

All patients visiting Lourdes obliged to show their

Now Manners almost a ghost town.

And Clothes

the season for pilgrims, and the bier European cold wave has covered the city with mow and ico.

Nancy braved

14-degree) are

Maketh Man temperatures to attend un open-medical history and to submit

Chicage. A Buffalo school official said recently that a boy's clothes have a close bearing on his behaviour,

Dr Joseph Manuch, associate superintendent of Buffalo Public School-Community Co-ordina- tion, sald "many of the delin- quents who were brought be- fare me for acts of strious misconduct were often dressed in bizarre fashion."

But, he said, a "dress right" programme conducted in 14 Buffalo high schools brought a in "substanUal teenagers' behaviment"

Dr Manuch explained at a convention of the National As- soaiation of Retal! Clothiers and Furnishers that fennugers were more likely to be "impressed by the opinions of their peers than by

the mandate ani opinions of the elders."

right"

uf

Boys Start It

Therefore, the Buffalo Inter- High School Student Council was asked to start the "dress

campaign instead ordering the change, he said.

He said n student council banned

and un- dungarees presed khalds, T-shirts and sweat shirts, and extreme styles in strova, Including motor-cycle boots.

Although compliance Was av voluntary. Dr Manuch the results as "very

only

Approved wear for classes in- cluded dress shirts and lies, or conservative sport shirt and tle, with sport coat or sweater and standard trousers, ho satd.- United Press.

Legs Will Tell

Q

Geneva. advised A judge recently Geneva hotel owner charged with belling alcoholic beverages to youths under years of ago to "check the hair growth on their legs. That might give you a proper indication as to their correct age."-United Press,

MAJESTIC

OPENS TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30

& 9.30 P.M.

201 Caltex presents

THE

VIEW FROM

POMPEY'S HEAD

COLOR by DEL CINEMASCOPE

to the winter of SEARIOPHONIC SOUND

I

air Mass⚫ and bathe in the to

millions waters which

4

thorough examination,

have United Press.

LEE Heathe

TO-NIGHT

AT 7.45 P.M.

Lee Wing Wah Cantonese Opera Co.

"THE GOLDEN BIRD" (*)

RITS

CAPITOL

TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 PM VICTOR MATURE GUY MADISON ROBERT PRESTON

ELAS: FRONTIER

COLURDA

PICTURE

Color by

TECHNICOSON

CINEMASCOPE

ein JAMES WHITMORE - ANNE BANCROFT WIN RUSSELL COLLINS

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 PM. "3 FOR THE SHOW" in CinemaScope

SHOWING TO-DAY ——

At 2.30, 5.80, 1.30 à 9.30 p.m.

ana.

To-morrow Special Show AT 12.15

"THE SILVER CHALICE” .

FESTIVAL DRAMA

March 3rd

7th

(in English)

D. G. S.

PAPAGONE adapted from Mozart's 'Magic Flute.' at Wah Yan, Kowloon: B p.m.

·

Carrison Players. Somerset Maugham's

THE CIRCLE

Scout H.Q., Kowloon: 8.30 p.m.

and on 9th and 10th

at the Missions to Seamen, Hongkong: 8.30 p.m.

BOOKING AT SKINNER'S, PEDDER ST.

12th, 13th,

Linden Players/ J. B. Priestley's

DESERT HIGHWAY, Missions to Seamen: 8.30 p.m.

BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S –

16th, 17th.

H.K. Stage Club.

Shakespeare's "OTHELLO);

Lao_Theatre - (16) 7.30 p.m. - (17) 8,30 pm." BOOKING AT LEE BOX OFFICE, QUEEN'S RD.”

The "Masquera

Milton's COMUS * Dryden's SECULAR MASQUE Wah Yan, Hongkong; (20) 8:30 (21) 5.30

for achools &.9. pm 1

To-morrow Morning Show

At 12:30 p.m.

At Reduced Pricou Randolph SCOTT 15 "RIDING SHOTGUN”

20th, 21at.