1957-03-09 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1957.

Pige

"To Celebrating-£600,000" In This Week's

Wa gale in

THEN the wind rises to Accra the

king cranes on the ramparta

NEW DOMINION

PETER BURGOYNE

dependence.

the

the

maxed in this one cestatie mo- well as letting Its hair down. Ghana wanted to show it could MCHÍ.

cope with the problems of pro- There were no half measures tocol involved in hoving

of in- word's diplomatic representa of the old fort above the about Chann's acclaim

The night skies tives in its parlour. town, fold their wings and

exploded with £20,000

worth ride out the storm, pre-

freworks. af

Toy.ng and The Duchess of Kent, there as carlously on one leg.

festooned with official villages were

representative of £41,000 worth of decorations Queen was there, and Mr R. A. and flags, BITKOINE

them, and in Butler representing the United 50, ns the place of honour, the new Kingdom Government,

જી "lotting their hoir red, gold and green standard of well

down." Channians also "rolled up their siceves" to make impressive as possible the state Ghana parlia- opening of the ment, cerementni meeting of traditional rulers, a convocation of the University College, and a string of formal receptions.

A different kind of dlaturbed tempest

their midnight sleep on March 5 - a gale of jubilant voices hailing the emergence of Ghana, a new nation within the Commonwealth.

Chama,

Açera's normal population wh 130,000 was doubled as country folk trekked into the clly to join the official guests diplomatic all over For ma the clocks of representatives from

the world, Accra struck midnight on March 6 the Gold Coast ceased to be. It became Ghana, taking its name from An ancient African king- dom.

A

And as the chimes of mid- night struck, they released head of emotional steam built up by £000,000 worth of indepen- dence celebrations which

The big man in a little land..

BEN-GURION

At Cummins sees his he'

Evorcy square inch of ас- commodation

fron Was Taken

The air-conditioned suites of the ultra-modern £750,000 Am- batedor Hotel to the humblest lodging house in streets where The smells at dried fish and alique drains battle supremacy. Just as they cuid be- fore.

for

But many out-of-town folk brought their own "Accommoda- tion' with them, sleeping wherever

find they could With their tremendous врасе. capacity for enjoying a party, the biggest, most dazzling party West Africa has ever seen, New Chunalans did litle #leeping.

High Life

Accra's smoother night-spo s. places with exotle nimes ku the "Week-end in Havana", the "Lido" and the "Paramount" and the smokey, garish dance

Bu halin all were crammed wherever

Now they were Ghanaian; were listening to the hyprotic beat of "High Life".

"High Life" is the calypso of "High West Africa, und the Life" men are at Cross between the traditional jazz musicians of New Orleans and the calypso-

alains of the West Indies.

Happy Days

been or-

Sporty days, have ganised for the young, and the Goyment of Ghana has vowi for prizes, Another £1,000 £7,000 is being spent on "cul- and turoj entertainments dancing", and £2,000 for gifs and special diet" for hospital patients,

All in a

doctor's day: by

CEDRIC

CARNE

chests.

B.M.A.

'She says someone has already called and asked them to join the Doctors Strike. They had him for lunch."

ET'S face it. Everybody's afraid of

something.

Some are scared of loneliness, others merely of spiders or the neighbour's Alsatian dog. Only Lord Nelson and herous like that are purported never to have ...own what fear means,

A high proportion of the population focus their worries on the left side of their

£10,000 wai An additional

purpose of Carmarked for the

& good ecclng that Ghana gels "presa", to be spent on accora- modation and transport fur visiting reporters and camera- men. Several hundreds of them

independenes

Mr Walter, like so the covered celebrations fur

he newspaper because radio. TV and companies. What they zuw was a scene, unrepeatabi unforgetable scene of every colour under the sun in brillaint kunsoaked splendour.

Among

gay, highly- the coloured crowds were one group 1- of men with a very special t- terest

celebrations in the traders from

the great West African colony of Nigeria. Fu

celebrations were them the tantalising foretaste of the party will throw their own country

future, when, in the near follows Ghana into the line out of

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WHEN YOUR

People should that, as E

know symptom of heart disease, palpitation,

HEART GOES

BUMP, BUMP, BUMP

cven

meu Perpetuate then relieve their

"Some people have that kina of personality," I continued. "It's nothing to be ashamed of,

in itself, is of no

Palpitations ance at all,

"But these people have sound cardiogramın after exercise can be ignored,

rather I be hoar s," I emphasised. "Sometimes, though,

Mr Walters was not entirely symptoms, heart my many others, was anxious come conscienia of

after I had That is racing fast when I'm just sit reassured, hnd hud heart palpitations.

ting down, especially at night," examined him. He wanted me to mrange for him to have on Mr Wallers said doubtfully,

There are all kinds of physio- logical reasons why the heart should beat fast apart from Emotions like excite- exorcise. ment or anxiety may make the heart spurt in a Anely strung

to say, he was as conscious of his heartbeat as another man might be of a natural blonde with unnatural mea- surements.

People who have palpitations describe their symptomus in various ways. Some talk of a "humping" sensation, others about a "luttering" or "throbbing" of the heart.

person, as if

"Well," Mr Walters complained, "I'm certainly aware from fred at the start of a race, time to time of my heart rockin' 'n' rollin',"

Palpitation is a symptom which is dependent upon the sensi- tivity of the nervous system. That is why X can have a rapid, irrtgular beating heart and be quite unconscious of it and Y, with no abnormality of heart rhythm at all, goes around as if he had a stethoscope always in his ears.

"electro-what's-its-name," as he called it. But I refused to have Vlogram done.

a tracing of my

пр

but it just works out that way. What is required is the right altitude of mind. The mind's rhythm and the heart's (rhythm are closely connected.

heart's rhythm be of value in

But he didn't feel he had any diagnosis?" he persisted.

knew that his electre- wrong attitudes, Hot course I cardiogram would be normal, 1 was upset when my Alancee wasn't even prepared to call Ju broke off our engagement a few another doctor for a eccond months back," he said thought- opinion. For people who are fully, "but surely that couldn't 100 "heart-conscious" aro not be responsible for this?"

And benefited by such measures. be pointed to the left side of

It seems, unfortunately, that his chest. frequent reference to hospitals "Oh you," 1, nodded, "you sheep and specialists for investigations, might say that it was on. Aftair X-ray and electro- of the Heart."

a gun had been

patient has Again, when A 1mperature the heart tends to tick over quicker than usuAL.

Others can't drink tea or coffes late at night, because it they do they'l be counting heartbeats Instead of

"So it docan't follow that there is anything wrong with my when they go to bed. the Queen's Sovereign Gid licker?" Mr Walters asked.

"Correct," I answered.

But there was a dignified side to the celebrations, too. As Dominions,

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WHERE WILL PARKER GO NOW?

(Continued from Page 6)

He has a dislike of the Press Price who was also rather whiskery and the effeminate,

at that time.

bússfully quiet

Philip had

chity

Parker basked in the spotlight,

dresses - conservatively.

and daughter Julie's photograph was on his desk. to an extra te liked to show them off He has developed น

and his guesis at home. So much so while

Insta lor parties vagant

Julie Con- that

once murmured Digh living. Seafood,

cooking End

cham "Daddy docs fuss so. Why does As the years have

by mental Rune the Duke has it his responsi

pagne are all very much to his hop

tuste, und aria bility more

more,

A charm- He has cultivated has been growing up with him

unas polite Bellay manner Parker,

He is a good host and And now the ex-tuyal servant laugh.

mo won n ilke nini. interesting Most presents

In of a study

who man years has started down so many different paths.

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From the quiet of his Austra- llun home, the Navy took him. From the Navy he found hin- scif in that four-square feet- op-the-ground prosperity of

Scut- successtul, unpretentious Ish family. And from there, for nine years be nus tastes

with: pleasures of royal living its priorities,

Ils excitements, Gad its responsibilities.

Schoolboy

HOW has it all left

smoothed path

the

the Duke in every possible way.

But the best reference of ali come's trom

those who knew h.m as a Bond on the not very grandio

nales- Suvet at paid

the salary he

Was

"He 10 afford

man.

Was Palace he managed the Duice's tailor.

remarkably Michael Parker's

concession only But his success is with antoriel flamboyance is the icud red-check lumber jacket which is always in the back of his ear. He got that on the royal tour of Canada.

To them he

always hau-

fellow-well-met. He has a treat desire to be thought well ata most people who meet him grant his wish,

"The admiral'

He still has not lost his rum- bustious sense of fun.

peating

a carloed the

him!

The years have not made

him an intellectusi, le

has

་

he may rower-by:

Parker is quick to detect the takes spurious and though

little Interest in art, literature accept it, he soon makes clear

re- of

takes

tw

irabl

quick," they told me, "Nor- inally it about years to

salesman, but he was doing the job in hali

the time.

could 111 11

body

anything impressed

LLS as the

of man

gori who would make sucuess of any

a Even after he

the left the Brn

10 go to the out Palace he would

for

Whatever happens to Parker's marriage there is no need that long friendship with the Duke to be ended. After all,

He is quite capable ci

that performance one foggy night when he drove

He 10 of passengers IKE the Duke he is fascinated

and eccen- Buckingham Palace and to his by the clowns

He

by almost entirely home iries of the world. feurued to discard the mundane compass. fils passengers were and look for the original, alarmed, the Tog was thick and

Parker was lost. He suddenly job."

snatched if he is back into business stopped the car. be will be a formidable rival

globe of the world from Eack

and said to the first for any competitor,

*Just point where we are." Where does he po now? Parker still has the affection or music. Serious plays bore that he has not been taken in.

He has very few real friends. of our royalty. It was the Duke, tim, Novels usually remain un-

who did his best to smooth the read. He likes the easy laughter Uflu Fox is a hero, Baron was the s

an way for his friend in his pre- acknowledged it. He has of the variety theatre and

of the

admiration for Lord sent trouble. ecented confusion

"I remember being at the divarer' courts. The Marquis What references has he got? Mountbatten and always called premiere.

one man The folk in Troon say: "He boxing match once,"

of Milford Haven, Helene Cordes This

was an ordinary honest-to-Ged from the Bond Street office said. and several Americans. schoolboy left in hin

young man like all the other

"Mike was in the place of young men who came here

honour at the ringside with the He is

only during the war. remembered for having married Duke of Edinburgh and I was sitting in the cheap seats. But Eileen."

Those at the Palace will-falk he saw me and shouted across, His affection for his children readily of his good companion During the intervil he left the la very great. He was always ship, his hard work, his bound- Duke to talk to me. You would talking about them

less energy, and the way he do a lot for a man like that."

film unbount

There is still a lot of the him "the Admiral."

the apest he shares with the Duke

schoolboy who once put a fire of Edinburgh,

midshipman who Was The

As the years of royal service cracker under the galtered legs went by he mentioned more and of a prelate when he was about more that he was very tense to speak at a school prize day, and couldn't sleep. hauled before the magistrates for unseemly behaviour ball in Bath.

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JOHNNY HAZARD

I'M TAKING A BIG CHANCE [LETTING TWO PEOPLE IN LOVE TEST-PLY AN IMPORTANT JOB LIKE THISI BUT I JUST CAN'T

BEAR TO SEPARATE YOU SHOU

LOVERURDAI

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the

NOW REMEMBER, KEEP YOUR [MAND ON THE JOB AT HAND AND

HO FEUDING AS TO WHO TAKES CO-PILOT POSITIONÉ THERE'S NO TOP BILLING UPSTAIRSÍ

CHICK, SCOTTY!

OUR HEADS WE

| TAKE WITH U19,

OUR HEARTE WE LEAVE WITH YOU * TILL WE RETURNI

never walk past that office without calling in to see his old colleagues. And on royal occasions, if he saw a familiar face in the crowd, he always Prince Philip has plenty of

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friends who have been through

And howover the Michael Parker story continues, in the ncer nuITE or in the years the ahead, it will will remain account of a man who did his and who duty as he saw it.. would leave the place of honour to talk with an old friend.

By Frank Robbins

LATER, WHEN SCOTTY RÉCEIVES THE TEST- CHECK LISTuren J

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