1957-09-28 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1957.

Interesting News Stories From Al Paris OF The

PONY DELIVERED BY EXPRESS POST

London,

Tent by express HHE pony that was

post walking on its own four legs and with Gs-worth of stamps stuck on its quarters --- was delivered that week.

But not before the local postman had objected. "I'm not with good animals," he said. From the pony's halter address hung an label: To R. Roden, EBq

Headmaster, Maplewelt Hall

very

Only Cost One Shilling A Mile

School, Woodhouse Eaves, Leicester. He wanted the pony taken to the school from Quorn, five miles away. He had bought it for £25 from Farmer Tom school Long-"but funds were short and we couldn't af ford a truck." Then he remembered the Post Office regulation which allows almost any.

ARTIST AND HIS WORK

Photo shows "Congo"-held by Tony Fitzgerald his keeper--- "looking" at one of his paintings at the London Zoo-

Keystone Photo.

PAINTING EXHIBITION GIVEN BY ARTISTS

Both Chimpanzees

London.

An exhibition of contemporary painting-opened

thing to be sent at Is a mile plus la. "exceptional express delivery" charge.

So tast week sub- postmaster Mr George Smith found himself outside Quorn Post Office holding one end of a lead-rein with flop- cared four-year-old piebald Tom stand- ing patiently at the other.

"I'm sorry, Mr Smith,"

DRUNK IN CHARGE TWICE IN A NIGHT

'London.

Police let Derek Booker drive away after he was found drunk in charge of his car. The doctor said he was fit to drive again.

One hour and 25 minutes- apd dix miles-later, Mr Booker way arrested again by the same policeman, and cortified drunk by the same doctor,

This time he had crashed into a telegraph pole.

The trouble started when 36-year-old Mr Booker gol tired of waiting in a line of cars near Aust, Gloucester- #hire.

He swung out, hitling another car. He drove off, but was stopped by the police and cer- ffled by a doctor as drunk.

It was 7.25 pm. An hour and

a half later the doctor said

that he was it to drive.

WHISKY BOTTLE

C

He got into his car, weni straight to a public-house and bought a bottle of whiską.

Back in the police station the clock ticked on. .to 10,20 pm. That was the time 'a policeman found Booker's crashed car on the wrong side at the road.

Inside was the whisky botile, The doctor again cortified Ita

the local postmaster. had told him on the phime. 141 know your difficulties, but it's got to be done. After all,

We don't 'deliver Iivo ponica every day of the week, now do we?” One of the “dicul-

lles" had been the local postman, who didn't get on with animals.

"I don't

think I'm up to the Job," he had pleaded.

That was when Mr Smith decided to do the delivery himself. He stuck the stamps on Tom and clutch- Ing the "guftable lead provided by the sender" set off hia five-mile

on

special delivery. "It was a beautiful morning, a lovely ́day for a walk," he said. "We got on to- wonderfully

gether, Tom and I.

MAN STAMPED ON PUP IS GAOLED.

SAILOR WAS PLAYING, AND

THEN HE SQUEALED

London.

owner as drink, but this time Sailor, the puppy, was Booker was locked up for the playful on his Sunday night,

morning walk, ---

At Thornbury, Booker, of

Ha Wagged his tall Mod Royston Winsley, Bradford-on-

the campered

round and round Avon, was anod 210 on fust charge and £20 on the the man sitting in the Hyde second.

disqualised Park deckchair.

He was

•

from driving for three years. But suddenly the wire-haired

fox terrier squealed; He was also fined £3 for

He rolled on his back, "whin careless driving and £2 for

with failing to stop after an

peng

pain and bleeding at the mouth. cident,

here featuring the works of two well-known A WHOLE

artists—both chimpanzees.

The international exhibit at on a show comparing the the Institute of Contemporary styles of the two chimps, Arty showed the brightly- coloured works of "Congo,"

2 Betay is strictly 0 finger

resident of the London Zoo, painter while Congo uses and "Betty," well-known | brushes and sometimes crayons. tend toward bright

artist from the Baltimore Zoo. Both

The whole Iden of a showing colours in their works.

MONTH

For, I was said at Marl borough Street, the man in the deckchair had stamped on him viciously

Sydney Mahy, 86, retirod, of Emperor's Gate, South Kensing- ron, wie großed for six weeks,

"It's hard to believe that any-

one could be cruel to a little puppy only three months old,"

was told by the magistrate,

Mr. Paul Bennett, V.C.

Mr. George Gimn, of South Kensington, whose wife owns Sailor, said that when he pro- tested Mahy told him?

'Mind your own-business and take the dog away,"

*

Mahy said he was reading when the pup started to jump on his lap. The owners were

obviously laughing and couraging it.

.

enz

He told to stop, and when he gave it a push with his foot it began to whimper.

ON RAILS WANTED TO SLIM

man..

London. DIED INSTEAD

Omar Day always alarted when some of Congo's ' The two chimpanzees te wanted to be a railway- works were sent to the Ball-well-known in their respective more Zoo. Oficials decided It

countries-mostly due to teles would be a good thing to put vision. Betsy is a star on Balli- more television's "This Is Your Zoo" and Congo appears re- gularly on Granada TV net-

DRIVER WAS work's "Zoo Time'

Autobiographies

FED UP, So All Had chimp, started

To Wait

-London.

Betay,

seven-year-old painting in about 1983, Some of her paint- ings have, been sold. Congo, born ing 1958, was brought to London from bils African home In 1956.

Passengers in the subway Following the exhibit here

London.

A mourning father told an inquest here that his daughter died trying desperately to become thin like other' Now 64, ho los mukling up for

fetime on the ground, by :

girla." spending a whole month on The girl, 22-year-old London typist Joyce Ley, was found rails.

dead at home from an overdose of sleeping tablets. Every morning he catches Her father, steam shovel operator Jacob Ley, testified

the 9.15 am from London to Sheffield, his birthplace. Ho visits friends at lunchtime and rides back to London or the 1.40 pm---400 miles a day; six days a week, and he's been at it since Aug. 8,'

MONOTONOUS?

that she may have died from the tablets. But he said he felt strict dieting and use of weight-reducing ́drugs over a period were the real cause.

HAPPY, CAREFREE

In February, Joyce weighed 208 pounds, When she died

she had alimme down to 184.

"Monotonous? good gracious She was a "happy, carofree girl," Ley told the coroner's no,” Day explotad to a

inquest, "but then she got this stupid reducing craze. London Daily Mall reporter She said she wanted to look like other girls.”

who met him in 61 Pancras He said that shortly after she cut down on meals and Station.

talk to the other. Taliway iterature. passengers, or read. a bit of

..., train sat vațiently at Loughton the first time Bolay's works Station for ten minutes. Then have been shown in Europe they started enquiring why the the show probably will move or just close my eyes and to Baltimore. However, tele They found the driver had got vision officials said a tour of several other countries may be

trala wasn't moving, yo

in the making. working

out of his cab, saying that he Sene. fed up with overtime." and was aliling on bench with his feet up......

A keller train took the

The ICA exhibit will

paintingsens bo Couto and 13 by Betsy, Othe pammognes, on to the end of the sponsors of the Abow are tho Hak and the Ied-up driver Zoological Society of London travelled on it be a passenger, and the Granada TV network.

London Transport Compally spoke

officials said they were "invests

geting" whether: discidinary wall known arilato motions should be taken (United kivibid. 10:

calculate the speed by the ellcksty clicks."United Press,

The Teeth

began taking reducing pills. she was reduced, to falating fits, depression, health worries and sleepless Ley salt Joyce started taking sleeping tablets when her

nighte nerves reached such a point that she found herself. pacing the floor at night..

POSSIBLE SUICIDE?

The Coroner did not pass judgment on whether the over- done of aleeping tabluti indicated possible suicida. he did add in his report that her liver was, badly "ed from the dexedrino she took in reducing. } rom the barbiturates, abb would

Inter from poisoning of Fonding of he, livora colation"

Except just once

when he shied at a bus. "But I ask you — six bob for all that. It's ridiculous. I hope other people ·round here don't get the idea of sending me an elephant." Mr Roden, with Tom,

safely stabled, said: "It was no joke, We

aro

very grateful Indeed to Mr Smith and the Post Office. He's saved us at least £1."

And Mr Smith did get

a lift hoine.

Flirting Husband Betrayed By TV

Vienna.

Sooner or later it had to happen: the all-seeing eye of a television camera giving away a husband's little flirta- tion.

It began the usual way-as- band toils Wife he will be late home. Important conter-

ence.

Wife invites a couple of neigh- bou in to keep her company. They have drink, Wife

new

Pare

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GETS INTO CORNERS' with its triangular-shaped body. Rubber buffer pro- tects skirting.

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switches on the TV. Lights, dancing, music...

Gez

It's

a visit to a night spot,

The camera takes in the chorus

girls, idly pans across to DOI,

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Million homes Thore, cuddling # blonde

cabaret giri, is Husband. And not only there but on TV screens in a million homes. In Wife'e home. ...

She recognises Husband at once..

So do bar gatests.

There is no record of how en- ragad Wife dealt with 'erring Husband when be got home. But she hauled both him and the girl before a court-it all happened in Salzburg-on charge of what the Austrians call "chestoering" (interfer- ing with marriage.)

The Judge Ened them

Q

Keep on collecting

·£4 ·45..

each and ordered their names to be suppressed "as first offenders."

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