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Peter's 'walk' stretched 14,000 miles
London.
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1958.
From AH Parts.
General Gets A Whim To Climb A Chimney
THE Army
car
Bandhurst.
staff swept to a halt. There WDS. a flurry of smart Then the general got out and began to climb The boiler-house chimney,
ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Peter Morris always salutes.
walked to school-almost two miles from his cliff-top home to the centre of Auckland, New Zealand. He left at the same time each morning and he always arrived a few minutes before school began. Until one spring morning three months ago....
That
turned
day his walk Irto a journey of 14,000 miles three-month that become headache to a Prime Minister a nightmare lo his parents. To Peter it was all just a great adventure.
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It began ot October 1 Jast year.
Feier met his grand- nother, 57-year-old Mrs Edna Bishop, at a bus stop near his honie,
She smiled, took him by the band, and halloi a taxi 1 was such a nice day, she said-Just right for a hollday,
The 'Holiday'
ہو کیا
The "holiday" covered ecuntries, by air, land, and sea Peter, still clutching his home- work satchel, followed his run- grandmothe without awny protest fo week after week Es they kept a mere jump ahead of the international police.
The route they followed was Auckland - Sydney Perth Dunkirk Calls Folkestone- London.
Peter's
As they travelled, parents sent frantle cables to friends in Australia and Britain,
As the days became weeks they appealed for help to Cabi- nel Ministers, the Governor- General, and the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
The "holiday" ended when: Scotland Yard detective: met Peter and his randmother in London.
Inventor Who Cannot Stop Making Gadgets
Ipswich.
An Ipswich inventor is working on a new kind of sticky tape which, he says, will be equally use. ful for mending a punc ture or for scattering, paper-chase fashion, to leave a luminous trail if one gets lost.
Ats Joy Booth, the attractive your wife of Derrick, the man who cannot stop inventing gages, fays:
seream.
"Sometimes, when I find bits of paper covered with diagrams all over the house, I feel I could Then I look round my ultra-model home and know that I am lucky üfter all to be married to a man with a head for gadgets.
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That's Typical
A half-empty bag of cement slcod in the middle of the drawlug-room floor as we talk- ed in the Booth bungalow. "That's typical," sald Mrs Booth. "It means that Derrick 1 going to make something pretty big this time-as soon as he has his head, the plans straight in
Mr Booth is the Englishman who recently was awarded 2106 by the United States Air Fo.ce for profecting a safety device al Bentwaters, te bomber station, near Ipswich.
He received a letter of thanks from the European HQ of the USAF.
Major-General R. W. Urgu- hart, Commandant at the Royal Sandhurst, Miltary Academy, was satisfying a whim.
He wanted to be the man to
first brick of
the
Last week, in a London soll-knock tha citor's niBee, Peter was harded 115-foot boiler-house chimney, over to his paternal grand-new being demolished after 45 Father, Mr Thomas Morris, of years.
He will ny with Monmouth. him until he sails back to New Zealand this month,
PETER MORRIS 'Jolly Good Fun'
ARMY DENIMS
Several hundred cadets watched from a respectful dis- lance as the general received a pair of carefully pressed Army denims.
A mummur of surprise grected per-
the fact that they fitted
fectly, instead of ending Gin, up the general's leg, as denimis usually do.
Then he was off. Ten minutes Later his red-handed sap appeared over the smoke-
rim. blackened chimney
A from the
rugged cheer came crowd na the general bent and Ffted a loose brick....
werd
де the bottom there muro sulutes, A batman Look the general's denims. Off swept the staff car to bear the general buck to his house.
-But John Ended
Up In Hospital
London.
A mother sat by the hospital bed of her dan- gerously ill six-year-old son last week and prayed that he would never want to adven- ture again.
For Mrs Elizabeth Hackling
the fear of three years, had bap- pened. Last WDOK her son John, a boy with the wander- Just of his sailor faller in his swilling eyes, ran away again.
He had done it a hundred or more times before, sometimes as often as three times a week.
Nothing Mrs Hacking could do would stop him wandering. He just went off on his tricycle or caught a train.
Always police brought him back. Always Mrs Hackling to him. feared something would happen
John was staying at a hostel for three weeks to see if a curo could be found. But on his way back from school the adventure bug seized him again.
Unconscious
He walked into a station and on to a train. He was found later lying unconscious with a fractured akull beside the track neor Wood Street Station, Walthamstow, after a carriage door was seen swinging open,
In Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, as he waited for an emergency operation, 113
mother sat holding his hand.
Mrs Hackling of Maryland Square, Stratford, who is ex- pecting a baby, enld: "Ha is a good boy and very happy but not all the gsies and tebees lu the world can stop him when he gets this urge to go off"
NO CRACKLING SWEET
These Boys PAPERS HERE
Liverpool.
Build Own A Liverpool cinema has in-
Classroom
Derby.
troduced a "charter" to protect patrons from fate arrivals, crackling sweet papers and 'smoke in the auditorium.
The boys of Rislay Holl approved #chool, подр hero, ura soon to build themselvós a single-storey | while block of six classrooms.
Under the "charter" no one le allowed to enter the cinema
* Alm is in
progress- E briet intervals
there
They have already but their between Binis for entrances and own gymnasium, carpenter's exits. Sweets pre no longer shop and drawing office, as well offered for sale and smoking asreeting bose for two has been banned.
members of the sleff and
·modaraising Ta number of The programine also
avolds
cottages in the school grounds. Alms that glorify war, Dimat Mr Carl Cooper, the head-violence and horror, and from mater, mid that it would take making ma) muggeratad SIZ about two years to build the appeal.
classrooms, and would save the
school
PACE...
shout" £9,000.—United There ara De
The
World
Smallest Wife In The World?
Mrs Jaan Ryan, 42, of Frank- ton, Australia, claima to be the smallest wife in the world, the Is Just threa fest two inches in height and le married to 43-your- old Peter Ryan, who in five
fost nine inches.
She has a daughter Lynette, 16, by a former marriage and she I only half an inob taller than her mothar, Mrs Ryan is the youngest of, har family-three of her
Bix foot
brothers are over and one is five feet nine inches. Mother and daughter often taken for "tule sisters".
The 88-inch wife ridea about
on a specially constructed 10-inch bicycle and uses an especially low-built frigerator.
Her husband, who is
daep
soa diver with the Adelaide Harbour Board, mot his wife hospital radio through
programme-Keystone.
Will Power-And A Wife
MOCK PILLS MADE MEN CUT SMOKING
London.
to
klop plila.
an American Lebeline, a drug derived from
herb, is claimed to make a smoker lose all desire for a cigarette--without any amples- sant effecta.
who wanted Sixy men and women
smoking were siven "anti-smoking" All looked alike. But while some contained drugs designed to stop the smoking habit. | Dr others were ins; placebos auger pills. Yet the results were identical! "This proves that druge are valueless in stopping smoking. Only will-power can do it," said the doctor who organised the experiment.
His
to
He is Dr William Gordon White, senior modlea
Motors, offoer at horris
Oxford "quinez-ply" were 60 Morris workers.
some tablets and told them "I gave them
Lake two overy four hours," Dr White said "AU the tablets looked the same, But contained contained lobeline, some some copper sulphate, and some were placebos. Copper sulphate is supposed to make cigarettes laste unpleasant and cure smokers by giving them nausea,
White went on: “At the end of a fortnight I found that one in four of my volunteers had either cut out smoking completely or
which duced it drastically—regardless of pills they had been given.
10-
"I found tha; over halt were smoking less, and Just under a quarter had not responded at all-again, regardless of which pulls they took."
Dr White summed up: "There is no short cut. If you want to give up smoking you have simply got to make up your mind to do 12"
Dr While used to smoke 30 cigarettes a day, but gave up five years ago. By will-power “and the encouragement of my wife," Express Service,
MONOREX
Created by the technicians
of Erismann-Schinz S, A. La Mauvevilla, Switzerland.
RED LOVE, MARRIAGE
and the LURE OF
ROUBLES
Prom
Moscow comer the cautionary tale of a Mr Sorokin and a stolen overcoat, It was toid originally
the to magistrates and reported by Police Court Reporter M. Levinson in the "Vechernaya Moskva" (Moscow Evening News, price 20 kopeks-about 2d.j.
THE only person in the factory, cloak- room at the time was a Mr Mihail Sergeyevitch Sorokin, an engineering specialist and laboratory chief, about 50 years of age.
The factory spokesman said It was impossible to accuse Mr Sorokin of such a crime. WIB 4
He
He
man of substance. had his own motor-car and 10,000 roubles in the bank, the police were told
Nevertheless, the missing coat
Wes
found in Mr. Sorokin's garage, He was taken to court.
There Mrs Sorokin este into the story. She had complained that her husband's pay-packet had been cut by half. Worried, she had gone to the factory to maka inquiries..
Deception
There she had learned that her husband was deceiving her. He bad fallen in love with 2 young and pretty waitress. By coincidence presents and out- ings for the waitress cost hiro more than half his salary.
to Mre Sorokin put a stop that.
that the "She arranged whole of his earnings should be paid direct to her,
This did not suit the pretty waitress. She cooled towards Mr Sorokin. He had stolen the cost to raise money to please tver.
to The court sentenced him six years' imprisonment, re- duced to three because of i recent mnesty.
Deduction
Last week Weste
observers
were discussing tho case, and the sentence by newly elected magistrates.
Mr Sorokin was described in court its a man with a clean rocard. Three years is stiff for
a arst offence. Is free love in Russia on the way out?
What, too, of Mr Sorokin's ttle nest-egg of about £4007 Has Capitalism - been
to the Soviet Union?
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