mes House And The
Are Saved
ch costs of upkeep and heavy lit from many large houser in place, and with it a battle of wits horities. Scottish regulations pro- ouse is habitable full rates have ugh no one is staying there.
house
ent of to remove part of the roof.
£150 Rain enters and the owners{is eouidered uninhabitable
1 firms with no rates to pay.
EW
IS
.
A snag is that sometimes de- molition cannot take place unce, and houses are left with rooping holes in the roofs lor snitiin.
Families who have lived in there houses for generations are moving into the ladies or smaller
Many of their homes.
| could be developer into hotels. or dats, but a substantial de- velopment charge muy be
■ws of land uter the Town nn:l
Country Plaoning Act, because
withe e of the building would the be changed, which
£50.- would-be buyers,
them
Some families are knocking In the down and rendering uninhabit
abte half or three-quarters of their houses, thus reducing the ratro, and living in the remain-
Several famoua
veteran
car-old inc portion.
super-
molten med mandons have been
of 5015 dealt with in this way.
Klasa
In addition to famous ok re- sidenens, bhi haizes of recent are not construction are being vacated the and placed in the hands of the
demolition equada.
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task
Just after the war one man some bought a 50-romed house In taken North
Scotland. Riding costs,
d only rates and taxea have oblieck
he was him to arrange for its detnoll- again, tion, and he is now living in hit
estale factor's house.
in
Crunch
s Renee Jeanmaire (right) and costume for one of their new ory, sung as well as danced, is Jeanmaire crunching diamonds e people, it seems, eat carrots French star prefers carats. (Acme)
king
On
The
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 81,
Moving/East.
LIFORNIAN
MURALIST Henry Taylor does a good job of trans- planting the image of a bit of California to the heart of New York's bright light district. Posing is shapely Joanne Durant, of San Diego, who was judged to have the nation's best figure in the latest "Miss Amerien" contest. The painting marks the site of a new restaurant. (Acme)
Blonde Forgot She Was A Mother
At intervals somebody slipped six poison-pon lotters under milk bottles or under the doormat of meteorologist John Snell's home in Edenvale Road, Paignton, a quiet
Devonshire seaside resort,
caused
Crudely worded in ИП
Doctor dingnosed lose of educated handwriting, the m
by worry. letters were addressed to turn as rudens as it went.
They hope her memory will re Snel's slim, good-looking blonde wife, Mamie, 24.
She could
not recall her -wedding-or-the-birds-of-her
again
und
At first the Snells were inons, had to be introduced lined to laugh at them.
to her relatives But after the sixth, Mamie, friends. Rick with worry, fainted while walking with her husband along the seafront,
When she came around the asked: "Where's my uniform? Where's the band?" She had lost her memory.
MET HER SONS
Mr Shell was retearing her life.
When she resumed shipping her husband had to take her to The right shops. The butcher did not believe her when she said the Jkd not understand the present ration- ing system.
Mamie thought she was still serving? in. the Women's Compared with her WAAN Auxillary Air Force, stationedite six yours ago the found on the land of Tiree in the plenty Hebrides.
Was
of
Her last inemory dancing a quickstep with air- an Roy Feley, of Edmonton, London at station dance.
On
That was six years ago. All events of her life from that moment to the time she wokr up on the reafront her mind was blank.
Her husband persuaded her
ary
10 then home, where he intended her to her sons, Brian, 3 years, and
Gordon, 12 months.
She did not recognise them She was astonished to earn the war was over. Her hus- band had to show her where she kept all her things in the home.
BLANK ON WEDDING
Her husband took the letters to the police and wife to Paignton Hospital,
Railroad
Pollen, duniawill) * 30 calibre machine-gum on top of Strokartdünk, ständ guard over an important link-1 UN
vityply listen ^ in Korvo. (kens)
of pleasant changes. the war was over, the black- su lifted, clothes and petrol were of the ration.
There were shocks, too-the not to pay 3/0 for 20 cigarettes compared with 176 in the Air
force canteen in 1944,
KNITTING STRANGE
She could not settle to finish plar a pullover she had CUT the week before she inter, She felt it was taking over someone else's knilting.
But her husband found sliver Lining.
1
Said Mamle: "John comments on how I now get up in the morning ke u lark. Ap-
before parently I didn't 6lx though
when I was In the his WAAF I was always up early."
Tie police received com- pinints from other women
London Diary:
Lady Hamilton's Necklace To
Auctioned
Be
A Diamond necklace, a gift from Nelson to Lady Hamilton, is to be offered by acution in Lon. don. It has 27 clusters, was made around 1800, five years before Nelson died at Trafalgar.
Lady Hamilton Hold the thee length. Advantage is that necklace to Mrs Susannah half sizes disappar. Rolton, Nelson's sister. Largest registered pizo in the
new system Ever since the necklace has jet a man's size 11. remained in the family.
Now, Lord Trafalgar, the pre- rent owner, is sending it to Christie's.
Lord Trafalgar, 60, in eldest son of the present Lord Nelson.
PRINCE ON A WALL
Is 40-quivalent
50 YEARS AN EDITOR
A banquet In the authentic rettion of afty years ago wili be held in London on Novem- er to honour Sir Bruce In- rom's half-century an editor
of the lustrated London News.
Prince Charles stood on the The Prime Minister, wall
the
ny
of his home, Clarence Duke of Gloucester House, the other day, watchingcwspaper proprietors will at- end. Much research has been the lore Guards ride by..
reproducing
The
the lent
As a mounted policeman was directed pansing the corner
Princess flavour of 1000, Silver, Klass Elizabeth called out "Good and decorations, down to morning." The policeman, P-e wax candles, are being Marshall, slowed down to en- from mons collections. able Prince Charles to get a better view.
FIRST IN NEW WHITEHALL
Sle Bruce, a big jovial man with a great appreciation of art and archaeology, is 73. GIRL FROM ALICE SPRINGS First occupants have moved From Alice
office block the
Springs, in heari
of Australia, Miss first, Dorothy Adamson has
into the mammoth
In
Gardens, Whiteha.1
late George Lansbury.
come
lato
planned 20 years ago by the to London to interest Britons in such pastimes of the Northern staff of the Territory an growing of Trade Establishments shooting
peanuts, crocodiles,
huning from ICI House, buffalo and kangaroo, Department Millbank,
Misa Adamson. In her Their move means that three twenties, has dark, fashing eres, floors of ICI House are freed In Alice Springs she works for and go back to Imperial Chem-an
terane company. She ral Industries
About 500-000 speaks with authority about the Board of Trade employees re- sports of the district. Sho main there, occupying the sixth shools, and she rides a horse floor, and part of two others. like a cattle ranger.
Those who have moved 10 Whitehall Gardens will be alone in the completed wings for nt least a year. Then intre staff
come from the Air Ministry will move it. Eventually there will be more than 2000 Board of Trade staff here.
from the Board of Trade and
There are still 1500 of the Board's anff in privately owned Thames House, near ICI House. Whether their final move from Thanics House will mean that it will he derequisitioned dr pends on the Ministry of Works.
PRESIDENT MARY
ex-
Mr Churchill's daughter Mary, Mrs Christopher Seames, 3 gathering her fellow Servicemen and women Into an fold Comrades Association.
She has become president of the Association of 101 Heavy (Mixed) A-A Battery. As AL second subaltern she served at
gun-site the Hyde Park
and control room. Her father used
to visit the control room during nicht biltzes, watching her bat- tery in action.
Later the moved with the battery to lasting to tackle uy- bomb attacks, went to Belgium and Germany,
HORSE GUARDS 'SHIP
Guards Anchored on Horse Parade is a new "ship" of the Royal Navy. After a voyage of 1.000 miles around Britain an Admiralty show is in London for a week, Chief officer has
rinval rank.
Ho La Mc hord Day, Admiralty
EX- hibition Officer
ho
In the marquer is shown the work of the Royal Navy in models, photographs. There is a cliff asault by Royal Marine commandos. The unk
encountered diriy weather in the north. The marquce was blown down. Seu- men do not class this as a ship- wreck, but as a dismasting.
MEN IN CD CARS: 7 Unrulled by the Cabinet crisis in Tel-Aviv Are Israel's representatives in London.
ceskients who received polson- Collapse of Mr David Ben- pen letters.
Mrs Dickinson, a widow who Ilves opposite the Snells, rot three. Another widow in the same road got one accusing her ot mitchief-making.
Sald
John Snell: "Judging from the style of the lettere I think the writer was a woman."
RESEARCH
ON NEW DRUG
Sufferers from rheumatism
and neuralgia will watch with Interest the activities of Dr Phillp Hench, American resear- ch worker. He has gone to Bel- taln to explain to doctors latest developments in the re search on cortisone, new drug which may prove to be a cure for rheumation.
In London Dr Hench saw a nim in colour. It showed the effect of cortisone treatment on patients with rheumatism; how
after a few doses diseased Limbs were restored to normál working.
But it will be some time bel: fore the drug la available to | the michelle, There will have to
be much
fecla patora: 18will be safe to
union's Government has not disturbed their diplomatic routine.
Israel's Minister,
Mr Ellahu Elath. has a staff of 50 at his legation in Manchester Square, W. Of these, No. 1 is Mr Morde- cal Kidron, counsellor,
Counsellor Kidmon, is 35, small with thick dark hair, carefully brusbed, and a moustache. He to slightly lame. Mr Kidron, born in Capetown, was injured ne a fighter pilot in the South African air force during the war.
After his nir accident le served in the South African in- fantry. More recently, in the Arab-Jewish war, he was an Taneli army commander at the slege of Jerusalem.
an
Mr
Kidron married Itallat. He and his wife havo flat in Chelsea. Despite his rinity, Kidron plays golf,
SIZE 15 FOR BABIES The old jokes about polico- men's Size No. 11 feat will son be out of date,
Regulation size for a future police-constable will, be Non. [43. "That is
the Shoes and Allleri Trades
es Research Association SATRA-have their way. Sonj manufactur
have alrendy adopted the, new site system After more than ten years mensuring feet, the association have devised a new scale of attings.
I
Bootqos for a baby of a tow months begin at size 18; u ilight- footed, young woman of fashion (would make för m. 36. st The new scalo ir b
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The
Favoured
MIMI Medart (right), the shapely 16-year-old from St. Louis, who caught the eye of King Farouk of Egypt at Blarritz, France, is photographed here with French actress Cecile Sorel Reports say Mimi and mother are going to Cairo for Christmas as guest of the Egyptian monarch. (Acme)
Lights
In
The
Night
LIGHTS of Big Ben (centre) can be seen through the lines of light caused by passing buses during an unofficial strike by gas maintenance workers in London. The House of Commons was still debating when Whitehall "blacked out.” (Acme)
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