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APRIL 24 Kentucky GaY.
Chandler sends 2,000
National Guardsmen Into.
Strike-torn coal fields:...
Japan
celebrates Marriage
of Prince Akihito to
caremorier.
West Gentian
Charicellor Adam:filer.
%Mentes he will resign,
, run for president.
-U.S. tells Russia -;
• planes Will fly Beilia air
"1-- corridor at any altitudes
they choose.
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APRIL 25 Sf,„
1! Lc Seci*ay
opens.
bisCoveist satellite
fired into polar orbit, plant to
recover Initibraeiti package foil.
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National-Gudid
Okitt deer% Meriteaci State
riol after 35 houri.
AWL!. 15 tebeir
Premier Fidci
,„.Ccritreeliltsta „
4PRIV 16
Western
foreign Ministers Meet
in Paris'on Berlin
situation.
APRIL. 15 • Secretary of
State Dulles reSigngi
.President nahics
COristiatr A. Hertel. hie/
-secretary.
D4Ileg acceati gait as cpoeird cansul tent.
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"Friendly Credit'
— Easy Terms"
titkince Meetings
Odd ytesults
ances, too. A' trio of hoodlum_
Teddy boys, for example, reeente
ly spotted in a South London §U -
burp what they thought would
be a very easy victim, for a cosh
attack—en elderly man carrying
a small suitcase,.
One of them leapt in, aiming
to crack him on the head with
a loaded stick; the second snatch-
ed at his bag, and the third
whipped out a knife, However,
the crack on the head never
landed, With the agility of a
trained athlete, the old gentleman
side-stepped the Teddy boy at-
tacks. Then, dropping his nab,
he waded into the attack him,
self,
Weth three perfectly placed
blows, he soon had his adver-
saries laid out at his feet. "Young
fools," he said, when handing
them over to the police. "They
should know better than to go for
an old sergeant-major whose spe-
ciality was unarmed combat!"
`TABLE TAI
eisaue Anclivems.
A Great Comedian
Goes To College.
The summer I returned from
The Greenwich Village Follies
spent in the hands ,of another
proeespor. It happened in this,
way. Joe KellYe the Only fellow
I knew in our peighborhood who
was going to college, worked
during his vacations as a life-
guard at Carson Beach, When I
came hOme every year, Joe
would let me row the lifeguard
boat to enable ,me to get a good
tan in a harry. In 'June, 1925,
when I carneloack from the Fol-
lies, Joe told me that this year
he couldn't take the lifeguard
post; he, had to take a summer
course at Boston University, to
make up sorkeTheeltia 'He sug-
gested that I take a summer
course, too. It sounded interest-
, Mg. .1 wasn't much of a scholar;
it he'd almost taken extradition
papers to get me out of the High
School of Commerce; The sub-
sequent years I had spent in
vaudeville and in shows, I had
never been ,to college; I didn't
need' any credits; I hadn't been
near a school far 'fourteen years,
All my qualifications were nega-
tive, but, after looking over the
Boston University catalogue and
selecting a course that was given
by Professor Willies's' C. Hoff-
man and included English Voca-
bulary, Rhetoric, Oratory, Public
Speaking, and, a few other sub-
jects, I agreed to accompany Joe
on enrollment day just to see
what would happen.
When we crawled theoegh a
hole in the ivy and entered the
Boston University building at
Boylstort and Clarendon Streets •
Joe went upstairs to enroll for
his courses; I was left alone at
the ;door to locate Professor Hoff-
mate I found the peeper room
on the ground floor, and -got
iAto line. When it came my
aline to sign, thee Professor look-
When a suspected safe-breaker
sat down in his car in Yorkshire
recently, he had no idea that his
seat had been dusted, Yet, in hie
absence, with the car unattendecl,.
a smart polacenian had sprinkled .
some Powell's Secret Powder
over it,
This fine dust, almost invisible
to the naked eye, consists of three
special chemicals which can
hardly occur in, combination any-
where on earth by accident. The
Home Office,,laborateey e eepert,
WhOle` tikes; designed
the powder to help the police lay
incriminating trails for crooks.
Driving off in his car, the sus-
pect wasted very little time in
mere joy-riding. But, to his sub-
sequent dismay, when the labor-
atory experts started looking for
clues at the scene of a local post
office robbery they found ample
evidence of the tell-tale powder
traces round the "blown" safe.
Perhaps an even sharper shock
befell a Paris car thief when, re-
cently, he stole M. Rene Delong-
vert's car. This was the second
time the Frenchman had had his
car stolen and, for that reason,
he was mad with rage.
Jumping into his brother's car
M. Delongvert cruised around
Paris, his revolver at the ready.
For several hours he searched
the boulevards and side streets,
without luck. Then, suddenly, at
the traffic lights he spotted his
stolen bar, with the thief at the
aeseheel. Inunediritely he blazed
away with, cis. terl,/jer.
Thg thiTsVreerielefeclee'teancea
And, with considerable eitiAe,
the Frenchman‘Was able to hand
him over to the police.
This. is the season, when every
sales agency in the land urges
on the consumes! "easy pay-
ment terms."
In. New York City the sub-
way rider is urged to make a
credit arrangement with a
"friendly"' bank. He ,can even
have his charge accounts at re-
partment stores paid by 'the
bank, which• he, in turn, pays
off to the bank on "easy" terms,
Banks have been told by their
public relatisine eXPerts.U...stress
that they are "friendly,"
Thli bank-credit system for
department store accounts is
spreading, Of course, many
stores• themselves have long• had
special budget 'accounts. laracyPe
in Newe '.York paOneerecle ,in
"cash-time" payment:
Today the ramifications of
consumer inatalmerilt ,crRdit, ,,are
increasing al the rate Appe
als Aleutian
through vigorOtil adVertiling on
televieilen and rildio,-.45111borrds,
public transit, 'direct. mail, e pied
neve,spapees urge alms/se:any kind
of credit ,scheme from the 50-
cents-As-week variety' to, the
"write-your-own-cheek" sYstern
up to $4,890- payable in 12 in-
stalinents; or ife'to $6,000 'pay-
able in -24,
Judging;' from the spring ac-
tivity of banks, other lend-
ing agencies, and sales promo-
tion efforts by dealers in con-
sumer goods it looks as though
1959 will see a Vastly expanded
consumer credit in the United
States,d a Ny
Nothing
he
presumably is to-
day beyond the tempting reach
of "do-it-now-pay:later." Literal-
ly anything — swimming pools,
vacations, motorboats, mobile
homes, as well as automobiles,
household appliances, and
homes can be financed on time.
All agencies are urging the
use of instalment credit as the
"normal"- way to finance, major
Purchases. Mdte and more the;:i
are also urging it as ,the "nor-
mal" way ,to
chases.
Financing of equipment, menu:-
lecturing and otherwise, for
small business is a big new area
in instalment credit. Some 4.3
million potential customers exist:
A five-year ;pay-as-you-go plan
instead of :the old 90-day or 6-
month note-as becoming a pat-
tern for small business.
Instalment , bankers attending
the United States who did home
canning' in 1958 'lined up toe to
heel, the line -would reach from
Florida to Dawspn City.
That may sound fantastic to
the office worker whose time
away from• the job is mainly a
scramble to keep ordinary home
tasks up to date. It's the latest
statistics, however, from people
who should know — the manu-
facturers of preserve .jars.
Another way, of 'saying the
same thing is that over 20 mil-
lion women did home canning
last year. And interestingly
enough, nearly 30 per cent of
:them were ' urban dwellers, as
contrasted with' rural.
• * *
The economies inherent in
canning are considered the' main
reason for its popularity — but
there's another. One young man
was talking one day recently
about signs of spring, and he
mentioned his rhubarb patch. He
said his wife cans many quarts
each year, and during winter,
months makes them into pies or
sauce—the latter served with hot
cream of tartar biscuits, he ex-
'plained. Anyone who could have
seen the warm, appreciative look
as he spoke would, have under-
stood why that line of women
canners stretches so far.
Freezing has replaced some
canning .of beans, corn and other
'products, but the items' which ac-
count for the largest .volume in
home eanning—tomatoes, relishes
and peaches—do not ereeze well,
and :for , this and other reasons,'
freezing and canning are con-
sidered as complementing each•
other. But home canning still ex-,
deeds home freezing by 50 per
cent. • *
A half-pint tapered jar which
first came on the market two or
three years ago is by far the
nicest container ever invented
for homemade jellies and jams,
Many think. It is also fine for
telishes, or for any small quails
tity you wish to preserve. These
jars seal air tight With regular
dome, two;piece, metal caps, and
no paraffin is ever needed. Jelly
can also be turned from the jars
just as from any ordinary jelly
glass. If you once use these jars,
the chances 'are you'll never go
back to fussing with paraffin.
• *
It's not a bit too early, even
the Meech credit conference in
Chicago of the American Hank-
ers Association were told that
"instalment credit is one oi• the
most potent forces in the econo-
my today," They heard, too, that
instalment credit is a construe,
tive way to bring "friendly
banking service" to the con-
sumer,
This trend is spreading else-
where, Astonished at the role
of instalment credit in the
United States, other countries,
notably Australia, Can a d a,
South Africa, the United Ding-
dour, the rn. a j o'r industrial
countries of continental Europe,
and underdeveloped nations, es.
pecially Latin America, are
turning increasingly to its use
writes Nate White, Financial
Editor ef 4 The Christian Science
Is/Ignitor; '
It) a ccpprep,ensiv, six-vol..
ume-study on. instalment credit,
coinPleted" in' Merbh, 1957, the
Federal ReSei've SysteM said
thatliTudebt .is ',a necessary con-
ditiori and concomitant ,,of econ-
or*,,'progress in 'an :economy
such „a ,the, united State a".
_.)oven So...the otudy, warns of
weaknesses, instalment credit,
— its 'tendency' to accentuate
boo'rris as in Augiist, 1955, when
66, per - cent of new-car sales•
were• on' time. .Detroit is just
now, getting over that spree.
The Federal Reserve study
also points out the obvious,
that such tempting terms, as are•
now'offered' the eOnsirmer, re-
quire remarkable emotional con-
trol and a steady hand on the
family budget to protect indi-
viduals from abysnial personal
loss and permanent debt peon-
age.
Reports come in, too, that
the "friendly" front is only a'
façade, that the people- hired
6y banks and other lending,
agencies to "police" accounts
usually lack training in custo-
mer relations. They offend cus-
tomers and often treat them as.
potential criminals, Much ap-
parently-still •remains to be-done
if :the ."friandlyl.tn: is, to be
made to stick CilitoTheit of-
.efenslecl by onp credit. "police-
d .rn'an" Can take~ their next ac-
count elsewhere.
Obvioualy a business which
has tripled in the past 11
years and which is due to,
double in the next six has
many weaknesses. It should re-
quire constant attention of the
Federal Reserve System, es-
pecially if it threatens to get
out of hand and again feed in-
flation. Banks oppose federal
control 6 to. 1. On the other hand
consumer debt is not self-regu-
latory, as banks' insist, Their
own competitive advertising
and the temping tie-in adver-
tising of manufacturers is clear
evidence of this.
tbsp. flour mixed with a little cold
water, and 1 1/2 tbsp, of the fat
left over from browning the chic-
ken to the liquid in the pan. Be
sure to scrape up brown particles
from bottom and sides of pan.
Serve chicken with split hot
biscuits. Pour gravy over all.
(Serves 6.) ISSUE 21 — 1959
If all the women in Canada and in the north, ,to start 'thinking
about "canning, or-freezing-if you
/'have' a freezdt:eRliubgibr, straW-
-berfies;epear-u--- they're !available
. in, southern:states-ealreadye -arid•
be NA., us 'farther: north in
just a few weeks. Now'S. the time
to` 'chedk jars act to'-see'
whettier 'fort neect 7anY' iiewteqUip-
meat. Experts say that canning
a few jars at a time is not only
less tiring, but you're likely to
have better •success with your
handiwork, too.
o * see
One cause of sealing failure
is the leaving of a wrong amount
of head space when. filling , jars,
Some brands of two-piece, metal
caps require less head space than
others, but one well-known brand
gives this' guide:
For meats, corn, peas, or shell-
ed beans—leave 1 inch, space at
top;
For other vegetables and fruit
—1/2 inch and then add liquid to
cover the food;
For juices, preserves, pickles,
and relishes-1/4 inch head space;
For jelly and jams-3/4 inch
space.
* *
It's a good idea to be consist-
ent when it comes to canning:
follow the instructions which are
supplied with the brand of jars
and lids you prefer to use. Jar
manufacturers are glad to give
specific instructions on request,
usually in the form of printed
leaflets and booklets.
« I
CHICKEN FRICASSEE-
stewing chicken, 41/2 to.5 lbs.
cult up
1 cup' flour'
1 tsp. salt
les tsp. pepper
JA cup fat (half butter)
1 cup water
1 tsp. :roiereary
1. 10-oz. can mushrooms, sliced
1 1/2 tbsp. flour e
Wash chicken and. dry on paper
towelling. Roll in mixture of 1
cup flour, salt and , pepper.
Heat butter in heavy skillet
(your electric frying pan will
work perfectly for this recipe).
Brown chicken pieces on all sides.
Drain..off fat and save,'
Add 'water, rosemary and
mushrooms to chicken. .Cover
tightly and cook over low heat
about 1 1/2 hour* or until chicken
is tender. Add More water if
necessary. Remove chicken, and
keep warm.
Make thin gravy by adding 1 1/4
Varied. Beauty, •
The frail, white-haired, old lady
broke into a sudden smile, Then,
its
sowing eurprising energy, she
rted up and accosted a football
an who, having spent the after-
esOon watching his favourite club,
was strolling home by himself
Through a quiet, tree-lined
avenue,
Gasping delightedly, she crush-
ed him to her in a warm em-
brace.
"My dear woman!" he protest-
ed, gently releasing her grip.
"You must be mistaken. I have
never seen you before."
Swiftly regaining her poise, 'she
apologized profusely, "I thought
you were my dear missing bro-
ther," she said. "Forgive me --
it's rim since I last saw him,
OUT likeness, to him had me
completely confused."
He, of course, accepted het
epologies. The incident struck
him as more comical than , other-
wise until, some' minutes later,
after she had disappeared, ,lie
went into a shim to buy some
cigarettes..
Reaching for his wallet, which
E
carried in his trousers. pocket,
found it had vanished! Then
I truth hit him. He'd been corn-
pletely taken in by the old lady's
"lost brother" act. Her sole pur-
Pose In ivabeecingehine hadebeen —
to pinch his wallet!
Chance encounters don't always
h
ave such unfavourable results,
owever.
An attractive red-haired girl
was walking on Wimbledon Com-
mon when she spotted a dog
which was obviously lost. She
went up to it—a spaniel—soothed
It and, taking a piece of string
horn her handbag, started to lead
to the nearest police station.
e spaniel was quite frisky and
ei she walked with it the string
became entangled. quite acci-
dentally round the legs of a good-
looking young man.
"I say, that's a lively dog
ou've got," he remarked. "What's
e name?" She confessed that
eh e didn't know it. "Well, that's
nny," he replied, intrigued.
sir conversation developed and
ultimately it was the dog whose
Same she didn'e know which led
her to the altar!
First appearance can be mis-
leading, all coueet A beautiful -
1-year-old BetvarearsissegirlCeSYs-1.
Mlle, acceptedeajav :as; alepuie- >._
;raid in East Anglia in order to
perfect her English. She knew
frothing about her employer, but
ese offered a reasonable wage,
and the Ministry of Labour grant-
ed her a work permit.
Imagine her shock when,' ar-
eiving at g 'tiny village station,
Ale was met, by a black-bearded
oung man who drove her in a
anishackli;4ar to an isolated cot-
s, lying about a mile inside a
lelt wood.
"This is ,a lonely place," she
said, recolering Partially from
her shock. "Whatever happens
here?"
"I'm out to track down the
eseissing secrets of life," he said.
Ian a biologist—my friends say
e, crazy One—but I know other-
wise. Now I expect you to help
me. TomorroW, you must go into
she woods and collect for me five
frogs and twenty-five fat spiders."
The girl shuddered. Yet she
did as she was told. There was
something compelling about this
confident, ottlaw-like young man.
And, within two weeks, her re-
vulsion entirely. She
becamestis enthusiastic research
assistant,.
Then, iome two months later,
after he'd sat up half the night
poring over his microscopes, he
suddenly burst into her room,
and in
x
cited tones said, "My
life studses have just rewarded
me wit :,a great thought."
She lelihked. "Yes, I must mars
xy yoga' he declared, During
their eageks together she had
grown tO love him, so she kissed
him ardently and assented. To=
day she: stills lives in the wood,
and h0 two children as well as
en intellectual husband to care
for, i
Crooke and miechief-makers
can be gittelly misled by appear-
IT'S WET — Marie' QO odh ea rt
finds •Florida's ocean waves a
mite cold even though the air
temperature stands in the 80's,
On through the levelieseaclaun-
try imaginable, always rolling,
se place' /eyel etiough to let a
plate.of soup..
Dotted with red400fed•
:Brilliant_ with buttercups,
Queen `Anne's lace, opulent rho-
dodendrons, ,breathless cascades
of Scotch laburntifte chestnuts
white send Aimee cheetnutes red,
flowering fruit trees of every
sort. H. G. Wells did not exag-
gerate: ". . . Other countrysides
have their pleasant aspects, but
none such variety, none that
shine so steadfastly throughout
the year."
Variety and steadfastness.
They would seem to be contra-
dietary, but are not. The variety
of scene is kaleidoscopic. No two
stretches of road alike, no two
hills alike, no two villages alike
Each change gives new plea-
sure . . But steadfastness. The
feeling of permanence, a, long
past and a long future. Subtle
variations through spring, sum-
mer, autumn, winter and yet
steadfastness throughout the
year, the grass as green in win-
ter as in summer, perhaps a
bit greener.
Great care is taken to pre-
serve the beauty of the country-
side. The rural scene is free of
billboards (hoardings). Your
view of 'hill and wood and river,
is not interrupted by pills and
soaps „ We were to find this
blessedly true throughout Eng-
land, Wales and Scotland, --
From "Roaming Britain," by
Willard Price.
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REPORT TO THE ANCESTORS — Jap an 's Crown Prince Akihito, , ,
followed by his' bride, Princess' Miohiko, leads a procession to a
Shrine. Fall6Wing' ancient CUStarri, the Prince and hi's bride made
a ,report 'Of their marriage to the spirits of 'his ancestors.
ed up and, blinked. Then he
looked away, looked back, and
blinked again. He couldn't be-
lieve his eyes. He had seen me
in Boston only a few weeks be-
fore with The Greenwich Vil-
lage Follies He couldn't under-
stand why 'I was posing as a
college student. He thought it
was some sort of gag.' I explain-
ed my presence by saying that
I came from Boston 'and couldn't
be traveling around the country
in show business making gram-
matical errors in other cities that
would reflect on the high Cul-
tural standards of Boston's edu-
cational institutions, The Prof.
fortunately had a good st=ew of
humor. After learning that I had
only graduated from high school,
he said that permitting me to
enroll for his course would be
highly irregular. However, he
added, if I really wanted to
spend six weeks studying, he
would Permit me to join his
class as a stowaway. * From
"Much Ado About Me." by Fred
Now that children have proved
themselves quite agile in manip-
lating the hula hoop,. toy manu-
facturers are trying them out in
the juggling field. They have
produced a new toy consisting of
ari unbreakable polythene plate
Which spins atop a pointed stick,
Regular wrist• Mallon keOpS the
plate spinning and the really
accomplished juggler can throw
the Pieta iII the air and 'eatele if
on tic ,) (f the s!'ek keeping
it >,itelie:4, all tie time.
WORTH ITS WEIGHT ee Though, it's'good ds geld, this Canceled
4,11etle; It fridide solid goer, the :36.pourid check we welded
Other In 1931 aria wad. Issued to witinere cf d'contest" deal-
wIth Cred Weldiha. A bank guard temeefed If by perreturiel
With rtiathlrie-cjen treat,