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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-11-17, Page 3ed eight dres$4, J4, IA ,round: neck, pulled, tight, was a stock- lOg tied in a reef knot, and pear her were bottles of deodorants whose labels showed they had been purchased a year or more after Mrs, Knight disappeared, Mrs. Knight, it turned, out, had been dead since 1940, but her body - through a freak of air currents-had been Inutranified. It was preserved intact and se hard that one learned Egyptolo, gist reported that he could not chip it with a hatchet, How this could have happen, ed remains a roYsterY to experts on mummification, BUt in the Denbighshire Assizes Court last month, all the other facts in the case were made startlingly clear, Mrs. Harvey, it appeared, had let a room to the semi-crippled Mrs, Knight in 1939. And being a kindly soul, she had gone to the Rhyl magistrate's office every Friday morning to collect the $5,60 weekly allowance made to Mrs. Knight by her estranged husband. Always, they clerk re- called, Mrs. Harvey would have some word to say about her lodger's condition ("Feeling poorly, this week"; "A little bet- ter today") as the payments mounted over, the years to about $6,000. This money.', Mrs. Harvey„ spent on baubles for Bubbles and later on ballroom dancing lessons for him, But as her son grew older and got married; she no longer took in boarders but worked nearby as a hotel maid. When arrested, after Bubbles re- ported his finding to police, Mrs, Harvey at first said: "0 bobl Annwyl" which in Welsh means "Goodness gracious." But she freely admitted placing Mrs. Knight in the closet. "I did it in a panic," she said, although she denied having first strangled her. It was on this point that de- fense attorney Andrew Rankin, ,a heavy-set, 36-yearold barrister from Liverpool, hammered re- lentlessly last week. Facing him were the two main prosecution witnesses: Dr. Gerald Evans, Home Office pathologist and Dr. Alan Clift, Home Office biologist. An expert on pathology himself, Rankin contended that the pro- cess of mummification had made it impossible for the prosecution to prove that the stocking- found around Mrs. Knight's neck :had been stretched by human ebinds before it had been tied there: It was impossible (after, TO,Veetty years) to prove she 'had-"'been murdered. The point carried when, after five hours of rigorOUs crOsS-e2- amination, Dr. Clift collapsed and fainted on the witness stand. The Crown then conceded that although there were "manifold circumstances of suspicion" cen- tering on Mrs. Harvey, murder could not be proved. The judge promptly ordered the jury to re- turn a verdict of "not guilty," For Mrs. Harvey, however, the court "victory" was almost mean- ingless. Her son, Bubbles, was jailed for embezzling his em- ployer's funds and she herself was sent to prison, for receiving Mrs. Knight 's "maintenance money" under false pretenses. The jail term was set at fifteen months-but doctors said she is not likely to survive. Mrs. Har- vey is now 65 and is suffering from an advanced case of cancer. -From NEWSWEEK. Wife - A letter marked pri- vate and confidential came for you today, Husband - And what did it say? OCT 30 LAST MONTH - IN HISTORY OCT 4 Children's Games. Are Vanishing OCT. 12 OCT. 26 tik. uNsnrsawol LESSON Airliner crochet In Boston harbor, killing 61. Flock of birds believed cam. OCT 14 Chartered Pion* crashes at Toledo airport, killing 22, including 16 members-. of California Polytechnic Colicee football Noise 26 Others injured, !even killed in Windsor, Ont., deixirtinent store explosion. Japanese socialist party leader assassinated by rightist youth; riots follow. f4y 0;0307 %men Thafaka Ile .to GOd saint 141 A-I8 This psalm is great song a thanksgiving, rich in praise to God, John Angell James of Biro zningharn, England, used to read it in his house eVerYiday, Whoa his wife was on her, death bed she wanted it read, for she de- clared, "It is as full of comfort as of thanksgiving," The first two verses of the Psalm are our Memory Selec- tion: "Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me5 bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, 0 any soul, and forget not all his benefits," In all the world's literature where is there anything so expressive of grati- tude as this? Donald Demaray, writing in. Arnold's Commentary, points out that in the expressing of grades tude for the mighty acts of Gods (verses 3-7), the first listed is forgiveness of sins. Then follows pea* for other works of God; redemption (v.4), justice (v.6), revelation (v.7). The never-failihg, love of God is the theme of verses 8-18. 'Someone has said that this pas- sage is perhaps "the richest des- cription of the divine love in the Old Testament." God is merci- ful and gracious. He is readily forgiving, not punishing us ac- cording to the gravity al our sins; His love is boundless, be- ing higher than the heavens. And then comes the concept to be so strongly emphasized by Jesus; God is like a father (Vs. 13, 17). On December 2, 1950, while meditating on the first 3 verses of this Psalm, I had a very prof- itable experience. By God's grace, in spite of the intense suffer- ing of the past eight months from rheumatoid arthritis, I was able to bless the Lord with all my soul. There had been some struggle to face 'what appeared to be a life of invalidism and say, without any reluctance, "My times are in Thy hand." Psalee 31:15. His benefits were great, At the age of 15 I had found His 'pardon. Then I thought 'upon ' Him in the light of the words, "Who healeth all thy diseases." There alone in my room I trust- ed that He was healing me of rheumatoid arthritis, He was Very neer as I took the 'Ventura of faith. I knew that He was pleased that I should trust Him. Seven weeks from that night, I who had been using crutches part of the time, went skating. I have no trace of the• disease although I carry some extra cal- cium deposits at some joints. They are no inconvenience. I am very fond of Psalm 103. -OCT. 2 Recalling the joys of hopscotch in my youth, I have looked for the chalked squares of this chit. ",li'en's: game on the playgrouncle between the great blocks of fiats in Westminster, London, They are seldom there, is their ab- scare significant? Where are the 1900 equivalents of youngsters who used to scuff out shooleather hopping on one foot and kicking the elusive slate platter into the squares? On an evening prowl before official summertime ended, 1. found girls using 'a skipping rope, but the only similarity to "tag," "tig," or "catch" were the sudden sallies of boys with menacing-looking, if harmless, pistols dashing at each other with a series of staccato shouts:. "Bang, bang, bang, you're dead!" Otherwise I found few children playing with the , absorption which shuts out the grown-up world even the call to supper. The older girls and boys, the so-called teenagers who used to giggle and chatter under ehe gas lamps, now sit around plastic- oo.vered,„tables An the Espresso bars. Their feet ensceeed in " Williclespickere shoes, with stilet- to heels - tap to the rhythm of the jukebox. Their heads, piled high with puffed-out hair, nod to. the beat, eThe, surn,ewhich.,one teen-ager now spends on soft drink and buns in one evening,e would have representdd the weekly pocket money of a teen- e ager 10 years ago. • ,ef 4 Mrs, Mary' Stewart, wife of Michael Stewart, M,P., has made a survey of -7,000 Ilford school children,. comparing their leis- ureetime activities1 with those of-:. .• children in 1946-47. Secondary modern children seem to be spending more time on activities in which they do not participate, and less on those re- quiring thought and initiative, she finds. Few children ,-today, she says, 'are interested in aetivi- tiesexcluaive to children. Even spoit:e she says, is less popular, Children today read grown-up periodicals; they dance; listen to records; and talk with those of their own age group in clubs, cafes, and other places where they feel grownups will not join in. (I have never felt .more cons- cious of grownupness than when, in search of light refreshment one evening, I stumbled by mis- take into one of these teen-age cafés. Mrs. Stewart notes a change in leisure tastes more marked in the case of secondary mcidern children than in those who get more academics at the grammar schools. Grammar school children, she .says, have retained their inde- pendence, "and their leisure pur- suits are, if anything, more var- ied and individual. than those of their predecessors 10 years ago." This reminds me of the mother tof two who gasped with horror when I asked her if she -had a TV set. "TV set, no," *she said, "The children wouldn't spend any time on their photography." Fa- ther incidentally has a dark- room in which-the children de- velop and print their own photo- graphs. Mrs, Stewart backs her conten- tion with statistics. As compared with 1946-47 she .says the proportion of grammar schools naming football as a fa- vorite activity in 1958 has fallen from 58 to 37 per cent; those naming cricket from 67" to 31 per cent: Among the secondary mod- erns the fall in football is from 78 to, 40 per cent, writes Melita Knowles in the Christian Science Monitor. The absence of hopscotch pitches in Westminster is ex- fitlehorgh e Pirates beat N.Y,' Yankees in 7th gam to take World Series, OCT. 13 Nine killed, e5 injured as two freighters collide on Mississippi River, Khruslichey returns. tot eeecow after .5 days re hew York. .• OCT. 12 UN, General Assembly, president Boland breaks gavel trying to control riotous meeting in which Nikita Khrushchev waves his shoe. t 9 OCT. 23 Ocinib blush in Novi York arouse fear* of • another "Mad Bomber." OCT. 4 VS. orbits Courier advanced communications satel ite. OCT 13-16 Three Americans eie'cuted in Cuba, for ateemptipg to overthrow government OCT. 13 Three black'mice are rocketed 700 miles into, space, recovered OCT. OCT 5 OCT 19 U.S. imposes goods embargo on Cuba, South Africa votes to leave British Commonwealth, become Republic, OCT. 25 Castro seizes lost remaining U.S. business firms, 26 Army coup takes over ' government of El Salvador. -woorime...-inowiemmemen Newimap feeelirefeeeeeeieiiie 1,1 TIE FARM FRONT its first sputnik into orbit in Qctober, 1957, the Australian Government announced through External Affairs Minister Rich- ard. G. Casey that Australian scientists had "broken the back" of artificial rainmaking prob- lems and expected artificial so- lution of the problem within a few years, e Though...overshadowed by sput- nik, the Australian statement was considered scarcely less revolutionary in`its implications, since it signified that the econ- omic structure of Australia and many, other countries could be I . greatly changed. The present Australian claim to have- produced a sure method of ' increasing rainfall over a lengthy period of years may therefore mark the solution of the general problem, as forecast in 1957 by Mr. Casey. In short, the Ahitrallan experiments have shOwn the silver iodide method al cloud seeding to be reliable where cloud conditions are fav- orable, writes Albert E. Nor- man in the Christian Science. Monitor. This development, according to CSIRO, could have great signi- ficance e in areas of Australia with an annual rainfall of from 11 to 30• inches. Broadly, this would affect about 63 per cent of the Australian continent, The balance of 37 per cent has less. than 10 inches 'a year and cov- ers roughly the central west of the continent. There is little official hope that the system would be sue- ' cessful in this latter region. It was also not adaptable to coastal regions where rainfall already was high. The Australian experiments showed that a single aircraft could seed clouds and start rain falling over an area of up to 4,000 square miles in one rain- making project. If conditions were right, rain would fall with- in 20 to 30 minutes of the first ,seeding and would continue un- til' conditions changed. The" significance of such econ- omic rainmaking over large area spells tremendous poten- tial benefit to Australian farm- ing in the development of mar- ginal lands, great stretches of country where see-sawing rain- fall keeps •farmers, continually rubbing their chins. The cost of producing the higher rainfall in Australia is estimated to be 20 to 25 per cent of the economic return. Even at this early stage, it is possible to see that earth satel- lites could become part of arti- ficial rainmaking services. Tiros, %the present United States tele- vision-equipped satellite, now orbiting the earth about every 100 minutes 450 miles up, re- cently *photographed a typhoon 800 miles east of Australia, and this discovery was reported by the United States Weather Bur- eau to Australian weathermen, In developing commercial rain- making programs, the demon- strated ability to` gather advanc- ed weather information by sat- ellite would be invaluable to rainmaking services, as well as to fanners. • jects have been undertaken at Ottawa and ,at agricultural col- leges„ more work is needed in this area. He outlined tests being made ' for a more accurate measure 'of internal quality as a • basis 'for'" grading ,eggs, and reviewed work aimed at establishing suitable standards for corrugated egg cases end , poultry boxes. What does ''the Canadian farm housewife consider.the most use.:. • ful piece of equipment in her home? This question was posed to 352 horneenakers residing in each county and district of Ontario by the rural sociology unit of the Canada Department of Agricul- ture, in conjunction with the home economics service of the provincial government. * The answer: a power washing machine. * * The survey, reports Dr. Helen C: Abell, who is head of the rural sociology unit, listed 37 pieces of equipment;as considered• "most useful" by the rural housewives., An analysis showed • that an' electriceor gas.etoire ranked next to the washing machine, ands closely followed, by a refrigera- tor. All three• were in 85 .to 98e per cent of the farm homes and ,' were the choice of three-quarters of those surveyed. • .2. * Fourth piece of equipment considered most useful was an automatic clothes drier. Al- though found in only 11 per cent of the homes included in the study, the drier was named as one of the most useful labor savers by over half of the wo- men who had one. High on this list of useful home equipment came these electrical appliances: a freezer, a vacuum cleaner and a floor pol- isher. ;44 .4t4' GOING STRONG - Mrs. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, holding a rose, flashes a big smile in New York ' as she attends reception for U.N. delegates on her 76th birthday. The new insecticide ronnele , given to steers in pill form, was highly effective against cattle grubs in 'tests at ,the Experimen- tal arm ,Nappan, N.S. As hi t tests elsewhere, the treatment controlled the' grubs Without affecting the health ,of the animals. * Rennet, they warned, must not be 'grVeze to milking cows because of possible, residues in the milk. inlay it be given to ani- mals 'that are to be slaughtered within 60 days.• • A single pill, or bolus, was- given to each of 16 yearling Hereford steers in November. A similar group received no treat- ment against the grubs. The'fol- lowing* May the untreated group' had 'an average' of 18.5 warbles per steer, in Comparison with less than one '01,8) for the treated group. The two groups of steers were similar in general condition. , plained to some extent by Mrs. Stewart's figures. Among the sec- ondary school girls she says the popularity of street and garden games has dropped from 56 to 5 per cent, Reading to is down: from 38 to 29 per cent among grammar school boys, from 69 to 58 per cent afong the girls. Among' the "modern" boys it has gone down from 37 to 15 per cent, and in girls from ,58 to 30 per cent. The young boy or girl of today goes to the youth club, dances, listens to pop music, or watches TV. Youth club membership among the "modern"`boys more than doubled in 11 years. Fan clubs and jazz cubs are a new feature of teenage life. Scouting was less popular in this group • though Boy Scout headquarters here reports their over-all mem- bership has increased. Music, without doubt, emerges as one of the pleasures of mod- ern Youth. Seven out of 10 of the boys and girls in the second- ary schools have a 'record play- er or radiogrim at home, Nine out of 10 included listening, to records among their pastimes. Classical music is less popular among "modern" than among grammar school children, and among boys than girls. "Rock" is popular among the younger chil- dren, jazz among the over-six- teens. The child 'of 11 apparently watches TV "most" nights whereas his viewing decreases considerably by the time he is 16. With more "looking in," there is less cinema attendance. Upsidedown to. Prevent Peeking * * Other items mentioned by few- er of the women were: an ironer or mangle, an electric food mix- er, a sewing machine, an elec tric coffee maker and toaster. Comments Dr. Abell: efThese pieces of home equip- ment which save arduous physi- cal labor need to be recognized by farm women and their hus- bands as a desirable and neces- sary part of farm family living." Canada's poultry industry has been urged to make fuller use of the contributions being made by research. A challenge Was thrown out to the Canadian Hatchery Fede- ration at its Saskatoon conven- tion by A. Drew Davey, director of the Poultry Division, Canada Department of Agriculture "If you had a full appreciation of the contributions being made by the various resarch groups, I am sure you would be making greater use of the information and facilities that they haye,": he declared. EN A 3 larjSV 1 3 N AZILIEI El i S I NOM a 3 -1- V 2:1 El CI 3 .d a 'il El 3 S'sH:JEI 3 3 11 315 N O Mal Val 0 d SiallaM3E1V CIVIEIO MI W C3 N 3 la QA© . El S®3 1 .1- 1 lciS Jill 3 a V0tvitlaff13-9 D t13.1010 .1 Vrj 3 Del 3 ffia dOVO Wffi 89113 C crT/7 Sa0V ©OVA Making Rain In Australia Weather steadily is becoming bigger and bigger business. Australia gave weather an- other lift up the business ladder when the federal controlled Coin- monwealth Scientific and Indus- trial Resear ch Organization (CSIRO) announced • last spring through its chairman, Dr. Fred- erick W. G. White, that it had cornpleted what was considered the world's first successful long- term series of artificial rainmak- ing experiments. Spread over five years, these experimenti were largely con- ducted in the Snowy Mountains region of southeast Auetralia, where the country's $1,000,000,- 000 hydroelectric and irrigation' project is under construction. This project involves diversion of rivers under mountains, construc- tion of underground power sta- tions, and a series of big dams and other water storages. When completed, this huge system would be capable ref tak- ing over the base power load of much of eastern Australia in an emergency. The key to its capacity is consistent rainfall. Thus, in' 'conducting' their rain- Making experiinente. over the Snowy Mountains region, Ads- trelian scientists were as much interested in increasing the basic security of the country as in in- creasing the region's rainfall by artificial means. It was officially stated that present figures indicate rainfall over the Showy Mountains had been increased by 15 per cent, though this figure is being check- ed et ptesent., in other parts of the country, the rainfall per- centage increase was claimed to be even higher, The most successful method used by CSIRO in seeding cloitds was with silver iodide. When burnt and dispersed as smoke from'an aircraft, silver iodide produced millions of particles capable of turning told water droplets of high clouds into ice crystals, In melting during its fall, this ice turned to rain. CSIRO began its rainmaking experiments in 190. About 10 d ears later and just two days after the Soviet Union launched ISSUE 47 1960 7.Whd Crank 28. Untruths CROSSWORD ' :: Fascination 29. Facility 32. Scoff „ restaurant 35. The least bit 10. Off , 37. Originate PUZZLE 11. CareSses 16. Scarcer 39. Capital a Bulgaria 41, Chess mnn ** Mr, Davey referred specifical- ly to work being carried out on blood typing as ah improved and more accurate methed of achiev- ing breeding improvement. This ['reject, cohducted by officers of CDA's production and marketing branch working with flocks at a number Of agricultural colleges, should greatly benefit the gen- eral breeding program of the country; he suggested,. At' the genie time, extensive basic resarch' that is extremely (761Liable to tile poultry industry is being carried en through the clepartmeht research branch and Aiitirtal Disease Research In- stitute. * And, he added, aggressive ex, tension programs are being car- ried out by officers of provincial dePartthehts of agricUltute iii the interests of more efficient arid better _quality production. Mr. Davey felt that market re- search has tailed to keep pace with extensive and successful re- :starch hi such production fields as, breeding, nutrition and Mari- agehleht. While a number of pro- 42. Woodwind instrument 43. Minus 46. Immerse 47. Attempt • 41. Auricle 49. Stain She Kept A Ghost In Her Closet Over the years, Mrs, Sarah Jane Harvey had kept her secret locked up lb a closet at the top of the stairs. When boarders in her home at Rhyl in Wales got nosy, she told them that' the closet contained only herchoieest linene. When her pink-cheeked, son, "Bubbles," a curly-haired, perennial winner of baby beauty contests, became enticing, his mother shooed hint away. got until he' was a groW11 inall did Bubbles discover the secret of the, closet ott the sceond hoot,. Then, thinking to please his ino. trier by redecorating the liaise while she was undergoing hospi- tal treatment, Bubbles, pried the :closet door op011. Inside, clothed and crouched, he found Mrs. Alice Knight, who hadn't been seen for twenty years, Mrs. Xnight were a faded blue an:15111g IOWA and a long-sleev- 3 5 21. HaVink lived ACI,13.3SeS„..x 1. Enemyt. N long 1,* 2. Beard. of grain 22. Except 0. mar god S. Anardhlet 23. SYstematid 9. Headpiece 4. Elicited medical care 5. Street urchin 24. Burn mese th 12. Wallis debt 18. orate 6.HUrried 26, Tidiness 14, Scotch like 1 n 51: oitotatwa HebreVi so' measure it. BOWlins lanes' ' 21. Flower,24. 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