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The Brussels Post, 1960-12-01, Page 7ed night dress, But around her neck, Palled tight, was a stock- ing tied In a reef knot, and near her were bottles of deodorants Whose' labels showed they had been purchased a year or More after Mrs. Knight disappeared. 1<night, it turned out, • had been dead since 1940„ but her body — through freak of air currents--had beon, mummified.. It was, preserved intact and so hard that One learned Egyptole, gist reported that he could not chip it with a hatchet, How this could have happen- ed remains a mystery 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, the 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 bob) 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 hands before it had been tied there. It was impossible (after twenty years) to prove she had been murdered, The point carried when, after five hours of rigorous cross-ex- 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. OCT 30 LAST MONTH — IN HISTORY OCT. 4 ChiIdeen's Games Are Vanishing OCT. 26 UNDAY SC11001 LESSON Airliner crashes In Boston harbor, killing 61. Flock of birds blend cause. Chartered plane crashes at'Toledo airport, killing 22, including 16 members of California Polytechnic College football team; 26 Others injured. Eleven killed in Windsor, Ont., department store explosion. Japanese socialist party leader assassinated by rightist youth; riots follow. By /kW. At, Barclay Warp* f3.A., etre Thanks Be to •God leeelin 103: 148 111-i Piall"Pv 0 CT. 22 Nine killed, 25 injured as two freighters collide on Mississippi, River, This psalm is a great song of thanksgiving, rich in praise tcs God. John Angell James of Bire rningham, England, used to read it in his house every day, When 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, 0 my soul: •and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and forget note. 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 grati- tude for the mighty acts of God, (verses 3-7), the first listed is forgiveness of sins. Then follows praise for other works of Gods zedemption (v.4), justice (v.6), revelation (v.7). The never-failing love of God is the theme of verses 8-13, 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 ce 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." Psahre 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 elone in my min I trust: , ed that He was healing me of rheumatoid arthritis. He was very near as I took the venture. of faith. I knew that Ile 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 9 23 Bomb blasts in New Yolk arouse fears of another "Mad Bomber." a OCT, 12 Recalling the joys of hopeeoteh in my youth, "l have looked for the chalked squares of this chil- dren's game on the playgrounds between the great blocks Of flats in Westminster, London. They are seldom there, Is their ab- sence significant? Where are the 1960 equivalents of yottngsters who used to scuff out sheeleather hopping on one foot and kicking the elusive slate ,platter into the squares? On an evening prowl before official summertime ended, I 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 the gas lamps, now sit around plastic- -covered tables in the Espresso bars. Their feet — ensconed in Winkle-picker shoes with stilet- to heels — tap to the rhythm of the jukebox. Their heads, piled high with puffed-out hair, nod to the beat, The sum which one teen-ager now spends on soft drink and buns in one evening would have represented 'the weekly pocket money of a teen- ager 10 years ago. Mrs, Mary Stewart, wife of Michael Stewart, M.P., has made a survey of 7,000 Ilford school children, comparing their leis- ure-time activities 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 activi- ties exclusive to children. Even sport, 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 cafes. Mrs. Stewart notes a change in leisure tastes more marked in the case of secondary modern children than in those who get enore academics at the grammar schools. Grammar school children, she ,says, have retained their hide- 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 hada 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; these 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- UN, General Assembly president :Boland breaks gayel trying to control riotous meeting, in which Nikita KhrushcheY waves his shoo, 110414i Pittsburgh Pirates beet N.Y. Yankees in 7th game to take World Series, OCT, 14 Khruslichey relzalleldsayfse ineits,rewowyaorftke.r OCT. 13- 16 ,Three Americans executed in Cuba for attempting to overthrow govenunent, U.S. imposes goods embargo on Cuba, Castro seizes last remaining. U.S. business firms. OCT 4 U.S, orbits Courier advanced communications satel i e. OCT 13 Three black .mice are rocketed 700 miles into space, recovered alive. OCT 5 OCT 19 OCT. 25 i OCT 26 South Africa votes to leave British Commonwealth, become Republic. 'Newrnop, Army ;gap takes over government of El Salvador. i ,0•:•:,•••• Tilt FARM FRONT J06 its first sputnik into orbit in October, 1957, the Australian Goyeenment announced through Extelnal 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, 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 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 Australian experiments have shown the silver iodide method of 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 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 cove ers roughly the central west of• the continent. There is little official hope that the system would be suc- 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 areas 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'farmers. 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 and poultry boxes, * * e The new insecticide ronnel, given to steers in pill form, was highly effective against cattle grubs in tests at the Experimen- tal arm ,Nappan, N.S. What does the Canadian farm housewife consider the most use- ful piece of equipment in her home? This question was posed to 352 homemakers 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. • o 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 electric or gas stove ranked next to the washing machine, and was closely followed by a refrigera- tor. All three were in 85 to 98 per cent of the farm homes and were the choice.of three-quarters of those surveyed. • * * 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 ber 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. 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. , As in tests elsewhere, the treatment controlled the grubs without affecting the. health of the animals. * * Roneel, they warned, must not be given to milking cows because of possible residues in the milk. ....Nor may 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 ((0.8) 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 radiogram 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 considerable', by the time he is 16. With more "looking ,in," there is less cinema attendance. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 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 Com- monwealth' Scientific and Indus- trial R e e e a r c h Organization (CSIRO) announced last spring through its chairman, Dr. Fred- erick W. G. White, that it had completed what was considered the world's first successful long- term series of artificial rainmak- ing experiments. Spread over five years, these experiments were largely con- ducted in, the Snowy Mountains region of southeast Australia, 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 of 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 experiments over the Snowy Mountains region, Aus- tralian scientists were as much interested in increasing the basic security of the country as in in creasing the region's rainfall by artificial Moms. It was officially stated that preserit figures indicate rainfall over the Snowy Mountains had been increased by 15 per cent, though this figure is being check- ed at peeseet. In other parts of the country, the rainfall per- ceritege increase was claimed to be even higher, The most successful' method used by CSIRO •in seeding clouds was with silver iodide. When burnt and dispersed as smoke Tittle an aircraft, silver iodide produced millions of particles capable of turning cold water droplets ef high clouds pinto ice crystals. In Melting during its fall, this ice tutted to rain. CSIRO began its rainmaking experiments in 1947, About 10 ;stars later and just two clays after the' Soviet theism launched BeJA 3 Sdser f 3 N AVb.l. S ISI NOM C11.1.Vell 3 d a'aV 331 NOctlAloci 3 sarse3.3.esvh. 5 3 eiI lei IIS (s) N I I DN3V%V3t3 3 N ei 30 3 ti A 3 V.9 3 1 5,1/4 3 3 CIIV .L I el else -IV 5 Bel J elfICIN daisy afftTO 3 lad 3 eA V arse 3DNYI ciVD 5323 V 321V..4 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: 'These 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- serer 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 inforniation and facilities• that they have," he declared. * * Mr. Davey• referred specifical- ly to work being carried out on blood typihg as ah improved and more accurate method of achiev- ing breeding improvement. This preject, concluded by officers of CDA's production and marketing branch working with fiocks at a Member of agricultural colleges, should greatly benefit the gon., &al breeding eprogram of the country, he suggested. At the seine time, extensive basic resarch that is extremely Valuable to the poultry industry is being carried On through the department's research bratich arid Animal Disease Research Irt- etitute, And, he added, aggressive ex- tension programs are being car- ried out by officers of provincial departments of agrioultom in the interests of more efficient and better quality production. Mr. Davey felt that Market re- search lies failed to keep pace With exteneive and etteceesful tee search in such production fields- as breeding,. nutrition Mid Mane egernent, While a number of pro- Wife — A letter marked pri- vate and confidential came for you today. Husband -- And what did it say? • ISSUE 47 — 1960 7,Wild prank 23. Untruths CROSSWORD 8, Fascination 29. Facility 9, Self-service 32. Scoff restaurant 35. The least bit 10,0ft 37'. Originate 11. Careeeee 39. Cabital of 16. Scarcer Bulgaria - - 20, Cover 41. Chess man DOWN 21. Having lived 42, Woodwind 1. Enetny long instrument 2. Beard of grain 22. .remit 43. Minus 3., Anarchist 23. Satennitle 46. Immerse 4. 4. Elleited medical tare 47. Attempt 5. Street &chin 34. Burn'siightl8 48. Auricle 6, Ittit‘ried, 24, Tidinese 19. Stain . PUZZLE She kept A Ghost In Her Closet AettoeS I. Stock Ot food It meted Headpiece' 12. Wita in debt . is, Orate. 14, Seeteli lake Pattiltice' artinnIe IL Hebrew drif measure10. Ilthisling lanes 21, IllOwer 244 .11reakintO 25. 'JOwer Valtti *-0.7.ty net611 ItCanc 10.1*Itig el ht 81,0166'0es • 'St Creek 314, ExnetteiV9' 26, 'Commercial bureaus it, Meted 40. Expunge '41, Kind of chyr- earithernitini 48, Shelter 44 Mt' Ltneorn 45, United big`OOtiiition itgreetneii4 650, weeelottielotia 3o 51. hispettegOarless eft, 11,,gesseseithi 65; ourt oriole 5 /cY 3 S. 7 Over the years, Mrs, Sarah Sane Hervey had kept her secret locked up in a closet at the top of the stairs, When boarders in her home at Rhyl ilt Wales got nosy, she told them that the closet Contained only her choicest linens. When her pink-checked son, 'Hubbies," a eurly-heired, perennial Winner of baby beauty contests, became Curious, hie mother shooed him away. Not until he was a grown n-ian did Hubbies discover the secret of the closet on the second floor. Then, thinking to please his mo- ther by redecorating the house while she was undergoing hospie lal treatment. Hubbies, pried the closet dear epets. Inside, clothed and (touched, he found Mrs. Mice Knight, who hadn't been seen for twenty Yeare. 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