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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-07-03, Page 7Safe -Crackers Burglars recently attacked a safe in an office in Tampa, Florida, and after a good ,deal of trouble blasted the door off, Then they, discovered that the combination to open the safe was written on the outside all the time! It is dangerous to explode a safe in a confined space but a London gang of gelignite burg- lars took that risk in the offices of a , mineral' water firm, When the smoke cleared the gang dashed forward eagerly—to find only a few old ledgers and some insurance cards. Another mob which used too much explc•sive blew the safe to pieces—and all the money that was in it. Even legal safe -openers have ,to be careful. After a fierce fire at their offices a firm recovered a hot safe. Keys would not open it so they called in a man with a drill. As soon as he had made a hoe flames burst out of it. During the fire, the safe had become red hot right through. Immediately et hole was made in it and air reached the interioF,the contents burst into flame. Cheap Dollars The jobless worker; collecting his unemployment Insurance In 50 -cent` dollars, is getting a tra- gic lesson on the meaning of inflation. This money is not a dole. It isn't charity or a gift. It truly is insurance which is the work- er's legal due. It comes from a fund ,,built up ' by . regular pay- ments from employees — money the worker might otherwise have received in wages. ' The national average of week- ly payments is $30. Such an in- come would have pinched, even when the system was set up a little over 20 years ago. But it would have been at least enough to tide a family over between jobs. The cheapened dollar has turn- ed this insurance into 'a mere pittance. The worker who de- pended on it is threatened with the degradation of being forced on relief to feed his family, Labor unions In particular, it seems to us, should think about This before they hurry, to indorse The quick euros for unemploy- ment and business slump, now hysterically suggested. - Eirm- h gham (Ala.) Post -Herald; Pulling Strings To Keep Fit - Toitlgue - tied children, and others suffering front nervous troubles; stammering, lisping end excessive shyness, are find- ing a cure for their afflictions by playing with puppets. Manipulating the figures, the children become completely ab- sorbed, their imagination Is set free, self-consciousness removed, and healing influences go to work. Moreover, if the puppets Themselves play heroic parts, or show a strong personality, then something of that personality is transmitted to the children. This curative power has been brought to a fine art by Mr. S. W. Salter, a master at Parkhurst School,' Tottenham. He found that a timid child soon becomes self-confident when put in charge of a fine robust character like St. George, In time, such associa- tions kill any inferiority com- plex. Mr. Slater encourages his pu- pils not only to help in making and manipulating the puppets, - but to create their theatre, de- vise lighting and scenery anti even write plays for the mini- ature''performers. At another London school, H -year-old Vivien Goldstein has bad success in writing 'puppet ,plays. She turns' out her, scripts et home, using a home-made theatre and puppets of her own to work out: her scenes before 'writing, them. esas LOOKING FOR HIS FIFTH OPEN VICTORY -Ben Hogan appeprs to be leaping for the crown at Tulsa, Okla., as he comes up from a sighting of his ball on the seventh green during a practice round. He failed in his quest. Murder On Police Station Steps Miss Esylt Newbery, lecturer and, world traveler, has seen some strange sights on her wan- derings. In primitive Albania she saw a woman carrying a heavy wooden cradle containing a baby on her head, on her back was a big bundle of wood, in lrer hands a distaff — and as she walked along she was busily spinning! In the middle of a broad high-• way she saw two countrywomen in picturesque costume sitting chatting, with cars, bicycles, ox- carts, omnibuses, horsemen swirl- ing past them, .Feeling like a gossip they had just squatted down oblivious of all the traffic! Miss Newbery, who writes vividly of her nomad life in "Parson's Daughter", also saw something of Albania's vendetta - feuds, for while she ..was in Tirana an avenger killed his enemy on the steps of the local police station. - If he were hanged his tribe would at once try to level up the • score to his house and all its contents were burned down be- fore his eyes. Only by leaving him homeless with the long,. hard winter reproaching would he. wonder 12 the game was real- ly worth while: This form of. punishment Miss Newbery says, - has done more to : end ,bloody. [feuds than any other. In Vladivostok where she taught a Russian woman English, she had to go to a doctor for treatment after being stung by a sting -ray; while bathing. When he left the consulting room to make up a prescription she ask- ed her Russian friend what his fee would be. "Oh," she replied "you need not pay him unless you like' there is no settled fee, and . he won't demean himself to 'ask you for - money." "Then how does he live?" queried Miss Newbery. "Well, most people- pay. but it would be very insulting for you to give it to him personally.. You must hide it somewhere about the room and he .will• find it after we have gone," So she hid a ten -rouble note' in a brass jar on his desk, then, when he came back with the medicine just shook hands, thanked him, and left. Miss Newbery was strolling along a Vladivostok street when out of the door of a house came what looked like a Harrow white punt with'deep sides, carried on the head .of a small boy who was completely hidden by it. Then ' name a ' robed priest 'singing loudly, attended by two boy at- tendants, also singing and carry- ing lighted candles, Behind these. came a shallow coffin borne shoulder -high by six men in dress suits, Seated in it almost upright, with hands folded, was the corpse of a very handsome old lady. Family mourners followed, all in masses of crepe, the men in tall hats with long crepe stream- ers; then a choir of girls singing a dirge. When the procession reaohed the street, friends and neighbors joined it. At the cathedral the coffin was placed on a bier, a woman stood by it with a handkerchief to keep the flies off the old lady's face. After the funeral service all the mourners moved round the corpse, each one kissing her on the cheek. She was then taken to the churchyard and lowered into the grave, the mourners passing in an orderly file to take a Last look at her sitting so calmly down below, Sinally, the great lid that resembled a punt was lowered on to it, and the Rus- sian funeral was over. "Our ways with Death," her Russian friend explained later, are so much better than yours, for we keep our dear ones with us right up to the. end." In • Japan Mis Newbery saw quaint notices like these: "Fur coats are made here from Any skins, ours'Or yours." "Here you can get dental elumbing by the latest meth-, odists." "You are not allowed to com- mit suicide here! If you•dp, you will be punished with the utmost penalty of the law." At Kodzu she, saw a whole family mother, father and three children — returning from the public bath without a 'stitch of clothing on! When she herself went to. bath,'a coolie was 'sent with her to wash, her back. She found six baths there without partitions and at the door her innkeeper, Fakude, 'arguing hot- ly with two' young. men who also wantedto' bath; at the same - time. "I very clever man!' he ex- plained when at last 'they'• -gave. way. "I tell.them .English' lady very peculiar, always takes six baths at once!" It- took' her ten minetes.to persuade the coolie to leave without'•washing her ;back, but immediately she had finished " bathing'he was back again and`. she wondered how..how.he .knew that• Me was ready to leave! ' HARD RIDDEN WiNS EPSOM DERBY -As the Epsom Derby field rounds Tottenham Corner. arrows point out Hard ,Ridden (center), winner of the race, and Alberta Blue (left) with jockey Johnny Longden aboard, who was unplaced. Hard Ridden is the . first Irish -trained Jlorste,to win the derby since Orby in 1907. A Plea For Uniform Car `Prices It is heartening that the "You Auto Buy Now"; campaign, tried in a number of American cities, seems tp be successful. Cleve- , land;'"for one, has succeeded in increasing sales in the last few 'months with this campaign, And now it is trying to stimulate sales still further by putting uniform price ceilings on new cars. This might be a model for manufac- turers "and' -dealers throughout the country to follow, Turn, back the files of The Courant for 25 years to May, 1933. Thanks to•the depression there were few 'automobile, ad- vertisements, Yet those that did ' appear. differed from the present 'ones, and not only because ad- vertising techniques have been refined since then, Inone ad the most visible thing after' the pic- ture of the "new and larger Essex Terraplane," was the price in conspicuous letters: 1505 for the coupe, f.o.b. Detroit." Again, all models of the Willys were identified with a fixed price for each. And the "new cushion -bal- anced" Chevrolet 6 could "now be bought for from $445 to $565." To these free -on -board prices, of course, one had to add freight and extras. But they too were easily accessible and the same to all, Why is it that a fair and uni- versal f,o,b,price never appears in the automobile ads any more? The one thing that has distin- guished American merchandis- ing from Oriental haggling, and that has made us successful businessmen, is the fixed price. Somewhere along the line we have lost it as tar as cars are . concerned, Of course much of the 'fault lies with the public, since we Iove to boast we got $400 more on the trade-in than the old bus was worth. Our grammar school children could tell us that most of the $400 carne not out of shaving profit but out of the price pack. Nor is it easy to find out just what automatic trans- mission, -power brakes, power steering, undercoating, white walls, power windows, autronic eyes, and what have you cost. The dealers have grown tired of this, and favor the bill pro- posed by Senators Monroney and Thurmond to suggest a list price for each model. President Eisen- hower supports the idea. It could be if we got out of the O:iaotal bazaar and returned to the sim- ple habit, of just buying a car of known value, with the price the same from Hartford to San Diego, we would sell ourselves ' more cars,= -Hartford Courant. New Faces Send Crooks, Straight Women hospital patients are being given facial' massage and beauty treatment as a cure for melancholia. Such patients tend to let their appearances go, They develop all too 'quickly sagging chins, crow's feet and forehead wrinkles, .while their hair be- comes lank and listless. But after treatment their 'self-respect re- turns. The -patient who was once full Of misery and despair acquires a new pride in her appearance and her health improves mar- vellously. That goes for men, too. Such excellent results have' been' reported of beauty treat-, ;ment experiments at•Goodmayes. Hospital for Nervous Diseases ;that other hospitals' have now decided to adopt a similar' tech- nique. St. 7,Ohn's;Hospital, near Ayles- bury': the . Mendip Hospital, 'Wells; and Coney Hill and Hor- ton Road Hospitals, Gloucester, ,will all soon introduce beauty treatment • Two nurses from each of these hospitals are now being trained „ in a'Bond Street beauty parlour.. This altering of faces as a cure for'; old ills and encouragement 'to restarting 1Ife, is even affect- -'ing ,convicts fin Texas. There, ,prisoners,• just before release, are being..given the benefits of plastic surgery. • This greatly . assists their re- hebilitation problems, and re- moves old' prejudices hampering their return to, society. SMUGGLERS' PLAN WAS WALKOVER If you want to smuggle some- thing;past -the customs the best, way is to doit. openly. 'At least ,this is how 10,000 army boots ' formen were smuggled past the ••very vigilant French authorities in Algerian before they tumbled to it. ' Army boots for men are strict- ly forbidden and customs have strict orders to watch out that none go past them for . rebels. 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