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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-07-17, Page 9Lotteries in West Germany The defense lawyer scurried across the, packed courtroom in the West German city of Hann- over, and, with a gallant sweep, kissed ' the plaintiffs hand. "Please don't be angry with us," he asked widowed Frieda Wen- ke, 54 "This is merely a tech• nicality,," But the "technicality"- Frau Wenke's suit claiming she had been bilked out of her 500,000 Deutsche -mark ($120,000) top prize in the national lottery - was the hottest case in West Germany, Despite the Iottery's defense that the widow's win- ning selection last March had been destroyed by an embezzling ticket taker, millions considered her the wronged heroine of the • weekly drama that is becoming a national passion - Lotto, Every Sunday afternoon, in one of three cities (Bremen, Wiesbaden, and Munich) which rotate the event, a huge cylin- der spins 49 numbered plastic balls for 30 seconds, then spills out the six winning numbers. Anyone who beats the 14 mil- lion -to -1 odds against picking all six numbers gets a tax-free million -to -1 payoff on his 12 - cent ticket, while enough lesser prizes are handed out to send one German in four back to work on a new system. It has taken just five years for the lotteries to grow from a budget - balancing experiment in West Berlin to a giant that rakes in 1 billion Deutsche m a r Ic s ($240 imillion) annually (half the take goes to the ten state governments that jointly operate the game). One war widow bet every week on the registration num- ber of her husband's grave at Verdun, finally won the top prize, and sobbed: "That's how my Hans wanted it." A brick- layer buried 49 numbered slips in the sand, shoveled out six, and hit the jackpot. But while a mathematics professor vainly spent his spare cash on a sys- tem, his wife won with a ran- dom bet of 100 pfennige (24 cents). In one case of lax controls, three ticket checkers repeatedly filled out winning tickets after. the drawings and made off with 2,290,000 marks ($545,000) with - fat * year. (To tighten its sys- tem, the lottery plans to go auto- mlatie, with robot ticket punchers on street corners in a few inonths.) But instead of damaging Ger- mans' confidence in the turns of *hence, the widely publicized *sandals only inspired more of Them with the idea of chasing trainbows. Justifying their faith, the court in Hannover ruled that Frau Wenke had found the M#ainhaw's and and must be given pot of gold. SUNS I Heinrich Bormann of Usen, german, decided to end it all. e succeeded - but not in the way anticipated. He tried to hang himself from the branch of a tree projecting over a river. The branch snap- ped under his weight and Bor- $nann fell into the water below_ and was drowned, • LAST ASSIGNMENT -This dramatic photo taken at the scene of the ciillision in New York's East River between an oil tanker and a freighter was the last picture •taken by veteran news photographer William Finn, who dropped dead -apparently of a heart attack -shortly after taking photo. The picture shows, one of the rescue tugs going to the did of the two flaming vessels, the Nebraska and the tanker Empress Bay. Magic Name To AH Skiers! To ever skier the name Arl- berg is magic - white magic. The name derives from a con- necting link between Tyrol and Vorarlberg, as well known in medieval times as it is today. The approach to the "Temple of the White Art," as skiing is cal- led with reverence hereabouts, is through narrow passes glint- ing with black;,and white marb- led bark of silver birches :. Here is the land of the ava- lanches, a spectacular winter force in the Arlberg. Late in the spring is their crashing time when snow, which sometimes does not entirely disappear dur- ing the summer, is carved into improbable shapes by the mov- ing sabers of ice. One's imag- ination takes wings as the eya traces pallaces and pavilions, snow galleons sailing rippled seas an whole cavalcades of gi- gantic knights in armour, thrash- ed up against the blue sky, only, perhaps to be assailed by an- other avalanche and tossed crash- ing into deep ravines. the black rocks glistening with ice spray. Long after the avalanche has subsided, buried somewhere from sight in the deep crevasses, the thunderous roar continues. I have often found some safe van- tage point to watch the whole day through. I once counted nine avalanches in one day: six I saw and three were invisible but I could distinctly hear them roaring on the other side of the mountain .. . I spe n a few days at.Maisass, a farm owned by Wolf Wildan. The panorama viewed from my box -bed, built into the angle of the wall of my chamber under the eaves, was a miracle of na- ture. At sunrise, at sunset, and by the light of a late rising al- pine moon. On a balcony I ate curds and whey from a wooden bowl, the spoon nearly as big as the bowl. I was given a cheese as round as a bushel basket, all to myself. My personal cheese, the rind •stenciled with my rame in i11 - POW -WOW -Indian meets Indian meets Indian in Cieveland, Ohio. M. D. Moses, left, of Nagpur, India; Julio Tuayllara of Puno, Peru, center, and James H. Johnson, a Mohawk Indian of Hagersville,, Ontario; Canada, are all attending the 48th Quadrennial World Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists. Moses is president of the church's North Maharashtra Mission in Bombay State. Huayllara heads welfare and radio work at the Lake Titicaca Mission in Peru. Johnson is local church leader on the Six -Nation Reserve some 60 miles north of Toronto. The big Indian smiling in the background is the symbol of another tribe -the Cleveland Indians baseball club. r digo dye, it was intended to last me for the length of my stay. Had I stayed the whole summer I could not have eaten the half of it. One night, with a full hunter's moon painting the mountains and valley a rich red -gold, we roasted a roebuck whole over a bed of charcoal out under the stars. , Frau Wild- gan broached a sealed jar of apple and apricot conserve, a NIP Attached torocket sled platform, glider wit, be driven along two-mile track to take -off, accelerating to 500 m.p.h. in 25 seconds. At airborne speed, pilot cuts in glider's own rocket power and drops sled platform. (1) Under own power, glider ascends steeply to 100,000 feet. (2) Glider levels off, gains speed up to 15,000-18,000 m.p.h. and con- tinues gradual climb to 200,000 feet. (3) It then enters a ballistic course, like a bullet, les mil" lobo. • Ballistic trajectory takes it back into earth`s heavier atmosphere, where glider's controls again become work- able. At 100,000 feet, speed is re- duced to about 2,000 m.p.h. Sighting his base some 100 miles away, pilot could bring craft down in a glide. MAN -IN -A -ROCKET AT 15,000 M.P.H.-Now in the:, design stage is a manned, hypersonic rocket glider expected to outfly the fastest intercontinental -'ballistic missiles. Dubbed "Sling. shot", the glider would be launched from a high-speed rocket sled, like those used to test the effects of high speed flight on human beings. Picto-diagram above illustrates how the rocket glider would be flown. Experts foresee , possiple commercial use for it: The gliders could be used for 600 -mite hops, for global travel with a range of 12,000 miles or as inter- continental pa.-en,ger aircraft. delicacy for which she was fam- ous, to serve' with the roast game. We drank no wine with this repast, but ice-cold spring water. A 11 I had to do was walk a few steps from the table and fill a pottery snug from a spring formed by a waterfall tumbling down the mountainside. The •wild glacial water form whirlpools from which by a phe- nomenon of nature they divide, forming thousands of rivulets to leap the crags and form rivers, some of which bear storied names- the Inn, the Danube and the Rhine....Whenever I en- tre the Arlberg over the passes, of Flexen-Fern, Hochalpen- strasse, Silvretta, or the dram- atic wildness of the Arlberg - Orient route, I am elated by the sight of rivers in full flow foaming in torrents, or running deep and swift through fern - grown gorges, the icy waters dark as obsidian from reflecting the ever-present stands of larch and pine Standing on a ridge above Prutz in the Oberinntal, it seemed that I stood alone in time, possessor of the world. Spreading away from me were rivers in silver -channeled ra- vines by the score. I gazed a- cross deep watered valleys. Pine clad and snow crested the mountains seemed to stretch a- way to misty horizons. I stood knee .deep in gentians... As if a vast Persian floral carpet had been tossed over the ridge of rock, every Alpine flower in the roster appeared to flower in mul- titude. - From "Panorama of Austria," by James Reynolds, Robert Hale, Ltd., London, 1957. TURN TO THE LEFT One of the greatest oddities in baseball history occurred in the last game of the 1917 World Ser- ies, when Heinle Zimmerman, the Giant third baseman, chased. Eddie Collins across the plate with the first run. Pants Rowland was the White. Sox third -base coach, and he - ran right alongsde of Eddie all the way to the plate. Later he took Eddie aside and told him: "You should have turned left at the plate and kept right on running to first base. Zimmer-, man would have followed you all the way. 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