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The Seaforth News, 1960-12-22, Page 2Reis "hook lack Lots Of Souvenlrsl Not t h belabor the subject but more in the nature of a .;mail footnote to Premier lghrtlshehev's recent visit to these shores, it might be worth noting that his trip was not in vain on all front:., As the I ,ht'usliehev party left . they took with them to Rus- sia the following mementos of their sojourn in Manhattan: One air-conditioned Cadillac. One black Oldsmobile. One blue Comet station wagon. Portable television sets. Room air conditioners. Sets of automotive tires. Several auto batteries. A large supply of anti -freeze. And enough assorted personal Items in the clothing, appliance, and luxury goads fields to fill a station wagon, a seven ton truck., a limousine, and a 30 -passenger bus. In short the Soviets made good use of their shopping time, if nothing else. The big question is, if and when Communism ever gets around to burying Capital- ism, as Mr. K. occasionally sug- gests may happen, where will the comrades then buy all of these products needed to make life in Moscow more bearable? —Toledo (Ohio) Blade Jiffy roe-Cudd!ers 972 ttf 1A /629,24 Cray, jiffy - knit slippers t'at ke p toes cozy all winter! CANDY CANE stripes add chars: to stay -put slipper socks. A flat piece done on 2 needles, plus cuff. Pattern 972: directions children's sizes 4 to 12 included. Scnci THIRTY - FIVE CENTS 'stamps cannot be accepted, use postal mute for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler. Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New To- ronto. Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NI'MBER, your NAPE and :tDDPESS. JUST OFF THE PRESS Send now for our excitin;i, rtew 1901 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to crochet. knit. sew. embroider, quilt, weave -- taeh- ions, hcan e urnishin,` toy,, gifts, hazaar hits, Plus FREE—instruc- tions. for six ::mart reit caps. 11'urre, _end 25c now! PRINCESS WILL MARRY HABERDASHER — Norway's Princess church in Acker, Norway, right. Astrid will lose title of her Astrid, 28, shares a smile with commoner Johan Martin Ferner, country's first lady when she weds Ferner, lunlor partner in an 33, as they announced they would be married January 12 in r Oslo haberdashery and a divorced man. ON ICLES INGER FARM Well, we have survived the 1900 Grey Cup. What do I know about football? Absolutely froth- ing. But I have come to know something about Grey Cup ma- nia, Just imagine, the latter part of last week Canada was faced with a nation-wide railway strike. Negotiations got under- way between management and labour without bringing any def- inite result. Was the public wor- ried? Not so you'd notice it. The big issue of the day was who would win the Grey Cup. Day- time activities centred around the broadcasts by radio and televi- sion of the mammoth parade - . . and the game itself. Children used to an afternoon nap were allowed to stay up and watch the parade on TV. At game time every ruse possible was adopted by enthusiasts so that the game could be followed from start to finish. Work schedules were changed if possible and meal times disrupted. The timing suit- ed farmers. to perfection. Many farmers now have radios in their barns so cows were milked to the accompaniment of the Grey Cup broadcast.:.Delivery men carried transistor radios 'around with them. In many stores, big and small, a radio was somewhere in the background with the sales- clerks .having one ear open to the radio and the other to cus- tomers. Which didn't worry the customers at all as most of them were quite willing to stop tor a minute and listen to the latest score. Office workers were the most fortunate. I-Iaving Saturday off they had only to regulate home activities so as not to con- flict with the television brad -- cast of the game. Some ,mall store keepers had a TV set rigged up in their store. The ssune thing happened during the World Series. And the - women - folk, what about them?. Well, I suppose there are many avid .ports fans even ruining the women, Who fol- low- the games whatever the sport. But for the rhos prn't 1 '1nd the majority of women can be e seribcd-ac "tolerant." They are far from being spoil . i•rt-�.• They realize that e'st,'hing these game':: ha bee..ol ' on romp irtant JEEe MINISTER iN NEW ORLEANS -- A group of mothers stand near the home of the Rev, Andrew Foreman jeering after the Methodist minister had taken his daughter to the integrated William Frantz elementary school in New Orleans. A federal court in New Orleans struck down one of the last legal hopes of South:.rn segregationists Nov. 30 -- the theory of interposi- tion - and declared 17 state lawns .and five resolutions uncon- stitutional. Segregationist leaders said it was a "sad moment" but indicatsrd they would ignore the ruling. JUST A PEACH — Meet Mary Peach. The British actress is on the London set of a new movie, "No Love for Johnny." issue in the lives of their men folk — so, they act accordingly. After all, all that is required of -them -is not to interrupt with small talk and to keep the chil- dren under control. So, what happened here? Much the same as happened -in other homes I imagine. I had to go to the village some time during the day so I went in the morning as I, too, wanted to watch the Grey Cup Parade. Generally Partner .and I have "forty -winks" after our noonday meal. Saturday we settled ourselves comfortably in front of the TV to enjoy the pa- rade instead, And we did enjoy it. But it eras tis long and we both fell asleep, Four -thirty was game time so I left Partner to it and went off to the den for a session with the tee'ord player. Towards the end of the '10500 I set up one snack table in the Dying room for Partner. For his supper I took hint wieners and rolls. tea, cheese and appi" ahem If I had put canned dog inert in between the rolls I don't think he would have, lrnswn the 9i1-- Terencc: I had my ; upper it; the kitchen. Nut Lder. l nding foot- ball it irritates me to watch it. But liar b:; it igen; s s' t, mot: Partner's e n.iot'm.rut. Ani I know better than to talk to him at that time. It would lie u..•4`-'; any- way. I rind men Ur„` t'hemseive: more completely in any kind of television ;iropra n:'1`r, than I',r- nlcn. ila,'be they have better power; of conelntrution than w's- men. I don't knee-, • .1n}Way wolr.en don't sept: to have :J one- track /Med, Perhaps it i5 be- cause women, when they air watching or listen104 to broach - casts have to have an ear and eye, 011051 to what goer; 00 Around them . , , to what is cooking on the stove or in the oven, or lis, tenilig for the fit:et cry of a wak- ing child. Anyway the Grey Cup is over scow perhapm more interest will be taken in a small matter like, the thr `;eh-ncd rstilss .y strike. It also sounds as, it we Wright, at 'asst, hove a little had weather to orry ghoul. Arid Christina . . oh ticar! Fos you who read this, colnnsn it is almost upon you. AN:, you ready for - it:' We still have a few weekv of grace. ilut when I think of what Ihore is to do in that few weeks I get the' Christmas jitter,. But theta the same thing happens every year and so far we have survived,• One of my friends suggested' cutting out an exchange of gifts this year. I agreed. After all when it becomes a burden it i; time to quit .-- especially when the num- ber of children that have to be remembered increases every year. Older folk are just as well pleased with a letter most of the. time. Irxesspt perhaps from. the immediate members of one's family, from them it is the per- sonal.touch that pleases. Bankers, Lawyers, Fall For Swindles The U,S. Justice Department finds that most people are not so smart as they think they are. At least, that would be the assumption from the number of intelligent businessmen, bank- ers, teachers, lawyers, doctors, and professional people who fall victims to swindlers every year. The department has reason to believe that between $150,000,- 000 and $115;000,000 annually is dropped to swindlers of various kinds. This does not mean that these losers are necessarily stupid peo- ple who wouldn't detect a plug- ged nickel if they saw one. In- deed, it has been found that the confidence man is much more likely to seek out a victim of reasonable intelligence — his line of reasoning being that such a person will readily grasp the "possibilities" of his little ven- ture. For this reason it is more dif- ficult to track down the swind- ler, since many of his victims re- fuse to report the crime. This silence comes from no desire to protect the guilty, but because of the victim's shame at having been tricked, or his fear of dam aging his reputation as a man of reliable judgment. Confidence men tell the story of a steel executive Who Was swindled out of $700,000, but re- fused to diselnse ills loss for fear of losing the trust of his board of directors, Assistant Attorney Gene r al Malcolm R. Wilkey says these are many in this same eate,ory. A retired official of one of the nation's largest corporation,, he states, is reported to have been taken fur $45,000 in a swindle, The Justice Department is help- less in such cases where there is no charge on which to pro- ceed, SALLY'S SALLIES "The only present that ono offered =ewes his gift of gab:" -But Assistant Attorney Gener- al Wilkey, speaking before a conference of law officials re- cently, told of one case where the worm turned. It happened in 1019 when a prominent Texan, by the name of Frank Norticet, swindled out of $45,000, not only tracked dawn the criminal, but ended up by writing a book about it all. The devices of .the swindler are simple, and many of them timeworn, Some of the older ones are the "goldbrick scheme," the "green goods swindle," and the "Spanish. swindle." It seems incredible that any- one would fall for a goldbrick story, but according to informa- tion reaching the Justice Depart- ment, several Texas bankers did just that, as late as 1939, for a loss of $300,000, writes Josephine Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor. The "green goods swindle," as one might suspect, has to •do with counterfeit money. But it is palmed off as stoney produced from a die stolen from the Treasury of the United States. "The Spanish swindle" is bas- ed on the fiction of a wealthy man jailed in Mexico who is willing to share his fortune with anyone who will put up money to bribe his jailers and obtain his release. A common swindle today is that which goes under the title of the "boiler room." This is tate place from which confidence men operate either stock or. horse racing confidence swindles. Tilt' term is derived • from the scene of such operations --- gen- erally a loft in a large building. Here salesmen peddle millions of dollar: worth of worthless stock by telephone. For reply, the department has this advice: "just say to the would-be salesman, 'give me the name of your stock, the address of, your first, and your name and telephone number so that I can discuss this matter with my broker or banker.'" You will be surprised, say thsu t officials, how fast the caller will terminate the conver- s,ttion. A recent development particu- larly distressing to the Justice Department is that involving schemes aimed not at bilking the rich, but the poor. These in - elude the sale of yearling ma- chines by promising grossly ex- ,:ecrated profits, and the sale of honkie -type knitting machines by holding out the false pros- pect of substantial returns from sales of home -produced knitted goods. Another scheme is promoted thrnu 5lt an usl,s rho.' ' :cul it. In - rat lennr;e tmie then possible+ 1'tu'aa 151515 of $100 a month, if the 'tsd5l' :ends one dollar 10E "tl: ,�"rne114n1.: 1' 11 d infernssttis'n " i his larissllb mthly a nhinheograph eri sheet actvisil,g the inquire' Ice ,eek envelope - addressing c111- ploynsessl by soliciting firm, in their own community. The Justice Department -also .1, disturbed over the "advance fee" racket salestnen who p1'ey 011 owners of commercial properties, farms, and even Montes, promiri- ing fast sales at unrealistic price:; through a far-flung, so -railed coast to coast service. They exact advance fees of several hundred dollars In re- turn for a trickily worded writ- ten contract which promises only to advertise the property, not to sell. T1ie Justice Department is eager to publicize the "not so gentle art of swindling," as As. titian( Attorney General Wilkey puts, so that the public may be warned of the various guises under which these rackets flour- ish. 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