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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-06-08, Page 3Going To This Jail Wasn't So! Tough For years the massive central prison of Beirut, Lebanon, had had a grim reputation, And when people in neighbouring houses began to complain about the noises emanating from the prison at night, officials of the penal administration decided it was' time to step in and suggest a little more discretion on the Part of the prison guards, But R closer check revealed that the sounds heard by neighbours were not groans and cries of terror — but raucous laughter and jazz music, When police paid a surprise midnight visit to the prison they found; radio sets in every cell, even some with TV as well; stockpiles of whisky and cig- arettes; knives, hidden in mattresses, which, as the cell walls testi- fied, had been used for playing darts; and liberal supplies of hashish, home-grown in the prison gar- den. Never had convicts had it so good. The harsh reputation of the Central Prison was demol- ished overnight. After the. police raid half the prison guards were charged with negligence and corruption, They, together with warden Abdel Chani Amad, are now behind bars awaiting trial . , , in an- other prison, where there is no TV, no cigarettes, no whisky or' drugs. Sweet -Pea Seeds Help Fight Arthritis What do sweet -pea seeds and synthetic rubber particles have in common? They are both im- portant research tools in The Canadian Arthritis and Rheum- atism Society's broad attack on arthritis, one of Canada's major health problems, reports Dr. Almon Fletcher, Chairman of the Society's Committee on Research and Professional Education. Dr. Fletcher, in announcing the C.A.R.S.' awards, said tha!t the 1961-62 grants and fellow- ships made by the Society in con- junction with the Department of National Health and Welfare, will bring arthritis research ex- penditures since 1950 to over $1,800,000. The 1961-62 program will sup- port the work of 41 University - based investigators in the amount of more than $282,000. The scope and variety of arthritis research was evident at the Second Cana- dian Conference on Research in the Rheumatic Diseases last Fall. At this time, investigators were exposed directly to each other's widely -differing work. Sweet -pea seeds contain a sub- stance called proprionitrile which causes destructive changes in connective tissue, site of arbliri- tis, Its effect on animals is un- der study. The clustering of synthetic rubber particles in the latex fixation test helps detect a mysterious substance, the rhe- umatoid factor, which appears in the blood of patient with ;rhe- umatoid arthritis, the most seri- ous form of the disease. MERRY IvtctdA!UER'lE "We're not COMPLETELY dominated—they can lead us to Water, but they CAN'T matte us drink!" PUBLIC EYE — Denver police are using a new Traffipax camera system to get evidence of motor violations at the time of arrest. Sequence cameras, shown through windshield, are mount- ed'on dash. On top of car, next to siren, is flash unit for night photos. A Refugee Tells Of Communist Ch'ina Leung Chan -pang: is an ap- prentice in a glassware shop in Macao, tiny Portuguese -ruled. peninsula at the mouth of the Pearl River delta in southern China. Every day, from early in the morning until 10 or 11 at night, L'eung cuts glass, 'polishes mir- rors, sweepsthe floor clean of shavings. His pay is 45 patacas -about 47.90 -a month, plus board and lodging, and he works, according to an acquaintance, like one possessed, sometimes till one in the morning. For Leung is a refugee from Communist China, and he knows that hard though his work may be, he is lucky to have a job at all in crowded, unindustrlal'zod Macao where one-quarter of a million people jostle each other in a finger -thin six square mile sliver of land almost encircled by Communist seas. I waited in a friend's dockside office the other evening to meet Leung and ask him about life in Communist China, from which he escaped in a sampan last July. Our appointment was at nine, but when my friend went to look for him at 9:30 he found him still working in the store and pleading that he would not be free till 10:30: and would appre- ciate a short interview as he would have to go right back to work after it. Promptly at 10:30 Leung show- ed up—a shy, soft-spoken boy of 18, with doelike eyes but with an undertone of fire in his low- - toned, rapid Cantonese speech. His family had been in the shipbuilding business. Leung ex- plained, and he himself had hoped to work for an engineer- ing degree after graduating from secondary school, But this was the year when the Comniun 1st authorities had decreed . all students should spend some time in the - agricultural communes helping the farmers. He was sent to one of these communes for a year, during which most of the textbook knowledge he had acquired at school was forgotten, Even after this he was not given a chance to fulfill his am- bition. The authorities sent him to a training school for teachers —a profession in which he had little interest. "You can't go on this way," his elder brother told him one day. "If you can't get the school- ing you want, you will just be working like an ox for the rest of your days." With his family's encouragement, the two brothers fennel a sampan, and made the risky escape to Macao last sum- mer. So far, of course, the escape has done little to .i:.sward Le- ung's ultimate ambitions, Slide - rule calculations and the draft- ing board are as far beyond his reach today, as when he toiled ie. the paddy fields of China, writes Takashi Oka in the Christian Science Monitor. "I am an apprentice, though, and I have no complaints," Le- ung said when asked about this, He would not go back to China now even 'if the Communists offered him an engineering de- gree. "What would be the use? At- ..-terward, Iet only be pushed out again to work in the fields," Le- ung said. Food, in Leuug's case, was not as impelling a factor in prompt- ing escape as in that of the ma- jority of mainland refugees. In fact, he said, teacher trainees received preferential treatment, getting seven ounces of cooked rice twice a day, compared to three to five ounces per meal for ordinary students, And whereas peasant refugees complained of not having eaten meat for two years, Leung said his comrades enjoyed one or two slices per Month, Nevertheless, even among stu- depts, food was a pervasive con- cern, Leung said, Their combin- ed work -and -study program went on for 10 hours a day—study from 6:45 am, to 11:40 a,m,, and agricultural labor from 1:15 to 4:40 in the afternoon. Students were urged to keep pigs and fowl; in case their charges suf- fered accidents, the pigs went to the students, the chickens to their, teachers. Meanwhile, of course, there were the Communist indoctrina- courses. Mao's works are "too expen- sive," Leung said—the last • pub- lished volume cost as much as his school fees for an entire term. Therefore hehad not bought any and had not read them. His ideol- ogical independence still bother- ed his classmates, some of whom continued sending letters even to Macao, accusing him of "low ideological thoughts." "So now," he said, "whenever I recognize the handwriting on a letter from China, I don't' even bother to open it. I just send it back to its writer unread " . Suckers Are Alike- The like-The World Over The raucous call of the pitch- man is contagious anywhere, and nowhere more so than along Istanbul's teeming Golden Horn. He stood on the shore, barking in Turkish until the cords of his neck swelled out, and, pushing gawking boys and men — no wo- men — into a rude line toward his boat, anchored along a tiny wharf behind_ him. Here was a mystery. The boat herself was high prowed and ',high sterned and neither more nor less vividly painted. than her sister fishing boats, rising and falling at anchor all along the noisy waterfront. But the pitch- man's boat contained a cabin midships, and the cabin roof, reached by climbing a steep com- panionway, was lined with boys and men, gazing over a curtain at something carefully hidden from view. Occasionally the watchers burst into excited clapping, and at each such bursts the pitchman increased his efforts, until more standees - by — horny • handed sailors of the waterfront, mostly — fumbled in their pockets for a coin to join the line. Beside the pitchman stood a pelican, hunched down upon itself, open- ing its great beak in huge yawns, as though bored by the secret it long since had known. The Suleiman Mosque, °that marvel of architecture soaring above the Golden Horn in plaits view of the men around the boat, 'IRENCE IN CANADA — President John F. Kennedy, in Canada ons, 42 -hour state visit, with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in Ottawa. 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The boat was a floating aquarium, and a poor one at that, In separate tanks, swam, or lay. dully, an eel, something like a wall -eyed pike, two dishearten- ed skates, and a more then un- heartened little sea horse But up above? Where those men stamp- ed and clapped? Whet might there be up there?. I came out into the sunlight and climbed the stairs. Men were applauding even as I climbed and I heard a strange barking grunt. As eagerly as the rest, I bushed my way to the curtain and peer- ed down. Before me, in shallow water, lay four weary seals, dulled by the summer heat. At the com- mand of another pitchman, arm ed with a pole, one of the seals clambered slowly over a Kind of barrel into another tante of water. Excited clapping around me. This was the act which had produced that applause that kept the crowd growing below. Two of the other seals say on their bacics in the shallow tanks, presumably trying to keep both cool and wet. 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FEAR OF DISFIGUREMENT LEADS TO MURDER -.Dante Benzani, 55, Is shown at Fair Lawn, N.J.,� `a,fter his arrest for the murder of his son, Daniel (right), 14, UC�izonl, whose face is partially paralyzed, said he feared his (tion would go through life with a similar affliction. Daniel had a face muscle severed during oral surgery when he was 9, Benzani, whose wife died a year ego, fired two shots into his sleeping con's head, police said..