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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-10-12, Page 2Tv7T[T, Elegant Bandit Finally Trapped The short, profitable reign of "The Elegant Bandit," as his victims in Mexico City describ- ed him, has come to an end, Se- cret Service operators closed in as Alfredo Quiroga Gonzalez at- tempted to rob his seventh vie- tim in less than two months as the latter left the offices of the Bank of Mexico, Nattily dressed, giving the impression of a university gra- duate rather than a ruffian, Gonzalez, aged twenty-four, told the police how he operated. He concentrated on halt a dozen main banks in the city. His habit was to enter a bank, and on the pretext of obtaining change for a high-value note, mark a victim who was With drawing what seemed to be a "profitable" amount of cash. He usually selected a man or girl aged about eighteen to twenty- five; someone who could be bul- lied, Gonzalez would step smart- ly out after his intended victim, flash false credentials inferring he was a bank investigator, and frighten the person with a fanci- ful tale of a transgression of banking rules. He was — and had to be — a fast, convincing talker to fluster and frighten his intended vic- tim. Skillfully, he would guide his prey into a quiet alley, out of public view. Then his charming manners would drop for, at pistol or knife point, he would order his victim to turn over the with- drawn funds. When Gonzalez successively robbed two senoritas in t h i s way, the firms employing the girls insisted on stepping up po- lice action. Till then, because of the wide area over which he operated, he had escaped police traps. The robberies brought comparatively minor financial rewards with amounts never exceeding $250 or so. Gonzalez freely admitted that he did not want greater hauls. He thought the smaller losses would be written off by busi- ness firms and forgotten. He sold or gave away personal valuables of his victims in case they led to his identification. The youthful trickster, who thought he had found a way of having •`a plentiful supply of funds without working, told po- lice that he spent the proceeds in houses of ill -fame, in drink- ing, and in holidays in Acapulco. He will be "holidaying" in the Lecumberri penitentiary 'f o r some time now. And as guest of the city he will not be provided with the fine clothing or expensive toilet preparati, ns he used "to gain the confli.mce" of his victims. Pays For The Fence Aft it '183 Years Hew these Welshmen stick tog ther! Pfter 183 years Lloyd the Moray pays up for Williams the Fire. V'e mean of course, Selwyn Lloyd, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has sent a personal check for £6 8s. ld ($18) to pay for a church fence burned by order of Maj. Ed- ward Williams of His Majesty's Royal Artillery in Philadel- phia, 1778. The wooden palings were ground St. Peter's Episcopal Church on Society Hill in the silty of the Liberty Bell. George III's "redcoats" were cold. The treajor ordered them to take the Wooden slats to make a fire. He Wrote the rector he would get "a reasonable allowance" for the fence. Chancellor Lloyd is an ex - gunner from the Royal Artillery. He served as an officer in the Mame unit as the men who warm- TIME PIECE — This figure of an old Puritan clockm•ender of the 1830e was part of a historical curiosities display at Kensing- ton Town Hall in London, Eng- land, ed themselves round the wood fire, He„ toe, is a Welshman, When the Rev, Joseph Koci wrote saying he had found the 'unpaid account when clearing up vestry records in preparation for the church bicentenary on Sept. 11, Selwyn Lloyd sent a per- sonal check for the current equ- ivalent of $18. Iii regard' to the clergyman's further claim for upward of $750,000 interest at 6 per cent per annum, the Chancellor whimsically refutes this by suggesting the rector should. see what he could get from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or perhaps Douglas Dillon, United States Secretary of the Treasury, as representing the federal government of the ex - colonies, according to Melita Knowles in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor. C. J, Carey, Mr. Lloyd's pri- vate secretary, gently recalls "that as this is said to have occurred before the Treaty of Versailles in 1783, Pennsylvania was at that time a British colon- ial territory. The convention is that claimsby citizens of col- onial territories against the government, which have not been settled by the date of inde- pendence, lie against the succes- sor government unless a special arrangement is made to the con- trary." In reply to the rector's pro- nouncement: "An officer's word should be his bond, even though it was a long time ago," the private secretary, e q u all y tongue - in - cheek, observes: "Claims lapse by passage of time according to English law." In more serious vein, how- ever, the Chancellor sent his personal check "as a token of his deep regard for the 'Ameri- can people." The letter con- cludes with the Chancellor's wish to commend to the Rev. Mr. Koci the words of St. Paul in I Cor. 3:15: "If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet Bo- as by fire." The rector reportedly has said he considers the account closed, and that "he will forget the $750,000 for the. sake of Anglo-. American unity", which was no doubt received with sighs of re- lief in Treasury circles in England. Rarely can a national debt have been settled with such finesse. The only criticism is from economic pedants who wonder if the Chancellor has contravened his own Treasury - exchange control regulations. School -mates PRINTED PATTERN 4945 sizes , 2-10 1401,4. 44-4 Thtee to mix -match happily every school day. Pop -over -top and skirt are sew -easy and so gay in plaid or checks with sim- ple, white cotton blouse. Printed Pattern 4945. Chil- dren's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, Size 6 top, skirt 1% yards 45 -inch; blouse T yard 35 -inch fabric. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot he accepted, use postal note far safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE. NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont, FALL'S 100 BEST FASHIONS —separates, dresses, suits, en- sembles, all sizes, all in our new Pattern Catalog in color. Sew for yourself, family. 350 Ontario residents must include 1¢. Sales Tax for each CATA- LOG ordered, There is no sales tax on the patterns. A PEA IN A POD — There's power in this pod, and it takes the form of .the center "peu." Actually, it is no pea at all, but is a silver oxide 'battery system used to power electric wrist watches and hearing aid instruments. The new battery which maintains its performance in both cold and hot weather Was shown recently. We are as happy as sancjboys. Why? ' Because the weather has finally changed. Gone is the heat and humidity. in its place we ' have cool, breezy, bracing weather. The outside tempera- ture dropped to forty-eight dur- ing the night so this morning we had• to step up the heat considerably. Now I suppose fruit' farmers and home garden- ers will be worrying in case we get a frost some time that may nip late garden produce. It just seems that if one person wins another loses. Well, folks, put your thinking cap on I have a problem for you to consider... that is if you live • in the country or far enough out from your nearest town to make rural mail delivery necessary., It is this. Are you satisfied' with the way in which it is de- livered? Are your papers, mag- azines and advertising circulars stacked one on top of each other and your lettere wedged in be- tween? Or are your letters slipped into whatever magazine happens to be ' delivered that day? Have you ever lost any mail that you know of? • Generally we have no corn- - plaints as we have a morning paper that comes by post and the mailman puts our ',letters just inside the' folded paper so - when. we open the paper we immediately see , the letters. However, one 'week there some mix-up in paper delivery so when we got our mail there was just a magazine , , or so we thought. It came in just at noon so naturally' T was busy and threw the magazine down on the hall table, It was a wo- man's magazine so Partner wasn't sufficiently 'interested to pick it up. Later in the day I found time to look at it and 10 and behold when I opened it there were three letters en- closed—tine a business letter, the other two personal. Before our paper was delivered reg- ularly again the same thing. happened on two other occa- sions. i said to Partner—"Well, I don't like getting mail that way—letters could so easily be lost." Time passed and I forgot the incident. Then at our W,I, meet- ing last week one member ask- ed our President how many members had signified their in- tention of accepting the invita- tion of a neighbouringbranch to visit them at their next meeting the following week. "What invitation?" a s k e d Madam President, "I haven't heard of any invitation!" Well, it turned out a written invitation had been sant but she hadn't received it, But she did recall one day getting a maga- zine and no other mail. She was going away for the week -end so the magazine was put on one side. The point is, this parti- cular lady is in a different rural area from us. Iler mail is sent out from a different post office but apparently mail carriers in. her area do the same thing as our mailman — tuck the letters inside papers or magazines. We never had it delivered that way on the farm. Is this casual way of treating mail spreading and what do rural boxholders think: of it? I suppose you might say if we know what is being done with the letters it is a simple matter to look for them. True, but in some families it is the children who pick up the mail. Gan they be expected -to realize how im- portant it is to check over what is delivered? Or maybe if you get the mail yourself it some- times . happens to be a windy day — and you know what can happen ;in'a wind — almost any- thing. Or there might be a parcel to carry home or bulky 'snail order catalogue's. In which case letters could easily slip out unnoticed. In fact it is easy to think up a dozen situations to complicate picking up one's mail. So what is the answer? I suppose having said this much you expect me to.; say what I think should be done. Well, i would say letters.. should be placed in the mail box separate- ly — either on top of papers and magazine or underneath them so they can be seen directly the mail is lifted. Still better would be to .have the letters held to- gether by a rubber band. In .that way there would be little danger of invitations not being received — a truly embarrassing situa- tion. Letters sent through the mail, are a'. public trust. It is the duty of postal authorities to see that all mail is safely delivered in post office boxes, rural mail boxes or remain in charge of general delivery at the post of- fice until called for. There should be a definite ruling at local post offices as to howrural mail should be delivered. If you have reason for complaint con- tact your local postmaster. If that does not work write to the Postmaster, General in Ottawa. Never lose sight of the fact that your mail is important to every- one concerned. Vaccine Victory Over Measles There is little doubt that the measles vaccine developed by Dr. John F. Enders, 'Harvard Nobel Prize winner, is effective. Since 1950'; thousands of chil- dren in the United States, Rus- ala, Nigeria, and Panama have been inoculated in mass tests, and results show that the End - err vaccine, made of weakened live viruses, produces immuni- ty against measles in almost 100 per cent' of the cases. The trou- ble is, the shots produce side effects. In one group, four out of five children ran fevers, some as high as 106 degrees, while half developed rashes. In Philadelphia last month, re- searchers announced that they have found a way to wipe out these side effects, in what could be a major step toward a government - approved vaccine. Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr., physician - in -chief of the Children's Hospi- tal, and Dr, Maurice R, Hilleman of the Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories g a v e about 300 children the Enders live vaccine in one arm, and a shot of gamma globulin, a blood derivative, in the other. The globulin fought against the virus hard enough to keep down the fever and the rash but not hard 'enough to kill all of the vaccine's measles virus. Only a few children had any fever, only one out of 50 any rash. What's more, the 300 children (mostly from Haverford Town- ship, near Philadelphia), went through two measles epidemics without getting the disease, while among 300 other Haver - ford children who . were not given the live vaccine 68 got measles. Dr. Stokes said last month: "Every child ought to have vaccine and globulin at seven months." The two -shot method of pro- tecting against measles could be available to American children in 1962, according to Dr, Hil- leman. A final decision on this and twelve other vaccine tests being conducted by universities and drug companies awaits the results of a conference in Wash- ington in November. Some time later, the U.S. Public Health Service will license one or more vaccines, which could cost pa- tients up to $5 a shot. Whatever the cost, the vaccine should eradicate a disease too often re- garded as minor, but one which c a u s es 4,000 brain -damaging encephalitis • cases and 4,000 deaths a year. To Reign In Spain Someday — Maybe! In sailing races on the Medi- terrian last month, blond -haired Spanish Prince Juan Carlos teamed up with an Olympic yachting c h a m p i o n, Crown Prince Constantine of Greece. From now on, Juan Carlos will team up with Constantine's sis- ter's, 22 -year-old Princess Sop- hia; news of their engagement came recently from Lausanne, Switzerland, where Sophia, her parents,- and her 23 -year-old suitor were on a visit. (A some- what nonplussed royal Greek physician, pressed into service as a spokesman for Sophia's family, described Juan Carlos's exuberance: "He' was so delight- ed 'that he seized me and kissed me' on both cheeks, and. I'd never met him before.") Raised in the Greek Orthodox Church, Sophia will turn Roman Cath- olic to marry Juan Carlos, who is expected to occupy the Spanish throne if Generalissimo Francisco Franco ever gets around to restoring the mon- archy. The reason women's hats are all different Is because most milliners don't snake the same mistake twice. ISSUE 40-1961 Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. is it really bad manners for a woman to, file her nails in the presence of a guest? A friend and 1 are having an argument about, this. A. To file a broken nail that is catching on things is all right — but to give yourself a mani- cure in the presence of guests is in extremely bad taste. Q. A couple called at our home a few evenings ago, and the wo- man had her hair set in pin - curls with a scarf tied around her head. Am I right in thinking this was poor manners on her part? A. You are more than right! Q. My wife avid .I have re- ceived an engraved card from distant relatives, announcing their golden wedding anniver- sary. What obligation does this impose upon us? A. Your only real "obligation" is to send them a message of congratulations and good wishes. Q. When a man meets a wo- man on the street and walks with her, and she is carrying packages, ..should .he . offer to carry them for her? A. Only if the packages are of considerable size or seem heavy, Otherwise, this is not necessary. Q. Is a person really obligated to give his reason for declining an invitation? - A. Although not exactly obli- gatory, a logical reason does have a way of softening a refusal of this kind. Favourite Handcraft • ft Y1 04,<i, ,` nb�Mt� pry'• �ytiT/j4% 004. 1.0 .ttRZWStA illt to," zwiAtuziat So simple, a child can help you with this handcraft! Use the gay Swedish designs for quick gifts of towels, potholders, mats, b g s; larger articles for your own home. Pattern 566: charts, directions for Swedish weaving 4 different designs — on anything of huck. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. Print .plainly'PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. FOR THE FIRST .TIME! Over 200 designs in our new, 1962 Needlecraft Catalogue — biggest ever! Pages, pages, pages of fa- shions, home accessories to -knit, crochet,_ sew, weave, embroider, quilt. See jumbo -knit hits, cloths, spreads, toys, linens, afghans plus free patterns. Send 250. Ontario residents must include 10 sales tax for each CATALOG ordered. There is no sales tax on the patterns. • • CHURCH ON THE MOVE — The Progressive Ra - ' concrete structure, is being inched to a new ! Chicago, on rails specifically built for the I ' ' «rob building, a 1,700 -ton steel and ie block from its original site In •l job,