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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-08-09, Page 6itoa� any Days iFor ria>fae Mag cines Between the title ':Frozen Corpse in Lovers' .Gane" and the subhead "The watery grave for the teen -;(ger turned to ice and proved a trap for the lust bledgeon:r," Startling Detective magazine offered a plotograph of the pretty victim and of a shifty -eyed suspect. -Thee story recotuitcd a aline which had shocked Chicago newspaper readers four months before, on Nov a0, 1957. That the stogy appeared isn't startling. S t a r t l i n g Detective and the dozen magazines like it have been running true crime accounts for years. What was untleual was the reaction of the- victint's mother: She sited, Maiming invasion of privacy. Last tnontla, a Federal -court of appeals reversed an curlier ne-- tision, and s.vci that Fewcett Publications, Inc. (Startling De- tectiael, and T.D. P,tblishing Corp. (True Detective! lied in- deed invaded Mrs. Mildred Wag- ner's privacy. She is asking $2.4 million drntn.ees. The decision, which comes two months after Life Magazine lost la similar suit, threatens the existence of both the lurid "true crime" magazines and of seri- ous books like "Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case." According to the ruling, it con - ..r stitutes an invasion of privacy • to print accounts of a crime when the crime is no longer news. "When the news media have served their proper function in reporting current events," Judge Elmer J. Sehnackenberg wrote for the three concurring judges, "private individuals involved ... (in) matters which were, at the time of the occurrence, news- worthy.... sink bark into the solitude which is the right of every person. That solitude in- volves a privacy which no pub- lication has a right to thereafter invade solely for the purpose of selling to its readers lurid ac- counts of tragedy," When is a story no longer news? "We're a monthly maga- zine, and we printed the facts as soon as we could," said Faw- cett's editorial director Ralph neigh, Fawcett will petition for a rehearing. They talked of go- ing to the Supreme Court, claim- ing the protection of freedom of the press, The talk may be (serious, for — deprived of the grisly — the true -crime mills may shut down. If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a com- mittee working on it. C. F. Ket- tering. SALLY'S SAWES 'Z can live within your means, 1 dearie, if it takes a lot or money." One Earthquake Every Day Six super - sensitive seismo- graphs, part of a world-wide ehain of instruments to study the interior of the earth, have been installed this year in the vault of the seismograph station at Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand. This $30,000 worth of equip- ment is a gift of the United States Government. It will allow seismologists to evaluate earth tremors and improve man's knowledge . of natural earth- quakes, The New Zealand eeisrno- graphs form part of the most im- portant earthquake research pros gramme ever carried out. And all the information obtained will be available to all nations. Earthquakes have been taking place ever since the earth solidi- fied. On average, one occurs every day somewhere in the world, but they are confined chiefly to two main belts — one encircling the Pacific, the other running through the European Alps and the Himalays. Geologists say that Britain is never likely to have a serious earthquake, despite the fact that about 2,000 have been re - Alps and the Himalayas, Most of the shocks occuring in Britain have been caused by masses of rock "sliding" over one another. These landslides have taken place along certain lines of well-known faults in the geological strata. Scientists still don't know the exact predisposing conditions for these rock movements, but it is known that they are influenced by atmospheric pressure changes. The day may be coining, due to modern research methods, when earthquakes anywhere in the world will be forecast with considerable accuracy, say some seismologists, Students of animal behaviour believe that knowledge of earth- quakes before they happen has long been the prerogative of some animals, There are many authenticated stories of dogs which howled, horses which stampeded and birds which pan- icked mysteriously before trem- ors even started. How The X -Ray Was Discovered Mere chance led Professor Rontgen to the discovery of the X-ray. A large tube, through which a current of electricity was passed, was suspended over a table, and in a drawer beneath there was a pasteboard box con- taining one dozen unexposed photographic plates. Some keys happened to be on the table, just above the drawer. When an attempt was afterwards made to use the plates for photo- graphic purposes they were found to be"fogged" but on each one of them was a fairly clear imprint of the keys. Thus it became apparent that rays of same kind had penetrated through the wooden table -top, and had been so far interrupted by the keys as to make a shad- ow -picture of the latter on a photographic plate, During further experiments a dead frog was put in place of the keys, with a fresh photographic plate in the drawer beneath. The result was a revelation, for the shadow -picture made was not of the frog, but of its skeleton. MAN-MADE 'MILKY WAY` -- Spectacular display of fire- works lights up sky over Hudson River during a Manhattan department store's solute to New York's ninth annual sum- mer music festival TAKES CENTER STAGE — Flanked by the Presidents of two North American neighbors, Adolfo Lopez Mateos, left, of Mexico and John F. Kennedy of the U.S., Jacqueline Kennedy takes the center stage away from them W;- Mexico City. NGER ARM Gw¢xtidoLine P. Clacks No history column- this week again. For one reason I left my notes behind, another reason it took me nearly a week to get over five days away from home in the heat. You see I got a dose of laryngitis and a neck so stiff I couldn't turn it at all. Just fine for driving a earl But I have myself to blame. The hotel room we had was a corner room and very hot. The manageress sent in an electric fan and the last night we were there I slept with it go- ing all night just behind my head. So I was asking for trouble, wasn't I? But when I get too hot I'll do anything to cool off, no matter how foolish, Well, I still have plenty of things I can tell you about our trip. For one thing you might like to know the places we pass- ed through and many where we stopped briefly. We went by the 401 and while it gets you there in double-quick time it isn't the best way to see the country. Coming back we took the old roads so I was able to make the acquaintance of many lovely old towns and villages, formerly just names on the map to me. We stopped at Kemptville, a delight- ful old-fashioned little town. From there to Merrickville and then on to Smith Falls, all in sight of the Rideau River. At Smith's Falls we visited the huge Hospital School for the Retarded. My friends knew one of the girls there and we called to take her out for a picnic lunch, We saw some of the boys and girls out for a walk and at first glance many of them looked so normal one wondered •why they were there at all, except that they seem to lack co-ordination and had an awkward gait. Thus the "crocodile" line was very strag- gling with children of all ages and sizes. The girl we took out had been totally blind since birth. Her main passion was classical music. Wherever she went her transistor -radio went with her. About three o'clock we were taking her back and ran into a terrific rain and thunder- storm. We waited outside the school for thirty minutes before the rain let up enough for us to leave the car, During that time four girls about 12 - 14 years of age were chasing up and down the sidewalks in the pouring vain. They seemed to be having a grand time and I don't suppose it would hurt them just so long as they got into dry clothes aft- erwards — but I hardly think normal youngsters would have considered it much fun. Once we were on our way again we stopped at "The Cabin Restaurant" for coffee. This was at the junction of 7 and 37 and if boasts one big attraction . live bears; An old lady of 20 was in a cage by herself and two younger, sprightly bears in a cage together. Believe me, they were well-fed by the public and were ready for anything — sand- wiches, cake, cookies, chips and ice-cream. One time I saw them chasing back and forth along the front of their cage, quite ob- viously excited, I looked for the reason and there, coming towards them, was a man with two bot- tles of pop, The bears stead up on their hind legs and gulped the pop straight from the bottle just as neat as you please. What amazed me was the fact that they knew what the man was carrying. We continued our way through Madoc, Marmora and Havelock but we by-passed Peterobrough and went on to Lindsay and Omemee and from there to Sund- erland, Greenbank, Uxbridge and finally Newmarket. I know there are readers of this column in many of the districts we passed through. I wish I could have met a few of you, Naturally we saw many beautiful inland lakes, all looking very peaceful and attractive — water and trees ap- peal to me at any time. By the time we got to Newmarket peace- ful scenery was a thing of the past. The traffic was a sure in- dication we had reached central Ontario. Almost as soon as we reached Newmarket I phoned Bob to ask if he could come and take me home. He did, but after driving with bumper to bumper traffic along the four -lane high- ways he decided to take all the back roads coming home — through Kleinberg, Bolton, Mel- ton, Derry West and finally Erin - dale. I didn't know where I was half the time but Bob seems to have a sense of direction like a honing pigeon. One funny thing I must tell you. As we approached New- market Lillian started hunting for her house key. She couldn't find it. What she did find was the key of our hotel room at Prescott! Of course her husband had his own key and opened up the house. Then he called from the kitchen "Come here, I want to show you something!" We went and there was Lillian's key still on the OUTSIDE of the back door and had been there for four days. Would-be burglars missed an easy touch that time, 'Bye for now. The rest of the family has gone to Orillia and I am almost on my way out to meet Klemi Hambourg, my neph- ew who has just returned from England. See you next week. Long Lost Rivers Underneath London At an unusual joint convoca- tion of York and Canterbury in the Church House, Westminster, the clerics were puzzled as to whose jurisdiction they were meeting under. Was Church House under the Dean and Chap- ter of Westminster or under the Bishop of London? It all depend- ed on a long -forgotten medieval stream, probably the Tyburn Brook or a tributary, which marked the boundary of West- minster. Only a consultation of old maps could decide the issue, The publication of "The host Rivers of 'London" by Nicholas Barton shows this to be no isolated instance. Well illustrat- ed with maps, plates and draw- ings, it proves how much the past history and the present de- velopment of London have been dictated by the course of its riv- er ref the original and pre.s,nt c:.(.use of the streams extplein Hauch ad T.ondon'i to. Pography, 1 or example, the winding eourso of Marylebone Lane was originally the left bank of the Tyburn Brook; the dip in Oxford Street is where the stream crossed it. Another explanation clears up the mys- tery of the huge iron pipe cross- ing the tracks in Sloane Square subway station — it carries the Westbourne on its way from the Serpentine to the River Thames at Chelsea Bridge, A 12th -century Londoner des- eribed his city as "delightful tin deed" with streams "'mid ells- teniiig pebbles gliding playful- ly." Mr, Barton's painstaking study shows these rivers still silently flowing along beneath the feet of Londoners though for the most part delflected into pipes. The rivers make their presence felt occasionally when for the most part deflected into the wall of a house resists all efforts to dry it out, or crystal water gushes up into the day- light. The names of the rivers live on in the names of roads and boroughs, groves, and ter- races, stations, schools, compan- ies — and even a fish bar, Best known of the rivers, per- haps, are the Walbrook and the. Fleet which flaws beneath the City of Landon and the West End, but south of the Thames the beverley Brook, Wandle, Falcon, and Effra are among others which, except for an oc- casional sally above ground, flow beneath streets often bearing their names. The source of the Fleet River on the Hampstead heights en- gaged the attention of one ad London's distinguished literary figures, The transactions of the Pickwick Club for May 12, 1827, recorded "that this Association has heard read, . the paper communicated by Samuel Pick- wick, Esq„ G.C., M.P.C., entitled 'Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with some observations of the Theory of Tittlebats' " Mr. Barton's book quotes fas- cinating passages on old London from early chronicles. In these days of heavy roaring traffic it is pleasing to read of north London as having "fields for pasture . interspersed .with flowing streams, on which stand mills whose clack is very pleas- ing to the ear." It is no longer possible to hear clacking mills. The influ- ence of the underground rivers, however, is felt by all who use London roads and railways, pay taxes ,to one borough rather than another, or simply walk or bi- cycle along its streets, The book has a good street map of London with the rivers superimposed. A Woman's Frank Opinion Of Women "Today's career women are be- coming the equal of men," writes career woman Eve Merriam author ("Figleaf: The Business of Being in Fashion") and one-time Glamour magazine copy editor, in the current issue of The Na- tion—setting up, with this placid banality, her article's 47th con- secutive knife thrust. "It is," she adds, "one of the greatest nega- tive achievements of all time. They can now be almost as ruth- less, almost as selfish, almost as unpublic-spirited," An attractive, 45 -year-old New Yorker, Miss Merriam wrote her piece on "The Ogress in the Office" from personal experi- ence in the fashion and advertis- ing industries, both jungles of pearly tooth and lacquered claw. She makes it clear that the ea - FURRY TALE — Long vest is designedfor chilly fall days. It .is done in orlon fabric at a London, England, preview. reer women she is talking about are not secretaries, switchboard girls, or just any females work- ing outside the home, but women "in the professions, arts, and sciences, and at quasi -responsible levels of government, business, and industry," And all the basic charges against these driving, competing females, says Miss Merriam, are true. They (1) neglect their hus- bands and families, preferring "dry Martinis . , , to wet mops," (2) insist mn being treated as equals by men, yet use their feminine curves and prerogatives to get a leg up on the ladder, (3) are secretly frigid and man -hat- ing (Miss Merriam's title for the article: "The Abominable Snow Woman"). Even the Hollywood prototype, commonly played by such as Eve Arden, Bette Davis, or Rosalind Russell, has a ring of truth, the author suggests — the woman living in a "cold- hearted penthouse with wire mo- biles and abstract paintings and (despising) her warm - hearted husband." For every decent ca- reer woman, she concludes, "there seem to spring up at least two dragon -toothed ones," Yet having cat -clawed her sex, Miss Merriam promptly springs to its defense. If career women are cold and cunning, "what of their male counterparts who must step on the body below in order to reach the higher rung?" she asks. "The man who makes it to the top," she charges much too categorically, "is not friend- ly, lovable little Mickey Mouse; he is Brother Rat." If career wo- men use their sex as a weapon, what about men "using the steam room, old university tie, or golf course to promote an inside track?" Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. When are the bread and rolls served at a dinner? A. As soon as the soup is served, the rolls or bread are passed, Most popular container nowadays is a shallow wicker basket that has a fringed napkin laid in it, and several sorts of bread displayed. Q. When a man is walking along the street with two women, does he walk between them? A. Not usually. He should walk on the curb side, to avoid turning his back on one of the women while talking with the other. ISSUE 29 — 1962 EVER SEE A MOONEOW?--For the uninitiated, a moonbow is a nighttime phenomenon similar to the rainbow by day. It is claimed that only two of the world's waterfalls boast moonbows --- Victoria Falls in South Africa and Cumberland Falls, pictured above, in Kentucky's Cumberland Falls State Pork, southeast of Mammoth Cave National Pork. The shim- mering moonbow berr'mos visible when moonbeams play on spray rising from the lacy falls