HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-10-11, Page 3A Lost River
Of OW London
'i'he k'leet River, although it
was later known by the less
irnpo•i;rg teems of Fleet Ditch,
.was the largest and the most •
important el London's! lost rivers.
Many Londoners ats vaguely
aware Of its existence, and there
i5, by comparison with the other
:rivers, a large batty cif reliable
lift itoure upon it. In addition, it
is clt;arly shown on many traps.
The Fleet rises on Hampstead
Heath by two heads, separated
by Parliament Hill, The western,
sr Halmpstead, stntrcc, rs near the
Vale of health (said to be so
nanledbecause i,t was unaffected
by the great plague of I(166), and
forms the 11 10wste:etl ponds be-
fore going underg'toturd near
Hampstead ldc.dh station and
conning down the line of Pict
Road to Camden Town...
The eastern, or 1tighgate,
source is in the grounds of Ken-
wood House, whence the stream
flow: sou tha•itrds, lorries the
chain of Highgate Fonds, and
after a sweep round to the east
curves hack to the west and
crosses the Highgate Road,
At this point, it was 13 feet
wide at flood, according to the
report of a Committee of Magis-
trates on the Publics Bridges of
Middlesex in 1825, Near here it
was joined by a small tributary
from Gospel Oak, and it is prob-
able that when the area around
Fleet Road was built upon, an
attempt was made to divert the
waters of the Hampstead stream
along an eastbound canal to join
this little tributary, , . ,
The two main sources United
just north of Camden Town,
farting a stream which was 65
feet wide at flood in 1826 where
it crossed under Kentish Town
Road. An anchor has been found
in the bed of the river near here,
so it may have been navigable
for small boats even as far up
as this. The Fleet crosses under
the. Regent's Canal, which shown
the change in level which has
taken place: the fleet is 25 below
street level in some places.. ,
The history of the FIeet River
:has been described as a decline
Irons a river to a brook, from a
brook to a ditch, and from a
ditch to a drain. Itis therefore
not surprising that when the
Yeomans came to London it was
A tidal inlet perhaps 600 feet
wide at its mouth. On its east
MOUNTAIN DEW -- Ray Sid-
dle, 7, couldn't resist trying
the fresh mountain water
which runs continuously from
on ornate water fountain at a
crossroads. in Millheim, Pa.
t .1c ll . -'a•:; 1 int), taut to
the wet ,v rs a wide stile of
mar. is kn shun as London Felt:
this was. littr it la;nu'd b>' maw -
get ic
fur-getu' bedaa ,Les' u:; Ilii 1' niltll18
Templer who who awned the lane.
Thele 110( '1111( to he little doubt
that the nava! 'Fleet" which is
frequently 1' 0 11 n d along the
Thames, is an Anglo-Saxon wore(
Inc thing a tidal inlet, capable of
floating beats. It should strictly,
therefore, he applied only 10 this
wide lower part below 1l lhorn
Bridge, An alternative name by
which the river was known was
the 1role-bourns. or stream in the
hollow. referring to the deep
valley of the 1,:wcr part. of its
eau 'e..—Frons "The Lost River:,
of London." by N. J. Barnes
Eias„.1featr.Olci Julio
Tells Tragic Tale
`talc! lvrold
Was gusting across
the air -strip at I1ir, hear City, on
the: pincr-studded slopes of. the
San Bernardino Mountains 80
miles northeast of Loh Angeles,
;is William R. Clark helped his
32 -wife -old wife Jacqueline and
their two •young. daughters ]'limb
abnarcl his green and white Piper
Cherokee, -Bill Clark, an execu-
tive of the Travel Lodge Corp.,
had Mon given the plane •a
month before by his father-in-
law. 1116 he bacl flown his family
up to the limbered resort for a
Labor Day weekend, It was al-
most dus11. 115 he lnuk off for the
1 10 -mile flight back ti, San
Diego, •
Minutes after tato-off, the
single-engine craft.• plummeted
into the steep, -densely wooded
slope,
The fuselage Crumpled into a
grove of firs; Clark and his wife
were killed,
Thrown clear cif the •plane and
miraculously alive were 8 -year-
old Laurie and 6 -year-old Julie,
and for 65 hours the two little
girls stayed waiting for rescue.
In a San Bernardino hospital,
while Laurie underwent surgery
for a broken leg. little Julie told
her story:
'The plane went clown real
fast," she recalled. "Mammary and
Daddy didn't have a chance to
say a thing, It happened all of a
sudden. When the plane hit,
Daddy and Laurie and me was
thrown out. Mammy stayed on
the plane." (Rescuers found Mrs.
Clark still strapped in her seat;
Clark was lying near the plane,)
Julie said • she helped Laurie
sit up against a log. "She was
-crying because her leg hurt, but
after a while she quit crying.
Laurie said I should go over to
the plane and try to find some
water. I looked all over because
we always carried water, but I
couldn't find any. I couldn't find
any food either.
"Then Laurie told me to look
.for something for us to keep
warn] with. I went to the plane
and found a suitcase, Mummy
and Daddy's clothes were in it
We put them on and huddled
together to keep warns. We
didn't get cold."
At night, the bruised 6 -year-
old said: "I slept by Daddy to
keep warm. He didn't do any-
thing ... He was dead."
She told of watching search
planes cross above them. "But
no one seemed to know we were
clown there , . Then the heli-
copters cams:.
As the search party approach-
ed, Julie, her blond hair matted,
her reddish -brown sweater tat-
tered and grimy, stumbled up
and asked tor a drink of water.
"They didn't have any water but
they gave me some coffee. They
asked me if I was all right,, and
• I said I was. Then they gave
Laurie some coffee ..."
Through all the nouns, the
children had not despaired, "La-
urie said the helicopters would
find us."
Q. Is it all right for a bride
to have both a matron and maid
of honour at ber wedding?
A. Yes, if the wedding is a
very large and formal one.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY — Lying in o bed, a patient in
Munich, West Germany, clinic weaves a carpet on a special
loom. Occupational therapy encourages the patients to do
handicraft, weaving ,and other work to exercise muscles.
Is there a lunch carrier in your
home? It's a 40 per cent likeli-
hood there is. Someone interested
In such statistics has learned that
in that percentage of homes
someone carries a lunch at least
every ether week day, It may be
to school, to factory, or to office.
Children 13 or under carry 20 per
cent of the lunches, teen-agers 11
per cent, women 15 per cent. and
--- look at this — men carry 54
per cent!
"There are three men in my
family who just plain don't like
the food they get in the restaur-
ants near their work," a neighbor
told me," so I have to pack three
lunches a day. All three men
have fairly big appetites, so I al-
ways give them a vacuum bottle
of soup. to go with their sand-
wiches and :fruit:"
Other lunch carriers like salads
es well as sandwiches, but most
are contented with one hot item,
a soup or a drink — or both —
and a good sandwich with a little
easy -to -eat fruit such as bananas.
grapes, or apples.
Experts on packing school
ltmchos say there should often be
a "surprise" tucked in between
such standard foods as sandwich-
es and soup. Cookies are a favor-
ite surprise, or a special piece of
cake, a pickle, a couple of olives,
a cup of salad, or a packet of
vegetable sticks —• anything to
spark what threatens to become
monotonous fare.
In fact, the taste of the indi-
vidual needs to be considered
along with the nutritional value
of the meal: Soups prepared with
milk often take the place of a
glass of milk, if the school child
needs a change of menu. If there
are no vegetables in a salad or
sandwich filling, a bottle of vege-
table -filled soup meets that need.
If there is no meat •in the sand-
wich filling, a vegetable -beef or
- beef -noodle soup will round out
the lunch. In other words, con-
sider the lunch as a whole when
deciding on types of soup or
sandwich fillings to combine with
each other and with other lunch
ingredients, and you'll be popular
with the lunch -toting members of
• your family. writes Eleanor
• Richey Johnston •in the Christian
Science Monitor.
If you're packing finches for
men, these liverwurst and cheese
FAMILY EFFORT ---- Lack of funds forced 0. E. (Ozzie) Herkner, left, a cherry farmer to
turn down a chance to visit Russia with o group of agriculturists. But his neighbors and
family opened o "Get -Ozzie -to -Russia" booth and soon sold enough baked cherry pies,
bread and cherries to get Ozzie on the trip. Children, from left, Lynda, Warren, Sue Allen
arid Mory Jean, sold more than 1,000 pies and loaves of bread.
3 -decker sandwiches may be
the thing, but many 01
won't like them.
MAN-SIZED TRIPLE DEC:1..
12 slices white bread
2 tablespoons soft butter
2 teaspoons prepared mustard
with horse -radish
8-12 sliees liverwurst
4 slices snappy cheese
Mayonnaise
Lettuce
8 tomato slices
Combine butter and mustard:
spread on 4 slices of bread. Tap
with sliced liverwurst and
cheese. Cover with second slices
of bread. Spread with mayon-
naise; add lettuce leaves and to-
mato slices, Top with third slices
of bread. Cut in hall diagonally.
Wrap in foil or transparent
paper. Makes 4 sandwiches.
For a school, lunch, make these
peanut butter and apple sauce
sandwiches, and put a beef or
chicken noodle soup in a wide-
mouthed vacuum bottle.
CRUNCHY APPLE -PEANUT
BUTTER SANDWICH
1113 cup peanut butter
?;.i sup apple sauce
2 strips bacon, cooked and
Crumbled
8 slices white or raisin bread,
Combine peanut butter, apple
sauce, and bacon. Spread on 4
slices of bread. Top with remain-
ing bread. Wrap each sandwich.
Makes 4. , a
You may like some soup com-
binations tor lunches. Here are
two for you to try.
ASPARAGUS -CHICKEN -
GUMBO
I ran condensed cream of ,as-
paragus soup
11•s cans water
1 ran chicken gumbo soup-
Blend
oupBlend Bream of asparagus soup
and water in a saucepan; add
chicken gumbo soup. Heat, stir-
ring occasionally. Pour into a
wide-mouthed vacuum bottle
that has been rinsed in hot water.
Serves 4. ,
CHICKEN VEGETABLE SOUP
1 can condensed chicken vege-
table sours
2 soup can tomato juice
'S soup can water -
Combine soup,- tomato juice,
and water. Beat, stirring now and
thea. Pour into wide mouth.
vacuum -bottle which has been
rinsed in hot water. Makes 2-3
servings. , ,
Want to combine meat with
your soup for a hearty meal? Try.
adoring frankfurters to bean soup.
BEAN AND FRANK
LUNCHEON SPECIAL
1 frankfurter, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon butter
1 can condensed bean and bacon
soul.
1 soap NM water •
Lightly brown frankfurter Be-
es in butter or margarine. Add
soup and water. heat,. stirring oc-
casionally, Pour into wide-mouth-
ed bottle that has been heated
with hot water. Serres 2-3.
herr' is a man -type salad for a
packed lunch.. Spoon each serving
.into smdll plastic or wax -lined
containers with light fitting cov-
ers. Serves 3 to 4,
TANGY BAKED BEAN SALAD
1 can (I homed) pork and beans
with tomato satte0
I cup chopped celery
2 tomatoes, put in wedges
11,4j teaspoons vinegar
teaspoon salt
Dash of' black pepper
Lightly mix all ingredients to-
gether" Ch11L
ISSUE 39 1962
Even Tis Crooks
Are !lig l in Ttv as
in lite enie(t iif groat prra^;per
itY, Texans base become increas-
inely aware n' kr laprt. '11 et+1ir'",
which Appears to have de ve hapset
in the conduct of bnsinr and in
- scone. segments (rt rode.o sports.
it is an awakening that is; prod.;
dir11) the .tate to snake a sell',
analysis and lass turned up •,
slackening in morality bivia it
5 It the t » La :s :,f the
proud toast of 1!so we.—sterner
that a man's ttord is his 11,10(1
It i5 a serious Now to a bus;,
11(55 community which hos eon -
dialed 1hoteat,ds of tr u, (:tire
on a verbal basis where written
'tate rents. and agreements hove
111,e -n seldom Isaiah ed c . ,•rpt 119,
t(eo arab let4,f record:.
Thr first inkling th n so;nv-
thin'g was wronit in the sl.aue
carat' almost a ;vette age, when
rumor, beltrw is spread that
Trees in sunt( ,Alege oaske shall
• games were colder suspicion of
trying to shade points in favor
of rcriah1 gamblers. A legislative
probe turned up evidence which
partially confirmed this.
Then came the Billie Sol
Estes sc.•andal, involving not only
shady business practices hitt also
abuses a1' cotton -acreage ;1101=
merits. This was followed by in-
dications of illegal pi act] 'rs i 1
rice -acreage allotments.
As these scandals betray 1n
unfold, thefts of crude oil on
a grand scale were being found
in the East Texas Oil Field, This
one promises to --put the others
in the shade as far as the amount
of money is involved, writes
Bicknell Eubanks in the Chris-
tian Science Monitor.
The current legislative probe
down in Dallas into the East
Texas oil field practices is lead-
ing to some deep scrutiny of
practices which have developed
in the ail industry and agricul-
ture. There are two spheres of
economic activity where rugged
individuality and independence
have been linked with the accep-
tance of a man's promise as some- •
thing which is as good as a writ-
ten document, perhaps even bet-
ter.
In the oil fields especially this
has been an accepted part of do-
ing- business, The dealings and
transactions leading up to the
conclusion of negotiations might
be sharp and disastrous to the un-
wary trader. But they were hen -
est and selduln d.1)111106 11'' 1(1 ;in
tsec lttd('
Texas 011. mere cutuuleltt,an the
change as tluy watch in dismay
the unfolding of the Fast'Texar
oil :scandals at the Dalian hearing:
A House committee is gathering
evidence on slant-]tele:wells
which are being used to Steal oil
from neighboring leases. It is
lonlrinl; for information to be
used in preparing laws to tighten
r t•gulations,
The hearing has received tes-
16100y that some state entpk'Y-
ees entrusted with enft rcing oil -
production regulations have- re-
ceived bribes to look the other
way when slant hole€; are drilled
for illegal purposes. Regulations
permit a certain degree of devi-
ation,
As the hearing progressed,
the committee's chief counsel;
Devil Witts of I)allio', denounced
what he said nest litre i;0c11
An apathy 010 the Fut of the
communities invoked, ile said
that .stealing oil thrown 350 dc-
viat0 wells most 11',1' b0e'1r
known generally. lie s pied, Ix,tc-
ever, that ."it i'lourishtit for yearn
without acifon by local lav-eo-
forcernent officers r,r. :tate offi-
cials."
Attorney General 'Will Wilson
said state laws need siic'ngthen-
ing, .lie described the aleutir:ri as
a "major theft _ the; t l it..i(+ le
stolen oil rangers in ,.an...te;
from 11 .,10,f100,01)0 u. ettn)t).000
11 year.
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