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The Seaforth News, 1962-06-14, Page 3Sarin', Prepares For The Big Bout Charles (Sonny) Liston took a sip of hot tea and jabbed a giant ringer at a black -and - w h i,t a poster showing aU the heavyweight champions since 1730, "When I win the cham- pionship, I want my picture rkeht here in the middle," he aid. "I want it bigger then all the others and I want it with stars around it." After his first week of light training in the Catskills, Liston, the troubled top contender who fights Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight title in September, was supremely confident. "I'll knock out Patterson in three or four rounds," he said. "I'm just as fast and 'I hit harder. No fighter hits harder than toe. The only way Patterson'd bounce op against me is with one of those those bouncing . , "Trampolines?" suggested a writer, "Trampolines," said Liston, smiling, At times smiling a.n d serene, Liston can also be sulking and solemn, Unsweetened by the pink 'petunia wallpaper in his room at The Pines hotel golf clubhouse, he was irritable the day after his 30th birthday last month, He snapped at a sports- writer, shouted at an adviser en the telephone ("How can you advise me if you ain't here?"), andscowled at a gym assistant ("Who you working for, me or newspaper people?"). In or out of the ring, Liston, 6 feet 1, 226 pounds, two prison terms, is a menacing man. "He's got to give hell to some- body," explained Teddy King, the assistant who was scolded for not timing Liston's workout properly. "But when Sonny gets angry, he cools off fast. He's a wonderful guy . who'll make a great champion." Not everyone considers Liston wonderful. In refusing Liston •a license in April, . the New York State Athletic Commission stern- br announced: "The history of ston's past associations pro- vides a pattern of suspicion , . , We cannot ignore the possibility that these longtime associations continue to this day." Convicted of armed robbery in 1950 and of assaulting a policeman in 1956, Liston has also been ac- cused of being associated with Philadelphia racketeer Blinky Palermo, heir transparent to Frankie Carbo, boxing's under- world czar. Liston lately has confined his assault and battery to the ring. He now has won 33 of 34 bouts, including 23 by knockouts, and has been the No. 1 challenger for two years. "Liston will be the greatest fighter I've ever fought," says Floyd Patterson. "His record speaks for itself." One item on which the record is. silent: Can the Philadelphia strong man take a punch? "I hope people never find out," says Liston. Preparing for the biggest fight of his life, Liston fortifies himself with two meals a day (five strips of bacon, three soft- boiled eggs, two glasses of fruit 'juice, and two cups of tea for breakfast; 2 pounds of steak for :dinner), walks 7 miles, in 7 - pound shoes, shadow boxes four rounds, and skips rope nine min- utes to a jazz recording of "The Night Train." For diversion, he watches television, pitches nick- els with members of his entour- age, or stands on his head. Some- times he rides a red -bicycle. "The bike' beats walking," he said, "Someday Im going to try to ride it to Philadelphia (dis- tance:.192 miles), If I make it, then I'll know I'm in shape," ISSUE 22 - 1962 OVERTHROWN — It appears that 10 -year-old Jackie Ingle, mascot of the .United A.W.C. Clapham Balham Institute' in London, England, can hold his owri as he "rossles" with this beefy fellow • Jackie hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father, who is an institute instructor in wrestling. Horne -Made Bombs A Menace in Britain "Courts are having the im- mense problem again of dealing with violence in youngsters," gravely announced the chairman of Middlesex . Sessions, Mr. Ewen Montagu, Q.C., recently, He was jailing for four years an Enfield youth who had made his own home-made bomb• to blow up a car. "It was bad enough when it was iron bars and knives," said Mr. Montagu. "Now it is bombs!" The bomb which caused . the grave warning was made by a twenty -year-old labourer who wanted to blow up his father- in-law's car after his wife had walked out on him. With a short length of two- inch tubing filled with chemical, he completely destroyed the car, blew one mudguard a distance of twenty-five yards and broke windows in nearby houses , The bomb was made on the kitchen table from piping packed with weed -killer, sugar, and a solid fuel used to power model aircraft. Many schoolboys have been maimed and killed in the mod- ern craze to make .bombs. This was spotlighted recently when a fourteen -year-old public school student died in Welwyn Garden City after the explosion of a weed -killer bomb, and his friend was seriously hurt, Supt. George Dear, of Hertfurd C.I.D,, told me: "All evidence shows this craze of making bombs is widespread. "Usually they are weed -killer bombs, But in some cases boys are making 'bottle bombs,' and detonating them by catapault! "We appeal to parents to keep chemicals which could be used as explosives out of children's way. Parents who find any tins which might have been used to make an explosive mixture should phone the police at once "And, if they find any of these home-made bombs, they should place them in a bucket of sand or earth, handle them •as little as possible, and on no account put them into water." In Supt. Dear's area, a tele- phone kiosk was wrecked by a bomb which a child had ob- viously made. On the other side of Britain, in Wyllie, Monmouthshire, a boy of thirteen is 111 in hospital with a shattered hand. He was lucky THAI PREMIER — Field Mar- shal Sarit Thanarat is Thai- land's strong man - premier. to -escape with his life. From a twelve -inch -long piece of piping and a mixture which, for once, was not weed -killer, he had con- structed a formidable bomb. When he tried to close the end of the tube with a hammer, a spark from the steel hammer- head e13p1oded it. There are three reasons for this spate of dangerous idiocity. Schoolboys quickly learned the secret when a well-known juvenile publication gave the formula for a weed -killer 'bomb. Others gleaned the idea of 'a bottle -bomb from a TV pro- gram dealing with Sir ' Winston Churchill. Millions of ,viewers were shown how an anti-tank bomb can be made froman old bottle filled with petrol,' and fused in a manner I have no :in- tention of repeating, writes 'Chauncey Jerome in "Tit -Bits." Then, crooks have discovered the inner weakness of the old Explosives Act - a law which has not been changed since 1875, when it was first put on the Statute Book. Even a few years after the Act became law, . it was not. enough to.stop'a maniac blowing up a public convenience in the' forecourt of New Scotland Yard itself! This was in 1883, at the height of an Irish bomb outbreak, and in panic our legislators rushed through the "Explosives Sub- stances Act," which helped to bring in other dangerous sub- stances, such as picric, acid and ®w THE J;S. MARINES DROP IN— Members of the 1,800 -man Marine battalion that landed In Thailand are shown during "Operation Tulangun" on Mindoro Island in the Philippines last month. Five, men are carried' in each helicopter and descend o rope to land in isolated 'recs. liquid oxygen --• lull ,!tit 01, uJ' perhaps not recognized as Bang, tt erous by, the main Explosives ' Act. Police admit the old Act is full of difficulties. For instance, solicitors have managed to get an acquittal because a substance used in a home made bomb could not be provei an exp! Mive within the meaning of the Act. Other lawyers managed to get an accused man off through a loophole, which says that chemempt)ical experiments are ex - A group of Croydon school- boys recently discovered this loophole, and began building themselves a monster "space rocket" which, had it been launched, might have blow up a street of houses. Fortunately the police heard of the attempt in time, and raid- ed the, rocket site. "'We were only planning to do experiments!" the police were told. Then one of the boys admitted they were planning "scientific" experiments sending the rocket up with a camera to study the stars. "Right," said the police's legal advisers. "Now the boys can' be warned they run the risk of ar- rest, "A scientific experiment, in law, is not the same thing as a chemical experiment!" So the rocket was dismantled, and the explosive washed down the drains, One man who knows a lot about the hazards of home-made bombs is Mr. V. J. Chancey, of the Armament Research and De- velopment Establishment at Woolwich Arsenal, He is usually called in by Scotland Yard when famous people are threatened by do-it- yourself parcel bombs, and mys- terious infernal machines. "We have devised a remote - control apparatus for opening this sort of device," he told me. "But we usually X-ray the par- cel first." An expert, with many years' experience investigating explo- sions caused by "the big stuff"- RDX, gelignite, and plastic ex- plosives such as Nobel 808 - ad- mitted to me: "The most dang- erous thing of all the home- made explosive. We never know " where we are with it, Yet often they manage to pack, it into par- cel - bombs," Of all the dirty, dangerous and cowardly ways of bringing harm to your fellow man, the parcel bomb is the worst. In the past three years, Scot- land , Yard and regional C.I.D. ' forces have investigated seven major attempts at murder by this method, One of the luckiest escapes was that of a Nottingham man, He opened the parcel and saw to his amazement a jumble. of can- isters of chemical, He phoned the police, who discovered this parcel bomb was intended to be -deton- ated with an ordinary mouse- trap, On opening, it, the coil -spring •of the trap was supposed to strike a little mercury -fulminate detonator; which would then "fire the main charge. The parcel had, however, been damaged in the post, fortunately without causing an explosion, The mouse -trap had been pushed-out'of align- ment. • When Michael Sheldon, a Sus- sex -detective-constable, received through 'the" post a coffee -box bearing the . words"Requiescat in ' Pace" (Rest in Peace), he thought it was just a practical joke. The bomb went off with only a small explosion, which dazed the detective: But, investigation. showed that some "screws had - come loose. Had it functioned correctly, it could have been deadly. • The Government should find time NOW to amend entirely the old Explosives Act of 1875, and the 1883 Explosive Substance Act. A new law la needed to deal with twentieth-century amateur gangsters: Sale of all chemicals such as sodium chlorate should be strict - controlled. And there should be stern sentences, up to life im- prisonment, for people who steal or. misuse Army and mining ex- plosives, or even chemicals such as the ammonium nitrate used to make them, Somehow, the idiot and crim- inal section of the public must be stopped from having easy ac- cess to saltpetre and other potas- sium nitrates which are so often used to fuse home-made bombs. SOB STORY Two old friends met for the-, first time in years. "How goes it with you, Pete?" asked one. "Not good at all," mourned Pete. 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