of of of of of of of of of of 0 4 4 5 5: 2 THE SPRINGFIELD SPRINGFIELD, MONDAY, APRIL 11,. 1955 The Neighbors By George Clark 4 "Just wait till you see some candid shots he takes of YOU, Mom, and you'll take that camera from Down to Down to Earth By' IRENE MERRILL, MASON of the prowlers that Pencircle our Ordinarily we have knowledge house during the night. But if you a want some idea of what's look going out on outside while you sleep. of the window some early morning with a when the ground is covered A smooth expanse virgin snow. Smooth, but not unbroken! Crissof crossing silent and unseen foragers.
At it you'll tracks my house these tracks usually lead to the base the bird feeders, where bits of suet or some other tidbit fallen from the feeding table are an invitation to scavengers. So it was this morning when I stepped out on to the back porch. The first thing I noticed was that cup of suet--which I had melted, crammed with seeds and let harden again--was gone from the feeder. is a second story feeder. Though squirrels do.
reach it via the roof, no animal could possibly leap it from the ground. But as I leaned from the window to unhook, the feeder and draw it 10 attention was caught by clear, well-cut tracks in the snow below me. One pair of tracks, one leading to the house, the other away, held my attention more than the others. The only way I can describe them is to say they looked like an imprint in the snow made by a long string of exceedingly large beads that had been flung there by some careless hand. Beads the size of a crab apple, lying close together, as they would necklace.
One imprint was much than the other. As if the animal coming to the house was traveling as if, going away, he were loaded down, with that cup of seeded suet. perhaps, though there was no indication that anything had been dragged. The man of the house, called into consultation, was no help. Nor was a pamphlet I have which shows the tracks of the more common animals a help, either.
Thinking that if I could get a good picture of those tracks, I might find someone to identify them, I hunted up the camera, got into my coat. It was the sort of morning you wanted to get away from dust and dishes anyway. The sun was very bright. The snow had a dancing sparkle, as if it had been dusted with pulverized diamonds. The air was sharp, but as I rolled up the garage doors, the melting snow dripped over me from the eaves.
Close up. the snow had the look of meringue just before you slide your into the oven to brown. I hated to mar that perfection by stepping on it, but to take my pictures I must. I hadn't taken many. steps, however, before I was reminded that if I had any affection for my neck I'd better proceed with caution.
The back yard is slopey, the sparkling snow was underlaid with patches of ice which, when I stepped on them, almost toppled me into the snow with a splash. my pictures taken, I decided to investigate some of those tracks. One ribbon of tracks, that might have been by an animal the size of a. skunk, led to the brook. Another, into the The heavier beadlike string moved sinuously down to the sap house, thence into the grove where it ended abruptly in a pile of snowcovered boards.
Nothing indicated that the animal had burrowed in. He seemed, rather, to have taken to the air. Curiosity about. those tracks was momentarily dispelled by' a pleasant surprise. For near those boards I saw the framwork of a garage-sized building.
I had known this building was in the process of becoming. I'd tramped over this area last fall helping to decide the best spot for it. Often as I worked in the kitchen or on the back porch I'd heard the steady pound, pound of a hammer. I like the sound of as pouding hammer. It speaks not only of someone happily at work (did you ever know anyone pounding a hammer who isn't happy, even if she's only slicing but it also tells of something under construction.
And though that something is but a toy, a wagon, or box being made by a small boy, anything under construction is important. That pounding hammer had made me especially happy last fall. As plainly as signals sent out by a tom-tom it told me. "He's working on the tool shed." It was to be a place to store the power mower; the roto-tiller and other larger garden equipment that now so clutter up both garages that it's like forcing one's way through a jungle of steel to get out into the grove. It will also house the yard furniture that now is crammed into the cellar.
with the overflow outside at mercy of wind and weather. My surprise came because I had no idea thel tHE HEROUX FATHER IS RELEASED AS BREAK SUSPECT Providence Man Held Not Party to Florida Prison Shooting Lake Butler, April 10 (A) Sheriff John H. Whitehead today released one of three persons held in a gun smuggling plot that threatened to a big break at Raiford State Prison. He said he and State Atty. T.
E. Duncan agreed there was no to hold George Heroux, of Providence, R. father of the bank robber convict who tried to engineer the break. The son succeeded in 'getting a small gun from A woman who was his wife at the but who, two weeks ago, married again. Killed Prison Official Heroux, used the gun Monday in an escape attempt, killing J.
G. Godwin, assistant superintendent of the prison: and wounding two guards before he was overpowered. The 23-year-old convict had been taken from his cell for a bath when he suddenly produced the gun. The Italian pistol was traced four about 12 hours by fast police work in Jacksonville, New York and Miami. Raymond Staffa, 27, Miami race track exercise man, admitted buying it in ant effort to win and keep the love the small blonde who was then married to Heroux, officials, said reported.
she then The divorced woman, Heroux and married Staffa. She said she got the gun for Heroux because she was afraid of his pals outside prison. Authorities said she produced a letter from Heroux which he laid plans for her, Staffa and A I man named "Greasy" to smuggle in but three she said she wouldn't go along automatics a big break with this. Savela Suspect She did conceal the tiny pistol in her girdle and then hid it towels by in the women's visiting area rest I prearrangement under some room. Duncan said plot letter was given Heroux' father to mail one visiting day but the father said it sealed and he didn't know what was in it.
Heroux is a prime suspect in the State A. M. Savela in mystery shooting of Massachusetts Barre on Aug. 31. 1951.
Authorities have said he definately was placed Oddities in the News New York, April 10- moters and policemen apparently had more fun than anybody last week. In Colorado, where dust and snow and aomic fallout from the Nevada tests have been making news, an alert ice cream company came up with a brand new flavor of the month: Chocolate Fallout. Youngsters were pretty, perspicacious, too. An 11-year-old lad in Stamford, won a $25 savings bond in a "weird pet contest." He rather expected to. In addition to the winner, his pet deodorized skunk, he had entered two white mice, a cat, four turtles, snake, a frog and a toad.
A year was knocked off his tricycle Nashville, Tenn. The motorist discovered the boy wasn't much hurt and offered him a dollar. The boy shook his head, held out for two. He got it. He also got a new bike.
Robert M. Gamble, an Atlanta public relations counsel, wired Nashville police to buy the bike and send him the bill. Nashville police are taking A dim view 'of the deal between the boy and the motorist and seek the latter on a hit-and-run charge. Which brings up the subject of the public's defenders: Baltimore's policemen are going to school to how to drive safely. They're taking it seriously too.
If they flunk they'll lose their prowl cars, start walking a beat. Oklahoma City police noted that a. fellow ran 24 blocks before telephoning that he had been modest robbed. man It seemed he was A and wanted to go home first and put on another pair of pants. The robbers had taken the pair he'd been wearing--along with his hat, car and $9.
his own definition what was A Wichita, Kan. policeman model yond the call of duty. He captured a raccoon that was splashing water around a house, but when the snarling animal at the scene the killing and they hope to question him about the case. ADMINISTRATION STUDIES CONTROL IN CASE OF WAR Commerce Secretary Weeks Fails to Elaborate On Emergency Planning Washington, April 10 Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said today the administration is studying a standby control bill 10 be presented to case of war or other emergency. He did not elaborate.
It is known, however, that the administration has drafted legislation for a 90-day wage-price economic controls. freeze. It. includ- would ing be used should President Eisenhower decide the Communist threat calls for out mobilization. Studying Controls.
administration Weeks said "this is. continually studying the economy and the movement of the economy, and the direct and indirect controls and actions which this government properly should take, occasion required." He said in a filmed interview with Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N. that the study is being conducted by the Office of Defense Mobilization.
Last November, the joint congressional committee, on defense production the 'administration's plan for a 90-day freeze in case of war. It also revealed that ODM has drawn up "a comprehensive genleral freeze regulation" to followup the temporary law. It be adapted to "all types of situations, atomic attacks upon the United States itself." Expects Better Business The committee, headed by Sen. Homer E. Capehart said there has been "extensive ning" for production and material controls to "avoid a repetition of the long delays and confusion that were experienced World War I and again in Korea." Weeks also said he believes business this year will.
be "substantially" better than it was in 1954. He called last year "the largest, best year of peacetime history in this country." Link Between Virus, Human Cancer Found San Francisco, April 10 (P--The first laboratory evidence of a link between viruses and. human canwas reported, today by A University California medical researcher. Believed to Be Virus A mysterious something, probably a virus, obtained from tissues of patients with Hodgkin's disease, caused the death of baby mice, said Dr. Warren Bostick.
USC pathologist. Hodgkin's disease is a cancerous condition of the lymph glands and is fairly common. Its cause never been determined conclusively. Early investigators suspected a type of bacteria. Later, medical authorities surmised it might be a virus, because kin's patients show 'many symptoms of virus infection.
But no virus ever was found. Cancers and viruses have been found, however, in animal disease. A virus can produce cancer in mice; another can cause lymphomatosis in poultry; still another is associated with a cancer-like disease of rabbits. MiDr. Bostick, profiting by the failure of other researchers to find a virus clue in Hodgkin's disease, used newborn mice instead of adult animals.
Extracts from the tissues the patients killed the baby mice. They died of a virus infection, not of cancer. Other baby mice, injected with similar tissues from healthy humans, did not die, did not become infected. GOP Women Meet In Capital May 9-11 Washington, April 10 4P The 1955 Republican women's national conference was set today for May in Washington. About 1200 women are expected to attend.
Arranged by Miss Bertha Adkins, assistant to the Republican national committee chairman, the conference will provide background discussions on Eisenhower administration policies and outline I steps for campaigning in 1956. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo YOU'D THINK HE HE HASN'T COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS BR IT'S A WAS PADEROOOSKI! THE DRINKS- AND THAT ONE HE IS TO AWFUL! DIDN'T LISTEN YOU PIANO! MY HE WORSE SOUNDS WHEN EVEN HE'S HELPED ANY, EITHER. VERY GOOD SPILLED IN THE PIANO HASN'T EVER HAVE IT TUNED? FATHER GAVE ON ONE THAT IS HE'S SOREIT DIDN'T ALWAYS IT TO ME TUNED WHEN SHE HE KNOWS THE SOUND LIKE THIS, DID WHEN I BOY! THAT GRADUATED? MUST ONLY REASON IT NAW! YOU CAN'T GRADUATED- BE AN ANTIQUE HE GOT INVITED EXPECT ANYBODY WAS TO DO HIS TO PLAY ON THIS HARPSICHORD- THING LISTENING TO THE WORKMAN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE TOOLS AT HAND THANK AND A TIP OF THE HAT TO CAROL FITTIN, FAIRFIELD SHORT HILLS, NJ. 1956, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE RESERVED 3 building had progressed so far. It needed now only roof, floor, sides -slab sides to masholt resemble log cabin.
With from the overhanging pines sifting looked down through the naked rafters it cold and shivery, but it should be cool retreat next summer wouldn't be surprised I found myself there now and then, tucked between garden, paraphernalia with typewriter br book. only hope we don't start there the things that we're always keeping on the chance that we may need them sometime. But back to my tracks. I tried follow the lighter strand of, bead tracks to see where they went. found that they vee-ed in with the heavier strand.
at the base of the syringa bush, to disappear entirely. But perhaps this not as mysterious as it may seem. Those who have seen the pictures I took of the tracks say they are squirrel tracks. They don't look like the squirrel tracks, in my book, since this is the opinion of better authorities on tracs than I am, I'm willing to take their word." escaped from the box in patrol car, he got out fast. While the car's coon stayed inside flashing the red emergency light on and off for some 30 minutes; the patrolman stood outside patiently awaiting the arrival of Humane Society representatives.
But they love the policeman in Lititz, Pa: When he answered An accident report he found a birthday cake. Individual gifts were tied to each of the little town's 150 parking meters which had been gaily decorated for the occasion. It was his 50th birthday. Post-Easter. salute: To Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Rabbitt of Des Moines. They became parents of a son on Good Friday and refrained from naming him Peter. (He'll be Thomas.) Court to Define Segregation Law Washington. April 10 (-The Supreme Court tomorrow will start trying to decide how and when to enforce its 1954 decision outlawing racial segregation in the public schools.
The nine justices will listen to and question A succession of attorneys the next several days in their search for a solution to the The lawyers, ready with conflicting, views represent and 10 states recommend- and the District of Columbia, the parents of Negro children, and the 1. CANCER COST The United States will have about 500,000 new cancer cases this year, according to estimates. That means a loss of 3,500,000 man-years of work, and will cost society 000,000,000 in lost goods and services. Each year, about 20,000 tons of steel are used in making license plates for automobiles and trucks. 3 tr STRAY STRAY By BILL HATCH If ever you go to Palmetto, Fla.
you may be lucky instead of out of luck if you are picked up for lating some auto regulation. The charge may be just trumped up by the town's "hospitality court' to give the judge chance to welcome you as a visitor to the town. This: is what one driver recently! received after he had made a ble defense to a charge of. ing; as charged," intoned His Honor, who proceeded to pass this Lunch and dinner at two wellknown restaurants; a night's lodging at a leading hostelry; guided tour of the area; to a drivein theater; a free car wash; porby one of the town's leading photographers; a box of candy; a for the lady in party; a six months subscription to a local newspaper, honorary membership in the Palmetto Chamber of We suppose that the Florida community limits such welcomes and counts on the yakity yak of the persons involved afterward to advertise the attractions of the place. The stunt paid off in the case of the incident related above as the autoist bought a piece of property right off the reel.
gadgets 'which shortly be is Machinist. predicts, will a wrist electrode which will stop the car if the driver falls asleep. At the present time it is usually a big tree or a concrete embankment that finally halts the jalopy; frequently with serious consequences for the operator. There is often hidden treasure on a train. Last month on the New Haven railroad a lady left $10,000 in jeweland another left a $1300 bankroll.
A car. cleaner making a check for lost' property in Stamford a few weeks ago found a brief containing several thousand dollars. No one had reported a loss but the railroad's officers finally located the owner who did not even know he had left the case on the train. One woman left a mink stole worth $3000 aboard a New Haven train. The railroad tells of one lucky passenger who discovered a diamond ring.
The stone was so huge that she thought it was but she turned it in just the paste. Time went by and when finally nobody claimed the jewelry it was turned over to the finder. She still figured that the diamond was a cheap imitation. the event wasn't too ritzy. She wore it now and then.
when Finally she decided, just for the fun of it, to have the gem appraised and was astounded to be 34 told it was worth $5000. 4. Years ago there was a' wellknown Springfield man who used to pick up several dollars in change by keeping his eyes peeled when he was walking along the streets. He made more than the average check of a spots near bus stops because he said that it was remarkable how many times people, hurrying to catch transportation dropped change or car tokens. Our favorite spot in looking for loot is to poke down between cushions in these deep easy chairs.
For some reason or other change has a propensity to slip out of a man's pocket while he is in a half reclining position. It usually slides down out of sight between edge of the cushion and the framework upholstery so that the loser seldom is aware of what he lost. Wesley's Pastor Observes Easter At Christ's Tomb Wesley Methodist Church worshippers received a message yesterday from Dr. Leslie H. Johnson, their pastor, from Jerusalem.
Rev. Harold B. Keir read a letter written parishioners for Easter. Dr. Johnson conducted a sunrise service at Christ's tomb in Arimathea.
He and Mrs. Johnson are on a six-week tour in the Holy Land. Dr. Johnson's letter in part: "While you are having your Easter morning services will thinking of you as we worship in Jerusalem. Every step of our trip thus far has been immensely interesting.
"At many sights we have been inspired and at as many others our hearts have ached because of the poverty, filth and superstition which bind the rural folk." Power Engineers Massachusetts Chapter No. -National Association of Power Engineers, will meet Wednesday 8 p. m. at the First Congregational Church Community House, Lathrop West Springfield. W.
H. Sisson of the Minneapolis Honeywell Co. will speak on "Power plant instrumentation." Classes for engineers and firemen begin 6.30. On Tuesday at 7 Harold Polhamus will continue with his course on "Steam turbines." OES to Install Today Isadore Forbes Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. will officers Monday, at Masonic State St.
Roy Horner, worthy patron, will conduct the election for associate patron. Mrs. Lucretia A. Sears will he installed as worthy matron and Raymond F. Goss as worthy patron.
DO. IT YOURSELF A i. A 2 1 HOBBY SHOW 0 1955, John F. Dille Co. 4-71 "Now what's the matter with the chair I fixed?" KNEW MATUSOW VICTIM OF MILD PSYCHONEUROSIS Federal Prosecutors Had Information Three Ycars Ago Washington, April 10 (P -Government prosecutors, knew more than three turnabout witness Harvey Matusow had a "mild but acute' psychoneurosis, Asst.
Atty. Gen. William F. Tompkins said today. But, Tompkins recently told a House appropriations subcommittee, this medical report would have no bearing on whether Matusow was to be believed on the witness stand." Asserting the government has to go after subversives with the best witnesses it can get even though one might have' some blot on his he added: "'If we are just going to have to get somebody of absolutely impeccable and unassailable character, it is going have a terrific impact on our prosecutions." A Washington doctor, asked about the "psychoneurosis" report ATTENDS PARLEY GEORGE W.
KIDDER Dr. George W. Kidder, Stone professor of biology at Amherst College, is in San Francisco this week for the April meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists of the Federation of Biological Societies and the annual meeting of the American Association for Can4 cer Research. 1500 AT YOUTH COUNCIL EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE Others in Holy Day Dawn Greeting at Forest Park And Roosevelt Ave. Matusow, said it did not mean 28-year-old New Yorker was mentally unbalanced.
He said everyone has a psychoneurosis of some sort abnormal reaction in certain situations." Get $55 Million In Unpaid Taxes Washington, April 10 (P -Federal prosecutors in 1954 hit delinquent taxpayers for a record 55 million dollars in unpaid taxes and penalties, and report that 1955 looks like another big year. Asst. Atty. Gen. H.
Brian Holland of the Justice Department's tax division on told the House Appropriations Committee in testimony released today that the previous high recovery figure was 000 in 1950. He said, however. that some 505 cases closed out by the Justice Department st year were old ones which had been pending three years or more. They represented a large part of the additional volume of recoveries. "During the first six months of the current fiscal year the new business has increased by roughly 20 per cent over the first months of 1951," he told the committee.
addition, the Treasury Department advised us last summer that beginning about January of 1955 we might expect a very substantial increase in the number of criminal cases referred to us for prosecution." Perth, Scotland, April 10 (A) American evangelist Billy Graham came to the Scottish highlands today and drew crowds even though the region is sparsely settled. He said his wife is joining him within A week for the rest of his religious crusade in Scotland and England. Graham came here for A weekend visit from Glascow where his revivals have been the center of interest. Billy Graham Still Attracting Crowds COURTESY FULL INSURANCE COVERAGE Since 1907 AMERICAN WINDOW CLEANING COMPANY HOME OFFICE FACTORY Complete Janitorial Service 72 Worthington Strect Springtield TELEPHONE RE 3.2146 SERVICE Turning from 20th-century distractions and anxieties, nearly 1500 persons faced the Easter dawn in Hillerest Park Cemetery yesterday. Victory Over the Grave They were locking to Christ's Resurrection--an event that for Christians shines more brightly than the sun.
The exultant Easter medley--in song and story--was repeated by members of Springfield Youth Council and the congregation. "Despair is turned 10 hope." Donald Thayer, former council president, a pretheological student at Elmhurst College in Illinois said. "We must but open our: eyes. Easter is the day at true vision comes into he added. Impatient bird' songs, early signals of spring, were in the "This is the day marking victory over the cross.
and the Thayer recalls a day long ago marking a turn from disillusionment to great expectations." The sky was draped with cloud curtains, spread in narrow, horizontal gray lengths. Shadows Retreat But where the curtains were not drawn, morning gilded the wide, high backdrop of the outdoor alliar, then touched it with blue as the many hundreds, standing in A semicircle around a tall cross at the base of the carillon tower, sang the Lord is Risen Shadows and defeats retreated as Judith Pinney of First Christian Church read from the Bible of the empty, day. tomb on the' morning of the The carillon rang notes of gladness as the sun edged above the low eastern hills. Donald Pirnie of Old First Church, Court Square, played the bells. Other groups--much smaller but with equal reassurance and affirmation- early Easter Baptist Church had with Rev.
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