Free Movies
Save Lives
j By JOHN BARROW v
, International News Service
I Staff Correspondent i
I CHICAGO (INS) Free movies
have been a literal lifesaver for
thousands of youngsters who live
near a deep quarry on Chicago's
southwest side.
It came about, through a father
who was determined to keep his
two sons and their buddies
from playing around the danger
ous hole. Although a ten-foot
fence encloses the quarry, adven
turous boys, have a way of infil
trating most barriers.
i So Tony Schillaci had an idea.
Reward instead of punishment
seemed the logical approach and
he explains:. .
! "I had this movie projector and
I told the kids they'd have a free
movie every Friday night as
long as they stayed away from the
big hole." -
. The plan worked and after sev
en years Tony's ? weekly , movie
audience has swelled to hun
dreds. Scores of grownups, many
wheeling baby buggies, also take
in the free entertainment
Tony, 41-year-old operator of an
auto fender and body shop, was
joined four years ago by the firm
which operates the quarry. Ma
terial Service Corp. now pays
Tony to cover expenses .of the
films. 5
The supervisor of nearby White
Park also stepped in. Patrick Mc
Carthy provides Tony with space
around the public playground
fieldhouse to accommodate the ex
panding audience.
In the last four years, not a
single child has been found inside
the quarry without permission.
Are the youngsters still curious
Yank Finds j
Tiny People J
CAPETOWN. South Africa
(INS) An American explorer.
Colonel William J. Morden, has
found in South West Africa what
are believed to be the four last
"Strandlopers ? in the world
survivors of a mysterious African
people as tiny as Bushmen. ; j
Colonel Morden, leader of . the
Africa expedition of the Amer
ican Natural History Museum,
said - in Windhoek, capital of
South West Africa, that in the
desert they found three old men
and an even older women who are
believed to be the only pure
"Strandlopers . (people who run
on the sands") alive today. j
The Strandlopers are believed
to have come up the coast from
the Cape. These four "lost .peo
ple" have intermarried and have
no descendants. ; ?: j
Asked how old she was, the
woman told Colonel Morden she
was vthe oldest person alive." j
The amazing thing about
them," said Colonel Morden, "is
that their hearts can distinctly be
seen beating." TheTeason given
by the expedition's doctor is that
the bone structure on their chests
is very thin. j
"All four are emaciated," said
Colonel Morden. "The Strandlop
ers, who have become a legend in
South Africa history, are short
people with coloring similar to
Bushmen. But they have finer
features." ,-- 1
about the "mysteries" of the big
hole? . " ,.-
Naturally. But a joint enter
prise with the park supervisor
and the quarry company takes
care of that They, conduct the
children on guided tours of the
quarry. - n
Electronic Control
For Traffic Light
DALLAS, Tex. (INS) Have
you ever wished a traffic light
could see you coming and not
turn red before you made it to
the corner? , ,
Yep, they've thought up one
tnat does that, and then. some.
Traffic - lights with mechanical
brains are now in operation at a
few-Dallas intersections.
The light an electronic device.
operates in favor of the street
with the greatest amount of traf
fic If there is an equal amount
of traffic on both streets at the
intersection, the lights gives each
an equal amount of time.
Frayed Ropes
Help Britain
LONDON (JPi A thriving trade
in old rope has been going on be
tween Britain and the U. S. since
1770. Recently it has been step
ped up to the point where it has
earned nearly $250,000 for dollar-
short Britain in the last three
years.
The frayed or worn manila rop
es are collected largely from ships
at Bristol channel ports. They are
dried, sorted, graded, nacked in
to huge 450-cwt coil bales, and
shipped out to New York and
Boston.
In the United States they are
distributed to paper mills and
turned into pulp. They make ex
ceptionally strong tough wrapping
paper.
Helium gas, once valued . at
$2,500 a cubic foot now is pro
duced for less than one cent a
cubic foot - .
Beivare if Sky Appears Thus 1
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WASHINGTON, D. C MACKEREL SKY According to old time
weather prophets a sky like this can mean only one thing: A
storm is on the way. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman.)
Stone Better Than
Gun Against Fox
HADDAM, Conn. Gaston
Schreiber, a World War I army
captain with a reputation for
marksmanship, took three shots
recently at a fox raiding his
chicken farm here. He missed
each time. '
The fox was less fortunate when
it returned- to Schreiber's farm
two days later. Mrs. Schreiber hit
it squarely between the eyes with
a stone, knocking it cold, and kill
ed it with a club.
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A Continental Army manual
written by Baron von Steuben
cautioned soldiers against "vexing
the inhabitants" near their camps.
wallop Packed
By Soda Pop
OSHKOSH, Neb. UB Straw
berry pop can pack '". a terrific
wallop. Witness the case of C M.
Miller, Oshkosh attorney.
A bottle of pop dropped from
Miller's arm-load of groceries,
shattered on the pavement and.
under the pressure of the carbon-
ation, sent particles of glass fly
ing. . :..-
The glass cut tendons in Mil
ler's left leg. An operation was
necessary - to join the severed
tendons, and Miller was commit
ted to a cast on his leg for six
weeks. ..- -...!
Statesman. Salem. Ort Friday. Oct X 1S53 (Sec 2) 11
Weather Bards Thought Better
Prophets Than Poejry Writers
WASHINGTON Authors of
old weather rhymes may not have
been the best of poets, but sci
ence now is ready to admit they
were pretty good . as weather
prophets. . ..
Farmers, sailors, shepherds and
the like frequently compress a
wealth of weather lore into dog
gerel verse. Many of these are
backed by sound metorologkal
fact . .';
Take this one:
"Fog on the hill brings water
to the mill; ? , . ,
"Fog in the hollow, fair weath
er will follow." .
That's pretty simple. The fog
on the mil is a moisture-laden
cloud from which rain very likely
will be condensed. Fog in the hol
low is just that a -.ground haze
which may be expected to burn
off soon.
There's another saying, -"Mountains
in the morning,
"Fountains in the evening."
The "mountains" - in this case
refer to piled-up cumulus clouds
typical of many summer days; II
they grow in size and depth by
mid-morning, and the air is calm,
better postpone that picnic. The
overturning of air within the bil
lowy masses soon reaches a point
where the cloud can't sustain the
water vapor. It rains.
One of the most familiar of the
weather adages goes:
"Rainbow in the morning, sailor
take warning.
"Rainbow at Highlit, sailor's de
light" .
' In most latitudes of North Am
erica major wind currents and
the weather move from west to
east In the morning any rainbow
you see will be in the west, mean
ing that the rain that forms the
bow; is approaching. .
When there's a 'rainbow "at
night" (poetic license for, late
afternoon or evening) it means
the storm has passed on to; the
east ; ' " ''..-
A terse old saw asserts:
"Mackerel sky,
"Storm very nigh." -
Here the clouds fleck the sky in
a J pattern which looks like the
scales on a fish's back. A mack
erel sky usually precedes a .warm
front which, when it collides with
cooler air, can be - expected to
bring.precipitation.
Time-tested as such sayings are,
it is well to remember the Span
iards' proverb: f
"When God wills, it can, rain
with1 any wind."?
Further, it's possible the Atom
ic Age may develop new atmos
pheric bromides. Such as: '
"Mushroom cloud on Yucca
Flat
"Hit the dirt and grab your
hat" i
Dog Scores ,
Hole in One
LINCOLN,5 Neb . tfl Roger
Hitz dog, Bu,tch. suddenly, stop'
ped eating.", ' v
Pretty soon Butch. was down
from his normal 60 pounds to
where Roger said "you could al
most see through him," -
As a last resort, the puzzled
veterinarian operated on Butch.
- He found a golf ball core "in
Butch's digestive tract
Last report from- Roger was
that "Butch eats a lot"
Youths Scare Driver
Just Once Too Often
LAWRENCE, Mass III Four
youths, tossing a staffed dummy
into a roadway t frighten the
wits out of motorists, flung it -once
too often. . . ;
It landed in front of a police
cruising car. The boys, brought
into court on delinquency '
charges, were given a stern lec
ture and placed on probation.
EXCLUSIVE
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