E,
MUCH ADO Part of an estimated crowd of 100,000 carrying flags and slogan-tanners
and including members of the new East-German Army witness a farewell parade
of Soviet troops in Brandenburg. Parade was honoring Russian 200th Air Division
transfer back to Russia. The Soviets sent 174 flyers back to Russia in obsolete
t lanes amid a fanfare of publicity to mark the start of announced withdrawal of
3,000 Red Army troops from East Germany.
Shy Marie Dionne Kept Busy Signing
Cards in Little Montreal Flower Shop
By BERT L. MARSH
Montreal (U.R) The motherly-looking
woman wearing a
convention badge bustled into
the florist shop, selected a few
condolence and greeting cards
and went up to a small blonde at
tendant. "Say, your speak English?" the
woman asked. The shopgirl nodded.
"Well. I came up here all the
way from Kentucky," the wom
an said. "Where's Marie? I want
her to sign these cards. Just sign
'em, that's all. She needn't write
anything else . . . ."
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The blonde let out an audible
sign, iuuk uie carus anu whikcu
back past the glass-doored flow
er refrigerators to a rear room.
She was back shortly with the
cards on which was scrawled
"Marie D."
The visitor beamed, cooed her
thanks and left. She was one of
the hundreds who come every
day to the shop opened last
month by Marie Dionne not to
buy anything but just out of cur
iosity about the famous quintup
lets. Maries' shop does fairly well
on regular orders but the unend
ing flow of sighteseers is such
that the first quint to try her
hand at business remains almost
constantly in the seclusion of the
back room.
The shop is called "Salone Em
ilie, Fleuriste." The name is in
memory of Emilie Dionne, who
died in 1954. On the pastel blue
walls, are an oil painting of Emi
lie in a blue dress and another
five by seven foot portrait of the
quints when they were two years
old.
AU the Girls Busy
The remaining four girls, now
22, all live in the Montreal area.
Marie has a two-bedroom apart-'
ment. Yvonne and Cecile are
nurses in training at l'Esperance
hospital where they live in most
of the time. Annette is studying
music under nuns at a college at
Nicolet not far from here.
Marie reluctantly received
this reporter. She was asked
what she and her sisters do for
entertainment. She shuffled
from one foot to the other,
smoothed her long, brown skirt
and plain white blouse and said:
"Well, we get together at the
apartment. Sometimes we go to
the movies. We try to pick the
times when there wont' be a lot
of people staring at us, although
weidon't mind that now, really.
"Now and then we eat out. But
we never go nightclubbing be
cause we don't drink and we
never seem to want to go to a
club."
The girls no longer dress alike.
When they go shopping, they do
so separately so they will not
draw crowds.
So far as is known none of
them has any romances. Yvonne,
the most attractive of the girls,
was reported about a year ago to
have become engaged to a Mon
treal boy. Papa Dionne imme
diately called a press conference
at their Callander birthplace to
deny the reports.
Resented Actions
The quints were said to have
resented their father's action,
not because there was any en
gagement in prospect but be
cause they want him to let them
mind their own affairs.
Dionne has never come to
Montreal to see their apartment
or to visit the flower shop.
The man they lean most to for
advice is L. M. Edwards, an exe
cutive of a trust company which
handles the more than $1,000,000
in gilt-edged securities which the
girls came into at 21. Edwards
and his wife occasionally have
the girls out for dinner or an
evening drive.
"I think they are gradually
coming out of their shell," he
says.
"They probably still feel
strange, but who wouldn't feel a
little out of place after a life
time of being the focal point of
everyone's eyes?"
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Aerial Photos
Aid In Solving
Highway Problems
Los Angeles (U.R) Knotty
problems in freeway and high
way construction can now be
solved quickly anj inexpensive
ly by an aerial photography
electronic computation system,
according to Bendix Aviation
Computer Division Corp., offi
cials. Tle G-1S General Purpose
computer was produced by Ben
dix and was demonstrated re
cently with a photo - mapping
operation used by the engineer
ing firm of Lockwood, Kessler
& Bartlett, of Syosset, Long
Island.
The new system, combining
the two operations, utilizes four
basic steps.
1 Aerial photographs of a
proposed highway route or
"strips" are made with correc
tions to allow for variations
in the plane's flight.
2 The photographs are match
ed to provide a true location
and elevation of every terrain
feature common to them. This
is first established by ground
control points.
3 Drawings of a three-dimensional
"stereopticon" contour
map are made so vertical, hori
zontal and depth measurements
can be taken along the route.
4 The necessary measure
ment data is taken from the con
tour map and fed into the com
puter which translates the data
into precise engineering infor
mation such as the location and
size of each earth cut and fill
within any specific section of
the route.
At that point, the section of
highway is ready for staking
and bulldozing. Earth moving
equipment can then begin opera
tions on the pattern provided
by the computer's answer.
This Is a major portion of
field surveying and can now be
eliminated by the new camera-to-computer
technique.
With the new system, authori
ties say a time-saving of as much
as 30 to 1 is achieved and a cost
swing of 15 to 1 is realized.
More than 500 express trains
are now operated on British rail
ways, 150 more than before
World War II.
Wednesday, June 27, 1956
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Muwatallis Actually Won Kadesh Battle
2,352 Years Ago, Archaeologists Reveal
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.R) Because
news remains until everyone
knows about it, it is news that
the real victor in the battle of
Kadesh, which settled the fate of
much of the known world for
generations, was not the mighty
pharoah, Ramses II, but a fellow
of whom only a handful of scien
tists ever heard and they only
recently.
Since the battle of Kadesh was
fought 2,352 years ago, this news
goes to show that although truth
will always out, it sometimes
takes a long time. Ramses and
his bootlicking historians have
had the wool over our eyes from
that day until the present age.
Not only was the victor a present-day
unknown he was the
smart and brave king of a peo
ple and of a world power which
also got lost for almost 3,000
years in the incessant shuffling
of generations of human beings. i
The people were the Hittites, !
their nation was Hattusas. The ;
victor at Kadesh was King Mu- j
watallis.
Their resurrection from the j
grave of thousands of years is
one of the least known and more
fascinating triumphs of modern i
science the science of archae
ology which has dug out their :
long-buried cities and now, after
generations ' of fruitless trying, '
has succeeded in deciphering
their writings which were carved
into stone and clay.
New Book Tells of Work
C. W. Ceram, which is the pen
name of a well known German
archaeologist, has put their work
together in a book "The Secret ,
Of The Hittites," which reveals i
what was going on in Asia Min
or, the "cradle of civilization,"
thousands of years before Christ
was born.
What these scientists have dug
up is knowledge that was un
known to the so-called "ancient"
Greeks and Romans and in the
days of Christ. In their days, the
Hittites were already so very an
cient that they were both for
gotten and obliterated. The way
science has figured it out, the
Hittite kingdom came into being
around 1900 B.C. or 3,856 years
ago.
So when Muwatallis came to
the throne in 1308 B.C., he pre
sided over a very old people who
had become one of the three
great powers of the then known
world. The others were Egypt
and Babylonia. For a long time
there had been much 'trouble
along Egypt's Asia Minor border.
Army Moves Out
Ramses set forth at the head of
an army of some 20,000 to put
down a people he deigned to no
tice only as a "rebellious tribe."
Muwatallis at the head of an
army of equal strength (and such
armies were enormous then) was
encamped at Kadesh in the
southwest corner of Asia Minor,
and operating over 300 miles
from his capital.
The armies clashed. Ramses
proved to be an amateur and a
fool. He was encircled and barely
avoided capture. The Egyptians
were routed. But wise Muwatal
lis imposed a peace treaty which
endured for generations. Ramses
went home and boasted of a stu
pendous victory. The news was
carved into stone scholars
have believed it ever since. But
now science has dug out and
read the Hittite side which clear
ly is truth.
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