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-00! Mother Nature.
Farmer Brown's boy loves the aid Pasture. the Green Forest. the Green Meadows. and all the tuned and feathered folk who live there. even those who wear neither fur nor feathers. He in their friend ai all times and most d them know it. i
.Jitnrny.' said hep Ind he i " d as he stepped
aside.
Just now he was up in the Old Pasture to drive home the Cows for milking. He was going down an old cowpath which was very near the edge of the Old Pasture where it met the Green Forest. He liked that old path winding this way and that way through the bushes. More than once he had met Reddy Fox on this path. Once he had met Light- foot the Deer. Twice he had been stopped by Jimmy Skunk. Both were polite. They looked at each other for a moment. Farmer Brown's boy chuckled. "Alter you. Jimmy." said he and chuck- led as he stepped aside. Without hurrying. his big tail spread and held high. Jimmy, passed and went on about his business. They understood each other. They were friends.
Now Farmer Brown's boy had been stopped again and it wasn't by Jimmy Skunk. As he went around a turn of the old cow- path his always keen ears caught an odd clucking sound behind him. He stopped to look back. There was Mrs. Grouse in the path behind him. it was plain t.iiat she had been following him. Now she had stopped.
"Well. well. Mrs. Grouse!" he exclaimed. "What are you doing out here? You should be over in the Green Forest. How many children have you this year. and where are they?"
Mrs. Grouse said nothing. She just turned. ran back a few steps. then stopped again and looked back at Farmer Brown'l boy. He stood still admiring her. and talking to her in a low gen- tle tone. She walked away a few
steps more. then stopped again. to look back.
”l suppose your children are hiding around here somewhere. if you will take my advice. Mrs. Grouse," said he. "you will lend them straight back in the Green
153310 The Friday. August 23. 1957 l Pound
1 Will Not Be Farmer Brown's Boy Stops Devalued
Forest. You should know riiatp Reddy Fox and Mrs. Rt-ddyl have a family living over here in the Old Pasture and there is no dinner they would like more than one of tender young Grouse. i So if you have your youngsers. with you the quicker you get! them back amongst the treeap the better." . l Mrs. Grouse said nothing. just stood looking at him as if she wanted to say something but! couldn't. Farmer Browns boy took a couple of steps toward her. She turned and ran a few steps. then looked back. Farin- er Brownls boy was puuled. An idea popped into his head. ”I wonder." said he. "if you are trying to get me to follow you. and if you are. what for." He turned and started down the old cowpath. He mated quick- ly as if in a hurry. Instantly there was the sound of flapping wings bea.ing the ground be- hind him. He glanced over his shoulder. There was Mrs. Grouse flapping about on the ground as if she were badly hurt. lie grin- ned but didn't stop. Mrs. Grouse jumped to her feet and raced af-r ter him. She was almost at his heels when he looked over his. shoulder again. The instant he started lo turn his head Mrs.l Grouse stopped. She dragged one; wing on the ground as if it were broken and started back up the old path looking over her shoul- der to see if he would follow her. "You win. old lady. you are in trouble of some kind and you want me to follow you." said Farmer Brown's boy. lie started back up the old covipatli.
LONDON lfteutersl - Britain appears to be waiting for the United States to make the policy moves 1 to ' the apparent increase of Russian in- fluence in Syria following a se
LONDON lCPi - The pound will not be devalued. authorita-; tive financial quarters said here hlonday.
Rllfllfar: about possible devalu- siion ve been flying abouti . . f,';;gP;;i;;;;e ,9;;ng3;'t;;;nge;-3: , .il'.'i.'...i93' i p'f?.'l.'IZ ii”5"e?.'i2il lop Tms upset world markds but I tlons with Syria. while.British-.
Syrian relations were seiered at
financial quarters here said it. has "no beam" on the pomion . the time of the Suez Canal crisis of sm.ung'-- iiast November.
The pou nd grew stronger; The rise of left-wing lial.-Gen. against me dollar Monday after,Alif aizry to the post of com- suffering last week as interna- mander - in - chief of the Syrian tional speculators. who profitedlarmy last week followed govern- on the fall of the franc, wagered ' mcnt charges of a plot to over.'. that "18 GBNIHIII I118”! Would I0 throw the present Syrian regimey UP- ilevellcd a g a i n st the United; But speculators who sold stares, i pounds last week were buying them back Monday at a loss. The SHAKECP FOLLOWED
lpound rose in relation to almost i
every other Western currency. A 3"""3' ',"”.””3: shakeup 39' 1-h'e German gamme rises from i companied Bizri's rise to power. the fact um. the mark has be. 1 Syria recently has completed far-.
U. K. Appears To Bewniiing For U. 5. Decision On Syria
larillnelll following reports of the 9011!. but foesua office officials
,Moiidn.vdoi-iinniiiouainiiiiy
oathe i ” S Despite Baghdad Middle East defen
Vrles of military purges there tutiinct countries of couoli ” week. fol a pro-Soviet bridgehead in the
Middle East. the British role for the moment appears to be one ii observing from a distance.
SUE! JAPAN
ROME IReutersI-Count Vanni Fabri Teodorani. a newphew by marriage of former Italian dic- tator Benito Mussolini. filed suit Wednesday against the Japanese government and the Japanese am bassador in Home in I944. Shiur- okum Hidaka. The suit claims that eight cases of valuables given to Hidaka in the Second world War for safe - keeping in Switzerland had not been return to Teodorani. It claims ltl).0w.0il) lire lisbout 861.0(1)) damages.
come too low in relation to cur- reaching n ' -sl renc in other countries. Specu- N”! RUSS” . latur figure the mark has to go Bill "1? W951 3PP93l'5 10 51!
up and they were using pounds Dialing I W81 in!-I 33""? M1"? to buy marks. thus adding to events in Damascus remain ob- speculaiion in London. yscure.
But Monday. with last weeks Britain has been in contact buying flurry ended. financial with a number of interested gov- sources said there is "no dau'.'.er"
Folllt CLIMBER5 MISSING
SONDRIO. Italy lReuiers)- Four German mountain climbers were reported missing Wednes- day night on the 13.120-foot Ber- nina Mountain on the Italy-Swissl border.
of any change in the value of the pound.
The pound last was devalued by the labor government in Sep-
CONTRIAC
By Josephine
You are South, both sides vul- nerable, and have I part score of 90. Your opens the bidding as dealer with Three Hearts. What do you bid with the following hand! QKQJET Q-1 QKQ98 RAQJS
This question, was posed in a rccent issue of the Bridge World magazine. It was answered by 53 of the top experts in the country.
A:-iusual, and in keeping with their stature as experts, a variety of reasons were advanced to back up their respective opinions.
The panel voted: 39 for four hearts; 13 for double: 1 for three spades. Some of the comments made were as follows:
DICK FRI-IY: Four hesrLI. The part-score doesn't change the pre- emptive character of East's bid. Nothing less than the cue bid will do justice to this hand. Even so, it will be difficult to reach a l slam if one can be made. What
If North has a complete bust? I'll answer that one if ynulll tell me what you would bid if East's opening were four hearts instead of three.
LEE HAZEN: Even mice lauld hid four hearts on this one.
EDGA-R KAPLAN: Four hearts is quite an ovtrbid and will fair- ly often result in losing the game, but this hand is so slam-
iember 1949. ACROSS 1. stickers W A hwy I. Ill-temper- 3. Buffalo 1 V l ed pernon tlnd.) 3”” GOLD souics , 5.Dreased 4. Busy "W or .:;:::::: ..::::.'... ..i.. .uulll .liI'lLa5 gold output H H. m G . , was l.4'.10.0li0 ounces. i am l. 'Km3m" .. ms.-r . 2"-on r a . wing city I. Contre- I4. I"orea.r1Is dicts T B R. D GE bone 11. Rumpln C I b t is. Lever 13. Girl": 16. At home name U e r S 0 n 17. Dry. 15. A condition- ns wine ally 1!. Merry released it seems to me. At least you will 19- 30! Pl'll'"i9P always play in your best trump 20. Steiun. )8. Jewel right-hand opponent suit. boiler TED.LIGHTNER: Double. My tender
doubles of preemptive three-bids 22.0ther'w1la
are not optional: they strongly 23.Clothesprell
request partner to bid. 25. Roll
DON OAKIE: Four hearts. All , 27. Capibnl lmvnx Others. experienced rubber bridge play- (Eur.)
era know that you can't afford to ”. Siberian
be consistently optimistic or peau i gulf (pone)
simistic. On some hands it payn )1, skin
to drag your feet until partner mmop
shows up with some real stuff, 31A,,uiop.
and on other bands your best (An-J
chance is to take the bull by the 33g 3.” (H L)
horns and stake everything on 34.p..-uh
perlcrntagea. With this hand. I all 35. D.n
we aware that we can go for
upward of 1.100 points as a ro- u :n.n'uIu.
suit of my action, but I also know ,3. "Mn-
that a fairly equal division of Pan”
cards between West and North 3. B I
can give us any number of pon- go" on (cu)
Bible games or slams. .1: nag '
BILL ROSEN: Double-the u I.
standard takeout variety. What's a on
the problem? Anyone who would
rather bid three spades and perv now"
haps run into five to the A-10
in Wcstts hand deserves to get a L :1:
minus on this type of hand. Ba- sides, your partner may be able to beat the opponents to death in hurts. All in all. as automatic I double In I've seen. (Said Al llforehend, who conducts the Bridge World Quit. "Mebhe at; but 40 panelists thought otbesn
nilah that the risk must be taken.
Swedish U. N.
by DAVE OANCIA Canadian Press sun Writer I
RAS NASRAN1, Egypt lCPt- ”Welcome-thls is Rs: Nasranl." said iht Swedish sign by the road leading to two dusty brick bulld- lngs on the barren sands along
FRIIIY
the Straits of Tiran at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba.
The area was a maze of barbed wire and rnineflelds. The islet of Tiran and the mountains of Saudi Arabia beyond were ob- scured by the blue haze in the
I131 Mn.-Afternoon Mudcale blazing noon sun. A dozen miles Gil P-III--Bill OI in the west of the barren. saw- 4:ID pm.-'11:: Afternoon Show toothed Sinai Mountains erupted
1:: v.m.- an Nhtnco out of the flat. yellow desert.
: p.m.-Chi! n's snared "B N Lu tn pmt-W NW" boastield mthe 'suig'ii'.m't.fsiu:iet-so mm pmywuun nab. dancing under"lhe trees. Ladies mo an-crcv rv News 'd"'"'"' '"'i 'I:l0 pm-Weather ppm-
1:ll pin.-CBC TV News N"
Vzap .-viewer's Guide The bleak. treeless. grasslesa 7:! p -Perfection area roasted in temperatures
Theatre frequently hitting 140 degrees.
I100 In--OI Nil The two buildings house the is '13 I-l--ClID 0'00lIlC Swedish troops who watch ship- s:u v----"""' "" ping in the gulf through binocu- '91:D --clllifi 3009'" Ian and repon movements to
I I-ll-m United Nations Emergency Force D:I p.D. CFCY TV News h..,qu.n,,1 1... "I '35" Between the buildings stood a
' ' lone blue cross. capped by a set 3:. "MT"'u 7' m"n"' of rarn's horns and tarnished
gnrinded with ammunition belts.
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Troops Have
abandoned by the Egyptian army when the Israelis struck. Circling
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its base were empty beer bottles;
po ntlng inwards.
gt. Boye Kanppl grinned as he translated the Swedish signs for Canadian transport drivers visit-
ONCE BLOCKADED
The troops are part of the Swedish rifle company stationed iin the southeastern Sinai area in rwhich Egypt once blociiaded ship- ping bound for the Israeli pon of
Both Ras Nniiranl and Sharrn el Sheliih. some 15 miles to the south. had been Arab hamlets. .But the Arabs were moved out lfive years ago when Egypt do cided to hit Israel eeonmnical' by cutting its shipping lifeline.
1 Gun batteries were set up at ithe mouth of the gulf where the i passage between the island of Ti- ran and the mainland is about three miles wide. Shipping had to pass much closer inland because y coral reefs and other obstruction innrrow the passage.
l N0 FIGHTING
Now all that remains of these costly installations is s heap of
IUWII M'M- 1'59 "0" "Hi rubble. twisted metal and mine-I
fields. The Israelis captured the place without firing a shot when the
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