Britain Pays Off
184-Year-Old Debt
LONDON <JV — Britain’s Chan
cellor of the Exchequer has sent
a check for the equivalent of $18
to a Philadelphia minister who
billed him i for a church fence
burned by Redcoats nearly 184
years ago.
But the chancellor, Selwyn
Lloyd told the minister, the Rev.
Joseph Koci Jr., the correct place
for him to seek compensation was
the U. S. government or the State
of Pennsylvania.
The Rev. Mr. Koci, rector of
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in
the city of Brotherly Love, lodged
his claim with Lloyd last month
for destruction of the fence, used
as firewood by British troops.
He priced the fence at $18, but
said interest over all the years
now amounts to $796,000.
It was Anatole France who ob
served, “We do not know what
to do with this short life, yet we
want another which will be eter
' nal.”
Factory-Mad* Fakes . . .
OTTAWA UFi — Hie Northern
Affairs Department has warned
buyers of Eskimo carvings to be
on guard against factory-made
fakes. It has registered a trade
mark in the form of an igloo with
the word “Canadian Eskimo Art”
to distinguish the genuine from
imitations.
CUTTER FLIPS
NEW ORLEANS — An 83
foot Coast Guard patrol boat
slammed against the dock in hur
ricane-threatened Port Aransas,
Tex., today, flipped over and
sank.
The Coast Guard said the
ship’s crew escaped. There was
no immediate report on the num
ber of crewmen aboard.
It takes a strong man to be
either a banker or a bank robber
on the island of Yap. Stone money
used as currency there weighs
about 175 pounds. One chunk will
buy a wife—-or 10,000 coconuts!
Fla* Job Priatfag At Th* Nugget
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Slang is often denounced by
fussy - minded purists but Carl
Sandburg, a poet of the people,
defined slang as “language that
takes off its coat, spits on its
hands, and goes to work.”
SCHOOL FLOOR COLLAPSES
INJURING 20 STUDENTS
KOSSUTH, Miss., I* - The
floor in an old building at Kos
suth High School collapsed dur
ing a recess today, injuring an
estimated 20 persons.
Comith Community Hospital
reported it received 17 victims for
treatment, but none was consid
ered serious. Some of the stu
dents, the hospital said, would be
hospitalized.
School sources said the collapse
occurred in an old building being
used until a new structure under
construction is completed. The
flooring apparently gave way be
neath the weight of students and
soft drink vending machines and
tumbled several feet to the
ground.
NOTICE
Democratic District Committee
meets at the City Hall at t p>a.
en Friday. Sept. 22.
Lester Bronson
Vice Chairman
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President De Gaulle
Escapes Attempt on Life
PARIS Cl) — President De Gaul
le escaped a carefully organized
attempt on his life Friday night.
His car plunged safely through
a wall of flame set off by the
fuse of a plastic bomb while he
was enroute to his country home
east of Paris.
French Interior Minister Roger
Frey declared the attempt against
the 70-year-old soldier-president
was organized by a rightwing
European group opposed to De
Gaulle’s policy in Algeria. Frey
said one man was put under ar
rest and confessed, and that two
generals were also being held.
Investigators said it was only
because of exceptionally fortu
nate circumstances that De Gaulle
had escaped injury when his pres
idential limousine sped through
a wall of flame, created by an
inflammable mixture apparently
intended to serve as a fuse for
a plastic bomb. The bomb, weigh
ing eight pounds, failed to go off.
Official sources said De Gaulle
ordered the cars in his party
halted after they had passed
through the flames. He got out,
hunched his shoulders, and said
scoffingly: “This was just a little
joke in bad taste.**
Then the 70-year-old president
got back into his limousine and
resumed the trip to his country
home about 150 miles east of
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Johnny if he is a slow reader.
President Woodrow Wilson, one
of the most intellectual men of his
day, didn't learn to read well
until he was 11.
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