Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 45, 24 January 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Sympathy Involved in a motor smash with a military car, town chairman of the Socialist Democratic Party and exMayor of Ulmbach, Germany, was sent to prison. The town band played him to his cell and flowers were scattered in his path in sympathy. Bargain Strip-tease artist Sally Rand was invite'd by a thousand Harvard undergraduates to their “smoko.’ There was an uproar from the students when she refused to do her fan dance. “Take ’em off,” they shrieked. “I will if you will,” she replied. She spent the remainder of the evening dancing with half-clad students. Railway Buffet Cars? The general position regarding refreshment services for train passengers was at present under review, a Railway Department officer stated when a report that the department was considering the introduction of buffet cars on some expresses was referred to him. Nothing definite had yet beeh decided about the future of these services, he added. Anniversary Day Holiday As Anniversary Day for Auckland Province falls on Saturday, January 29, it will be observed for the purpose of all awards on the following Monday, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Holidays’ Amendment Act whicn was passed during the last session of Parliament. This means that most shops, offices and factories will be closed on the Monday. Bone Donor To save his arm from amputation, the parents of a four-year-old New Jersey boy, Anthony Irion, put an advertisement in a newspaper asking for a suitable piece of bone for grafting. The call was answered by a young Baptist minister. Doctors had told Anthony’s parents that the boy would lose his left arm, as a result of a tubercular cyst, unless some new bone were grafted on to it. Mr and Mrs Irion both offered to have a piece of bone taken from them for the graft, but their bones were found to be unsuitable. After a canvass for eligible donors the parents advertised. Surgeons re- • moved a 3in chip from the minister’s hip and grafted it into the boy’s,arm w.*-' ' ' *''*■ ■