You Con Help Nab 1it-And-Run Drivers (Continued f rom Last Week) By Patrol Sgt. Don Saunders as told to HAL TENNANT Our lab work is done by the Attorney-General's Iaboratory, a provincially - financed organiza- tion of about 55 scientists and tecisnicians in Toronto who each year examine, test, match and analyze physical evidence in thousands of crimes and acci- dents freom ail ever Ontario; in- cluding 100 or more hit-and-run cases. They can often tell you, for in- stance, net only whether a cer- tain sliver of glass came from a certain damagedi headlight after yoi've found a suspicious vehicle -tihey can teIl you before you've found any veicle whether you should b looking for a big American-style car er a littile European model, and periaps what male it is, too. By study- ing microscopically thin layers of a single flake of paint, they can tell you what celor a car was before its last paint job. 'll never forget the case in which the victin, a pedestrian, had been wearing tweed trousers. We trac- ed a car, felt sure it was the right one, but couldn't prove it. Then, in tise dust on the front bumper, tie lab men found an imprint in a tweed pattern. Using the victim's trousers they seme- how managed to produce a sec- ond imprint elsewhere on the bumper. In court they showed that the two imprints were iden- tical in every detail. The driver w-as convicted. Of course we make deductions from maNy other kinds of cues. Froi skid marks, for instance, we can tell not only which way a driver was headed before the crash but where he first applied his brakes, how good the brakes were and how fast he was going. When you consider how many useful things we can find at the scen e-things that aren't useful 4f they're disturbed by bystand- *rs-you can appreciate that the Officer who tells the crowd to keep back and not touch any- thing is not just putting on a Sherlock Holmes act. If you hap- pen upon a serious hit-and-run accident before police get there, you'll de then a good service by leaving things alone and advising others to do likewise. (Even the injured should be left as they are unless they're obviously expolied to danger.) We're always glad to hear of somebody taking charge that way if our men are delayed in reach- ing tie scene. And it makes all the difference in the world te have the public's co-operation as wo begin what is often a long and painstaking search for the wanted vehicle. We have Metro- politan Toronto divided into 310 areas. A typical downtown area might be six blocks long and five blocks wide. Beat constables and other men eut in the districts do a lot of the actual blockiy-block searching. Four members of the GAL TWO-You can help nab .... hit-and-run squad ce-ordinate the march and, usually with the help of nien who can be spared temporarily froi other squads, follow up tips frei witnesses and people who have read about the search in the newspapers. By eflic tie we get the search $IREN'S EYE - Holding a smail mirror close to her face, octress Elizabeth Taylor re- touches her eye moke - up be- ore doing onother scene for t'Cleopotra" in Reome. organized, we ne longer expeot tihat the hit-and-run ca will stil be driving around. More likely, it willi be standing abandoned on the street or in a private garage, on will be i i some shop for re- pairs. Ou searchi usually begins around the accident scene, then expands into the four adjIcent areas, and so on. By this tine we have 'long since gatherecd all the piysical evidence at the scene, but w-e go back there anyhow-eitier ta talk te known witnesses again, or to huntfon ones that didn't come forward the first time. Sometimes we'al also set up a road block. People are suc creatures of habit that many who w-ene traveling near the scono ut the tineof- tise accident will be found there again at the saie heur a week later. Se we set up o block t that time, allowing a half-hour lee- way before and after the exact lime of the accident. We don't expect tie hit-and-run driver to be among the people we stop - altihough that has happened toe- but you'd be surprised how many useful witnesses we find this way. Aid I've never talked te a law-abiding motorist yet who secmed te resent being stopped and questioned about a hit-and- run. I say "law-abiding" because our road blocks inevitably net other offenders-drinking driv- ers, people with improperly reg- istered vehicles, others driving while their licenses are under suspension, and se on. On one or two occasions our road blocks have even caught criminais who were on their way to or friom "a job." F'il admît quite readily thaf we don't always get the co-opera- tien that is necessary from wit- nesses who aire needed to testify in court. When we reach that stage in a case, many people shrink back and "forget" w-hat they've seën earlier. They seem to dislike the notoriety of being a court witness, and of course the crowded court culendars and tise practice of remanding a case several times can mean costly de- lays for witnesses who have to leave their jobs te appear ln court. Citozens sshould remeimber that tis is part of their Iuty. Furthermore we all have to do what we can to make the law work if w-e expect it to give us the protection we need. But in case it's any inducement te any- body called upon as a witness, I'd like te point ouf that hit- and-run drivers plead guilty oftener than people accused of premoeditated crimes. So, if yeu witness a hit-and-run and tell your story te the police, you stand less chance of iaving te appear lu court than you would if you witnaessed, say, o holdup. While we're naturally anxious to provide the Crown with ian airtight case if we possibly can, w-e nover take the attitude that we "wain" if the driver is con- victed and "[ose" if ha gels off. It's Up to the imagistrate, the judge or the jury te decide whether the accused is guilty. We are never dissatisfied with the decisiond made in court as long as we feel we've presented the fullest possible accouint of the facts. That's a point so e people never quite understand. Oaa witness I was questioning inter- nupted with what he thought was a triendly w-arning: "You don't want ne as à witness. If I told what I saw, the driver would gat It took me a while to convince the maon that we really did want his testimony, no matter what if did te our case. And tie driver did get off. Ve police are out to make sure averybody gets just treatment under the law. But controlling bit-ai-rua drivons is too big o job ton us te de alone. We need èverybody's hlep. - Fren In- periail 1 Review. Mod-ern Etiquette By' Anne Ashiey' Q. Is it consideredi reailly pro- par for a mon andi bis w-ie to kiss when meeting or leaving lu public? A. There's noting ut ahi wrong wifs this, but ho sure it's a "public" kiand et kiss. Long, tender kissing is baffer doue in privoa. Q. Are ail thse plates suppnsed te ba removed tram the dinner table baera serving the dessert? A. Vos. Tise sait celions, pep- per pots, unusaed fiat silver, art taken off ou tisa serving tray, and fisc crumnbs brushedi off each place wils a f oldedi napkin ente a tray heldi under tise table's edige. BLOOMIN' FLOWER - Hits a blocmin' flower (of.white or- gandy) that prepares London's Sandra Russell for summer. The time as I write is just after eight o'clock; the day Sat- urday and the date May 17 - so you may know we are still in tise middle of our spring heat- wave, and, according to the weatherman, there is no let-up in sight, aven though the heat has already -dasted six days. I don't know how we are going te put up with more of the sane, but I suppose we shail, since we have no option. De and her family have gone to their Stoney Lake cottage for the week-end, Art suggested that we go along too, but the thought of a long, hot drive made us feel it was not worth the effort. Bob and Joy Intended going north for one long day and leaving the boys here but decided against it for the saime reason. All things considered we feel home is the best place during a heat-wave - once you have determined tie best way way to keep yourselves and the hous ecool. As te tsat different people have difterent ideas. One f our noighbours las set up a bed in tie baserneat; others get on with some kin f w-ork that can be done down- stairs. We like to keep away from the basement; for one thing there is bound te be a certain amount of dampness and then if you stay down long enougih the heat upstairs strikes you all tise more when you finally have to cone up. There are aiso people who like to keep their houses shut up all the tine. We natural- Iy keep doors and windows closed against the sun but we like them open on the shady aide of tshe house. Fortunately we have a well shaded front porch and an open patio at the back of the house. That is where I am sitting right now, facimg a large section of our acre lot that has a background of trees. The orioles are flitting back' and forth to theix newly built nest and a brown thrasher is singing like nad froi the top of a poplar tree, Wrens and sparrows are miaking use of our bird bath and feeding station. The sweet-smell- ing viburnun shrub that we put in two weeks ago is now in fuli blooi and it certainly dees send eut a lovely perfume. If we con protect it fron rabbsits duning tse winter we shouIid have a ice bush next year. Anether shrub I want is a wild currant, it has a yelilow bloom that can be sieit a block away, and, so I am told, attracts the humming birds. Clinbing the trellis work at tise side cf the patio is sweet-scented hioneysuckle - and et counse we have lilac - so you see ours should be a well-perfumed lot. Partner says I arm crazy about nice sinells. Maybe.. . but w-hy not? Anyway it al adds up to a country atmosphere. And that isn't all that adds to the illusion. Back ofi us there is a family with a large lot like ours, and they have a Shetland pony! Also a small shed that bouses about a dozen chickens. When I ISSUE 23 - 1962 wake up and hear roosters crôw- ing I feel as is we are back on the farm. Seeing rabbits popping up at over the place when I take Taffy for a wailk desn't make me too hsappy. However the pheasants compensate for the rabbits so we take the good with the bad. Just lately one neigi- bour saw a raccoon, and another a ground hog, so we shall soon have everything. I tell Partner we should complete the picture by iaving a cow tethered in the back yard. One thing we haven't got yet is a vegetable garden. Partner says there will be time for that after we have had agood rai . . . if w-e ever get one. We have geraniums and begonias ln tthe front bordors and there are plenty of annual seedlings coin- ing upso I guess what is already growing will have to do for this sumimer. My goodness, I was almost forgetting to tell you our latest news. We are breaking in a new car! A friend was iooking at it yesterday and said - "I just love thse smell of a new car,.don't you?" I laughed as I answered - "I don't knbw, I've never ssmelt one befere!" Wiich is per- fectly true. Our first car was a Medel T. for which we paid $75. After a few years we graduated to a Model A., and then a de- menstratOr Morris Oxford. Fi- nally a Plymeuti 53 - until we get this new one. I won't tell you the moke -- I rnight be ac- cusecdlfadivertising. Anyway, it is an automatic, full size 4-door sedan. We thought et getting a compact but I found the bigger car easier te bande. It hug s the road botter and gives a semoother ride - but it dees take up a lot o parking space. Wll, tie writing and typing of this columin was divided by two days -- nCi now if is actual- -ly coler. What a welcome re- lief' We theughit we might get al good rain, Ail we gOt was five minutes heavy hait, follwed by a slight shower. Wo were pre- pared for anything as about five o'clock this morning we were wakened by harsh cries from outside. It was our cock pheas- ant, perched on top of a sandpile in the back yard. He would shriek, then stand up and flap his wings, and wait for an an- swering cal, from a rooster next deoor. They kept it up for an hour and I watched from my bedhion window. For some crazy reason it reminded me of our présent political campaign - with tie leaders making a lot of noise and nobody taking much notice of it all. DRIVE CAREFULIY - tie life you save ray be your own. They Like To Keep Ahead of Their Work Never does the tide of living flow more strongly on the fari .than in thie month of May. Most of tie garden plianting coines now, thougih tie first sowings of lettuce, radishes and early June peas are already shewing up richly against their backdrop of tall greon winter- onion tops. The hardy perennials of the garden, tise crisp pink rhubarb and tie delicate green asparagus, give promise of gond- ness soon te cnome. On sunny days tihe werk o washing away winter's grime goes on inside tie liouse, while sheets and pillowcases biliow and do daring fandangos on the line amidst tise heavy quilts and comforters, the woollen clothing wh-ich have been put out to air. The first hatciings of peeps tumble deliriously about in the new grass and only pay heed to their anxieusly clucking motisers .v en a dark shadow moves across the grass. Already in somo mysterious fashion the mother liens have made them understand that there is danger about when a chicken hawk sails overbead, looking for siali feathered crea- tures and the field. mice turned up by the plowshares in the corn plot. Spring sun has brought the jonquils te full fruition. Tise spiny rieddish shoots of ponies seei te grow inches ovrnight. Yellow forsythia adds its own exciting beauty to the stately white daffodils and the cool sweet hyacinths, whicl ara blooming now in the brightest ot lot pinks and electric blues. Per-* vading ail is the heady perfume cf newly mown grass, green and damp, as Hilda pushes the clat- terirg mower on the gently slop- ing front iawn, The birds are as busy as the farni folk. Those that nest in the fie'lds, on the ground! or in nests elevated only a few inches, start establishing their territory early, Meadowlarks have already fina- ished their building, and now the females sit on their clutch of tiny eggs sensing, one feels sure, that- they must get their families raised before the fariers mows the grass in the fields. The kill- deer likes to nest in fields that have been plowed and she, too, must accept hazards in raising her young. Of al] the birds in the fields hereabout, the most successful seems to be the redwing. We see them everyw-here along country rroads that border wide fields. In our part of the country they are much mono numerous than the robin. Ina the orehard the apple, peach, and cherry trees are blooming. Neaby tie pear trees show signs of baing ready to burst forth with a froth of w-bite. We are especially fond of a variety the Zauggs call "sugar pears." Siaill in size, with o deep tan skin that is sonew-hat rougiher thon an ordinary pear, they seein te capture ail of summer's sweet- ness in their juicy meat -- as hundreds of wasps, bees, anci yellowjackets attest w-en the sugar pears are at their peak of ripeness. Only humans know w-bat delicious preserves they make. Practically every farnihouse in our regon has a large straw- beiry patich near the orchard, and if te berries are being raised for market it is not un- common te have a w-hole acre cf ground set aside for then. What puzzled us ut first w-as tIse practice of turning a flock of anywhere from ten to fifty whita geese into the berry patch in the spring. "Won't they injure the plants and eat the berries?" we asked Aios. "No," he replied, "they only eat the w-eeds. It's ne love tie heonkers have for strawber- ries," h siaid, with an indulgent sinile ut tise snowy birds. "Fer, sere reosn theoy just plain won't ouf tison. But every w-oad in tise potchs w-I! ho gene by tisa tuime they are thsrough la theore." Wþeon tise bl<ossoms f ormn on tisa plants tise goese are taken out te provent themn trampling and la- juring tise bloms, but by thon flair wornk 1s done,. It is tisa only painless weeding done on tise f arm, w-rites Mabal Siack Sisal- ton in tise Çhristian Science Monitor. Amos and Eli de treinendous amoeunts et work ln the tieldis ut tisis fumaeto year w-iths their herse drawn equipmnent. Today, each bas o teamn going. In tise north forty, Ehla i folowing tise lew oronge coloredi lime spreader as if bouncas along, spilling eut fer- tilizer on tise cernstalk fieldi, f ive hundred pouda to the acre. Noame Address Clfy Zone 8to-t. Amos is riding the grain ill, sowing cats. Before the fields were ready te be worked, they enlarged the cattle feed lot and constructed some corn cribs. These are of the long, low type, capable of hold- ing several hundred bushels of corn, with wire cevered sides and slanting roofs. They know that in Amish fields corn picked in the ear will not be superseded by grain shell- ed in the field by a modern con- trivance, as jin some other places. On a trip this spring te another state, we noticed a farmer in the field next to the highway picking corn with a two-row pull-type picker. Farther on was a soy- bean field awaiting tihe combine. We had heard of farmers who put off such work until spring. Yet coming as we do from a lo- cality where ail f arm work ia dene in season by manpower, we found the sight of a field of standing beans in early spring aiazing - and somewhat upset- ting. And this feeling was heigh- tened when we counted at least seven fields ef unpicked corn. We realize that in other places methods of farming have chang- ed greatly, and it , doubtless a sign of progress te be able to eave the field1s standing in full ear until spring. Still it is not the way to which we have be- cone accustomed. We find that as time goes by tradition seems to mean more to us. It would not seem right somehow if on a frl mornisg, when frost lies thick on the roof- tops and, the uplând meadows glisten with a million lights Lin the thin sunlight of October, the wagons did not move through the dry and rustling stalks while the menfolk "gather." We like to hear the satisfying sound of plump ears of hybrid corn hit- ting the bang-boards as the pickers wrest them from their protective husks and fling then toward the wagons in a gesture that is without the sîlihtest trace of lost motion. We like to see the fields lying clean and fallow in winter, wait- ing for the proper season in which to yield up their stored riches. And it would make us feel sad to see heavy snows drifting across fields where the corn stood unpicked. It would violate something within us that we have acquired through living among people who are noted for being beforehand with their work. For this is the Amish way. It is one of the reasons they can always respond promptly when a call goes out to help a sick neighbor, or enjoy to the fullest a day at the county fair, or a vendue. They are not fretted by undone tasks at home. To be ahead of the work is their way. They are happy with it. So are we. RECOMMENDATION! A banker asked the home- town police chief if lhe knew anything about a new applicant for the post of receiving teller. "I'il say this about him," replied the chief thoughtfully. "He's a gentleman to his fingertips." JaUtHbute4 (rom: BOSTON LOS ANGELES LONDON CHICAGO - Interesting Accurate Complete International News Coverage T'he Christian Science Monitor One/Norwoy St., Boston 15, Mass. 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