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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT. APRIL 16, 1959 Twenty Hours Of Terror For the Baldwin family of South Charleston, W. Va., the hours of terror began in tranquil innocence. They were all in the •living room watching TV. John Baldwin was eating a peanut-butter sandwich. His wife Elma, was crocheting. Their three children -- Kenneth, 10, Danny, 7, and Susan, 5 i-- were sitting around a little table they had been given for Christmas. The doorbell rang. The man to whom Baldwin, in all innocence, opened the door of his modest bungalow was Richard Arlen Payne, 23, four days out of Moundsville, the state's maximum-security penitentiary and-- according to the state police afterward -- "a dangerous mental case." "He seemed nice enough when I opened the door," Baldwin explained. "He asked if he could use the phone, I said sure and I went back to the sofa. I heard him dialing a long time, but he said the number he was trying to get was busy. Then he said: "This is a stickup.' I thought he v, as joking." It was no joke. Payne had a pistol--a loaded Germar Luger. The hours of terror had begun. There was a lot that Baldwins didn't know about Payne. Payne had gone to prison in 1952, when he was 1G, for the armed holdup of a motel just outside South Charleston in which the owner was critically wounded. In prison, one qt Payne's cell-mates was a convict named Burton Junior Post, a man for whom Payne conceived a deep and blinding hatred. . "I hate him with all my existence," Payne said. "When I see him it's like being almost overcome by a blinding light. There isn't room in this world for both of us to live." When Payne was released from prison, his twisted mind concocted a truly fantastic scheme. To murder Post, he would have to get him released, from prison. The man who could release him was the governor of the state, Cecil Underwood. But the governor -- Payne thought -- could be forced to act only if he were faced with a deradful alternative. Payne decided to kidnap some innocent victims, and to murder them, one by one, to force governor to release Post to him. It was entirely by accident, and on the spur of the moment, that Payne chose the Baldwins. "It was horrible," Baldwin said. "He said he had to have a car, BACK IN THE FOLD - Lin Yutang, an avowed pagan for some 30 years, has re-embraced Christianity. Reason given by the 64-year-old world-renowned scholar-philosopher-author: he believes that Christianity is the only civilizing influence that can save the world. ISSUE 16 - 1959 so I gave him the keys and my wallet. Then he said he'd have to tie me up. He made me lie on the flfloor and made my wife tie me. Then he tied her up, then the kids . . . "He had this letter he'd written to the governor and he started to read it. It was all about how the governor was to release Post, and where he was to release him, and how -- it was long, page after page, and he read slowly. He was sweating, the sweat was running down his forehead. "He had gagged me with a torn pillowcase. He hadn't gagged my wife, and she kept pleading with him not to do anything to the children. He said he had to take them. The two little ones had just had bronchitis, and my wife said she wanted to go along so she could take care of them. Finally he took them all out of the house leaving me there, and I heard the car drive away." Baldwin worked himself free, and called the police. He handed over to them the" five-page letter to Governor Underwood that Payne had left behind. It gave the governor a three-day deadline to deliver Post, or the Baldwins would be murdered. For the next twenty hours, it is hard to determine who had a worse time -- Baldwin at home, hoping against hope, or Mrs. Baldwin riding the back roads of West Virginia with her three children in a car driven by an armed man who was obviously insane. "He threatened to torture the children, to kill them," Mrs. Baldwin said. "It was so horrible I didn't know what to do. He kept driving all over the back roads. We almost came up on one roadblock (by this time, nearly every police officer was looking for the car), but he saw it in time and turned back. "I kept trying to talk to him, I wanted to take his mind off the children. He kept saying that he didn't want to hurt anyone, only kill that convict ... He said he had to kill him. I was afraid to go to sleep. He didn't sleep either." The end came suddenly. Two state troopers spotted the Baldwin car and gave chase. Payne drew his Luger and turned to fire back at the police car; Mrs. Baldwin saw her chance and suddenly drove her foot down on the brake -- and pulled the steering wheel over-Payne threw the Luger out-.xjfrt&S' window and meekly put "up-"his hands. The terror was over. Royal Typist Will the Prince of Wales soon be learning to use a typewriter? It is quite possible, for the young Prince has always been fascinated by the machines. As he grows up he will be writing more and more private and business letters and will find it a help to rattle off some on a typewriter rather than rely entirely on handwriting. The former Prince ot Wales (now the Duke of Windsor) was a typist in his younger days. It was reported in 1922 that he had "a dainty little typewriter." which was specially made for him by a British firm. The first typewriter ever to enter a royal home in Britain belonged to Queen Victoria. In 1890 she1 read a newspaper interview with a businessman who was then introducing typewriters into Britain and was specially-interested in his statement that "women are ideally suited for typing." As a result, the man took a typewriter to Windsor Castle Queen Victoria examined if with great interest and saw a specimen of typewriting. The Queen desired that the machine should be left at the castle and in due course learned to use it herself. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 2. Sun-dried 1. Roef »>rtck 4. Agreement 3. Disclaim its XI. Cut Musical It. Harems Instrument 18----- to. Baseball 11. Counsel t|. Callf^rockflsh 16. Insertion *8. Thin cake 0. Degraded |0. Deg-i «2. Well 2. Well-bred S3. Balloted :t4. Protect a bet | already made 85. Veneration »6. Lilylike plant |8S. Formerly 111. Commotion 42. Man's name 43. Scorned 47. Exist 48. Appellation of Athena 49. Persian fairy ... . /' 'mSSL FOR THE BIRDIES, STRICTLY - Only creatures other than golfers and spectators allowed on the grounds of the Augusta country club during tournament play are "birdies," one-under-par scores for any particular hole. Joyce Ziska, explains all this to a nongolfer who ts fond of birdies of another feather. THEFABM FB0NT Jorm12usreiL. Answer elsewhree on this page It Isn't only in Ottawa thai Government "big shots" wish-- NOT audibly, of course -- that a lot of farmers would either drop dead or be stricken dumb. The following message 'im Washington will tell you what I mean: » , * Secretary of Agriculture Benson is on the firing line again. He is being fired at, and he is shooting back. He is being blamed for the $9 billion accumulation of surplus farm products the government will hold by July 1. Columnist Joseph Alsop attacks Mr. Benson on the ground that the cost of farm programs is going up instead of down and that it has increased vastly during Mr. Bens3n> tenure. He suggests that a Brannan-plan, direct-subsidy type of program would lower food costs in the market place, cost less, and still help the farmer. Secretary Benson, in reply, declares the present farm program is largely inherited from previous administrations. He points out that it is not his program. He has to administer the laws Congress makes and he has urged lower price supports. Had his advice been fully heeded, there probably would have been smaller surpluses today But it appears that he, too, underestimated the production born of mechanized American agriculture. Mr. Benson also declares that a Brannan-plan program would make the present one look like peanuts, costwise. Now, there would be far less basis for criticism of the present program's cost if farmers were in the depths of a farm depression; if they had been hard hit as a group, by crop failures; if the farm economy were sagging. But farmers today, on the whole, are a prosperous lot. Farms have been getting bigger and bigger; they have become highly mechanized; many are classed in the category of big business. One big commercial cotton plantation received more than $1,500,000 in price-support loans in 1957. This represented the value of the crop at price-support level -- obviously a big business farm operation. Not that all farmers are well-to-do. But, ironically, 't is not the small farmer, nor the poor farmer, who benefits most from the farm price-support program. In fact, many receive no price support at all because they do not produce the kind of crops covered by the program The present lopsided, top-heavy, indefensible farm program, might indeed be termed a freak of nature - a freak in which man also played a considerable part. For by offering what, in effect, amounts to a bonus for production, price sup port - along with the new won der-fertilizers -- has encouraged that production to a point whei* the government has to pay $1,000,000,000 a year for storage, interest charges, and losses on surplus supplies Going back a bit, price-supports originated in the dark days of the farm depression. Under that program, wheat, cotton, and corn rated a price-suppoit level ranging from 52 to 75 per cent of parity In 1940. before this country entered the war. wheat snrl cotton were being suppoiicd at 57 par cent of parity, corn at 75 per cent. Cost of the price-support program was then $738,000,000. At the beginning of World War II, price-support was boosted to high, fixed levels to encourage more production for war needs. Fixed supports were abandoned some time after the war. Today price-support,, in general, has a range of from 75 to 90 per cent of parity, except for corn now computed under a different formula. , The price-support level for wheat today is 75 per cent of parity, cotton 80 per cent (or 65 per cent if the farmer grows more than the restricted acreage needed to qualify for, the higher rate). It is estimated that by midsummer the government will have more than $9,000,000,000 tied up in price-support operations. All this resulting in production of huge surpluses for which there is no market. * * * Who is to blame? Secretary Benson, to be sure, has be*.n pleading for a program which would permit him to lower supports -- make it less attractive for the farmer to overproduce. But even a measure of flexibility has failed to bring about the desired results. Now he is asking for authority to reduce the price-support level in another way -- by changing the parity formula. Had he gone to bat for this at in earlier date, he would have been in a better position to defend himself from his critics today. But Mr. Benson obviously asked for what he thought he could get. Also, any drastic reduction in price-supports would mean a corresponding drop in the income of many farmers. Secretary Benson would hesitate to advocate a cut in farm income. So would any member Of Congress representing a farm state or dii-trict. Just the same, someday so: ehow, something has got to give. Even many farmers, themselves, are fearful of a taxpayer revolt that might wreck the pro gram, its good features along with its faults. Over Eighty Yet Walked 300 Miles Not long ago newspapers carried the story of a sixty-three-year-old New Zealand woman who walked from John o Groais to Land's End. A remarkable feat of endurance, but not quite so impressive as the achievement of Mary Kelynack who. a hundred years ago, walked from Cornwall to London -- 300 milts - when she was nearly eighty Mary was born at Holcarne, '.n Madron, a remote part of Cornwall between Penzance and Land's End. Het sensational, joui-ney was the result of * wager by a neighbour that she wouid never see the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace Mary vowed not to accept any help on her journey, except ,in the form of alms from passers-by. She intended to walk every yard of the way, and not out up for the night unless she had earned, or been piven, the ■jrice of accommodation. On a sunny day towards the beginning of autumn. M^ry Kely nack set out on her record journey, carrying only a staff and a small bundle of clothes, and with only a few shillings. She passed through Camborne and Truro, over bleak Bodmin Moor, then across Dartmoor and right through Devonshire to the hills of Somerset. In those days, parts of the so-called main road were just rough lanes which were very hard on the feet. As she could not write, no news reached her relatives in Cornwall. But at last she reached London, after thirty-six days of walking, with only fivepence-haifpenny in her purse. She slept out for the first night, and on the next day, as she had wagered, she arrived at the Great Exhibition, which was attracting visitors from all over the world. Almost penniless, she wondered how she could possibly return home. Had she the strength to walk all the way back? She forgot the problem for the timr being and resolved to greet the Lord Mayor of London personally before her return. The next morning carrying her bundle of belongings on her head, she walked up to the Mansion House and asked to see the leading citizen. She was duly presented to the Lord Mayor in the famous Justice Room. She told him the story of her vow and her journey The Mayor was greatly impressed and when she confessed that she had only a few coppers left, he gave her a golden sovereign. Mary Kelynack was so overcome with emotion that she broke down and wept with gratitude, The next morning she spent some of her sovereign on a visit to the Crystal Palace, and while she was there she was told that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had heard her story and wished to see her. So, once again, Mary Kelynack was received in audience -- this time by the Queen of England and her Consort. They listened to her story with interest, and she was given a hearty meal. Later, journalists came to visj^ Mary at her lodgings in Crawford Street, Marylebone, and a famous artist asked her to sit foi it portrait A leading London paper carried her story in these words: "Mary Kelynack was born in the parish of Paul, by Penzance, on Christmas Day, 1766. To visit the present Exhibition she walked the entire distance from Penzance, nearly three hundred miles. She possesses her faculties unimpaired. She is fully aware that she has made herself somewhat famous; and among other things she contemplates a return to Cornwall, to end her days in Paul parish." It is pleasant to learn that Mary Kelynack did not have to return on foot. She travelled back to Cornwall by rail and coach. What is more, she lived on, in good health, for several more years. When she died she was buried in the churchyard ol Saint Mary's, Penzance, as was her vish. OFF BEAT Summoned to court for speeding, Murray Schneider, of New York City, indignantly complan-ed to the bench that he couldn't have been speeding since he was holding the steering wheel with one hand and playing the harmonica with the other. Replied a sceptical magistrate: "It's a lucky thing you were not playing the drum," and fined him one dollar. JNDAYSCH001 JLPSON 1 Rev R B Warren B.A. BO Memory Selection: Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice. I Samuel 15:22. Why did Saul's life end hi such tragic failure? He was "a choice young man, and goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoul ders and upward he was higher than any of the people." On the day that Samuel anointed him king, "God gave him another heart: -- and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied. He was humble." Later when chosen by lot before all Isreal to be king, they finai!y found him hiding among the stuff. He proved his worth as a leader. He raised up an army to relieve the people of Jabesh against the shameful oppression of the Ammonites. And he led this army to vic- But years later, the night before he died by his own hand on the battlefield he made this sad lament to Samuel in the hut of the witch of Endor. "God is departed from me, and an-swereth me no more, neithei oy prophets, nor by dreams." Why such a tragic failure? The answer is: -- disobedience. First, although already a k\nz and a prophet, he usurped toe office of the priest and offeied a burnt offering when Samuel's coming was delayed Then he failed to carry out God's command to slay King Agag of the Amalekites and all theii flocks. He and the people had spared the best of the flocks for sacrifice. Samuel reproved him, saying, "Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee from being kind." One sin led to another. Saul became jealous of David, the cne God appointed to succeed him. On many occasions he sought to slay him. Once, in a burst Of what "proved to be, only a temporary repentance, he exclaimed, "I have sinned! return, my son David: -- behold, I have played the fooL and have erred exceedingly." One act of disobedience so often leads to another. How far sin will lead us, we nevei know Let us obey God! Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking □Dm hbds bbee C3D dqeh DEED BgQ HBHCJHDCJEE □BOBS HDDB ebbb EEEH EC'Ci BEBSGI EBEJEE BQOE1BE EBSHEE □BBDL2 hbbcjd j □HQ QBBH bbbe Bmna bbeqo BBDHEE20EH BEE BHBID qeee bee bqbb OHaa HHE ROAD HOGS - Nine little porkers make happy pigs of themselves at a reasonable facsimile of a mother. One fellow is helped by Fred Scott, who bedded them down in the trunk of an auto after they were orphaned.