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MEIKROWAVES Fuselages FF THE CUFF By JACK LEDDEN Post-Times Staff Budget Time Means Taxpayer Confusion rhli Is Hit 11th el a wrfei of column! on outstanding ptitonaU-liet in Palm Beach County. Through this medium th hiiloiy of tho county will bt detailed In th wordi and deeds of tioie who helped malt it. An old saw about an active person being a healthy person only partially describes the person featured today as part of this series on growth and development of Palm Beach County. For the saying to more fully define our subject an amendment must be added versatility goes with ability, and the combination is hard to beat. the gasoline tax, citrus taxes, cigarette taxes due the cities.

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First, budgets are filed by the various state agencies giving details on proposed expenditures for the next two years. The Budget Commission, which It can honestly be said Miss Agnes Ballard twice tried to cast her lot in Northern territory but Florida's climate won out. Today, at 81, this grand lady is still actively contributing something to the welfare of a growing community. Her mind is alert and she still is a student, firmly convinced there is something to learn each day of her interesting life. Knowledge is power, and modesty a real attribute.

Mix with these two characteristics a good sense of humor and you have a capsule description of the first woman ever to be elected to office in Palm Beach County. Be it architecture, music, education or chess, Agnes Ballard can spice up a conversation with personal experiences. She savs is composed of the Governor and State Cabinet, takes these budget requests and balances them with income. I "A XiJ The Legislature then goes to work and the final budget comes out. In the news stories you will be seeing out of Tallahassee, the main emphasis will be placed on the "general revenue fund." This fund SUNDAY MORNING.

DECEMBER 7, 1958 is made up of taxes that are not earmarked for other purposes. Three Minutes-aDatj jams 5 Keller. The general fund, for example, her hobbies are music, chess and dogs but in all activities does not include road building halls rather than too much about many of these other things. The reason is simple: Expenditures for education all types of schools including grade schools, colleges, and fire colleges and the like total 61.2 per cent of the general revenue fund. Since the general revenue fund is the one that involves most of the Legislative discussion, it is safe to say that schools, which get 61.2 per cent of these much discussed funds, will come in for a like amount of discussion.

Actually, if you take the overall disbursements of the state funds, the percentage to education is much less. Comparing it with the total outlay of all types of funds, it is closer to 23.3 per cent. Of this 17 per cent goes into the grade school program and the rest into the college program. All this boils down to this: The Legislature, unless some broad fiscal study is launched, does not deal with the really big money. Its efforts are aimed at the fringes.

After all is said and done, the Legislature will have done this: Cut a few salary requests, chopped off a few buildmg requests, and cut off a few new positions. That's the story of all this budg AGNES BALLARD funds and funds collected by the Game and Fresh Water Fish Com her great love is people. Her philosophy of life is best described mission. ner own words "Activity is the finest thing a person can possess. I believe in developing the spiritual as well as the mental and physical." There are four other funds used in the operation of state govern newspaper article that an engineering company in Los Angeles HOBO GETS FORTUNE An inventor, turned hobo, was ment a total of five funds Progress Program For a better, Greater West Palm Beach, we advocate and urge full community support of these important projects: 1.

Municipal auditorium. 2. Four-laning SR 80 and US 1. 3. Better streets, sidewalks and lighting.

4. Promotion cf events to attract tourists. 5. Jet-age airport facilities. wished to purchase his invention recently offered $150,000 for his Those funds are: 1.

General revenue. With this happy turn of events, he revolutionary invention which began hitchhiking home. would prevent aircraft collisions. 2. The State agencies- fund, which consists of funds collected by regulatory agencies.

Some of these agencies also get money from the general revenue fund, but these amounts show up in the gen If you strive conscientiously to contribute to the well-being of others, you will probably have your ups and downs, and may even meet with complete failure by the standards of the world. But Before this man's hard-fought efforts paid off, he underwent a i 7 long ordeal. 'sSs" While he tried in l' vain to sell his invention, bills Iff bp continued to pile Vi up and an at- eral revenue requests. 3. The general inspection fund, which consists of fees collected God will bless your perseverance.

To know Agnes Ballard, business woman and teacher, one must recapitulate years of accomplishments. However, to understand her requires only a few minutes of personal conver-sation. Endowed with keen ability to analyze, this woman owns leadership qualities which make her beloved to thousands of persons exposed to her teaching over a long period of years. Born in Oxford, Sept. 14, 1877.

Mill Ballard is a direct descendant of an original Plymouth Colony family. Her father and mother were school teachers, both emanating from English families that sailed from Leiden, Holland in 1622 in search of religious freedom. Originally the family settled in northern Vermont. It was the public schools of Worcester, which gave Agnes a basic education. Eventually she graduated from a teacher's college in that city.

After special studies at Welles-ley, the pioneer in the Ballard strain expressed itself. She wanted a teaching challenge, something different from large city school routine. She chose Palmer. in the upper peninsula, where snow covers the ground from October until May. "I saw so much snow In one season," she recalls, "I wanted to go somewhere where I never would see snow again." Thus in 1906 Agnes Ballard came to West Palm Beach.

Eventually you will receive a last through the department of agri ing and eternal reward. culture. tempt to obtain a bk 1 "He that shall persevere unto 4. The state road fund which in eludes money from the gasoline the end, he shall be saved. (Matthew 10:22) et talk you'll be hearing in the months to come new names, tax and federal monies.

Eli In desperation, he left his home in Los Angeles and took to the but same old arguments. 5. The trust fund which Includes many types of trust funds such as Teach me to be patient, 0 Holy Spirit, in meeting the trials of federal grants to various agencies road. When his money ran out he and other earmarked funds. life.

(Released by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The emphasis in the Legislative moved a hobo jungle in Reno, Nevada. While there, he read in a Plaintiffs Seek Near Million debates will center around the "General revenue" funds, and it is the estimated revenues and expenditures in this fund that are the merry-go-rosind By Drew Pearson most important to the taxpayers. Other funds are pretty well set, If Circuit Court Juries suddenly start awarding everything plaintiffs ask for this week, almost a million dollars in damages will be passed out in suits still MEXICO CITY. The Ameri- and although budgets are ex-amied they don't get too much into the limelight. entire staff together to ljear Morse give a talk.

"Never have I had so much attention from Republi can tourist is finally discovering The current estimates are that what the Spanish conquistadores scheduled for jury trial. discovered 500 years ago the fascination of Mexico. A total of cans, opined Morse. Exiles Refuge A Bay To Remember On the broad deck of the USS Nevada in Pearl Harbor's "Battleship Row," the band and the Marine guard assembled for morning colors. It was Dec.

7, 1941. As the first bars of "The Star Spangled Banner" burst forth, the enemy struck. The assault, unprovoked and without warning, lasted for about two hours. It crippled our Pacific fleet, left hundreds dead or dying, plunged the United States into history's greatest war. Today is the 17th anniversary of that attack.

By designation of President Eisenhower, it also is Civil De-lense Day. It is appropriate that a day of prayer and reflection be chosen for the twin observance. For Pearl Harbor should be a stark reminder to every American of the tremendous price a nation has to pay for unprepared- ness. That dark day found this great, powerful nation as unprepared as was the Nevada's band. A seaman on a destroyer caught in the attack said: "I didn't even know they were sore at us." To recoup the losses we suffered that day, we paid a terrible price in lives and resources.

We must not let it happen again. That does not mean we must go about with chips on our shoulders. We do not anticipate a shooting war, but we must be prepared. World War II was fought by armies and fleets and planes in combat zones far removed from these shores. World War III, if it comes, will not be so remote.

Supersonic bombers and push-button missiles would make every major city in the United States a potential target. Radioactive fallout from the explosion of hydrogen bombs could reach the farthest points of the nation. In tomorrow's war every American home would be on the front line. That is why we must prepare now. That is the importance of Civil Defense organization of govern Another million dollars in alleged damages, $955,000 in seven when budget requests have been filed, the general revenue fund requests will total about $684,500,000 for general operation salaries, expenses and the like.

530,000 trekked -down here in the fAv Mexico City has become one of the great exile capitals of the suits and an unspecified amount first nine months Demands of something like world. Here live some 30,000 Spanish Republicans, exiles from dictator Franco, plus exiles from of this year and more man $127,800,000 are expected on the general revenue fund for capital outlay new buildings and the 000 will come in other Latin-American dictators. This is the only country where the 1 like. The tourists IM-W Spanish Republican Government is still recognized. Mexicans hate This is a total of $812,300,000 for find a city of f.

I 4.265,000 popula- I I "7 general revenue. Estimates of what will be available to pay the dictators, will have no truck with Franco. That's why the head of i equaling At Palm Beach High School, Miss Ballard taught geography, biology and chemistry. Among her pupils were James Owens, Roscoe Anthony, Helen Hood and Mrs. John Dunkle, Sr.

In re calling this group the white-haired teacher displayed her humor. "Please let it be known I didn't teach arithmetic to Jimmy Owens. He learned how to figure those horrid tax assessments from somebody else." At that time Owens lived in Palm Beach and daily rowed a boat across Lake Worth to attend school. In 1908, Grace Lainhart opened a private school on Flagler Dr. where Good Samaritan Hospital now stands.

Agnes Ballard was hired to teach Latin and mathematics. However, better income was promised in the North so in 1910 Miss Ballard accepted a teaching job in White Plains, N. Y. "I found out again snow and cold weather were not for me," she recalled, "so I came back to St. Augustine late the same year and taught school until June." However, she made the third and last try to become a "snow bird" by accepting a private secretary's position in LaCrosse, Wis.

It was with the YWCA. Later she became secretary to the rector of the Episcopal church in LaCrosse but she couldn't stand the winters. So, in 1913 she returned to West Palm Beach, this time for good. Intrigue with building caused Agnes Ballard to study architecture and in 1914 she was granted a license by the State of Florida. It Is license No.

6, which she still owns today, although she is not very active. She is not only the first licensed woman architect in Florida, she also is the first architect of any type, outside a five-man Tallahassee board, to enjoy state sanction. Asked what type of architecture she featured, Miss Ballard smiled and replied: "Apartments, residences and hot dog stands." She recalls hot dog stands in Lake Worth and along Military Trail for which she drew simple plans. It was only natural for Agnes Ballard and Addison Mizner, who planned the majority of Palm Beach's lavish homes in the fabulous 20's, to become acquainted. Mizner organized an architect's club.

He was president and Miss Ballard was secretary. "He was very clever with original designs," she recalls, "but I still think he was lazy. He had ability to produce original ideas but in so doing he never took into consideration the cost to his client." About 1920 Mizner sponsored a youthful protege whom he turned over to Miss Ballard to tutor. While doing this she, met Wilson Mizner, a brother whom she rates as entirely different in character from Addison. Wilson's tales about Alaska Intrigued Miss Ballard and later in life she visited the country.

freight are not available yet, but Chicago in size the Spanish Cabinet. Gordon Or-dax, and other Spanish Republi last year, general revenue appro in another suit, was involved in suits continued to a later date, according to records in the circuit clerk's office Friday afternoon. Six suits were still scheduled to be heard before Circuit Judge James R. Knott and seven before Senior Circuit Judge Joseph S. White.

Damages alleged in 10 of these 13 suits add to a maximum of $940,646.75, with the other three unspecified. This will be the tenth week of the fall term of court, and Judge Culver Smith is scheduled to handle ex parte matters at the new time of a.m. One more week of jury trials is scheduled beginning Dec. 15 before a two-week recess break during holidays. bigger thaa priations totaled 700 million dollars cans were received officially by Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles, and they had to be sliced back President Lopez Mateos at his in Considerably, In other words, there and second only to New York augural reception right along with among the cities of the Western U.S.

Secretary of State Dulles. will be lots of cutting on these re quests. Matching up these two items Hemisphere. They also find a city Two famous exiles now live In Mexican Jails, and seem to enjoy of cathedrals and Coca-Cola signs, of burros and Buicks, beautiful appropriations and revenues in the their hospitality. One is Bill Bond general fund will be what all the li, formerly of the California arguing is about, but that is just a museums and slums, where the roosters in the early morning compete with the church bells and portion of the entire state budget Board of Equalization, now wanted back in Los Angeles to face vari picture.

where the tamale peddler, a strict ous charges of selling liquor li mental and individual ability to carry out whatever believer in free enterprise, hawks censes. Mexican jails are much To cite an. example, while the total for the two year biennium of 1957-59 was 700 million dollars in the general fund, disbursements for one of those years for all funds his wares side-by-sicle with PEMEX, the government petrol more comfortable than American jails if you can afford to pay for your own keep, and Bonclli seems actions are required for survival and recovery. We canrtot wait until the hour of attack to make preparations. It is important, too, that we recognize that we are eum monopoly which permits no to be quite comfortable and in no free-enterprise gasoline to be sold in Mexico.

hurry to have the Mexican Government decide whether it will already in a state of war. It is called a "cold war," but it is a war nevertheless and we know who is "sore at This year's visitors also found vs." We know that the menace of communism hangsjmagnificent new hotels, with non- grant extradition. Another famous exile is Jacques Mornard, the stop airplanes from New York and Chicago. They found peon bands Brooklyn boy who made love to Leon Trotsky's secretary, got the keys to Trotsky's office and Christmas Story Is To lie Theme BOYNTON BEACH "The Christmas Story" will be the theme of the Boynton Beach Elementary School program at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.

17, in the auditorium with more than 550 students taking part. The program will take the place of the December meeting of the school's Parent-Teacher ac-carding to Mrs. Ruth Edwards, principal. The program will include songs and readings and will include all the children of the school, mostly by groups. Sixth grade pupils will gave the choral reading.

Mrs. Beth Wilder is chairman, assisted by Miss Betty Anderson, music instructor, Roger Nicholas and Mrs. Miriam Thurber. brained him with an ax while Trotsky worked at his desk. Morn serenading visitors at the airport and gentlemen cowboys riding down the Avenue of The Reforma on Sundays decked out in silver saddles and sombreros three feet wide.

And, beside the frocked diplomats greeting tl.e new Presi totaled almost a billion dollars almost 300 million dollars more than the two year total of the general fund. In other words, while the discussions center around expenditures of something in the neighborhood of 700 million dollars in two years, the outlay of the state is actually closer to two billion dollars for a two year period. This is not all spent by the state. Some of the money is collected by the state and sent to cities and counties plus other bookkeeping transactions. The 700 million dollars also docs not represent revenue from all state taxes.

On top of these are a multitude of special taxes such as ard has served his time, but has chosen to stay in Jail. He finds jail far better than the risk of as sination from Trotsky's friends if dent of Mexico, they found gnarled over our heads like a "sword of Damocles. And each new advance of communism in the world, every political action in our country which weakens our ability to resist communism, represents a "little Pearl Harbor." Already we have absorbed the punishment of too many of those "little Pearl Harbors." Each time, we have retreated a little before the Kremlin's drive for world conquest. But still we laugh at Nikita Khrushchev's boast: "We will bury you!" Pearl Harbor, 1941, was a day to remember; with sorrow for its tragic consequences, but with pride for our positive and victorious reaction to it. May its lesson never be forgotten.

AsiKit Flu Warning released. Or perhaps he fears Trotsky's enemies. Dead men tell In 1919 the U. S. ratified the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

With an election coming up in 1920, two Lake Worth friends prevailed upon Agnes Ballard to run for County Supt. of School. Another woman, Mrs. Clara Stypmann, ran for the school board. Warren G.

Harding and James M. Cox were presidential candidates. "On election night I recall standing on Clematis St. near Olive St. watching election returns being flashed on the side of a building," said Agnes.

"Shortly before 11 o'clock my name was flashed as winner in the school election. I was so excited I didn't go home until 2 o'clock the next morning." For the next four years education in Palm Beach County had a woman leader, but when 1925 rolled around Miss Ballard had enough. "I wanted to get into the real estate boom," she recalls, "and I did." Today she has old bank books to prove she did all right as a real estate saleswoman. When the crash came in 1926 Miss Ballard took up tutoring and architecture. Then came an urge to repeat something she had done 20 years before visit Europe.

So in 1928 the ex-school superintendent took off for Paris and the Riviera. labor-union members waiting, sombreros in hand, also to greet the man they had voted into office. And in the background, ris no tales. Another exile is Gen. Pang-Tsu Mow, once resident of a Mexican jail when Chiang Kai-shek was trying to extradite him.

Mow has now settled his differences with ing over Mexico they found Mount Popocatepetl and the mountains which have made Mexicans tough and poor, brought callouses to Mexican hands, and etched deep Chiang and is living quietly in Mexico City. YESTERYEARS' NEWS FROM POST-TIMES FILES lines on Mexican faces. That is Mexico Cilv Dulsatine Exiles have been an asset to Remember the Asian flu? Many have reason to fascinating, where the most mod- Mexico. The Spanish Republicans have brought new architecture, remember its epidemic-proportioned attack of last ern factories operate alongside the new art, new business initiative oldest civilization in the new winter, and more will become familiar with its un TEN YEARS AGO Tuesday, December 7, 1918 Members of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Assn. and One of the wealthiest men in Mex world.

ico is Cesar Balsa, a Spanish Re Southern States Coastal Erosion Control Assn. unite in high praise for Friction Avoided Seen and heard among the grin publican, who built the beautiful gos who attended the inauguration new El Presidente Hotel. (Copyright 1958, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) t'aim ueacn beacn restoration program through sand pumping. Newly elected to Boynton Beach Council posts are Dr. F.

L. Purinton, A. E. Shook and C. II.

The trio will hold the balance of power when they enter office. of President Adolfo Lopez Mateos: Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona Republican, was slated to ride in the same car with Gov. Ernest McFarland of Arizona, Democrat, Fanfani Wins Narrow Margin whom he had Just defeated for the Senate. Mexican protocol officers hadn't realized how much mud pleasant effects in the cooler months ahead, if predictions of the U.S.

Public Health Service prove accurate. Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney, of the service has issued a warning that 5 to 10 million persons will fall prey to the imported virus during the cold months and there could be a great tragic loss of life unless inoculations, now available, are taken in greater quantities by the public. Last year, in the U.S., 78,000 persons lost then-lives as a result of the Asian flu epidemic. Doctors are positive most of these lives could have been saved had they been inoculated against the flu.

Older people are particularly urged to obtain inoculations, because it is the older age groups which suffered the largest number of fatalities. New Polyvalent vaccines developed since the flu attack of last year are more potent than any heretofore produced against the strange viruses. These vaccines Her 1908 European trip was concentrated in England and Scotland. The 1928 trio was continental in all respects. It would require columns to relate experiences of Agnes Ballard during her four-month visit but she picked up architectural background which helped her progress until 1933, when money In Florida was as scarce as Seminole Indians on Broadway.

Contacting Joseph Youngulood, then Superintendent of Schools, Miss Ballard asked for a teaching Job and was assigned to Conniston school. In 1934 she was transferred to Palm Beach elementary school where she taughf until retirement in 1947. Subjects assigned to her were Latin, algebra, history, English and civics. When she finished teaching at Palm Beach money was freer and architecture was profitable. At times Miss Ballard had two draftsmen working for her and she can point many apartment buildings in the Palm Beaches which she designed.

Her accounts ranged from Vrro Beach to Delray Beach and she also designed houses In Lake Park and Palm Beach Shores. In 19.16 the University of Florida awarded Agnes Ballard a B.A. in Education, a degree which she worked for attending summer schools at Gainesville. She first met Dr. John I.

Leonard at Gainesville, a connection which eventually resulted in her giving part of an extensive and valuable library to Palm Beach Junior College. Other extra-curricular studies were taken at John Hopkins University in 1939, sure evidence that learning was something Agnes Ballard always had time for. She continued her architecture business until 1957, when she retired from active duty. TWENTY YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 7, 1938 The November report of the Welfare Committee of the Woman's Club, at a meeting today shows that 10 needy families had been furnished Thanksgiving baskets and that 184 garments and nine pairs of shoes had been distributed to the needy. Mrs.

Alfred P. Sadler, chairman, presides at the business session. Goldwater had thrown at McFar land in the bitterest battle of the ROME (UPI) Pro-Western Premier Amintore Fanfani's coalition government won a vote of U. S. election.

Someone tipped them off in time, so they shifted confidence in the Chamber of cars Texas guests, enter Deputies Saturday night against tained at the Mexico City races, extreme left and rightwing oppo sition. bet on a horse named "Tide lands." They lost. Remarked Os- Large savings will be effected for the city through commitments that he has made for the purchase of West Palm Beach refunding and funding bonds of the Issues of 1936, and for the exchange of new bonds for old past due bonds, according to a report made to the commission by Cily Mgr. Frank M. Hannon.

The unofficial vote was 294 to 286 for Fanfani, with eight absten tions, car Chapman, former Secretary of the Interior who had battled to prevent Texas from getting a preferred claim on tidelands oil prop provide multiple protection against several varieties The confidence vote was brought of the virus, including both Asian and domestic types on by the government's embar erty: "They lost that race long rassing defeat Thursday on In response to an invitation from the charter revision committee of the Committee of Thirty to cooperate in revising the West Palm Beach charter, Mayor S. D. Morris appoints Commissioner A. R. Roe-buck to represent the commission.

W. F. Finch is chairman of the committee and Miss Connie Abbott is secretary. ago. Courtly Bill Daniel, measure to extend a penny surtax borther of the Governor of Texas File It 'Way Duck Scientists announce that the Earth's crust is buck on gasoline sales.

Before the start of the extra wore his ten-gallon Stetson, al most as big as a Mexican som brero, to ail official functions ling and huge new mountains are going to thrust them ordinary Saturday session of the Chamber of Deputies, the observers had rated Fanfani's chances of works puzzles as a diversion. Until recently she always kept a dog In her home and at one time she bred registered Pekinese dogs. As a member of the Animal Rescue League she shows Interest in all types of pets. selves up through the waters off the West Indies and the East Indies. David Rockefeller, vice president of New York's biggest bank, Chase Manhattan, compared notes with Mary Roebling, only woman to survival a toss-up.

At various times since 1925 Miss Ballard worked for pastors of Belhesda-hy-lhe-Sea, an Episcopal church of great beauty In Palm Beach. When It was built she was a liaison official between the contractor and the architect and eventually was named assistant to the church treasurer. Today she Is still working In the treasurer's office at Rethesda. She no longer plays the organ or sings, but back in the 20's she did both, at Holy Trinity Church in West Palm Beach, and Bethesda. Her musicnl background Is such that she held positions as choir director and today she plays electric organs, especially a new one recently Installed in her home.

Fighting for his political life But nobody needs sound the tidal wave alarm or head a major American bank, the Fanlani made a slashing attack on the Communist opposition. He Trenton Trust Company, They denounced Italian Communist Par hurry shipping off the sea lanes of those areas just yet. They won't disturb a thing for another 10 million years. Phew That's one crisis we don't have to handle the day before yesterday. talked not about banks, but about the charms of Mexico When ty Chief Palmlro Togliattl who Sen.

Wayne Morse of Oregon, the speaks "badly of everyone" es pocially "the poor Italian pre hardhitting Democrat, visited the American Embassy, Ambassador Roy Hill, Republican, gathered the But the Republican Party, after Mixed Blessing hearing Fanfani, announced would abstain from voting. One of Agnes Ballard's fondest memories is the famous "cake walks" staged nightly In the Royal Poinclana Hotel when Henry M. Flagler was In his prime. After dinner the room would he cleared of tables with chairs lined up around the four walls. When all guests were seated Negroes danced the "cake walks," and applause determined who won the huge cakes prepared by Flagler chefs.

"Nothing could start until Mr. Flagler and his wife entered the dining room and were sealed In their special section." Miss Ballard recalled. Today, the granddaughter of Henry Flagler, Mrs. Jean Gonzales, Is a good friend of Agnes Ballard. Last summer she Invited Miss Ballard to the wedding of her son In Wilmington, N.

C. A chartered plane took IochI guests in the wedding, and returned them after a busy sorlnl day. Asked If she didn't grow tired during the day, Miss Ballard replied: "Lord no! It was such an Interesting affair I couldn't afford to rest. I enjoyed every minute of It." In the life of Agnes Ballard, every day Is a new challenge, and she accepts them In stride. Many persons much younger would find her pace difficult to follow, Man in England, deaf for eicht years, renorts that llible Verse his hearing returned when "something went click" as RESETTLEMENT SET Perhaps If the Stale Dept.

had looked around It might have employed Agnes Ballard as a good-will ambassador to Russia. She speaks and teaches Russian, along with Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, German and English. Her friends find her plenty of tutoring work. In the living room of the Ballard home at 415 Hampton Rd. is a blackboard.

It is divided into seven sections, representing days of the week. The left hand column Is titled, "regular" meaning daily duties. The right hand column is marked "extra" for additional appointments and duties. In the middle of the room is a table on which rests a full chess set. "I don't have anyone to play with now," she explains, "so I Just pick games out of a book and make moves for both sides In order to keep my game refreshed." Another table In the room has a partially worked Jig-saw puzzle, containing more than 1,000 parts.

Miss Ballard one of the more virulent rock- -roll shouters was blaring on the radio. LONDON, (AP)-Foreicn Secretary Srlwyn Lloyd told Commons last week that refugees of Euro Something like this happens in a good many homes pean origin in Hong Kong will be A tvise vian fcareth, and departeih from evil; but the fool rogeth, and is confident. Proverbs, in wis country, vvnen the rock-n -roll frenzy starts, eomething goes "click." In this case it's the "off" switch. And normal hearing returns. flown to Britain soon by the air ministry for resettlement In Europe..