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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1955.
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Interesting News
Stories From
All Parts Of The World
Peaceful Use Of Atomic Energy
Why Britain Is Ahead Of America
*New York.
The United States, whose atom bomb ended World War II, is in the peculiar position of watching Britain forge ahead in peace-time atomic
energy.
A nuclear expert reported, "it's simply that the U.S. has plenty of cheap power."
"י
Dr
Hafstad its own in peace-time atomic Lawrence R former director of the Reactor energy." Development Division of The Atomic Energy Commission and TOW atomic enerky con- he said, two possible courses sultant 'for the Chase Malte ahead:
Assuming America fights to regain leadership in the Aeld,
1.Subsidising dustry in the U.S.
į
It cost about US$25,000,000
to build a single nuclear power reactor, he said.
"The U.S. can't move for- ward in this field until there a praft for industry," he continued
private in-
15
hattan Bank, told a newy con- ference recently that "England is forging ahead with her 2. Relaxing security rules to £300,000,000 programme of let American business firms building power reactors.
compete in the world market by
exporting reactors.
centive
•
"The British have the in-atomic furnaces."
of high fuel costs. roughly double the fuel costs in this country."
Dr Hafstad, who has just re- turned from a five-week tour of Europe, declared "it will take an extra effort on the part of U.S. industry
simply to
hold
109-year-old Organ Still
of
Many foreign countries would like to buy reactors, in order to get the power." Dr Hafstad said. "But in Europe would want to buy the they reactors in order to learn how to bulid them.
The
abroad governments will and the money. The lack.) of" fissionable material had been the big bottleneck until now."
Needs A Stimulus
He said the U.S. had agreed
to supply uranium 235 as part.
of an international pool for fostering peace-time
the atom.
uses
of
Going Strong Japan. Italy, India and
Calgary, Alta.
Brazi were the four most likely customers abroad for buying American-made reactors.
A 109-year-old organ that He emphasised that America is now a showpiece is still needed a stimulus to develop a going strong despite a his broader
tory of rugged travel.
Tom Shaw," organ specialist Com-
.at the Alberta Piano
nuclear power gramme and
U.S. The
suggested
At present, the biggest peace- time atomic project in America Was the
power $45,000,000 plant being built by Duquesne Light Co. with government aid at Shippingpost. Pa.
12 10-
be!
The Arst of Britain's power plants under its
programme would year finished next year, or well m advance of completion date for the American power station, Dr Hofstad said, United Press.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith HeRecorded
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"It's a waste of time taking them to the movies--they kept waking me up for popcorn and candy bars!""
Eskimos Prepare To Move
Their Town With Tractors
last.
Toronto.
Canarla's Eskimos will feel the impact of the machine age at long
די
a
m-with
Of Stars
100 Million Years Ago
London.
A scientific disc jockey. Professor A. C. B. Lovell played a recording last week
of
a "symphony of sound" made by the collision of two star galaxies. 100 million years ago.
The sound was picked up by and radio-telescopes recently recorded by the professor.
It
from
radio..
had only reached earth outer space, The crash was. reduced to mere whispers and hisses by a million centuries of travel through space...
Lovell's Professor telescopes are like huge lamps and are sensitive to ultra- short waves They pickup signals representing energy given off by stars in outer-space in the form of radio waves.
to
arc
The 10-inch record he played the Royal Society of Art Mustrated by sound the "battle orthodox of the stars" which telescopes could not have seen. He said the sound undoubtedly was what was left of the tre mendous noise made when the the of stars in two galaxies constellation Cygnus beyond the Milky Way collided 100 million years ago.
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said the collision produced great
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"But how that energy produced we do not yet know"," he sald.
"Invisible" Stars
..spacs
Professor Lavell's radio- Two Eskimos who have who usually travels by dog-area and it's home for 250 telescopes can probe out stars pro- never driven a car or tinkered team, will haul heavy gear by whites and 150 Eskimos.
invisible to ordinary telescopes. Thatcher.
Added 24, the with anything mechanical out- eaterpillar tractor.
bachelor, British scientists have push must come from private side of an outboard motor
cuts ice for the navy, traps 2,000 such "invisible" stars to have reported for work in a Soil Conditions industry.
and logs for a living. Tokok, northera hemisphere Peter had plenty of Toronto machine shop.
34, a tried
five charts, the power.
atomic Thatcher andi. Elijah Tokok Soil conditions have made it children, eams his living by. Professor Lovell is construc- pany who has been in the "cheap
bo construct
whaling and acting as night- ting what will be the largest business for 41 years, says he expert said, adding that "there's will learn everything they can impossible
efficient about tractors in the next few
sewerage system in watchman at the local hospital radio-telescope in the world and has never seen an instrument no hurry here."
months.
Aklavik so it was decided to and Anglican school
hopes to make a new map of The two Aretic nomads have | move“ t community en The two men were chosen the universe with it, been chosen by the Federal masse.
kom. 45 applicants for the
The new equipment will have Government
They will have The town has been the head, tražior course. 15
military to quarters
steel saucer: 250 feet emissaries of the machine age
know the parts of the a in their hometown of Aklavik They will be the key men in a Gov carnezt plan ta more their hometown next year.
The Government will shift the town to a site 33 air miles
like the eight-foot, 300-pound, solid walnut organ which he plans to save as a relle.
Made in 1846 by a firm now
out of business, the organ "wis
blight in Newcastle-on-Tyne In The
Just before the turn of the
century the owners left Eng- land for San Francisco, bring- ing the organ along.
After moving for a time to Chicago, the family came to Alberta. settling in the Drum- heller Valley...
Until three years ago, when Mr Shaw obtained the organ, it had remained with the same
family. Finally the great-great granddaughter
New Finds
Sands
Of
Egypt
Cairo,
act
or 80 frozen Sea miles away. Special equipment will flown in and hauled to
police.
and administrative departments complicated engines, order diameter
mounted
in steel
of the Federal Government, parts, know how to repair stanchions 180 feet high. It will Its schools and hospitals serve them, fit, them and carry out cost £500,000 and is to be com 1.000 Eskimos over. 고 wide repairs.
be
To Study Bird
the
"
Migration
Dr Zakaria Goneim, Chief spot on the big day. Thatcher.
Inspector of Antiquities at Sakkara, who has been fol lowing the trail of a "lost"
In Sunny Spain
About 250 Nova Scotians are
The Rt.
pleted by the end of this year.
"It will give us a clear lead A Practical Race of four to five years over, our nearest rivals in America, And Donald B. those years will be the most REV. Marsh, Anglican Bishop of the exciting in the" field of radio- Arctic thisis the men will astronomy," p3cimos
the course.
sald-United Press, ane * practical
THUR I know
gained 3
pharaoh inside a 4,800-year- They'll Even Bet intensity of hawks these days. without taking a single lesson
of the original old unfinished step-pyramid,
purchaser became tired of has
dusting The outsized
Calgary.
Inside the
knick-
the
Dr
Madrid. Spaniards, like visiters to Las vegas, will. Bet on anything, but sometimes the results are disastrous.
In Eibar, Luis Santos Garcia, 24. bet his friends he could drink two bottles of cognac, in one sitting. He died in the at- tempt,
found ancient gold Their Lives Away knack and brought it into jewellery and funerary-b-
jects inscribed with holy name Zoser, used for little mirrored doors above the keyboard, Mr the king in after-life.
Discovery of these objects is Shaw found evidence of the
two considered "promising" and it organ's wanderings: yellowed newspapers, one from has restored hope that
Current excavations San Francisco dated 1890, and Goneim's the other from Chicago, dated will unearth the elusive mummy of the Third Dynasty king 1903.
inside the centuries- buried seated tomb.
During his excavations in the sand-covered pyramid last year, Gortim discovered a magnificent, "These organs last forever- unless the mice get into them," presumably unopened, alabaster he said.United Press.
sarcophagus of pale gold colour, The sarcophagus lay in middle of a rock-hewn, cavern like chamber in the centre of the pyramid underground.
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Mr Shaw said the 15-stop reed organ has never had major overhaul, yet every stop works.
Germans Now
Making Nazi' Films
Berlin,
After nearly 10 years West Ger- many has finally plucked up enough courage to make ilms of the Nazi era.
In
TO
the
sarcophagus was found
to be empty, and Dr Goseim dearibed it as a duhay.
He
said was never used for the actual trial of the pharaoh, for a mock intended
but was
burial cercinotty,
during the Heb-Sed festival held during the king's lifetime. Dr Goneim said the sarcophagus chamber was just a "ritual tomb."
In Pamplona, Amador Pulido Navarr bet his friends five pesetas he could swim the swift flowing Aragon river. He was on when the point of drowning hauled out by police rescue squads-United Press.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, race by nature," he said. "One gazing into the sky with the reputation as 2 watch-mender 'They are the charter members | They are wizards with of the newly-formed
Nova
machinery."-United Press. Scotia Bird Society, and as their
project first major
they are studying the migration habits of four birds.
The birdwatchers, scattered throughout the province's 17 countries, are concentrating on the migration routes and habits of the Robin, Nighthawk, Ruby- throated Hummingbird and Tree Swallow,
Mr W. J. Mills, Secretary- says Treasurer of the Society, the reports of members will be compiled into master charts and the first wide- pamphlets in spread effort to find out the feathered wealth of Nova Scotia, -United Press.
EUROPE'S LATEST
Small Ivory Tablet Archaeological sources said the king's after-life name was the "immediate post-war scribed on a small ivory tablet night?
years German
11
fling
it
you
JOKES
London.
vised by the pilot; "Look below. alabaster he told me this giggler:
Taree
Admirals French, That's France."
Skip the details," said the Italian and British were
continents," American. “Just mention
From Vienna:·
Canada's Sharp-shooting
'Annie' Wins The Cups
1
Lovell
Behind 'The Curtain'
STUDENTS ACCUSED OF LAZINESS
Flenna.
She's Quick UNIVERSITY students be
On The Trigger
Montreal.
hind the Iron Curtain are uninterested in their work and politically lazy, Communist newspapers have complained.
They said students
often cut
out as many as fifty per cent of their classes, were disrespectful to their professors and showed Glamorous Mrs Lois almost no interest in seminars O'Brien took up shooting a on Marxism
The Budapest few years ago because she szabad jusag" called on the didn't want to be a "hunting communist youth organisations widow." Hunting led to to
and
newspaper
Mrsghten their hold on stixient.
has said, "the enemy
Cynical
lack
skeet-shooting
It warned against "bai O'Brien recently became the rightist political ideologies pre-
valent among the students. hold the first woman to
Former Minister of Defence The English seem to think that Quebec skeet-shooting cham- Mihaly 1 was on the way to the is a pretty funny story. I got
in making stud- office the other day and an to wondering what the rest of pionship. Englishman told me a joke.
With skeet-shooting, there's cuts believe mistakes made by Europe is laughing, at these daya He told me two, in fact. But and wrote to some friends in no chance of a tasty bird for the regime were much greater he laughed alone at this:
United Press bureaus on the the pot. But the sport, shooting than was actually the case."
Ha charged that "a petty First man: who was that continent. Here are some with a shotgun at moving clay lady I saw
with last samples:
discs called "birds," can be kept bourgeoise complacency has been gaining ground in the student going most of the year. From France:
body The slim, blonde champion Second man: That was no
entered her
first
tournament only two years ago. Last year,
The weekly "Irodalmi Ujsag" hus said students had no interest In she and her stockbroker band, Bill O'Brien, became the Hungarian politics. "Large sc first Canadians to win the US ments of the student body are
and the husband-and-wife championship cynical, indifferent
at the American national meet faith in our cause." ing.
It said, nationalistic and By shattering 99 out of 100 cosmopolitan ideas are spread A Russian, completing a tour
of the clay birds, which are lug. Teachers and students are of the Louvre in Paris, was thrown in the air by an auto-
of each other. Com asked by a Frenchman how be matic ejector, Mrs
O'Brien puunist seminars lack frankness liked f.
won the provincial ladies and energy. The spirit of the "Quite
said good,"
the championship and the ladies government prograentem
∙has, zot Russian, I especially like the open championship, as well as penetrated to the Mona Lisavetta printed by the the provincial mixed title at Bulgarian newspapers have Russian Leonardo da the Montreal meet this month accused students or not taking great Vyshinsky."
The young mother of three the "accialist approach" to their children.said in an interview studies, that ammunition
was the
diferent They study the. cetat
heaviest expense in the uport subjects superficially and are One round of 25 shots costs only interested in
their Passing what $2.50 to $3.00 and it was tpt exams with as little work s
umisual to fire 500 shots in a possible. The
grades in history gentus tournament.
the Bulgarian Commminist of Last
summer, the O'Briens Party and economics are gener cotered
10 three-day tourna ally very low ka the Sofa DENTS. mental in Canada and the United paper Weathernt Nowin" said
defend States. They plan to
Studente Lava “little idea of their husband and wife title at honour, principles and honesty, the U.S. national this year the newspaper conchi United Prem."
were found in a rubble-filled gallery lady. That was a commoner. An American, tycoon, touring mainly light, frothy comedies, which Dr. Goneim was explor- When he undoubled himself, the world by jet plane, is ad operettas and family-type ing. The same name was found movies designed to take au- written on beautiful dience's minds off the harsh vessels dug up from the subter- realities of life in a defeated ranean passageway. country. Films depicting the The current diggings have also boasting about the bravery of Nazi leaders were strictly yielded an unspecified collection their zoen,
"Gaston," said the French "verboten" by common соп gold jewellery and a quantity
a sailor. sent throughout the industry. of papyrus sheets with kierogly- Admiral, summoning
"Climb up the topmast and pate W
writings which are being Now "realistic" films are mak- deciphered.
leap into the sea."
The sailor instantly obeyed, comeback, and the ing
The presence of inscriptions
That."
Bald the French figures of Hitler, Goebbels of the name Zoser on the rectat
and other Himmler
Nazi Ands is considered by experts Admiral, is bravery."
"Pah!" leaders are once more striding to indicate that the owner of the
snorted the Italian
He "Watch thie the
summoned unfinished step-pyramid was across German screens. Recently the world premiere of immediate successor of Pharaoh Giuseppe and andered him to
Zoser L
and hence probably a leap from the mast to the dock film "The Lastt an Austrian Act" depicting the last days relative of his The discoveries of the ship. The sailor landed of Hitler in the Reich Chan-have established the existence with a terrife crash.
"That," said the Italian, is bunker, shocked of close bonds between Zoser I cellery
namesake.. younger movie-goers in Western Ger- and his
Historical
It was the English Admiral's many by bringing back the
Egyptian kings, such as the turn. Jones, he said, climb "bad," old days,”|||
Turin Papyrus,
meation Zoser up the mast, leap through the Many women wept openly when I as the immediate successor of funnel and land in the engine "the screen Hitler, a Viennese Zoser I. The ancient historian room."
actor
"Do it yourself," smapped the named Albirs Stoda, Manetho said that Zoeer II said, brutally hundred reigned on the throne of the sailor.
"NOW THAT,” said the British thousand yes do not matter Upper and Lower Kindoms-for at all -United Fres
Admiral, "Is bravery.". six years-United Press.
lists
bravery."
ancient
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From Prague: Two Czechs were in front the US Embassy admiring Cadillac
"Wonderful," said one, Soviet engineering coupled with Soviet production know-how can turn out,”
a
"But that's an American car, protested a second: Czech----
"I know that," said the first, but I don't know who you are,"
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