THE CHINA MAIL,
ŞATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1956.
luteresting News
Stories
World
All
GAMBLED ON $21m-AND WON!
An American Who 'Bought
British' Tells
His Success Story
ONE year ago, a
Washington.
lanky airline President gambled $21 million and his company's future a radically different type of commercial transport plane.
on
Mr J. H. Carmichael of Capital Airlines is the Airline executive, The plane is the British-made turbo-prop Viscount, the first foreign-built airliner to be used by an American company for 25 years.
Mr Carmichuel spent $1 The "Electra" will carry 50 million euch for 11 of the 44-
passengers to the Viscount's 44. The Visconint It is designed for crubing
G passenger planes.
of 410 miles per hour, Arst thus became the
turbo-speed prop aircraft introduced to the compared to Viscourat's 330. US public and Mr Carmichael additional risk was taking the
of selling his customers mi 4 Bitigh-hillt plane.
Experia in the often-bitterly competitive commercial avlation industry ruined their eyebrows 10
How did the fult staff. Kerrible work out?
"In every way--safety. senger acceptance, performance, maintenance-the economy and Viscount has exceeded our fond- est hopes," he says.
WANT 39 MORE
Pas
A Capital, spokesman cited these statistics on the Viscount's performance:
The now planes are oper-
84 percent ating with an
ur better "load factor"-mean- ing their flights are averaging at least 84 percent of capacity. The line's conventions! planes a 50 percent uro flying with avengo load factor.
★
Both will be eclipsed by the all-jet transports which are ex- neeled to be flying in the next. five years. These will haul 80 or more passengers at speeds of more than 600 miles an hour.
Mr
to
from Captial officinis, Carmichael down, feel the Vir- The is paving count's sucCEBB way for an easy transition the Jet transport age.
"The Viscount is really a jet- liner. Mr Carmichael
"t out.
is nepainting the publie with the smoothness and reliability of the turbine englue, and will make public acceptance of the full jet airliner that much easier and faster."
ANOTHER ORDER
polnter
that the
need
Crockett? Who's He?
In Oklahoma City, when her. Woman Hits Cari her car stalled, Fanny Stepness, 32, pot out, tinkered under the hood for a while, then joat pattener, kicked the car, beat it with her fate, thirew rocice at it. The car was heatly damaged headlights smashed, battery cracked, hood battered. She was arrested for drunkenness.
It May Be
The Last Music She'll
A
Ever Hear
DOCTOR'S ADVICE SENT 21 HOME
DOWN the gangway
London. of
After Midnight Baths STUDENTS CAUGHT
OLLEGE
Oxford,
FIVE Oxford students
were on the carpet last wook for trying to steal after-midnight baths in an exclusive women's college.
The five were gallantly apply. ing for marnbership in the ultra- daring Oxford's Bath Club."
To wear its tie of blue and silver taps 6 maa must break lato a women's allege at night, take a bath and bring bacle the water tap as proof. The baths are toe-cold sizce the hot water
generally off during the night. A He with gold tops goes to the indominstable who success- fully complete two clandestine "bath missions" and bring back the taps.
Balliol In First
Five Oxford Bath Club hope- fals were caught last week with- in the grounds of Lady Margarot Hall. They were out for their Brat silver taps.
They had rowed stealthily up the River
Cherwell dressed in easy-to-remove tack suits.
But
across
the
as they stalked immaculately-kept
lawn to the gik dormitory at 1.30 in the
several morning other kath raiders" from Balliol College were there before theen.
Ond of the students, who ask- ed that his name be withheld, described what happened:
Tho Landing the way of the family Balliol men got in first. Over that refuses to be separated was
the wall they went, through the its head, Mr W. F. O. Stephens, gardens and through a second- planter. for hall window. They were 66-year-old retired
Thor
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the Ilnor Chusto at Tilbury last week came the Stephenses---all 21 of them. Milan. HANDLESS, blind British woman who is becoming deaf eat in
came his wife, daughter, out to reach the bathrooms, but IN PERSPECTA, DIRECTIONAL STEREOPHONIC SOUND!
crashed 'OVEST. They the world's most famous tour sons, two daughters-in-law, table
and 12 grandchildren.
bolted. theatre recently and And that was not all. Well- "Just two minutes later the
ive who rowed meet them was listened intently to the ing to
daughter and her husband.
walked in. last melodies her ears)
family decided to leave The
"They Had It' homes In Selangor, Malaya. may ever hear.
several months ago after doctora
"They had #1," the source told Mr. Stephens he must live said dramatically in a temperile elimate.
Mra Gwennie Obern. 30. from Aberdare, Wales, was blinded and lost both hands when a fuse
exploded in a Baltian ammend tlon plant where she worked during World War 11.
another
Said Mr Stephens last weak: told my ams and daughters that my wil and I were going to England to live.
Three flats
up the river
The five were mot by servama from nightgowned girls already alerted by noise of the Balliol raiders, Police picked up the Avo men as they scampered back to their boat,
One other US airline-Con- inental-has ordered Viscounts W London Airport last week he
WHEN Robin Hood arrived at Today she heard her dram
The Ave were arrested but become true as she listened i Its engineers are impressed with
"We have always been a close-released in custody of the proc- at Who Capital's discovery
crawled: "Davy Crockett?
a rehearsal of liric music
ly knit family and most of them lors of Oxford. Viscount's operating costs are Is the guy, anyway? Robin La Scala Theatre.
decided to come with me. I still Recently they faced a Protor's [] fellah back
board which could | running about two canta a mile Is the The Viscounts, as of May
less than officiais expected.
Doctors had warned her she have two married daughters in enquiry
order their expulsion. The Viscount's turbines 15, had flown 65 466 engine
Robin, altas 14-year-old Gerry was slowly becoming deat ful- Malaya."
How does me set about riding the five would be glyen a second Students, however, believed hütars withon! a single engine no spark plugs
Casey, from Scranton, Pennsy-lowing her wartime wounds. A
spon-accommodation. Welch weekly magazine
for 23 fire in night. That is at least Their own expensive equipment lvania, won an cesty competi-sored a subscription for a lust
people?
chanco-if "That was all arranged by my
they swore to re- times better than the per- is a lubricating oll that costs $13
tion entition: "1 1 were Robin
son-in-law Mr A Macpherson.nounce forever their dreams of "musical pilgrimage.”. <f
would do these things Hood fat maner
conventional a gallon. ጎ
He and his wife, my daughter membership in Oxford's Bath piston migine.
for my community.... The trip
Anne, Hew how in advance and Club-Uräled Press. to England was part of his pilze.
managed to get three large Bats to take us all," said Mr Stephens,
the The
of popularity Viscount forced Capital to double its non-stop flights
be
or carburetors.
four
In almost a year of operation. the plane has had only flight cancellations-three be- cause of weather and one by a starter failure,
One of Capital's Vickers Viscounts
Ho will be going to Notting- ham. And, of course, to Sher- wood Forest, He will deliver Letter to the city's Lord Mayor from the Mayor of New York.
FIGHTING
FIGURES
Calgary,
Unnoticed
Almost no one noticed the blue-eyed woman in the theatre during the gula performance of "Un Ballo in Maschera" (A Masked Bail) by Giuseppe Verdi.
a
"Two of them are in the same building in Colville Gardens, Notting Hill Gate, and the third is a few doct nway.
"So you see," said a happy Mr
Stephens, "we are still together."
Sparks Burn Out 6,000 Acres
It was given in honour of visiting Swiss President Markus Feldmann und Italian President Glovarmi Gronchi,
attended Stre also formance of "Mitridate Eupo- Forty Calgary women
tore" by Scarlatti "Piccola found an unusual way to keep
A (Little Scalp) pocket- their figures trim.
They have Scala"
theatre and general rehearsal caused started to learn ju-isu and o: Fedora" at La Scakt are members of the Brst class ""I heard
Th
घ
dream
Perth.
man whose CATD)ESSNESI n 6,000-acre forest fre was fined £15 in Perth Polico come Court, for having used a fire i melodies I heard here will period. TAVIVC in my mind when I am The court was told that sparks banished from
the world of from en oxy-acetyleno torch music by deafness."
spread to a dry forest, burning The woman and her chapton out 6,000 acres before the fir brought under control.— will leave Wales sq.- | was
China Mail Special. United Press.
of its kind to be held in the true," she told theatre officials, the open air during a prohibited city,
The class is made up of business girls
and housewives one of whom is more than 00 years old.
tween Washington and Chicago. The leter incident needs ex- airline quietly plaining A èrate containing a A compeling
The pupils had various rea- cust lla roundl trips betweerspare starter bara a British label:
"One electrical unit." By the sons for taking up their hobby, these two cities to half.
time the ground crew figured but most admitted they did it and "one olectrical unit" primarily for self-defence Captial has ordered 30 more out that Viscounts. Eventually, except for meant a starter, the fight had secondly to keep trim--United a handful of twin-engined DC-been cancelledUnited Prees. 3's to serve small airports the line's 77-city route, tumbo-prop planes
wil
от
she COTT-
prise its entire operating feet.
Mr Carmichael sald Capital hard to take a chance on a foreign- US manu- betilt pinne because facturers had
that nothing would it his "company's route and equipment problems
MISGIVINGS
"Wo needed new planes in a hurry," he said. "We wanted plane that would compete with the four-engined transports of other lines in spood, and yet would be small enough. to be mlatively economical for our shorter hauls. We looked arosirad and the Viscount, which had been in service overseas 1953, seemed to provide QzEwer,"
Press
TIPSY DOG COST THEM £600
Sydney.
A hotel patron won £600 damage today for injuries aufered when he fell over a beer-drinking dog,
The district court judge ordered the Harbour Hotel of Watson's Bay which served the beer to the dog, and the owner of the dog, who let it drink it to split the damages.
The plaintiff, a hotel broker testified he was away from work for four months as a result of the fall-United Press.
for
HISTORIC BIBLE
GOES ON DISPLAY
Calgary.
One of the twe known original Projestant Bibles still
In existence is on display here.
the Old
New and Testamente, as well as Martin Luther's place and Articles of Faith.
The almost priceless book is contains thought to have been printed in Germany in the year 1830. It is | written in Middle German and
* PUDDING BASIN SCIENCE
since
the
FOUND
Capital's pilots, who had Borne misgivings about flying domegn mode plane have
A
#
changed their minds uttor turn of the controls.
"Compared to a platen engine Job It's the "différence" between driving a 1956 car and a 1946-
model,"
said one veteran Cap-
Mr Carmichael reports that for the first time in the com-.. ponya history "senior pilots are bidding for the blocks of time covered by Viscount flights, even though some of these schéchaleg are not na déalrubio, os they are with other types of equipment," THEN JETS
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