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THE CHINA MAIL, · SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1958.
Interesting News Stories From
AN Parts Of The World
AN
Now-A Plan To Raise The Andrea Dorea
***With A Gigantic String Of "Sausages
Parma.
N Italian engineer is perfecting a model of a salvage invention, which if ever built
to full size, will look like a gigantic string of sausages,
He is Angelo Antonaci, a salvage expert who recently declared that his idea will refloat the Andrea Doria at comparatively little cost and a minimum of human risk.
From all over the world dras wild be about 2,000 feet long.
for refloating the 11-fated liner is kept on the ocean surface | have been com to government i z of rafis
medals 171 Kome and the owners of the Andrea Di ja which rank on July 25 after it collkon with the Swedish lander "Stockbrott.
Nearly all of them 13 fat have been rejected as "ithes for rosly ar impractica{J}47/ But two or three have argusel in- terest and among them is the Invention of the Parma Engineer,
Close Secret
Antonac! Brst worked out his
Alongside
much raft me the water would be putly Initiated cylindrical! balloidy made of J thick, Track-tyre rubber
An Even Keel
1.6
1 locus would each measure about 60 feet long and 30 feet in diameter neul would be attached independently to the math cable--in the cuse of the Antiret
Doria--by 420
•ecorations ste cables, 20 to each of 22 balloons The salv-
iden several year, ng, and in se aparatus how would be
1951 It was patented. He began to construct a working mode) a month ag unmediately after the Rallon Naval Engineer
like a circle of gigantic sausages
The next move would be di Aimultanen:UK release ul the
Inspector-Cioneral declared that cable from the falls and
I would vertically sk sjowly the scobed Takig the
my naivuge idea carried out on to #wetu! model of the sunken balloons with it
would ship
Rel the widest posible attention,
Roane- Engineer Antoanet ing the
hinect and project unii he denione'ratrs Bu ext month in the Po River he is kreping several deluts of the Invention a clase rëeret.
The partly inflated balloons would be suspended a few feet above the cable Then the cubje posely inilled in towarzin The wrrek like a purse string,
on
s
If the musken ship is lying on its side as the Andrea Dona then the
balloon on this side would However, what the engineer be ruts aduted as soon as the ham drclosed apparently had experts
then calle had wird under the Impressed
bridue afting the ship to 5421 feasibilty of refloating the
the oven krel Andrea Doria from the bottom of the Atlantic off Nantucket
Isinna at a
1,100,000,000
cost of about
(£687,000).
A Lasso
Once thus is done
The cost of constructing the
The main Invention would be 600,000,000 cable would be locked nightly to Jire (£320,000). The remain the hull like a asso, with the 800,000,000 lire (£270,000) balkens tx about Jevel
because his
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THE MAN WHO IS
GOING TO HAVE
AN ACCIDENT
New York.
Beard Of VICAR, 83, The Profil -TV Style
TOO OLD
TO DRIVE
Castle Rising.
No more driving for me, vowed the Rov, Edward | Montagu Plumptre. At 89 ho has decided he is too old to motor.
With this self-imposed ban he turns his back on the little blue car that, for 23 years, has carried him round hip Castle Rising, Norfolk, parish.
He took the stop after two appearances in four weeks at the local police court for allogodi careless driving. He was ac- quilted both times.
But the other day, në his Caglio Rising home, the tall and grey- ing, weatherbraten clergyman. Rurai Depin of King's Lynn, said "I have decided
onco
after these two nccidenta ́to give up driving.
So fast
"I am too old. I realise that I am past it. Traite is much foster now than when I started on the road.
"I am very sorry
better this
Indeed to KOL
It is now possible for a scientifically part with my car.-I only trained person to spot the man who is going way! I know it is to have an accident before he has it, according to an industrial physician who has made himself an “accident engineer." because I ran over a little child.
The World
Is Growing Bigger
New York. A Hungarian scientist Haya the earth is neither shrinking nor staying the
Kame.
L
rate.
"J was taken to court the first Ume because I bumped into woman shopper, and the second
housing local
local
Thank God he did not suffer any great harm. Any kind of accident-such as
Said Councillor Albert Bacon, falling out of bed, pushing
chairman: "Many Ongers into fast-moving in-
people will welcome Mr dustrial machinery, or amastring
However up a ene-can be anticipated, Dr Plumptro's decision.
really 100 Morris Schulzger of Cincinnati careful he is, 83 is says he can spot this man ingront an age for a man to be
thriving on our crowded roads." these ways:
Often this "pre-decident" man has "precocinied distant look." You see he is under emotional is "laden strem; you sense he with anxieties." You check into him and find out he does not require as much of himself, as he used to his personal stand- ards have tallen off.
Tense, Anxious
en-
the calculations According to of Dr 1. Egyed of the Geophy theweni Imtitute of Budapest, it is
ile does not have the ++xpanding.
Huiusm or daltiative of old; ha Not at
of "may be tense, irritable, anxious, which
well 19 his mathematical demonstration troubled, mooty, depressed, ex
elted, sorious, angry, worried, that the expanding has been restless, fidgety, and he may dis- going on for 500,000,000 years; | play a variety of GETVOUS
beginning of mannerisms,
would be expen es involvert in with the water-line All the nefual operation.
ballos das would then be fully in- Antonul maintains that hus fluted and. H Automaci's
combined lift of klen ja vednornicul
works, their invention rotiki be used To 12.000 tons about 3.000 tons salvage viher wrecks.
more than the dead wendat 11 TH dest move in Antonser's the Andre.. D.OR
leilatut salvaging system is to mark the to raise the ship agust
extra Conken "ship with buoys com- water weight and mud suction. Birely enefreling the ship in the Thus fa
authorities position it rests on đu reena have made
Next a thick chile 19 jabd whether baby. Antonuci's scheme
File well beyond
the lost talven 10$ Italy's main cable trans-Atlante Beel,
<<>w the
Ty
Fl
decisiun
LOVE WON'T
LURE ALFRED BACK HOME
Cak
New York.
Alfred the alligator was bored in his pool at an
Oklahoma zoo.
So, when low water prompted his mates to congregate at one end, he used their backs as a lad- der and stepped out over a fence.
not been seen
He has since.
"Tulsa Zoo has offered to send Alberta, a female alligator, to lure Alfred back, but Afred would not be interested.
"It fun't the mating sea- son," explained curator Bob Jenni.
Jennt is
toying with the idea of staking out other alligators on the river bank in the hope of drawing Alfred ashore.
"Alligators are socially- conscious," he said.
"They like to get ac- quainted."
Jenni, who has wrestled alligators before, has been trying to get close enough to come to grips ¡ with Alfred.
!
of since the geological time,
enotholts
view
The annual average of pansion,
enlculated. ht 0,01968 Inches which is an tremely tiny amount.
A physician would treat this because expre-accident patient"
she is a menace to himself and ex-
o hers A few of them, Dr Schulzinger seid. wil have that "spectie
psychological confilets or a compulsive need for self-
through injury. punishment For them you call in a psy- chiatrist.
But many of tham
But who you multiply by 500,000,000 you get 8,200,000 feet or 1,383 mules.
His calculations
upon this logic:
WCTO based
will be
LONGER PIGS
They Will Mean More Rashers
London.
Are to be longer
Pext year."
There is a difference of 13⁄4in.
between an average good plg
bacon
силств
and a full-length une.
That 1in. meung at lesul ten good-sized rusher of the best cut-the mid-back cut.
and Farmers,
solcomen have been meeting Over several
in months Whitehall back 100m to make plans for the new pig, IL Will inean botter bacon produced at Bower cost,
If the forth had been shrink- ing, the average depths of its helped by having a scientifically tk'eans would have been in-trained outsider point out 10 ereasing. This would have meant then, the road they are on and | an ever-higher sea level which where that road leads.
would mean that the areas of
"Even Larger numbere of From
Two Plots
по
elementary
Dr
in
the continents covered by water these patients should be able to would have been over-increas-treat themselves by learning to ing.
В tow recognise pre-accident symptoms," Schulzinger continued.
Ho thought physicians general have passed up their opportunities to apot "pro- accident" people in the counse of their every-day dealings with patients. By paying attention to these "signs" physicians wvill start playing their "proper rofos in accident provention."
But if the carth hadi been slaying more or less the same
areos size, water-covered
of continents would have remained more or less the same through geological time. Nothing could be simpler.
As Dr Egyed expremed it: "We have
only to establish the
Begin With Young
amount of the areas covered by sca water in different geological ages." So he assembled the ac- cumulated measurements of the But accident prevention should sciences of geology and begin with young children-they geography which
the should be immunized against various geological ages dating accidents evin As they back 500,000,000 years.
against infectious diseases." The
COVET
are
Ho plotted these measure ways that is done, according to ments mathematically Indeed, Dr Schulzinger, "are the teach-
March 25 farmers musi send the longer pigs to bacon factorica or lose money.
A "length requirement" will be added to the grading schedule by which farmers are paid for quality.
The length has not yet been de
cided, but pig production is to become such a precision Job that the farmers are to turn- over to the engineer' method of measurement the metric system
Very Boom
ayury
sending pigs to the factory will receive with his cheque à note of the length of his pigs in millimetres.
Russians Have
he made two plots, using twoing of safe practices by example New Method Of
sch of measurementa,
Both plote showed definite
expansions of continants
ar continued exposure to R
securo
and and loving home,
home environment. definite decreases in wator- "Children often auffer BC- covered areas.
cidents by mimicking the dan- One plot showed an average gerous practices of their elders. inorand of 0.00 millimetres & Again in later life, some
the cidents resemble a conditioned- year for 600,000,000 years, other an average increase of 0.4 reflex type of response millimeters. Dr Egyed averaged sequence of events first experi these at 0.5 millimetre or enced in childhood. The home is 0.01988 inch.
the place where
Dr Egyed, reporting these cal- to accidents are born and |culations to the international
technical
to
Treating Burns
A Rusion
Boston Tesearcher amid scientists have radically of treating burn
today Soviet developed A method
victims.
now
row
Dr Nlocal Federov mid the discovery utilises "go-called Dr Schulainger discussed the Journal, acoldent problem in the techniconvalescent blood" from pointed out that cat journal, "Industrial Medicine cuperated burn victims geological observations have and Surgery, United Press. Lablished quite clearly that the watery envelope of the farth has been increasing through gealo- gical time.
He told delegates to the sixth Congres of the international Society of Hematology it is
Feed The Birds palive
The increase · has not been much, to be sure-only four per
Deptford, In cent of the total volume
The rootor of the parish 300,000,000 years, But it was church here hna takted wedding suggestive enough to reuse hir
parties to throw rice, not scepticism toward the theory of confetti. a shrinking earth-United Press.
Church workers have to sweep up confetti, he pointed out. Birds will take care of the rice.
Jet's Power-Not Enough For Miners
Blyth, Bill Patterson of the Crofion of tubs of coal they haul to the
pit shaft.
'BRING BEER'
A Fulham
"common" in the Soviet Union to victims who have had more than 40 per cent of their skin aron burned.
He said the method is used only to a limited extent in Boviet hospitals since the dis- covery is so how.
"From - the · blood of bum victime we mako dry powdered serum that is introduced into the blood streams of new burn victims, Federov said.
We can't keep people alive whoso body 18. nó, per cerit burned only because there lan't whough skin that can be grafted oversihekantfected; arous” he London Via, "But we can erage crocis inan who wanted of fondoily in mich, people,”
about 240 being] top. - Rut
A coal pit pony whose own Mill Colliery confessed. privato, "go-slowi Buled .u As a result, the six-year-old Nine hundred other miners | human strike · laal week ⠀ was ‡ pony will no longer hinul coal,
struck in sympathy, and thou now farmed out to other less: The pulters, men who drive sands of tone of col ware lost competitive work, y
the pit ponies, struck tost wook before det iwas put fon`n job to mexim 1938 can advertised: Pijat in physlesily, perfect, but | because of Jet. They said, he where, spand dose not matter!! | "Baha be le temperamental and tea was losing them money · since I'The men wait back; ito","work
aper | thoy are paid by “the Trumber" TW SLUTURE" Press?
T.V
New York.
Bearded mon are being offered $5,000 an ounce to have their whiskern shorn on an American television programme.
The offer is being made by the manufacturer of a new electric shaver.
Conditions are that the bearded one must be More than 21, willing to have the beard shaved off during a commercial message on
a TV pro- gramme and have a beard moro thun three months old.
The applicant must also submit by mall a sample strand of his beard, a close-up photo- graph of the full beard and details of his age and Occupation.
Those selected will get an all-expense-paid trip to Hollywood and a two-day slay there, climaxed by the "sheuring" and payment by thế
ORDET.
They Can't Keep Old Bill Away From Pipes
London.
They took old Bill's' bacey and clay pipes away from him, down at the Middle- sex old folks' home.
"Life won't be worth living without my smoke," 83-year-old Bill Low sald sadly. "I've enjoyed my baccy—thick and black-since I met my first sweetheart at soventeen."
Since that first love affair and that first puff, Bill has lit his pipe on the decks of Antarctic whalers, in the stuffy shafts of Congo gold mines, behind English guns in the Boor War.
We carred along hhạ clays to make the long hours shorter when age cut short adventure and he wont to sit and rock in the old folks' home in South London.
Then one day, forgetful as old folks often are, he put a lighted pipe in his Jucket pocket. The jacket burned, and so did an overcoat and a raincoat, from more absent-minded smouldering pipes.
Old Bill's pleasure became his homemates' hazard,
"I've bom a bit naughty," Bill conceded. So young William Barrelt (aged 50), the Home's superintendent, took to hidẳng thể old man's pipes. So for he has hidden 17,
But old Bill still has a twinkle in bla eye and a bristle in his white moustache, When one pipe disappears, he slyly and delightedly replaces It with another.
Like Bill said, "life won't be worth living without my snake.”—United. Proom.
MATADORS ON THE HORNS
OF DILEMMA
Madrid.
Bullfighting has fallen into sad disrepute and the trouble seems to be that modern Spanish bullfighters do not care for the occupational hazards.
Crities of the current stars of illnow if it appears they won't the national sport say the youth | be facing an önsy buli, of Spain is more interested in
"The (und
of football than bullfightingo
number
plazas
it is the tourist trade that helps where the rules (aa to size and
A section of
the that
Onen it wús the ambition
The way to the top can still bo studded with gorings, TIDO bullfighters' hospital in Madrid avings 10 to 18 cases a week, but deaths are rare for wonder
rugs prevent complications.
Bullfighters are hoovy new»- paper advertisors. They take them- wholo pages to praise of valves, publish photos of their and-if boom very
All the plazas, not the affgion-weight of the buil and condi- ados who must be the backbone ton of bia horns) are observed could be amanbed on the funera of the sport.
national of one hand," the induential matadors, newspaper ABC BITS. press charges who make us much as 2800 for two hours WOTK, and fighting every bullfighter to appear in moet drvceful langen Inderweight bulls, drugged Madrid. Lamonbed thei new**
their gored-proclaim bulls balla, sandbagged
at. returning to the arenaa. and paper Hoja del Lazyts,
the 1: bills with bhunted and sharten-
But now that the fang Today the rovere caso, Bullfighters of standing becoming suspicions, the mata- dors are worried about a goring are dee from here lite merod cats.
Other critica export a power-where it would rally hurt.......... and ful clique le tumming the sport the pocketbook. They are,
racket one Sparth has put it, on the thigh-powered the bulls are always dingerous. Into
pro-where quieść de" tunts are made horms of Instead they go to the vinces and even there pretend with a minimum of risk,
od horns.
stars They allege the chucking the Macirid plaze where atandards are kept high
Prots,
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