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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1958.
Our American Newsletter
The Vastness Of America's
N.Y, (By Airmail)
BILLIONS
more
Wealth Is Surprising
立场
•
Demand In W. Germany For Another
Television Organisation
By HEINZ WEISSENBERGER
Bonn, Feb. 3.
The millionth television set in West Germany. was licensed recently, and the number of television viewers is
increasing steadily.
Útli
avening'a
to
dollars for defence. Millions more for missile work. Those items on the agenda for Congress
full-time | shiold of electrons to ward off are signs of America's dimly lit with candles guttering, one in three among
owned by a Russian emigré. | American workers, They can attacking missiles, big-scale money think- The programme began a very $42,000 million (£15,000 "It has flown and it works,” ing.
relaxed 55 minutes behind million) a year. More and more say the manufacturers,
Although television was first | costs, also Hmited to half an ¡ the corporations 'nowadays build schedule. The compere persuad- are moving into executive joba
The electron shield generates introduced in Germany on an hour in the early evening, early their own technical installations,
it next year. But what really brings home ed my host to "get things where they wield authority.
feld experimental basis in 1930, electro-magelle
including transmitters. the vastness of US wealth is started
These commercial programmes If a private company were set nome more people Most surprising result of all around the 8.58. It disrupts the was not seriously started the way new names continually get here."
this is that many American guiding system in an approach- more than five years ago. are carried only by the network up, the post office would expect built the transmitters and Join the register of rich men,
concerned, whereas the bulk of to men now think of their office ing missile. in the
television is lease them the Latest to uppear
the This New Englander played a rather than their home
compare, as the A nuclear warhead is also difficult-to-join league of
oll Civil War nong. Ho was centre of life. Golf is even more being developed for the 18.58.
broadcast by all stations in the hoping to make a proat where it milonaires is that of 69-year- | followed
Incurs losses in its dealings with by A German popular. All-mole fishing trips It will be carried in a detach
country simultaneously,
Far old T. Walker
some time. ofl. Murray.
private in- |the public corporations, American. Then two Spanish are the fashion. 2001b. native of Venezuela..
able "pod"
dustry has supported attempts Americans
Then an Israeli But co
fary
I can report no aircraft. Hla
incomu of $3,000,000 girl,
counter-altack
Main problem facing the anti-
number of frequencies at misalle defence workers is how
present not in use. Thezo fre- observer put it: "The American to detect oncoming missiles für
quencies
are on the so-called woman in new thing.
Band" She's enough away for their roule to
West German viewers receive Fourth
allocated to like a Vice-President who has be plotted in time to arm and a single programme jointly pro- West Germany by Internation suddenly become President."
lunch the anti-missile,
vided by the regional broadcast- &greements and could be used The Antricon way of looking ing system. But there is a con- on 10 channels. at this:
"It ja like standing siderable demand for 00 blindfolded in the deep centre | alternative. The country's of the field at Yankee Stadium largest
the
Personal $5.00 per insertion: (about £1,071,000) a year puts who sang a comic three- male
language lyric about "le in-power of women. As one male
not exceeding 25 words, 25m in the same class as such other Texan oll operators as cents each additional word. Clint Murchison, H. L. Hunt. William ALTERNATE INSERTIONS Slo Richardson, and
Blakley, 10% EXTRA
if not prepaid a booking for
of 80 cents in charged,
SOMETHING
Aizp
packet
STAMPS
EXCLUSIVE,
of arted
Murray is ote of the "in dependent producers,” uncon
ternational
an
set." Then Italian New Yorker. And to end up on a topical note a girl sang a Venezuelan love song.
As a melting pot of mixed pooples that New Yor base-
nected with any of the big oment could have been Istanbul.
ecmpanies whose names Arc
kitown all over the world.
Those comparies go in for refineries, service slampe Pipelines,
Collec
From 20 la per packet upward. stations. Independents, Nike An entirely naw Darien, South China Morning Post Lid, Wyndham Murray, stick to finding and Greet, lingkung and Sairbury producing raw petroleum.
noad Kowloon.
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from R13 for four weeks.
A "Wildcat"
SUCCESS
springs
Murray's from his skili na a "wildcat That is Texan language for the men who drif new weils in a search for big new vil depostis.
ite hos outraced most his rivals. The average for a "wildent" operation successful is usually reckoned to be about Write Bow for tres colour cone in nine. Murray has been. to AUTOHALL, Dept, 133, 300. King
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Despito # private airplane, hls wife's furs, touches of luxury like a chiming telephone u his offlee, he lives well with- In his income. The rest of the
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busincas.
CHESS lessons in school are the latent suggestion for making America safe In the Sputnik age.
New Jersey's Senator Case quoted one of his constituents
"Russians as saying:
play chess like crazy, and who won the race to outer space? Chess the beginning test of solentino brain,"
mixture of
New York.
peoples makes up
a
j
From
JOHN
THOMPSON
CHAMPION "offaw"
of
New York-American for man who scoffs at the low- was caught last week.
Police on his the
had put 131 tickets car for parking it in wrong places. But 84. year-old
A HOSPITAL in Atlanta, Georgia, has been ordered to Burrender д thras-week-old baby. The parents claimed the baby WAR being held 43 security for an
unpaid ex- BR1 of $384 panzes
(about £110).
TWO hundred American cities. worried about their trac problems, are scrutinising the results of an experiment in the small town of Springfield, Oregon.
for
undercath the
The number of viewers' in West Germany is still small, compared with Brite where there are about 14,500,000 re- ceivers. Both countries have a population of about 50,000,000.
Programme
radio
and
to set up private television on a Ward Off
The pubile radio corporations argue that they will need these
GS television channels themselves
their programmes expand to ECOVE their area property. At prosent, the stations carry only five hours of programme a day at most, two end half hours of them in the evening.
and trying to hit a high home-magazine has long campaigned run ball by throwing another for second programme to be provided by the existing televi- ball at it,"
alon organisation, A QARAGE in New York
Powerful private interests, on makes this offer: "Wa wash | the other hand, are pressing for foreign c
Imported the establishment of commercial water."
television with advertisements, along the lines of the Independ- ent Television Authority in
in
Rubberneck
Britain.
Commercial
about
Those public corporations which have so far resisted tho introduction of commercial pro- grammes IDAY change their minds to ward off demands for private television, Dr Harms Hartmann, director of the West Gormen Radio Corporation in Cologne, the biggest of the regional nolwarks, told a preg conference recently.
on
Dr Harlan said that the establishment of a private television company would in directly threaten the independ ance of the radio and television co.porations, and would result in a lowering of the cultural and intellectual level of the pro- The company which has been grammOS. He said that there telovision is were not enough nuthors, play- The nine West German, rodiopreparing private All motor trame was banned
the under
"Stily operato
Association for wrights, actors and directors for the corporations in Springfield's main shopping STRUGGLED up inside
the states
con- Radio and Television Advertise the present programzn.es of legislation of
and district
of the Statue 10 days. Result: forehead
Their income comes
ment" in Frankfurt, which is that he doubted that sales for shops in the town Liberty last week. A trip that cerned.
soon to be replaced by a independent company "will find limited Hability company called these hidden talents which we centre were up by 14 per cent. really requires a "rubbemeck" from listeners' fees and they are
Yet the people who liked it as the Americans call tourists, free from income tax.
To And additional revenues, "Independent Television.”
have falled to find so far." most were the shoppers, not the To get inside the forehead of
possibly in an effort to If it can get a licence from The Weat German Radio forestall demands for private the Ministry of Posts, this couNotwork will shortly add a stores. With no cars about, they the giant statue (France's gift
about as they to the US) you first take a lift, commercial television, some of pany intends to start commercial "regional" programme with could stroll
the radio corporations deelded | program.mea in the kutusan of Jews from the Rhine and Ruhr liked. For the children there then wind your way up a nar-
main row, circular staircase.
It is to carry commercial programmes next year, probably with a daily area to the national programme were pony rides street.
more exhausting than a game themselves. The Bavarian net-two-hour programme with from which it carrica every evening of squash. But from the forework, Ima, for more than a 12 to 20 minutes of commercials, in an effort to make television head window there is a spec- year, been carrying a daily half-
The postal administration more popular. Similar "regional" tacular view of the Wall Street hour programme, with three- | In favour of an independient skyscrapers.
minute advertising both at the company, because lis Influence
errided only by the Bavarian Plodding up the staircase with beginning and the end of the
with the public radio corporalwork and But the storekeepers were Bureau reports that in the suspicious; the improvement in French family. Once inside the
tions has steadily dwindled and south end me were a Texan couple sold a US 100,000 men
has since joined in, it acts today es little more than their
business seemed too good to be forehead there was only room and without making true. wives
other stations are | collector of fees on behalf of up commercial the seven of us in the party.taking
broad- the corporations. For instance, any legal arrangements.
Said one cinema manager:
We all breathed out. Then, were 10 minutes we That is the equivalent of all "If I have a poster of Marilyn Monroe out in front, drivers of
estate agent Phillip Gahili imply ignored these
police summonses over five years, falling to report at the station in the usual way,
The magistrato ned him $6,500 (£2,320). Cahli pæld on the spot.
HE
National Desertion
a year
Icave
in the
Suspicious
for
for the
the married men in Columbus, thousands of cars a day see it there, the Texans talked about!
I male
קפא
Ohio, or Coventry, England, walking out
But with trame banned, then new oil-well and the French on their wives without so much as an rll be some days only
a few people family had an argument about wolk post-and I
the cocktail they liked most. In out of am: back Inter,"
my eccentric English way I business."
looked at the view, but nobody A LETTER posted in 1917 else did.
delivered to a man In Long Island last week. It was from an office 100 yards down the road from his house.
NTI-MISSILE inlasites arc now the talk here. It was revealed that the American B.58 supersonic bomber has
What Is behind all this? AST week I got the crispest regret to report that Liden yet of just what a morale X sinking. Many Americans now openly admit that their wives, girl friends, went to
grandmothers meeting of the and
nre the Classic Guitar Society, a small stronger sex. unpretentious group who take In sheer numbers there are the guitar seriously and their increasingly more women than nwn activities quite unseriously, Į men Women live longer-to The meeting was in a large 73 compared with the men's basement cafe, the Two Guitars, I average of 07. Women make up
CHESAPEAKE BAY OYSTERS
ON THE DECLINE
Baltimore, Feb. 3. Collection of the world-famous Chesapeake Bay
oyster is declining sharply.
Maryland watermen some 75 | can be replaced by nature. The years ago seropped up as many
obvious answer
*D*
CABANOVA'S recipe salad dressing-orientai herbe, honey, pineapple juice, and lavender-88 boon sent" Ro the US by an American who found
of some
the grast lover's papers in Paris.
China "Mail Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
ROXY & BROADWAY: "The Great Locomotive Chase." Fess Parker und Jeff Hunter in the American Civil War.
KING'S & PRINCESS: "Robbery Under Arms." Peter Finch ns the Australian bushranger leader.
LEE & ASTOR: "The Story Of Mankind.” An alk
star historical drama.
QUEEN'S: Is to help
us 15,000,000 bushels of oysters nature along by re-stocking the from the rich bars, as most oyster-producing one season
But that is more states in the United States are natural bars, than five Umes the harvest of doing. recent years.
Last year,
the harvest was | which have less than 3,000,000 bushels.
The Richest
Oysters abound in tidal areas natural certain characteristics, and the Chesa- penke Eay area comes closest to the perfect equilibrium of those requirements, according to selen- tists who have devoted years of study to the problem.
The Chesapeake Bay has been described by many scientists
But in recent years only some from all over the world as the 100,000 bushels of oysters have richest underwater form in the been harvested from the Bay world.
proper. The rest of Maryland's
The cause of the decline in annual production comes from the oyster population is simple tributary rivers and streams. enough, but its remedy is not so simple. Basically, the pro- Almost Barren blem arises because more oysters are being harvested than.
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there, are some 80,000 DCILS of bads classifed as natural oyster bare ki the Bay, or more than a quarter, of the state's total, A state comnmls- sion estimated nino years ago that the beds in the Bay, then "almost totally barren," could produce 12,000,000 bushels every year with proper cultivation and restoration.
The stripping of the bar in tributary rivers has not been as complete in the bay ilanLE, but the pronounced trend of the shrinkinir oyster population is equally evident there.
"Nana." Martine Carol and Charles Boyer in Zola's classic, ALHAMBRA: "Yangtze Bridge." A Chinese pic-
ture.
STAR & METROPOLE: "The Tattered Dress," Jeff
Chandler, Jeanne Crain. A courtroom drama. HOOVER & LIBERTY: “Last Of The Bad Men."
George Montgomery in a Western. RITZ:
Pat
"Shoot-Out At Medicino Bend." Randolph Scott in a Western. MAJESTIC & ORIENTAL: "April Love."
Boone and Shirley Jones in a musical. CAPITOL: "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Gina
Lollobrigida and Anthony Quinn.
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The trend is not confined to Maryland. as far as publicly owned bars are 'concerned, a spokesman of the slate consers | Kast, Afrios, Great Briain and | vation- commission summed up the position like this: "Wherever and whmover mán has takon oysters on a' commercial basis, -the oyster population has been unable: to" muslain, itauif."-- Chisa Mall Special.
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TRAINING CAMP FOR TRAFFIC OFFENDERS
By ARYE WALLENSTEIN
Tel Aviv, Feb. 3. New measures to combat careless driving are being considered by the Israeli authorities in an attempt to check the rising death roll on the country's roads.
Instead of the former "ticket”
It has also purchased a score
for a violation of a road traffic of educational Alms in be regulation and the subsequent United States for showing in inc, motorists in Israel will, if Israeli cinemas, its glant adver the measures now being consi- tisements are displayed dally In dered become law, receive a the press, its signposts warn courteous invitation to appear at motorists along the highways. a training camp to attend driving lessons and learn the Israeli çode of the road.
New Test
programos have
stations.
so far been
the other Three southwest German
National
The "national" programme is produced in turn by one of the regional stations and relayed by all networks in the country.-
The West German press at first boolt exception to the com- mercial programmes run by the public television corporations. The Bavarian
network
radio www taken to court by news- paper publishers who, claimed that by
carrying commercial programmes the Bavarian set- '- work had intringed its stattics as a public corporation.
But lately the newspaper publishers and the directors of the public radio corporations and some sort of settlement, have been negotiating to try to
faced as they are now by tho television, No result has yet
common danger of
private
been achieved at these talks- China Mail Special.
RADIO Hongkong
Periodically, the Council for the Prevention of Road Accidents holds a symposium on probláns of transport and accident pre- vention д which experts,
5.30 pm.. Not for Squares; 8. Time engineers, transport companies signal.Around the World" This warning was given by a and public men exchange views. Slovakian and Bohemian Tolk regional head of the licensing
Songs: 8.30, Popular Cationet of the the
Gershwin with Among
Council's most mude of George authority who said that train-
Sondra Blanton (piano) and the Pro ing in
measures nte the camps would last popular
the Mon Drobeaten or Hamburg: 0.05. from one to three consecutive institution
Time of annual competi-Report; 7,
Bignal, News days, depending on the tins for the Year's Most Care- 7410, Commentary; 7:10, Mantovani and his Orchestra: 1,44, DEBLO 155 motorist's offence. Afterwards, fuil Driver and the Year's Most Miniature Prog. ; 136, #12K4 15 the motorist will have to take Careful Pedestrian. Giant from Here; 8.15, The Roger Wagner Chorsie and the Hollywood bowi a new driving lest, more dif- streamers across the main streets Symphony orchestra: 3.88 Weather feult than that which he passed in the cities invite all driveis Report; 8, Time Signal. Nawe and before obtaining his Heenco and pedestrians to join in the Home Now from Britain: 9.15 which was revoked at the time competition
of his offence and will only bo restored when he has passed the new test.
Youngsters
Motoring Magazing produces by Ted Thomas 9.3 "Look Wani”. 198. Yound presented by John Wallace; 10.45, "Hichard Grean and h Orobeata; 1040, Weather Report: 11.. Time Bignal. Hadia Newsreel; 11.10. And Bo To Bed; 11:30 Cloen
The story behind the new A night which surprises Down." measures is a trail of blood tourists and visitors to Izrazi: caused by road accidents. The are the numerous young "traffic death-rata on the Israeli roads copa" recruited
for
REDIFFUSION
1 D.M.. Munsons Mallare among school | 3.30, Partners
Boo has recently risen to more than children by the Council. Issued foo Time Rendaryons; 459, Vocally 30 kil
every 10,000 by the Police traffle department Yours, Children's Core Another Chapter in the story of Martin vehicles compared with nine with the long white alcoves of natier Narrated by Billy magdes deaths in Britain and only alx; the traffic polleomen and with, 3.50 Programya Jasandramentas by in the United States.
police caps,
Ray Cordeiro; &, Hidney Torch and these youngsters al Orchestra: 88 Mirthday Mail- 10 and 13 ore; bag: 9.30, Band Call-Cyril slapjeton terms of dry statistics, aged between 14,114 road accidents were re-stationed at key points, mainly and his Omhestra 48 Blory of Jane Armitage: 7, Tine. Bignal' and parted to the police in the first near school buildings, to direct | de zeews; de "Weather ForFour, Announcements Asus îmblusm: ** 10, nine months of 1957. In these, the flow of trame,
Dresing Serenade; 1.45, 0,050 casualties were inflicted
Miller and his Orchestra; B. Pag- and of the latter 163 were dead
somality Perede-Hermione dingold: and
Any day they can be seen
1,382. Beriously injured rising their hands to helt long | NE""kadalon in Rongkong while the rest sustained less columns serious injuries.
of cars in order to Professor. K. B. Prinstiny. Ma idar allow pedestrians to cross the "University Degroom And The Port-
Secondary College mi dião, ön road. With evident · self~ { öuse Alde L="Presented - by Mło Importance, they later almal to Kendall & Aquad Rogent 9.26. High Rate
motorists to go on and turn to ward Bound A kutoalarmmon
presented by Jock stop pedestrians, In the bacit- | Mtunio Half Frededor), de, som Careless driving is only one of grotand, on adult traffe poikce In Musley 43. DRINKRVith Dressi 11.30, Predajcon Midnight; the cause of the bigh rate of man krops an
on the night. God Save 200 сус rond accidente in Israel. A youngsters, ready to move in to
Clow Dowd.. other is probably the influx of support his young "colleagues." from back : Members of the Council bo- many imitilgranis
there will be los 8.15. muroducing Bilme Kaishin Webb
5 pm, Children's Tiozz-Cartonia; ward countries who are unso Huve that customed to the traffic on the offenders in the country when 937. Chris Buy Intrane Dari Ferb bhachel Hankaw, Kun-road in a modern, country those children grow up to be« | Young, Man" (1) Clona mos.. Eethow: 1550 8.00%
The task of educating both come motorists and pedestrians. "ARrvakaras. In, Cooking Skaraya, Indonesia, Austraila, Hiw maturist "pad" pedestrian, has In the treantime, they serve the
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THURSDAY, FEBRÚARY 4
„Pakistan,
*TELIVISION
been assumed hero by the double purpose of helping the Patrol yn aele AUTOR ser Biñals "ând: Mutp%, National Council for the Frever- harramed - traffic police while cuNG CRAZ
peur
tion of ficcidats. Thất Council | instilling frilo the young elemente Fadvocated the new munäures toj ary notions of rond': untuk
cut the toll.