THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1958.·
Will jets win
the new
All over the world the
public relations orches
the
tru is tuning up for overture to the jet uge. On airline posters jet trails arch across the stratosphere.
Beaming hostesses mad well-groomedi passengers Technicolor
Over
pose meals. The stink of paraf- fin and the Berecch of tor-4 it. tured air herald Man's latest triumph OVER time and space.
"New York to London in seven hours" ... "Jet com- fort and smoothness. .... Jels, jets, jets..........
WORRIED-MEN-
in every
airline battle?
alline board-coom graph with two lines on One truces the rise in this
tions experts that jets will only be 00 per cent full and will lose money. This report fore number of plane sents available sees
airline hanving to DS The other the zitter or recued from finanelit troubles seats hetually filled,
by Government money. But the airlines dismiss the Agures as too gloomy,
For some
hove growth
years thest kept step a steady
15 per etal
a year. This year an ominous gap has ap- peared seats are soaring ahead of passengers.
FT the aries HUNG "DUCT- enlomated thir markols now.
Like
Ave in leave us all what will it be It's a seme
the 300 big lived, s ist, breathless, years' time, when
1
all been But in it le doubt and American jets have fat of worried men with slide delivered, when B.O.A.C, alone ruits. The other day a Bloomy will be providing three times
as much room
North Allantie?
Nations report on the United jet-buying "spree read for ther dould.
the J
EMPTY SEATS
I the atrines canont All 90- scut planes, how can they hope 10 1 160-seaters, like the Toeing 707 and the Douglas
The airBlues' jet venture is n £1,000 raillion gamble, And Intely Some of the omens have not been too good. The gam- ble may end in triumph. B It could equally end with half- empty airliners and half world's lines out of business, The Apues tha worry the T367) with slide rules are with quite simple.
"It's so refined"
the
BROWN & POLSON
PATENT CORNFLOUR
D.CR
Now, the airlines are battling
Airline chiefs in public eling bravely to the view that this year's slump in air travel is Remary-"The American re- cession, ynu know
Things -with-fok-up next year."
That, right or wrong, the air- lines must find more pasangers. And many in the industry now fear they are going the wrong way about it.
these 13 per cent a year aren't going to rail it- matically any more." one sald ,to me.
Could
fares be brought down? Some planes could do it, particularly Britain's turbo- prop plancers the Britannia, the fabulous Viscount and the new Vickers Vanguard.
Vickers recently produced the astonishing claim for the Vanguard that it could HALVE existing fares in Eurojic-Rome for £17 or Paris for just over
£5.
THE JONESES
could never make But jets noney at these prices. And at present all fares-for jets and ropeller aircraft-are standard, fixed by the International Alé Tramport Association, the alr- Ines' "unlon,"
While fares remain the same, no one is going to fly in older, slower planes. Those who cart afford it will fly in the jets; those who can'won't fly at RE.
me.
"It's madrats-get madness," fumed one cviation expert in "Planes a few years old will be forced off the routes, crapped, sold at knock-down prices before they've begun to explott there huge new markets.
A SHADOW
"All because of this keeping up with the Joneses one mirline hos jels, they all must have them."
A revolt is growing inn LATA, to have separate fares for juts and propellers"
want to fly in Jels those who pay more for 1."
But lines who have sunk millions Ja the new giant Noise is another big hurdle Juriously resist the jets have still to clear. The ins
which Pan-American
"We're coming to the end of the luxury holidaymakers and The expense acculint travellers. Now we have to go aut, und seil nk travel
to the man in the elo'h cap---num and day and Leing "penalised"
the kids. And that meanx their own Governments cheaper fares not speed and over a report by United Na je: shobbery."
will
707
arc
The
contenders 1
fast,
*
glamour
Jets like
the DC8
and planes
offering
cheap seats
to the
masses like
the now
* Vanguard
advertising for London-New York in October-has sill not been passed for noise at London Airport.
ROUND-UP
SELECT DONOR
MR. Philip Hawes, 46, of Genville Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey, a furniture salesman in Croydon, has just qualified to join the National Blood Transfusion Service's select band of donors who have given over 100 pints, It is estimated that there are only about a seare of them in Britain with the present record standing at 110 plats. Mr ilawes glves a pint of his blood every three months, and thinks it will take him 10 yearn to reach his target of 100 plate. Mr Hawes started giving his blood in 1936 after an appeal on a cinema rercen following a local train dis- nater. He gave 22 pints to the British Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, which provides blood for immediate use. Then he gave another 50 pints while serving in the Forces during the war, find has given the balance to the National Blood Transfusion Service since then. Today there are over 650,000 registered blood donors in Britain.
LONDON BABY SHOW
THE largest baby show ever to be held in South London - it will cover ten boroughs is to be held to aid the British Sallors' Society. Heals are to be held in September in Battersea, Bermondsey, Camberwell, Deptford, Lambeth, Lewisham, South- wark, Wandsworth, Woolwich and Wimbledon, The South-West London semi-duel will be at Chelsen Town Hall on October 2 und the South-East London semi-final at Greenwich Town Hall an October 9. The bonniest babies in two classes, aged 8 to 12 months and 12 to 18 months, will be chosen at the final to be held at Kensington Town Hall on October 13.
THE BLOWER
NEW attraction at the London Zoo is watching Rusty, a 18-year- old riding Indian elephant, ploy "pigeon blowing." Rusty stalks any pigeon which elights, in bis paddock after crumbs until the bird is in range of his trunk. Pointing his trunk, he gives a big blost. More often than not the pigeon shoots into the air. Rusty has taken to "pigeon blowing" in preference to his former hobby of sucking up dust and blowing it over watching visitors,
POLL ON HEALTH
THAT do people ink of the National Health Service-which They use it? To and out, Grimsby Health Service branch has can- ducted a poll among 260 householders chosen at random. The poll established that people are overwhelmingly in favour of the exist ing health service scheme. A high proportion (about nine out of 10 in Grimsby) are making use each year of at least one part of the service. Although most people are content with the existing set-up there is a substantial body of opinion in favour of establish- Ing a single administrative body instead of having the service ad- Mr Walkinson, the Minister) mintstored by three local bodies the Hospital Management Com- of Transport, shows every sign mittee, Executive Council, and Local Authority. of remaining Inflexible in his ANGLO-AMERICAN CRICKET pledge not to let London Air- port get noisier.
What is the answer-speed or cheapness, expense accounts or the man in the cloth cup? No one.cn say they know for sure -yel
But the shadow of an airline the recossion has fallen nerons vision of the jet age.
Angus
Macpherson
ANGLO-AMERICAN cricket is shortly to be resumed. The A American amateurs have accepted a challenge from the Lord's "Taverners" and will play them at the Royal Artillery cricket ground, Woolwich, on August 24, the date the British Army burned down the White House in the war of 1812. The prize will ben potful of Boston tea leaves. The "Taverners"-twelfth man Is the Duke of Edinburgh are largely recruited from London's Alm, stage and radio-television world. The American amateurs are commercial, diplomatic and journalistic ex-patriates, ADMIRAL'S SERVICE
ONE
NE of the first men to land in France during the Allied In- vasion of 1944 was Rear-Admiral G.V.M. Dolphin, Admiral Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard for the past four years. The Admiral is to retire in October after 42 years servies. For his per-
bour he gained the D.S.O.
vices as ofeer-in-charge of an area including the Mulberry Hex-
WILL IT BE BAYONETS AGAIN AT LITTLE ROCK?
It's a heck of a big day for Faubus
...BUT A SAD DARK DAY FOR FREEDOM
New York.
THE
HE South has said "NO." It has rejected with arrogance the law of the land which would permit coloured children to attend schools with white children.
And the South, in my judgment, will continue to say "No" to all the laws of men and the efforts of the Federal Government to a gradual ending of rucial segre- gulien in the schools of the Southern States.
Governor Orval Faubus, the one-time dirt farmer who by his demagoguery and his ruthless cull to the
worst instincts in human
nature leapt to the Gov-last autumn to permit nine ernor's mansion in Little coloured children to attend Rock, Arkansas, has won a the school and prevent mob landslide victory in the violence.
Primary Blections and won
Faubus himself had earlier
a third term in office culled out the National Guard
something no one has done since 1904.
Mr Faubus was chortling today. With his wide- brimmed hat set jauntily on
by DON IDDON
to prevent the Negru children
classes. from attending
to His had
call the National action caused an internal crisis Guard out again I would do it" brought shame and humiliation thkek I will have to" in the United States, and cod added, slyly, "But I don't
to the country.
GOVERNOR ORVAL FAUBUS
A brutal alap at ika's authority
A blow
Faubus, of
When I was in Little Rock course, hasn't a hope of ever getting Pre- during the mob scenes last eldential nomination, but he is September, he fold me: "Where the standard-bearer of name of I go the others will follow." the worst elements the go- called "sold" South. Today to was denounced by the northern Press as a bod America and an enemy of the coloured people, The New York Times: "Un decision decreeing The Circuit Court of Appeal is fortunately for l of us and for that his defiance of the Presl- sure did win a heck of a big gration. A lamp of freedom local. Arkansas Foxieral Judge world, the min has beat victory."
had been Ill. Now it has gone cut.
In 1054 the Supreme Court his head he posed happily of the United States handed for the camera-men, chewed down
Dying
At that time he was nervous nd highly strung, und chewed tranquillisers. He was not sure Court
a toothpick, and said: "I nation-wide public-school inte- due to rule on a decision by the America's reputatien in the dent and the Supreme
Boasting
Ever since the Court's decl sion the South has been in revolt against the law, and the Deep South Mlexisalppi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana →→→
His formal statement said: "The voting was a condemnation, by the people, has openly defied all attempts of illegal Federal interven classes.
al mixed white
ant coloured
tion in the affairs of the
steperiding
Governor of Arkanans for the, would pay off polifically, desegregation for
Today he was the personifica. other two years in Lillie Rock past two terms has now been
that Cheam by the volem of that ton at, self-confidence, saying: schools. But whether
or No State to be their Govenor for a "Remember. I told the out-of- Court rules "Yos"
third, We hope he will not be Slate reporters I was doing what desegregation is dying, if not
EO flushed with his eccloral the people wanted me to do. already dead,
victory as to try to use Arkansas They would give ma n look of tha
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The Faubus victory - it was really a avalanche-is a brutal stop at the President's authority, but, paradoxically, i niso ploces State, and the horrifying and Washington, the
Some of the border States. burdus so the Opposition, the use of Federal bayonets, in have made
capital, Democratic Party. fumbling attempts
bayonets, as he once did, to keep doubt, Now they know children out of school,"
'A tragedy'
Answer, "
Governors of other Soulherm Sintes halled the Faubus vic-
lory, "Precedent shattering The Now York Herald- magnificent-you have proved
the streets of an American to implement the Supreme The Democrats are now stuck Tribune: "The sovereign people that back and white will never
city and in the halls of a Court's inw; but, on the whole, with Faubus, the champion of of Arkansas have spoken. No- mix." public high school."
integration has been a failure.
'The
voters decision in
racial segregation, in the Con body doubted that they would
The Faubus vietory is bound gressions! elcetic campaign give Orval Faubus, the racist Mr Faubus was boasting
tha three candidates. But abroad, particularly in Asia and today that he had licked Arianses proves that the people this autumn, and in the 1980 demagogue, the biggest vote of to have the worst possible effect of this usualty progressive and Presidential election campaign neither did anybody expect a Africa. The Russians will not President. Eisenhower, and enlightened Southern State back
landslido JD smashing. His fall to exploit 11. Faubus is a bir whosi ja not many were disagreeing Faubus to the hilor to the
victory is a tragedy for Arkan-
The Little Ròck riots werd, a with him.
bayonel's point of his National Democralle councils, he repro-as, and for the nation,"
blow to American prestige la sents the old diehard racists, Guardamen
who are mutterably opposed to The Faubus victory in the many parts of the world; but It was President Elsen-
children The Governor was faunting coloured
attending primary election acts the pat- the Faubus victory today, in an "If I schools with whiten 'hower, who' sent in troopers his triumph, wying:
tera for all Bouthern States open wound A
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