THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST - 16, © 1958,
ROUND-UP.
DIARY 800 FEET LONG CAPTAIN Mike Banks, Royal Marines who led the Joint Services
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expedition to Mount Rakaposhi, Himalayas, has returned home with a midget battery-operated tape recorder, ง which he kepl his dinry. Je used eight apools tape, each 100 feet lun. The 25,550-It high peak which: the expedition sealed had been attempted six times previously. Once before by Captain Hanks. The exprelition was undertaken Some extra in the leave poriods of the British Forees embora.
leave was granted, Accounts have been sent to the British Service chiefs and Cautaln Banks has reported personally to Field Marshal Templer. In addition to twa Pakistant officers there were seven British officers, one Poselstuni surveyor, six, high altitude poriers und a detachment of three from the Pakistan Army. SEAFORD'S "PAINTED LADY"
DE. J. Boyd, has just given a "face-lift" to Seaford's "Fainted "Lady"-role survivor of a shipwreck da 1808. In that year the Danish vessal Peruvian was wrecked off Seaford, "Sussex, and her The "Painted purehead was kept by the town as a souvenir.
Lady" has been on thow for years in a local recreation ground, but constant exposure to all kinds of weather had made a rather corry eight of her. Now she has been restored by Dr Boyd, helped by a retired nuval officer, Commander W. G. Jack, and council work-
men.
£250 FOR SUGGESTIONS
INCE the British Road Services staff suggestion scheme was.in- troduced in February, some 400 suggestions have already been submitted, the British Transport Cotamission announced. More than £250 has already been paid in awards in respect of 62 sug- gestions, and about 100 ure currently under investigation. Twenty- one clerks have shared £104; thirteen drivers have shared £75; aix chargehands and foremen have between them shared £57; Ove Kiters have shared £23 and two cheekers have shured £14.
BIRD WATCHERS
FOUR Scarborough, Yorkshire, young men who have spent the
summer protecting birds in the Farne Island group off the Northumberland const, are to follow on bicycles when the birds cmigrate to the Cape of Good Hope at the end of the month. They Dro David, 24, and Bob Lazenby, 23, lun Gutwood, 28, and Maurice Hunter, 23. They have been working at the island.bird sanctuary protecting the birds and grey seuls since May. During the winter They work for the Forestry Commission.
BEDSIDE LAMPS
THE Queen's Gard at St James Palace in London are having their quartivoom transformed. Twenty guardsmen do the duty. Brigade Major of the Household Brigade, M. J. P. O'Cock, say that the guardroom is being redecorated in bright colours. -Better-cooking-facilities - are being "provided. There are-to-be beciside Jumps. The alterations will take three months. During that time the itetachment will march to the Palace every day from Wellington Barracks where they have temporary quarters,
Plaque For
• JACOBY Highlanders ON BRIDGE
False-Card is Automatic Play
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Gordon Highlanders stationed at Duver have been presented with a plaque by Dover Football Club Supporters' Association to mark the regl (went's sportsmanship. The re- giment has taken part in many sporting fixtures. The plaque WOR carved by Police-Sergeant Robert Forsythe.
Beating "Road
Jams"
The most extensive "beat the
operation [raffic Jums"
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Association by the Automobile during the three days of the August Bank Holiday weekend. Every available roud patrol is to Suppose West drops the deuce, be on duty and the Association's
South wins the opening club leud with dummy's ace and leads ite Ave of spades. East plays the four and South the jack.
radio network fully manned.
At this point South has no play! Survey nights over trouble spois except to lay down the ace. This are being made by spotter air- play drops East's king and Southcraft.
loses nu-trump trick.
West should play the nine cri
They Are Warned
the ten. Suppere he plays the NEW road signs at St Albans, nine. Then let South plan the Hertfordshire, read-Romans rest of his play. He can still lay buried here,
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ALTERNATIVE COAST ROUTE
Anybody seen one that matches this one? Escaped half an hour ago.
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THIS PUNCHED TAPE CARRIES IN CODE THE OUTLINE OF A STEEL PLATE ON A SHIP'S BULL. ELECTRONIC IMPULSES WILL CARRY THIS
-INFORMATION-TO-A-FLAME CUTTER.—A-PRESS-OF-A-BUTTON WILL-DO-THE-REST.-
Germany got
in first-now
ELECTRONICB are moving
Into British Industry. Scientists are giving sub- stance to the dream of industrial fiction-the automatic, all-sceing, all- knowing, constantly checking gadgetry which will take the human mis- takes a
and the drudgery out of industry.
This is the story of one such dream, which begins, and ends. in Britain's shipyards.
we have gone
one better!
TODAY:
HOW
Top Jockey Rae Johnstone continues the us-1-knew-it story of his racing years. now revealing a remarkable coup which he pulled off in 1949.
DRIVING back from Tremblay with owner Frank Vogel one afternoon in September 1948, I asked him "Did You notice the 'Jacko' rode in
right, but he will probably go last?" buck to dummy and lead the queen. Now West will make a trump trick,
one the
"No," replied Frank, "can't But he went pii to say I did, explain that he had backed the Is South sily to fall for this G-4 chance trained by Pollet in play? Not at ali
TO PLANT”
A WINNER
THE
RAE JOHNSTONE
STORY ... Chapter 7
the race to "get out"--and he idn't noticed much else except "South can't fuck into his oppc- the fact that, thankfully it had nents' hands. He may suspect a | won. false-cord, but he can't be sure The conversation ensed-about of it. Aller all, it you are dealt there. a-singletce nine you must play Nine days later, I rode in the it; if you are dealt nine-ten you Prix de la Morne at Maisons, must play one of them.
and this colt who had caught
to be trained and to winter in In either of those cases South my eye at Tremblay was, in the
ruce. I won, and I did not get. The less severe climate and then
related an iden I'd had for some was time. Which was that a fair sort season. of youngster in the Paris region could be sent down to Marseilles
all that good a view of the other be sent over as a three-year-old So I more or less forgot to win on English "seller." Even if he collected any forin at about him until a meeting at St Cloud the next month, before Marseilles nobody would take which Frank said: "That thing any notice of it anyway. you liked at Tremblay, Eutela
he's in a seller today."
will gain a trick by the queen play.
Finally, there is a really good one, reaten for South to go wrong He must lose two tricks outside the spade ault. The queen play will hold the maximum spade lass to one trick. Ils cantruct is four spades and he must safe to make 11.
play
THE PLAN
V+CARD Sentic hores. "Oh, I don't know," said know his job.
THRIVING
his last outing of the
At the outset of 1949, I went down with Frank to see him and he'd really grown into Bice looking horse.
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TO ENGLAND .
So Eureka was sent on the next stage of his journey 10 Frank's trainer at Maisons, Alve
Before the war, the steel plates which comprised the hulls of the vessels silding down the launch- ing ramps were cut'alili, are cut-by very hot flames, burning oxygen. A consider. able programine of preliminary work $30 proceded eutling. It took tine. and any- where along the line mistakes could occur.
During the war German ship yards began. cutting steel plates by a new process. They drew a complete map of the cutting operation, photographed it. then reduced the negative to 1-100th size of the full-scale original.
Up in the ratlers of the cutting Thom they fitted a projector, Intu which the aide etea All out- side light was masked out, and at the pulling of a switch a “ pic- ture was thrown on to the notal plate about to be cut. By Joarking the plate along the lines projected from above. the dermans gained both.spted and
accuracy,
In 1963, the Britlah Oxygen Company, convinced that they could improve the work of skele Ateel cutters in British ship- yards, sent an investigating team overseas to check the latest advances. Back came the dele gallon
with reports of the optical method."
At Edmonton in 1953, a group of 15 research, scientists went into a lauddle on behalf of 3.0.0. Out of the discussions came a pan. then a blueprint. Finally, In October 1957 & shiny prolo Lype was unveiled.
A few weeks afterwards. n.new survey team set out to run a poh of requirements at Brush ship. yards, What are your needs 7" asked the investigators. Britain's shipbuilders told them. The rinas report went back to Edmonton
Since then, keeping their epe on the survey, the scientists have been.
full-size developing A
'100-7 American Loan, 20+1 Pippladiis, and 25-1 others Fifteen ran,
I am reliably informed, us they suy (though the report ITELY. have been somewhat imaginatively embroidered), that once Eureka's owner had ob served his property taking up the running seven furlongs from
ito home In the. 1 mile and yards "contest," he thereforth found the strain of personal observation too great to bear and averting his head, relied upun * Iriend's description, punctuating the commentary every 200 yards or so with
he got to, g
"How now?"
for has
DREAM WIN
and
In fact, Eurekt was gepreely out of a canter throughout to win casing up by four lengths. A dream ride. But tho1. vas the lust Frank Vogel saw of his horze! During the war Td met
For a seiling-plate winner trainer there; Marlus Tuche, who Head. And thence to England nover previously evoked: such talked in the hard-to-under- where, I so happened, analher spirited competition at a subgen stand local tongue of a French hurse for filly to be quent auction. Reported in the character in а Jean Gabin, proetse), Bonne Auberge, was là--papers to have been among the So I pressed him to claim the waterfront nim.
He obviously make her first English appear- ringside competitors were Lord;
ANCO in the same "seller" as fascbery, Stanley Wootton, Frank unenthusiastically. But
Eureka, and where she way to Harold Wallington,
But Mrs quiThe bidding has been:
Just before we walked in from
catry a big commission. So that "Snowy Parker. The car park he asked: West North
out on his with. Tommy Carey putting his Camille Evans outslayed every- So Eureka set Pass Double much do you think I ought to Jouney to England by getting on money down also on Els re- body.
the Banstead Pass Pess
put in a claim for?"
o train which took him in the presentative in
I came out of 'the weighing- I figured about 300,000 franes opposite direction.
Selling Plate, La Belle Mazarin, room to walch a white-gloved which was approximately £500 Marlux reported in due course there was a very fair markel. finger alcking the price up to at that timo, In fact he put that he liked
the horse, and Frank Zave his
3.000 guineas before the St one in for 400,000 and got him. that he was thriving in the local book-maker to place and when Cloud "claim" was knocked So Eureka did not run in the air. So on November 7, ridden the paddock critics appraised down to the intrepid lady "seller" because in Froore by the trainer's brother Louis. the contents of the parade rin owner.
Looked homes entered in there races
he had his first mix o' the local there were few who can be claimed beforehand and tracks and won a le six beyond Eureks. So that the "Totum" was as follows: 1-4 then they don't run
furlong race worth £85.
Auberge, got the horse, Now he'd
Buncity
a fortnight later he Euteka,, 11-4 Bona Frank inquired what I planned reappeared and repeated the 4-1 La Belle Mazarin, 10-1 for him to do with him. So I performance over a mile. That Lebombe, 100-9 Bilver
East Boutli
Pass 14
YAPARS.
You, South, hold:
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What do you do?
・A-Bid two hourts. You bevo enough strength to pombete.
TODAY'S QUESTION
Your partner raises your two- heart bid to three. What do you do now!
Answer on Monday
"How
bet to b
Bloom,
"
NEXT WEEK By a head on 1,000-to-1 · chance
machine based on the prototype to meet standards requirements. 1.0.C. hope to have their ret practical working made! tor kaje la the autumn of next year.
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A brain
The new wonder, nestling under the grin title of "com puter controlled Game profiting niachine," la a streamlined. answer to the German tech Bique In one revolutionary move it does away with all the photographle and optiesi ', pro- cesses of the old system, reduces the possibility of mistakes, cuts coats and gives extreme accuracy,
To operate it, one man only to push a button. Then back and watch the results of his HOL-very-atrenuous operation, Electronics do the rest.
What the scientists have Achieved 13 a harnessing of the Ferrant computer system - originally designed for machwe tool content to their existing Name cutting equipment The have given, the oxygen Danic cutter brain."
Basically, the navaj architect's plans, stead of passing through the numerous transfer singes as is done now, are translated into
mathematical data giving co- ordinate pothis and lines of movement which the euiter must. make to correspond with the pati
tern.
Cuts fast
This data is then coded on punched “tape. The taps is fed Into the computer, which addā certain essential timing informe- tion, and produces a new tapa with all the necessary' informa. tion recorded on 1 16 terms of electroale impulses.
This is ted into a recording machine called a control consale. All is now ready, The "brain" has been given its Instructions,
The operator mishes a battan, and the fame cutter. guided by Instructions in the console, begins its journey through the half-inch thick steel plate at a rate of 23 Inches a minute.
Port and starboard plates are done at the same time, Mistakes are checked by a 'magic.eya” which watches the fame. This photo-electric cell checks the fame against the · patructions. Any variance stops the brocess.
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London Expresa Jerzite
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