ROUND-UP
\NEW FLEET
E blackened holds of six South Coast colliers bought from the "Central Electrielly Authorily are being given a big scrub ou They have been bought by a big cement company and are to form the biggest fleet of cement carriers in Britain. The six were all specially built to carry coal to Poole power mation, but it is now belry converted to off bumang. The colliers in future will call to stores and big construction sites round the British coast, Special- ly designed carriers were planned but the nine-year-old colliers, due to the freight stump, were bought for £35,000 each, Super cement tankers may soon go all over the world, for cement is now one of Britain's biggest exports,
LAMP-POSTS
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JOHWICH is brightening self up with coloured lamp-posts. Those along Gentleman's Walk, one of the city's main shopping centres, are being painted in golden yellow, melon, sandal wood, rust red and black. If there is genierai approval, lamp-posts around the City Hall will be painted phantom blue, melon and rust red. Other moves to brighten Norwich include hanging flower baskets from lamp-posts and making flower beds on traße isturus.
BATTLE OF QUEBEC
ON September 13 the Royal Sussex Regiment commemorates the
September 13, 1759. that the Battle of Quebre. It was on
Regiment of Battle of Quebec took place, and the British 35th. Foot fought and defented the Roussillion Regiment of the French Arny. The French soldiers wore in their head-dress the "Plumet binac" of Navarre. The British fought so gallantly and were so well disciplined that the plume was incorporated in their own batge. Today, the old 35th Regiment of Foot is called the Royal Susces Regiment, and the Plumel blane of Navarre is still a part of the regimental badge.
ARMY FUND
is getting Increasingly difficult to carry out one of the proudest IT
regimental traditions of the British Army-helping former soldiers and their families. Funds built up during the war are running out. This is claimed by the Royal Engineers Benevolent Since 1945 the fund has paid out Fund, founded 90 years ago. about £180,000 to about 28,000 people. Half the post-war income of this Corps fund has come from the Anny Benevolent Fund. The warning is given: "The Army Benevolent Fund has had the tuck of disposing of .considerable suns which accrued during the war. It is, however, cunting down its capital so that within ten years this and other funds will be thrown on their own resources."
25-YEAR PARTNERSHIP
POLICE CONSTABLE Bols Stock has worked for 25 years were
chirf-Sir John Noll-Bower, Commissioner of the Metro- pollton Police, who his just relired. Police-constable Stock, who is the longest serving constable la the Force-is again keeping step with Sir John whose personal driver he has been for a quarter of century. He has derided to retire on September 21, thus ending the careers of two men who have been together at every big public function of recent years. Bob Stock has been a polire- man over 38 years starting on the beat in Victorlain the days When the "Peelers" wore all lamps on their belts? He was one
of the original trafic patrol drivers in cars equipped with Morse Cude sets. On duty he wears an ordinary blue suit with a peaked cap bearing the Scotland Yard cockade. Bob-he was christened Ernest Charles-has driven Sir John over 200,000 miles without
accident.
PILOTS IN A ROLLS
AMERICAN pilots have discovered how to buy and run a power- ful car without losing a penny of their capital. The car is a 1028 12-cylinder Rolls-Royer. The pilots belong to the 02nd Tac- teal Fighter Squadron at Bentwaters, Suffolk, and the 10-seater Italls takes them from their quarters to der fghters, which may be miles away. It was bought in Liverpool for £200 by 28 pilots. Transfers are frequent in the U.S.A.F. As pilots move they col- lert their contribution, which in turn is collected from a new pilot, The car, formerly binek, has been painted bright yellow and is now known as the "Yellow Fer!!."
SEAWEED SHORTAGE
MANY holidaymakers in East Anglian resorts this summer have had to go without their favourite sen-front deliency-shrimps. So rare have the tiny shellish become that many of the men who net them have had to seek other jobs, Because of the scorelty rumours have spread that the shrimps have been fished out, but the experts say that an absence of seaweed has made the water very clear- bullion which shrimps heartily dislike. Officials at the Fisheries Laboratory at Lowestoft, however, are confident that the shrimps will refum.
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THE
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Certified the Labour construency chairman
"Nye, wouldn't it be simpler if we purged ourselves from tho 'Socialist' Party, and joined the Tories?"
Does
This Make
Afraid
London.
ARE YOU nervous when you climb into an
aeroplane? Do YOU breathe a sigh of relief once it's in the air? And do YOU fasten your safety belt just a little bit tighter as you come in to land?
To Fly?
Well, I have to report to Best way, I thought, to you that you are not alone put his mind at rest and in this dread of leaving the the minds of hundreds like ground. The recent "black him was to talk to the with men who really had the week" in air travel.
"gen," the men who fly and
not likely to control the giant air liners, aircraft is travelling, you're So I went to London airport. trouble. Rather more than
I put the problem bluntly half the accidenta to burly, genial Mr E. W. during landing. Pike, deputy flight services civil,
problem. manager for B.O.A.C.
its toll of 133 killed in two crashes has made many people think again about fly.
Ing.
Even hardened air travel lars have told me: "It's too risky." Travellers like the
who used ex-puratrooper,
to look forward to his (2)- tual holiday by air to Jersey
or the Continent, but has now aworn off.
the
SAFETY STEPS
"It may be unreasonable,"
aviation's
"You
sec the pilot has to judge his approach 10 the runway to
TUIN.
By
into
occur
What's being done about it?
Said Mr Pike: "First, manu-
Genuine"
Socialist
Bomb
You
to cut across the path of a cykl the automatie plot will be aircraft. But the trouble was operating anyhow." being ironed out.
"Incidentally," he said, "somo means will have to be worked out to cope with experiments rockets."
And then I went to see a man who knows all about FLYING giant planes.
Lean, sandy-haired Captain Trevor Marsden, D.F.C., deputy fight manager of B.O.A.C., is one of the veteran pilots of the Britannia fleet. He's been flying them since the end of 1954,
What he had to tell me was
y reassuring, especially about those landing risks,
Two route-check caplains are assigned to OVETY B.O.A.C. floet. "You could say they aro almost like bus inspectors," said Marsden. "They are able to board on aircraft anywhere along its route.”
The pilots don't reent IL AS a matter of fact they often pick up useful tips from these cx- perts.
Nothing is left to chance. Even movies are pressed into action to make sure that passengers reach their dealinations in com- fort and safely. There's private
cinema at London Airport in
facturers are doing all they can 10 improve aircraft performance,
stability especially their
and That's greater response to throttle, Ever heard of "I.L.S. biggest
"Next, all over the world. Here's how he explained it Government authorities are pro-
"On the plot's instrument viding better panel," he said, "there's a dia! and better with twn needles--one horizontal and in
JACK THOMAS
which films are shown of all the possible approaches to the run- ways at a "difficult" airport, one set in a valley, cay,
The Alms are shot In colour cinemascope from the
electronic and one vertical. Euch shows cockpit of an alreraft. They landing aids. deviation from the centre line of show the scene exnetly as the Aerodrome approach to the runway. The in lighting la al- strument is controlled and
ready
pilot sees it in good weather and
set
much by radio signals from
ground
All
in bad. And before he is ever allow to take an aircraft over the route, a pilot has to watch those alms at least twice.
the pilot has to do is switch on.
I said, "but the fact re the rest de-
of mains that many the gree, Judging "Look," he said. "These public are worried
better, about that angle at
and transmitter at the airport. the speeds of
there like
is new planes,
They want modern planes these crushes.
great deal of Just
the about Britannia and the Comet, to know what's being done is
human activity developing what 19 going faster all the
Remember, are
approach known as a 'visual glide path.' to prevent them." m.p.h.
with aircrafi like time--500, 550, 600 Travelling at 10 miles minute, what chance has a pilot got iu emer gency?"
07.
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"Right!" said Mr Pike. "The first thing to realise 18 that while you're in the air, no matter how fast the
What
Sends
You
To
Your
limit. speeds
the Comet are about 140 knots "Because the human eye can
accurately' Judge vertient and, "over the fence," about 115 not knois. A comparatively slight angles, the authorities are seek- error in judgment could mean a ing to provite glide path indica- tion by a system of lights to serious crash."
help the pilot come in correct- jy."
Running
Dentist?
Do you the years and their clothes.
10 you take your teeth for granted? Many people seem to be more concerned But remember, you have to live with your teeth. One day they may rebel one by one and leave home.
In Britain, people are used to having imperfect teeth. Some more primitive people, however, are more particular. There is one African tribe where dental caries (tooth decay) is con- Eldered just ground for divorce.
Mrs Logan, who came into my combinations surgery with her four-year-old of different daughter, was no African, but germs pick up she had a sensible concern for their 11110 of her child's lethal ham- the condition teeth.
mers and back nway."
She was worried too, Recently Consequent she had taken young Karen to ly no clout-
a dentist and was appalled when ists has yet she learned that her daughter invented needed five fillings.
wonder druk Inaccuous 10
known germs out
All in a
doctor's day: by
CEDRICA CARNE
"Isn't it rather a lot for that man which can knock these un- age?" she asked me.
All we can ask for, at present, is the Pre vention of decay by commonl sense, oral hygiene, and dict.
It has been shown that
NO WONDER DRUG
decay rose sharply, subsiding Immediately when the sugar was stopped.
People tend to forget that sweet drinks between meals can be equally damaging.
Crashes on take-off are not so serious a problem, because regulations require any aircraft to be capable of taking-off even 1 опс
engine fails at the most critical point.
"When the aircraft is coming in to the airport, the first signals are picked up from about 40 miles away. The pilot netually starts using the Instrument about 10 miles from the run- way.
THE BEACONS
"By watching the needles ho can come in on a dead straight onurse and get down safely In the worst weather conditions.“
hote
But that's not all. In the cen- Biggest headache, apart from tre of the approach path are landings, is the risk of air-to- two marker beacons continuous- air collisions, for which the only by sending up a cone of signals.
distinctive real solution is fixed air lanes Each has a along which planes would be which the pilot picks up in lits compelled to fly.
carphones, and causes a distine- uve coloured light to flash on "This," sald Mr Pike, "will the instrument panel, require internationally agreed
The pilot Imows what height radio navigation system. That's why Britain is trying hard to he should be when he passes develop the Decen-Dectra wye over the beacons and this gives lem, which instantaneously him a check on the two neccles shows the pilot his position on of his "I.L.S."
chart.
NEW WARNING
*Extensive
Sald Marsden: "If you want
further reassurance, I can tell "Karen should also be encour-
you that this London Airport ago: to eat apples or carrots at
has the finest air traffe control the end of meals," I said. "Also
research is going system in the world. It's a rinsing the mouth with ordinary water after eating and drinking on here and in the U.S.A. to classle example of how the job
Of course, develop an electronic warning to should be done."
of helps a great deal.
don't have to tell you the tell the plot the position value of brushing your teeth, nearby uircraft. But the tech- epocially last thing at nighnleal problems are complex and clement?
it is likely to be many years be- I tamllics keep strielly ofore the device is perfected." such rules chlidren's teeth
11 13: generally stay healthy.
Now what about the human
Co-
"You needn't worry about a pilot blacking out, getting taken
But Karen's teeth were in no
Mr Pike added that military ill or collapsing at the controls." told me. "At low average condition for a British carbohydrate-poor, high-fat diet really up to parents whether and civil aircraft had their own Marsden
Generally a child aged results in practically no tooth they want their children to have ground control systems and, so alludes there's always a four has at least four bad teeth. decay. Indeed, some of the dazzling white smiles or teeth far the liaison showed room for pilot sitting in the scat beside With every birthday, during caries immunity of primitive that would shock the diguity of improvement. Too often, a care him ready to take over in a less military airman was likely split second and at high altitudes childhood. on extra tooth be peoples may be attributed to the u poor African family. emer affoeled.
child.
"You mean at five, five teeth are bad, at x, x tooth?" Mrs Logan sald, surprised.
ad average
yes,"
I
"On replied.
The Mrs Logan wanted to know the cause of dental caries. Tooth decay is a local disease dependent upon two simultane- ous important factora, the pre-. sence of bacteria in the mouth and food particles in the teeth, which provide energy for such bacteria to grow.
presence in the diet of 25 per cent or more of fat.
A LINK
Though it is a little known fact that a fatty dlet inhibits tooth decay, I wasn't suggesting that the Logan family should have bacon, fat for breakfast, and butter and cream for lunch. I just wanted to point out the relationship between diet and tooth decay.
Most people know that there 13 0 connection between tooth "Nobody knows exactly," 1 decoy and carbohydrates (sugary said, "what specific getme or foods).
"Str, saya; *Business never better, stay away another month ) **
London Huprses Servies
"Yes," Mrs Logan chjocted, She Laps "but take my sister, up carbohydrates, Yet she has teeth worth an advertisement."
It is not just the amount of carbohydrates one rats, Mare when they are important is сайсть,
PARENTS' JOB
the
I told Mrs Logan about experiment carried out at u Swedish mental hospital, The Inmates were given extra sugar. In drinks and in food at meal- tines. There was no correa- -pending increase in caries ac-
tivity.
Yet when extra 'sugar was fed to them between meela - tootta
INTEGRATION
"Even then,,” Marsden said,
"his first flights would be madu with a very experienced captain sitting beside him"
ONE WAY AND ANOTHER. ·
THAT IT SEEMS TO ME B.O.A.C-AND THAT GOES FOR THE REST OF THE
LINES- WORLD'S BIG AM ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO ENSURE HAP- PY LANDINGS FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS.
Personally, I'm not going to worry next time I board an air- craft for n long flight. Are you?
Well, just remember that by far the greatest number of ac- eldents occur in the "afety” of your own home. And that's official,
ARTIE..
"If there were nina more of us, we could have a Summit talk."
SCHOOL
General De Gaulle
wants them in...
Some British MPs
wont them part in and part out...
Governor Faubus wants them out
NO WONDER THERE ARE
RACIAL DIFFICULTIES
"Those white people
Jure are a
problem!"
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