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COLLECTS GUNS
COLLECTION of guns at Blackmore End, Essex, la Masies Ser-
geant Leo Amato of the U.S. Air Force stationed at nearby Wethersfield, During his service in Britain the Sergeant, who is a member of the National Hifle Association, has been adding to his ban on collection. Stored away in his home in America ho "armoury" wilch among others, includes a rifle uted in the Ameri- can Civil War, a "Scotch Pepperbox" gun, a 1650 flintlock shotgun, and an "olarm gun" of the 17th, century which hos string attach- ments to trip-up látruders.
"NO-ADVERTISEMENTS”
UNSIGHTLY advertisements are to be banned in a street of Nore
wich in the first experiment of the National Civle Trust to show how the appearance of a cily can be improved without them. There is to be Harmonious re-adjustment of shop fronts and a co- ordinated redecoration scheme. Magdalen Street which has been chosen for the experiment is a busy shopping centre. Final draw- ings will be ready, for the end of next month.
RAT BLAMED
WATER rat burrowing a hole in a bank of the Shropshire A Vice Cot mauve caused a landslip which has blocked a neven-mile stretch of the waterway at Church Minshull, neur Nantwich, Cheshire. Nearly 3,000,000 gallons of water drained away. It is estimated thi 1,000,000 sh were lost and barges have been diverted to the Trent and Mersey Canal. Briti Transport Waterways will have to move 30,000 lons of earth to re- pair the damaged bank. "The trouble may have been started by a single rat," says the divisional manager. Within three hours the whole embankment collapsed. A crater 10ft, deep und lurge enough to take two houses was left.
¿ THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1958.
Victory
over
the vile
summer!
ALEXANDER KENWORTHY
under conditions for which it was never intended.
Some
are
A NEW TV
CRAZE --- AND
IT'S GETTING
AMERICA
OUT OF BED
AT DAWN
Marties
Could YOU stand
NEW YORK.
on my
IT is 6.80 in the morning. Still using rice in my pyjamas and through harvesters designed for eyes heavy with sleep. I am the paddy fields of the Far peering at the man Eant. Others have paid television screen. He is a pro- THE farmers have just £2,300 for mach ally fessor and he is giving a lecture M Private Erniest Wales of the Royal Northumberland Fuster marvels of the century. for the soft, reclaimed land on Classical Civilisation.
TAPE RÉCORDINGS
of Sunderland Alderoun Wates, in
He has has now sent the first of 50 tipe-recorded messages to Sunderland men who are serving with the First Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry in Cyprus. The Mayor, knowing that a message from home can mem so much, sal; Te value of the service that you and the men of your regiment give through your devotions and services for your country is immeasurable.” WORLD TOUR
D
¡OUGLAS Gibb, 44-year-old ex-R.A.F. navigator, has started a 38,000-mille world tour in a three horse power bubble car. Douglas, a salesman, dechled recently to look up some of the girls he left behind him in South Africa and Austrailu. I thought that using the bubble car would be the cheapest way to travel. And it will be the cheapest way to buy it because I will be away three years, and therefore I will not have to pay any purchase tax," he said. His route will take him through Europe to Yugoslavia, Greece, through Turkey and down Africa to Rhodesia, where he plans to work and raise more money for his world tour.
pulled off one of the huge wheels, made specially
With fewer workers and the worst weather in living memory they have brought in at least a normal year's harvest.
Ingenuity, persistence, and
revolution
in techniques have enabled them to avert what 10 years дви would have been a national diasater,
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Hundreds of farmers modified machinery
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Faimer Alfred Theobald of Bailerbridge, Essex, was work.
ing doggedly in the day's thin aunshine to harvest his last 20 acres of Cappelle wheat.
He was using two combine harvesters, with a tractor stand- ing by to pull them out when they bogged down. Two tractors were needed to rull away each trailer load of grain, Two other tractors were towing the baler collecting the straw.
"I'G
an expensive way of harvesting," said Mr Theobald, "but if we don't get it in nuw we'll never get it in of all, With- out combines we should have lost almost everything."
A CHANCE
In June Mr Theobald was counting on a bumper yield from his 110 acres of wheat, oals and barley. He brought in his oats in an isolated fre spell.
Then the rain set in. During August, the harvest month, there was more than double the normal rainfall.
Week after week farmers waited for the weather to break. Whenever the sum shone for a day or so they were out in a Acids with combines and tractors.
Fine crops were beaten down Aut by storms and as the weeks pass they disappeared under a lush growth of weeds.
When the sunshine came at
tast in September it was their
last chance. The break lasted only a fortnight, but it made all the differeNCE.
TRIUMPH
Combines, which cut and thresh the grain as they move along, went to work in their thousands. Where the ground was too soft for them to move under their own power they were towed or pushed through the crops by tractors,
At the beginning of the summer farmer Malcolm Green, of Kenilworth, had a field of 20 acres of winter onta which Yooked so good that he entered it in a incal competition,
At the end of June It went down, and in August neigh- bours advised him to turn his sheep into it. During the second week In September he look into the Aeld a new com- bine harvester which had cost him £1,700. It went slowly through the mass of green sluit that had overgrown the oats, and recovered £500 worth of grain.
Mr Francis Appleyard, of Stevenage, burned off the weeds in a 30-acre field of barley, with sulphuric acid, and a week later a combine took from it 75 per cent of the grain which kad looked like a completo write-
uk.
"THANKS'
From all over the
British
Isles machinery makers have had messages of thanks from farmers for providing the tools that saved the crops."
Mr T. K. Laidlaw, who farma 200 acres near Dublin, told a Coventry Arm: "I owe you 4,000 quid on what I have com- bined this season from crops which could have been har vested no other way."
Ten years ago we had a total of fewer than 5,000 combina harvesters, and those were only the biggest forms, Now we have close on 40,000.
ont
The number of tractors has doubled in the same period.
: Industry has certainly paid ita debt for the 225,000 workers it has drawn from the land sinco the-war.
This morning, he tells me, it is going to be helpful if we get to know something about archaeology, and he urges me to make notes.
*For an Englishman who has always belleved it is foolish 10 stand up if you can sit down or to sit down if you can lie down it is all too demanding. I switch off and go back to bed.
But 125,000 New Yorkers lay switched on.
And they will tune in agein n1 0.30 .. the next day and every day for months-except Saturdays when they can have alle in. For then the TV pro- fessor does not Inunch into his talk until 7am.
OBSESSION
The Sunrise Semester is per- haps the most startling aspect of an urge which today obscases Americans do anything with their away-from-the-office hours rather than do nothing.
Even if it means getting up while dawn is still pale over the rooftops.
Or staying up snill mid- night to apply themselves lo TV's Midnight College, which zors on until 3 a.m. and has ite pupils #wolting at their books even longer into the night. No one seems quite sure just what bug it is that has got into people here. But anyone who has the time to stop and think
agrees ht it has become almost a sin simply' to sit and think-still worse just to sit. The result is that doctors say they rarely see a patient theso days who is suffering from over- work. But they do get any number who are being driven to exhaustion by their cnxiety to keep up with the commitments of what they call their leisure.
INCREDIBLE
the course."
a lecture
at 6.30 a.m.?
by ARTHUR BRITTENDEN
•
holiday to get oder holiday?"
The
his
answer presumably is! He goes back to toatching his 6.30 a.m. TV.
Or he may be like one con- teriont on a quiz programme who WAS asked how ho filled in his spare time (tho
with
which this question is put indientes its grip on the American mind).
This man answered that Alx nights a week were led by welfare work and study groups.
For though it says little of who spends the odd hour on a regularity their mental prowess it marks Saturday afternoon making a physical stamina to "complete kitchen shell.
For how could one compare For those who still think his pottering with the industry
the
rnale American
who 6.30 a.m. is a time to be asleep, of but would not like to risk the tuches home to assemble his organ in kit form, feeling of guilt that would go "electronic with spending an evening at home doing nothing in parti- cular, an acredible range of study courses is available.
On my desit now is a page book of subjects which says. New York University, bout 13,000 ordinary people- distinct from its full-Ume students-will be taking this autumn.
These subjects range from such unrelaxing topics as "The ·
Back- Social and Intellectuali ground to Modern Literature" la "The Face of the Growd; an in- troduction to Applied Psycho- analysis”
IMPOSSIBLE
But not only are there these Americans who crave to devole their spare time to improving pursuits old on for them by official bodies.
Still more organise study groups antong themselves.
The other day my wife rang up an American woman friend to suggest they meet for lunch.
The reply was that this would be impossible as, at 1.30 pm. she way due to join 19 offer hrusewives who gathered in one of their homes every fortnight to thrash out The History of United States Transport,
It
The TV tuition sessions, for example, are followed by many people with a diligence that can lead them to a university credit award--although few of them are likely ever to use their diplomas for professional profit.
To all for the qualifying exam-after four months Di Its uitle "cock crow" vigilance in frout of their screens--they pay more than £30.
Others pay £10 to go through an easier test. It doesn't allow them to tack any letters to the end of their name, but they da get a certificate which wins them social cache when they show it to the neighbours.
would be particularly inappropriate for her to miss being there on this day, the woman explained. For the was due to road out a paper-over sandwiches, cakes, and coffee.
The day-to-day Working of Grand Central
Station
And this is a young und ut tractive wife with A large heme and two children to look after.
any diferent diapasons, jules, reeds, strings, and percussions"? Or accepts the suggestion of one of the big book clubs thinl he se ade his reading to put together
electronic-brain
nn
construction set costing £47
Asked what he did with tho seventh night, he hastened to say, as if tearful it might be thought he sat at home with a book: "I go to a' fymutgiven for a work-out.”
TYPICAL. WEEK
A. serious investigation of a More than 125 permutations typleal week for an American are Usled on what he can middle-class family has shown make with the kit—a burglar that this is how its away-from- alarma, 2.4 automatio oll work hours are often spent:- furnace circulit, or sa intelll- gence tester.
The bait which is held out to tempi him to buy: "A wonderful. experience to share on a father and son project."
Reports of people who are bullding their own homes are commonplace.
the
Whole familles join in work. And they are felt to be logging if they do not move in within a year of digging the foundations.
POPULAR DEAL One of the top-sale news- papers here devoted a large part of a page to telling its conders Low to build an air raid shelter. cust: £428.
It was described as protection against radiation fall-out, but not blast, in face of a nuclear
weapons attack,
the
The closing, note in article: " enough people build fall-out shelters and survive the ftrat two weeks something will be worked out for the sur- vivors."
MONDAY: Husband and wiło go to an adult tuition class,
TUESDAY: Husband goes to a bowling club.
WEDNESDAY:
Wite goes to help out at her locdi hospital. THURSDAY: Couple go to doticing lessons,
FRIDAY: They collect money for charities 'or de "worthy work.
For there is scarcely a town in the United States which does not have what it paradoxically calls an "organised recreation programme"
for its citizens, From this comes the story of a housewife who found it so gruelling keeping up with com- mitice work, selling and buying tickets, joining clubs and help- ing with church work that sha threw it all over for a part- time job In a shop.
Her explanation: "I just had to have some time to myself."
THE REASON?
A noted American economist, writing recently on the "Frantic urge always to be doing..some- thing," said:
Even when he goes on holiday the American still displays this "People do, not so much what compulsion not to let anyone their innermost selves might Imagine he might and pleasure lead them to do, as what cont- in inertia.
formity requires in order to-rige One of the most popular deals in the social and economie Just how la being sold by an scale.” uirline for £72. With ticket It could of course be added in his pockel, the holidaymaker that whatever Americans choose sets out from New York-to to do with their spare time is a visit Puerto Rico, the Domial-matter for them and no one can Republic. Halli, Jamaica, cle. uba, and Miami.
Alongside this cult Is marching n great "do-it-yourself” boom, Its monifestations put into the Onc can't help naking: Stone Age class the Englishman "What dari he do then for a
....
I can only envy them their energy and say: "It's wearing me out just to watch them."
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