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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1959.
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
ABOVE: A tan-tocand earthquako rocked the Channel island of Jorsoy recently, shoking houses and racking the radio signallars, of Fort Regent "like a ship at sea." But it fallod to stop islanders and holiday- makers from going whead with their annual cor- nival and battle of flowers. Pictura shows: The wide-eye camera is there as the carnival's winning tableau - 01 entry from San Remo called The Happy Gor- donors arrives in the island capital, St Helier.
RIGHT: From October, all privato residents and business firms of the country town of Norwich will hav a longer address-longer by the six characters (samples NOR 22K) of a ΠΟΥ postal code which marks · the experimental intro- duction of a new systom of mochanical sorting. Machines like the ono shown have been installed in the town's central post office; lettors are dropped on to a moving belt, which drops them one by one into a window watchod by an operator sitting of a keyboard. He "types" the code on to his board, and oach lettor in whisked away to the right pigeonhole.
NUFFIELD EXPORT
LEFT: Dazzling in their magnificent evening gowns, tho Queen Mother and Princess Margaret arrive at the Guildhall, London, to at!
tond an officers' dinner
to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Minden, in Wost- phalla, during the Seven Years' War.
ABOVE: Breaking fraa from yours of conser- vatism, the glant. British Motor Corporation is adopting Continental gimmicks in a new drive for Continental — and US-small-car markets with its now Morris. Picture shows one of the first of the now Morris, models on a car trans- porter bound for London docks and Denmark.
LEFT: Pointing caused a rift between 24-year-old Hussain El Shariffe (pictured), great-grand- son of the Mahdi whose disciple killed Gordon at Khartoum, and his fathor--but now paint- ing looks like bringing them together again. For Hussain's father, onetime Minister of Communications. In the Sudan, was annoyed when he was, sont down from Cambridge. for paying more attention to bizarra clothes and art than to his examinations. But he was forgiving enough to keep up his £10-a-wock allowance, and let him.go on to the.... Slade School of Art.
BELOW: Lady Attico the wife of Britain's post-war Labour Prime Minister Lord Cloment Attleo recently antaré tained to tea at London's Tea contre Mr and Mr (Jayne Mansfield) Hargitay and family.
ABOVE: The ploncer's widow horself was guest of honour at ceremonies recently to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Loula Bleriot's first-aver flight across the channel. Crowds, assembled to hear figures from the world of aviation paying him tribute at twin meetings at Calais, where he took off, and on the Dover eliffs where he landed. Picture shows Mme Bleriot speaking at the spot on the Daver cliffs where her husband landed. Let into: the soil is an aircraft-shaped memorial of the flight;
NANCY
AUNT, FRITZI ---MAY
I BUY SOME FIRECRACKERS. 7.
JULY
NO
PLEASE
NO
ABOVE: A little girl, her log`in plaster, sits in a wheel-chair (laft background) art Liverpool St. Station, London, and soos Prince Charles walking like his father-n. with his hands behind his back and Princou Anne, when they arrived from Sand- ringham, Norfolk, after their short holiday there.
By Ernie Bushmiller
I'M GLAD I MADE. A RECORDING
OF MY FIRECRACKERS
LAST. YEAR.
BANG
-POW
POW BANG POW
BAM
POW POW
BAM BANG
BAM BANG
ROWNTREE'S
AERO
THE BAY
MILK CHOCOLATE THAT'S DIFFERENT!