1954-07-10 — Page 51

A HIGHWAY TO RICHES

By YORKE HENDERSON

THEY used to enll it the “Land of No

TRonds."

Beyond the const settlements, hucked oul of the fever jungles by 17th-century pirates, British Honduras wis jungle and mountain. Dense, dangerous, all but im- penetrable.

For a long time men could only guess. at the natural treasures the forests hid from them. There was mahogany, they knew. The pirates found mahogany- Molling more profitable than pillaging Spain's treasure ships.

There were tropical fruits the rest of the world wanted. Maybe even valuable minerals.

A handful of settlements cropped up In the interior. But British Hondurns was still largely a land of mystery.

Buil.

I only we bail roads, the dreamers

IF ONLY

In torrid El Cayo, the capital Belize

- names after a Seulfish pirnte...meant

A

little as if it was on the other side of The Atlantic,

If you wanted to travel between thent there was the river steamer.

you

couldn't afford that, you went by canoe,

He was costly. ubenion table,

and phinfully new

ky is t has rend dietopen tugund

The

Even after he Sevnd World War the outlay was ergerl only by jutale tracks Then the twentieth nuntiary caught up

British Honduras, In 1950 voxbeers pusher 4 i through the Jungle to link Belize

El Cuyo,

was

Untappxxi. however freisure beve -iho gre fertile that stretchett inlund valley

van Stann Creek on the coast, Thus valley, such in fruit, was linked by sady a flimsy rail line

to Stor Crvk Otherwise Stan Creek was rotateti except by mea.

at do

Colonied engineers looked their maps arse decided to sorpething about it. They noted that a axud built far enough up the valley beyond Stann Creek would link eventually with the Belize-El Cayo rond" and co- plote chaits joining the eudony's musin towns

wis

Kivenl

Odelal petonission. und the work alacter. Bul for such and, one that could arkan 'the baghuing of prosperity, the right name had to be found. The name they chose would hardly be bettered Hamuning Hird Highway.

14.

The "Land of No Ronds" was

world's have The

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aomed avute

TOUGH WORK

In the nudle of nn rennomic depressperta

Withre

Wak began. starting.

Hrundung Bird Highway began I became an retior project.

to justify

uncmployment

Men who would otherwise have been workless were pushing the Jungle back. willa the bare Junds.

It was tough. After nearly two years the earthworks hoi gone only nine miles. Twenty- three miles of add he still 10 be built with 140 culverts and eighteen br

bridges, two of them over 250 feet span.

Torrential raien

made

the

going harder. British Honduras

"Lot of good us trying to teach children that sport's the thing.”

NOW... comes proof that the future was foretold...when-

LOOK..

THE 'SPIRIT'

MAN CAME

TO LIFE..!

in the old overcoat pocket,' said the vision of his dead father to the disinherited one

ARMY

THE ILLUSTRATION IN HOFFNUNG

UP

USE

STEPS OF OF AIR

By James Forrest

TH

THE British Army's plan

A

with

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ELVSAGE

London Express Borvico

The Uncanny

a

injury, also seems to have physical explanation, Research on highspeed flying has shown that the body can Atand for

has

hent Liputa

more imagined.

been

A scientist has endured 151⁄2 minutes in a cabinet with an air temperature above the boll- ing poins of water. The air three-quarters of an inch from

โม hose

at 220deg. F..

but the skin of his gistered only 119deg. F.

nose

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In

LMOST all claims to watched

"black have predicted search-light"un infra-red spite of all the work of future events Army equipment which the psychologists and brain through some un would enable them to be surgeons little n konwn about

without canny "sixth sense" faculty seen

interfering how the mind works. Much of the darkness they prove to be false or can be with

the missing information inay accounted for

coln- claim is essential for 18

come from inquiry- SUC-

into the cidence. Yet there are cess.

“uncanny." some corroborated instances which seem to defy logical explanation,

Consider this

experience of Dr S. G. Soal, a London inves- University don who tigated

far-fetched the claims of a woman medium.

While

the in a trance medium said she was in touch with a dead friend of

Soul's called Dr

Gordon she Davis, a name which had correctly divined. She told Dr Soal certain things about his past friendship with the man which fitted.

a

But there arc cases of in- formation seemingly revealed in dreams by the dead. The authenticated វ៉ន the best

Chafin Will ense:-

The will of a wealthy Ameri- can left all the family properly to one of four sons. Four years after this will had been carried

of out one

the other

Bons dreamed that his father told

When paper

him to look in an old overcoat pocket for

wili. a later the

R coat was found, referring to a certain page in the family Bible was stitched Inside it. When the Bible was

opened Д second will was found, leaving the property in equal shares.

CHAPMAN PINCHER

ALTOSS

Then at a later sitting It was upheld in court." she described in detail

While still sceptical about house where Davis was sup- TELEPATHY-the transfer of thought messages posed

have to

Dr space-- This de- lived.

Soat

repeated ex These large aircraft have been

periments 'carried because they scription meant to make increased use ordered not only

Dr J. B. can do some jobs which could nothing to Soal,

out by Amerien continent. When of air lifts' for future only be performed slowly and but he kept a

Rhine In America. road-clearing tracters broke troop movemente is now with dimculty by surface

written record of transport, but also because in on foot,

And all The

Recently an order was placed many cases movement is cheaper it.

by air. "Keep the for a new countants pleaded;

down." Reluctantly orders for other casts

has the highest rainfall rule on

down, spare, had to be brought taking firm shape.

Tinte the de-

than

jet transport

and

enable

Three years Inter Sonl

aircraft were In particular, the 'cannonball' trooping service

Will

was

rounds off his Investigation Into the world beyond our five senses.

engineers reduced speciilentions increased. Further aircraft types Great Britain to keep a mobile learned that Davis was still for read works and cut the size are being studied,

And того British nircraft strategic reserve ready to fly at alive in Southend and visit of bridges.

without fed him there: ever before are ce to trouble-spots,

The house But Humming Bird Highway Arms

89 went ahead. And by the middle working on designs specifically the expense of men in the pipe-

almost line of the slow troopship.

exactly In requirements of 1953, nithenigh nuch work,

mind.

There may also be increased described by the medium,

Army by the

of bush even to detalls of pictures will Although it

be

Some Uso

transports, which take small and ornaments. 1:ansports are In service. It is now possible to groups of infantry mon-per-

especially on bridges, had still

to be done, lorries could drive the whole distance of the

with

Army

2.

Aud. I time before big

Now Humming Bird Tilgny foresee the day when a squadron of small grass fields right up on the house when the medium haps only a section-in and out Yet Davis had not owned is complete. And the engineers have already stated planning of high-speed transport aircraft the front line if necessary. how they can extend it down can fly more than a thousand the coast from Stann Creek, men to a distant battlefeld in then swing it inland to tap a matter of hours. more of the rich interior.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

described it, and at that time the arrangement of dif- The future pattern of opera- The Scottish Aviation Pioneer the furnishings was tion is expected to be along the is now being used for this work feront in the house where following lines:

in Malaya; and de Havilland he was then living, First, a very fast 'cannonball' Beaver, hundreds of which have service which will move large been bought by the American numbers

of urgently needed Air Force and used in Korea, is troops or

very available In Britain, equipament quickly to trouble spots. will be done by the 1,000.

This

Vickers

Rhine startling

claimed

$100 Ces

when he turned over the cards in a special pack while person in another building guessed the order in which the cards appeared.

&

un- full Later,

Sool's experiments were but he kept successful

records of the resulte, when amblysing them again, he was astonished to find that one

guessing the card immediately of the people who had acted as "receiver"", had been correctly ahead of the one the "trans- mitter" was looking at..

a

He was forecasting, the card which had not yet been turned over and so was seeing the future.

some unaccountable By

Again, some people who seem means the woman had cor to be specially gifted consistent- rectly forecast a future ectly make a much higher, num- Finally, for the distant future up in fantastic detail.

ber of correct guesses than can there is the helicopter. The

be -accounted for by chance Army's interest in helicopters It is significant that when they "will" dico to fall

Increased greatly been following a high-level study of though the woman believed with a certain number upper- most. They do this even weapons she was in communication when the dice are thrown Secondly, fleet of much the impact of atomic

by alower, *heavy-lift" propeller on the whole tactics and strate- with a spirit, Davis was machine. driven transports designed for gles of armies, It

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No scientific investigator investigation

The first properly planned and supplies by parachute or to wheeled vehicles which accom

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DIVINING @cems to have shown vanced forward airfields where very vulnerable to atomic attack. I have questioned believes there is nothing "psychic" grass is the only surface on the The Army tins therefore made that any medium can com- about It. Funway. This will be

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The Army's intention is to in people can be materialised and boreholes were sunk, to troduce helicopters to the at seances. The claim to test their findings, the scleratite mum extent because make spirits visible has easily beat the men and women folt. that, thees, flying" “Jeeps" and

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