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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1954.

Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World

America Spends Billions To SIDE GLANCES Solve Her Traffic Problems

New York.

American cities are locked in a monumental traffic jam and it is going to cost billions of dollars to untangle it.

A staggering sum already has been spent on expresswdys and parkways, underpasses and over- pastes, new bridges and viaducts, and municipal parking lots, But city streets are still choked with com. Finding a parking place is etf a difficult proposition in the business district of most American cities.

A survey of 20 major cities Indicates that traffic officials ore frantically trying tr> keep up with the demand for more and more parking space and feder and smoother traffic arteries. But almol everywhere. erties are running behind.

Parking Meters

the

Only one city-Indianapa!l« reported any kind of satisfac- tion about the traffe problem. There, the ily

keuf en with 11 Krowth 1 Invoking sin-Why trume on erginin streets by use of parkling narders, by bedding private and publié

lots parkbg

the demond

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** othre metropolitan arend, there' or trac bottle- myks That

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eliminated by simple one-way atroots and such seemingly simple formulao as adopted by Inutenapolis, Motorista

lice small creep through DOWN OWN

Boston. Allania adenitu Ite traffle problem is bad and growing Log Angelca and Plusburgh describe their dilem-

"acute,"

Philadelphin wants to get rid of its trolleys, but then what wil happen to the people who ride trolleys?

Hudson

WOITIC,

MA

an

Almost every city has a full- Une traffic engineer trying to untangle the sport and keep it from getting worse. The colu- tions the engineers come up with are varied. cost money.

"Belt"

Most of them

Highway

Chicago has spent $27,500,000 for downtown parking facilities New In the past two years. York's trame commissioner is esking for $10,000,000 next year

city River Tunnel | for

and parking lots Karoges Plusburgh is spending New York built the Lincoln | $200,000,000 on expressways, Tunnel under the Hudson River bridges and other projects, and 17 years ago

Js to make it easier Buston building a "bek?"

one

The problem is

of 100

many core

not and

enough Into two streets but i falis

for curs to get into Manhattan. | highway encircling the city at a Now #parking lot la being

cont of more than $400,000,000. built never the New Jersey en- trance to try to get motorists to stay out of Manhattan.

The traffic Pream 80 per cent since 1941 in Washington, D.C, a city aut ut carefully 150 years ago by French engineer who had

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volume has in-

trever heard of a one-way street and expected an eventual popu- lation of 100,000. Washington & could noi le population now is more Than

800,000.

How Students

Have Changed

Jowa Chy.

Milwaukee rejoiced last year when major league baseball moved to town, but now it is wondering what to do about the fact that the baseball stadium drawn even more сага

the to meal congested part of the town. Mr Howard F. Ilgner. Mil- waukee trame engineer, put his city's problem in simple terms;

principal Nel - how to keep trofle moving and where to put care when they United Press,

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By Galbraith Now You Can

12-18

T. M. Pest. 35. 6. PIL ON.

"How much are those little gold stars the teachers use?”

More Than 30,000 Letters

For Santa Claus

Already

Copenhagen.

Aultar John Da Pearos mys 11 ML. y' coflege students are

some plastic scissors and some magic bubbles, some franz es" than they "much hars

"Dear Father Christmas, please send me a space suit, if you can,

were in his days.

attle palities and contemporary leone.

the same ts in other cities. There are just too many vehicles

for the streets we have."

54 Million Vehicles

and

the the

Dos Puros, who altended Harvard from 1016 to 1919, said undergraduates ALDY TOW lovel-les, ded. but

In 1846, 31,035,000 cars towarda

trucks were registered in United States. This year the conten

He told University of Town registration stood at 54,493,000.

car Industry expects to rudi nee

The Chut his own thinking

produce 5,800,000 new cars and has "made a 180-degree change.

Communism

rucks next year. About 3,000,- bail things we 000 old vehicles will be wrecked

He called

et danger

or

Get Food Dehydrofrozen

Washington. Agriculture Department scientists last week praised B now food

processing method called ‘dehydro freezing."

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They said the process, deve- loped at the Western regional research laboratory, Albany, California, combined the space and weight economics of dehy- dration with convenience and freshness of freezing to save

pace,

money weight,

and flavour."

The Department's monthly "Agricultural Research" maga- zine said ples made with dehy- chofrozen apples are "delicious."

HOW IT WORKS

It said the flavour of apricot pics made from dehydrofrozen fruit is "better in baking tests than that of ples minde

from frozen, dried or canned fruit." It said preserves from dehydro- frozen apricots are excellent,

Under the process, foods are dried to about half their original weight and volume and then

For frozen.

For simple reconstitu tion, they can either be cooked directly or soaked in water.

The report pointed out that to rup. ordinary freezing tends turo cellular structure in foods

reason many fruits and "break down some- vegetables

the

what after freezing and thaw- ing." It said cells that have been partially dehydrated are no! ruptured Press.

of

20

easily, United

Montreal, "Merchandise Bulletin,"

The sweets and two tins of tomato soup for Puss-Puss. Lots of love for Nigel Woodburn. P. S. I am six years old, Puss is two."

This is a typical example of the his letter by promising to be a thousands of letters posted these; good boy, days in British and American

Evidently the children have letterboxes addressed to Santano doubt about Santa's existence Seymour Claus, Snow House, Greenland, at all. Little Marle Denmark.

of Belfast even belleves

more In him than in her father, when The majority come from Bri- he puts on his white beard-

daddy tells me he is Santa

but I

junked according to intain. Some of the letters' carry, as I heard you tak

des.ce and said it is "puzzling why some people are stat-dustry estimates, and the result tracted to Ifter Its choo wil be a gain of more than take in to many parts of the 2,000,000 in the mumber of cara world." United Press

in operation,

JOY JEAN PATOU

ZANI

JOY

The World's Costliest Perfume

the correct fourpence foreign postage, but most of them less,

and quite a number simply ing off in

carry mini-stamps from "Christmas Postman Set"

sunshine

I know he is only

helicopter on our roof last

year in

Malta. We had no chimneys for

Six-year-old John Weeds of you to come down.......“ London Kave the world an example of how to cut expen- sive postage accounts by posting his letter to Santa Claus with ja stanu of his own production, sently ornated with a drawing of Queen Elizabeth II wearing a multi-pointed crown.

Toys and Books? Something Kor something. Tiny Scotsman John McGinley

to

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writes "Dear Santa, I and my brother Brian are asking God to make all the sick children web Please may wo then have some toys and books for Christmas? Cheorie." Nevertheless all letters

Does Santa buy his toys in

does he reach their

a Co-op mysterious

Marks & Spencer storer Peany destination unfailingly, and the

Hosier Postmaster General evidently

from Leatherhead thinks "To the Co-op I competes with Father Christmas the Co-op...

saw a nice desk with 0 utt up in gentleneat.

top and a pot for ink. Please can I have one? I will leave you a flork of hot tea Christmas Eve."

use

on

Whether the boys' and giris letters are addressed to Santa Claus In Snowland, Toyland, Fairyland, Greenland, Iceland, A well-meaning Mummy in or Lepland, they all arrive

Glasgow simply gives a business the same Copenhagen address: like appeal to Santa: "Father The Danish Tourist Association Christmas, Greenland. Dear Sir, whose staff in co-operation with will you please send to the fol- dozens of volunteer "Father lowing children ..:(names)... Chrislmeses" work over-time till ¦ Yours Faithfully Mrs Kow." Christmas eve in order to answer Master

Gillian Arscott of the children's calls.

Worthing is a sensible Daddy... This year the steady flow of "Daddy said that you are not so

to Santa

Claus has well off this year, and I met much this expect too with 30,000 letters so far. Every year.... year the Government sets off a ivo cypher

icitcas

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Replies Sent

richly decorated with Christ-

mar trees.

A

Valerie Billota of London, is

thoughtful

She little girl: finished her letter with X X X X (kisan X

Kisses) to Banta Claus and (more kisses) for

Reindeer.

concern for Thou- from Santa Claus, & fairy talo Rudolph is universal.

In reply each child receives a

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This

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All kinds of toys are listed in cute, clumsy letters, but this your lots of children scom mare martial than before in their Christmas wishes.

Mr Megens Litchenburg, chief of the Tourist. Association, sald for that the funds set aside

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Almost a record was set by seven-year-old Raymond Clark. Santa of London who listed as his ot foremost wishes; "A tank that shoots smoke, a belt with two holsters and two guns, hand cuffs with a key, a gun with dummy bulleta

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