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THE CHINA MAIL,

TUESDAY, AUGUST

Trends In Modern Home-Building Increasing Termite Hazard

By DAVID L. BOWEN Associated Press Writer

I

One of the brightest spots in the i

American economy

record smashing

and other countries $7.00 per month. building beom which result-

News contributions, always wel

come

should be addressed to thee in nearly 20 billion dollars

Editor. Ennas communications and worth of new construction

advertisements to the Secretary.

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boyun during the first six

months of this year.

But there in another boom going on which "is not se pleasant. You might call it a rebuilding boom-rebuilding caused by the wasteful and destruction UNNECESAury wrought by termites.

Estimates

fermites

Northern limit of damage by Dry. wood Termiten

MWANAWALER SOURCE: US Dept, of Agile

Dots show relative hox- ord of Infestation -by Subterranean Termites.

Subterranean termitesfa

AP Newsfeatures

at

concrete foundation, shun light throughout their keeping all wood two feet life cycle except at the or more above the

"swarming" or level. In old houses where Estimates by industries annual

value mating time when they ac- termites already are concerned place the

be of property destroyed by quire wings and briefly take work, their activity can

the air. Before tim-halted by treating the soil 100 to nearly

the are around

house with million dollars a year. The hers begin to sug they If not prepaid a booking ree; US Department of Agricul- most easily noticed during chemicals. Termites must The narrow have access to moisture in Jure says infestations have the "awarm."

to tunnels they build when the ground

live. If beenme more common with general adoption of central forced to move across a non-poison can be placed in their reach path, they can be ex- heating plants, which keep wooden surface to

feed terminated. basements warm and result beams upon which to les your feet deserve- by fully-in longer periods of termite may also be observed,

of 50 cent in chargod.

DIL

WANTED KNOWN

SCHOLL'S Fout Cushfurt Ner- Vice, Telephone Home (Alezzanine) Honghong provides the expert atten.

qualed Chirojalist,

de-

DON'T invite mosquito-peravcution pariment says, coupled with

ather changes in practices

- "Dump treet Repellent. Prota stores Lending dispensaries and Agutils, John 1 Hutchison & Lil

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FOR SALE

ILLUSTRATED

DIRECTIONS adjustment of Hong Kong Standar Life Jacket (for

Shipping

pardes). 50 cents per copy able at C. M. Poal,"

Coin- "Oletakan

1pt

AUTTAAUR

tance.

und

use

22

the

Popular

Another method of con-

construction. wood in new The treatment turns the

1955.

Regiment Junk Bargain Cures By Diviners'

Celebrates 200th Anniversary

Tho

York, Aug. 15 Queda Mother, AD Colonal-in-Chief, attended the calebrations at York today of the King's Own Yorkshire

May Be A

Van Gogh

Oslo, Aug. 1,

Denounced

Bonn, Aug. 1

West German firms who have been carrying

A Norwegian businessman on a profitable business selling an electrical Light Infantry--the “KÖYLI," | who recently bought a contraption which is claimed to prevent illnesses She was greeted by Lieutenant-painting for 25 shillings in

General Sir Harold Redman, a Copenhagen junk shop is by neutralising the effect of earth rays on the body their Commander-in-Chief, now wondering whether he have suffered something of a setback as the result who is Governor of Gibraltar. has stumbled on a genuine of a survey carried out by a group of West German

ceremonies included the Van Gogh, the newspaper, scientists. Inying up in the Regimental Verdens Gang, reported.

The scientists, most of them connected with Chapel at York Minster of the

The

former Third Battalion,

:

colours, of the Regiment's The man, Arvid Herrem of Bonn University Institute of Forensic Medicine, never imaginedit carried out their own tests with the appliances and All members of the Regiment could be a genuino Van Gogh

carried white caps and on their

Stavanger,

roses in their when he bargained for the came to the conclusion that there was no scientific uniforms picture and beat the price down evidence to support the belief of earth rays and today for the anniversary of from 40 to 24 kroner. But afted therefore nothing miraculous in the apparatus

oflex

ودا

גנת

the

of Minden Battle

on washing it at home, he found

the fornoust signature used. August 1 in 1759, four years that after their establishment, when "Vincent" and other indications,

When some Went the troops plucked flowers and such as the type of canvas used,

Germans told the station master that the they do not call before going into which make if possible that the fall lil, wore them

a office Was affected uction-Reuter.

doctor, picture might be genuine,

They send for a water"irritation belt" of "earth rays." diviner instead, He examines The meno of the picture is them with his, divining rod, This, he told them, was Saint Remy wharo Van Gogh passing it slowly over their serious danger to all employed painted and it includes the bodies. By the way it forks he in the office. One or other of typleak Cypress trees and corn claims that he can discover the them would certainly be ill, fields of the Van Gogh style.

affected organs,

pomibly seriously.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 By Air Thalland. India, Pakistan, Great Britain and Europe, $ p.m.

Philippines. 8 p.m.

Korea, & P.M.

awall, U.S.Ä. 8 p.m. Japan, 6 p.m.

Middle East, Africa, 0 p.m. Formosa, Okinawa, 6 p.m. Canada, 6 p.m.

by Burface Japan.

Hawal, U.S.A.. Central and South America, 4 p.m.

Macao, 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3 By Air Thailand. Malaya, North Borner, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Noon,

Indo-China, & p.m. Formosa. U.0.A.. 9 p.m.

activity. This fact, the

Non-subterranean ter- remain hidden buikling mites also

of except for

dispersal trol becoming increasingly materials has resulted in fights which inaugurate popular is the use of treated termites becoming a probleme w eolonies. However, where formerly these insects often push out

not for they were of impor- from their chambers inside wood into a poison without the wood sawdustlike affecting its other charac- There are two classes of material which makes detecteristics. REMOVAL PERMIT Forms for Duty termites operating in the tion easy. Paid fibods, 10 cerita rach at 36.

United States, subterranean M. Part.

The main principle

termites East. inagainst drywood and non-subterranean. The first live in colonies under-standard subterranean ter- include chemical treatment, Pun

maintain mite control is to set up a protection with paint, use ground and must

wood of termite-resistant woods, stock now their contact with the moist barrier between the $3 From South Chi│earth

their in a house and the earth and screening of ventilation In new con-openings to keep flying ter- Salisbury lives. They account for the around it.

lion's share of damage.struction the most efficient mites front gating access to SOMETHING EXCLUSIVE, Collee-There are several varieties way is to place the house un bare wood. tora batheis of assorted Blac From 20 cents per pocket upwards, of

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NOTICE TO

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CONSIGNEES

Preventive measurев

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

is

IT WORKED! SHE

COULDN'T WAIT

Sallsbury their ability to live in- definitely above ground. The, most numerous variety the dry wood termite, which has been found in almost

kind

wooden every

of material from planos to tele-

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To ADVERTISERS

Common

Termites are found throughout the tropical and

parta temperate

of the world. As the accompanying subter- map shows, the ranean kind is common the throughout most of castern half of the United States and along the Pacific coast. They are abundant fron Massachusetts south along the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico, in the Ohio River Valley, in the Mis- southern part of the souri and Mississippi River Valleys, and in southern California.

SUNDAY POST-HERALD Врасо for commercial Advertising

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Headaches (BAYER

Toothaches Colds

are quickly overcome by,

CAFASPIN

MESSAGERIES

are

Drywood termites found in Narrow strip along the Atlantic coast from Cape Henry, Va., to the Florida Keys and west- ward along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to the, Pacific const us far as northern California.

Among the conditions tending to increase termite damage are: the popularity of ranch-style houses built low to the ground, which makes it easier for the in- sects to gain access to the wood: the use of lumber made from young second- growth trees containing a large amount of supwood:] the fact that more houses are being built in outlying areas on sites cleared out of woodland, the termite's natural home

MARITIMES

P.O. Box 33 Queen's Building: Tel: 26631

FAST PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE

"CAMBODGE” "LAOS"

sailing Aug. 18th salling Sept. 10th.

FAST FREIGHT SERVICE

lling Aug 16th

TO GET RID OF US!

NARDA, WHAT DID YOU TELL

ALEENA ABOUT ME?

FERDINAND

NANCY

OH, NANCY

JOHNNY HAZARD

DON'T ASK ANY QUESTIONS JUST HOP OUT AND DO ABI SAY!

I TOLD HER YOU WERE THE WORST-TEMPERED, MEANEST--Oh, I CAN'T REPEAT IT.

DON'T. MAYBE

Thallard India, Pakistan, Middle

Great Britain and Europe.

Japan, 6 p.m.

By Aurface -

Thailand, noon.

Indo-China, noon,

Mr Herrem told the paper that if the painting was genuine, he would sell it to the highest bidder.

and

REFUSED

4

BETTER THAN CURE Other dowsers believe that

The station master called s prevention, is better than cure.

that that nearly

all staff together. All saidi They say

are caused by "earth they felt well. So the station nesses But he liked the picture, he rays" which emanate from un- master refused the offer of the aald.

would not minderground and net upon the dowser to instal a "neutraliser,"

The dowser

then having it on his wall even if body.

contacted genuine.Chine They offer

arens the station. master's superior affected by rays and to remove officer, told him of the "earth thair effcot by means of rays" he had found, and again "neutralisers" or "protective ap- suggested that "neutraliser'

should be fitted. He pointed out have that anyone who worked in

it

were not Mail Special.

MAYOR FINED

paratus."

to And

formed intò an electrical

A number of Arms been selling remedial apparatus, the station should become ser- I the authorities could Toronto, Aug. 1.

which usually consists of a lously The Mayor of Lethbridge,umber of colls and resistances not say that they had not been

cir, warned. Alberta, was Aned a dollar at a cult. Hermann Goering had one The Tallway authorities TC- loent court for jay-walking fitted in his home, Karinhall, buffed the man. but in many he crossed a street for his and Rudolf Hess believed in cases, according to the report, morning cup of coffee,China them too. Mail Special.

Bonn, Aug. 1. Tourists from all countries may be able to visit the Soviet

Union this autuma,

the

уста

the advice of auch "dowscrn" is Great weight of scientific heeded, opinie ofscounted

In one instance a property the claims of dowsers, both in company on the demand of their water

In the tenants had the floor of a block divining and diagnosis of Unesses.

As for

of flats covered with lead short- "earth rays," the vast majority lug to ward off, "earth rays"

any they do not which a dowser claimed West of scientists

present. cxist

This viewpoint has now been

The report describes expert- confirmed by the Bonn's scien-ments made to test the claims tisls,

to their re-

In one test 75 dowsers were

underground streams. Their ro- sults when collated statistically

German rows agency DPA re- ported today.

of dowsers,

Preparations for the tourist

In a foreword China, People's Republic, 9.30 a.m. traffic were already underway

at the Soviet Foreign and In- port, Professor H. Elbel, direc-naked to find belts of rays or

Traveltor of the Institute, gives an terior Ministries, the agency Intourist, and Soviet air example of how some diviners Ho says that a well- lines and railways, the news operate.

went uninvited reported.Chine Mell known diviner agency

to a small railway station and

Macao, P.m.

Hurns. India. 3 p.m. Canada, 3 p.m.

Malaya. West Austratio Fremantle, 4.p.m. Macho, 8 pm,

THERE THEY GO!

DIDN'T YOU CHANGE

IT'S ALL

TRUE.

YOUR MIND SUDDENLY, ALEENA?

CAN I BORROW YOUR SMELLING

SALTS ?

YES, MASTER

WE. HEAR AND WE

OBEY!

HERE YOU ARE

SURE

THANKS

GET, DOWN TO THE EDGE OF AN THE LAKE AND WAIT THERE

I'LL JOIN YOU IN A FEW MINUTES. Pony (F I'M LUCKY! V

P/P via

Speciai.

By Leo Falk and Phil Davis

YES,AND IN

THE NICK OF TIMES I HAD

A NARROW

ESCAPE.

WHAT THAT GIRL TOLD ME ABOUT

√ HIMA IMAGINE IF I'D MARRIED

HIM? HE THINKS WOMEN

TALK TOO MUCHS

‡ AND Blahblahblah-i

ARA

Hmmm.

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller ·

I ALWAYS FEEL FAINT. WHEN I'M GOING TO ASK A NEW GIRL FOR A DATE

SNIFF

By Frank Robbins

THERE GOES. THE GENERAL RIGHT ON JOHNNY'S TAILI NOT: MUCH OF A LILAD SAN | GURE HOPE HÁZ:19 -0 THINKING #TRAIGHT/

YES, SNAP WHE IS A BRAVE MAN... BOʻ BRAVE AND 60 WONDERFUL/

EVEN ́MAGICIANS

Can't Carlsberg

BERD

Be healthy

...wealthy and wise

Libby's

BUY

FROZEN FOODS

BLACK MAGIC

ASSORTED

CHOCOLATES

this situatio

calls for

Can

Miguel

were found to be no more cor

Tect than an equivalent number of puro guesses would have

been.

To test the claime of some dowsers. that they could din- gnoso illnesses by *means of their divining rod two dowsers made separato "examinations" of 10 sick cows. Their diagnoses were so different, said the re- "they either could port, that not be reconciled at all or only to a very small extent."

The dowsers repeated the test on eight more cows, which un- known to them, were in good health or nearly so. Not only were their diagnoses again dif- ferent and they reported that the cows were suffering from various illnesses.

DIFFERED AGAIN Again, without' the dowsers' knowledge, Ave cows ware brought in

for a second time. This time the diagnoses differed from the first fine.

The scientists' conclusion was that the movement of divining Tods, was due to a number of factors. They included ''muscle tremor caused by the tension placed on the arms by the subconscious twisted rod used, desire on the part of the dow sers, to find something." and relexes caused by certain things which may be seen, heard or smelled by the dowsers dur- ing their frivestigations,

E' cases. ACID

the report

there might be another factor-fraud.

יו

The report proposed

that "neutralisers" of "earth rays" should be made subject to an existing law restricting the sale of medical apparatus. Up to now "neutralisers" could not be bermed under this Law, as their makers did not claim to cure illnesses but only to prevent

them:

+

The report also proposed that there should be some restriction on' dowsons whb, it said, “haye' caused

considerable economic

losses to the/country by their often useless advice to oll and water prospecting firms-China Mail Special

GOA-BOUND

VESSELS

BOYCOTTED

Bombay, Aug.

THO Olha Port Workers Union has, decided to bøyeoli all. shion bound for the Portuguese territory at dos according to reporta reaching here to buryports

Okha,"a", major oil park ón India's

„wrest 'cbash,... 18 an' im- portent fusiling senden för most

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