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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26,
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The
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World
WHY THEY From Southwell: From New York: riblend Teaching
GET
TOO FAT!
Chicago,
over-
Americans Ket weight because housewives buy too much food at onej time, nutritionist anid.
"OvereatB as a result uf overbuying of food has become emon," wald Dr William Kalb, Chairman of the New Jersey Nutrition Cornett,
But Dr Kalb said weight re- dicing classes also showed over- wwwight can result from chable faclors
Who parenta
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"Lot Babies Cry In Church."
Husbands Are Ter-
Their Wives How То Drive, A Psychologist Says.
From Chicago: Promoting Pap From Mont Louis: 4 French Scient-
Helping In The Fight *Against Cantor.
ist is Working On A Fantastic Now Source Of Power.
THE MAN WHO TAMED THE SUN
Gives The World A Fantastic New Source Of Power
and in bad weather as well as when the sun is stuning. The sun's energy, there for the
virtually Making, is
inex- haustible. Its potential power has been likened to that of gigantic hydrogen bomb con- Tully exploding.
Mont-Louis, French)
Pyrenees.
M. French Weir A
scientist, Felix Trombe, is pushing nhead with the task of harnessing a new power which he thinks will maker atomic energy out-of-late
Soni "hypetentical, belittling and ton demanding contributed in large CURTAI the_cbesky," he said. Their victins turn to overeating na Di "outward manifestation of Bood strength."
More Than It Needs
But he told the annual KOTA- vention of the American College of Gastroenterology thut he attaches more blame fo the American family's more than it needs.
coting
"The idea of shopping for whale week is a good one, but
weckt's
to consume the
pur-
Be
the energy of the sun.
is already using the sun's rays to melt minerals in temperatures of 3,000 A degrees Centigrade and
also, paradoxically,
to
work a domestic refrigera- tor.
chusus in one or more days "A steel rod held in his "aolar
not so good," he said.
"One now shops with a car. which Boeing to be gotting sinoller und smaller for the larger amount of foods that is laved in them. One refrigernkor in the house is not sufficient any more," Dr Kalb suld. "We must have
rofrigerator und freezer."--United Press.
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furnace" here will melt in 20 seconds.
This tail, 40-year-old scientist, French the working tor National Research Centre, also trying to find a way "bolling" the sun's energy that factories and refrigern-
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he succeeds in finding a way of harnessing and storing solar energy, M. Trombe will revolutionise industry. He be- lieves the industrial use of solar energy would transform the world, changing arid, sun- baked deserts Into thriving centres of industry surrounded by ly fertile fields. frrigated water drawn from depths beneath the sands by "gun
"
Has An Ideal Site m. Trumbe likes to feclart, with a smile, that today he is only carrying on practical experi- three centuries ments started
Archi- when before Christ medes, using mirrors to con-
centrate the sun's rays. set Are to the Roman fleet as {} Rutled into Syracuse harbour,
tors using it can work at nights work of harnessing the sun's
energy carried on in
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mountain fort here built by Marshal Sebastian Vauban, the 17th century French Anny engineer. Mont-Louis, situated at a height of over 6.200 feet in the Pyrenees is one of the sunniest places in France. It Is an ideal site for the sort of expus lents which M. Trombe and his icum arc carrying out.
Every
morning. M Tronibe
strides through the old
huttlements of the fort to bls Iaboratories, Wearing tweed Jacket and flannel trousers, he looks liko u tourist. His official file is
of "Director
the Solar Energy Laboratories" but to the 603 Inhabitants of Mont- Louise he is "the man who tomed the
Bun" His laboratories are in a look- out post on top of the fort. On the flat roof of the laboratories stands not- work ef scaffolding holding two large mirrors-his "Bolar
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bricks with great heat- resistance.
LET BABIES CRY
IN CHURCH
Clergyman Critical Of Black-Lookers
* Southwell, England.
Let babies cry in church, the Very Rev. Hugh Hey- wood said.
Shame on those worshipp who past black looks at al infants, he said in the curre issue of Southwell Deanery magazine.
Preachers do not mind the noise so long as families will come together to worship, he sald.
One Sunday afteroon, be wrobe "a happy family came to evensong a mother, father and "solar ten-month-old child."
The choir sang and
M. Trembe and his team have
also. developed
refrigerator" no bigger than
an ordinary household rotimes the Uttle boy sang. frigerator. This could give
is
comments.
mo
"He was
happy, his parents were happy.
"But then so they told afterwards there were look from some of the con- gregation and they all went out,
black
some.
read Itsson and Bomb valuable service In sunny times the little boy added his regions of Africa, Asia and South America, where electric current
not qvailable.
semi-cylindrical mirror only a few metres, square reflects the sun's rays cn to an ammonia solution, providing eHough refrigeration for A flat mirror
family. fect about 37
This device could bigh and about 47 fect
be fited on to an ordinary "I found them afterwards and neross, composed of
500
refrigerator ot
cost of I apoligised for the manners of square
£20, pieces, automatically
the black-lookups. fallows the sun in its course
There reflects its rays in n direction into a con- mirror of almost 300 square feet made up of 3,500 small mirrors.
furnace.
and x
CAVE
The
3,000 Degrees C!
concave
centrates
mirror
the sun's
Cop- rays on
the heart of the furnace
water-cooled metal basin just over 18 feet away, which lies between the two mirrors. There, the converging rays of the sun generale a tempera- ture of 3.000 degrees Centigrade. Already.
the furnace has proved Its practical pas- blities by melting down three tons of zirconium oxide. the melting point of which lo 2,700 degrees Centigrade, for sale to fo dustries using It to maire
A
Solar Motor Too
The predecessor of the Mont- Louis furnace, was set up by M. Trombo
at the Blato laboratories at Meudon, near
B
'I Apologised'
·
were three people doing absolutely the right thing coming to church as a family and some of us hounded them
out
It is high time we Dout
2carned
bit a
child's
Paris, where he used
Our listening to concave mirror just
over 6 priorities.
lessons and mugle may be fect in diameter taken from
disturbed
by a little German
searchlight cap- occasional happy shouts, tured
disturbance is of Mont-consequence when set Louis in 1949. In addition the incomparable importance of to research almed at storing people
M. Trombeing the war.
moved to
team
that
family.
but
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against
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the sun's energy, he and his people coming to church as
are now engaged on building what.'he describes of it and we condemn curaciyes "There is not nearly enough as the biggest solar furnace when we look blackly at those
in the world," which, when
in operation, should "develop
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13 times as much energy ...would like. to se
one.
prama
bables and parents at all services and clergy, choir and a sun-congregation
the present He also has plans for
powered kitchen stove and Is
must learn to
studying the possibilitics of harmonise their parts with the a "solar motorChina Mail happy mude of Special.
the blessed
bables"-United Press.
Blotting Paper Being Husbands Are
Used To Fight Cancer
Chicago.
Ordinary blotting paper is one of the new weapons being used against
cancer.
Dr Paul V. Harper of the University of Chicago said the blotting paper, en- cased in plastic envelopes, has proved effective in fighting cancerous tumours located deep inside the body.
Bad Driving Instructors
„Facts every
New York. Woman should
know a paychologist says hus-
bands are terrible at teaching their wives how to drive a car. After studying tape recordings or actual driving lessons, Alfred
Moseley
consulting psychologist the Amerfest The new method was geous poured radioactive Iodine arteries from cows at slaughter, Mutual Liability Insurance Co., described in a report to the through the tube.
treating them, and then grafting reported that busbands are Congress of the
American and has returned to work,
apparently weli them to dogs as replacements for usually poor driving instructors
Draugments of blood vessels. College of Surgeons.
because. Harper sald. University officials The arteries are treated with Dr Harper sald the encased now plan to use the technique a powerful digestive enzyme in blotting paper is first inserted on lung cancer patients, he told an attempt to remove all foreign In an arca where It is impos- the surgeons.
sible to use surgery, to remove a
tumour.
The man is
Breast Cancer
u
The paper is then saturated In another cancer report, with A radioactive solution London surgeon' said Tadical through a tube inserted into the surgery" is still the best cure patient's body. The blotter soaks for breast cancer in is early up the solution, distributes sages
on
protein which may have caused the failure of previous grafting attempts, Dr Norman Rosenberg said.
Plastic Arteries
The experiment was regarded. as significant because there was great need to find additional
evenly over the cancer silo, and Sir Stanford Cade of the directs intense radioactive bom-London's Westminster Medical source of arteries which could bardment on the malignant area, School added that cancer treat be grafted on to humans, Dr Dr Harper said.
ment for the future may be had bean developed but he Rosenberg said. Plastic materials Brain Operation concentrated on body processes
rather then the tumour self in pointed out that they presented The method has been terd with apparent success order to treat the soil and not problems of talloring, weaving
bna 40-year-old man suffering from the seed."
of wrinkles prevention
and clota United States. a brain tumour.
Out of every five women can- Surgeons removed the can- cer pallents; one is likely to cerous tumor from the man's have breast cancer, Bir Blanford brain about four months ago, Cade said. There is, evidence but they could not open the floor that breast cancer appears to of the skull to get at the root stem from a cycle of hormone of the cancer.
activity within the body's Therefore, Dr Harper said, the various glanda, he reported. brain foor was covered with. Reporting on another acld, a one of the
blotting paper en- group of New Brunswick, NJ. vajopts, with + ambil tube surgeons said they had had leading outside the skull. Sursome success": "in" removing
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SIDE GLANCES
They are full of advies, but do not specify direc tons in time for a wife to respond.
They atsume wives know more about driving than they do.
They allow wives to drive too fast. while learning. They don't show. their wives, they just " dell them They do not imow all the how.
that should bo things taught to make a safe and
ekiitil "driver.
-United Press.
By Galbraith
It's all
on
laughs
deck as
Dr.Sparrow
goes to
sea!
OH
DOCTOR!
Starring
DIRK TOGARDE
HOWING OF
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