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Washington.

U.S. atomic officials expect IN THE ATOMS FOR PEACE

that Britain and perhaps Russia will beat America to economic nuclear power by at least, five years.

For all they know Russia will have it at about the same time as Britain in 1960. The United States may get it in 1965. One reason for this, an

officer of the Atomic Energy Commission sald recently, was that nuclear R competitive power hal advantage overseas where coal was far more costly than in America.

Cheap A-Power

Another #ensom was that "our long-range goal is not only competitive but cheap atomic jver,'

RACE AGAINST AMERICA

Russia says it has a 100,000- kilowatt plant that will begin. operating next year, The United States expecta to

its 60,000-kilowatt plant at Shippingport, Pa., started on an experimental basis in 1057. The British say improved ver- dions of its Colder Hall Plant will be able to compete with coal by 1960. U.S. officials say they are probably right, But no American atomic au- thority will be able to guess when nuclear power will be economic In America until the Shippingport and other bly plants, yet to be built, have been In operation for several years.

So when will atomic power be able to pay its way in Ameri-

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Half a dozen Atomic Entrry |“If 1 had to make a guess,” one Cansmission offelal chiscussedi bigh ranking AEC official said, "1 would say probably

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melar power pro- Aiminar for

the US. Bran about 250 reporters.

on the under ul 10 years from now."

Britain's Calder Hall Atomic] New England pd other high

Plant will begin generating ! around 100,000 kilowatts of electrical power next July.

power cost ares would prob nbly

be the Dat To tuje the atom economileally

If all seven plants are built-

"and we hope they will be,” said an AEC offelal-by 1963 they will bo generating 1,000,000 kilowatts of elec- trictly in America.

The Shippingport plant, the first Apart from the huge search

Large-scale mclear

power slation attempted in the United States, will not be able to repay its $85,000,000 cost- except as a roccarch operation. All told, counting this station, private industry has proposed seven atomic powe plants under the AEC's ́power den monstration programme. Whether the other six will

actually be built remains to be poen. Paper plans call for their completion at Intervals up to 1962.

SIDE GLANCES

and development costs, borno by the taxpayer, these plants will cost privato companies involved

about $350,000,000 and the Government $50,- 000,000. The Government is investigai- ing a number of new atomic furnace ideas, including one which would

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The former chef for England's Royal Family said that Sir Winston Churchill was the heartiest enter he remembered at Buckingham Palace,

Rene Roussin, here to act chef" to "guest udvisory Chicago restaurateur, served the late King George from 1937 to 1947 when filnesa forced him to retire.

The Queen Mother would mention that a "gentleman who likes a lot to it was caning

to dine.

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wie coming," Roussin sald. "For

M. Mr

and aboard ocean liners, and cooked for the future King and Queen at a home they visited) in They North Africa in the '30s. sent for him to be their chet aflag the coronation.

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says the present Queen and Princess Margaret used to request his holled chicken and rice, and were "crazy for any kind of pudding." Their mother liked almost everything, he said, and he "used to watch her calories for her because she

Churchill! I would double every didn't pay much attention." thing, and often he would ask

for a second helping"

One trick, he sold, was to stuff one partridge inelde of another, Bo the former Prim" Minister would appear

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PelicansTo

Have Noisy New Year

Kampala, Uganda.

A pilot pelican scaring scheme is to be started on Uganda's Lake George, where thousands of storks and pelicans are ravaging the fish population.

Special "bonger" machines have been ordered which will let off a bung like a shotgun every seconds for 10 hours after

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being alled with a couple of handfuls of carbide.

The machines act on the same principle as carbide lamps ex- cept that they produce a series of explosions instead of a steady flame.

His wife, an English woman, does the cooking in their home. She doesn't cook English style, The carbide bangs will be in- which he describes as "Imposterspersed with an occasional sible," or French

real shotgun round to persuade style"Just her own style, and it's good." the pelicans that there'e no

M. Roussin wo

would not comfooling. Otherwise they would ment on American cooking be soon realise that the noise was

cause he's

Always vaten French harmless Snack. Bar

dishes during his infrequent

visits to the United States.

CULL

But he sold he is amazed by The Government-sponsored the boasts

of American

menus fisheries on Lake George supply that food itema "genuine" the whole of Uganda and paris "high-grade" "fresh," and such. of Kenya. They take more then "If something isn't fresh or 8,000,000 pounds of Bish a year high-grade, it shouldn't be on from the lake. They would like Cho тепи," he said.-United to make it 9,000,000 pounds, but Press.

the pelicans and maribou storks disagree,

to

'An editor's apology for the The birds are estimated fact that among the 100 odd toke about the same weight of pictures of Sir Winston Churchill fish from the lake as the men, in our files - taken at various A polican pats about three fons

in between

year. and 80 and in almost every pos- The Asheries latest effort to ture imaginable - there is not increase the yield is to build a

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We trust he will not take before going on to the main They decimate the small try exception to our presumption.

course on the lake. It is on the ponds that the experimentel pelican bangers" will be inTM stallode United Prom

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