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-THE CHINA MA

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10,

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Scientists Find

New Uses For Sisal

THE sisal plant, which is the source of one of the traditional hard fibres used in ropemaking, is yielding new products for the world as a result of research. Kenya, which has a long-established sisal industry, is pioneering some of this work.

One line offering promite of mean no important saving of a bright future Is research into dollar currency, for all extraction

the of

compound alternative raw materials como hecogenin which is wrong the from outside the sterling area. bes!

material for Thero are possibilities, too, synthesising cortisone and other that methano gea con be pro- new and related to it.

expensive drag queed from sisal Waste, by rapid fermentation

DA

and

The initial rese; reli development work was curriet

ulliking a process.

out by the British Medien For Carpet Making

Research Council in collabora- 11on with the East African

Industrial Research Betard. A

the

while

ND #sal Abre itself,

mainly used for making Later, with

financial marine cordage and agricultural bucking of the British National twine, presents scope in other Research Development Corpora- directions, Buch na carpet- tion, a small-scale plant for the making and in material for commercial

prexluction

of upholstery. One Kenya firm is hecogenin was set up on a sisal

successfully mixing jule late at Rutru, near Nairobi. with sisu to produce a cheaper After nvaluable period of product than from pure experimentation the plant was Jute.

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now

One

Collecting cat sisal leaves by trailer on a Kenyn estate-COf Photo.

In Trucks

trucks today probably uses one.

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GERMANY

British

La

the

cortisone.

Three years of

experimental work pivecded the adoption of licengonin

practical

taken over by a leading pharmaceutical Arm to become

Such

expand the efforts to of purt

Its large-scale world market for sisal products research, development and pro and by-products will duction

for

of programac

immense benefit to the Kenya manufacture of "alf-British"

plantations which sultered severe blow when the

World price of sisal dropped drastically

be

for

Was

senle

expensive

Tractamatic Drive

aro -your

Electrically drivən the differential besides being

commonplace fully reversible.

milkman

Basically It consists of two

of toothed Palra

cylinders normally kept apart by a colled spring, while one in each pair is permanently fired on the axle of the whools and ita opposite lying counterpart is coupled to the driving shaft on which it can plide

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But electric trucks which, as soon

cut off, power is automatically become free running and regain all the normal case of pushing, pulling and

of hand- manoeuvring trucks represent an entirely new departure.

Recently put on the market in Britain they are the result of

volutionary transmission system: the application of a new and re- known

B The "tractamatic drive."

051 after reaching record of more than commercial product

250 2011.

Despite the fact AL Art the procedure

the that extracting becogents from sisal over 30 per cent, Kenya's estates price has now falien by not and

have continued to increase their economically frante on

a large

unill

It now aereuge under sisal, stands at 200,000 acres, At the major

This astonishingly compact peak in 1981, sisal exports from Kenya reached almost £7,000-device, which is contained in an 000 in value. Today, with the axle casing a little more

than lower price, the annual export three times the diameter of the value is about £2,000,000 for actual driving shaft, constitutes much the same tonnage,

at the same time the clutch and

However, a

CRIT with the discovery that

the substance could much more readily and cheaply be obtained, not from the soild matter, but from the Juter of the sisal leat. This juice can quite costly be obtained In large quantilles from the waste produced in the operation of removing the sisul fibre from the long spiky leaves. May Stavo Off Old Age

ND BOW.

Aeds

pro-

while work in Eng! Africa 10 improve the hecogenin process nod to build up its output. research continues in Britain to termine the exact role that cortisone plays in the treatment of disease. It has already been shown that the drug is beneficiul in many conditions and it huw even been suggested that Day day it may play an important part in slaying off the effects of old age.

Hecogen la La but one of acverul potential by-products from sisal which may give ณ nilip to the Kenya industry. Another that has gone beyond

extraction the experimental stage is the of wax. On each sisal leaf is a thin layer of wax. and at an estate near Talka i

pilot plant has been developed to produce wax for various types of polish,

It is claimed that this new pisal wax rivals the high-grade carnauba wax produced from a Brazilian palm, which up to the present has been one of the chief ingredients of industrial

of hard, durable Anish.

two fields of

sisal

are unique, although Tanganyika is also Investigating hecogenin production along similar ines to Kenya and in close collaboration with the Ruiru experiments. There, full-scale plant has now been started. Success in either will

Generating Plant For S. Africa

A 60 MW GEC turbo- alternator has recently been delivered for the Wilge power station of the Electricity Supply Cóm- mission of South Africa.

Wilge Power Station is some 5,100 ft above sea level in the Kendal district of the Transvaal and will supply the power required for the development of the uranium deposits in the Witwatersrand Gold Mines well as augmenting the supply

gold

mining and industrial, alternator is air-coolded and was manufactured at the Witton. Works of "Tho: Gentral"

fur

Electric Co. Lád, while the türbine, which is designed for, Hisani prozmure of 600 lb per sq.

a

SindinoëringhWorks,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

EVEN THOUGH THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS ONLY TRASH PAPER WE MUST GUARD IT”, WITH OUR LIVES,

FERDINAND

NANCY

I'M TAKING

ORDERS

FOR THESE SIGNS

I KNOW --HUH SOMEBODY

AT DOOR.

JOHNNY HAZARD

OH, I THOUGHT THIS THAT'S WAS MY COMPARTMENT, QUITE I BEG YOUR PARDON,

| A#JOHNNY LANDS, THE GROUND CREW PITCHES.

IN AND A FEW MINUTES LATER FREES THE JAMALUDD

one

AUTOMATIC

When power is applied to the shaft a driving pin beting on a V-shaped slot forces the sliding toothed cylinder into the fixed

Engagement is Usua automatically effected-end BO 15 disengagement,

the drive returning to neutral auto matically by the

action of

the spring as soon as the power is cut off.

THINK

SHE'S A

ALL RIGHT

SPY?

NO.--- WE DON'T NEED ONE

AFRAID, WE'LL HAVE TO

Roof Construction For Large Circular Vessels

New service reservoirs, of the type that hold supplies of filtered water for a community's immediate needs, are generally roofed over at the time of their construction to prevent water pollution by airborne impurities.

Older types of reservoir still in use were not covered when built, but present-day conditions make the addition of such protection more-or-less essential.

With traditional methods of together two top>hat sections; roofing, supporting columns intersections pre made by rising from the reservoir floor cutting one of each pair of aro often necesary, and the sections so that half of each rib reservoir must generally be runs through the joint, drained while the root is bullt.

Joints between the 20-feet Foundations for columns in lengths of ribs are made by the deeper reservoirs may also inserting joint aller pieces, also present

difficulties, of top-hat wellon, and all joints Especially if the ground beneath are arranged so as to be clear the floor is at all suspect, and the of intersections.

major

column themselves introduce

further risk of contamination.

One answer to those

pro-

Structural soctions and sheets blems, for new or old reservoirs, are of aluminium alloy supplied Northern Aluminium in the self-supporting domed by roof-and the aluminium roof is Company, Lid

Banbury, stated to be one of the most Oxfordshire, England. economical types,

was unnecessary,

of

Very sharp corners can thus be Water Board, Bedfordshire, eliminating

Since in most conditiona normal exposure these

alloys have 0 very high natural But even when fully engaged

resistance to atmospheric attack, Two such aluminium reservoir the drive does not preclude over-

surface pro- riding by either wheel or free-roofs have recently

been com- painting or other

lection

thua elther direction.pleted for the wheeling in

Biggleswade

the difficulties associated with repainting the negotiated and the sternbility England, by Aluminium Con-

inside of the roof. obtained is astonishing even instruction Ltd to its own original

These single axle porter trucks, which design.

roofs, which It is pointed out that these can be operated by unskilled, were erected without draining roofs were preceded by a larger, elderly or female personnel. the reservoirs, nre shallow 150-feet diameter,

The only controls to be used are a pull-knob for the reverse and a grip lever which switches the power on and off.

The entire unit working in an oil bath requires no maintenance whatever except for periodical checking of the all level.

There is no doubt that the traclamatic drive will find many applications wherever DITI Inexpensive, compact and poslitve transmission is dasir. able,

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

NOT LIKELY, WE MUSTN'T! SUSPECT EVERYONE

WE SEE. BUT WE'LL

BE CAREFUL WHOM WE LET IN.

DO YOUR BEST, FELLAI

| TAKE THE CANOPY OFF GOT A DATE ON THE WEST-

AND WORKC ON MER INATE

COMET WITH THE LOVELIBIT THE SHOP MR. HAZARDI) BAL ON THE CONTINENTZ. HOOVER THE GIA AND

WE HAVE EXACTLY TWENTY MINUTES TO GET THAT

PACKAGE.

AND WE MUST NOT

FAIL!

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

DO NOT

WALK

.ON

GRASS

By Frank Robbins

- LO THE CONQUERING " SHARISMAP YOU HEAD HOLD THAT POSE, AL. FIMBLE-FIBERE? UMG HAZARD (ENG) KUTYMPHOBI GUESS

LAMTO YOUN

* HAVE BEE

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in

of roof spherical domes, each consisting similar construction weighing of a grid of box-section ribs 23 tons, cng by other domes of

two series located on

of

smaller great

size. Moreover, circles (that is the centre of dome as large na 600-feet curvature of every rib iles at diameter could be built as easily the centre of the sphere of as one of 150-feet diameter. which the dome forms a small part). They are clad with Dat 16 Standard Wire

Gouga

aluminium alloy sheet, Cuban Army

The onds of the ribs meet the circular ring boom, which is set in reinforced concrete, at bear- ing shoes with screw adjusters.

The main ribs are of hollow section, made by riveting

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Cleaning

Up Rebels

Niquero, Cuba, Dec. 9.

The Cuban army an3- nounced today it killed at lenst 20 rebels. and captured 32 in clashes lást night and early today, wiping out about a third of the anti-government force holed up in Eastern Cuba.

Seven: rebels had been 20-

killed in ported

previous tatal anti- fighting, making

for the government casualties

week 27 dead,

Col Ramon Cruz Vidal sald fighting occurred when hungry, thirsty rebels tried to

break

through the "ring of steel" the army has thrown around their hideout in the mountains south- east of here.

Cruz predicted that Cuba's 10-day-old revolt will end in a matter of hours through the sur- render or death of the remaining rebels,

Most of the fighting reported

today occurred along the Toro River, near the vilinge of "Bull's Eye" and "Hull's Mouth", but one rebel was killed and 82 were captured by loyal forces netr Guptanámo, 180 milos

cast of here.

MOLOTOV COCKTAILS

Three rifles, two shotguns, two pistols and 100 Molotov. cocktail incendiary bombs wero taken from the captured rebels,

An official report today said other weapons and equipment captured from the rebels in Eastern Cuba included threo machineguns, 17 musketa, threo rifles, 61 band grenades and sizable quantities of ammini→ Mos

Two Catlines and 13 other. cars were confiscated from foes of the Government, presumably during early clashes in the Castern provincial capital of Santiago, the report said.

It was not clear whether the rebelà, encountered at Glan- | Lonarnoisite of the US - NINFE- |big "Cuban-biso-werexitigfleks- "froth (the › banda, that attacked the city at this", outset of the revolt or part of "/nh-nhill- government "amphibious forte."

• The rubbla encircled in [the Niquero region; landed Cuba's "--southeasterys wook ago and there have: Delles unconfirmed reports of ́à"sected rebel landing in the vicinity of Guantanamo,

MAGE TWO CLASHES 16 Curz said is Tod lata yuatdı

third fires fight Torp (Bull's)