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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1967.
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THE ANSWER TO THE ROAD AND AIR CHALLENGE-SUPER EXPRESSES
100-mph Rail Luxury Next Year
London. THE Arst five 100 m.p.h.
luxurious expresses--- British Rallways' chal- lenge to their air and road rivals--will go into rervice next year. They will run between Lon- don and Manchester, Birmingham, Wolver. hampton, and Bristol.
British Transport chief Bir гд Robertson Intendo bat no rail system in the world
anything will have better than the new trains.
by The carriages -- drawit
diesel-elcotrio engines which May even exceed 100 m.p.to., en non-step runs-wil be smooth-riding, almost nolac- proof, and dirt-proof. The trains will be 'all-
Pullman" type with separate dining-cars. Every
no
passenger will be able to ring a bolt, give his order to a steward, and have him mant brought to his seat, British Railways are putting pilsengers' comfort and cou- venlence first in their hope of winulor hack the trafflo they have been losing to air no road travel,
Bir Brian announced the trains when reporting to Mr Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, ор the pro
THE SUN NEARS
MIDDLE AGE
Six Billion Years To Go
New York.
The sun is now near its middle age. That is, it has been going for six billion years and has about six billion years to go.
Science can calculate the time remaining for life on earth with what seems to be unassailable logic, said astronomer Dr Allan Sandage, in a recent lecture to the trustees and staff of the Carnegie Institute.
Pub Name Starts Union Row
RCHILE
SIGN Jĺke
Debien, this
may soon be hanging out- aldo a pub-but not if a group of union men can help it. They are object-
ing to the name,
The pub, nearing com-
ple ion at Debden,
Essex.
will be the first one in the
country to be called
Winston Churchill,
Si
The union men, members of Woodford branch of the. Electrica Trades Union, де complaining to the brewers and the magis trales that it should have a name of "local historical significance."
Mr Leslie Hurworth, branch scoretary, said: “If
Woodford was al would have advised the -branch not to protest In view of the lang associa- tion Sir Winston has had with that district"
Bob, The Horse Gets The Sack
The sun, like all other stars is converting hydrogen atom into helium nuclei and that is the source of its radiant energy.
Knowing its mass, it is possible to calculate how many hydrogen atoms it has and had to work with. Knowing its light intensities, it is possible to approximate the rate at which this converting is going on.
RAPID BUILDUP
But these created helium atoms were waste products which more und more threatened the internal chemical stability of the stur. To compensate for these changes, the star increased in size and increased the intensity of its radiations.
All this is very slow and gradual up to a certain point-the point where the star has consumed 12 per cent of its hydrogen atoms.
At this point, "the 'star can no longer compensate for its increased helium content by small changes, but must drustienlly increase in radius,” said Dr Sandage,
"At this point, the star is near the end of its life, because it swiftly increases in luminosity, consumes its remaining fuel at a tremendous rate, and finally sinks. into obscurity and death as its fuel is depleted.”
Astrophysicists estimate the sun has consumed six per cent of its fuel. Six billion years from now it will enter its death throes that will last 500 million years. As it increases in radius, the temperature of the earth's surface will shoot up at a frightful rate.
LIFE WILL END
The expanding sun will drive the temperature first above the boiling point of water and then to the melting point of lead. "Life will have ceased, the oceans will have boiled away, and conditions will be miserable," he continued.
"But let us not despair of our plight," he said. “Our sun is only one among millions in our galaxy and our galaxy is but one among millions in the universe,
"Most astronomers now bellove that solar systems like our own are common. If this view holds, then there may be other places much like our own where life exists. We on this planet are lucky. The rate of aging of our aun is slow. We have another six billion years to live."
Dr Sandage is a staff member of the Mount Wilson worker. But his one fault is and Palomar Observatories of the California Institute of Technology.-United Press,
Wigtownshire, DOB is n good horse, well behaved and a willing
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that he is so independent
ho will stand on his own four feet.
And Just because of that he has been, sacked us town horse of Whithorn, Wigtownshire.
Bob had been with the town- only six weeks when the Council begen worrying about him,
He just would not lie down to sleep and by dozing on his own fect was not
not getting
proper
resti
The council foared it would aborton his life, make him. bad tampared or oven maka him dangerous if he fell asleep on his foot on his round,
How for 80-10 £25 part; exofiarige for Boty a thá councils Bar bought Dick who dogs lle down to sleep.
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Seven Watch While Dogs Maul Boy
Chorley.
TEN and women, stood by LA 12-Foar-old Alan Marab, screaming for help, tried to fight off two Alasilan, dogs. | The dore knocked him down ms_he:tried to run to his home <in/ Water Street, Chorley, Kababir. Then they dragged is arms, and, logs, and ripuina, bins. Hewly 30, yarda, biling
Saidy Provas Arnotle. Agoj. 2. Ma dé
might have beon all right, but Then. 13-year-old · newspaper thore's always a risk with horses boy Thomas Alston, who had, which sleep on their feet,"
himself been attacked by the
down » fów minutes before, saved Alan by bringing Mr Mary Carting, wife of the dogs owner. So, thin' sobte, Tone suid Interz “About tvd mes and two women, were watch- HİLƏ: AIKAWše, štedaining and leving, to, kore tid, “ dogs off him with his banda, una reet He lay on him, beok, Lis the
Biskod
when taken to Hoepfia), 'wan atffering ... from Akhook, and bites to the arms und legs.
green of the £1,200,000,000 pinn to modernise the rail- Ways.
Mr Watkinson, who has made it plain that the huge ex- panditure is not a disguised- subsidy, but le a tough com- merolat Investment, expects Sir Brian to make the rail- way pay in four or five years, Sir Brian rians to spend about the next £150,000,000 · in
two
усяго. Improvementa
Include:
have train control which warns a driver when he passes a signal; Cleaner trains.A total of £3,500,000 has been alfuca- ted for Improvements in carriage cleaning, And more than
will bo
spent passenger coaches.
Many more routes will
Automatio
£20,000,000
on
new
The Full Story Of The.. TRANS-ATLANTIC
TOT
London.
A baby boy who was only 11 months old when he sailed from England has crossed the Atlantic with his parents in a 20-ton ketch.
The_parents, black-bearded Brian Elverson, sgad 31, and his 22-year-old wifo, Rosamund, were criticised for lotting Baby Rupert fåce the hazards of an Atlantic crossing In mid-winter,
"It's cruel," "a nightmare journey," critics said.
REMEMBER Mr Elverson sold his farm at Malmesbury,
TOMBOY?
on this page
(last Saturday
NOW READ THIS!
Windsor.
Tomboy, the hound who didn't like hunting with the
Waveney Valley Harriers, saw his first hare last week-
-a yellow rubber one wearing a top hat,
The hare, a toy, is the joint property of four children living at Windsor, Berkshire. So is Tomboy.
They decided to give him a | is asking to be loved. I will take home for life after reading in care of him a London newspaper that he might have to be destroyed because be roses
hunt to hares.
Four hundred readers offered
pel.
to have him as
First to contect the newspaper was Mr Richard Newton Brown, 47-year-old advertising
ехеси- tive
and father of four, of Albany Road, Windsor
He telephoned the Hunt Master, Major A E. Galloway,
of Rumburgh, Suffolk, who told him: you really want him he's yours.
Among the many letters was one from eight-year-old Linda Barlow, of Rochford, Essex, who wrote: "Please do not have him put to sleep. He looks as if he
Major Galloway said: "My mailbag has been stupendous. I can't answer every letter. Please thank everyone for me."
Tomboy settled down in his new home near Windsor Great Park.
Susan, aged 15, was brushing his blotchy brown-and-while coat last week, while her brothers, Terry, 13, and Bryan, eight, patted his head and stroked his cars.
Mary, aged seven, looked into Tomboy's eyes and said: "You're a lovely, lovely doggie."
Newton
Said Mrs Margaret Brown: "None of the children has been getting any sleep. They get up at six and take him for three-mile walks."
GP
GIRARD-PERREGAUX
Fine Watches since 1791.
LA CHAUX.DE.PONDS, SWITZERLAND
Wiltshire, to buy the 40-year-old ketch, Scolopax. Before they left. Falmouth on October 30, his only sailing experience was cne trip to the French coast.
His navigational equipment | home in Great Pulteney Street, consisted of E second-hand Bath: "They are in Barbados, sextant, a book of Air Ministry | I have had three letters. tables, and o 65, cópy "Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen,"
of
"They'll never mako it,” sald critics. "The baby will never survive."
In Barbados
revealed
Last work it was that the Scolopax has made the crossing safely.
Baby Rupert-now 18 months old has thrived on his unusual ocean trip.
aunt, Musa from her
Mrs Elverson'a
E. R. Elverson, said
SHIPS GET ANTI-ATOM RADIATION TREATMENT
. London.
Britain's merchant ships
Their route took In Madeira, the Canaries, and Cap Verde, At one time they were 30 days without sighting land. But they were all right as they had six months' food on board.
"After a short stay they plan to sail from the Gulf of Mexico to Houston, Texas, where Brian's brother has a business,
His birthday
"Baby Rupert was a little cva- sick at first. He colebrated his first birthday at sea and Christmas Day he ate Christ mas pudding on deck in blazing Sunshine.
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"The family have given full answer to their attackers. They always knew they would
make it."
The Elversons have abandoned their plan of looking for, South Sen. Island on which to set up a trading baso,
Miss Elverson said: "They may settle in Australia. But nothing has been fixed.
They make their plans as they go along."
The target
as well as her warships are now getting the anti-atomic the critics Ave
Baby Rupert was the target of! radiation treatment.
months ago. Nicholas Monsarrat, author of An oll tanker and a freighter | "The Cruel Sen," said that tok- are belag experimented with to ing an 11-month-old baby on make similar vessels safe in a cuch an adventure was Sheer
nuclear war.
cruelty"
Mrs Peter Twiss, wife of the Jet air ace, said: "A terrifying
The ships-names are,secret- "Nonsense" said Rosamund. are expected to have remote "Life at sea is better for a baby control engines and be navigated than life in a sluffy city.” Irem a ecntrol position deep in the hull.
Merchant Navy officers and idea." men
undergoing are already training in atomic defence, at courses held by the Admiralty.
Casualty
"Bosh,” said Mr Elverson." "The only way to satisfy these
The Queen's Oldest?arities would be not to go at all."
Evesham,
Mrs
Fanny Hopkins WAD died at Evesham (Worcester- shire) iceently at the age of 106 was proud of two distinctionis.
She was bel
believed to
be the Queen's oldest female subject in Britain, and her birthday anniversary date was the same as Her Majesty's-April 21.
Until she was over 100, Mrs Hopkins attended service at St. Peter's Church, Bengeworth, twice every Sunday.
sca-
An N.S.P.C.C. official said: “Providing the. bout worthy and there is plenty of food and medical suppillés, the child is exposed only to She normal hazard of a smalt själp Journey.
BABY RUPERT
Going, Going...
London, Darlington's trolley buses are too but not until the pre- seat fuel emergency has ended.
The Corporation plans to buy eight buses to replace the last of the trolley vehicles..
SANDEMAN COTCH WHISKY
The King of Whiskies
SANDEMAN
SCOTCH
"I would be hard to say the couple are exposing their child to danger in the legal sense."
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