1957-05-18 — Page 13

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Just A Few

Billion

The big row between Preeldont Elsenhower who wants to spend 73 billion dollars worth

the tax-

payer's money this year, and who the taxpayer's allies, don't want him to, goes on unabated,

The latent theory to this: Eisenhower will get more than most Congressmen think is good for sim, though not as much no ho wants. Tho Congressmon are stil: too chary of his prostige to make it an all- out fight,

But he wit lose much political support In the

process,

Among those who are

is Trea-

most likely to go sury Secretary Herbert Humphrey,

Humphrey's close friende Any he w! qult within a month. He has been opposed to the big budget all along.

5 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957.

go home

'As far as I can make out he wishes to trade you six of his wives and a camel for a carton of Lucky Strike."

COME ABOARD THE FANTASTIC FORRESTAL

The ship that smokes 16,000 cigarettes a

T

E hillbilly band! jigglert 骤 time in a hanger.

ragged

By

RICHARD KILIAN

is

day.

making

for

the

What about exercise? I asked newspaper office, stupidly, "Mister, how do you appointments, asking feel after walking miles in the helicopters—"Choppers" lo ship every day?'i

salts whiz around to other shipa. You can telephone to see if your laundry is ready (if not delivered before you curi dial three numbers). It is a dial system,

which way forward og aft

Strict order is. kept by a Time look-out six storeys There

no competitive truncheon-carrying arc

master-at- above the light deck petred sports when the ship is at sea, arms corpa, stores below him in shaft alley through binoculars. Sixteen

crowded with sterk jel aire Brd paw. Two thou am of this elur appetites of the mon you eantiot tell

floating Flyeroporto 4,000 men inted. craft.

thl Alter-tipped stuck: The Forrestal --- America vigarette, sipped soft drláks

Shumerand its This collect and NATO's nuclear striking, I have ever tasted hurt carrier-headed happily to this th "home" waters fľ the Western Mediterranean.

The men

ire

Tete and th Ftesai ha saseni Binge flow Carol

of this king-size orders from Washington. filter-Up duet were excited.

An olleera Koren are pilot with live kis-pot up and Fame

Now is the hour."

His message gol across to men

leave onger to

the troubled Arab world astern by the rising

sun. The men

joined in lustily

>

dreman stared at the huge propeller shaft cusings te make se they da Hot over-heat, These are the two toneliest jobs on board.

Safer thou and cigareises a

* Çoke" machines have queues day t contained

the of dungarev-clad seamen wall- Fra at sea. Among the ing; for cold drinks. ofers alter-tips have on over- whelming

11 other

coming Jaz i cigarettes.

lead

Even younger ines aware of

But the elder mes "they're for girls," Two hundred alter elgarettes cost 10,

In the Second World War song, the cancer scare have switched bist mast WIDE tou young, fou to them pink-thecked to remember other slip Think istople sang the same song in

ther places.

Filter-tips

High above, beyond the B.

from the modern bunkrooms of

11: Leet through

cerie corridors in towell, others sit playing cards. at small tables in every bunk- rooni.

men, Men wander

I felt most of them are at a hillbilly charity concert to En 12 einemas projectmas collect money. "Who wants to Mickerel: "Far County," star- hear Stardust the compere ring James Stewart,

The asks.

Eight hands are raised. Ardver at Toko-," with "Let's get those, naming this Willin Holen and Kally, Violent Saturday." with

Grace request is one doller each."

End."

thick armoured sleet fight deck. only the mon and the

wine, Victor Mature, Beneath the The air is odourless and coul whistling through radar aerials Twelve Me {{ent." and yards and 60,000 Insel without driving steel flicking the ran Swords and on and on. waters side ensually, WIN noticeable,

There we 3g Alms on board Below, 2001 men ur meme mit to krep the clicking hunger of spellbound watching tus bl pecetors salisie

the and

110

"World But air-conditioning is not liked "Crosby all men who do not see the

weeks there are sun for partholes (n the Forrestal--- they complain that once they catch colds they cannot get ri

them in

નrkevu the (mosphere,

That is another part of Formstal's plans for atomic warfans "You would be safer Inside this ship from endio active particles ban almost anywhere else." thu medical officer toki me.

British Ships may float from

H

Poland soon

By FREDERICK ELLIS

JUSH-HUSH talks took place recently in London between Polish shipbuilders and representa- tives of Lloyd's Register of Shipping. The outcome. may mean big orders being placed with Polish yards by British shipowners.

The tag eenire on reaching #greement on to the building standards needed for Poilsh ships ment the specification

ald down by Lloyd's,

A handicap

Talking for the Poles

O MILES 50

PUCK

Baltic Sea

KALININGRAD

Gulf GDYNIA Dansir

aro GDANSK

Profesor Polyrala and Mr (DANZIG)

Godlewski, of the Polish Re-

gister opposite numbers

The Lloyd's men.

of

The Poles have boosted their shipyards al Gdansk and Gdynia on the Gulf of Danzig,

But they are handicapped" "in getting orders because without Lloyd's recogutton shipowners are reluctant to buy.

So the Poles are here to Ax "epccification" and arrange for Lloyd's men to inspect them while they are being built,

0

If Lloyd's let the Poles into their "club," there will bo rush by Brilish and foreign shipowners 10 pince there,

orders

Quick delivery

TCZEW

ELBLAS (ENG) POLAND

-GDANSK, Poland's big shipbuilding centre, known to the rest of the world as Danzig. it 200 claimed by the GermanLS and helped to touch of World War Two.

GDYNIA was built up from ✡ small pahing village after Danzig was made a Free City by the League of Nations after the First World War.

Laundry

th:

In my cabin I have a service which would shame che best Park Lane hotels. Shirts washed, starched, ironed, and delivered in 90 minutes, Dry cleaning in half a day, unchanging room temperature, neat. cream- Muorescent coloured

walls. Hght, bed lights that work, hot water galore,

Noise? Well, utter all, this is) It warship.

When operations are over, however, you could be inside a space chip in the quiet of deep space going to Mars as easily as on the approaches to the Strait of Messina,

A bill 125sion" about home

and girl friends or about girl in Cannes or Barcelona is still

the most popular pastime,

You hear them start: "You see. there was thly base izu Rapallo....

Equipment strategy —overy- thing else about the navy--may bove changed, but salfors still sailors.

аге

To case the highly pitched tension among jet pilots ench squadron has a rendy room with everything on a round-the-cloeit | basis. Plots sleep. In doop chairs in low-keyed lighting and watch

their filme sometimes they run two separate flims

several times dally,"

They live two to a room close by

the ready FOOT

for a scramble. Next to the ready room equipped with airliner- much as £000,000 for carlier type reclining seata is a snack delivery.

bar. The duty cook is ready to make egg, hamburgery, sand- The Budget too will help the wiches (toasted or plain) at all For the Poles con give Poles for British shipowners times. quicker delivery of ships in the will now be encouraged lo "super class than any other place

more ordery, Those After "laps" af 10.30 p.m. European country,

orders will go to arms giving the ship, hums Into E And delivery is even more the quickest "delivery.

lighted mize in which the important than price just now.

uninitiated can get really lost, So It looks like being good. Like a subway.. however, there are ship's plans at rogular

to chipowner, So keen are

they to secure berths and avold, business for Poland and

20x

four to five-your wait that brings yet another warning to intervals with arrows saying:

·queua-jumpere live paid as the British shipyard worker. "You are here," Balow decka

Consult your Travel Agent

The Forrestal seems to be a tant ship, but there is nu question it រង a pollie ship. Everywhere there are miles and "Excuse me" or "Thanks a lot,"

Belmging 10 Lie mighty Forrestad

seems to weld men together.

below

In this unless world the four-acre flight deck to my seems rushed. There is laughter as electric floor polishers whir quietly polishing concrete corri- Gora or linoleum covered rogins.

Maybe the laughter comes from a crude joke or the fact that we are approaching Italy Maybe it zamies from sailors who as they smoke their Alter-Up cigarettes realise you practically dial they are being made as comfort- You use a sole as possible in the nuclear telephone same as itia big navy.

Dial service

Here

Voom service.

or Jarding, Matheson & Company Ltd. Telephone 63311 (24 hour service)

BRITISH

and leave.

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