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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1959.
THIS IS AMERICI
New York, Monday
Los Angeles is America's smog city. The filthy, swirling muck is as much a menace here to health and happi- ness as it is in London. But today, announces Cali- fornia's crusading Governor "Pat" Brown, the State begins un air pollution research and control pro- gramme that in the Governor's promises, at least makes Britain's efforis look tame,
With An Imediate outlay Forty of every 100 houses of 250,000 dollars (280,000) bullt here in 1057 had freplaces, Lo Angeles scientists will and more than 400,000 were put investigate smog causes, much up last year, according to the us Bureau ni Labour statisties,
exhausts and smuking
chimneys.
And it any way to minimise smogmaking is discovered. Governor Brow undertakes to bring in laws which must he observed straightway by every- one in California.
What nudges the Governor into action? He says it was Better from Katy Dilkes.
One murky day she sat down and wrote him a stinker,' like
th
"Dear Mr Governor, 1 ain a girl of 11, abnost 32, and I would like to grow up ly that Surprising?
"No-everyone wants
(row up. But what is there to grow up to Oh, I can list a tow things like Fogg, bombs, and lets ingre...the smog here, In Los Angeles is so thick it is pitiful....I was
thinking that since you are Governor, I Thought that maybe you could de something about it."
Governor Brown said that letter left a drep imprint on hu.
Having spent two consecutive days in Anierica's "Bomb City" and America's Smog City," it Jeft, a deep impring on me los,
CAROL CHANNING sprang
diamond- to
with warbling "Diamonds are a girl'a hest friend." And seemingly they will are.
saw her in the Perala Room nightclub the other night, swaying in a glitering sheath of sparklers, arms buried in the things. As she started to slun "Diamond" everyone suddenly The Register of Shares of ext bolt upright she was care- the Bunk will be closed from lessly taking braceleis off her Wednesday, 11th March, 1959arins and tossing them into the to Wednesday, 18th March,
Lullence.
10 Dianaxed
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1959 (both days inclusives | instantly tested (1 on a wine- during which period noj glass. I might have guessed. The cover charge transfer of shares cha be it was paste. registered
By Order of the Board,
KAN TONG PO,
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Hong Kong, 4th Feb., 1959.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
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THE BATHING SUIT Mrs Donnu Dibble bought in Muskegon, Michigan, wus, she says, transparent fraud,
She is tying to win 2.500 off the shop duftars (802)
She alleged In that sold it her,
the suit turned curt, that transparent when sonked with water as she went bathing in Lake Michigan,
she This,
sald, in her "vasion of Privacy" com- plaint, caused her "embarrass- ment and humiliation."
The store's defence: "There- is a bathing suit sold today that does not make a
woman alnost nude." Bu Judge Noel P. Fox rejected this and refused to dismiss the case,
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Nancy Spain "Go, man, goj"
Oxford
Union
Was
Rocked
Oxford.
his
China Mail writer WILLIAM SMYLY continues the report of two weeks a8 a deckhand aboard a Hongkong fishing trawler.
The Great Galleons Still Survive
Our first morning at sea aboard the Lock Hing No. 1 was rough, and the cabin behind the wheelhouse impossible to endure.
But most of the crew re-
mained in their bunks except when called out for meals or some task on the nets ordered by the mate.
I had the deck to myself the rest of the time and lay on a couch of nets piled upon the hatches, and burned my face In the
sun.
were
About 11 o'clocit We passed the most glorious sight of the
Wo voyage.
running through a fairly high sea with fresh northwest winds astern and huge rollers running with us, sweeping us elong on their erests or leaving us wallowing in the troughs between as they raced away ahead at about 20 knots.
starboard
And then on the side we pasard one of the largest of the huge Hongkong galleons.
The crew of a native Haloan fishing hink that lay becalmed paddlo over Lock Hing No. 1 to say. "Hello,"
I believe these ships are now how
and their costs
catches your ship, the less you will get peculiar to Hongkong. Name of compared, investment-wise, with for the fish it catches. This is the China coast vessels that we the Japanese steel trawler also true of amali ships landing
be replacing in England. came upon were half this size which
like her build them on, the China Seas.
Balance Sheet or anything
Her stern was like a tower
Against and her meats were
A plot to shatter the respec- tability of the Oxford Union
almost Society succeeded after a rock 'n' roll band sneaked in and blasted out "Blue Suede Shoes" during a debate.
the
seems to
Cost
theso
to the
quality book-caught fish for a population which prefers its fish caught that way.
But the trawler
Con- Biderably higher wages and
crow
pays
in
brings back vastly larger land- takings
neels the ings. The vessel
con- sheet for a siderable finance to run it. It trunks of big trees. Ebe sat The cost of a wooden junk of following balance
long liner worth is company-owned. Most of its on the rollers like a cork, and the
larger sort with heavy four-unit
ashore, live, when beal her way up Into
for $100,000 was prepared for me by tho
timbers is roughly $1,000 wind along a line of sampans. every foot of her length. In old the Hongkong Fisheries Depart houses. This was a Hongkong "long times much larger chips have ment
THURSDAY: A Day iner" nt work. She carried been bulk than any we
sec to Annual depreciation of hull and engine .... four pairs of sampans, eight in day, of which the largest are
maintenance all.
around 70 feet, and rarely more General than 100.
a Wages-usually paid on a bonus basis from
500 Hooks
Members of the society re- covered from their shock Long enough to carry 105-128 the molton that This house de- They were
U blunt-nosed plores the decline of the Eng-decked craft each manned by a
crew of five fishermen. lish middle classes."
The sampans worked in pairs One of them laid down the lengthis balted "long lines" in with 500 books to a section, and preparing lines
Ecar. followed the second sainpar astern and Louk in the lines again and unhooked the salch.
It was the first rock 'n' roll played in the hallowed halls of The society's meeting place and probably the first time many of
had heard the members
the music..
The plot was insligeted by Miss Nancy Spalo, z novelist, who raised the suspicions of the members when she arose motion to speak against the clad in tight black pants and n shassy red sweater.
"Who wants to live like the middle classes," Miss Spain shouted to the hundred of very serious and angry young men gathered for the debate.
Trance Dance
Miss Spain rattled the society's members further by Fadding "One for the money. two for the show, three to get reedy, now go man go.
And snapping her fingers us the signal for the rock 'n' roll band in the talcony to begin.
One pociety · member, parently in a trance from the rock 'n' roll beat, Jumped Into the aisle io dance with Mias Spain as the band played on.
After the motion was voted on and carried, progressive members
cd- of the union Journed to the basement re- creation room where the dổng““ Ing continued.-U.P.I.
• BY. THE · WAY ·
by Beachcomber
<< NVENTIONS come now no elbow of the slightly dear dy
"INV thick and fast that many who, asked whether she thought
of them seem to be absurd," drivers should pass harder test, replied, "I never under- says an article,"
to wear The writer obviously had in stood why they have mind the electric shoehorn, for those hideous, enormous boots
the the sea,"
And Mr Culver's golden rule: uncorking bottles, the trans just to dive to the bottom of If anything looks too good parent foghorn gontainer, check to see if it is a new silver-plated gimiet for boring The Suet traffic plan replacement. If it is-beware. holos in cheese, the dummy
more practical radish to score away the radish-OMING to
detalls, as the actress said warm, the revolving faucet for when she complained to the TINCHANTING Litbit for
spraying fah with anti-mosquito stockbroker that she hadn't a Britons after the recent cold mixture, the wire sponge for meg of mink to hor back, Suet spell: the FIREPLACE is the dusting chimney-pols, the water-
says that one-way, roundabout new munick rage in U.S.proof varnish for team-bells, and fly-over. bridges at congested thousand other fulfilments of points should be built in threes, long-felt wants. Such as the each fr-over narrowing to ferrule for glove stretchers and bottleneck at ila egrens,
*hosting-stick the hollow
to descending to a fly-under tunnel keep macaroni in. And as ỬA. Foiled
homes.
ANY FIRM USING THE NAME
66
APPLIED TO our
‘ZORIC”
DRYCLEANING SYSTEM
HAS NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER WITH THE UNDERMENTIONED CO.
•
PLEASE TELEPHONE DIRECT TO
59195
FOR COLLECTIONS AND DELIVERIES
THE
STEAM
LAUNDRY
CO.
No. 1, Kwong Wa Street, Kowloon,
..
and
09
A ship with four working pairs needs a crew of 45.
A ship with three pairs needs
and gear
5,000
100,000
100,000
ED,000
The long liner works. mother with pairs of boats, and
the of one third usca a crew of about 10 men do
caich While a boat-two full crews. one crew Ashes the other
one Prot works back on the mother ship
Balance (value of catch) 275,000 and mending
big These figures are for four-unit long linora power- sailing craft carrying assisted grounds, nahing with books and linos, and employing a crew of and Coxswaln fishermen,
Comments which I could get said that they the figures teemed high all round, but that the proportions were right and the pront margin was narrow,
Retainer
As we passed this fishing. 5. And a ship with two goes cight open boats to the ships:
in
to sea with a crew of 25.
the figures that I did obtain among caused some discussion
In-
a
engineer,
...group the sampans wore
two rows in pairs with three
I could not get actual cashi 45 men bunched in the body of figures for one long liner, and the boat handing the lines and two standing on planks in the stert, heaving at the our people that I showed them to To a man accustomed to this but I print them here to give an Chinese oor it steadies him and idea of the kind of finance the ship as well, and he finds no volved in the business of put difficulty in standing up in a
ting to sca. ship and rowing, no matter how
The comparison between
Fishermen employed in these high the sea. And he can stand four-unit long liner and a pair ships expect to Laico home and row with the oar in condi- of Lock Hing trawlers is based
They around tlons where he would have on their overage annual catches Some difficulty even in sitting which seem to be pretty, firm. silll without one.
In a year But these toets did nothing to disasters a
of seeing reduce the wonder
liner could such tiny helpless craft riding around 3,000 plouls (300,000 the huge rollers so far out ni
caillon) of fish at between 78 eca.
cents and $1 per catty. Huge Hen
Against this the Lock Hing Even their mutorship looked, trawlers average 20 trips a year more and have a minimum landing of under the circumstances,
without natural four-unit long expect to Iand
like a huge hen than like a 3,000 cases for each trip. This duck. She
beating her aves them a minimum Ianding Was
year for way to windward along the line of 15,000 piculs
in
白
of sampans which were taking which they get between 50 cents
catly on reir calch. Presumably and 75 cents per such it ship would have a motor normal market, now, but we saw her under sali,
On a normal market it would
$100 a month. are pakt on a proportion of the catch and have a regular pay of little as $10 a month paid as a retainer on a month with no landings
for
#
At Sea
CROSSWORD
70
24
23
15
Across
1. Cosmetic container, 18-3)'
4. Coconuts product. (8)
10. Unwell (3)
12. Bitter fruit. (4-8)
12. Od feb man's necessity,_ (5)
15. Positioned, (5)
10 Genuine. (4)
10. Bounded the bell. 141. 20. Not for out goings ? (0) 31. Bnow runnar, (3)
22 water bird. (4).
23. Chantments. (9)
Down
1. Wirm 1912. Messurs. (4)
Early plaything. (6,3)
For some publle valiicles 14.0)
Doggy nalis. (3)
You are and, (5)
7. Of but
not far left MILLE
13. B
Binging a
Old
14. 31
TIA
13, 0
drink.
100,000
14.
treaty, d
Conte supplied by Look Hing of Dair Fisheries Japanese type sieel trawlers $2,000,000 Isnding, la worth Hongkong are; Depreciation on two
ships at 5% v
operating Annual
cogs Including fuel, waxes, ice, stores, insurance, -gear,
maintenance, an- nual overhaul and harbour dues .....
Experird
profile
and she may well have been a appear that the long liner lands ship which depended on sails-expensive Ash worth between $200,000 and $300,000; "ind that could a pair of trawlers would bring Balance
alone.
company
to on your
17, Chapa bere. D
10. Bian M.{41
Puteristi Modulaen
BALL TRAGATI
FOR TODAY
700,000
200,000 (expected Even with a 'motor I
value of catch) 1,000,000 imariee that a pudden change in cheaper fish worth between of wind might make if dimeur-$730,009-and-$1,125,000,
The difference in prices be
These figures would seem for a hen ship like this to reach
tween trawler and long liner give you 10 per cent her outlying chickens.
Let us behave purselves to a strong money whichever kind of fish- And for them reaching her, calcbes is duo otice they were swept sway, focal preference for hocking boat you decided to Invest vallantly, I Corinthians would
be
One
caught over trawler-caught in. impossible,
fab--perhaps littlo stern oar can't do much
The greatest difference be-
All existence is a battle. dellency of Chinese cooking tween the two kinds of fishing against that kind of sea.
a coward even and the bruising which a fine is in the life of those on board Don't be The Hongkong Government has done much with lours and
fish can get in the cod's end and the quality of their catch. though you may be wound-
A long liner, run od sorely. low price diesel units to help of a trawl,
family The effect of this is, more er
unit, is a workabla these craft survive, end when J
proposition and provides high returned to harbour I found out, less, the larger and more modern
dne
to the
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