1959-04-24 — Page 4

Just How Radio-Active

Is London?

In the House of Commons the Prime Minister states that the latest measurements of Stron- tium 90, the most deadly of H-bomb fall-out, is nowhere near danger level, and that a

HOW

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1959.

comprehensive monitoring pro- gramme exists in this country. China Mail Science Reporter PETER FAIRLEY reports on the man who keeps check on

London.

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OW much H-bomb dust do Londoners breathe as they walk about

the streets? How much harm is it doing to us?

High up on the roof of County ly to have a will higher Stron- Ball, a non has made it his job dum content in 1859.

the am-wers 10 lu And questions. He Courtier,

He supervises, under Burgess, scientific adviser,

Ur the

the

Not ready. Akumming?

say whole of the LCC inboratory. Mr. G. H. Mr. Courtier. "It appears that And writes frequent reports for

well the Medical Ofeer of Health. Assistant Scientifle we can tolerate perfectly

he uld. "I made this my hobby," tu Advicer to the ICC. A quiet, the present' dopes,”

"because I believe It is homely man in less spit- "The mat pessimistle medical aid.

the salisty to blu

would be alarmed important Kuthorlties Iss and only if these figure.. merrased public demand for information

tenfold. And

say they on this subject, fanie can spremi

cle and

A ma who hates

panic.

The figures

That is why he believes it 19 vital for Londoners keep the datures he will soon make pub- lie in their proper perspective. "People jump to conclusions to quickly," " warns

The fures are Best

Rodia-Delive Tall-out" 119 inunth over London is FOUR the higher than sme of the readings taken last year,

It is TWICE as high as it wos last April. And it has sad at a recunt level for live months --the longest-ever "penk."

Stron hum 90-t

most deadly part of 11-bomis dust, which can cause leukemia. and bone enneer--is falling faster this year. Tandon's milk is like

SKINNY?

Amazing

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WATE-ON

AT AIL DRUG & DEPT. STORES

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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., LTD.

Headaches (BAYER

Toothaches

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are quickly overcome by

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could revease 100 times with very easily."

a diving us harm."

Itul Mr Courtier keeps Π daily watch. In a rooftop hut Lendou's alr Is sucked Ira

rough thimble-shaped filters. An ordinary. busehold gas ræter has been adapted to re- word the flow.

'Count'

Some: tou tons of r 1 tested at a time. The Alters tre placed on a Griger counter Het packed round with lead,

"count" Then the

for radlo

attesty hegios.

Ofen L Carter innan,

Startling

And

London's food, milk

Gelger water comes under the count as well, "Our water has negligible radio-activity #1," ht reports.

"Not as much, for exDingle, i

Welsh lake water.

"Our milk is becoming more ratio-active. But it is import- ant to compare figures before worrying. In all the pints of mlik which an average London- er drinks In a year, There ❘T:

less radio-netivity I' Mr Brobably 135 taskers

of some fler the rest than in a few ounces

of food we eat from of County Hall is shent and Jypes

faers abroad," Every time connected,

The points out another start- bout rall-out on Britain

The natural radio- published a batch of anxious in fact. Intars arrives on his desk. He nelivity of London-from sod, answers cach, personally, sooth buildings and the sun's rays- 1 ONE HUNDRED times great- Tardy.

*r, sh ne day, than anything yet produced by man-made II- homb fall-out, even at today's Jevel.

QUOTES

14--

are

THERE is nothing morally

D

"I think it's a lovely Budget," sald an averago housewife. "Any Government that brings electric frons down from £5 to £4 17s. 1d. certainly gets my vota."

Patricia Lewis...

Seeking the

Wish-You- Were-Here places

This week ESTORIT

London Express Bervice.

"Obviously," said Mr Courtler, "I cannot say thai man-made fall-out Is beneficial. But ca- all the for Strontium, cept -from a report by the National Corporation for the Care of utcmponents of natural radiation are just as harmful-or barm- less you care to think of it" Why is the full-out level 50 high in London today?

Lost October Russin triggered oft severni "dirty" H-bombs high

over

Arctic. The the

After all, but for Franco's i fish this autumn.

are Elsa priceless wind world's

putturn

is King of expensive, £300,000 for a sum- French tapestries in the dining delayed OK, he brought the dust down

Spain and

anyone should mer palace, no? In England it Toom. CinemaSerpe in a private Britain much more quickly then build a palace around here it cost much more lo build The theoire. with previous Russian tests.

"So the effects, though more ght to be Don Juan, tot palace, yes?"

Antenor Patino, the Bolivian J. Batterned, physical train- Fin instracter *નૂ Worksop potent at present, look like be-

I SELDOM lose sleep over the sufferings of exiled royalty. They his extravagan

inevitably wind up in a fashionable resort with an equable climate,

a fawning society and enough remittance money to keep the monarchist fires burning somewhere back home. But since arriving in Estoril I have become quite red-eyed over Don Juan, the Comte de Barcelona, Pretender to the Spanish throne....etc.

wrong about taking off your collar in the house, or even Barkhir your teeth on the ear- er of the dresser, but, in the Wrong setting, either practice can cause a good deal of strain on both sides,

..by England Rugby captain

haz over

| College, in a talk to Nottingham Ing more short-lived," he add-in-plate millionaire.

ed. "And so far, there are no Rotary Clubs recently:

of

the

There Is not

I explained that though pric- Yet the king (everyone here was more than willing to learn. Ing places was not my ne, I IN public schools where only hints that any of the three major seems to refer to him as

is played there is natious who conduct them have king) lives with his family in a Whereupon my friend grabbed Rugby

another serles always an undertone among the launched

spring tests, as they have done large but on-special villa that me by the hand and we shot oft it's enough to make those prize Boys: Vinh We Could play Soccer," When They leave school- they try to reak into Soreer because it is natural fer them to react against what they have been taugli.

in previous years."

Ray of hope

Mr Courtier, the quiet, home- ly man who "cannot quarrel on ethical or philosophical grounds with those who Join H-bomb protest marches," sees

another

Swim, No?

Staggered terraces

and a king-size swimming pool. ancient Portuguese mosaic...

peddlers of pretension in like Palm Springs green "Is built in style of old Por- Caldo Verde (cabbage soup) tuguese,” he announced in trug with envy. courier style as we approached.

made

of

spots DS

"You see--all white stone:

is

"J think Patio win bring many treasures from his Paris house for furnishing," went

toimiduble Hitle

011

used to be

the

clubhouse for on a tour of Inspection, Estoril's golf

while course Patino's place is a local "must" for sightseers.

Cheap, Yes

new residence

London Express Service.

ABOUT TO MOVE

INTO HIS MODEST LITTLE PALACE... THE TOP PATINO.......

Occasionally the Comte did not accept, but ultimately he Hnished up winning. Then, settling back with a Scotch, he talked about his Transatlantic voyage.

"As a sailor I always had the ambition to sail to America but on the route of Columbus I knew it would take a lot of preparation and time I could not afford.

"Last Spring though I sald to myself: Nothing ..going to summer lving.

to happen for the next dew Despite palm trees, fields of months, so I took, pot luck and

and purple orchis,

showering went. mimosa, the glimpses of un- "It was very solitary but very

to compensate impressive. We did not see shine do little fur the strong, cold winds,

ship for days and days--but wo Up at the golf club-the social did seo Sputnik If. centre in Estoril-members teg

"It came down in the Carib- off in double layers of husky bear about, a hundred miles sweaters, looking more like ice ahead of us and red-hot and hockey players than holiday spilting are." makers on the Costa-do-Sol.

посп.

A Wink

"That," pointed Manuel De Brito E. Cunha, the Inter- nallem amateur golf champion of Portugal is the Count of I asked the comte if he would Barcelona's daughter, Princess attempt such a trip again. Ho winked. "11 is possible but not Pilar. 1

probable. I miss fresh brend "She plays well but her father when I am at sea," he said. is exceptional. His handicap is only five. He plays every after- He paused as the Princess Pilor came over to the table. "Papa," she said, patting me on "It is his one relaxation be- the shoulder. "We really must tween giving audiency in mornings and evenings - he is

the go now or you will be late."

Everyone rose and bowed as secretaries always to help.

for the not help feeling that —————)-am-oigreat-friend-of his sportive Comte de Barcelona Terewell with must venire is perhaps more fun when

or even a palace.

my friend. "Wilf be the most very busy, you know, with three they left the room. But I could

palace

fra

by Mr John Trevelyan, seere-

no big-eight bed and bath tary of the British Board of

Not that you could miss it if rooms-but so fantastic. Film Censors, condemning the

you tried. Stark white in the trend in hos towards increas-ray of hope

middle of a wild park-with-a-Faalustic? Yes, even thought. Europe then no ing violence and sodomi

The components of this fall-view stretching to Lisbon Har- caly che room is furnished-the WE about, the only country out on London decay so quickly bour. It has been four years library which is an exact copy Seeing how it is strictly for when he sailed his ketch to New you are a king without a throne

to take this seriously. The that I do not believe we shall under construction

an of the famous library at Queens sumuner use, I had to agréé and York and baskt. al film themes ate teenagers and reach a danger level this con estimated £300,000 without burough University all green privately extend that claim to drum-teenagers and drink,tury even the fists contiove fumtre

gold and wall books include most places outside or AZIZ WWN —A-NEW £1,200,000 with a. carved-wood ceiling. Europe as well.

neuri capsized in a cyclone off hotel of Cascais, linked by d the Bermudus.

£300,000 (riend watch over London: Said a Portuguese

of Perhaps an even more fabulous

ski-liit to a new Patino: "Please you no, use celling, One reproduced -London Express Service, the name of me-bul 1 think the modlevat palace at Cintra.

"Ah here he comes. I will casino two miles away at present him if you like."

Estoril, is one of the plans to popularise this coast.

zanes and lick knives. We are at their present rate." not going to have . We can' get rid of it all, but we du every- thing we can.

By Mr A. G. Kentbridge, the British Transport Commission's ethelenry expert, speaking at a conference at Gleneagles, Perth- shire:-

JOUSEWIVES could cut their H by quarter if they

would sit down with a paper and pencil and work out better ways of doing their everyday jobs. Richard Snedden, -by Sir vieu-chairman of King George's Fund for Saflors, at the fund's annual meeting in London:-ə

beat will WITH the

in the world, Slate welfare schemes Can Bever COVER the whole fold. A pourd spent with sym- pathy and in a' good atmosphere is far more effective than a pound spent hy bureaucracy.

by Sir Hugh Beaver, at a meeting of the Federallon of British Industries:- INDUSTRY has a new role to

play in the new worial tə take the place la come measure of the wealthy patron if the

past, to initiate, to sponsor, to finance research and education, the care of youth and the aged. culture, and, in fact, civilisation,

--Ly Ar Harold "Shadow"" Chancellor, in aller-the-Budget broadcast:--

SHOULD have thought that rwen the most consistent

I

Wilson,

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beer drinker would rather go ou paying the increased price for beer if to felt tho oli!

agt

own

men lorgas, perhaps his mother and father, weyo really being looked after,

But the gues on.

PEACE

MAKER

OF CYPRUS

UNEMPLOYMENT WAVED

AWAY

LIKE MAGIC!!

Cumming

MEDIATOR EAST & WEST

BETWEEN

**Babi Ho's just an actor...

הנפין!

FAIRY BOUNTIFUL

Reckoning Patino's wealth, you can hardly blame thn 1mling

COMING

BUDGET

DAY!

But goodness! I wish I had 'bie 'aéript.'

London Express Bervice.

I Like

JUST like home! Portuguese parents are arguing that tele-

Strange! Ex- Sundays, τη only

I anld I would very much ilke vision is having a bad effect on

to and we went out to the 18th their children. hole where the count was just cepting finishing a strenuous round with operates from 9 p.m. until just the Venezuelan Ambassador before midnight. Roberto Machado Moralles.

preved to be one of the gayest

FROM the Duque de

Tall, tanned, and smiling, Luno, head of tourism in with a blue sweater and eyes to Spain: "Holidays are becom- match, Don Juan of Spain ing quite impossible-thera Pretenders you could wish to is hardly anywhere loft where you can got away from. people."

meet.

He grimaced as we came over.

"Ah, Manuel," he cried.

"

THIS is a very moral country and I think the blonde Ameri-

lost but now I shall beat you can eating lunch with a book

all ai dice.!"

Pupil

We adjourned to a

corner

propped up before her should at feast have removed its garish book พล.

"Lolita."

:

LISBON'S snob Avis

table in the bar: "This is called Hotel is so exclusivo it has 'Liar

Dico, explained the no brochure and never ad- Comic. "I don't see what you vartixos.

throw and what you tell me you

have thrown may not necessarily AFTER battling Portuguese be true, but you will have to ses gate-force breezes, I understand it I accept it,"

Inenced.

why local farmers find their The game-for matches-com- cheapest source of power is a

plain, old-fashioned windmill. Said the ambassador: "I have ✪ THE PALACE Hotal, jack, three queens, and • Estoril, so angry at the ra king."

cently bulit Cibro Hotel for "Ummm," sold the Comte, blocking its view that it is tapping his note, "that, is an suing to have it torn down. interesting proposition. I accept." --(London". "Ezprem Servist),