1960-07-23 — Page 12

Atom-proof hospital gets ready

IT CAN SEAL "OFF AGAINST FALL-OUT THE first hospital of the

nuclear age is being built into the side of a hill. in the small town of Livingston, New Jersey, 15 miles west of Manhattan. When it is completed next year, St Barnabas Medical Centre will stond four storeys above ground level, and two below. It has been designed to withstand the most lethal radioactive fall-out,

The moment word is flashed that New York City has been struck with a muclear bomb, the hospital will enclose itself in fall-out-proof shell.

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Plans for St· Esimabas were first undertaken 10 years ago, when it was given a grant of £135,000 by the Office of Civil Defence under a U.S. Govern- ment experimental shelter pro- gramme.

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Ideal

"But we had an awful Ume finding an architect who would follow our theories," said DI George C. Schickes, executive director of the present St Barnabas, which is the oldes hospital in New Jersey.

The fral plans for the medical centre were the 40th to come from the drawing boards..

THE CHINA^ "MAIL” “SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1960.

JACKY'S DIARY &

in School Last WEEK We Learned the History of how the US. Mail. Sor STARTED.

from: Me

to: you.

Dear Sam

How are You i am fine.

i hope your! are also

after a couple of More Years, THEY STARTED in SENDING MAIL

acrossep The Ocean in a Great Big BOAT So That You Could send

a Letter to Eutrop if You Had a

Stamp.

U.S. MAIL

BY

JACKY Mendelsohn

Ase 321⁄2

ONCE UPON A DIME People WROTE one & Other Letters on

Stones,

ONLY they were VERY HEAVY to carry, So They decided To invent Paper in

Stead

Needles To Say, now-A-Paze The People are more Modern & send their MAIL on AiRoPlanes to aLL diffrent Parts of THE WORLD.

GRE

1960

Mail

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Then WHEN IT Sets There The Mail Man Reads it. And if it's for you he Brings it OVER Your

House

TheN a Little Later on they Rented Cowboys) To CAPPY The U.S. Mail on Horse BACK,

These

Were

Known

Express Riders,

of You Wanna be Come a MAIL Man You SOTTA | 1st Be a Civil Servant,

HUMAN DIGNITY IN RUSSIA

short message sent to his newspaper from the Hook of Holland on a recent Sunday morning by Mr Harry Longmuir, a Daily The US. Civil Defence chose Mail reporter. The message reads as follows:

LET me begin this London Letter by a

Livingston as an ideal spot for

a nuclear-cra hospital because It lies in a pocket between two mountain barriers on layers of solid bed rock, Dr Schicks re- ported.

"British Railways regret that the 10.5 train from Liverpool Street Station to Moscow was 27 minutes late arriving at Harwich today. But we are still hopeful of making the station near the Kremlin on time- Tuesday night at 6.50. The No. 11 London Transport Bus I caught on the This hospital will house the way to Moscow was also five minutes late, which is understandable." canly medical personnel avail-

A shing,

Russian before the train arrives at that is about all, able (after nuclear bombing), If

Wars have we lose them we can't do sy-sleeper couch is waiting at the Moscow somewhere about 30 in ranged about Holland for cen- platform and in a short period fact. There is for example that turies but the sturdy, unroman- thing anywhere," he said.

of time it will be off on the run flat, dull country of Holland tie inhabitants go on 13 St Barnabas is being bulli to Moscow, that mysterious, which seems isolated from the detached from the swirling, to ensure its continued "opera-shadowed capital of the Com- world in which it exists.; maddening, threatening 'world tion even if the upper storeys munist world.

outside. collapse from a bomby's fores, But there are many

modern

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DOES IT EXIST?

-LONDON LETTER-

by Sir Beverley Baxter, M.P.

Us

to

that Russla

-the fact that Russian menutse-

Then Later on You Can Retire on Aold Age penchant f become a UN-CIVIL Servant

GRR!

No longer is the individual Russian willing, to work for Just ́enough to keep him alive. Änd no longer is he' content to live and die solely for kla country. He wants a T‚ ̈V. net just like þeir your family and mine. He wants #better house and a motor, car

2

PROFESSIONAL

GAMBLER TURNS TEACHER

More money in telling his secrels

Las Vegas.

A PROFESSIONAL American gambler

;

indus in many of the world's

any elected

was the leader of the First and importance. No longer is just like the people who live op- Revolution which overthrew the Russia 2 slave state though posits you -- and me. Royal Dynasty and turned Mr Khrushchiey is unaware, et There is no reason to suppose Russia into a Republic, For the fact, or pretends that he is that Mr Khushchev will change ave months he tried to liberalise unaware. Also it is no longer the facade of things. He will a nation which had never known, true that- Rusada, is a country denounce Capitalism as a crime liberty in all its existence, and where individual expression of against humanity and he will be There is, however, an adjust he failed to deal with the rising opinion is banned. The iron forced to transfer more and with 30 years' experience ment which has to be made revolutionary personalities

oi curtain is nothing more than mare authority to the before the train ventures into Lenin and Trotsky.

worn ont scraps of metal

trialsts whose factories are Russian territory. At Brest- A few weeks after Kerensky. Let

credit

the altering

scene leading gambling resorts give

Russian Litovsk, the train has to undergo had been overthrown I talked Khrushchev that he was shrewd beyond belief.

has just learned that he а technical transformation.

From that to While the passengers sleep, or with him in London. He was e enough to realise try to sleep, the coach has to be man of charm and integrity, a could only hold her place in the parliament on traditional lines can make more money by lifted from the 4 feet 81⁄2 inch man of courage, and at heart he scheme of things if she accepted will inevitably emerge. It was teaching the secrets of

the Industrial Revolution rails and deposited on was a Liberal, gauge

In his trade than from the The 5 feet bogies of the Soviet sation he paused dramatically challenge of the Western world much struggle, produced the In the course of our conver- turers would have to meet the Britain that ended the rule of

the upper classes and after gaming tables. Republic.

and then uttered these fateful

equal terus. on

But

Lawrence Curry, his and hopeful words. "I

Britain that we know today. I courteous 52-year-old Souther gove problem was how to give re- Russia treedom for five months, ward to workers and managers moving relentlessly, even gambling which he expects to am: certain that Russia is ner has founded a school" for: It seems that there is an ex- and a nation which has know without moving perilously to slowly, to a new concept of tra charge for this--a mere four freedom. even for five months wards a system of higher pay for shillings and two pence which is will never rest until it is free higher standard of production. power is already moving into human dignity. In short the duly included in the cost of the again." ticket. Incidentally. the return Let us

that he had

the hands of the middle classes Curry opened his school in

gambling. strange though it may seem to America's

capital Late £47. 18, and there is an coined those words some time extra £22 for sleeping berths. back and had used them over In short Russia, that nation of allot such a description for what here after he grew discontented

is happening.

with the £100 a week - be Meals to cover both ways cost and over again, but it was recurring revolutions, is now another £9 a total of £78.16. nevertheless deeply impressive. undergoing e new bloodless

Russia is a deeply troubled rad been earning es a profes- Just to make it more complicated Yet unhapally his liberal re- revolution. We are seeing the country. It has a dictator who sional gambler,

His school has attracted there is dinner on the Russian volution was in effect a mere ascendance of the industrialist has served his country well but,

Arst owned special coach served by moment in history which cleared and the scientist and, with them, who lacks the stature of mature many pupils. In the French Railway staff.

the way for the murderous re- the rising scale of wages and leadership. It has on its borders week of operation 40 men paid more than 275 each, for the At Brest-Litovsk representa volution of Troisky and Lenin production. Instead of a nation of the immense nation of China two-month course in the tives of Russia's Intourist that took so many lives and sent tyrants and serfs we are seeing which gazes lustfully upon Agency come on board to issue so many victims to Siberian, the development of middle class Silberia as the only possible sciences of dice, roulette and more warnings and to give slavery.

110 respectability and middle class ferritory for the overspill of the pontoon. general information. So far

achievement. In fact history is ever-inceasing Chinese popu

Iation. It has antagonised 'Pupil' dealers reminding us that even in Russia the real rulers must be drawn America

this train is planned only for

sume

Weak candle

Bloodless

which is the most industrial power in

net him nearly £15,000 by the end of the year,

Most of

Curry's stents

But once more we are faced from the intelligent bourgeoisie: the world and possessed of the plan to become dealers

powerful It was the English who creati

A reward

Vegas Havana and other Latin American gambling resorts

The curriculum incliries a

the tourist season but if-tramc justifies the expense it will be- come a permanent äxture. with the unchallengeable truth

Let us agree that the outside that yesterday is the parent of ed that significant section of the greatest striking air fores. world is not unduly excited by tomorrow, The weak candle community known "ás' the middle the fact that people of the West that Kerensky It in these far of classes. No longer in Britain. can now travel by train to Mos- years is once more casting its do the gentry rule the country. cow yet it cannot be denied that beam in Russian. It is no more" cor de ine, Trade Unions die- Is it any wonder that the basic study of. the rules it has a significance which is than a candie

look not to be ignored. The iron means a flaming torch but is

with the middle classes Britain, France and America and Psychology," Curtain will soon be ́nothing nevertheless its light can be from whom are drawn the say: "This is what we want a tips on how to keep the game more than any other curtain seen today,

scientists, the heads of industry system of society where there is going. that shades the windows of a A few hours ago I had a long and the leaders of govern- good reward for good work, bet- The studenta penit about house. Two world wars have talk with Harold Macmillan who ment.

ter reward for better work, and six hours a day at the school, brought Russia into the comity as usual seemed as fresh and un- It is true that Britain has a cutstanding reward for out-taking note dusing Cums of nations.

wearied as if he had been on a Monarch and an Upper Cham standing achievement?”

lectures and observing

and is

by no tete to Parliament. The power Russian people

of

THAIL

the

games,

the

mbling

and

That shrewd and merciless vacation in the countryside, ber of Peers in Parliament but Great Britain is a democracy techniques for dealing cards, dictator, Lenin, dreamed and which he loves so deeply.. the power is firmly in the hands ruled by a constitutional monarch throwing dice end operating a planned a self-supporting slate Naturally a conversation with of the elected representatives in and a Parliament in which its roulette table. detached from all contact with the Prime Minister Is purely the House of Commons,

main · Chamber is elected.. Some. Curry advice;" the outside world.

personal and not for publication A wise friend of mine, just America is a democracy dedi-Don't be fustered by His conception was to raise a but this I can state without returned from Rufa makes cated to human benty and im money it is simply a tool to wall which would imprison a breaking the rule-It is quite the claim that the high stand- mensely powerful in peace and

work with.

mighty people and thus be obvious that Macmillan believes erd and the widespread of war, France and Western Ger»

the abortive Summit Con- scientific education are idea. Be consistent irrespective doctrine of freedom from the ference, despite the frag remarkable results. The output in the industrial world.

For how much money is on the Western world. His principal, comedy of the stray American of manufactured goods and the Therefore let us drink to table, A surgeons, dosen's dupe was Trostsky who was a plane that penetrated and dese-quality of the output is moving: Russia and wish her ell good operate one way if he is to be mass murderer but lacked a crated the Russian siles, was of upwards all the time. These fortune in the painful transition paid £50 and another way for massive mind, be considerable value.

were the words of one who is from a medieval despotism to 2250 The truth is that Russia, in Tamiliar with his subject and democracy Yet there is one man, and not

even though Mr Be in comme a strong one, who mast not be undergoing a bloodiem revolu- whose opinion is highly valued Khrushchev, will try until the table at all times forgotten. Alexander Keresicy ton of the utmost significanos in Britain,

very end to hold back the clock.

James Bond

(London Express Se