The Bermuda Recorder

              wednesday may 5 1954 rage two , the bermuda recorder the bermuda recorder african housing progress pakistani takes u.k letters to the editor pbo bono publico course on diesel the bermuda published by the union printery court street hamilton bermuda every wednesday and saturday ine dr h c curtis memorial locomotives eund a lead from east a b fjlace managing editor ah'kicajn railways may 4th i'jo telephone company london by a 1 r mail april 28 — a six months train ing course in the operation and maintenance of diesel elec tric locomotives has heen ar ranged by the u k govern ment for a pakistani railway engineer under the colombo plan technical co-operaing scheme 1 lie editor the bermuda recorder suusuklfllo-n kath-fc r rom our own correspondent vo x early 20 mall yearly special rates for contract ads l__/b yuarterlj dear sir e u _\ jj v k by airmail april 28 — with industrialisa tion spreading throughout africa and with it extensions of railways the steps taken by east african railways to house their worker s may well become a pattern that could be followed by other public and private industrial and trading organisations since april loth there has been no report of the dona tions to the above fund 1 should be grateful if you would publish the names ot these who have so generously contributed to the fund since this date limited all communications mtended tor publication should be addressed to the manager the recorder court street city hamilton bermuda wednesday may o 19m invites he is mr mohammed safdar khwaja of larore who is fuel officer responsible for fuel distribution and fuel economy for the eastern ben gal railway mr khwaja who has arrived in the u.k will do his training with the southern region of british railways — cna another ghand1 mr and mis w e s zuill mr and mrs t n dill miss peggy dill miss daphne dill miss katherine dill mr and mrs j v r bright the hon murtagh guinness com aud mrs a b russell ir and mrs b c c outer 1 » i the public tc subscribe for 1.000 shares a new z:i,wu block of hats has recently been opened for african railways workers at mombasa 20 par value of the capital stock ot the company which are offered at 30 we note with interest that the people ot eritish hon duras exercising their vote for tiie first time have placed in power a party that has pledged itself to work towards complete independence lt is our prayer that the experi ment in honduras will prove to be more successful than it did in british guiana ihe three - storeyed block which stands on flic island side of makupa causeway and overlooks the sea has 72 rooms each with its own kitchen per share mr and mrs shippen davis mr and mrs harold wilkin bridge i i the above offering forms part ot an ull it is natural that humans — be they ever so illiterate ■ should desire to govern themselves it is also to be ex pected that during the early stages of self-government in experienced persons will be placed in responsible position hence when mistakes are made it is most unreasonable to wave the red flag and blame communist influence as was the ease in british guiana american bar head miss anna deere wiman margaret e trott mrs lucy mercer dabney dr and mrs meigs mr and mrs x ii p vesev mr and mrs m j moniz mr and mrs j b spence mr and mrs valmer d tl 1 1 authoiised increase of 7,000 shares in < in each floor ot 1_4 rooms there are 24 showers and sani tary and washing facilities warns about the capital stock oi the company 1 he tlats were designed anil built by the engineering de partment of east african rail ways work began last oct and the building was opened by the superintendent of ports and lights captain c ii hamley civil rights full particulars regarding this proposed issue are available at the ijouchard mr and mrs xorman moniz mr and mrs d m ____: ______ * i office of the company and at the bank when we think of the evolution ot rarliameiitary oov ernmnt in britain and the more recent corruption of party politics in the united states we can but thank god that there was no communist bugy boogy around to provide the necessary excuse that would have clipped the bud before it had time to bloom atlantic lti april 3u — avilliani j jameson presi dent of the american bar as sociation - said tonight the united states must recognize and protect the constitutional rights of all citizens includ ing communists of n t butterfield and son limited patrick mr and mrs roland lines mrs m a dunne mrs martha crichton mrs iva ililborn mi and mrs c t collis ihe pinio'r grades ot african staff will pay no rent and water and electricity will be free in their new homes only s00 railway africans remain without official housing in mombasa and these are accommodated in temporary quarters the flats can be con verted into family flats later and the bank of bermuda limited persons desiring to subscribe should do when we read of the progress being made by peoples all over the world — some of whom we consider more back ward that we one wonders if bermuda will ever join in the procession if we compare bermuda with guiana and honduras we will discover that bur position is somewhat different although technically speaking we have no constitution as such the fact remains that our locally elected government receives little direction from the col onial office the snag being of course that the franchise is so adjusted that the masses have little to say in the choos ing of their government so on or before the sth may 19o4 but he added the nation m _..._. i 1.1 ... it is encouraging to note that since the fund was opened on march 10th the total amount donated fo date is 4.2(10 l s id . . . must not be blinded to the fact that if the communist philosophy should prevail these constitutional rights would be forever lost the company reserves the right to decline any application for shares either lours faithfully in whole or in part more flats to come speaking at the annual meeting of the xew jersey bar association the billings moat lawyer said wi m park ihe hallways administra tion plans to build five more full blocks and six half-blocks of flats near the site of the new building mombasa will then have a complete housing scheme of 20 blocks of flats which when completed will have their own shops and schools lor the dr ii c curtis ii r • . t-i i -. memorial fund j by order oi the directors ». e iniisi oe y.eaions 111 nr protection of individual rights but at the same time be equal ly zealous in safeguarding ou national security amm it has often been said that we are our own worst enem but if we examine the world picture we will discover that basically the coloured bermudians differs very little from people elsewhere even though he has very little money in the bank yet he is well fed well clothed and well housed hence he is not particularly interested in tomorrow could not the very same be said of the thousands in england who turn out to root for their favourite soccer or cricket team is backache edmund zuill secretary-treasurer inn american ment torm ol j;u eni just a sign of age much ot the work on the new flats was carried out by railway africans themselves the complicated plumbing in stallations in the building were carried out by a luo from alego location mr chris topher opondo who was con gratulated on his work by cap-tan hamley mr opondo a former wireless operator joined a marine engineering company after the war he has worked for east african railways for the past five and certainly the organ ized bar and the individual lawyer alike have a challege to leadership in this all important task of maintaining the proper balance between government and man between individual rights and national scurity many people sutler an aching back needlessly — believing you must expect a few aches and pains when you're getting on in years li k fl u-l :_ .,!. — . 1 u l nut backache is otten caused by the faulty action of kidneys and liver bee how much better you feel after taking dr chase's kidney-liver pills and your kidneys and liver both filter out impurities from your bloodstream that's because this time-proven dr chase remedy treats two conditions at once — contains special remedial ingre dients for both the kidney and liver disorders which often cause backache ._• ■___ r iv . _> ■ only 3 days to remember » the real difference between bermuda and other places be they the united kingdom british guiana or british honduras is that we have been slow to develop leadership among the poorer classes to say it briefly bermuda's massiah — in our estimation will need all of the finalities of character possessed by tbe late mahatma ohandi mom on her day may 9th earlier in the evening ses sion a resolution was intro duced asking the state bar to look into lawyers complaints about the way congressional investigating committees con duct hearings and treat coun sel for witnesses with a rancy wrapped package of schrarvr's chocolates^h •■ it you re leeling worn-out tired headachy — v.ith painful joints and aching back — look to your kidneys and liver try dr chase's kidney-livei pills tonight at all drug counter it u j cell nuclear ughtn1ng british veterinary expert for australia and new zealand other scbemes ihese railway workers flats are a small part of mombasa's 1053 developments in which 257.000 has been spent on african housing chicago if the atomic energy commission's new pro gram to produce cheap elec tric power from nuclear re actors is successful the aver age home owner may be light ing his kitchen or living room from current generated by an atom fursace within 10 years mi a _» . — _. _ -_.«.!« v teflij pp i*jib bum ll (» .\ hy ail-mail j april 28 — professor r e glover president of the royal college of veterinary sur geons and head of the depart ment of veterinary pathology in liverpool university has left london for australia and xew zealand where he will tour the chief centres under the auspices of the british council to lecture and to meet veterinary surgeons tt ■ t 1 1 1 ii 1 and this expenditure on housinir i s only one aspect of the big schemes designed for the development of the island tn his annual report for 1958 the provincial commis sioner of the coast mr d 0'ha<?aii says that there are significant projects going on which will soon improve mom basa's industrial position especially made for her att/ie c/ocjd cm that forecast was made oy dr henry d smyth aec member and author of the famed smyth report on de velopment of the atomic bomb he spoke at a university of chicago conference 1"_r s _. i -_:„__! „_.-,..-.„„„ _.- j?exa£c drug store i nt i may 11 he will be in xew zealand as the guest of the veterinary services coun cil 1 he hast african i'ower and lighting company is building a new power station at kipevu where a steam-turbine of 5,000 kilowatt capacity is to be in stalled withtin two yeavs this will be developed to a strength of 50.000 kilowatts which it is hoped will be sufficient for the domestic and industrial needs of the island much technical progress is necessary he said to develop atomic electricity which will be economically competitive with steam-developed electric ity dr smyth said the enery potentially available in the world's uranium reserves has been estimated at 20 to 25 times the energy from all of the world's reserves of coal oil and gas xt i *_. n wten street amwakm t rom may ii to june iz he will be in australia as the guest of the australian veter inary association and the commonwealth scientific and industrial research organisa tion he will attend the annual meeting of the aus tralian veterinary association from may 30 to 31 c.x.a 6c ~ . 1h--1 h_i :: 4_____k_______ey * hh k!!v^b hi_m v ■-■ w ■_________/ ■ ■■_____■ b pk7ts____fi_i__-p-'h f t ___■ vlisp^_biii____fb_i ipplsp gppp m h fe h : ■ i>m_a ■ ________________■ f a_v ti .^ f«yi^-_^^t-_*»t?mf-----_^^mtbniwwi so let us supply you for all your needs 1 he report mentions the rritish standard portland cement company's new cement factory at bamburi this was originally designed to produce 90,000 tons of cement a year and the installation of another kiln will raise the annual potential to 120,000 tons — more than the total cement imports into kenya in either 1950 1951 or 1952 nuclear power plants will differ from normal power plants only by the substitu tion of a nuclear reactor for the firebox and boiler of to day's steam generators dr smyth said the steam tur bines will be essentially the same and so will the electric generators it will be only a modification of a familiar in dustry faints — varnishes — stains energy commission forecasts tt t c xl _______ henry if nniyth said nu clear power already may be worth while in some isolated areas of the country where conventional fuel costs are very high he did not name the areas tx * _ . 1 m lmstemfer _ undercoats bkushes _ paint-spraying equipment etc despite the eventual reduc tion in cost mr smyth indi cated that nuclear-powered plants will be supplying only two to 10 per cent of the na tion's power needs by 1975 the proportion probably will rise he said should the cost of other fuels go up in addition the completion of a central telephone ex change building the improve ment of the main thorough fares the installation of lights along most roads and the new design s for drainage and sew age all emphasise the remark able progress whieh is being made on the island — c.n.a a-power forecast standard hardware co chicago — atomic-gener ated electric power will be cheap enough to compete with other fuels in about 20 years a member of the atomic unurcn and washington streets phone 3905 advertise in the bermuda recorder-it pays