The Sun Times from Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada • 8

SL Off For A Tour Of Russia Legal Driving Age Raised to 16 Years Miss Caroline Bietz Buried At Mildmajr Canadian national Railways has said that tho new engines would provide heat for passenger 'rains as a by-product eliminating the need for separate beating system a which diesel-powered trains MrSy Widmejrer of TORONTO (CP) A hlghwap Ayton via bereft of her sister Traffic Act amendment raising the $350000000 Puf In 'S Housing By Insurance Co's I Tin Own Sound Suu-Timee Saturday Jan 2 1954 Coal Burning Gas Turbine Engine May Revolutionize Canada Railway Operation vhen Miss Caroline Beits aged 75 pasted a army suddenly Sunday at the home of her brother Michael Beits at his home in Garrick Township Funeral services were held from Mildmay Sacred Heart Church on Wednesday Dee 30 with burial in Mildmay Cemetery Report Of Order Of Delta Wing Jets Said Premature legal driving age in Ontario to Id from 15 years went into effect Thursday The amendment passed at the lest session of the legislature cancels all driving licences now in the bands of 15-year-olds whs up to now could take a driving ta-t and get a licence for 52 if they passed ISLAND PATRIARCH ELMSDALE PEL Alexander (Sandy) Cameron celebrated hie 102nd birthday here Christmas Day at tha home at hie only daughter GOLDEN JUBILEE MEDICINE H'T Alta Mr end Mrs Jamcj Wyatt celebrated their golden wedding anniversary here They were married 50 years ago at St Thomas and moved west the same year MONTREAL McGill University scientists have made the first successful test runs with a coal-burning gas turbine engine that may bring about a revolution in railway operations Under design and construction for three years the turbine may bring: 1 Construction of a new type of locomotive cheaper to operate and more efficient than anything now on the tracks 2 Use of coal-burning gas turbines to power electric genera' ing units and to serve a variety' of other functions I A boom in the Canadian coal industry a casualty in the phenomenal development of oil and uses for oil GOVERNMENT CONCERN Concern over the future of vast Canadian coal reserves led the fed- or 0 jirr products of combus- gas rest -es in view of our large known reserves of co-L" It ia estimated tha Canada has 59 carloads of coal per capita of population compared with one-half tank-car of oil The successful test runs were described in the House of Commons by Mines Minister Prudham who said the McGill engine is one of the best in the world for research purposes Power has been produced before by coal-burning gas turbines in the United Sta'es and the United Kingdom but the McGill research is considered one step ahead The experimental engine blasts hot gases against wheels or tur-b'nes in its interior causing them to spin at a terrific rate A major problem was to see that no fly- OTTAWA (CP) A government official aaya that a report that an order for delta-wing Je planes has been placed with the A Roe Company of Malt on (hit la premature The report said the planes would travel at nearly twice the speed of sound The official said Thursday he understood that an order for a prototype of such a plane might be placed -i the future I would be at least two years after placement of this order however before the olane could be produced in TORONTO (CP) Life Insurance companies operating In Canada put some (350000000 Into housing in 1953 George Holmes at Toronto president of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers Association said today in a year-end statement The amount represents an increase of nearly IS per cant over 1(52 and brings the total mortgage investments of the companies to nearly 35 per cent of their assets in Canada Mr Holmes added "It is too early to foresee (he effect at the new in- sured mortgage legislation! The companies desire to co-operate with the federal government as they have done in past years to provide additional housing but the volume of funds available for this purpose will depend to aome ex-! tent on whether the interest return on the Insured mortgage hav- tag regard to safety and admtais-: tration costs la competitive with other avenues of investment for i their Mr Holmes said that in 1953 Ca-1 nadians put in tar aome (2500- 000000 additional insurance on their lives After making allowance for death claims end other policy terminations this brought the total life Insurance owned by Canadians to some 920500000000 or more than double the amount in force at the end of the war Special Delivery Service When you fail to receive Your SUN-TIMES Before 630 pm Phone 2400 AFTER 630 pm Phone 1323 and a copy will be delivered to your homo os quickly as possiblo NO SPECIAL DELIVERIES ON CALLS RECEIVED AFTER 730 PM fouled the turbine These seven editors of college newspapers are shown Just fore they boaroed a plane at IdJewild imernatumal airport New York for Moscow and three weeks of travelling in the Soviet Union In the group 'clockwise' are: Richard Elden Chicago Northwestern University William Ive Aledo 111 Knox College: Craig Lovttt Galesburg 111 Knox College Dean Sche'kopf Minneapolis University of Minnesota Richard Ward New Rochelle university of Chicago David Barney Eugene Ore Reed College and Gregory ShUker Evanston III Northwestern Can lrJ Press Canadian Think Statesman Had Premonition Death Was Near eral government to ask McGill rientlats to develop a coal-burning gas turt ne engine A team set to work under Prof Donald Louis Mordell a cautious young Englishman who spent the war ye rs working on the development of aircraft Jet engines They built an experimental 500-horsepower coal-burning gas turbine engine in McGill's gas dynamics laboratory at nearby Ste Anne Ct Bellevue A small furnace capable of burning three-quarters o( a ton of pulverircd coal an hour provides the power in the new engine Air heaters pass the heat irnm the furnace gases to a compressor which drives the turbine taken from a Rolls-Royce Jet engine The engine is not a prototype Petroleum Ied Total Mineral Production To Top $1331000000 Value tion of coal blades Prof Mordell overcame the problem by inventing what he calls an "operating It ensures that only clean air comes into contact with the whirling blades of the turbine He worked with the knowledge tha' a United Slates locomotive manufacturing firm had developed an unsuccessful prototype gas-tlir-bine locomotive several years ago On trial runs a-hes got mixed up with the gas and ground the turbine blades to pieces It has been estimated that a coalburning gas turbine locomotive could haul passengers and freight trains four times as far as a present-day steam locomotive can with the same amount of coal Fuel costs would be only a third as much as for present diesel locomotives The new locomotive could use lower grades of coal than steam engines require Steam locomotives utilize an average of six per cent of the 'hermo-energy of coal while the new ones would utilise 20 to 24 per cent In cold winter the efficiency steam locomotives drops It is believed the efficiency of the gas-turbo engines would Increase in winter I President Donald Gordon of LONDON Viscount Norwich British statesman who died Friday in a holiday liner off the coast of Spain may have had a premonition death was near at hand In his autobiography published two months ago "Old Men the (1-year-old Lord Norwich better known as Sir Alfred Duff Cooper 'wrote: "Life has been good to me and I am grateful but I am fond of change I shall not be too distressed when the summons comes to go away "Autumn has always been my favorite season and evening has been for me the pleasantest time of day I love the sunlight but I cannot fear the coming of the dark" News Service To Serve Radio TV 3 for a locomotive or for other uses but it is expected to provide all From Office Boy fo $1000 a Week Boss in 42 Years the anr-ers scientists need to know before the engine can be developed commercially TWO-VEAR TASK Prof Mordell believes it may take two years to compile necessary information "The fundamental aim of the experiment is to find a new uxe for Prof Mordell said in an interview "It would be unwise to concentrate all our attention upon the utilization of oil and natural the TORONTO (CP) Broadcast News Limited a new organization to supply world-wide news to Canada's privately-owned radio and television stations starts operations Jan 1 The company Is a operation of the private broadcasters and the national news-gathering cooperative The Canadian Press ch slice 1041 has served radio through another subsidiary Press News Limited Increasing use of news by radio snd television's need for 'specialized service with pictures led to formation of Broadcast News with the private s'atlons represented on Its board of directors The president Is Roy Thomson Toronto president of Thomson Newspapers Gordon Love of CPCN Calgary Is vice-president Broadcast News operates 12000 miles of teletype news circuits in Canada transmitting to 85 private tions news repor's based on the domestic and foreign service of The Canadian Press and the international services of The Associated Press and Reuiefs FREE CHECK NOTTINGHAM England From office boy to 91600- a-week boss in 42 that it the stoiy of John Perclval Savage Next month he takes over the chairmanship of Boots Pure Drug Company a £20000000 concern which operates 1318 drugstores In Britain from its headquarter here Boots pioneered the American-etyle drugstore in Britain The i chain operates stores in main cities throughout the country where you can buy toys books and a host at ether things common on American drug stores but completely foreign to the sedate British idea of the "chemist's shop" Savage left school at 10 ana started at six shillings a week as an office boy working a 60-hour week That wee In 1911 Savage neat end dapper ia a family man with three children Away (ran the world of patent medicines he plays golf and watches rugby football 1 ans fCTTTilfl OF every Walk of Life Candy Whether you're a secretary who needs a four-ta-the-efternoon pick up or a ship's captain with a long night watch you need quick-lasting energy Eat candy Our fresh from tha candy-kitchen kind amm exhaust SYSTEM THE Olympia restaurant Gifted Writer Lord Norwich Dies On Holiday LONDON Lord Norwich (1 who served in Britain's Parliament government and diplomatic service over three decades as Alfred Duff Cooper died Friday aboard the French steamship Colombie while on a holiday tour Lord Norwich was the husband of a noted stage beauty the former Dianna Manners She was with him aboard the Colombie Their son John Julius Cooper who succeeds to the title said he had been advised that the death occurred as the ship was off the port of Vigo on Spain's Atlantic coast Duff Cooper a Conservative who was war minister and a first lord of the admiralty In the troubled years that led up to Munich was knighted In IBM He was made a viscount by the Queen In her birthday honors list June 4 1(52 and entered the peerage as Viscount Norwich of Aldwick A gifted writer and historian he was minister of information In Prime Minister Churchill's war cabinet from 1940 to 1043 then became the government's representative with the French Committee of National Liberation From 1(44 to 1947 ha was ambassador to France OTTAWA Petroleum became Canada's number one mineral during 1953 and led total mineral production to a record annual value of $1331000000 Preliminary estimates by the bureau of statistics issued Friday valued the flow of the West's black gold at 9190000000 gain of 955-000000 from 143000000 in 1952 Output reached 81000000 barrel' rompared with 61000000 the previous year Petroleum took over top place In production value from gold which bad been most valuable mineral for nearly 25 years Prolonged strikes at some mines cut gold production to 4061000 ounces from 4471000000 snd value to 11400000000 from 1153000000 Total value of all mineral production was 34 per cent higher than the 1052 total of (1285000000 capping a steady 10-year increase from (485(00000 In 1944 t'RAKIl'M SECRET The estimates contained no figures on production of uranium which is kept secret Ontario retained first place in mineral values among the provinces with 140476000 Quebec was second at 9252026000 and Alberta a close third at 9245055000 The value of alt metals was 9709000000 in 1053 a 28-per-cent decline from 9728000000-in 1952 Mineral fuels were valued at 9311-000000 18 per cent above the $283- 800000 the previous year Other Don-metallic minerals were valued at 8127000000 compared with 1125000000 and structural materials set a new high value at (183-000000 compared with 9100000000 Among minerals nickel moved into second place in value behind petroleum with copper next and gold fourth The 1053 value of nickel production was 9160800000 as against 9151300000 Copper production fell lightly to 603000000 pounds from 518000000 but higher prices raised the value to (150600000 from $148- 700000 ZINC LEAD DECLINE Price declines bit zinc and lead Zinc output rose seven per cent and lead production was up 14 per cent But the value of xlnc fell to 095400000 from $120800000 and of lead to $52000000 from $54600-000 Iron ore shipments In 1053 were the highest on record: 6500000 tons worth (42722000 as against 5200000 tons worth $33700000 In 1052 Remelt Iron a co-product of titanium ore smelting was valued at 93000000 as against 11800000 Coal production dropped to 15- 760000 tons at $102000000 from 17579000 tons at (111000000 with several coal mines ceasing operations Natural gas output was 99- 629000000 cubic feet worth 911-000000 as against 88688000000 cubic feet worth $9500000 'JANUARY Get your FREE Chryco check-up today! CHRYCO Is a trodomork of As Chrydsr Corporation of Canada Umkad CHRYCO PARTS AND ACCESSORIES ARE SOLD BY CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH-FARGO and DODGI-DESOTO DEALERS 3 Jump From Car At Level Crossing nwet people Jumped asoonds before Canadian National Railways train demolished their stalled automobile William Riley 28 his wife Elaine 23 of Zurich and his sister MUa Rets Riley 30 of Staffs escaped uninjured after the Riley car stalled when it became stuck in now at the level crossing on a Mitchell back street Riley saw the lights of the oncoming passenger train and tired to flag it down but the crow did not see him in the dark He started to run back to the car to wan his wife and sister hut they realised the train was not going to stop and Jumped out eeoonde before the orash Taxes and Trade Trends EUND HgNDERICH New TTC Takes On Duties Friday TORONTO The Toronto Transit Commission serving the new municipality of metropolitan Toronto Friday took over from tho old Toronto Transportation Corn- Honors List Is Under Criticism -3gg COMMENCES To many men naws about busirwa Is tha most intsnsting news they can mad They regard it important to know about proposed changes in tariffs snd tarns about trada trsndc which affect all business in a basic way and which influence slock market movements Spacial articles on business subjects which Beland Hander ich writes far the Financial Pago of Tho Toronto Daily Star are eagerly looked for and much quoted Beland Honderlch Financial Editor of Tho Daily Star is a practical analyst of business and finance who wrvoys daily developments for information which business men want Honderlch makes tho cold facts of finance Interesting to read and easy to understand You get the news of the world when you mad The Toronto Daily Star Have The Star delivered to your homo UJ One of its first tasks win be to out a system of sons fares At present the adult faro la three t'' eta for 25 cents plus an additional street-car or bus far ticket for moat lines op -rating beyond the city limits The none fare will replace the present city and suburban fare system some time after July 31 when the new commission acquires four independent suburban bus lines LONDON Several national newspapers Friday heaped criticism on the annual New honors list which announced the awards at titles and decorations to 030 of her subjects ranging from leading politicians to a humble bricklayer Among those knighted are Jacob Ebstein 73-year-old sculptor and a comedian of 84 George Robey The mssa-clrculation Dally Mirror devoted Its whole front page to advene comment- oa the "curious honors list" It said the list the past and gives no recognition fo some of those whose names mean something to the public for what they arc doing now" SPECIALS HAVE BEEN PURCHASED FOR THIS SALE AND ARE FEATURED IN ALL DEPARTMENTS PRICES ARE THE LOWEST EVER DURING THIS STOREWlDE EVENT SHOP AND SAVE DURING PEOPLES STORE 9c SALE Meited to Any Addmw I month 125 I months 1S0 months (50 yoar 1200 Address CimriaMao Opt Mb Dv as King St Taranto Delivered by Carrier 30c a Week LTD Writes Warning Editorial Is Victim of Carelessness WILLIAMSPORT Fa AP) Editor Rebecca Gross wrote a New traffic safety editorial for her newspaper the Lock Haven (Pa) Express "Who wants to start the new year in hospital or a aha asked In print Then she provided her own spite of statistics no one need he one of these new year accident On New eve the 49-year-old editor lost both legs in a highway crash Her condition was listed as fair Police said Miss Gross had gone through a stop sign wm rRTTTS1 WHALLEY BC Plremen wera called out to save a herd of 30 cows stranded In a barn when the area was flooded by a blockage In the drainage ditch The firemen used emergency suction pumps to clear the area TALENTED NEWCOMERS kitchener An eMdM- tlon of 33 paintings by Immigrants from Europe went on display at the library here The showing circulated by the London public library Includes the work of artists of 13 different nationalities OWEN SOUND.