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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-02-28, Page 7al 411110116... Office Building Heated By Sun, Keeping warm in cold weather as so important to 'homeowners that one-fourth of the fuel they use is for heating. Winter com- fort means a furnace fired by Ras, oil, or coal, with electricity about the only other means of doing the job. Designers' i n Albuquerque, N.M., have gone the engineers One better — heating an 'office building.' with another kind of furnace. This furnace is 93,000,- 000 miles away—in other words the sun. A number of homes have been heated in the past with solar energy, but the i,ffice building is the first of Its kind. Strikingly.. modern, the 4,300 - square -foot building has one en- tire wall of glass panels. This wall, actually a solar "collector" tilted to an angle of 30 degrees, holds the key to the heating sys- tem. Under the glass are metal panels through which water cir- culates. Fabrication Of these panels is unusual. A sheet of aluminum has the desired chan- nels for water passage "painted" an it with a special compound. A second sheirt'of metal is plac- ed over the first and the two are • bonded together with tremen- dous heat and pressure. Where the "painting" was done, the metal does not stick together. $ere, hydraulic pressure ex- pands the channel which was marked out, and it is through thi3 that the water travels. The more than 800 square feet of collecting surface gathers enough heat from the sun even on winter days to heat the in- terior of the building by means of air blown over the hot-water coils. And if you think the solar "furnace" shuts down after dark, you're wrong. A 6,000 -gallon water tank stores heat in the form of hot water and this is used at night and during cloudy weather. There is sufficient stor- age for three days' operation. Engineers expect that sun heat will provide 90 per cent of the heating required for the n e w building. In the fall, and again in spring, it is sometimes neces- sary to heat during night and morning while cooling in the afternoon. So, heat is shut off when not needed and stored in the water tank. In conjunction with the solar heating system, the building has aL "heat pump" and a evapora- tive water cooler. Thus, it is completely air conditioned the year round. The building was constructed for abOut the same cost per square foot as a conventional building, and the designers are confident that operating costs, will be much lower than with a gas-fired furnace. Serving as a basis for the design of similar structures, the solar - heated building may even influence re- sidences as well. Perhaps some day apartments may proudly advertise "solar heat." "Come all ye bold sailors that follow the sea Lay your ship to: an anchor and listen to me, It's all your, attention 1 loudly would call To a song that was made up very late in the fall." Three Nova Scotia lobster fishermen take time out from their traps to sing an old chantey much like the one from Lunenberg County introduced by the verse above., Their song is recorded by an ethnologist from the Canadian Museum of Human History, For many years now, people like Helen Creighton have traveled to various parts of Canada with magnetic recorders to capture Canadian folk songs, ballads and sea chanteys. From Brantford and Cape Dorset, from Trois Pistoles and Peggy's Cove, Cana- dian folklore has found its way to a treasury in Ottawa con- taining almosteighteen thousand different selections in French, English, Indian and Eskimo. The Canadian Museum of Human History was established on January 1st to place greater emphasis on the study of man in the Canadian environment. Anthropologists and archaeologists will continue to study and record their findings, in an effort to give all Canadians a more complete understanding of their contemporaries and their predecessors. Monte Carlo and 'Hove It Started money they had made, the twins left prison with a capital Of £4,000, a large sum a hundred years ago. The Blanes went to Hamburg, and obtained the gambling con- cession there and made a success of it. So much so that Lord. Brougham, the British legal ex- pert who popularized the poky little village of - Cannes and turned it into a thriving tourist city, said of Francois Blanc: "He astonished me by the profundity of his prevision and calculation." - Certainly Francois Blanc was an astute financier. Soon after he arrived in the German city, Francois married a beautiful Bavarian peasant girl, Charlotte Hensel, who had left the countryside to be a maid in a small Hamburg hotel. Ru- mour said it was a "shotgun marriage;' but most certainly Madame Francois Blanc was the driving force behind her hus- band's huge fortune and became the mother-in-law of princes. Francois flourished in Ham- burg until Prussia defeated France in 1871. Then Germany was united under the first Kai- ser, who was soon threatening to • annul the -gambling conces- Diens in Germany. Francois Blanc thought he'd better look for pastures new. He heard that several syndi- cates were trying to obtain a gambling concession in the Prin- cipality of Monaco where the reigning prince was on the verge of bankruptcy. The location the syndicates were after was known as Le Hoc de Spelugues, later to become world-famous as "Char- lie's Mount." Francois came too late. The Rock had been let to a couple of adventurers who had bam- boozled the prince into granting them a concession. But Francois Blanc stayed to look over the property on which he had his eye. He decided that thousands of pounds would have to be spent on it before it could be the sue- cess he visualized. For one thing, the place was almost inacces- sible. There was no railway -- Monaco Monaco could only be reached by a foul ship which took an hour and a half, or by coach, which took twice as long. Blanc left his spies behind him in Monaco to advise him how the adventurers were far- ing with their gambling.conces- sion and returned to Germany. When he got word that the Fabulous Monte Carlo—sped- lighted last year by the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rai- nier—was in the news again last month with the royal couple's eagerly awaited happy event. But the tiny state of Monaco, with its great gambling casino, has often claimed the world's headlines in the past. How did Monte Carlo begin? In Paris, just a hundred years ago, twin brothers, Francois and Charles Blanc, were waiters in a third-rate restaurant and shared a bedroom in a garret. When Francois got the sack from his job their united capital was 18s. But Francois had his dreams. He enticed his brother into a scheme to swindle some stockbrokers. The Blanc brothers worked out a system of signalling by semaphore and used it on the Paris Stock Exchange. So when they bought and sold foreign shares they alone knew whether the shares had gone up or down. Several Paris brokers became suspicious and engaged halt a dozen detectives to watch the Blanes, who were eventually caught redhanded and sent to jail for seven months. But they made a pile just the same. For although they spent muchmoney on . their defence and bribing witnesses and had to pay back a great deal of the eaaY.szN FORTUNATELY - The legend on the bumper of this truck tractor would seem to be justified. Driver jumped clear of the cab and suffered bruises only scant seconds before his rig careened down an embankment. The trailer smashed the cab" flat, and fire seared the wreckage in wake of the accident. Syndicate was on he point of failing he drew £50,000 from his bank, took it to Monaco and said 'to a man named Lefevre, who held the concession, "I'll give you £50,000 in cash for your concession. If you haggle, I'll give you nothing! Now I'm • going to lunch..11 you haven't, made up your mind before I've finished, then I shall return to Germany and; never come back!" Before he had finished hat; meal Lefevre came to him and said simply: "Give me the mon- ey." The small inn where Francois lunched that fateful day is now the famous Hotel de Paris where Grace Kelly stayed before her wedding. One of the first things Fran - pais did was to put his wife in charge of the hotel—and she be- gan to work wonders, Meals 3n those days cost 4s., including wine. Francois gave orders that gamblers who had lost their money at the casino opposite could chalk up their meals at the hotel. Francois Blanc may have been the "Uncrowned King of Monte Carlo," but certainly Madame Blanc, the former Bavarian pea- sant girl, was the uncrowned queen. She became known local- ly as "The Queen of Roulette." Blanc was very generous to the reigning prince. He gave him £2,000 a year, plus ten per cent. royalty on the profits of the Ca- sino. He also paid, fed and clothed the prince's army of 120 officers and men, maintained the eighty -strong Monaco police force, subsidized the public ser- vices and the Church. Madame Blanc also started a salon and, although iiliturate she made a successful climb into Riviera society. Then, after her husband .died .a multi -millionaire • in 187'7, she became even more socially ambitious. She married her daughter Louise to Prince Constantine Radziwill, but she was dissatisfied with the match. She said her younger daughter Marie must do better. Marie was coached before she left school to be worthy bait for royalty. There had been a cool- ness between the Blanes and the prince of Monaco. He felt that he was being laughed at for taking money from a Parisian ex -waiter. He decided that if, he was to be insulted it would have to be worth while, so he had asked Blanc to increase the roy- alty on the profits. Blanc had agreed without a murmur, but he insisted that both the officers and Hien of the prince's .army must always sa- lute him and his wife! Now Marie Blanc was but of the schoolroom and ready to be courted. The prince of Monaco was disdainful, was he? Well, well; Marie's mamma would show him. Let the other suitors appear: The first to come forward. was Prince Henry of Battenburg, but Mamma turned him down be- cause she wanted a French hus- band for Marie. The marriage broker employed by Madame Blanc then brought forward Prince Roland Bonaparte. This time Mamma approved and Marie was married. Madame Blanc, even during her husband's lifetime, had been worried by the increasing power of Francois Blanc's large illegiti- mate family. They were mostly males, but the shrewd Bavarian - born "Queen of Roulette" calcu- lated that with her daughters both married to princes, they would be a barrier against the progress at the Casino of the daughters' half-brothers. In 1881 Madame Blanc died. And two years after her mar- riage to Prince Roland Bona- parte, Marie also died.. But Francois Blanc did have a legitimate son, Edmond, who, when the Casino was turned in- to 'a limited liability company, became joint director with his princely brothers-in-law. Later, all three pulled out. The princes obtained huge for- tunes for their shares. Edmond put his roulette fortune into su- gar. He entered French political life and was unseated for bri- bery and corruption. But there was yet another Blanc, an illegitimate one, Ca-, mille, and he carried on with the Casino. Big Rush Coming Canada's population, which just .topped 16 million at last summer's census, shouldlbe boosted this year ,by ,larg- est iminigrant movement since 1913. The 1957 inflow may exceed 200,000. And it will include a larger proportion of Britons than • in ' any other year since 1950. A reasonable, estimate is that. anywhere between 80,000 and 100,000 Britons may move to, Canada this year. The one snag is transport... And a mammoth airlift may provide a major part of the. answer. z';,rv. a.>".`•F:..v�fm"X2'ar..c"v'•>rri'a,a"�r .,, ...» ,- IT'S EVEN GOT A SPARE—Here'sthe first photograph of the new : Teracruzer" truck and "Trans - launcher" semi -trailer, The •pillow -tired ' units, are shown carrying • a TM -618 Matador missile. The eight -wheel -drive ,truck and trailer have huge, high -flotation, low-pressure Terra -Tires de. signed to travel where no roads exist to missle launching sites. • CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AGENTS WANTED GO INTO BUSINESS for yourself. 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