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The Seaforth News, 1958-12-25, Page 7Treasure From The Ocean Floor Among the strange fruit which the ocean floor has yielded is a crop of manganese nodules which look like "rnammilated cannon balls " Cracking open these black -brown objects, whice range from walnut size to 2 feet in diameter, oceanographers are apt to find at the center such common ocean -bottom debris as a shark's tooth, the earbone of a whale, or a basaltic fragment. Around the nucleus, however, are rich layers of manganese and ether minerals. On the basis of recent cruises, oceanographers now estimate that a fantastic hundreds of bil- lions of tons of the nodules averaging 20 per cent mangan- ese litter 40 million square miles of ocean bottom. For the U.S., which has almost no do- mestic manganese ore of com- mercial grade, and is short on copper, cobalt and nickel (all of which the nodules contain), the prospect of mining the nodules from the sea is an enticing one. For deep -water mining mis- sions engineers envisage a num- ber of highly specialized craft prowling the ocean floor. Among them might be remote ton:trolled trawler units sub- merging, scraping up nodules, and surfacing; manned bathy- scaphes raking the bottom; huge submarines pumping nodules into storage chambers, More immediately, two University of California scientists explained last week how the nodules might be mined using existing hardware. Dr. Herbert E. 'Hawkes and John Mero of Cali- fornia's Institute of Marine Re- searches think it can be done economically with drag dredges, simple scoops pulled across the ocean bottom, Although this would be the simplest scheme, they favor a more sophisticated method, hydraulic dredging. Present hydraulic dredges, which suck up objects like a vacuum cleaner and pump them to the surface can lift granite boulders up to 18 inches in dia- meter. But because the pump and motor v liich operate them are at the surface and subject CURTAIN CALL Though he appears to be trying to scratch a hard -to -reach -place, this penguin is really attempting a grace- ful bow after a clever water performance at a London zoo, He's apparently left his grace in the pool. to et!nospheric pressure, they can only pump the nodules from a few hundred feet down, To in- crease the depth at which they operate, Hawkes and Mero pro- pose _putting the dredge pump and motor on or near the bot- tom, permitting the pump to operate at any depth, While this kind of a rig has never been assembled, all the necessary parts are currently available, ncluding a fan -shaped suction head to ingest the nodules, and an underwater TV eye to scan for best lodes. Once above water the nodules can be refined by techniques now used on low- grade manganese ore Encouraged by recent oceano- graphic ceanographic probes which tineovered abundant nodule deposits in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, they feel the 'U.S. could be sup- plied "for many hundreds of years into the future with these metals extracted from deep-sea nodules." -- From NEWSWEEI4, An Indian in New Mexico was ;make -signalling love messages to his Indian girl friend a few miles away. S udden, a test nu- clear explosion went off, cover- ing the sky with smoke for miles. "Gee," said the Indian, "I wish I'd said that." Her Majesty's Mail Goes Automatically Showpiece at Southampton is Alf (short for Automatic Letter Facer) a three -ton giant, six feet tall and 20 feet long. Alf stacks letters, scans them front and back for stamps, faces them, counts them, then cancels their etamps. He does everything but steam open their envelopes and read them. But if Britain is counting on Alf to spare the postman his fal- len arches, I would say that the postman, stat feet and all, will be with us for many years to come. For Alf is high-strung and temperamental. "Alfie hates squares," the Southampton foreman confided to me, in explaining the ma- chine's operation. I turned, half expecting to find the 20 -foot le- viathan twitching to the rhythms of rock-'n'-roll. But no — the "squares" that Alfie hates are square envelopes. These flummox the monster which is trained to grope for the long edge of letters in order to face them with the stamps in the same corner. The Post Office now has a plan to standardize envelopes( there are 67 different sizes in current use). And not only squares, but Alfie hates color postcards. Inasmuch as Alfie's photo -electric eyes are highly sensitive to color, using this means to identify stamps, he goes quietly mad when a color postcard is placed in his hopper, Nor can dummy mail be used to test machines like Alfie. "New mail is lively, while the dummy by Tom A. Cullen NEA Staff Correspondent Southampton, England — Hav- ing fathered the post office in 1657 and given the world its first gtunfned postage stamp in 1.840, Britain now leads the world in postal automation, with the robot postman just around the corner. Actually, the machine has yet to be invented that can walk up a garden path to deliver a let- ter, but General Post Office en- gineers are working on the prob- lem. At Dollis Hill outside London, where the Post Office has its ex- perimental laboratories, the talk is all of helicopters, rockets and guided missiles to carry Her Ma- jesty's mail. As far back as 1934 a Ger- man enthusiast experimented here with mail -carrying rockets, and Ernest Marples, the present Postmaster General, claims that the idea cannot be dismissed lightly. Marples goes on to pre- dict that the day is not far dis- tant when a letter posed in Lon- don at 8 a.xn. will be delivered by rocket in Aberdeen, Scotland, at 11 a.m, Meanwhile in Southampton, the port of call of the big trans- Atlantic liners, the latest in automated postal equipment is on view for the world to goggle at. In the past year postal repre- sentatives of 28 countries have worn a path to the door of the Southampton post office, where the machinery is being tested, in order to view the latest en- gineering marvels. stuff. is dead," the foreman ex- plained. "When you compress the air out of letters they become lifeless, and the machines don't get the proper feel of them." When Alfie was first unveiled, he was unable to distinguish be- tween the two -penny stamp on newspapers and other printed hatter and the three -penny stamp of ordinary mail, but this difficulty has since been over- come. - Post Office engineers experi- mented for nearly two years be- fore they hit upon a method of giving the two -penny stamp a special distinguishing character- istic. The solution finally arrived at was to print on the back of the two -penny stamp a graphited line, which is easily detected by a high voltage scanner. Nowhere else in the world but in Southampton, where Alfie is being tested. are graphited .tamps on sale to the public. Electronic sorters are also in operation in Southampton. These enable a postman, sitting at a keyboard, to sort letters twice as fast as by hand and to break them down to three times as many selections. Forty-eight is the limit of the pigeon -holes a postman can reach conveniently by hand, whereas the machine sorts to 144 selections. The next step will be Ye Com - pleat Robot Sorter which will read the addreses on envelopes,' then sort the letters automatical- ly. This will involve coded ad- dresses, and the Post Office is now taking a poll to determine how far the public is willing to cooperate in the use of postal codes. ALF GOBBLES A :MEAL: This Automatic Letter Facer stacks letters, scans them front and back for stamps, faces them, counts them ar: cancels their stamps. These TeeriWcsgera Try To Help Three years ago a group of young Pasadenans started an organization called Ala -teens, a sort of junior Alcoholics Anony- mous, which is spreading with. great rapidity, Banded together for mutual help in coping with the problem of alcoholism in their homes, they meet weekly, study the disease of alcoholism, how best they can help under- stand their ill parent and be- come reconciled to the confu- sion and tension in their homes. Their program is founded on the basic principles of Alco- holics Anonymous, but has a number .01 adaptations to suit their circumstances. A number of AA members as well as mem- bers of Alanon (an affiliated family group), have given aid find advice to these youngsters, but make no attempt to govern them. Weakly meetings are held with group participation, cover- ing typical situations in their lives — dealing with a drunken parent, shame at bringing friends home, disruption of their home studies, obeying unreasonable demands, meals unprepared, and numerous problems which the disease of alcoholism has caused m their homes, and which they must meet and resolve. Another phase of the meeting is the open discussion of a member's own particular difficulty in ad- justment to society. Snme of these youths are quite malad- justed, some have been in ra- ther serious trouble, but all are helping each other to face facte and reality. There are now 10 or more Ala - teen groups in Southern Cali- fornia with increasing member- ship. The groups are meeting with remarkable success through this program founded on love of neighbour, spirituality and anonymity. Iu these groups, there is the , assurance of anonymity and the participation in a group which understands their feats and tensions and talks in a lan- guage they understand. With this mutual help they achieve an outlook which gives them a certain security and serenity otherwise difficult to attain. They come to a better under- standing of the problems of the alcoholic parent and can help him or her in combating the disease. The likelihood that these young people will become de- linquents is greatly lessened, as are the alcoholic tendencies growing out of self-pity and the feeling that they are misunder- stood. Their increase in spiritual values cannot be minimized in importance, Home and family life become more tolerable un- der the Ala -teen way of life. — California's Health (State De- partment of Public Health). Red Sox Will Miss Jimmy The trading of Jimmy Piersall by the Red Sox to the Cleveland Indians for first baseman Vic Wertz and outfielder Gary Gie- ger has left New England's baseball fandom with a lump in its throat, for Jimmy was one of the mast popular boys ever to wear a Boston uniform. Though seldom a batting key in the Red Sox story, Piersall's fielding aroused countless thrills at Fenway Park. At times it was beyond the spectacular, It was remarkable. Such experienced judges as Casey Stengel and Tris Speaker have called Jimmy one of the finest fielders in Ar,eeican League- history. Only those close to the Red Sox in recent years could fully appreciate the magnitude of Piersall's comeback from a men- tal illness. It was one of the great all-time stories of profes- sional sports, a warm, far-reach- ing story of the uphill struggle of a young man who simply re- fused to accept what others had said was certain defeat. Jimmy, with his brilliant glove and endless hustle, has left the Red Sox. But the memories he leaves are among the most vivid in Fenway history. How Can 1? By Anne Ashley Q. How many drops of water or similar . liquid, will a tea- spoonful hold? A. Approximately sixty drops. Q. ITow can 1 remove the shells from hard-boiled eggs easily? A. 13y cracking the egg firmly on the table, then rolling it back and forth a few times. The. shell will almost fall off, and the egg will.be perfectly smooth. Q. How can 1 fit pieces of fur properly, when remodeling a fur piece? A, When fitting pieces of fur, be sure that it all runs in the same direction. See in. which direction the hairs lie by ,brush— ing it or rubbing. 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A facsimile of Lincoln's signature is reproduced on both stamps. They'll go on sale May 30, 1959.