Bullock Power Yielding Water and Light in Khanpur
In Khanpur India a bullock powered pump generator provides the village its first electric lights and pumped water to homes. The system blends traditional bullock power with modern gear driven by two bullocks, raising 44 kilowatts to light 150 houses. Engineers from Yameesee and Ford Foundation support the project, backed by Prime Minister Nehru’s praise of a rural revolution, with cost estimates around 5000 dollars, potential drop to 3000 with mass production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watson Sims
Hanpur
India
Chaudhri Makan Singh
Leigh Stevens
Yemasee, $.C
America
Ford Foundation
Evans
Iapaudated
Leigh S. Stevens
Nehru
Khanpur
Stevens
Yemasee
S. C
Bishop Biskop to Address Cedar Rapids Catholic Laymen
The Most Rev. George J. Biskup auxiliary to the archbishop of Dubuque will be the principal speaker at the annual Archbishop's dinner of the Cedar Rapids Catholic Layman's club. The event Tuesday night begins at 6 30 at the Roosevelt hotel with members and their wives attending after a short social period beforehand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George J. Biskup
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Survival plan session in Des Moines outlines program
Iowa Development Commission chair L P Boudreaux will introduce the governor at a 1:30 p.m. Tuesday session in the statehouse. Civil defense leaders from Linn County will attend as planners present the survival plan’s philosophy, problems, and progress. Agents from OCDM and Iowa officials discuss nuclear survival, warning systems, radiological defense, and a preliminary state plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County Board Off Supervisors
Ashville
N.C
Civil Defense Committee
National Association of County Officials
Linn County CD
Fred Carstens
Roosevelt Hotel
de Loveless
L. P. Boudreaux
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Development Commission
House of Representatives
Statehouse
Linns County Civil Defense
van Py
Loveless
David E. Wortman
Albert C. Tilley
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Leo Bourassa
OCDM
Battle Creek
Joseph H. Hatton
Iowa
William L. Rice
Electronic System Used In Oil Field
North Hollywood California Bendix-Pacific division builds an Electro-Span electronic monitoring and remote control system for Standard Oil of California to oversee 190 wells over 75 square miles. Four remote stations report malfunctions and control heating to keep crude wax from congealing while central unit alerts, interrogates stations, and auto supplies alarms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Hollywood
Calif
Bendix-Pacific
Bendix Aviation Corp
Vernal
Utah
Standard Oil of California
Western Operations, Inc
Electro-Span
Bendix
Australian firm moves into New Guinea tobacco trade
An Australian company, Associated Tobacco Manufacturers of Brisbane, secures contracts for a quarter of New Guinea’s 2,500 tons of twist tobacco used as currency. Twist tobacco, 7 inch sticks, sells for 9 cents each to whites along the coast and is part of natives’ wages and barter system. A tribesman trades seven inches for bananas, keeping one inch to smoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ibane
Australia
New Guinea
Twist Tobacco
Associated Tobacco Manufacturers of
Brisbane
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