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Nuclear Power Achievements "Washington A new age of transportation and power open et in 1954. Its herald was the " atomic submarine Nautilus, launched in Connecticut on a foggy January day. That first ship ever built for .nuclear engines stands out in a : year of high achievement by the world s constructors, the Na tional Geographic society says, Nautilus will be capable of circling . the globe submerged. More significant still, her engine room represents man's first large-scale harnessing of atomic energy for useful power. At omic ocean liners, locomotives, and electric plants have -come a long step closer to reality. Airborne Atomic Furnace In December, nuclear power again was underscored by a con tract awarded for an atomic "package reactor." The unit will be transportable by air.' It can generate "electricity in remote regions such as the Arctic,' far frcra conventional fuels. - Engineering - accomplishments all around the earth in the last year gave peoples more avail able power and productive wealth. A push of a powerhouse but & ton in northern British Colum - bia started Canada's vast hydro electric and aluminum project centered at Kitimat. Across North America, the first ore dfrom vast Quebec-Labrador iron deposits was shipped south to steel mills via the new port of . Seven Islands on the St. Lawrence river. ' The long-disputed Str Law rence Seaway itself got under way as excavation began at two places opposite Montreal. " Near Oak Rridge, Tenn.; the new Kingston power plant of the TVA system generated its first electricity. One of six TVA plants now being built, King ston will be the largest steam plant in the worjd, officials say. It will produce enough power for a city two and a half times the size of Detroit. Damming Missouri, Nile - At a telegraphed signal from -President Eisenhower, Ft., Ran dall dam, one of the key dam projects for development and control 1 of - the Missouri ' river, began sending its first electric power out into South Dakota and -Nebraska. Pine Flat dam, a 440,-foot concrete wall, was dedicated on California's Kings river, ranking among the 10 highest dams ever built. Around the world, ' the main i How of the Nile river was stopped at its- source for a few dramatic moments as Queen Elizabeth II opened tfie great Owen Falls dam at the outlet of Lake Victoria in Uganda. rhat(body,cof .water, the size of 'Scotland, ; . thus becomes the world's largest reservoir, v Earth-filled Travers dam in Canada's Bow River develop ment began, giving water to Al berta prairies. - Capilano dam near Vancouver, Canada's high est dam at 325 feet, was dedi cated in November. The Gaspe peninsula received new power cables under the St. Lawrence, Power dams were finished in French Africa, Portugal, Puerto Rico, India,' ' Russia,.. Greece, Turkey, Formosa, .and Den mark's Faeroe islands. In Lat in America, El" Salvador dedi cated its big "Fifth of Novem ber" dam. Mexico and Brazil op ened new steam plants. Perhaps the most unusual hew hydroelectric plant, how . ever," stands in a'-CatskilT corn field north , of New York City with no water - in sight. It , uses instead water pressure in a deep, concrete-lined aqueduct from the new Neversink reser voir five miles away. , -Aluminum, Steel, Oil . - With : electricity . made ; by burning lignite soft, "brown coal" a $100,000,000 aluminum plantvent to full production in Rockdale, Tex. Both Brazil and Colombia dedicated big new in tegrated steel plants, Brazil at Selo Horizonte, Colombia at Belencito. , - '. . The Philippine Republic's first pu refinery opened at Batangas bay south of Manila. Aden, Australia, Burma, Colombia and India operated new. refineries. The second largest oil plant in Great Britain, with a million ton annual capacity for crude petroleum, went "on steam" at Coryton near London. ? The bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continued to be drilled for oil wells as far as 25 miles offshore. Petroleum then ran through a new submarine pipe line from tankers in Accra har Txr to. Gold Coast distribution points, as well as in a new 32- znile pipeline in Trinidad. . A shipyard in Hamburg, Ger ooriTTAiacuAtm im colds Relieve suffering this sure way that Does Afore Than Wor&OnCiest! The worst part of suffering from a cold is due to conges tion and coughing. That's why you need medication that does more than just work on the chest. You need Vicks VapoRub because it acts two ; ways at once: 1. VapoEub relieves muscular , soreness and tightness, stimu lates chest surfaces. 2. At the same time, VapoRub's ' SDccial medicated vapors also ' brinj relief with every breatb- You can't see these vapors, bat you can Unem as they Plant for Submarine Tops in 1954; Others Increase Power, Wealth many, launched the world's big gest tanker, the King Ibn Saud flag, it can carry 47,000 tons of oil, as much as a train of tank cars 25 miles long. .Two other big tankers, the 45,000-ton world Glory and the 38,000 ton W. Alton Jones, were com pleted .in American yards. Both will, fly Liberian colors. Marine constructors crowned the year by launching the air craft USS Forrestal at Newport News, Virginia. The largest war- snip anoar, longer man any passenger liner, .the Forrestal will not be completed until the end of 1955. New Sea Havens - Major port -and docking pro jects were undertaken in Vene zuela and Peru; San Juan, Pu erto Rico; Mtwara in Tangan yika; Tema, Gold Coast, and Samsun, Turkey. In this coun try, New York City, Newark, N. J., Philadelphia, Chicago and Mobile, Ala., dedicated new piers. Antwerp, Hamburg and London finished huge new docks; Karachi, Pakistan, open ed the biggest drydock between Malta and Singapore. The Turkish navy has com missioned a new naval base at Iskeneron, Australia completed a naval .defense base at Manus island in the Bismarck archipel ago. Dutch engineers contiuued re claiming Ussel Meer, formerly the Zuider Zee, closing the dikes on me third of five major areas to be taken back from the ocean. The course of the Hud son river was altered by a titan ium mining project far back in its headwaters in the Adiron dacks, near Tahawus, N. Y. Canada and the United States jointly set about face-lifting Ni agara " Falls, smoothing the somewhat jagged lip and build ing a series of control gates a mile upstream to help regulate the flow. Hard Rock, High Steel - Hard rock men and sandhoes drove tunnels in .many lands. An American firm bored New Zealand's Rimutaka tunnel 5 miles through the mountains above Wellington, making it the longest traffic1 tunnel in the southern hemisphere (longest in the world is the 12 -mile Simplon tunnel in the Alps). " Japanese engineers after 18 years finished digging the sec ond undersea tunnel between the main island of Honshu and the southern island of Kyushu. Multi-Million Away in Safety Boxes Left Chicago U.R) A 28-year- old : hrunttw beautv todav was I hitting a multi-million dollar jackpot left by the fabled "mer chant princess" of State Street. At the' last counting the love ly Mrs. Mollie Netcher Bragno stood as eventual heiress of well over $12,000,000. . ; . . But state tax officials sill weren't through unearthing and evaluating the piles .of gift- edged securities stowed away in safe deposit boxes by Mrs, Brango's grandmother, the : late Mrs. Mollie Netcher Newbury. : Mrs. Bragno aided in : the counting : because, hi." addition to being Mrs. Newbury's chief heir, she is aiso executrix and trustee of the still growing for tune. - . Under the terms of Mrs. New bury's will, filed the day after her death last Dec. 12, Mrs Bragno will immediately inherit half the estate, valued at about $6,000,000. More lo Come She will inherit the other half upon the death of Townsend Netcher of Palm Springs, Calif; Netcher is Mrs. Newbury's son and was once married to movie actress Constance Talmadge. In addition, Mrs. Bragno will receive half of a separate estate left by her grandfather, Charles Netcher. Her share is expected to come to $2,150,000. Mrs. Bragno's wealth stems from one of the strangest and most famous alliances in the history of Chicago business. . . Her grandmother; then Mollie Alpiner, was a poor Chicago girl when she went to ; work as a clerk in the newly-founded Bos ton store on Chicago's State Street in 1883. She rose to be come the store's chief under wear buyer, ' then, the story goes, the store's owner, the bril liant Charles Netcher, told her travel deep into the nose, throat and large bronchial lubes. Congestion starts breaking up. Coughing eases. 3oon you enjoy warming re lief that lasts for hours. So when colds strike, use the best-known home remedy to relieve such suffering Vicks VapoRub. Rub on Relief . I x:,. . Breathe in Relief UVAPORun The two-mile double-decked tube will carry motor vehicles on one level, pedestrians on an other. In the United States a contract was let for an express way tunnel beneath Baltimore harbor, scheduled for comple tion by 1958. Toronto dedicated its new $60,000,000 subway system. Moscow closed the last link in its "Great Circle" subway line, joining seven , principal rail road stations and 18 city bor oughs. ;; Major bridges spanned - the mouth of Tampa bay on the new 15-mile Sunshine Skyway south from St. Petersburg, Fla.; leaped the Merrimack river near New buryport, Mass.; crossed the Australia's Snowy Moun tains Hydroelectric project fin ished one 3 -mile irrigation tunnel " and contracted for an other 14 miles long, surpassing the 13-mile Alva B. Adams wa ter tube through the Rockies in northern Colorado. Connecticut river between Springfield and Agawam, Mass.; joined Georgia and South Car olina by the new nine-mile Eu gene Talmadge Memorial bridge route across the Savannah riv er; and gave Kansas City anoth er span across the Missourj riv er, the new Paseo bridge. The refurbished Brooklyn bridge re stored full traffic to six lanes in place of the old four. Vancouver, B.C., opened Can ada's first eight-lane bridge. Two new bridges crossed the Danube river between Hungary and Czechoslovakia and between Ro mania and Bulgaria. World Highways Lengthened Road builders sliced through mountains and jungles. Among their feats were the Humming bird highway . in : British Hon duras,, and new sections of the Pan American highway in Chile, Venezuela and El Salvador. . Red China's radio reported that 135 miles of a new road from Sikiang into Tibet had been opened to traffic;. Tourists now can drive to within 75 feet of the main crater of Vesuvius in Italy. . Mexico modernized the mountain-twisted highway to Ac apulco and finished the 1,500 mile highway between the bor der at Nogales and Mexico City. The limited-access Baltimore Washington parkway opened its full 30-mile length, . relieving Dollar Jackpot "go to the cashier and get your ume, Mollie Alpiner started to cry and asked "What have I done?" Netcher answered "Nothing but get your. hat and coat and we'll get married." ' Netcher died in 1905 and Mol lie took over. She proved the equal of State Street's merchant princess, expanding the Boston Store's business from $6,000,000 to more than $28,000,000 a year. The Boston Store is gone now and Mrs. Netcher died in her Edgewater Beach hotel apart ment at the age of 87. Mrs. Bragno was at her side. . Estimates Short When the will was originally filed for probate,' the best esti mates were that the estate would come to something over $1,000, 000. . The state tax officials didn't know what was in . store for them.- Safe deposit box after safe de posit box was -opened . in the vaults of the City National Bank and Trust Company. Every few days came a new announcement of more millions, most of them in tax-exempt municipal' bonds. WTT7TW lAJ mw with DIG HOT WATER CAPACITY heats water faster so. you .need not invest in a large, expensive 82-gallon heater. New heater supplies 150" hot water in just 33 min utes from a cold start! You get 50 per cent MORE hot water in a 24-hour pe riod than with ' standard 82-gallon heaters. New "Quick Recovery" heater has the capacity to wash a load of clothes in an automatic washer every hour all day long! . NOTHING DOWN F.H.A. TERMS -Payments As Low As $6.50 Per S Authorized ; General Electric . ancet Engi the overtaxed U. S. Route 1, no torius "Old Bloody." New York state dedicated three sections of its billion-dollar," 427 -. mile Thruway, bringing it from Buf falo to within 60 miles, of Man hattan. Ohio and Indiana worked on east-west expressways that will eventually join. When . a four lane project in Massachusetts is complete and a new bridge across the Delaware river links the New Jersey and Pennsylvan ia Turnpikes, a motorist will be able to drive from Boston to the gates of Chicago with scarce ly a red light or crossroad, but many a toll booth en route. Brooklyn opened the first sec tion of its Prospect Expressway and Boston took traffic overhead on its central skyway. "West Vir ginia' dedicated an 88-mile turn pike between Charleston .and Princeton near the southern bor der. Track of the Iron Horse Most major railroad building in 1954 was in Africa and Asia. The Sudan and the Gold Coast laid new lines. Johannesburg, South Africa, admired its new modernistic railway station, which includes a large restaur ant on stilts over a garden and an 80-car blass garage. The Shah of Iran opened a new 95-mile rail link between Tabriz and Mianeh. Sources both in and out of Russia reported ex tensive rail construction in Si beria. One 400-mile line connect ed the trans-Siberian railroad with Ust Kut and the Lena river region to the north. Another through Inner Mongolia short ened by 600 miles the rail dis tance between Moscow and Peiping. Airfields large enough for jet transports opened at Khartoum in the Sudan and at Dar es Sal aam, capital of Tanganyika. Wichita, Kans., dedicated a new $10,000,000 municipal airport to replace a field taken over by the Air Force. In Brussels, Beirut, - Mexico City, Panama City and San Francisco, gleamirfg new airport terminals were opened to use. Chicago, on the other hand, went - underground. Beneath Grant park in the congested loop area, just off Michigan av enue, motorists now can leave up to 2,350 cars in the world's largest subterranean garage. " Stowed To an .In addition "there were"jewels; including an $8000 diamond- studded stomacher, and personal checking accounts ranging up to more than $100,000 in other Chi cago banks. ... - Mrs.' Bragno, who wears her dark, heavy hair at shoulder length, was trying to live up to her grandmother's reputation as a businesswoman today. , Used To Scold Her She told how Mrs. Newbury used to scold her as a girl when she spent too much money on expensive dresses. "She - was a . matriarch al ways tried to teach us the value of a dollar," Mrs. Bragno said. The heiress was educated abroad and was married in 1947 to Edward A. Bragno, president of a wine company. They live in an apartment she decorated her self on Chicago's near north side. As usual, Mrs. Bragno. was on hand yesterday when what may be the last of Mrs. New bury's safe : deposit boxes was opened. The heiress to millions con fessed she only had $15 and a few coins in her purse. 40 GALLGII neater 115 E. MAIN PHONE 2-4585 .. . () f . 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