The reason that Israeli housewives will be forced to put their electric stoves and similar home appliances in storage for the next few months is that the electric power thus saved will be diverted to irrigation pumping stations this summer, it was learned here today.
Last week the government banned the use of such electrical appliances except for a two and one-half period daily, between 4:00 and 7:30 P. M. The failure of the Palestine Electric Corporation to install new equipment to increase available electric power in proportion to Israel’s expanding population and economy is behind the present shortage of current.
(Israeli miners in the Negev are now tunnelling into a vein of ore estimated to contain 100,000 tons of copper, which should provide an economic yield of about 3,000 tons a year. The Times of London reported today. The paper said that there are indications that “the Government is relying to a large extent on obtaining mining and smelting machinery from Germany if and when the reparations agreement is concluded.”)
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