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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1950
Page
12
Amarillo High School Bel Canto Chorale hosts a style show at Herring Hotel at 8 pm with $1 admission to fund Houston singing invitation on April 10 Blackburn Bros. provide costumes Ernie Fields and his Negro band play a dance tomorrow night at the Nat.
New York police praise Evelyn Lanier 26 a mother and all night clerk who shot at two holdup men entering a grocery store. One suspect was wounded in the arm and captured while the other fled. Both sides face charges amid a charged late night encounter.
In the United Provinces of India, about 40,000 teachers walked out to press for higher salaries, disrupting schools and prompting negotiations with government authorities.
An article announces large scale manufacture of synthetic pyrethrum to become the base for stronger insecticides. Pyrethrum, from a daisy like plant, has long been used as the lethal ingredient but was imported from Brazil Kenya Colony and other distant places.
During the war the government sought a powerful insecticide to protect soldiers from tropical disease. A year earlier US Department of Agriculture scientists announced a synthetic pyrethrum equal to the natural chemical. Industry then produced it in quantity with Union Carbide, Boyce Thompson Institute, and Yonkers research. Trials show it harms warm blooded animals less than DDT, and it acts within minutes to knock down flies and mosquitoes, unlike DDT which has limited use due to toxicity.
Scientists believe more powerful insecticides may be developed. Union Carbide officials said the material is in mass production and would be made available.
A government release notes that Britain welcomed five hundred thousand visitors last year, including one hundred thousand Americans. The figures highlight the American share of inbound tourism and reflect international travel patterns reported by officials.
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