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Bridgetown Advocate

Location

Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia

Date

Aug 05, 1948

Page

12

Search for Safe Island in Coral Isle Quest

Fifteen men and women plan to sail from Sydney in a schooner next year to reach a coral isle. Leader Terence Jacobs cites fears of atomic war and taxes, proposing self sufficiency. Fellow traveler Vincent Verlach fears rapid modern life after long trading in the South Seas.

Sydney Australia Terence Jacobs Fom Ontario Monsieur Vincent Verlach Antwerp South Seas Samoa

Gas turbine cars seen as future power unit

British Rover Co advances car gas turbine tech with a two-turbine unit weighing about 475 lb and 86 by 18 by 20 inches. The system includes a heat exchanger and a one-piece turbine wheel, aims for 100 BHP at 55 000 rpm, kerosene operation, intercoupled with existing gear. Experts foresee potential to ease oil dependence and reshape transport power.

England Great Britain Rover Co Rover

Sahara Lub Sahara Milnaikee serves milkshakes without alcohol

Milnaikee USA elegant 4 nightclub Sahara offers milk cream buttermilk yogheart kefir and 118 milkshake varieties plus ice cream. Floor show available and intoxicants not allowed. Youthful clientele, business booming. Melbourne’s Lord Mayor Sir H Raymond Connell ey knighted at Buckingham Palace ceremony.

Sahara Milnaikee USA Melbourne H. Raymond Connelley Buckingham Palace Reymond

Puff Keeps Doc Away

A County Clare farmer claims his children, Jimmy Guinane age four and Mary age three, smoke rough cut plug tobacco weekly and have not suffered coughs or colds while whooping cough and measles spread locally. The father asserts tobacco reduces illnesses.

Jimmy Guinane Mary County Clare Eire

Nature Dweller Builds Tree Home In New Jersey

Coffing M. Arslanian, known as New Jersey’s nature boy, lives 65 feet up a great Eagle Rock Mountain oak. He defends the tree home against eviction attempts, citing it as his castle and referencing a legal dispute over a nearby park owner who wants to cut the tree. He built a bolt‑fastened, nail‑free, treated timber dwelling with a glass roof, powered by electricity from a nearby casino, and surrounded by a tall steel fence and guarding dogs.

M. Arslanian West Orange New Jersey Arslanian Eagle Rock Mountain

Record Set for Jersey Cow Ariadne at Pinjarra WA

Camden Ariadne a Jersey cow owned by Mr. C E Kruger of Pinjarra produced the highest butterfat yield in WA at 908.86 lbs from 12 975 lbs of milk with a 7 percent test over 365 days. Supt Dairying M Cullity notes Ariadne also holds Jersey breed records in mature and Junior 4 year old classes and the Jersey junior 3 year old class for 2 years.

Camden Ariadne Jersey C. E. Kruger Pinjarra M. Cullity

Record Butter Fat Breaks Previous Herd Standard

Ex-Holder Camden Ariadne is by Greenmount Golden Sultan from Greenmount Sweet Wonder. The record now broken surpasses A. W. Padbury's Guernsey cow Picton Trequean Flirt, which in 1928 produced 870.06 lb butter fat from 16.675 lbs milk at 2.21 percent average test.

Camden Greenmount Golden Sultan Greenmount Sweet Wonder A. W. Padbury Guernsey Picton

Divorce Plea Filed by Los Angeles Woman

Bibbed Too TLIAN L. WOODS of Los Angeles aged 39 asked for a divorce from her husband Leland L. Woot on grounds that his continued ringing interfered with his work. Mr Woods heads a chain of institutions to treat alcoholics, from which he has more and forty aye

Tlian L. Woods Los Angeles Leland L. Woot Mr. Woods More & Fortsyaye

Visit to Southwest to Advise on Egg Shell Cleanliness

Agricultural adviser Mr R H Morris of the Poultry Branch will tour the South-West in August to guide producers on export standard egg shell cleanliness required by the Department of Commerce and the WA Egg Marketing Board. Defects in eggs and packing methods will be explained at Pinjarra Waroona Harvey Bunbury Cowsramup Margaret River Nannup Pemberton Manjimup Tridgetown Borup Brook Donnybrook Collie.

R. H. Morris Department of Commerce W.A. Egg Marketing Board Pinjarra Waroona Harvey Bunbury Cowsramup Margaret River Nannup Pemberton Manjimup Tridgetown Borup Brock Donnybrook Collie

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