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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 19, 1948
Page
11
Australasian Medical Congress in Perth draws top Commonwealth doctors to share latest research and techniques. Emphasizes a healthy nation as key to economic stability, noting farming and rural doctors uphold Australia’s health edge and reduce lost man hours from sickness.
Miss Terry a milking cow from Melbourne University enters a campus beauty contest run to raise funds for World Students Relief. Judges include two professors and an Army brigadier. Miss Terry trails Miss Dawn Mallison in donations as glamour contestants vie for prizes and a Sydney air trip.
A British-made stenotype machine lets a stenographer take dictation up to 200 words per minute in any language. It translates speech phonetically for a operator who need not know the language. The device enables one steno to dictate while others transcribe, and readers can learn to read the stenotype tape in hours.
In Spartanburg South Carolina Judge J Wright Nash dismissed charges against Leon Bilrno after ruling the law failed to apply to eating raw chickens. The decision cites statutory gaps and questions of applicability leaving the case unresolved.
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