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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 02, 1949
Page
9
The British Interplanetary Society argues atomic propulsion is essential for lunar travel. A moon rocket could rival a 60,600 ton carrier in cost and require a 500 ft long structure with 2000 tons weight and vast fuel space. Total voyage cost 50 to 100 million pounds with 1 billion pounds needed for research. Passengers may pay 7500 pounds for a stratosphere hop.
In Denver a hotel clerk identified as P C Taylor ordered a would be robber to leave. The would be thief retreated whining he would return with someone who has more nerve.
Dr Fritz Hocke of Wuppertal claims children in the British zone of Germany can learn reading and writing in months using a new shorthand called spur. Training traces sound forms in air, then writes from dictation within 7 8 months.
In Rokewood Victoria a man was prosecuted under the Country Fire Authority Act for using phosphorus bait. He admitted the old tin bait burst into flame about 100 yards away. Regional officer L G Lowry warned retailers to avoid selling old stock and to emphasize fire safety.
Mar Baer acts between studios and appears in Riding High with Bing Crosby and Coleen Gray while Claudette Colbert joins his cast. Betty Hutton shoots Let's Dance with Fred Astaire. Gregory Peck heads to Rome for Quo Vadis with Elizabeth Taylor. Marlene Dietrich eyeing Stage Fright with Jane Wyman. Errol Flynn hobnobs in London. Valerie Hobson busy with The Rocking Horse Winner.
Residents of Nowra furious over lack of a public hospital post alarming notices along a road beside the local cemetery. The ominous signs protest health neglect and call for urgent municipal action.
A reader notes a trivia quiz with ten questions and their answers. Questions cover cinema, Shakespeare, London's opera house, German submarines, Queen Elizabeth I, biblical births, the clavicle, snail physiology, Earth’s nearest planet, and types of lightning.
A new device operates in 40 seconds to cut two oranges and pour juice into cups. In a separate test it takes 70 seconds to dispense freshly made popcorn into a sealed bag.
A Yorkshire inventor Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Ambler unveils the Ambler Superdraft System a wool spinning device claimed to be the most important advance in wool processing in a century. The system fits existing frames increases drafts 20 to 200 enabling earlier labor savings and higher productivity with commercial rollout underway.
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