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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Mar 03, 1949
Page
9
International Wool Secretariat reports wool waste and used clothing can become cattle food or protein for humans. Britain tests with Boranell wool food arriving at London’s Scientific Department and suggests serving with cereals or as a condiment.
Paulette Goddard may join Arien McMaster on an Australia tour after current film commitments in Hollywood and Paris. Shirley Temple Agar, 21, daughter of a banker, gains a fortune and plans for more children while managing her estate. Shirley's marriage to John Agar shapes a simple, child‑centered life with a large home and staff. Richard Widmark prepares a cross‑country car journey after Down to the Sea in Ships. Madeleine Carroll learns the last of the war orphans she housed near Paris has left.
A proposed nationwide free food program aims to guarantee a minimum diet for U S families by issuing food coupons to those with limited incomes. The idea, backed by Senator George Aiken and the Truman administration, would start small in regions and expand as farm surpluses and unemployment shift.
First estimates indicate the 1949 wheat crop at 1260 million bushels, down from 1365 million last year, with a projected yield of 15.7 bushels per acre. Farmers planted 61 million acres to winter wheat, 65 percent more than in 1948.
John Henry Skewes of Piece Cornwall, once Britain’s frog monopolist, won a court action over 1500 frogs claimed from a neighbor as payment for a motorcycle. He supplied about 30 hospitals, universities and laboratories across England with frogs for experiments.
Sawdust derived molasses, a dark sugar-rich liquid from acid treated wood waste, was fed to chickens and turkeys with good body gains. Experts at Washington and Oregon stations reported 10–20 percent inclusion as a cereal substitute and found pork from wood molasses fed hogs comparable to standard feeds with no off odors.
A questionable Chicago orthopedic conference report cites Dr Charles Geoff predicting future human aging and gendered appearance trends. It mentions Louise Douglas noting women grow broader taller and healthier, with corset fashion context.
Fog at sea is no longer a dreaded hazard. A new short wave radar set has solved the problem of navigation in visibility zero conditions, easing nerves of skippers facing foggy seas.
Eight year old Jimmy Meadows born without ears will undergo eight rare operations in Pittsburgh. Cartilage will be removed from his ribs and molded into ears inside a abdomen cavity to grow tissue before grafting onto his head. The two year process begins at Children’s Hospital with normal hearing reported.
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