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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1949
Page
4
The ICC analysis shows brake defects caused more motor carrier accidents and property damage than other mechanical failures in 1947. Mechanical defect incidents rise in number yet fall as a share of total crashes.
Wisconsin conservation records show 10 000 deer weighed over a decade. Deer from poor ranges in central Wisconsin average lighter than those from northern areas, indicating soil quality affects body weight. Weights declined over ten years on poor ranges but not on good ranges, with weights recorded after dressing.
The Agriculture department urges farmers to produce the largest peacetime spring pig crop on record to boost meat supplies. The 1949 spring goal is about 9,000,000 more than 1943, needing a 1 percent rise in sows farrowing if litters are average. The aim is average meat consumption of 180 pounds per person in 1949 and 1950, higher than 1949 145 pounds and prewar 126 pounds. Hog-feed price trends favor production with normal weather anticipated next year.
Advice on ceiling insulation focusing on keeping insulation near heated areas and adding a vapor barrier with a ventilation gap. Notes older walls are hard to insulate, with solid masonry costly to treat. Frame or brick veneer homes can be insulated by blowing mineral wool into wall stud spaces.
The Welsh valleys revive after the inter war slump with pitheads mills and furnaces burning round the clock. At Margam on the South Wales coast a vast steel project rises from sand dunes to become the world’s largest single steel plant as industry booms again.
The Ives family Andy Kate Hope Dave and Granny settle on state granted land in Arkansas to cultivate. Neighbors Sig Flanagan Sam Bragg and Sheriff Martin oppose the hunting lodge seizure and threaten trouble. Emer son Eliot warns the family hunters shot two does and planted them on Andy land. Without a hunting license Andy could face jail. Big Halleck offers a cow for milk.
Andy and the warden confront a suspected deer theft as they track a bloodstained thicket. Absalom Flipp and others follow under a tense, wary mood while the doe is found missing and Deefy the dog is hinted at. The outcome remains unsettled as the warden leaves to pursue answers.
Granny and Andy accept a Jersey cow from Bigelow Halleck to help with milking and plan home improvements. The group, including Hope and Kate, discuss extending the house while tensions linger about men and women dynamics in their improvised community.
Izvestia condemns biologist S D Antipin who argues man’s erect gait caused social ills. The article labels him an ignoramus, a former White Guard officer, and a credentialless adventurer whose theories attack anatomy, mouth function, and the value of walking upright.
Four idols washed ashore on Bombay Beach are worshipped by Hindu pundits under a pipal tree. Three stand 18 inches tall, one 9 inches. Names include Danapati Hanuman and Nandi. one idol remains unidentified. Officials face custody, museum collection, and potential public worship permissions.
Chicago report notes physicians receive roughly equal care to themselves. A Dickinson survey: average age at death for physicians 67.3 years vs 67.4 for white males. heart disease caused 42.2 percent of physician deaths versus 38.9 percent for white males. cancer ranks third among physicians.
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