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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 30, 1946
Page
8
A 76 year old man, Mr. H. R Nemes, lifts from bed and chair to ride and work. He describes relief from illness and continues daily tasks, showing remarkable independence and strength despite age.
Mrs Allan A Ryan promotes Pond's skin care as the ideal routine. She praises Pond's Two Dreams for daytime freshness and applies Pond's Cold Cream for cleansing and vanishing cream to set makeup. The ad lists Pond's products and where to buy them in chemists and department stores.
A Cairns letter to the editor recalls shark encounters around Torres Strait islands. Natives bait sardines with spears as sharks and large fish prowl near reef edges. Notable tales include a 10 foot shark circling two natives, and incidents near Murray and Badu Islands. A Chinese docksides tale mentions sharks and a doctor’s severed arm recovered in a shipboard event.
North Parramatta Progress Association protests the City Council plan to place a depot on Martyn Street reserve amid fears of industrialization. Critics cite five concrete tennis courts and loss of playground space, noting alleged informal decisions and potential future expansion. Residents urge safer, residential zoning and oppose shifting the depot from McLeod Street.
In Johannesburg experts predict sharp wool price gains when South African suction sales resume in September. A Cape wool farmer foresees a postwar boom, and the Cape Town Wool Exchange Association plans a modern exchange costing about £30,000 funded by a brokers and buyers levy since 1939. An annual Cape Town export totals 100,000 bales worth about £1,700,000.
The article discusses plans for a centralized U S foreign intelligence structure led by the National Intelligence Authority with Admiral William D. Leahy as director. It notes limitations, cultural resistance to spying, and the role of State, War, and Navy departments plus ambassadors and military attaches in gathering foreign intelligence.
Pasadena California AP Two Caltech scientists Reno Gutenbert and Charles F Richter report California Nevada account for about one third of US seismic activity and roughly four great earthquakes expected per century in the California region. They caution that many quakes are small and aftershocks follow major events and stress Pacific Rim activity explains frequent tremors.
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered words about the House of Commons and notes. The readable bits mention meeting hours and notes alongside garbled phrases. No clear events, dates, or named entities emerge to form a factual card.
Britain’s largest scientific body is the Ministry of Supply’s Research and Development branch, split into Defence Air and Atomic Energy divisions. Key figures include Sir John Lennard-James, Ben Lockspeiser, and J. D. Cockcroft. The Defence Division develops weapons and radar. the Air Division advances aeronautics at Bedford. Harwell hosts atomic energy work with graphite piles, a five million volt generator, and a cyclotron. About 4,500 scientists and engineers comprise the three divisions, 7–8% of national scientific manpower.
A 75 lb transmitter using the highest frequency yet for field television pickup has been deployed in the New York area by WNET. It operates at 9300 megacycles and is used to capture baseball and other events. The device features a compact parabolic-receiver setup and outputs about 0.05 watts, feeding an unusual circuit.
Vital stats for 1945 show 26 715 births, crude birth rate 24.8, infant mortality 20.8 per 1000 births, and 795 infant deaths. Net natural increase 17 254, marriages 9 905 with minors among bridegrooms and brides noted. Premature birth and congenital malformations are major prenatal causes.
Bulgaria purchases 400 tons of horseshoe nails in Poland with tobacco in return, signaling a barter like trade move. The arrangement links Bytom to a broader Franco-Polish or trade context, highlighting government procurement and cross border exchange.
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