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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 25, 1953
Page
2
Advice on selecting and wearing costume and real jewelry to flatter facial features skin tone and neck length. Emphasizes personal highlighting with pearls and blue stones, warns against overloading with many pieces, and favors a single striking item over a collection.
Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, Robert Blackader, and a Greenland Eskimo prepare a five month expedition 50 miles west of Alert on Ellesmere Island. They will study the 150 mile ice shelf and test geological and climatic hypotheses while living with no radio contact and relying on a ten dog team for supplies.
The National Federation of Women’s Institutes runs fruit and vegetable stalls in at least 150 towns mainly in the South. Members sell garden-sourced produce, aiming to keep fair prices and top quality, not competing with grocers, with turnover near £70 000 in a year. Also notes Coronation Fleet review preparations at Southampton with thousands of sightseers, trains, and shipboard catering plans. London teachers urged to use psychological tests to balance fiction and non fiction in school libraries.
BEA staff at Northolt confront a policy clash over tourist flights. Officials insist there is no service distinction between first and tourist passengers while staff refer to standard travellers as tourist in public areas. The mismatch raises concerns that travellers may misread BEA’s best service.
Fishermen Carl Sutton and James Rice of Nashville Tennessee have created an automatic minnow slot machine that delivers live minnows for bait, enabling them to sustain fishing operations. The device aims to streamline bait supply and keep fishing business moving.
Congress and the post office run three investigations into postal inefficiency. Graft by employers, outdated delivery methods, and low morale are blamed. Miami speeds mail with petrol scooters while older horse-drawn wagons remain in use in Philadelphia and other cities. New York officials with decades of experience note no efficiency-improving advice in 20 years as offices close on weekends.
Victorian Department of Agriculture horticultural officers say parasitic wasps normally control woolly aphis but cooler areas may need oil sprays in July or August. Apple trees should be treated with red oil at one gallon in 15 gallons of water using a high pressure spray to penetrate the waxy coating. The wasp population is not reduced by this spray, as larvae reside inside the aphids.
The Victorian Department of Agriculture and Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria present annual fruit tree pruning demos at the School of Horticulture Burnley Gardens on Saturday July 4 with 11 am 1 pm and 3 pm sessions. Exhibits lectures and desks offer expert gardening advice on fruit flowers vegetables and general problems. Wattle Park and Burwood trams from Batman pass the entrance to Burnley Gardens.
Self described angling fanatic Richard Walker fishes all night by a pond in heavy rain to chase large fish. His 44 pound record carp revealed in a recent catch and a book on Still Water Angling details gear, tactics, and the claim that monster carp can be younger than expected.
A new Rescue TV unit joins the EAF to save pilots at sea. Named Sarah, it weighs 34 lb and fits inside a Mae West life jacket. When activated by a tug on a wire ring, the unit's transmitter, mic loud speaker, and 31 inch aerial engage, projecting a signal as the rescuer passes over a drowning man.
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