Fraser River Sockeye Returns Through New Salmon Ladders
The Fraser River faces a strong sockeye run as pink and silver salmon flood toward spawning grounds. Engineers at Hells Gate built tall concrete boxes with inward-baffled water routes, enabling fish to pass during floods. The 1945 fishways survived a 60 foot flood, aiding the spring and four-year sockeye migration upstream.
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Columbia
Rockies
Gate
Hells Gate
Hells Gates
Fraser
Ada
United States
Bonneville Dam
WCTU Head Snaps At Beer Bottle Test
Mrs S R Hipp president of the Chattanooga Women Christian Temperance Union found a stack of empty beer bottles blocking her door after a weekend out of town. She moved them inside and posted a sign inviting claimants to retrieve bottles with a two cent per bottle deposit, but no one has claimed them.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
S. R. Hipp
Chattanooga Women Christian Temperance Union
New Jersey Couple Held In Pensacola Robbery Kidnaping
A New Jersey couple Edward Gilchrist and Helen Gilchrist of Asbury Park were jailed in Pensacola on armed robbery and kidnapping charges. They allegedly robbed a Pensacola service station of 150 dollars, forced a pair from a car at the scene to drive toward Mobile, and were captured by Sheriff Taylor Wilkins near Loxley Alabama with aid from Alabama State Police after a police pursuit. The victims were unhurt and the money was recovered.
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New Jersey
Pensacola
Pensacola, Fla
Edward Gilchrist
Helen
Asbury Park
N. J
Taylor Wilkins
Baldwin County
Ala
Loxley
Wilkins
Bay Minette
New Orleans
Malbis
Alabama
Herman
Mobile
Florida
Gilchrist
Australian scientists end trip with Hobart brewery excursion
The congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science closed in Hobart with a field excursion to the local brewery, enjoyed by all participants.
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Hobart
Tasmania
The
Australian and New Zealand Association For the Advancement of Science
Siberia Industrial Expansion Split by Five Year Plan
A Reuters summary from Hong Kong reports that Soviet Siberia is undergoing major industrial expansion under the 1946 1950 five year plan. By 1950 coal and steel output are to rise, the Trans Siberian line is being electrified, Novo Tagil and Cheliabinsk steel works near completion, and Kazakhstan will host a new plant. Siberia proper will supply coal metals wheat autos tractors locomotives textiles and more.
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Hong Kong
China
Siberia
Ussr
Far Eastern Economic Review
Urals
Cairns
Beriga
Trans-Siberian
Novo-Tagil Steel Works
Cheliabinsk
Kazakhstan
Cheliabinszk
Far East
Central Asia
Siberia region to rise as Soviet industrial hub by 1950
The Review reports Kurbass coal region will develop iron ore manganese zinc and bauxite and an aluminum pliant will be moved there during the war to treat output by 1950. Tillage in Kurbass rises 85 percent to feed growing population with 129 schools 125 libraries 30 hospitals 26 community centers 14 movie houses and four theaters under construction. It notes Siberia proper east of the Volga and Caspian north of Central Asia west of Lake Baikal will become vital to the Soviet economy, though consumer goods will still come from European Russia. The piece compares U S industrial shift westward and notes U S farmers use electricity in over 350 applications.
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Kurbass
Siberia
Volga
Russia
Caspian Sea
Central Asia
Lake Baikal
Urals
Incles
United States
Far West
Northeast
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Fraser River
Chinook
WCTU
National Industrial Conference Board
U. S
Mrs. § R. Dull
Stanton
California
Premier
Golden Sweet
Bea
Prince Albert Tobacco
AJAX
U.S. No
Leo
Stanton’s
East Main Street
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