World Happenings: Supreme Court Pay Boost and Jet Engine Labs
National research headquarters in Ottawa says NC laboratories can perform full scale jet engine testing. Vatican radio reports 422 million Roman Catholics worldwide with 119 million added since 1920 to 1949. England Wales surplus women numbered 3.38 million. 19.9 million males and 22.3 million females in 1947. Radio ownership rises in Norway with 790k licensed sets, up 15 percent. Ten Japanese teachers die and three injured when a new suspension bridge collapses into the Jinten river near Tokyo. Michael Edison Sloane, Thomas A. Edison’s year old grandson, dies in the Austrian Alps.
Cat Returned Home After 16 Days Away
Barbara Hickman of Waterloo, Iowa, reunites with Mickey the family cat after the pet disappeared during a Stratford visit. Mickey wandered away and returned to the Hickman home sixteen days later.
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Cat
Barbara Hickman
Waterloo, Oat
Mickey
Hickman
Stratford
Barbara
Oil Tenders Closed On Indian Reservation
Ottawa reports tenders closed for permits to search for oil on an Indian reserve in Alberta. The Obama reserve lies on a Calgary to Edmonton line mid way between the two cities. Oil firms have shown interest since a dry well was drilled recently. Companies pay 16 cents per acre for a one year exploratory permit.
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Ottawa
Alberta
Obama Reserve
Calgary
Edmonton
Britain Granted $12 Million for Canadian Pork Purchases
Britain receives $12 200 000 in Marshall plan funds to buy Canadian pork, the largest ECA approval in months. With the Canadian dollar devalued, the grant equals 13 420 000 Canadian dollars, part of a 62 200 000 total ECA grants for Britain in the last month for Canadian agricultural commodities.
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Ashington
Britain
Canada
Economic Co-operation Administration
E.C.A
Recovery Agency
ECA
Calgary Banff Route Chosen for Trans-Canada Highway
Alberta government selects Calgary Banff Big Bend corridor for the Trans-Canada highway. Senator James A. MacKinnon reports Ottawa had been informed of the Alberta choice after discussions with provincial authorities.
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Calgary-Banff
Edmonton
Alberta
Big Bend
James A. MacKinnon
Ottawa
Dominion
Sen
MacKinnon
School for Dogs Trains 26 Hounds in Saskatoon Area
The school bell rings daily for 26 dogs from kennels across the United States. Hounds including pointers and setters are being trained on a vacant farm near Watson Sask.
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Watson
Sask
United States
Portable concrete incinerator shown with pre cast slabs
An illustrated guide describes building a small portable domestic incinerator from pre cast concrete slabs bolted together. It covers materials including cement sand gravel rods and expanded metal, plus reinforcement and assembly steps and cautions on grounding and curing.
Crossword Puzzle Clue List Fragment
Fragmentary crossword puzzle clues include verily to wee and to say further learning dwell arcades and numbers. It lists hints on seed covering moisture and other assorted terms with foreign language words and references to instruments and anatomy.
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Philippine
Beeman
Radar Finds Gallstones By Navy Echo Method
Washington reports that Dr. George D. Ludwig of the Naval Medical Research Institute explains a radar based technique using high frequency sound waves to image gallstones inside the body. Echoes from particles can be recorded revealing foreign substances like shell fragments.
Feeder Cattle Sell Fast At Auction On Manitoulin Island
In about five hours Duncan A. Brown sold 2 696 head of cattle for 368 822 at the sixth annual feeder and stock cattle sale at Little Current Manitoulin Ontario. The average price was 14 90 with top 21 50 and a low 12 10 for cann er cows. Five loads went to Harrisburg Penn one to Buffalo and the rest to western Ontario Madoc and Carleton. Manitoulin cattle are praised for quality disease freedom and profitable feedlot gains. Fourth general TB test showed only three reactors two infected herds out of 25 000 head. Grading and weighing were supervised by W S MacMullen and R H Graham. The sale manager was ? H Wilkin of Gore Bay.
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Duncan A. Brown
Little Current
Manitoulin
Ont
Harrisburg
Penn
Buffalo
Ontario
Madoc
Carleton
Manitoulin Island
W. S. MacMullen
Dominion Department of Agriculture
TRY AND STOP ME Aly Khan Fable Bouts and Will Rogers Memoir
The piece presents a frame of fable by Aly Khan featuring a mouse turned successively into cat dog and tiger and a quip about fear from a magician. It quotes Rita Hayworth gossip and notes from Will Rogers Jr.'s youth about shirt tails. The widow Will Rogers recalls sewing lace at the shirt bottom to cure his habit.
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Aly Khan
Rita Hayworth
Irving Hoffman
Will ‘Rogers
Will
Edmonton to Texas and Oklahoma oil region air service planned
Terrell C. Drinkwater president of Western Air Lines said Edmonton will host a new airline route to the oil regions of Texas and Oklahoma, with operations possibly starting by early next year.
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Edmonton
Texas
Oklahoma
Terrell C. Drinkwater
Los Angeles
Western Air Lines
Mallard Banded at Kingsville Found by Frank Howelko
A hunter near Gilbert Plains Manitoba Frank Howelko a local baker bagged a mallard on October 4 that had a band from the Jack Miner bird sanctuary Kingsville Ontario. The band numbered 48. Pele is a goddess said to inhabit the crater of Kil auea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii.
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Gilbert Plains
Man
Frank Howelko
Jack Miner
Kingsville
Ont
Pele
Kilauea
Mauna Loa
Hawaii
Western Canada Sound With Savings Deposits
During a Westward tour, Bank of Montreal president B C Gardner said western Canada shows sound business and rising prairie savings since 1939. He forecast more American investment if Canada remains stable and exports grow, but warned devaluation risks and a mixed outlook for farm products versus manufactured goods in export markets.
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B. C. Gardner
Montreal
Bank of Montreal
Regina
Canada
Prairies
Gardner
Washington
Britain
New Toxic Poison Deadly to Coyotes
Regina reports that the provincial game branch will use sodium fluoroacetate known as 1080 as a new coyote control method. Experimental areas in the southeast and southwest will test the approach with safeguards, aiming to cut losses for cattle and sheep producers.
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Regina
E. L. Paynter
Paynter
Police officer tickets own car in Montgomery
Traffic policeman Roland L. Banville wrote a parking ticket and left it under the windshield wiper of a car. In police court he explained he did not recognize his own license number on the new car.
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Montgomery
Ala
Roland L. Banville
Opposes Government Control of Currency
A speaker argues that foreign exchange should be freed from government control and currencies allowed to establish their own natural relationships, advocating market-driven value without state interference. The statement presents a libertarian stance on monetary policy and the role of government in currency management.
Weekly Tip Baby Bath Temperature Test by Elbow
If you have no bath thermometer test the water temperature by dipping your elbow. Water should feel just comfortably warm for a baby bath.
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Chure
Supreme Court of Canada
Sven
National Research Headquarters
N.C. Laboratories
Jinten River
Tokyo
Michael Edison Sloane
Thomas A. Edison
Austrian Alps
Vatican Radio
England
Wales
Norway
Britainactian
Tai
By Bennett Cerf
Western Canada Sound
Uin
Rocky
James Perry
Marine Corps
Pacific Ocean
Gynea Service
Adeline Gear
Little Reggie
Margarita
Drsh
Priscilla
Hv al Vermeer
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