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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 12, 1946
Page
5
Science shows ancient wheat grains will not germinate and Egyptian tomb microbes are nonviable. H J Banker notes viable seeds vary by type with lotus from Nile germinating after 237 years, while Tutankhamen tomb swabs yielded sterile results after 3000 years.
The Coronation Scot, famous British train seen by millions at the New York World's Fair, is sent back to England for reintroduction to passenger service. The locomotive was returned in 1942 for war use while the rest of the train served the American Army at Jeffersonville Indiana as officers' headquarters.
Petroleum chemists report a process that makes hydrocarbon fuel as safe as kerosene yet with combustion similar to 100 octane aviation fuel. They claim a lighted match would not cause an explosion.
Birmingham architects Herbert Jackson and Reginald Edmonds won a 10000 prize for a steel framed Crystal Palace replacement. The design aims as a symbol of peace prosperity and industry with a 100000 seat stadium a opera ballet amphitheatre theatres concert hall dance hall swimming pool ice rink and skating rink. Completion expected in five to six years at an estimated cost of 60000000.
A UN sub-commission reported women must be free and responsible to help build a healthy moral world. It urged continued work until equal footing with men in political rights and all fields, with simultaneous progress in education, social, and economic areas. The report called for world opinion to raise women's status and full government support and collaboration. It also urged convening a United Nations women's conference.
A dry kauri tree of unusual size was felled in the Wai poua State forest in the far north. The 47 foot long trunk with a 30 foot girth could yield timber for five to six average houses and took four men two days to cut with a 12 foot saw.
Mrs Jack Miner widow of the late Canadian naturalist was honored by the Alaska Sports and Wildlife Club as Canada’s most outstanding woman for 1946 for her wildlife work with the Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary begun with her husband in 1904. Her three sons Manly Ted and Jasper carry on the refuge activities.
In a Quebec Engineering Institute address, G Magnel credited the Canadian Army in Ghent September 1944 with pioneering pre-stressed concrete in modern warfare. Maj Gaetan Cote of Sherbrooke led the Canadian Engineering Corps using two beams as a bridge over the Terneusemn Canal for gasoline pipelines from Ostend to Ghent.
J B Hynd, minister for British occupation policies in Germany, told the house of commons that music primarily associated with Nazism or militarism is not permitted in the British zone of occupation.
Dr. Alvan L. Barach of Columbia University describes a method using enclosed chambers to ventilate the lungs, allowing patients with advanced bilateral tuberculosis to rest their own breathing for hours at a time. Over ten years this approach aided recovery in six of twelve such patients.
The Kingston Whig-Standard cites a fashion authority noting men drink when down but women buy hats. After seeing the hat, the man often drinks again, illustrating a link between shopping and drinking behavior.
The British shipbuilders produced tank landing craft used in invasion landings and now to aid reconstruction in North Norway after war damage to quays and jetties. Five craft have arrived and entered service, enabling heavy vehicles to be driven off directly onto beaches.
Karl Herman Frank, former protector of Czechoslovakia, was executed by firing squad after admitting orders for Lidice destruction. He faced death for killing at least 300000 Czechs and ordering the village’s massacre and enslavement of women and children in retaliation for Reinhold Heydrich’s assassination. He sought trial at Nuremberg but was condemned by Czech authorities. The Buffalo Courier Express notes the sentence as punishment rather than retaliation.
The Navy trials a fog disperser named ELMER at Arcat a California experimental field. It uses high frequency supersonic waves to turn fog into rain, aiming for clearer visibility at lower cost than earlier devices.
A UK firm has developed a process to dye glass fabric like textiles without changing existing machinery. The method overcomes glass dye uptake issues, allowing dual use of equipment for glass fabric or ordinary textiles.
Embroidered liners towels scarfs tray cloths and pillows showcase simple stitchery in bright colors. Pattern 7297 features eight peacocks 6 by 11 44 to 5 by 6 inches with transfer. Send twenty cents to Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern and name address details.
British engineers construct a pontoon ferry on the Bangkok river in Siam aiming to establish a direct rail connection from Singapore to Northern Siam. The project seeks to move 1,000,000 tons of rice from the famine regions of Burma.
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