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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 01, 1948
Page
2
The piece notes air transport as a growing force for international understanding. It highlights the International Air Transport Association with seventy member companies in forty countries and its push to standardize air travel, enhance safety, efficiency, speed and economy worldwide.
Member airlines control over 500000 miles of routes and employ over 500000 people. The association aims to standardize procedures across languages currencies and measurement systems to achieve broad international understanding in aviation. It notes indirect employment for millions more through its efforts.
The Association shows its interest in safety by exchanging information on accidents and near-accidents among companies to raise air travel safety worldwide. The progress in cooperation suggests a path toward lasting world peace, though differences in national practice remain and must be harmonized.
In Peterborough two young children dispersed ten and twenty dollar bills on sidewalks as their father Everett Moss, a grocer, stopped for a bank deposit. Moss reports about $50 missing from Saturday receipts after the spree.
The Tower of London greets a new flagstaff carved from a 389 year old Douglas fir gifted by British Columbia. Cut to 158 feet and finished at 85 feet above roof, about 10 feet embedded in the White Tower roof replacing the old staff used from 1890 to 1945.
A collection of light jokes and quips about dogs, barbers, teachers, relatives, and gossip. Short, humorous vignettes reveal social foibles and wordplay. A brisk, old timey flavor with punchy setups and quick punchlines.
Canadian researchers spotlight feather fiber in inks plastics and cups while bee products show potential against tuberculosis arthritis and wounds. Rat feeding studies warn against ignoring appetite. Peoria lab promotes grain alcohol as motor fuel and soybean derivatives for ice cream glue and more. Kennebec potato and California Red No 1 onion mark plant breeding advances. The 22,000-ton carrier Furious slated as navy target ship.
Ottawa reports that new pesticides HepI and Tepp are studied for health impact before registration. The Plant Products Division limits quantities and requires clear labeling to protect public health and animals, consulting science staff and other government experts before approval.
English cargo aboard a 18th century vessel bound for Philadelphia reached the shore from the Delaware River during dredging work. The items include pewter plates brass buttons silver shoe buckles locks with keys square nails copper kettles two pronged forks and various pins. The relics were recovered by United States Army Engineers using a suction pipe and now mark a long-delayed delivery to colonial residents.
Robert Dick, a blind kiosk operator beside the public library, complains Victorians are too friendly. He says people pet his guide dog too much as she leads him along the streets.
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