What is a balsa tree
Centuries ago giant balsa trees stood on the western slopes from the Andes to the sea. Now forests are stripped and wood is found only in plantations and remote mountains. Balsa is a tropical New World giant, native to parts of the West Indies and jungles from Southern Mexico to Northern Venezuela. It is sourced mainly from Ecuador and Costa Rica but total supply remains limited for global demand.
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Andes
New World
West Indies
Mexico
Venezuela
Ecuador
Costa Rica
Pacific
Prized Ambergris Examined for Odor and Origin
Ambergris, valued in the East as perfume and medicine, gives off a strong disagreeable odor until exposed to sun air and sea water. It forms from whale intestines and weighs from a few ounces up to reported masses of 100 pounds.
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Ambergris
McKinney Named Assistant Director of Rehabilitation in NC Prisons
Horace Bones McKinney, former Wake Forest basketball coach and Baptist minister, joins North Carolina prison system as assistant director of rehabilitation. He will coordinate educational recreational and religious programs and supervise alcoholic rehabilitation officers at a salary of 9732 dollars a year. Bounds says his field work will boost community engagement inside prisons.
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Raleigh
Horace
Bones) McKinney
North Carolina
Lee Bounds
McKinney
Wake Forest College
Bounds
Wake Forest
Waye
Duke Manager Accepts New Post at MacAlester College
Duke University business manager John M. Dozier will become vice president for financial affairs at MacAlester College in St. Paul Minnesota effective September 1. A Rocky Mount native, Dozier has spent 18 years at Duke, his alma mater.
Two Sisters Die In Wreck Near Clinton North Carolina
Two Cumberland County sisters Martha Lou Lewis 18 Judy Roberta Lewis 14 and their male companions James Daniel Williams 22 Melvin Harrell Averitt 20 died when their car rear ended a stalled oil truck on a rural road northwest of Clinton. Calvin C Hall 42 driver of the truck left to fetch help after warning signals were not placed. The crash occurred about 9 pm and investigators said the truck carried 1 000 gallons of kerosene. Identification took over six hours and no charges were filed yet.
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Clinton
N. C
Cumberland County
John Laughinghouse
Martha Lou Lewis
Judy Roberta Lewis
Rt. 1
Godwin
James Daniel Williams
Rt. 3
Dunn
Melvin Harrell Averitt
Fayetteville
Laughinghouse
Williams
Calvin C. Hall
Autryville
Halcyon Days Origin of a Calm Time Phrase
The term halcyon days arose from the ancient Greek king fisher myth, linking halcyon to tranquil seas and weather calming during the birds nest over the sea. The folklore describes the bird's eggs hatching as the Kingfisher calms winds and waves.
Body of teenage girl found after double homicide
Fort Worth AP report says searchers found Edna Sullivan 16 in tall grass near an oak after Roy Green 18 and Kenneth McDuff 20 were charged with murder and rape in a case linking three youths. The two slain boys were Robert Brand 17 and Mark Dunnam 16.
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Mike Cochran
Fort Worth
Tex
Roy Green
Kenneth McDuff
Marlin
Here
Green
Brand
Dunnam
Sullivan
Brand Auto
Lon Evans
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Highland Motors, Inc
North Main Street
High Point, N. C
Miss Sullivan
Young Brand
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Tarrant County
Re. McDuff
National School of Home Study
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