Arrange Film Lists Well In Advance
La Crosse libraries schedule film screenings months ahead led by Librarian Muriel Fuller. Main library previews run Jan 3 Feb 1 Mar 1 Apr 3 and May 2 at 730 pm. North branch previews start Jan 18 with more to come. Films include Fight for Better Schools Life with Baby Philippine Republic Music in America New England Life on the Western Marshes One World or None and Trappers of the Sea March 1 through May 31.
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George Gershwin
Mischa Elman
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Western Marshes
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Russians Rush Rubber Exports From Malaya and Singapore
Soviet Russia and satellites import rubber from Malaya and Singapore. Ten months of 1950 saw 891,728 tons shipped, up from 746,324 in 1949. Direct sales to Russia totaled 75,488 tons, with evidence of larger purchases via Russian agents at cargo points.
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Russia
Malaya
United States
United Kingdom
Goan Dry Belt Expansion Aims to Reach Five Miles
Bombay authorities negotiate with Goan officials to extend the dry belt from two miles to five miles around the Portuguese colonies of Goa Damaun and Diu. Citizens seeking liquor relief would travel deeper into Portuguese territory as talks progress.
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Goa
India
Bombay
Damaun
Diu
First Austrian floodlit ski run planned at Kitzbuehel
One of Austria’s scenic ski runs at Kitzbuehel in the Tyrolean Alps will be floodlit this winter for night skiing. It will be Austria’s first flood lighted run and the third in Europe. Kitzbuehel anticipates a record tourist season, especially from the United States.
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Austria
Kitzbuehel
Tyrolean Alps
Europe
Plan for 375 mile border road linking Gilgit to Peshawar
SRINAGAR Kashmir reports a 375 mile motor road planned to connect Gilgit Agency in Pakistani held Gilgit Baltistan with Peshawar in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A prior jeep road between Gilgit and Balakot exists but is snowbound most of the year. Gilgit Agency borders the USSR Afghanistan China and Pakistan, underscoring strategic importance.
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Kashmir
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Northwest Frontier Province
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Hunza State
Gilgit
Peshawar
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Balakot
Ussr
Afghanistan
China
Brushy Bill Roberts Dies in Hico Claiming Billy the Kid Identity
In Hico Texas Brushy Bill Roberts aged about 90 died of a heart attack while walking the street dressed as his frontier persona He asserted he was Billy the Kid and had sought a presidential pardon from New Mexico Governor Mabry The legacy of Billy the Kid and the 1881 Garrett incident is noted as legend with Roberts claiming the truth while his wife and family had moved there from Gladewater Texas a decade earlier.
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Brushy Bill Roberts
Billy the Kid
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Brushy Bill) Roberts
T. J. Mabry
New Mexico
Roberts
Pat Garrett
Fort Sumner
N. M
Kid
William H. Bonney
Garrett
Gladewater, Tex
Rice crop forecast eyed for Thailand in 1951
Thai government plans national income on 1951 rice exports of 800000 tons but Minister Phra Chuang Kasetsilpakran expects a crop equal to 1950 with 1200000 tons for export. Floods damaged only lowland rice, hill yields look high, central plain and northern harvests expected very good.
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Phra Chuang Kasetsilpakran
Phra Chuang
Reds Explain
Vienna dispatch claims Budapest and Bucharest press state U S elections were close to keep parties weak and controlled. Communist outlets allege no real differences between major parties, both serving Wall Street war interests and thus election results allegedly moot.
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U. S
Wall Street
Hungary
Romania
Crime At Minimum In Napoleon’s Exile Island
A 1949 report from St Hele na on London’s Napoleon’s exile island shows daily prison population averaging one, down from two in 1948. The 4664 resident island relies on phormium hemp farming, faces job shortages, and small debts court cases rose from five to 137 from 1948 to 1949.
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St. Helena
South Atlantic
Israel sheep breeders meet in Haifa on Sardinian stock
In Haifa the Israel sheep breeders conference heard 150 delegates favor Sardinian sheep for meat quality. Experiments with Caracul and Astrakhan breeds received less approval.
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Israel
Israel Sheep Breeders
Haifa
Dutch Influence in Aboriginal Art Reported by G Donkin
G Donkin, an explorer, reports Aboriginal paintings in north Australia depicting 18th century Dutchmen in period costumes. He suggests some works show Indian influence on Aboriginal peoples and art.
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North Australia
G. Donkin
India
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