Maine unveils deer repellent spray for truck crops
Stephen E. Powell of the Maine game department announced a new white powder repellent developed with B F Goodrich that protects beans strawberries cabbage cucumber vines beets and apple trees from deer damage. Early tests show near 100 percent effectiveness with no plant injury and may help Wisconsin farmers facing deer losses.
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Augusta
State of Maine Division of Inland Fisheries and Game
Stephen E. Powell
Maine Game Department
B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co
Wisconsin
Powell
Maine
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Cyprus to get first islandwide modern power supply
Cyprus under British colonial rule will build a central power station of 70 000 kilowatts at Sarawaka on the southern coast. Sea water will cool the turbo-alternators and the project aims to provide half a million inhabitants with electricity by 1951.
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Cyprus
Mediterranean
Sarawaka
Young Genius Kenny Wolf Writes Music at Seventeen
Cleveland boy Kenny Wolf is profiled as a precocious prodigy who entered Western Reserve at 10 and Yale at 14 then wrote a piano concerto scored by September. At 17 he performs with the Detroit Symphony under Karl Kreuger, while balancing studies, reading, and a broad musical tastes including be-bop. His parents, both lawyers, describe him as normal but unusually gifted.
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NEA
Kenny
Morris H. Wolf
Kenny Wolf
Arthur Rodzinski
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Karl Kreuger
Kenneth Wolf
Western Reserve
Yale University
Yale
Hindemith
Fate
Chance Pd
Tchaikovsky
Writer Carrington, Queen of Soap Operas, Began from Storm
Washington report on Elaine Carrington creator of Pepper Young's Family When A Girl Marries and Rosemary recounts how a New York rainstorm in 1932 led her to NBC with a one act play. She now earns about 4500 dollars weekly and writes all her shows.
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Washington
Elaine Carrington
Pepper Young
Rosemary
New York
Fifth Avenue
Theational Broadcasting Company
NBC
Carrington
Dickens
General Patton Meets An Equal in Friend
Washington reports vivid reminiscences of George Patton as a 1940 lieutenant colonel at Fort Meyer Virginia. During a Saturday drill he halted a battery and rebuked its commander with explosive temper. later the artillery battalion chief challenged him but they reconciled quietly after they reported to Patton.
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Washington
George Patton
Patton
Army
Fort Meyer
Ofeer
Patté
Egypt buys 9000 tons pipe for Fayoum and El Bassat water works
Egypt contracts 9000 tons of pipe in France and England for Fayoum and El Bassat projects as part of a ten year drinking water supply program for villages. Cairo reports. Farmers and fishermen gain a 10 percent tax cut for Finnish labor.
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Egypt
France
England
Fayoum
el Bassat
Cairo
Wisconsin Sees Rising Elder Population and Longevity
Wisconsin health officials note a growing share of residents over 65 with 1980 projections at 13.1 percent. Dr. Carl Neupert urges preparations including more elderly housing and in-home support while stressing ongoing independence for most seniors. The state’s average death age is over 60 and climbing, with longevity beginning in the cradle.
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Wisconsin
Carl N. Neupert
Madison
Union
Melbourne marriage guidance center to aid in laws advice
A Melbourne based marriage guidance center plans to open this year offering advice on dealing with in laws. It will address intimate questions including how to be a wise mother in law and how to handle mother in laws who are not wise.
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Melbourne
Australia
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