Safety Taught for Teens and Young Drivers
Canada’s highway safety council notes about three in ten fatal or serious crashes involve young drivers. A proper driver training course could prevent nearly half of these, with better teaching replacing casual parental coaching and more engaging school programs. The discussion also urges stronger secondary braking systems at lower factory costs to fix vehicle safety gaps.
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Canadian Highway Safety Council
C. E. Laybourn
Ontario Department of Transport
Laybourn
Law and bingo thisery and others like it chanted daily
A Niagara Falls magistrate found three men operating a common gaming house for a Loyal Order of Moose bingo game since some proceeds paid expenses. The ruling urged a uniform interpretation of the Criminal Code to allow expenses while most receipts support charitable aims. A separate note quotes Franklin Dillinger on fish feeding habits in Canada's lakes, written for Liberty.
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Niagara Falls
Loyal Order of Moose
Canada
Franklin Dillinger
Ontario
Liberty
Ambrose Hill on Government Economic Policy
Ambrose Hill argues that governments shrink viable growth by favoring weak, subsidized industries and coddling Crown corporations like TCA CNR and CBC. He says Canadians elected to spur growth and curb taxpayer subsidies, noting CBC lost regulatory power yet gained vast funding and freedom to act. TCA faced similar expectations and challenges.
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TCA Cnr
CBC
Everybody Sell and the Canadian sales drive
Wilford A Peterson argues that prosperity hinges on widespread selling of goods services and ideas. The piece cites Canadian department store friction and car sales pitches to urge active selling, service and growth by individuals and government alike as summer tourism nears and shoppers eyes on new cars.
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This Week
Wilford A. Peterson
USA
Eve
Work Is Never Done With Aphids
Dr. M Ellen MacGillivray a leading Canadian entomologist at Fredericton notes aphids infest nearly every plant and new kinds are still being discovered her lab houses over 10000 slides and 250 specimens she says aphids are beautiful when shown alone but repulsive in clusters and while harmless by themselves they spread plant viruses making virus control the major challenge in aphid research.
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Fredericton
M. Ellen MacGillivray
Canada
MacGillivray
University of New Brunswick
Michigan
Leiden University
Netherlands
Fredericton Research Station
Federal Department of Agriculture
Gems of Thought on Enjoyment in Education
A compact collection of quotes on enjoyment and fulfillment from Goethe Chesterton Humboldt Ruskin. The excerpts emphasize reducing ego, mind and body activity, and education shaping delight in right actions.
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K Chesterton
Alexander Humboldt
John Ruskin
Modern quake network to aid earthquake prediction effort
A global modernization project by US Coast and Geodetic Survey installs instruments at 125 recording stations in 65 countries to study earthquakes. Data will be analyzed in Washington with completion expected by late 1962. Also notes NASA TiROS I satellite imagery and an Air Force rocket finding a dense meteoroid band 47 to 102 miles above Earth.
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Washington
Air Force
Long Phase of Cool Weather is Predicted
Montreal scientist Dr. F Kenneth Hare predicts a long cooler period and more snow across North America reversing prior warming trends. He notes global temperatures rose 1885 to 1940 but cooling began in Europe in the 1990s and in North America in the 1940s. He cites irregular long cycles and carbon dioxide as a possible factor.
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Montreal
North America
F. Kenneth Hare
McGill Observatory
Hare
McGill
Europe
American Meteorological Society
Colombo Plan Marks 10th Year Anniversary
The Colombo Plan celebrates its tenth anniversary as a cooperative effort among Asian and non Asian nations. Donors include Australia Canada Japan New Zealand United Kingdom and the United States with technical aid and training totaling over 23 000 trainees and 11 600 experts through plan and UN agencies. Canada has contributed about 32 million dollars to date. Recipient members include Burma Cambodia Ceylon India Indonesia Laos Federation of Malaya North Borneo Nepal Pakistan Philippine Republic Sarawak Singapore Thailand and Vietnam. The WHO seeks tenders for a new headquarters costing about 8 million Swiss francs with Canadian firms invited to contact WHO Geneva before July 10. Further information is available from the Canadian Council of the International Chamber.
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Britain
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
Japan
New Zealand
United States
United Nations
Burma
Cambodia
Ceylon
India
Indonesia
Laos
Federation of Malaya
North Borneo
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippine Republic
Sarawak
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam
Canadian Council of the International Chamber of Commerce
Montreal
World Health Organization
Geneva
WHO
Canadian Council of the International Chamber
Health Topics This Week Focuses On New Pills And Devices
The week highlights a diarrhoea pill using Lactobacillus acidophilus to restore gut balance amid viral, bacterial, or antibiotic infections. It notes five babies affected by a “Friendly Germs” issue and urges parental precautions. Also reported are brain radios enabling cat brain wave recording a device that could relay impulses to burn pain, and a paper test to diagnose eardrum damage costing about a tenth of a cent.
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Chicago
Tulane University
University of Michigan Specialits
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Macgregor Herald
NigeGregor Herald
MacGregor
Post Office
Ottawa
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Manitoba Weekly Newspaper Association
Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
Allen McGregor
West End
the Law
Clearve Definions
Neer
Hewan
Prairies
Meteorological Branch
Transport Department
Saskatoon
Alberta
IY Ambrose Hill
Treasury
TCA
Goethe
Science At Work
Uulispant Son Revi
Tiros I
Asheville
N.C
Colombo Plan
McMaster
Portage LA Prairie
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