Do It Yourself Concrete Work Finishes by Seasoned Practice
Concrete finishes vary from rough textured surfaces to smooth troweled ones. The article explains texturing with brooms brushes and tools to create patterns before set, and notes that a steel edged trowel yields a finer finish than a wood float. Practice reveals the technique.
Black Current Blamed For High Tides
Tokyo officials attribute unusually high tides along central Japan to the Black Current. The Central Meteorological Agency notes the surge near Maisaka reached 19.7 inches above normal, with about 300 homes flooded in Toba and several dozen more in Shimizu.
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Central Meteorological Agency
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Philadelphia Schools Set Early Closing on May 24
Philadelphia school employees were told that schools will close May 24 next year due to a $30 million shortfall in the 1971 72 budget. Superintendent Mark R Shedd cited the shortage as the reason for the earlier end of the term and discontinuation of services on that date.
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Philadelphia
Mark R. Shedd
Bonanza of nature facts from Mary Niklas
HAL BOYLE presents Mary Niklas ecological notes on toads rabbits grasshoppers and polar bears. The piece highlights a toad killing thousands of pests including cutworms the keen time sense of bees and rabbit athleticism while noting polar bears declined from twenty thousand in 1960 to eight thousand in 1970 with young bears remaining with mothers for two years.
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New York
Mary Niklas
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