Synthetic Textiles Push Wool Into New Global Rivalry
Henry Lesesne reports wool faces stiff competition from synthetics as defense needs spur a $500 million government backed expansion. Rayon and new fibers from Dynel to Dacron reshape U S mills with Du Pont and Chemstrand expanding plants across Alabama West Virginia Florida and North Carolina.
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Henry Lesesne
CPC
Charlotte
N.C
United States
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Orion
du Pont Company
Dacron
South Charleston
W. Va
Union Carbide
Chemstrand Corporation
Decatur
Ala
Pensacola
Fla
U.S
du Pont
Decrease That Holiday Tension With One Store Stop
As the Yule season nears, many women dread gift lists and crowded stores. To ease strain, buy a compact set of gifts from one department, such as house slipper variations, then cover most receivers with minimal movement. A corsage purse perfume dispenser blends fragrance with a keepsake ornament.
Town in England Has Its Troubles
In Little Heck England residents protest a prank by two men with paint pots who altered the town’s single signpost from To Heck to To Great Heck. Heck, a mile away, has 192 residents and emissaries to post officials faced heckling as they sought the responsible sender. Little Heck, with five houses, shows little concern.
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Little Heck
England
Heck
Judge Fines Man for Act of Mercy in Windsor
Windsor Ontario magistrate Arthur J. Hanrahan fined Bernard Beaudoin twenty five dollars after Beaudoin drove an injured man to hospital while his license was suspended. The judge said he was not free to punish mercy.
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Windsor
Ont
Arthur J. Hanrahan
Bernard Beaudoin
New Jupiter Moon Claimed by Nicholson
Planet Jupiter may have a twelfth moon, reported by Dr Seth B Nicholson of Mount Wilson and Palomar. He observes with the 69 and 100 inch telescopes showing a satellite moving with Jupiter but orbit calculation is needed for certainty. If confirmed, the moon would be about 15 miles in diameter, similar to known moon No 10.
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Seth B. Nicholson
Mount Wilsom
Palomar
Galileo
Jupiter
Nicholson
Mount Wilson
Earth
Scoutmasters Moral Lesson About One Good Deed
A Scoutmaster challenges three boys who admit no good deed that day to leave until they perform one. They return flushed claiming they helped an old lady cross the street. The master asks if it took three to help one lady, and the spokesman admits the lady did not want to cross.
Plantation Pork Pie Recipe For Sunday Treat
A Louisiana style pork pie recipe serves four. It includes pork with onions and peas, a sweet potato crust, and a biscuit yam topping. The method browns flour and pork, simmers with water and seasonings, then bakes at 425 degrees for about 20 minutes.
Canada Joins Six Nations In Accepting Migration Plan
At the 23 nation conference in Brussels six countries including Canada approve the American plan for resettling Europe’s surplus population. The plan calls for the emigration of 115000 Europeans, many anti Communist refugees, to the United States Canada Australia New Zealand and Latin America in the agency’s first year. Delegates from Britain Australia Brazil Greece and Austria back the plan’s main principles.
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Brussels
Canada
Europe
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Latin America
Germany
France
Italy
Turkey
Belgium
Britain
Brazil
Greece
Austria
How to Make Yule Logs From Newspapers and Magazines
Instructions describe rolling and tying paper logs, soaking in a salt and blue stone solution, and drying. The recipe uses 2 pounds rock salt and 1.7 pounds bluestone in 2 1/2 gallons water, plus two extra gallons after dissolving. Logs become 5 inches long and 2 inches in diameter and burn with colorful flames.
Woman Bags Eight Point Deer After Husband’s Early Hunt
In Ithica New York at 7 a.m. Mrs. Humble took a gun and went hunting while her husband slept in. By 7:30 a.m. she had secured an eight point 175 pound deer. Her husband returned home at 6 p.m. empty handed.
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Ithica
N.Y
Joseph Humble
Humble
Shoppers Learn Uses Of Fibre Fabrics From New Synthetics
New York report explains how synthetic fibres like viscose rayon acetate nylon orlon dracon and fibre E are changing apparel upholstery and automotive uses. Readers are advised to read labels for correct care and identify strengths such as durability quick drying crease resistance and weather resistance.
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New York
Orlan
du Pont
Music boosts Danish cows to record butter output
Farmer Knud Eilefsen of Falster pipes music into his cowsheds and reports his herd averages 585 pounds of butter yearly, far above Denmark’s 320 pound national average. The method is presented as a step toward improving dairy production.
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Copenhagen
Knud Eilefsen
Falster
Denmark
Conley Chooses Hard Way After Littering Fine Offer
In Powell County Indiana Jay Conley Jr 23 opted to take the hard way offered by Judge Taylor Ray to dodge a $20 littering fine He agreed to pick up all debris he allegedly scattered along a five mile stretch of U S 35 highway ensuring the cleanup was completed.
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PA Porte
Ind
Jay Conley, Jr
Taylor Ray
Conley
U.S. 35
First Major Shipwreck: Lady of the Lake 1833 Disaster
The Lady of the Lake, sailing from England to Quebec, struck an iceberg on May 11, 1833, in what is recorded as the era's first major shipwreck. Two hundred fifteen people perished in the disaster.
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England
Quebec
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