Canada's Frontiers Push Oil and Mineral Prospects
The Canadian Press notes world demand pressures expand exploration across Canada's northwest territories from Yellowknife to Hudson Bay. Private Toronto financiers back three years of surveying for gold and other minerals, while iron ore mapping grows amid US field declines. Leduc field in Alberta gains importance as oil supplies tighten, with new wells and geologists predicting a northern giant.
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Canada
Northwest Territories
Toronto
Yellowknife
Hudson Bay
Manitoba Boundary Line
Arctic Islands
United States
Leduc
Alberta
Alberta war pilot with one leg flies own plane
Bob Comeau, a war veteran who lost a leg and spent time in a German prison camp, has earned a private pilot license after regulations relaxed. He flies an Ercoupe with synchronized controls, accompanied by his wife as he resumes flying despite four-year-old twins watching.
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Edmonton
Bob Comeau
Canada
Department of Veterans Affairs
Comeau
Mr. Comeau
Jack Ross
Dark glasses habit warned by ophthalmologist
Dr. John L. Matthews of San Antonio told the third Pan American Congress of Ophthalmology that constant use of dark glasses is habit forming and usually unnecessary. He warned that driving at dawn dusk or night while wearing dark lenses reduces sharpness of vision and is dangerous.
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Havana
John L. Matthews
San Antonio
Tex
Matthews
First With The News Denies Engagement
The Biggleton Weekly Budget had announced the schoolmaster's engagement to Miss Mary Murphy. A week later the paper declared there is not an atom of truth in that assertion and was the first to retract.
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Biggleton
Mary Murphy
Evening wordplay on winter wit and gender norms
A playful verse riff questions a remark about women and appearances in harsh winter weather. The tone mocks the idea that women are defined by spans or limits when facing sleet and cold.
New Lead To Prevention Of Diabetes
Dr Bernardo Houssay, Nobel co winner, reports rat experiments showing a pre diabetic period after pancreas removal. Blood sugar stays normal for two to three months in rats, roughly years in humans, offering a window to diagnose and prevent diabetes by preserving pancreas function.
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Berkeley
Calif
Bernardo Houssay
Buenos Aires
University of California
Houssay
Burglar Convicted By Year-Old Fingerprint
Windsor Ontario detective used a year-old fingerprint to convict Eddie Rivai, 21, of breaking and entering a restaurant on October 19 1946. The single print on glass from the skylight matched Rivai after he was linked to another burglary at the same site.
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Windsor
Ont
Eddie Rivail
Earl Patterson
Rivati
Husbands Blamed For Women's Driving
Springfield Mass. an official of the Massachusetts registry of motor vehicles told an accident prevention conference that impatient husbands are to blame for the inferiority complex women have about driving. Eugene Fanning, supervisor of driver education, said wives should never allow their husbands to teach them to drive. Husbands become impatient when wives fail to grasp in a half hour what it takes men years to learn properly.
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Springfield
Mass
Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles
Eugene Fanning
Snow Shifts and Strikes Delay Niigata Rails
Tokyo reports say workmen shovelling snow on Japan's west coast near Niigata moved slowly then quickly after discovering fish tossed from trains by black marketeers. Police waited at the station to search bundles.
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Tokyo
Niigata
Japan
Coastline Compare: Lake Superior Wider Than Gulf and Pacific Coasts
Lake Superior has the longest coastline among U S coasts according to the Encyclopaedia Americana. its area exceeds that of Connecticut. The report notes the lake's vast fresh water expanse and emphasizes its superior reach along the shoreline.
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Lake Superior
Gulf Coast
Pacific Coast
United States
Two Victoria Girls Retur n After Hitch Hiking Across Continent
Alma and Dulcie Malcolm, sisters from Victoria born in the United States, return home after a 15 000 mile hitch hiking tour across the United States and Mexico. They traveled with $100, earning about $5 50 daily for food and lodging through waitress work and other brief jobs. They describe warm assistance from strangers and a stay in Acapulco's Casa Blanca balcony due to high local prices.
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Victoria
Continent
Alma
Dulcie Malcolm
United States
Mexico
Dulcie
Acapulco
Casa Blanca
MacMillan to Build $12 Million Sulphate Pulp Mill
H R MacMillan export company will erect a $12,000,000 bleached sulphate pulp mill on Vancouver Island with a 200 ton daily capacity, using by products. Construction starts this year with completion expected in 1950 and will employ at least 200 people. Output aimed at U S markets to boost Canadian dollars.
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Vancouver
H. R. MacMillan Export Company Limited
Vancouver Island
H. R. MacMillan
United States
U.S
Canada
Urgent Psychiatric Needs in Canada Outlined
A National Health Week message from the National Committee for Mental Hygiene calls for immediate action. It urges 10 000 new hospital beds and improved hospital staffing, expanded postgraduate psychiatry training, expanded traveling clinics, and more outpatient clinics, along with non medical services for disabled children and home management and human relations classes for youth and future parents.
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Canada
National Health Week
People of
National Committee For Mental Hygiene
Leg Saved After Twenty Three Operations for Brissie Junior
Twenty three operators saved Leland Victor Brissie Jr. the A’s young southpaw who faced amputation after wartime injuries in Italy. Doctors decided against removal. Brissie signed with the Philadelphia Athletics and previously starred at Savannah farm club with 23 wins and five losses last season.
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Philadelphia
Leland Victor
Lou) Brissie, Jr
Connie Mack
Bob
Lefty) Grove
Brissie
Philadelphia Athletics
Italy
Lou
Savannah
Psychologists blame mothers for boys shirking chores
Two child psychologists Dr. Maurice Krout and Dr. Stanly Dulsky argue mothers who make sons wash dishes and do housework foster juvenile delinquency. They say feminine tasks push boys to prove manhood through anti-social acts and urge guidance toward strength and insight.
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Maurice Krout
Stanly Dulsky
Trade in the Middle Ages for the Wealthy
The article notes grocers emerged in the 14th century but were affordable only to the rich. Townspeople bought from chapmen, traveling grocers who carried wares in packs on their backs.
Canadian Guest Sees Canada From Cold to Hats
Michelle Clefant, 21, from a village near Paris, is wintering at Collingwood Ontario as a guest of Mr and Mrs O G Bernheart. She survived a 1944 Canadian plane crash in France where three of six crew were killed and helped bury the dead. Flight Sergeant Bernheart was among the casualties and his family she visited later. She plans to return to France after a three month stay and she will not buy any hats in Canada.
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Canada
Michelle Clefant
Paris
Collingwood
Ont
O. G. Bernheart
Michelle
France
Mounted Police Wife Recalls Life in Aklavik Frontier
Regina area wife of RCMP assistant commissioner describes 1933 frontier posting at Aklavik near the Mackenzie River. Mail by plane six times yearly and long separations while her husband patrolled. Daughter Beverly born there charmed Eskimos with blond hair.
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Mounted Police
Aklavik
Regina
Saskatchewan
C. E. Rivett- Carnac
R.C.M.P
Mackenzie River
Beverly
Eskimos
English Climate Baffles Eskimo Girl in Kent
Rebecca, a 15 year old Eskimo girl brought to Felixstowe by Mrs John Turner after an Arctic accident, complains of cold weather and has had a succession of colds since arriving. She has settled into English life but cannot speak the language and feels homesick when Canada is mentioned.
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Felixstowe
Kent
England
Rebecca
John Turner
Canada
Turner
The Deaf and Dumb Language Argument
A husband and wife quarrel in silence as she vents rage with rapid finger signaling. He raises his hands to answer but she turns out the light, ending the confrontation in darkness.
Airplane coyote hunting becomes Alberta sport with bounty
In Alberta a new sport sees two people fly a ski plane at 500 feet to spot coyotes and shoot them from close range. The government pays five dollars per coyote plus two dollars per pelt, with pilots risking speed and balance to deliver a clear shot. Del Sperry of Cochrane set a seven day, hundred coyote record near Vulcan, Alberta.
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Alberta
del Sperry
Cochrane
Vulcan
Alta
James H. Gray
Ottawa Citizen
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