Red Cross Volunteer Women Gather at Regina Workrooms
Red Cross volunteers in Regina join daily workrooms at the Provincial Headquarters to sew and assemble clothing. Across Saskatchewan and Canada, volunteers contribute to more than 300000 articles and over three million surgical dressings yearly, aiding displaced and destitute children and fire victims with warm clothing.
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Calypso expeditions push ocean depth photography forward
National Geographic Society reports on the Calypso expeditions led by Captain Cousteau with a newly designed camera and a three mile nylon line tested to depths of 14 000 feet off Greece. The camera captured shrimps, a small fish, and an old tin can in the Mediterranean.
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Greece
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National Geographic Society
Luis Marden
Mr. Marden
Assumption Island
Indian Ocean
Madagascar
Florida’s delight as flood relief moments captured
A Floridian narrator highlights his state’s advantages while describing Los Angeles residents bailing out floodwaters from a home after a 7.97 inch two day rainfall, the second heaviest in California history.
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Florida
Los Angeles
California
New Treatment Uses New Stuttering Approach At UCLA
Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles report a novel therapy for stuttering that teaches patients to stutter in a different, more pleasant style. Dr. Joseph Sheehan says using unfamiliar stuttering patterns reduces fear and improves fluency in later readings.
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Joseph Sheehan
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Weed Control Boosts Crop Values in Western Canada
Manitoba Weed Commission head H. E. Wood says weeds erase about 20 percent of major crop value by consuming moisture and nutrients and devaluing yields. Herbicides now offer economical control, with Western Canada weed chemicals totaling just over 10 million dollars in 1955 and crop values up 56 million due to spraying, a return of 56 to 10.
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H. E. Wood
Manitoba Weed Commission
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Departments of Agriculture
Knitted helmet and mitten set pattern 7080 for girls
Directions for a helmet and mitten set in girls sizes 4 to 14. Crochet flower trim in gay colors. Easy to knit pattern requires twenty five cents. stamps not accepted. Send payment to obtain pattern.
Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue Offer
Plainly write your name address and pattern number order our ALICE BROOKS Needlecraft Catalogue. Enjoy pages of knitting crochet embroidery iron-ons toys and novelty patterns. Send 25 cents for your copy and you’ll want to order every design.
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Alice Brooks
Fashions Offer Sewing Pattern for Kitchen Apron
Thrifty pattern shows a Misses' apron designed to be made from a 100 pound feedbag or remnants. Diagrammed sew easy with non slip straps and full illustrated instructions. Pattern 4880 for sizes Small to Large, 35 cents, Anne Adams Pattern Dept.
Bird House Patterns and Early American Trestle Tables
Snow fills the workshop as instruction begins for martin houses with a single pattern layout. Pattern 4 costs 35c or five-pattern Bird House Packet No 2 is $1.50 postpaid. tables shown reflect early museum designs with three popular sizes on pattern 390 priced at 35c. The Early American Reproductions Packet offers five more authentic pieces for $1.50. Address orders to Home Workshop Pattern Service, 4433 West Fifth Avenue, Vancouver, B C.
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Metropolitan Museum
Home Workshop Pattern Service
Department P.P.L
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Ice crust could harm forage crops in Saskatchewan
REGINA. Freezing rains icing parts of Saskatchewan this winter threaten forage crops such as alfalfa and sweet clover. Irrigation cropping specialist R. J. Milligan urges checking fields and breaking up any ice crust. A drag barrow works on rolling land. for heavy ice on level ground use a disc tiller.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
R. J. Milligan
Department of Agriculture
Mr. Milligan
Vacuum cleaner method harvests oysters in New Haven
A New Haven oyster grower and engineers develop a giant suction rig to sweep the sea floor. It loads about 1,000 bushels of oysters per hour and captures thousands of destructive oyster drills. The system uses a converted Army FS vessel with a 40 foot 10 inch pipe on the port side. The United States grows more than 70 percent of the world's corn crop.
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New Haven
Oyster Company
Pacific
Spacing Important in Forage Crops
T Lawrence of the Swift Current experimental station reports seed yields rise with wider grass row spacing. Over six years Russian wild rye grass grown in rows 1 foot apart averaged 58 pounds per acre, 2 feet 132, 3 feet 160, and 4 feet apart 183 pounds per acre, indicating spacing affects yields.
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Swift Current Experimental Station
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