Bringing Animals Back Alive Is Booming Business
CPC Correspondent notes postwar demand for exotic fauna drives a thriving trade. Noel Rosefelt’s Los Catalina Wild Life Expeditions grossed about 250000 dollars in a year by selling animals and birds abroad. Methods include sedative corn planes for monkeys and latex flypaper for birds, with elephants trapped by drums and torch surrounding stockades. Rosefelt also transported a pregnant seeming elephant later found not to be pregnant and aided by Hollywood. Now focus shifts to unconventional species like Komodo lizards and pig-faced cats.
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CPC
Noel Rose
Los Catalina
Rosefelt
Vreterinarar
Siam
London
Hollywood
Oklahoma City
Mickey Finn
Immigrant Fisherman Reunites with His Mother in Canada
Joe Njakara arrived from Yugoslavia in 1936 with little more than a five dollar bill. He fished his way to success in Vancouver becoming skipper of the Snow Cloud and a naturalized Canadian. After years apart, a government effort finally brought his mother to Canada, ending fifteen years of separation as she arrived from the east.
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Vancouver
Joe Njakara
Montreal
Yugoslavia
Joe
Physicists Ignite Tobacco Pipe with Sound Waves
In experiments, researchers used calibrated sound waves to ignite a pipeful of tobacco, demonstrating a novel method of initiating combustion through acoustic energy and pressure oscillations.
Workman Survives Six-Story Fall in Alaska
Richard Backman a 23 year old Seattle native fell six stories on a Fairbanks apartment project landing on concrete. He was conscious with a painful shoulder and no serious injuries after doctors at St. Josephs hospital found no broken bones. Fellow worker Robert Ellison described the fall and its blunt impact.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
St. Joseph's Hospital
Richard Backman
Seattle
Robert Ellison
UC students set teeter tottering world record
In Berkeley California two University of California students reportedly exceeded the prior mark by lasting seventy two hours on a teeter totter. The earlier record was fifty four hours fifty three minutes set a week earlier by Garry Kaveney who reportedly had at least two different partners in the stunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Calif
University of California
Garry Kaveney
Owning Your Own Home Begins With Budget Plan
A budget driven guide explains how Canadians can plan for home ownership with little or no mortgage help. It outlines calculating gross income, current living costs, and housing expenses to determine monthly affordability. The advice emphasizes down payment sources and keeping total annual mortgage payments under 25 percent of gross income.
Price Of Brides Going Up
The Gusii in East Africa see wedding costs rise with inflation and Western influence. By 1947 a groom faced requests for more than 16 cows, a bull and as many as 20 goats for a bride, prompting price controls in 1948 to peg the rate at six cows, one bull and 10 goats. Fathers seeking favorable matches added under the counter payments, reigniting the price spiral.
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London
Colonial Office
East Africa
Kenya
Barazas
Gusii
Grand Tribal Council
Gusil
Stilts Used For Crossing Rivers In Low Lying Lands
Stilts were originally designed to span rivers and marshes in low lying regions including Belgium and parts of Gascony, enabling easier passage across wet landscapes.
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Belgium
Gascony
Empire State Building Sold in $50 Million Deal
A syndicate led by Detroit real estate men Roger L. Stevens Alfred R. Glancy Jr and Ben Tobin plans to buy the Empire State Building for 50 million dollars. Much stock is held by the late John J. Raskob estate with proceeds partly for inheritance taxes and Catholic charity endowment. The tower opened May 1 1931 and has 2 000 000 square feet of office space fully rented with a long waiting list.
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New York
Empire State Building
Roger L. Stevens
Alfred R. Glancy
Detroit
Ben Tobin
Hollywood Beach
Fila
Queen of Manhattan
John J. Raskob
Fifth Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf
Autobiographical note by James Thurber humorist. Thurber jokes about turning 75 and his sight, pleasures, and family. He describes radio ball games, with his wife daughter and a nine year old French poodle who thinks she is human. He jokes about being blown up but hopes not.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
James Thurber
Recipe For Never Growing Old From Mistinguette
Montreal report on Mistinguette the 81-year-old Paris star who declares not young says you cannot stay young forever but you need not accept being old. The piece argues embracing life and resisting aging labels keeps interest alive and responsibilities clear. Mistinguette’s philosophy: you aren’t old unless you decide so.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Mistinguette
Gal Mistinguette
Death Curse Fails Relieved Man Battles Grim Prophecy
London. Eric Deeping a 38 year old commercial artist survived May 20 after a spirit told him of a death curse. He bought a 25000 pound life policy and stayed home all day to avoid a supposed fatal motor car accident on May 20 1951.
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London
Eric Deeping
Deeping
Boston Christian Science Church Names New President
Named President Mrs Lora C Rathvon of Boston Mass was named President of The Mother Church The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston at its annual meeting on June 4 Mrs Rathvon widow of William R Rathvon a member of the Christian Science Board of Directors and former corresponding secretary for Mary Baker Eddy has been active in Christian Science for almost 40 years She participated in Camp Welfare activities during two world wars and has served The Mother Church in several roles including membership on the Bible Lesson Committee.
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Lora C. Rathvon
Boston
Mass
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Mother Church
Local Citizens Cause 87 Percent Of Forest Fires
Local citizens bear 87 percent of forest fire responsibility with Indians causing about a quarter in many districts. Settlers, trappers, hunters, berry pickers, and travelers follow. Campfi res, slash burning, and land clearing drive most man made fires in the Prairie Provinces. Personal outreach edges legislation in reducing fires. Radio and posters outrank movies and road signs.
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Prairie Provinces
Understanding Children and Later Mental Health
The article argues that much adult mental ill health could be avoided if parents and teachers understood the children in their care and trained their minds to cope with problems they would face as adults.
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Noel Rosefelt
Lady Elephant
B.C
Workman
Backman
Central Press
James N. Gape
U.S
Gape
England
Mr. Gape
Ohio
M. Harrison-Gray
South
North
Bennett Cerf
Grandpa Henry
Dept. of National Health and Welfare
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