UN group proposes Amazon basin land development plan
UNESCO convened a conference with seven American and three European nations plus observers to study turning the Amazon River basin into a vast development area. Delegates from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, the United States, France, and the Netherlands discussed a long range project to settle, utilize resources, and promote world development in jungle lands now sparsely inhabited.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Unesco
Peru
Amazon River
Atlantic Ocean
Amazon
Bolivia
Brazil
Ecuador
Colombia
Venezuela
United States
France
Netherlands
Guianas
Food and Agriculture Organization
International Labor Organization
World Health Organization
United Nations
Great Britain and
The
Alberta site for million dollar pulp mill proposed
Red Deer Alberta reports negotiations underway for a multi million dollar pulp mill site. A Seattle company has begun talks with the city to secure a quarter section of land within city limits for the mill.
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Alberta
Red Deer
Alta
Seattle
Wash
Canada Leads In Immigration Highlights Emigrant Flows
In the two years to 1947 end, Britain sent 75,439 assisted emigrants to Canada, 22,604 to Australia, 11,346 to New Zealand, and 37,269 to South Africa. Viscount Addison, Lord Privy Seal, reported to the House of Lords.
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London
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Viscount Addison
Privy Seal
House of Lords
Beavers Use Tails to Signal on Water
Beavers employ tail slaps to communicate on the water surface. The noisy signals alert nearby animals and may convey warnings or social cues within the lodge territory.
Humorous Island of Misunderstandings and Quirky Jokes
A light collection of jokes and conversational vignettes. It opens with a flirtatious exchange about a gown and dance moves, moves into a quip about towels marked Pullman, and shifts to playful misinterpretations about squaw and squawkers. It also includes a farm chicken tale, umbrella humor, a railway gag with Sambo Simpson, kitchen commentary, and a curious child asking what curiosity killed. The piece closes with a father ledger joke and a child’s pun about what the cat wanted to know.
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Junior
Daddy
L B Thomson Named Director of Prairie Farm Board
L B Thomson former Swift Current soil expert and Manyberries superintendent is appointed director of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration. He led soil conservation efforts in the 1930s and helped farmers gain trust in experimental work. Thomson will oversee Canada’s largest conservation and irrigation program after returning from New Zealand.
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T. Kk
Melville-Ness Central Press
Saskatoon
Sask
L. B. Thomson
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
Prairie Farm
Thomson
P.F.R.A
Swift Current
L.B
Canada
Dreath
L. B
West
New Zealand
Blenheim
Luther B. Sharp
Bashaw
Alta
Dominion
Manyberries
Big Lonely Ranch
Horse Marketing Co-op
Europe
George Spence
International Joint Commission
P.F. R.A
Increase Seen in Waterfowl in Canada This Spring
A moderate rise in nesting waterfowl across most regions was reported at a migratory bird meeting in the legislative building. Yet officials warned that unreported northern conditions and later seasonal changes could erase gains while high water levels hinder production. Air and ground surveys map thousands of miles across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with extensive marsh counts.
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Regina
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
H B C JOINS HUNT FOR ALBERTA OIL
Hudson's Bay Company and Continental Oil Company join to form Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Limited. They will expand exploration in Alberta with hundreds of thousands of crown rights acres under exploration permits.
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Calgary
North America
Canada
Hudson's Bay Company
Continental Oil Company
Ponca City
Okla
Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Company Limited
Alberta
Brandon Nelson motorcade postponed to September
Regina reports the Brandon to Nelson motorcade backing a southern Trans-Canada route is delayed until September due to BC flood conditions. New Nelson convention dates are September 3 and 4.
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Regina
British Columbia
Ban On Japs In B.C. To End
Vancouver reports wartime bans on Japanese from protected areas west of the Cascades will end March 31 1949 said labor minister Hon Humphrey Mitchell. He expects only a small return movement to British Columbia. Medical psychology is less than a century old.
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Vancouver
Humphrey Mitchell
The
Cascades
British Columbia
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University of Alberta
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