Sports Clinic Seeks Better Crawl and Swing Techniques
The Sports Clinic outlines improved crawl kicking with a short motion and only the heels at surface, warning against wasting energy. It covers baseball hitting and footwork to avoid crowding the ball, plus a note on short strides used by top hitters like Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle. The article explains CASPFDS, a national Sports College project in Canada, and invites readers to contact Sports College in Toronto for more information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Williams
Mickey Mantle
Canadian Amateur Sports and Physical Fitness Development Service
Sports College
Toronto 1
Weed control in seed fields boosts profits with herbicides
Central Experimental Farm researchers advocate field weed removal before threshing, noting lower costs and higher seed quality. Using herbicides at 10 to 12 ounces per acre can kill many weeds and prevent seed bearing, while some hand roguing remains economical for pedigree crops.
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R. M. MacVicar
Forage Crops Division
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Quick Canadian Quiz answers recap from the pocket facts
Newfoundland has the highest birth rate and British Columbia the lowest. Ontario has 75 seats in the House of Commons. About one fifth of employed Canadians are trades union members. In the past 30 years three men have served as Prime Ministers: Mackenzie King, R. B. Bennett, and Louis St. Laurent. Canadians spend on new housing, defence, and welfare with welfare highest, defence second, housing third. Welfare/state spending exceeds $2 billion. defence about $1.7 billion. new housing around $1.2 billion.
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House of Commons
Trades Union
Canada
National Defence
Newfoundland
British Columbia
King. Bennett
St. Laurent
Ontario
Quick Canadian Facts
Elaine Mae Golding Tuthill First Woman Swim Panama Canal
Elaine Mae Golding Tuthill became the first woman to swim the Panama Canal completing the feat in 1913. The historic crossing highlighted early 20th century advances in women’s athletic achievements.
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Elaine Mae Golding Tuthill
Panama Canal
Humorous Vignettes From Quips and Misadventures
A compilation of comic sketches and jokes: a doctor jokes about a husband’s overwork or indulgence, a destitute violinist eyes a rival’s street pay, a marines complaint about a sugar loving cook, a schoolboy misquote of Socrates, a train scene with a shouting salesman and a teasing girl, and a passenger claiming the strawberries beneath a traveler’s bag.
Choosing irrigation pumps for small volumes and high pressures
Horizontal centrifugal pumps are common for irrigation but inefficient for small flows against high pressure. For 25 gpm or less at over 25 psi, turbine or jet pumps suit. suction lift limits 15 to 20 feet. A detailed pump selection checklist is given by H C Korven, including water source, lifts, distances, soil, and field size, plus priming options.
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H. C. Korven
Canada Department of Agriculture Experimental Farm
Swift Current
Sask
Weekly Crossword Puzzle Ratite Bird
Horizontal clues list answers for a ratite bird and related words. Across entries include a- dispatched sayings gulf plights doctrines wax Sicilian volcano steamer Greek letter promontory interpret near or that thing jumbled type native of Latvia felines cereal grain art evaluate Hindu garment motive wave tops English queer harem room withered obtains courtesy with cut off. Vertical clues cover worm encountered makes into law says foundation within opening in fence flag form notion soak flax debit notes symbol for erbimn and and breed of dog arrogates Brad goddess of discord absolute posters fondle ascended toward son of Seth Cicatrix arearr tatter compass point threefold Septuagint fab gods.
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Arabian Gulf
Latvia
British teachers head to Canada to fill Ontario shortfall
About 600 top-flight British teachers will leave for Canada this summer to teach in Ontario and four Western provinces. Recruiters target language and science specialists to offset shortages, with Ontario absorbing around 300 and British Columbia 100. Higher Canadian salaries attract the move, though pound value varies by living costs. The drive emphasizes quality.
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Canada
Ontario
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
B.C
United Kingdom
Roman tax collectors faced brutal methods in antiquity
An ancient account by Lactantius describes Roman tax collectors using torture to extract self incriminations from accused husbands and wives. Repeated appointees sought new evidence, causing widespread fear, depopulation of cattle, and deaths while taxes persisted, even on the dead.
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U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Lactantius
Gaul
Yuba City Man Sells Front Yard Home to County
J Flanery of Yuba City California finally sold his house set on the front lawn of the new Sutter County building after months of refusal The new county building was finished a year ago The property changed hands for fifteen thousand five hundred dollars and ends a drawn out dispute with the county officials
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J. Flanery
Yuba City
California
Sutter County
Flanery
Russia
Nathan Twining
Maxwell Taylor
Army
Air Force
Indianapolis Speedway
Bob Sweikert
Pat Flaherty
Minnesota
United States
Does
Yugoslavia
Interior
Clarence Davis
Fred Seaton
Eisenkirchen
Antarctica
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Lioyd Percival
Quick
Socrates
Chelsea
Royal Hospital
London
England
Charles I
Old Soldiers’ Hospital
Son of
Seth
Cicatrix
Idi Unis
Peggy
Chuck
George
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