Hockey Tactics for Beating Different Checkers
The column outlines practical hockey strategies to exploit various checker styles. It covers skating tricks against slower opponents, opening up when a defender plays the body, dekes against players who chase the puck, and reading a checker’s strong side. It also promotes The Hockey Handbook by Lloyd Percival and Sports College membership resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NHL
Syl Apps
Maurice Richard
Cal Gardner
Lloyd Percival
Sports College
Toronto
Ontario
Kitchen Meditations By Jane Dale
A reflective poem questions the cost of caring for a small child. It argues sleepless nights, loss of freedom, and constant care cannot be weighed in money. The piece highlights a child’s smile and love as priceless, leaving a parent forever indebted.
Weekly Tip Pipe Camouflage
When redecorating a room paint pipes and radiators to match the walls and render them inconspicuous. Lighter tints increase heat emission according to experts. Flat paint is recommended as the best coating.
Enigmatic Side Notes From An Old Column On Miscellany
A mixed set of anecdotes covers a 1592 Korean battleship, ice racing in Sweden, birth records spanning 1916 to 1943, a Chicagoan with long intervals between children, grandfathers at thirty four, postal addressing quirks, Manhattan’s Stork Club attire, and musings on cigars and dry weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Korea
Admiral Sun Sir Lee
Sweden
Bill Taylor
Detroit
Mich
Fellows
Sherman Billingsley
Manhattan
Stork Club
Florida
Selected Recipes Chicken for party and leftovers
Easy guide to cooking chicken with slow heat for tender meat. Westchester Chicken Salad blends cooked chicken apples pineapple grapefruit and mayonnaise on watercress yielding eight servings. Use leftovers in souffle salad meat loaf or on toast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westchester
Canada Reports Record Grain Output for 1950
Canada’s 1950 field crops show wheat at 461,664,000 bushels and oats at 419,930,000. Barley totals 141,393,000 and rye 12,333,000 while flax reaches 4,540,000. Total principal crops value is $1,637,000,000, up six percent from 1949, with spring wheat 431,597,000 and winter wheat 30,067,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Do You Like Parlor Tricks
A notice warns about dangerous home tricks involving turpentine on blotters and oil soaked objects that can ignite in oxygen rich air. It cautions readers that such stunts could cause a rapid house fire and are not recommended for homes or plants.
World Happenings Briefly Told
Canada seeks 5000 farm workers via the International Refugee Organization. Attlee reports 1950 emigration to Canada and Australia. UN children’s fund grants Yugoslavia $480000 for hungry children and mothers. Dr. Werner Dankwort arrives in Ottawa as consul-general. British engineers unveil a gas turbine ship engine in Rugby. Johannesburg mine starts six giant tea installations feeding 1250 gallons daily to 10000 workers. Revelstoke fire chief Sam Needham retires after 57 years. his son 4E succeeds as chief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Werner Dankwort
Canada
Ottawa
Rugby
England
Johannesburg
Sam Needham
Revelstoke
4 E, Needham
Rhode Island Red Hen Lays Two Eggs Daily
A Rhode Island Red hen owned by Mrs. Minnie Wells has laid two eggs daily for over a month. The Springfield committee exploring better poultry noted the hen’s two egg-laying outlets and admitted defeat saying We are licked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Rhode Island
Minnie Wells
Anonymous donor gifts $1 million to Canadian Presbyterian aid
Senator Norman McLeod Paterson of Fort William Ontario is believed to be the anonymous donor behind a $1,000,000 gift to the Presbyterian Church in Canada. The funds assist lower salaried ministers nationwide with grants of 100 dollars per year plus 50 dollars for each of the first three dependent children, aiding about 300 ministers earning around two thousand dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church In Canada
Canada
Norman McLeod Paterson
Fort William
Ont
Dominion
Good Breakfast Helps Fight Flu, Health League Suggests
Miss Margaret E. Smith of the Health League of Canada urges a nutritious morning meal to combat influenza. Menu ideas include orange, oatmeal, cereal, cream, sugar, bacon, egg, toast, butter, and milk, plus rest and water. Also notes Gotland as the Baltic Sea’s largest island near Sweden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret E. Smith
The
Health League of Canada
Hawkeye State crossword clues puzzle unfinished
A cross word puzzle page lists clues across vertical and horizontal entries. The readable items include hints like Hawkeye State for 8 across and various word meanings from male cat to quivering and unstratified glacial drift, with many entries partially garbled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkeye
Consort of Siva
Also Mentioned on This Page
Department of Sports College
Checker
Jane Dale
Bill Fletcher
Los Angeles
Louis Cyr
Quebec
Teo Young
Grandpa
Madison Ave
John Stevens
BY William Ferguson
Shhal
Rusty
Clergman
Arnold H. Schultz
MiluadRee
Wiscorsta
NEA Service
WO. T. M. Reg
U.S. Pat
Virgil
By Len Aieis
Nseening
Asain
Priscilla
al Vermees
Hazel
International Refugee Organization
Britain
Clement Attlee
Australia
Yugoslavia
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
Gothland
Gotland
Island
Baltic Sea
Father Pilea
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