Barbados sergeant trains with RCMP in Ottawa
Sgt Fitzherbert Bancroft of the Barbados mounted police travels 2,500 miles to Ottawa for a six month RCMP training program in horsemanship equitation and police methods. He will study horse training and join in the RCMP musical ride as part of his course. The Barbados force of 512 men maintains 23 mounted officers and patrols the island's sugar industry with horses.
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Fitzherbert Bancroft
Barbados
RCME
F Rockcliffe Barracks
Canada
RCMP
Commonwealth
Bancroft
Bers Police
Set. Bancroft
Radar stopping car prototype described by Rabaut
Representative Louis Rabaut outlines a radar based car safety system with a grill mounted sensor that projects an impulse to halt the vehicle if anything enters its path The rear radar aids in reversing to protect pedestrians and property The inventor claims the system reduces speed before the driver is aware of danger and can stop the car automatically if needed.
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Washington
Louis Rabaut
Representativ
Dem
Mich
Rabaut
Cars
Rashid
Detroit
Superstitious Crow Deterrent Found in Winnsboro
In Winnsboro Louisiana Hub Dear claims crows avoid watermelon patches if stakes and string are stretched between them. He says the string looks like a trap and the birds won t light in the patch where it is placed. Dear learned this scarecrow method in 1917 and has used it since.
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Winnsboro
Hub Dear
Dear
300 Year Old Indian Elder Found in Saint John Excavation
Archaeologist J. Russell Harper of the New Brunswick Museum uncovered a 300-year-old Indian elder’s body at a site believed to be a Fort LaTour fortification from 1631. The grave, buried under rock and earth, yielded glass beads, copper items, knives, an ornate bone pipe, and a small copper roll, suggesting proximity to a French settlement as excavations continue.
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Saint John
J. Russell Harper
New Brunswick
Charles LaTour
Harper
St. John River
Home Workshop pattern offers compact utility cabinet
The text describes a small living room piece using 4 inch plywood with irregu lar shapes traced from a pattern. It notes a bureau style kit with a foot rest handle and compartments for cans bottles and brushes. Pattern 439 is 35c shipping included in a five pattern packet for 1.50 post paid from Home Workshop Pattern Service Vancouver BC.
First memorial to Lord Selkirk planned for Winnipeg
The federal historic sites board hires Professor Foy Sellers to design Manitoba's founder memorial in downtown Winnipeg. Construction begins within two weeks with a Sept 27 unveiling. A 25 by 3 foot stone wall will bear a bronze marker and a 30 foot flagpole.
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Winnipeg
Lord Selkirk
Red River Valley
Federal Historic Sites and Monument Board
Foy Sellers
University of Manitoba
Manitoba
Legislative Building
Thomas Douglas
Hudson's Bay Company
North-West Trading Company of
Montreal
Seven Oaks
France
HBC
Diabetic Child Improves on Normal Diet, Swiss Doctor Says
A Swiss medical scientist reports that diabetic children do better eating normally rather than on a restricted fruit and vegetable diet. Since 1946, patients avoid overeating and nibbling, with growth improving and hospital visits declining. Mental state also improves as self confidence grows. The doctor claims the diet turns a sick child toward near normality.
Fresh British firm touts $210000 atomic reactors
An international conference in Geneva hears a British firm plan to sell atomic reactors for about $210,000 each while an American firm cites $200,000 models. A Manila paper speculates space stations could host singers of a wait and weep school and one day launch them on one way rockets.
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Geneva
Manila
Philippines
Alberta irrigation farms rely on soil balance for yields
Irrigated Alberta farms occupy small land portions and must maximize every water and soil input. Phosphorus and nitrogen are deficient while soil-improvement crops and legumes double yields, as five years of Taber data show. Summerfallowing is discouraged. shift to intertilled crops, pastures, and chemical weed control to sustain quality under irrigation.
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Alberta
Taber
Gems of Thought and Civiliz ed Minds in Quotes
An assemblage of aphorisms from Wertheimer Holmes Eddy Santayana Reynolds and Thoreau about doubt inner principles peace intention and the labor of thinking with reflections on civilization faith and mind.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mary Baker Eddy
George Santayana
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Henry David Thoreau
Outdoor meals for the whole family
The article suggests involving each family member in meal prep and using frozen bread slices to make sandwiches. Frozen slices stay crisp and help keep fillings cold in lunch boxes, thawing to resemble fresh bread and enabling quick use for sandwiches and toasting.
Eight years for new pig breed at Lacombe farm
Alberta livestock supervisor Alex Charnetski explains the Lacombe Dominion Experimental Farm effort to develop a superior pig breed. More than 3,000 pigs were discarded for poor type and quality as scientists seek economically valuable, breeding stock. Farmers are urged to be cautious in selecting breeding stock and rely on trained geneticists to avoid costly failures and duping others.
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Dominion Experimental Farm
Lacombe
Alex J. Charnetski
Alberta
Charnetski
Smile of the Week in Neighborly Exchange
A humorous reprint shows two neighbors trading a quip about a child who supposedly was struck by a brick. The exchange plays on the contrast between expectations of good behavior and sudden mischief.
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Thailand
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Chicago
Brookfield Zoo
Memphis
Tenn
Des Moines
Iowa
W. BE. Jacobson
Max Wertheimer
MacDonald
Peggy
Chuck Thurston
Waizee
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