Locust Plague Tests U N Efforts to Curb Insect Threat
Franklin Johnson details a global race against locusts as the UN FAO spearheads coordinated spraying and containment. Entomologists note dual insect personalities from solitary to gregarious phases, with China and the Middle East among focal points, while North America remains watchful of grasshoppers and potential crop loss.
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United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization
Clearhos Logothetis
Macedonia
Mars
Middle East
Iran
Western States
United States
Motoring Health Rules Urged for Safer Summer Trips
Harris urges motorists to adopt frequent rest stops to combat fatigue and reduce highway accidents. He cites New York University Safety Center data showing drivers in cities make 50 decisions per hour and 20 in rural areas, with fatigue reducing reaction and judgment. Five practical tips include resting before travel, fresh air, coffee stops every two hours, light passenger conversation, and pulling over to sleep if unfit to drive.
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Harris
New York University Safety Center
New York City
Smile Of The Week Joke Highlights Frugal Home Advice
In a light card, Mr Wheeze tells a guest there are many small ways to practice economy at home. The visitor prompts him as Mrs Wheeze is out of hearing. He recalls plans for a new sofa and reveals he bought a spring instead.
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Mr. Wheeze
Practical Household Remedies From a Bygone Guide
Instructions cover exterminating earth worms with unburnt sulphur matches around pots, loosening linen threads with a damp cloth, cleaning rubberized silk raincoats in a bathtub, and removing linen scorch with onion rub and cold water.
Faster Hatching Eggs From Fast Growing Hens
Three Canadian poultry experts from Ontario Agriculture College reported at the National Poultry Science Association meeting that eggs from fast growing hens hatch sooner. They found bigger hens produced faster hatching eggs and chicks from fast hens weighed more after four weeks.
Quick Canadian Quiz Answers Highlighted
The quiz covers foreign touchpoints with Canada, farmland area trends from 1941 to 1991, the share of family allowance payments to total personal income tax intake, services provided to a South American nation, and the split between privately owned and government owned radio stations in Canada.
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Canada
Hearty Vegetable Dinners Suggest Meatless Alternatives
A newspaper style tip promotes meatless meals using starchy vegetables paired with a dressed up light vegetable. It outlines a fried eggplant and string beans in tomatoes recipe with corn monosodium glutamate, eggs, and a corn based batter, yielding six servings, plus a carrot dish with lemon juice sugar water MSG salt and butter to glaze and tenderize in a covered skillet for six servings.
The Mystery of Soil and the Magic Humus
Dr. Ripley of the Experimental Farms Service outlines how organic matter improves clay soils. He traces ancient ideas to modern finds showing colloidal organic matter binding clay particles, with natural and synthetic soil conditioners enhancing structure and yield on Canadian fields.
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Ripley
Federal Department of Agriculture
Experimental Farms Service
Ottawa
Theophrastus
Borderly
New England
Lyon and
Buckman
Canada
Rideau
U.S.A
Nature
Oddities in the News: London Fog and Odd Accidents
A series of odd incidents from the era includes a Los Angeles man returning London fog to fight smog, a hospitalised man hospitalized after a cow nudged him into a mowing machine, a Birmingham fall onto a baby carriage, and a self service ice house in Elk Rapids. Also noted is a widow who kept her name after remarriage to a parish council chairman.
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London
Kenneth Johnson
Los Angeles
Aceewen Tees
Danie Way
Gilead
Conn
Elk Rapids
Mich
Thirte Giles
Cricklade
Wilts
England
Dennis Giles
Reece Giles
Hydraulic Press For Conversion Of Scrap Steel Unveiled In Montreal
Canada's largest hydraulic press for scrap steel was unveiled in the Loudee Steel yard in Montreal. A car with tires, glass and upholstery removed was compressed into a bundle under 24 inches square in 55 seconds. The three storey, 300 ton unit aims to ease national scrap shortages, producing charging-box size bundles for open hearth furnaces and enabling mills to mix 50 percent scrap with pig iron. Louis Deitcher outlined the press operation as steel mills and foundries observed.
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Montreal
Canada
Cote St. Paul
Loudee Steel Corporation
Louis Deitcher
Answers to Quick Quiz as Published by Editors
Quick Canadian Facts provides answers: 5. 136 private radio stations and 19 CBC stations. 3. One dollar per three. 1. Russia the USA Greenland Denmark. 4. Brazil. 2. Farms decrease though total acreage rises. Flower color at high altitudes linked to ultraviolet light in clear skies.
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CBC
Russia
U.S.A
Greenland
Denmark
Brazil
Quick Canadian Facts
Handbook of Facts About
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Africa
Asa Minor
Asia
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Weill
Frank Hagostek
Johnstown
New York
Ireland
Breda O'Sullivan
Hayostek
Jamaica Bay
Quick
Marguerite Telt
P. O. Ripley
Peter Dangerfield
Birmingham
Eng
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