Beavers Prove Hard to Control Amid Population Surge
Dr. K. Reynolds of Ontario's lands and forest department warns beaver numbers have risen since 1940 with rapid growth since 1946. A record 125000 beavers were trapped in 4904 registered tracts, yet pelts averaged 15 dollars as dams flood roads and disrupt farms and railways. The department halted US parachute releases and now requires pelts go to the ministry, while property owners may remove beavers by any method.
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3. K. Reynolds
Provincial Lands and Forest Department
Reynolds
Ontario
Dame
Valhuable Farm
Meadowland
CNR
Algonquin Park
United States
Rhino vehicle crawls swamp with spinning ball wheels
Indianapolis inventor Elie P. Aghinides unveiled a five ton vehicle named the Rhino that can roll through mud and sand using hemispherical spun aluminum wheels set at angles for traction. It reaches 45 mph on highways and five mph on water, powered by a 110 horsepower engine and hydrojet for deep water.
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Indianapolis
Elie P. Aghinides
Aghnides
Ontario's 1955 treasury box unearthed by future archaeologists
Napier Moore imagines a Mars or Venus archaeologist in 2955 discovering a bronze box under Ontario's 1955 treasury building cornerstone. The find includes Frost budget speeches 1944 to 1954, a March 1954 loan prospectus, legislature members, a Canadian silver dollar, lists of architects engineers and contractors, Public Works officials, and a Toronto Globe and Mail copy.
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Napier Moore
Financial Post
Mars
Venus
A.D
Treasury
Ontario
Frost
Public Works Department
Toronto Globe and Mail
New blood test for borderline heart attacks proposes early detection
New York researchers at the Second World Congress of Cardiology report a blood enzyme test may detect myocardial infarction when electrocardiography is inconclusive. Experiments show damaged heart muscle releases higher enzyme levels into circulating blood, aiding diagnosis. Diet fat intake may affect coronary disease trends, researchers say, noting reduced fats lowered incidence postwar, rising again with dietary luxury.
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Wwongst
TCC
John S. LaDue
New York
Second World Congress of Cardiology
Gunnar Bierck
Sweden
Handy kitchen tips from old newspaper column
Practical advice covers odor removal with cold water and cleaning corks with lard. It also includes a doneness check for roast chicken by moving the drumstick to test looseness at the thigh joint. A boiling kettle is mentioned with the number 3108.
Quick Quiz Answers on Canadian Facts and Figures
Answers cover pensions, civil service totals, geographic rankings, and population figures. Universal pensions around 350 million yearly. civil servants total 138000 permanent and temporary 172000 with casual staff included. Nine miles referenced. Cape Breton largest region. Prince Edward smallest. Wapella district in southeastern Saskatchewan noted.
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Cape Breton
Prince Edward
Quick Canadian Facts
Facts About
Canada
Thatcher wheat variety falls to rust challenges in prairies
Winnipeg based wheat expert Dr. J Greaney warns of heavy prairie losses from rust as Thatcher declines after decades of dominance since 1939. Dominion Farm authority J G Fraser notes a new variety Selkirk already in use and several rust resistant lines are being developed for eventual replacement.
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Western Canada
Thatcher
J. Greaney
Winnipeg
Line Elevators Farm Service
Canada
Greaney
Department of Agriculture
Dominion Experimental Farm
J. G. Fraser
Selkirk
Fraser
Alberta reports record surplus for 1953 54 year
Alberta ended the 1953 54 fiscal year with a net surplus of 22 614 060 and a record revenue total of 197 043 200. The auditor noted a large excess over budget due largely to petroleum and natural gas lease sales, bringing lease revenue to 49 590 010 versus 13 000 000 estimated.
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Edmonton
Alberta
C. K. Huckvale
Manning
Atoms and Planes Shape Farm News and Flight Test
A UC veterinary scientist treats a Hereford bull’s cancer with Strontium 90 therapy, a radioisotope by product of atomic energy. The same report notes corneal cancer treatment preserving the lens. Separately, the Fletcher Utility, an all metal farm aircraft, demonstrates crop dusting in Rosemond California with a 42 foot wingspan and load capability of 1 250 pounds from an 870 foot strip.
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University of California
Oil reserves at magnetic pole Canadian property
Boston reports an Arctic expedition that located a magnetic pole area near Boothia peninsula about 1100 miles from the true north. Cap Wilbur Dow Jr and Rev Daniel Linehan led 11 aboard the Monte Carlo to Prince of Wales island and Emily bay seeking oil seeps. The crew faced ice, was aided by Canada’s Labrador, and plans for a 1956 Northwest Passage voyage.
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Boston
Daniel Linehan
Boston College Seismograph
Boothia Peninsula
Cap
Wilbur Dow, Jr
Short Hills
N.J
Father Linehan
Canada
Arctic
Labrador
Monte Carlo
Prince of Wales Island
Emily Bay
Prince of Wales
Edegworth Islands
Dow
Admiralty
Museum of Natural History
New York
Dew
Northwest Passage
Field lab in Ontario tests methods to boost forest yield
In northwestern Ontario 65 miles NW of Fort William a 40 000 acre field laboratory costs nearly 100 000 dollars yearly. Abitibi Power and Paper Co runs applied research on logging, regeneration and species improvement using cuts, thinnings, strips and direct seeding. Ontario minister Clare Mapidoram opened the pilot center designed to adapt proven techniques from other countries.
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Raith
Ont
Ontario
Fort William
Abitibi Power and Paper Co
Clark B. Davis
Woodlands
Nature
Clare E. Mapiedoram
Atlantic island area largest Anticosti Prince Edward or Cape Breton
The quiz asks which Atlantic island has the largest area among Anticosti Prince Edward and Cape Breton in a reader column.
Accurate Rodenstock refractometer eyed for mass eye tests
Wing Commander Sean B. Murphy described a Rodenstock refractometer at the International Congress of Ophthalmology. Tests on Air Force personnel showed a 15 percent margin of error, with potential refinements to raise accuracy. The device provides objective results and can be operated by technicians, easing demand on oculists during rapid mass surveys for air crew recruitment.
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RCAF
New York
Sean B. Murphy
Montreal
Air Force
Rockcliffe
Ont
Murphy
Gems of Thought on Liberty and Rights
A collection of quotations from Henry Brooke Jefferson Washington and other figures. It reflects on resistance to tyranny, the abuse of power and the link between liberty and law. Notable lines express that invaders of rights are usurpers and that unlimited power corrupts.
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Washington
William Pitt the Elder
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Ottawa
Newfoundland
Henry Brooke
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Jefferson
Diogenes
Mary Baker Eddy
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