Mirror Transit Telescope Leads Canadian Timekeeping Advance
Canada unveils the first practical mirror telescope designed to measure exact celestial timing. A 11 inch fused quartz mirror, 600 pound central axis, and two auxiliary mirrors enable precise star tracking with electronic time checks, placing Canada at the forefront of positional astronomy.
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Russia
England
Portugal
North America
Dominion Observatory
Canada
Cantuan
Scout nations rise to 83 as Africa joins World Bureau says
Scout countries now number 83 and newly emergent African countries are welcomed into full membership in the Scout World Conference. Maj Gen D C Spry director of the Boy Scouts World Bureau in Ottawa reports there are now 88 registered countries with about nine and a half million members.
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D. C. Spry
Boy Scouts World Bureau
Ottawa
Boy Scouts World Conference
Rug Making Patterns and Rug Packet Offers
Pattern 334 outlines directions for braided rugs round and novelty types with material estimates dyeing color blending and sewing for restorations. The Rug Packet 21 includes full size hooked rug designs and is priced at 1.75 with directions and designs. Department PP OL 4438 West 5th Ave Vancouver.
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West 5Th Ave
Vancouver
Test Your Knowledge Quiz Prompt and Answers
A reader asks knowledge questions and provides answers. It covers missing word in bronze, Canada’s western province bordering Washington, first Prime Minister of self governing Kenya, home of the British Prime Minister, space travel talk, distance to the moon with an approximate figure of 239,000 miles.
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Canada
Washington
U.S.A
Kenya
Moon
Earth
Government backs winter home bonus amid high uptake
Revenue Minister Garland announced the winter built home bonus will cost at least 16 million dollars to fund the 500 dollar incentive. By January 15 the labor department had 32,000 plus applications and more were arriving for homes begun this winter through March 31. Housing starts nationwide reached 148,600 last year, the second highest on record behind 164,632 in 1958.
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Garland
Labor Department
Canada
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