Heart fund speeds research on heart attack and stroke
An executive director of the Canadian Heart Foundation explains atherosclerosis as the chief cause behind heart attacks and strokes. The foundation funds research across twelve medical schools to study causes, cures, and prevention, supporting over 150 projects aimed at reducing the vascular disease toll.
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Canadian Heart Foundation
Canada
Heart Foundation
Canadian Heart Foundations
Heart Fund
Braided Rug Patterns and Spice Label Packet Offer
Pattern 334 provides directions for oval round and novelty braided rugs plus material estimates dyeing and color blending with a 50c price. Pattern 275 includes actual size cutting guides and spice herb labels ready to paste with Old time Furnishings Packet No 65 priced at $1.75.
New Outdoor Sport Stars Hat Pattern 7066
Knitting directions for pattern 7066. For boys ages 8 to 14, indicates a helmet mask that folds into a beanie with mittens included. Describes use for skating skiing walking to school and warm wear. Send thirty five cents with name address and pattern number to Household Arts Department.
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Household Arts
Department P.P.L
Front Street W
Toronto
FDA to enforce premarket checks on new drugs
Starting February 7 the Food and Drug Administration will conduct start to finish reviews of new drugs to bar those deemed unsafe or ineffective. The regulations widen FDA power to oversee experimental use of medicines in humans before they reach general markets.
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Coal to acetylene: four tons needed per ton produced
A historical note explains the chemical efficiency: producing one ton of acetylene requires four tons of coal. This highlights the heavy material cost and energy intensity behind acetylene production in traditional methods.
Eskimos Listed in Phone Book for Far North
Bell Telephone Company of Canada issues a bilingual directory with Eskimo language pages. The 1,600-telephone region includes about 100 Eskimo phones. Eskimo syllabics appear mainly for Frobisher Bay Port Chimo Povungnituk and Great Whale with dialing and manual usage guides.
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ST. John's
Newfoundland
Bell Telephone Company of Canada
Frobisher Bay
Port Chimo
Povungnituk
Great Whale
Lead poisoning of water fowl under study in Manitoba
Several hundred ducks died from lead shotgun pellets and are under scientific study to reveal the hazard to waterfowl. Investigations by RCMP Constable Jack Barry with local hunters traced deaths to Grant's Lake near Winnipeg. X rays confirmed lead in the gizzard, with average three pellets per bird and starvation as a secondary factor. origin likely from hunter concentration. Flesh of affected birds is said harmless to humans.
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C. H. Witney
Manitoba
Grant's Lake
Winnipeg
Mines and Natural Resources Department
Game Branch
Health Department
Delta
Portage
Grant’s Lake
Manners teaching urged for Auckland college curriculum
Seddon Memorial Technical College chairman R C F Savory in Auckland has launched a campaign to include manners instruction in the school curriculum. He argues manners form essential social training and should be taught alongside standard subjects.
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Seddon Memorial Technical College
Auckland
N.Z. R.C.F
Uncle Ambrose and the Sucker's Wish on Third Avenue
A shopkeeper Barbara presents Uncle Ambrose, a plain figurine, to lure a lonely girl Jennie from Maple Grove. Jennie falls for a dream of wealth, grows attached to the crumbling relic, and learns a harsher truth about money and love as he ends up connected to a crime.
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Barbara
Uncle Ambrose
Third Avenue
Upstate
Maple Grove
Freckles
Jennie
Bill
Ambrose
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