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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 03, 1956
Page
2
An aged field guide style piece details the spring woodcock show in northern Ontario, noting open-air amphitheatre settings, dusk timing, and the bird's ritual flight. It explains seat placement, light requirements, and the bird’s aerial spirals and ground peenting, as well as size and bill length.
The piece emphasizes children should learn to state their name and address as soon as able, with a later addition of the telephone number. It notes youth often wander into danger and may end up in police hands who return them to families.
Scientists at Caltech and corporate leaders predict to 2000 the world will extract fuel from rocks and food from discardable plant wastes. By 2000 one scientist for every 30 people could be needed to sustain life with dwindling resources. They urge early talent recognition and full use of women in engineering and research.
Sunflower rust can cut yields by half, especially near flowering. Canada’s Plant Pathology Lab reports that breeding rust resistant Beacon hybrids, developed after 1949, boosted yields in Manitoba Red River Valley despite late maturation. Canadian and South American breeders collaborate to spread resistance widely.
The Canadian Trade Commissioner in Singapore reports in Foreign Trade that Malaysia should replant old rubber trees with high yield varieties to tackle rising demand, costs, and competition from synthetic rubber. New wartime varieties can reach about 1,500 pounds per acre compared with under 400 pounds prior. About one third of two million acres of estate rubber have been replanted, with estates bearing costs and a government grant of 400 dollars per acre subsidizing replants through seven years, up to 21 percent of each estate’s planted area.
A 65 year old physician suffered a myocardial infarction and collapsed. Within two minutes CPR and chest massage were begun, electric shock applied, and after half an hour the heart beat resumed. He survived to return to practice six days later with no memory of the 26 hours post collapse.
Gerald Stahl, a leading package designer, cites a mild hypnotic trance induced by 4888 displays and vivid colors as fueling unplanned buying and quicker acceptance of new products. He notes supermarket trance lowers awareness and pulse, requiring eye catching design and emotional stimulation. Industry packaging spend reaches 10 to 12 billion annually.
A Minnesota visitor expressed distress over a dance concert while his wife quips ballet-ache. A California dairyman reports milk robbery from his cow, leaving just a quart during milking. A man finances a loan to cover payments to chicks, and spring garden work brings splintered hands amid outdoor fixes.
Police search for four missing stop signs from different street corners, a flag from the sixth green at the golf course, and a sweater taken from a parked car in Mount Carmel Illinois.
The Pattern Shop offers a ten gallon keg project with insulated rock wool and gay coats. Kits include a unique naval anchor jig sawed from fine wood and a food screen to deter insects. A hurricane candle holder and decorative designs from tiny schools to a large chanticleer adorn the barrel. Pattern 447 is available to readers who mail 35 cents with name and address for a free catalogue from Home Workshop Patterns Vancouver B C.
Anne Adams Pattern Dept features Pattern 4603 with sizes 12 14 16 18 20 and a size 6 dress requiring 3 yards of 35 inch fabric. The pattern promises easy use complete illustrated instructions and fit tested design with versatile necklines peplum tie-on elements and adjustable accessories for daily to evening wear. Order by sending 35 cents plus Name Address and Style Number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Toronto.
The article argues the Church sprang from life not plans, tracing Jesus gathering apostles and the seventy, Pentecost power, and Peter’s bold preaching. It cites Paul’s vision of the Church as a body embodying Christ’s spirit and hopes for universal unity in love as world peace.
The Canadian Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service began in Alberta in 1947 and expanded to British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island and parts of Ontario and Quebec. It established a free blood transfusion service to ensure anyone needing a transfusion would receive it at any time, saving many lives.
A United States Chamber of Commerce film outlines astonishing travel changes for the next two decades. It envisions atomic powered locomotives, floating chairs, hidden food conveyors, domed double decked commuter trains, and electronically controlled freight networks with radar and TV surveillance transforming rail travel and freight operations.
Vintage crochet item description promoting a rose motif filet crochet doily pattern number 7103. Includes chart and directions with sizes 26 inches in string and 17 inches in cotton. Price 25 cents. send coins to obtain pattern, stamps not accepted.
Household Arts Department announces 1956 patterns printed in Alive Brooks Needlecraft book. Readers can order dozens of easy home hand-work designs. Send 28 cents for a copy and start crafting for yourself and your home.
In the Hague a government bill, already passed by the lower house, would end legal subjection of married women to husbands upon upper house approval. Prof J C Van Oven, justice minister, says the reform ends women’s legal exclusion, aligning Holland with other nations.
Third grade pupils in a Wichita Kansas school should have better telephone etiquette as they grow. They learn to make emergency calls find car numbers in a directory and other useful items in a supplementary school phone course. One half of the meat produced in the world is beef and veal.
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