Water Reaches New Farm in Columbia Basin Project
A 120 acre farm site near Moses Lake Washington celebrated irrigation from Lake Roosevelt water. Workers raised a house foundations walls and roof while 17 tractors leveled land and planted alfalfa beans corn and pasture. Donald Dunn a WWII veteran received a Farm in a Day worth about 50000 as locals donated furnishings and supplies to assist the new farm unit 167 Block 40 under the Columbia Basin project with Governor Langlie's event marking the irrigation milestone.
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Moses Lake
Wash
Washington
Michael W. Straus
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Lake Roosevelt
Grand Coulee Dam
Columbia River
Straus
Columbia
Columbia Basin
Bureau of Reclamation
Kansas
Donald D. Dunn
Yakima
Korea
W. C. Bell
Western Retail Lumbermen’s Association
Northwest
John L. Toews
Land
Dunn
Arthur B. Langlie
Dewey
New York
Long Island
Rubber planters warn of danger amid Malaya resettlement
The United Planting Association of Malaya reports no improvement in security despite nationwide squatter resettlement. In its 1951 report, planters say they remain in continual danger and must maintain strict precautions, warning that without their steadfastness rural areas could deteriorate to chaos.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
United Planting Association of Malaya
Rubber Producers Brace For Low Price Period
Price averages 30 cents a pound. Rubber producers in this part of the world will now have to operate carefully and economically in order to pull through the period of low prices, he said.
Rubber price steady as US stocks sober demand
Singapore. The Malayan rubber price is likely to stay near its current low level due to the completion of United States stockpiling, according to Dr. W. E. Cake president of Malayan American Plantations Ltd. The present market situation remains unchanged.
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Singapore
United States
W. E. Cake
Malayan-American Plantations, Ltd
Sydow runs mile in two minutes at Roosevelt Field
Oconomowoc Wisconsin resident Joseph Sydow aged 23 ran the mile on the cinder track at Roosevelt Field in about two minutes but faced a $5 fine for driving his car on the track.
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Oconomowoc
Wis
Joseph Sydow
Roosevelt Field
Pollution Kills Fish In Mobile Canal
Thousands of small dead menhadden washed from a tributary after a sudden rain polluted a Mobile canal. Officials reported a strong odor and said the delicate fish were mostly used for oil, while hardier species survived.
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Mobile
Ala
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