Clear Area for Big Peanut Farm
A British plan to clear 3 210 000 acres of African savanna for peanut plantations includes slaughtering thousands of zebras giraffes and springboks to make the land suitable. Officials say the project will cost about 104 million dollars and aims to produce 600 099 tons of peanuts yearly by 1950 51 with eventual output near 800 000 tons.
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London
Africa
Frank Samuel
United Affrica Co
Food Ministry
Britain
John Strachey
Strachey
Funds urged for Missouri Basin development plan
John B. Quinn of Lincoln Nebraska, executive director of the Missouri Valley Development Association, told the Senate Appropriations Committee that cutting interior department budgets would be economic waste and urged sustaining Army Engineers and reclamation agency funding. He stressed interdependence of Harlan County flood control and Bostwick irrigation on the Republican river and warned that poor scheduling could cause waste and higher costs while noting the project could create national wealth.
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Washington
John B. Quinn
Lincoln, Néeb
Missouri Valley Development Association
Quinn Sai
Quinn
Interior Department
Reclamation Bureau
Geological Survey
Office of Indian Affairs
National Park Service
Bureau of Mines
Bureau of Land Management
Army Engineers
Missouri
Army
Harlan County
Bostwick
Republican River
Nebraska
West Chester Senior Class Play Tea Taper Tavern
West Chester High School to stage Tea Tap er Tavern on Friday May 9 in the school auditorium. Cast includes Marian Day Corinne Nicola Nosamone Reid Priscilla Porter Sally Lee Dixon Dixie Betty Griggs Ann Annesley Nela Youngs Barry Reid Kenny Dusenbery Harriet Annesley Ann's Younger sister Pat Hotle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Chester
Lindsey Barbee
Marian Day
Corinne Nicola Nosamone Reid
Priscilla Porter Sally Lee Dixon
Dixie
Betty Griggs
Ann Annesley
Nela Youngs
Barry Reid
Rosamond
Kenny Dusenbery
Harriet Annesley
Ann
Pat Hotle
Village characters loom in an unset tale of ties
Tess and her protegee Verna Lee Bauersache intersect with Mike Ryan a cautious policeman Hal Hotle, Brian Pierport a sharp young lawyer Willard Peter son, Reverend Archibald Perry of the village church, Dale Engle, a stranger Ted Griffith, and John Sedgwick an old flame in a cluster of relations and pasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tess
Ann
Verna Lee Bauersache
Mike Ryan
Hal Hotle
Brian Pierport
Willard Peter
Archibald Perry
Dale Engle
Ted Griffith
John Sedgwick
Archer Fish Spits Water With Deadly Aim
A brief note describes the archer fish of Java possessing extraordinary eyes and the ability to spit a precise stream of water at insects above the surface. The wetted insects fall back and are eaten by the fish.
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Java
Highland Center Social Roundup Recalls Local Visits
The Highland Center column lists numerous visits and gatherings. Residents and families, including Kre&s, Cook, Soukup, Fletcher, Murphy, Andresen, Steele, Chalupa, Coon, Modder, Wagner, Fletcher, and others share Sunday and weekday calls, dinners, and celebrations across local homes in Letts Riverside and Washington areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Soukup
Charles Soukup
Washington
Bernard Deatsch
Knowlton Fletcher
John Weber
Orie O'’Gonner
Larry
Burke McCreedy
Herbert Campbell
Mount Pieasant
Carl Malome
Ames
Lone Tree
King
W. C. McCoullough
Jean Havel
Highland Center
Bernard Deatseh
Simeon Deatseh
Williamsburg
Floyd Martin
Wm. Murphy
Washing
John Kre
S End
Joe Krotz
Milford Cook
Jimmy
Delores Krotz
Daryl Modder
Tommy
Linder
Doll
Chicago
Ernest Wagner
Richard Fletcher
Sherry
Doug Longstaff
Max Hammond
Gene Fletcher
Morrison
Iris
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Chester
Robert Alda
Ida Lupino
Man
Andrea King
Bruce Bennece
Miss Day
John Duvall
Gloria Sherwood Jerome
Jore Wright
Celeste
Gloria
Janata
Charles A. Johnson
Archer Fish
Fersiholt
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
N.Y
Pepsi Cola Bottling Co
Oskaloosa
Baas 3
Dmien NT
Just Reed
Jersey
Eula Mae Coon
Garsson
Andrew J. May
Kentucky
May
Henry
Murray Garsson
Congress
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