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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1948
Page
8
The bulletin lists garden tools, a cultivator with interchangeable tines, gem stone rings with detents, and quick letter setting with acetate letters. It also describes a rubber stair cover, fire resistant fabric seat covers, a home built electromagnet for splinter removal, asbestos insulation sheet, high voltage cable, and a shorthand correction plastic sheet. Request Gadget Bulletin 409 by mail for details.
As weather warms insects reappear and farmers are urged to prepare. The article stresses using spray guns and ensuring DDT solution is on hand to kill flies before they breed and form larger swarms.
The article explains psychiatry as a broad prevention and treatment effort under the Public Health Service. It details funding, research grants to 30 institutions, training for psychiatrists and allied staff, and plans to bring mental health clinics to more U. S. neighborhoods. It argues early treatment can avert crises and reduce stigma, with public clinics linked to general health care and referrals from doctors, schools, and nurses.
U S Department of Agriculture scientists study off flavor in frozen peas caused by delays between field harvest and plant processing. A new harvesting machine is proposed to cut, thresh, shell, and rapidly move peas to freezing, aiming to reduce flavor deterioration.
A simple fast method for making a vine training cord net in under an hour using a ball of cord, twigs as corner stakes, and waterproof glue. The same technique yields nets of various meshes for badminton, fencing, an emergency fish seine, or a garden trellis with bright color options.
Greek women of 24 centuries ago used lead carbonate as cosmetic powder. Dr. Earle R. Caley of Ohio State University reported the white material in graves from the fourth century B C was artificial basic lead carbonate. Lead powder could have posed a public health threat due to its accumulative toxicity.
Spring migration brings myriads of blue geese and lesser snow geese from the South to northern nesting grounds near the Arctic. Flocks of 300000 or more fill skies in wedge formations as they rest on midwestern lakes then feed in grain fields before sunrise and after sunset.
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