Virginia Allocates 7.5 Million for Highway Maintenance
The Virginia State highway department announced a total of 7.5 million dollars is allocated for maintenance and replacements on the 9000 mile primary highway system for the coming fiscal year. Funds are distributed to eight districts based on mileage and needs, with emphasis on shoulder upgrades, resurfacing, signs, markings, bridge work, and flood damage recovery.
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Virginia
State Highway Department
Tenance
Bageant Elevated to Chief Embalmer at Jones Funeral Home
Harold M. Bageant, 33, joins Jones Funeral Home as chief embalmer after honors at Cincinnati College of Embalming. He and wife Dorothy Cather of Winchester will reside at the funeral home where he was previously employed. The White House reconstruction costs cited include $333,207 original build and $301,496.25 between 1814 and 1840.
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Harold M. Bageant
Jones Funeral Home
Cincinnati College of Embalming
Dorothy Cather
Winchester
White House
Executive Mansion
Bees Use Dance Language Says Visiting Scientist
New York report on Dr. Karl von Frisch a Graz University zoologist who for 40 years has studied bee communication. He explains bees convey food locations by wiggle waggle round dances with distance by wiggle count and direction by hive orientation enabling a hive to locate distant flowers.
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New York
Karl von Frisch
Graz University
Frisch
Map of the United States Promotes Population and Travel Details
An advertisement offers a 21 by 28 inch Map of the United States with 1947 population estimates for states, latest city census data, and metropolitan district figures. It includes air and rail mileage tables, travel aids, scenic spots, and costs 15 cents postpaid via the Winchester Star Information Bureau. Also notes a Q and A on cubic feet in a unit of sawdust from the Forest Products Laboratory.
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United States
Forest Products Laboratory
West Coast
Citizens Urged to Aid Wildlife Work in Virginia
Virginia citizens urged to back Wildlife Restoration Week with actions from I T Quinn executive statement. Advice includes planting wildlife foods, avoiding burns along fields, contour farming, reducing stray animals, promoting conservation education, and staying informed on wildlife efforts statewide.
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Virginia
Tuck
Commonwealth
I. T. Quinn
Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
Quinn
Restoration efforts and wildlife program adopted in Commonwealth
The article notes restoration efforts in the Commonwealth and support for the game commission’s long-range wildlife restoration program recently adopted. It includes a Q and A about Europe’s extreme points, identifying Nordkyn as north, Tarifa as south, da Roca as west, and a location near the Urals as east.
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The
Game Commission
Europe
Cape Nordkyn
Cape Tarifa
Spain
Cape da Roca
Portugal
Ural Mountains
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