THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1949.
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TRAFFIC TIE-UP-Eight men escaped, three by jumping into Blackwell Canal, when the US. lighter West Shore Upped over in Buffalo, New York. About 800 tons of coal were dumped into the water and canal traffic was tied up.
HIGH PRICED-Starlet Dorothy Abbott, in Hollywood has recently embarked on a screen Career. She was former- ly one of America's highest paid models, and will soon be seen in films.
WHO SAYS IT'S HOT?-Certainly not two-year-old Maureen Radigan, of Elm- hurst, New York, who is showing none of the reactions expected from a soaring temperature which made it the hottest day of the year. Maureen looks rather
cozy in her air-conditioned kitchen bathtub.
ACTS AS BABY SITTER--Mayor Thomas E. Burke of Cleveland, Ohio, has taken up the popular diversion of baby sitting. His favourite customer is his 14- month-old granddaughter, Barbara Léo Orr, who is the most welcome guest in the Burkes home. The tot seems to know what a piano is for.
TAKING A BREAK-Known affectionately as Grand- mn, Mrs Forrest Burright, 67, of Chicago, Illinois, to the dean of women harness drivers. Although she has a firm grip on the reins, Mrs Burright relaxes from the driving pace of the sulky season with her pet dog and cat.
TEACHING WITH À. TOY — The law of torque, relating to compression and expansion of colled objects, is picturesquely demonstrated to a physics class at Bergen Junior College; Teaneck, New Jersey, by ins structor Charles Kelly. Mr Kelly is using a children's wire coil toy to demonstrate the law for the students.
FOUR-ALARMER-Flames shoot up 150 feet above.. this soybean extractor plant of the Continental Grain Co. in Columbus, Ohlo. After a blow torch ignited hexane gas vapours, according to firemen, the loss was estimated to be U.S.$800,000,
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RESULTS OF TREE FARMING -- Buch forming, is coming into Its own in. Michigan's upper peninsula. This is part of a pulpwood pile at Escanaba which will help supply-paper for lending, national y magazines., Because of a', how machine which can plant 18,000 trees daily, farmers are taklog a new interest
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PAINLESS AND FUNI Before school starts in. New York Uttle Jacqueline Young listens to toner and signals from nurse Alice Fried on the 12-pou audio meter The lightweight Keating-tester. In a hen development to help arrest the rise of hearing Implies menus among schobijckfldren, and all the 1,600,000
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