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Flesherton Advance, 21 Nov 1945, p. 6

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STRIKE BRINGS OUT HORSEY SET When strike of street car and bus operator* in Washington left 500,000 persons without public transportation, A. L, Wade showed unusual enterprise by riding liis horse to work. Unheralded trans- portation walkout started when members of Local G89 of Amalgam- ated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees (AFL) voted to stay in continuous meeting until Capital Transit Co. acted on their demand for a 30-cent increase in hourly pay. r ARMY HAS SELF-LIGHTING CAMERA Vievi'rinoer eyepiece "^ j/ /Viewtindcr , Focus locking knob Focusing knob Film magazine Main control knob Camera housing Release trigger i Flash unit ^ • . Power line J Many a wounded or ill soldier owes his recovery to the newly- xeve&led Army "secret weapon" pictured above. It is a revolu- tionary surgical camera, with a built-in light source â€" a quartz vapor tube flash unit that produces up to 50,000 flashes more bril- liant than sunlight at l/26,00th of a second duration. Developed by the Signal Corps, the camera uses 3S-mm. film, weighs 5Vi pounds and is operated from a 27-pound portable pack that may be plugged into any ordinary current line. PALESTINEâ€" MID-EAST'S PRIME PROBLEM High on the list o! tough problems to be tackled by President Truman and Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee in Wash- ington is the Palestine question. Map shows geographic distribu- tion of Jews in Palestine. Inset chart shows relative numbers of Jews and Arabs. MACDONALD*S GiMdcla's i^tcaidcAcl SinoAk Here's the New 'Reconverted' B-29! Obsolete materials and partsi once used in making B-29 Superfortresses at the Bell Aircraft Corpor ation's Marietta, Ga., plant, had been sold to salvage firms in carload lots. But, believing that Bell en»- ployees could make good use of the discarded materials, the firm recently opened a retail Salvag* Sales Store. Now workers flock in to buy the "junk." Photos below show some of the many practical uses to which they put it. Their ingenuity and skill produced scores of scarce household items. The Occupational Therapy section of At'.anu's Lawson General Hospital uses » good deal of B-29 salvage. Convalescing veterans find relaxation and learn new skills in designing and making useful objects which they can send home. A transparent "blister" canopy from a B-29 makes a fine bathtub for little Jean Clair Bretherick, pic- tured with her mother, Mrs. Homer I. Bretherick, in their Atlanta, Ga., home. Inset shows a weather- proof davenport built from salvaged B-29 parts, by William Davis, Bell Aircraft worker. It ha^s duralu- min frame and broad, plexiglass arms. LAUGH'S ON HIM Constitution gives the horse laugh to his famous cousin, ShiroiyuW, Hirohito's horse, which Adm. Wil- liam "Bull" Halsey wanted to ride. New York veterans purchased Constitution from Cal Thompson, Nebraska rancher, and will pre- sent him to HaJsey. Pvt. John B. Lemoine, Columbia, "Don't fence me in," says chubby Cpl. Raymond Watson, patient ia S.C., displays hot plate he made Karen Sewell, but her daddy, Joe Lawson General Hospital, Ga., from B-29 scrap. Such work helps Sewell, Bell Aircraft worker at beats the electric fan shortage with his "comeback" in Lawson Gen- Marietta, Ga., did â€" with salvaged fan made of aluminum scrap, eral HospitaL B-29 metaL We Recommend: CHESGO MINES LIMITED (No Personal Liability) ENQUIRIES INVITED • W. R. Manning and Co. Mamiing Chambers, Toronto Relieve that cough NOW before it bo- comes serious. I^moid CooiA Syrup usually act* instantly toTelim diatreBsingcold and bronchial symptoms in ehil- dien and adults. AT All, DKUOaisia »5e OmCIMATORS OF LYMUlDS GIVE HIM A REAL WELCOME â€" with a good job •u- Contributed by s BLACK HORSE ibb^ewiew 4 < â-  -r h â- Btmtf^MetmfM WMMNfM^M

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