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Work n Sway Proiecf

'.apraii-ie Basin near Montreal. Here vessels will be raised or low-

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SCIENTIFIC

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ByALANDO

OTTAWA (CP)- Cpnadiu mi... tints are putting the we on biting

tb fu but with all-out DDT attack whose strategy il lliided by intensive re-

Dr. Cecil R. Twins. agriculture

d crlbes these blood- - slsone of the chief lsilldilllallhinflio ' development of the north. .

NOT LICKED YET

- a recent interview.

Scientists. however, have

. . the insects' vulnerable point and -i have developed better ways of

Larvae of mosquitoes prefer still

flowing streams and rivers.

The goal is protection of settle nicnts. Travellers and those who work in open couiitryi remain at the insects' mercy. Thus entomol- ogisis have aimed their efforts at devising the best means for spray- ing the pools. around ommunitles.

Spraying aircraft drop DDT so-i lulinns on the mosquito breedingiical i-uiiiriils for those big biters pools in flights timed and Dl0ItediI'Ialr 1lUI yei been found and man to get maximum kill. The sameiiiiiist resort to self-protection.

placed waters of streams. kills black fly is proper clothing and repellants."

Dr. Twinn said careful tests have summer's

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species of

of scientists. WQRLD EXPERT!

ntomologist who reads side of the campaign.

I5 insect experts.

and black flies aren't r. Twtnn conceded in

found

ever met in Canada.

fly as the north's worst pest.

said.

livestock on the Prairies.

of black files require far as 100 miles

fly larvae as But last year black

doiviistreain

some livestock. BIGGER. HAIIDIER

Anolhcr northern hazard are horse flies and deer flies. larger and liartlicr than the black flies. Dr Twinn said effective chem-

swainps and rivers

METHODS

in the head- "The best answer found so far down he added. But the big horse flies

and deer flies seem to prefer ani- adults survive or fly mails to people. some authorities

many miles

Some of the discussions at next international meeting

poison.

1 1 (L k st Lo mt found the best black fly dosage. will be concerned with insects uelzectfannglTmm,een"'3l;"focka.n':; It is one part DDT to 10.000.000 which. in other countries. carry a

By TOM REEDY

PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia (AP) ha a few days the Communist gov- ernment of Czechoslovakia wlll,ob- aerve its eighth anniversary.

Here in the capital of 13,000,000 Cuecha and Slovaks. the date is always referred to in conversation as "February. The year. 1948. is never given because it isn't. neces- sary. In any discussion involving time people simply date things by saying it happened before or after "February."

Everyone knows that Feb. I), 1948. is meant. That was the day the ministers of the late pi ” Eduard Benes resigned under Com-

take less than 10 per cent of the worker's pay. State centres are established for children so wives can work in factories. Most fam- liies have two incomes.

PROPAGANDA BLANKET

The public lives. cats and sleeps

under a blanket of pi paganda.

Farm workers are brought into

the city on free trips.

The regime has acted much more

confidently in the last year or two. as though the Red leaders feel they can command at least a

CzechosIovakia's Regime Nears Eighth Anniversary

majority of support from the popu-

lation.

Some of the bars to foreign travellers have been lowered. Trusted Czechs are sent abroad on government trade missions in increasing numbers.

The churches are full and are generally left undisturbed. Never- theless. ihe constitution empha- sizes not so much the right to worship as to ignore it. The exact language is:

' "livery citizen shall have the right to be without any religion."

lnunlst pressure. Klement Gott- wald. Moscow - trained revolution- ary. proclaimed a new regime squat-e which had run red with: blood many times in a thousandi

years.

The Red minister of the IIIICHDT, . with police and all the weapons Under his control. issued gun trusted militia. Everyone else hlpless.

INDUSTRY ENCOURAGED

Well. what is it like in Czecho- slovakia now? , ' The Communist regime has na- Wlized nearly everything but the

Ito W”

a repair shops. with Russlani help they are industrializing Slo-I vakia which was once ..r'ncipally agricultural. Workers have guar- snteed employment. sick benefits. subsidized vacations which cost them practically nothing. old age pensions and free recreation cen- ares in the old palaces of the Iobles. The average wage is 1.256 crowns a month (8179). That is double a decade ago but does not til the whole story. Rents usually

I

Fire loss is i Suffered By i o i Former Resident ; Fire caused by explosion of a g lantern caused damage of S13-l when Mulllgan's store at Clay- Iurat was burned to the ground. I Owner of the store. John Mull- rn. was lighting the lantern when i caught fire and exploded, show-I Irtng burning fuel through the store. Mr. Mulligan suffered burns h both hands. Two neighbors. on the scene at

yja time the fire ta ted, hi I the Mulligan's in tllei; attemgtwido I

I

utingulah the flames. but they could do little for the store and centrated their efforts on sav-

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parts of water, applied in streams wide range of diseases fatal to G ?:jPLz::';,t:frgelg5vl;ydoKVl:g1t;3:;':' for 15 minutes. The dose is strong man. ' enough to kill all the black fly Porcupinea keep active through larvae without killing fish or the lh out the winter in mgny cgngdjgnylarvae of most other insects. isa

Canadians can. be thankful for

; id. . developed a few! Though few Canadians realize it.

Dr.,Twlnn described the black

flies there produced a second gen- eration later in the summer and the outbreak resulted in deaths of

g cold inter climate. Dr. Twinnl

Scientists Putting Bite on es And Mosquitoes

this country has several of the ill- sect species which in warmer cli- mates carry fatal diseases. Among '”..ii'

years ago at Churchill. :'Man.. has been adopted in many parts of the

, p But black flies and mosquitoes

aren't the only biting files which plague people and animals in Can- ada. The country 'lias about 300 blood-sucking insects which challenge control attempts

what Canada and other countries are doing about these pests will be discussed next summer at one of the world's biggest gatherings of

Seine 1.500 scientists from more . than so countries will attend the loth international Congress of En- tomology at Montreal Aug. 17-25. It is the first time that body has

"Children can become quite ill from their bites." he said. Concern was so great that doctors had been searching. so far without result. to see whether any disease organ- ism is injected with the fly bite.

Black flies also have killed many DDT (treatment at one point on the North Saskatchewan river can kill black

i

;

them are malaria mosquitoes. lice which can spread typhus fleas which can carry Plague.

cow wirrrnns HELP

non-existent in Canada

ture below 60 degrees.

Nevertheless. some Prairie RIOS! quitoes carry equine encephalom.Y- elitia. which affects both horses and man. And in British Columbia an occasional death is reported from tick paralysis, caused by one species of tick. Rocky mountain spotted fever. also carried by tick bites, is rare. however. Livestock producers still have in- sect problems and high on the list is the warble fly. Meat and hide! ar spoiled and production re- duged.

Many other livestock insects have been coiitrolled. such as the biting horiifly which can cause heavy reductions in milk and meat production amen! ""19-

”But the warble fly is one of the oiiistanding problems.” Dr. Tiriiin said Chemical control was ipossiblc. but present methods needed in be improved. So re- search continues to seek a better way.

CAPTAIN lb DICTED

B.-XLTIMORE (Ari - The cat?" (am of the Levin J. lilarvel. which broke up in Chesapeake bay last Aug. 12 with a loss of 14 lives.

.in from outside areas. more DDT even claim tlicii' voracious attacks was indicted by a federal grand spray can knock them out of the-cause caribon migrations from the-jury Tuesday on charges of mis- air. Fortuiiately. black flies and forcsi onto the open tundra in the conduct and negligence. The two- niosquitoes have not developed im- summer.

count indictment against John H. lileckling of Annapolis. Md.. in- cluded one charge of misconduct. negligence and inattention to duty and another of operating a ves- sci in a reckless or negligent man- ner so as to endanger the lives and property of passengers and crew. A court official said the indictment is equivalent to I charge of manslaughter.

But these diseases are almost lif cold winters halt the e cyc 0 .3 . . some of the insect-born diseases. "Md ml "net 0" Hygienic measures are needed for others. Malaria. for instance. which more than -a century ago hit work- men building the Rideau canal trom Ottawa to Kingston. cant survive in mosquitoes at tempera-

Colour Barriers Fa,llying:y,, W Peacefully in Many Parts

ATLANTA. (AP)-Negrbo:sr.ihavs followed saintly. ' ;- are CQIILIIV Ikill color 0 ' rlersp: formerly all-whlta colleges um "mun mm with M

and universities in many southern mnluu tun” mm ' mm

, h mu, .9 u, g. D hundreds incl voklah ; l:udemonatrattoo:sn m u-9;: 7'9"" vI"u”u- "-'elW- Ill womaalu attest: to at- "W

iaaa. In none of these state? gen-pp vliplance. May a apnoea ve campus oi itories and most eat in sch cafeterias with the White studei A few have been admitted i pi-ofeuional fraternities. but in is little social g. Most of the schools wliicliiiii adniittedblegroes. either vnlnni fly or under court order. give exact figures available mix 1 numbe of non - white studen Estimates range from 500 to m. than 1.000 in the eight states whi

a Negro ,

land the University of buns. Eight southern states have ac.- ceptad Negroes in both graduate ” and undergraduate divisions. an Associated Press survey shows. No violence attended these changes that upset patterns which had

Last week's campus riots that moved the Alabama trustees to suspend Miss Autherine Lucy marked the first attempt to end racial separation in a bloc of four states which seep: most determined 5:. ”.'::f3:.i.i'.';7 'r'lL””5if...'.”'i.'2 mm-M -r we con- Georgia. South Carlina and Mis- Dry Guy Johmonlv mm. 'l"lP9I- social science at the University A federal court order had Nam, ca;-gum, nu wmpmed directed Alabama University to gtudy 01 uggwbjecg ma mm-m admit Miss Lucy. She now has ung .boug.1,ooo Neg,-0., ue returned to federal court seeking .g.ge.,upponed wuum-n cone: readmittance. A hearing has been Wm. anothax-'1.m in privuely E set for Feb. 29- dowed inatituations.

No INCIDENT South Carolina has no Negroi Arkansas admitted a Negro to.in its white schools. and no iui its university law school in lM8.lara currently pendinp. The saii There was no incident. I-iundreds is true of Mississlpp.

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