Worst Drought in Years
Hits Kwangtung Province
HONG KONG, {^—The worst
drought in 90 years has struck
Red China’s Kwangtung Province,
compelling authorities to mobil
ize army officers and men to
assist peasants.
Copies of Communist papers
reaching Hong Kong last week
reported an additional 10,000 per
sons were sent from Canton to the
countryside last May 7 in seven
specific areas.
The Reds reported that in two
thirds of the total producing acre
age work was suspended because
of pests and lack of water.
Two Long - Distance
Swimmers Fail to Finish
Crossing Juan de Fuca
VICTORIA, B.C., OB—'The un
conquered strait of Juan de Fuca
turned back two long-distance
swimmers early Saturday.
Bert Thomas, a husky 29-year
old logger from Tacoma, Wash.,
was pulled from the water nine
miles short of completing the 18.3
mile swim from Victoria to Port
Angeles, Wash. He was in the
water 10 hours 22 minutes.
Some three hours earlier a Van
couver coed, Pat Russell, was tak
en from the straits after swim
ming toward Port Angeles for
seven hours 14 minutes. She was
licked by fatigue and the numb
ing (48 degrees) waters of the
strait.
Thomas gave up as a strong
tide and increasing winds cut his
speed to less than a mile an hour.
Also blamed for Thomas’ fail
ure was the gradual drop in water
temperature to 40 degrees when
he gave up.
The two were competing for
the $1,000 prize which awaits the
first person to swim the strait.
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29,000 Resident Alaskans
Spent Average 18.6 Days
Hunting & Fishing in ’54
More than 29,000 resident Al
askan hunters last year devoted
an average of 18.6 days to hunting
and fishing and spent an average
of $329.59 doing so.
Total take of these hunters was
approximately 101 pounds of big
game, six pounds of small game,
i 4.3 pounds of waterfowl and 7
pounds of fish. The average cost
for these bags was $1.04 a pound
for big game, $8.79 small game,
$6.90 waterfowl, and $20.25 for
fish. •
Persons attending the Sixth Al
askan Science Conference at the
University of Alaska last week
learned these figures in a paper
titled “The Life History and Eco
nomics of the Resident Alaskan
Hunter.” Dr. John L. Buckley
head of the Alaska Cooperative
Wildlife Research Unit on cam
pus, presented the paper. He ob
tained his information from the
replies to more than 4,000 ques
tionnaires sent to hunters.
Average age for the male hunt
ers is 33.9 years, and 35.5 years
for women. Male hunters out
number women hunters almost
six to one.
Reds Better Able
To Deliver Atom
Says Canadian
TORONTO, {Jf)—Ralph Camp
ney, Canada’s defense minister,
says the Russians “have an im
proved capability of delivering
nuclear weapons against North
America.” •
“And we are engaged in active
preparations to meet such a
threat,” Campney told the Avia
tion Writers Assn, in a speech
here Friday night.
Campney said measures to bol
ster the North American defenses
are as vital to the North Atlantic
treaty nations in Europe as they
I are to the United States and Can
ada.
“The security of North America
must be maintained if we are to
sustain and protect the retaliatory
power of the United States as a
deterrent to war,” he said.
Along with the United States,
Canada is building an integrated
system of warning and air de
fense, he said.
Campney, a World War I pilot
in Britain’s Royal Flying Corps,
also said space stations and inter
planetary travel “may not be so
far distant as we now think,”
considering the miracles of avia
tion in the last 50 years.
Home Baking Results
From Stuck Bread Truck
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C., UP>—
Bread for this tiny settlement in
the Peace River district of north
eastern British Columbia is de
livered by truck from Edmonton,
more than 400 miles southeast.
Wednesday a truck loaded with
10,000 loaves bogged down in the
mud halfway along what probab
ly is the longest bread delivery
, line in Canada.
Housewives, hotel and restaur
ant owners made heavy inroads
on flour stocks in the area as they
baked at home.
Two bulldozers finally dragged
the truck free from the gumbo
Friday and the loaves came to
Fort St. John.
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