Show Interesting I News From Here There Republican members of Congress have issued a call for the aid of Democratic members of the Con Con- Congress Congress gress in the effort to reduce gov gov- government government spending It is being pre dieted that federal spending this year will exceed the income by around 4 billion dollars The British Rubber Development Board has launched a ad ad- advertising advertising advertising campaign in the United States to create sentiment in favor of or using rubber in the construction of or highways hi The English Rubber Board estimates that thousand tons of natural rubber will ill be used annually in the construction of Am American American roads by 1960 It is reported that Canadian pap pap- paper paper er mills have at last caught up with I the demand for paper for the first time since the war The output of newsprint is estimated at 5 mil million lion tons I Some four hundred and twenty twenty- five persons died violently in ac ac- accidents accidents accidents in the three day New Year Holiday but the toll wasn't as hea hea- heavy heaY heavy vy Y as was expected It seems a lar lar- large larI lar- lar large I ge se number when one reads the fig fig- figures figures ures but it should be remembered that the normal traffic death toll in the country is a few short of or 90 for each cach day of the year ear This true the total of four hundred and twenty five is not a great deal more than the average three day toll tollof tollof tollof of two hundred and seventy especially especially especially considering the considerably greater number of or people who are out on the highways during the hol hoi holida iday ida Miss Lorraine Richey 23 of De De- Detriot triot Michigan was about to get in her car in front of or her home the theother theother theother other evening when along came a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man Going down town baby he asked She told him no Uno in an emphatic manner and be grabbed by her the throat Be Be- Before Before fore she knew what had happened the thug found lying on his back on the sidewalk Soon as ashe ashe ashe he was able he picked himself up made off in the darkness Miss Richey who is five feet five and weighs pounds notified the police The police were curious when they learned the thugs thug's weight was pounds They t learned on further further inquiry that Miss Richey's Ridley's brother Edward had trained her in judo He was a judo instructor for an anair anair anair air borne division during the war The Amazon river is the master stream on the largest drainage area in the world There are several active volcan volcan- volcanoes oes in the Aleutian Islands |