Tárogató, 1949-1950 (12. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1949-09-01 / 3. szám
16 TÁROGATÓ James and Hudson Bays and explore newly discovered islands in Foxe Basin. The Geographical Bureau will be represented on two expeditions sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America. One party will proceed by aircraft to the Western Arctic Islands, where they will make investigations, particularly on Victoria Island. The other party will proceed to the Labrador Coast. Investigations will be carried out on the shores of the Great Lakes also by the Bureau, with a vessel from the Hydrographic Service being used for this purpose. SHORT ITEMS Canada and the United States have signed a new bi-lateral air agreement on scheduled air services to replace the one presently in effect which was signed early in 1945. The new agreement provides for the exercise of traffic rights in each country by scheduled airlines of the other on certain agreed international through routes. ❖ * * The Canadian Committee for CARE has disclosed that as of April 30th of this year, purchases by CARE in Canada totalled $1,334,403.50. This has represented an inflow of U.S. dollars to buy Canadian goods to be incorporated into CARE parcels. * * * Forests cover about 15,000 square miles of the 42,700 square miles of Newfoundland, Canada’s newest province. * * * The Thousand Island Bridgeway consists of five spans, six miles of roadway, and nearly two miles of bridges. The American span is 150 feet above the water and the Canadian span 120 feet. This link between the United States and Canada was dedicated in August, 1938. The Thousand Islands actually number about 1,800, ranging from small dots of granite to islands of considerable size. RADIOACTIVE ORE HUNT When the prospecting season started several weeks ago, the search for radioactive materials was resumed. Before the war, the discovery of radioactive ore had been a hit-and-miss affair, based mainly on visual observation. Now, however, the Geiger-Mueller tube, which registers even trace amounts of radioactive substances has made systematic radium and uranium prospecting possible. The Division of Physics of the National Research Council of Canada is doing pioneer work on a radically new design, which weathered its first field trials successfully last year and may soon be ready for commercial use. With this new innovation NRC will be able to build the first foolproof drill-hole probe, thereby modernizing and simplifying all other Geiger-counter designs. NEAR AND FAR In more and more villages, towns and city districts in Scotland, community centers are becoming an active force in the lives of the people. It is a common practise for thousands of men and women young and old to spend two or three evenings a week at the community centre. The programms vary from the purely recreational to handicrafts, discussion groups and other more serious efforts. * * * The two-motored Lutheran transport plane, St. Paul, crashed at Kweiyang, China. No one was seriously injured. But the loss of the plane brought dismay to the entire missionary body in China, Protestant and Roman Catholic alike. During two and a half years hundreds of missionaries of every denomination have ridden in the plane’s bucket seats, and still more benefitted from cargoes ranging from Bibles to baby food. * * * Max W. Morgan, pastor of Wayland Memorial Baptist Church, Philadelphia, was the main speaker in Brooklyn for a * 10-day “co-operative crusade for Christ through evangelism” which was sponsored by the Northern Baptist Convention. * * *
