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Port Perry Star (1907-), 22 Nov 1945, p. 9

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= = : 4 A AUTHOR HL Here's the New A 'Reconverted' B-29! LAUGH'S ON HIM 7 Obsolete materials and parts, 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 em- ployees could make good use of the discarded materials, the firm recently opened a retail Salvage 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 Atlanta's Lawson General Hospital uses a good deal of B-89 salvage. Convalescing veterans find relaxation and learn new skills in designing and making useful objects which they can send home. y <i Le & = ; E 2 Constitution gives the horse laugh A to his famous cousin, Shiroiyuki, ALY - Hirohito's horse, which Adm. Wil. A liam "Bull" Halsey wanted to ride. it fi New York veterans purchased 5 Constitution from Cal Thompson, 4 : Nebraska rancher, and will pre- A H. G. Wells, above, famous Eng- sent him to Halsey. lish author and historian, is re: When strike of street car and bus operators in Washington left ported seriously ill. He was 79 500,000 persons without public transportation, A. L. Wade showed last Sept. 21 unusual enterprise by riding lis horse to work. Unheralded trans il . . ~ portation walkout started when members of Local 689 of Amalgam. : p ated Avion of Street, Electric Railway and Matos Saar a yesh LS rise E> Employees (AFL) voted to stay in continuous meeting until Capital hi i ie LONG SHOT WINNER Transit Co. acted on their demand for a 30-cent increase in hourly ) Sal : he RRR pay. ; ARMY HAS SELF.-LIGHTING CAMERA fan vf Jor piece sn fir, QUICK & < A RELIEF FOR A transparent "blister" canopy from a B-20 makes a fine bathtub for little Jean Clair Bretherick, pic- : COUGHS, COLDS 1 tured with her mother, Mrs. Homer I. Bretherick, in their Atlanta, Ga. home. Inset shows a weather- - BRONCHITIS Nh proof davenport built from salvaged B-29' parts, by William Davis, Bell Aircraft worker. It has duralu- ASTHMA iy min frame and broad, plexiglass arms. SIMPLE SORE THROAT 5 A We Recommend: CHESGO MINES LIMITED (No Personal Liability) ENQUIRIES INVITED W. R. Manning and Co. v When Betty Ann Reyman of San Dgeio, Calif, was: born she was given about one chance in ; 100 to survive. She weighed Many a wounded or ill soldier owes his.recovery to the newly- : N = only '20 ounces. Now, one year } revealed Army 'secret weapon" pictured above. It is a revolu- Manning Chambers, Toronto later, she looks like Little Miss tionary surgical camera, with a built-in light source--a quartz Health herself. She's pictured vapor tube flash unit that produ¢es up to 50,000 flashes more bril- liant than sunlight' at 1/25,00th of a second duration. Developed by the Signal Corps, the camera' uses 35mm. film, weighs 5% pounds and is operated from a 27-pound portable pack" that may be plugged into any ordinary current line. or with her mother, Mrs. Ralph E. Reyman. ' IN JAP CABINET Relievethat cough NOW before it be- comes serious, BRONCHIAL id Cough EASE Sr asd Soa COUGH Ergin PALESTINE--MID-EAST'S PRIME PROBLEM - . PALESTINE'S ronan Pvt. John B. Lentoine, Columbia, ' ~ : toms in chil- : "Don't fence me in," says chubby Cpl. Raymond Watson, patient in gop pdb POPULATION ; S.C, displays hot plate he made Karen Seivell, but her daddy, Joe Lawson General Hospital, Ga, - ob SYRUP AT Al, Dr GGT . Tes : $ 3 Vg B-29 Sols Sah work hips Sewell, Bell Aircraft worker at beats the electric fan shortage with - BY THE i ' is "comeback" in Lawson en- Marietta, G~. did -- with salvaged fan made of aluminu ap. MADE BY 1921-75000 eral Hopital; B29 metal. made of aluminum scrap ontamarons or LY MOID S . +1945--530,000 : i 633% Increase = ARABS | ( fim) | 120% liereote fog Occ fred Qctupind i i]. GIVE HIM A REAL WELCOME ; -- with a good job Foreign, Minister. in new Jap: Cab- 4 ONablus inet: iso Shigeru Yoshida,» who has 'Mediterranean eOphra OAkroba prog been' out of the' government for ' --g . many years due to his pacifist ; o Tibna 3 views, He once served as foreign bd o Bath Bl : vice-minister and also as. ambas- *s + sador to Great: Britains. COMMANDS DUTCH ° i Jaricho ef LPR oT ST] High on the list of 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 Jewa and® Arabs, O53 ACDONALD'S ---- 9 Canada's Stamdene] Smche (iE) Liewt:Admiral C. E, L.' Helfrich, above: is coramander-in-chief of all Netherlands forces in: the. Pacific, At hig disposal are Dutch troops My which had served with British and RY American occupation forces, plus 4000 new troops en route from the homeland, -

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