Water Diviner
“Finds” Miles
Of Uranium”
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ROSSLARE HARBOUR, Wex
ford. Ere, (/P) — Joseph Henry
Bennett, a County Longford far
mer, with something of an interna
tional reputation as a water di
viner, has branched out into di
vining uranium.
Without leaving Ireland, and
working only with maps, Farmer
Bennett says he has divined "miles
of uranium” in a certain British
possession, the name of which he
would not divulge.
To understand Bennett's meth
ods, you have to understand water
divining, which is something like |
the Indian rope trick, inasmuch as
those who have seen it know all
about it, while those who have not
seen it swear it is a fake and can
not be done.
The ordinary water diviner is
remarkable enough. He walks
across a field with a hazel wand
in his hand, and the wand trem
bles and points downwards at the
point where water lies beneath the
soil.
Farmer Bennett, however, does
his water divining without leaving
the house, and letters of thanks
from India, Australia, New Zea
land, the United States, South Af
rica, Sweden, Denmark, Holland.
Belgium and France, indicate that
his technique has some success.
Bennett, who is a partner in
Kelly and Bennett, Water and
Mineral Diviners, recently gave
an exhibition of his powers at the
engineer’s office of the Cork
Board of Health.
Holding a hazel rod over an ord
nance map he traced the course of
an underground stream at Curra
binny. where he said the boring
must be 160 feet deep. At Monks
iown he predicted a good supply.
40 yards wide and 80 feei deep
It was reported that unfortu t
ately there was a house on the
land at Monkstown, but the pre
diction of the Currabinny water is
Soviet Boosts Its
Tea Production
MOSCOW, (iP)—Along with her
fine grain and sugar crops for this
year t.ie Soviet Union is going to
have an excellent tea yield.
Based o 1 reports from all of the
tea growing regions of the south,
the Moscow News called the crop
“excellent.”
Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kras
nodar Territory have completed
their plan of state tea leaf deliv
eries ahead of schedule and the
first lev: hundred tons of the 1947
:ea have already reached the fac
tories.
A report stated the collective
and state tea plantations of sub
tropical Georgia have over ful
filled the plan by 796 tons and
topped last year’s crop by 7,122
tons.
Russians are among the world’s
greatest tea drinkers.
Brazil Plans
Army Of 162,000
RIO DE JANEIRO, UP) — The
Brazilian Chamber of Deputies is
studying a bill which will fix the
military forces of the Brazilian
army for 1948 at a total of 162,000
men, which does not include the
unspecified number of officers of
the land, air and navay armed
forces.
The army will hav’e 77,000 pri
vates, 20,000 sergeants and 21,003
corporals. The navy will have
21,000 privates and the airforce
will have 12.000 privates, 7,000
sergeants and 2,600 corporals.
being placed before the local gov
ernment authority and subject to
their approval borings will be
made.
As for the "miles of uranium"
Bennett said he had already been
visited by a representative of the
British government in this connec
tion, but they had not succeeded
in coming to terms.
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REPORT ON SOCIAL j
WELFARE WORK OF
NATIVE SERVICE
—
Reporting on services rendered
through Social Welfare work of,
the Alaska Native Service over the
past six months, department su
pervisor Evelyn I. Butler today in
dicated that a total of 419 depend
ent children have been maintained
in private institutions and board
ing schools under the Child’ Wel
fare fund; 204 mothers with a total
of 289 dependent children have
received aid through the Mothers’
Allotment fund; and 194 handi
capped or disabled persons have
received assistance from the Gen
eral Assistance fund.
With a toal assistance program
allotment of $122,000 for the 1947
48 fiscal year, $70,000 has been al
located for child welfare; $30,000
for mothers’ allowance; and $22.
000 for general assistance, with
extreme measures being taken to
date in an effort to meet the most
crying needs and still remain
1 within the budget allowance.
For although the last three re
lief payrolls of the previous fiscal
year (i.e. for last April, May and
June) were cancelled because
funds were exhausted and the lag
in time prior to the availability of
funds after July 1 further delayed
relief payments, it is quite prob
able that relief payment will again
need to be omitted next May and
June, Dr. Butler pointed out, in
order to stay within present bud
' get limitations.
, “Immediate curtailment mea
sures instituted at the beginning of
the current fiscal year represented
an overall reduction of ANS wel
fare assistance including the ter
mination of relief payrolls which
| immediately deprived 558 native
women, children and handicapped
persons of the necessary food,
clothing, and shelter,” Dr. Butler
explained. In addition funds for
30 child welfare cases were can
celled to save $8,000 and general
assistance terminated to save
$6,000.
| “Although we appealed to com
munity agents, relatives and com
munity organizations to exhaust
every possible means of prevent
ing suffering in these homes, there
are as a result of the curtailment
many children who have inade
quate food, clothing and shelter,”
the supervisor explained.
vvnen you add to this the con
stantly rising costs of living and
the tragic cut in the Territorial
program for aid to dependent chil
dren and for old age assistance
due to inadequate funds, one be
gins to realize to some extent the
suffering and want to be faced
during the peak winter months
ahead when demands are greatest.
“Further, those relief checks
now being paid of necessity are
decidedly inadequate to fulfill the
minimum essential needs of the
persons dependent upon them,
when it is possible to allocate an
average of but $20.17 a month for
the care of both the mother and
her dependent child. At the same
time we are paying from $25 to
$35 a month for boarding place
ment care of dependent children—
an increasingly inadequate sum
for the service.”
There’s a super-pretty-witty
waitress at the lunch counter in
the Colossal Food Market. While
admiring her recently a customer
remarked: “I see tips are forbid
den here. Now just what would
happen to me if I gave you one?"'
Quickly responded the S.P.W.W.
"I’d lie like the devil to protect
you, sir.’*
Congress Will Try
To Solve Fish Trap
Controversy
WASHINGTON, UP) — The first
step intended to settle the contro
versial question of fish traps in
Alaska will be taken next month
by two Congressional committees.
The Senate sub-committee on
interstate and foreign commerce
headed by Senator Magnuson 'D.
Washd and the House fisheries
sub-committee headed by Rep.
Tollefson <R.-Wash.> will hold
hearings on an interior depart
ment bill to revise the system of,
allocating fish traps in the Terri
tory. Senate hearings will start
Jan. 26 and those in the House
Jan. 29.
The question of reducing the
number of traps held by big pack
ing firms has been coisidered year
after year until finally the interior
department got all interested par
ties to agree to submit to Congress
for final detrmination its proposal
to solve the matter.
The legislation introduced in the
House and Senate last year pro
poses that all fish traps in the Ter
ritory must be leased from the
government.
It would provide that persons
and firms holding ^0 or less fish
traps could retain them; operators
of from 20 to 30 tr/ips could retain
90 per cent of them; those with 30
to 40 could retain 80 per cent; and
those with 40 or more could re
tain 75 per cent.
All licenses would expire in 15
years, not subject to renewal.
The legislation proposes that at
once the big packers would sur
render 42 trap sites.
These would be sold to the high
est bidder, with Alaskan villages,
natives, and residents being given
priority. If no one in Alaska want
ed them, they would go to the
highest bidder from Outside.
The licensees would pay the
government a royalty equal to the
value of five per cent of the catch
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known as an explosive lor at lea^l
60 years before the invention of
guns, according to the Encyclopai -
dia Britannica.
on the first 500,000 salmon caught
and seven per cent for all over
that amount. Trap site holders
could deduct Territorial taxes up
to 50 per cent of the royalty. The
money the government receives
would be divided equally with the
Territory.
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