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...South Africa's first meatless Wednesday this week came the news that the Union Government had decided to go into the manufacture of the new yeast-food (TIME, Aug. 9) in a big way. The Natal sugar industry, which annually dumps 130,000 tons of unwanted molasses into the Indian Ocean, will use this by-product for the production of Torula utilis. A fortnight ago a special plane from London flew the British yeast-food culture to Capetown where a pilot-plant is now operating experimentally. Before big-scale production begins, the South African Government intends consulting...
...mules were Freudians they would be kicking mad. They always have parents, rarely have offspring. Because they are the hybrid, infertile offspring of a mare and a jackass, race suicide is as involuntary among mules as old-fashioned families among rabbits. When Nickolaas Jecobus Vermaak, of Natal, South Africa, announced recently that his mare mule had thrown a "colt" sired by a stallion, neighboring farmers smiled incredulously. But he had rightly trusted his mule-sense. Mule-wise Dr. John Quinlan dashed over from the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, confirmed his guess...
From such a biological blind date have come at least five recorded mule foals in recent years, one in Colombia (TIME, April 11, 1938), one in Farmer Vermaak's own Natal (TIME, April 13, 1932). Because, chromosomally speaking, the prodigy's mother is its own mother's mother also, the prodigy itself looks more like a horse than a mule. Recording cases of fertile mules, the U.S. Department of Agriculture brooks no superficiality, carries the question back to basic grounds. It cautions that mules themselves are a curiosity-"in the sense that the crossing of the horse...
Last week his case put an abrupt end to the latest crusade of the Durban police, who are forever rounding up poll-tax evaders and curfew violators. Thundered the Hon. A. A. R. Hathorn, judge-president of the Natal Supreme Court: "The police seem to expect a married man to wave his marriage certificate every time he wishes to exercise his marital rights...
...have her baby paid for, a serviceman's wife fills out a simple questionnaire for any doctor she chooses, and sends it to the state health agency. Depending on the state, she gets pre& post-natal care, delivery, hospital bed at ward rates, extra surgery up to $50, medical care for the baby. For this purpose, Congress appropriated $1,200,000 last winter, added $4,000,000 in July. Last week the House voted to add another...