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Outraged by comics that piously headline their pages "Obey the Law" while dripping with murder by meat cleavers, quicklime, axes and buzz saws, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took drastic action. It passed an ordinance providing a $500 fine or a six-month jail term for selling crime comics to children under 18. The law will cover only the rural areas of the county, but the legislature will be asked to make the ban statewide...
...Ottawa, the Dominion government issued figures on immigration to Canada in the first half of 1948. Six-month total: 57,275. Main sources: British Isles (23,-468), Europe's D.P. camps (18,886), The Netherlands...
Elephants for a Fee. It was by hunting that Pretorius made his living and his legendary reputation. His lifetime bag for elephants alone was 557; and after one six-month safari his take for ivory was worth ?3,600. Once when hundreds of rogue elephants ran wild in Cape Province, killing people and destroying property, the administrator of the province asked Pretorius to take on the job of extermination. Naturalist Sir Harry Johnson and two famous hunters had already given their opinions: the terrain and the danger made it impossible. "For a satisfactory fee" Pretorius went into the bush...
...Heinz Co., whose net dropped 18% despite a 17% rise to an alltime high in sales, the answer was no. But profits far outdistanced sales in other cases. For example, with sales up only 36% over the same period last year, General Portland Cement's six-month net jumped over 75%. In this year's second quarter, Willys-Overland had a 29% rise in sales, a 70% rise in profits to $2,019,029. Perhaps the best part of all this rich news was that backlogs, in general, were as big as ever. The prevailing optimism was expressed...
...manpower, Secretary Forrestal had first proposed both U.M.T. and Selective Service. Most Congressmen shied away from U.M.T., and it was considered dead. Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee proposed a six-month U.M.T. program combined with the regular training program to cut down the need for instructors...