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! I TRENT ET ERG OE iE yo TT CPL a a --, = Vie mrs and ey Vasa a rs Sham d I PR na vy RET FF. i Wipe / NIE Sa Rh ES ' PAGE TWENTY-FOUR THE DAILY TIMES.-GF KZETTE TH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1948 Russian Lumberman Steps London,--{(CP)--Russia's lumber- ing and wood-working industries are making rapid technical progress, the Sovie, News Press Service re- ports here. Felling the haulage of tim- ber have been greatly mechanized. New light-weight electrical saws and recently-designed tractors for use in lumber skidways are impor- ta-t additions to the industry's equipment. The current five-year plan en- visages considerable change in the geographical distribution of the lumber industry. By 1950 forest ex- ploitation is to increase by several times that of 1947 in the basins of the Ob, Kama Yenisil and Amur riv- ers and will decrease in the Moscow, Voronezh and Ryazan regions and in Byelorussia. It is expected the "more rational" distribution will ease transport dif- ficulties and enable greater use to be made of natural waterways. Lumber camps are building their own power supplies to drive power- generators and steam-run install- ations. Pea, found near forest areas, and waste wood from the lumbering industry itself, are chief fuel sources. The 1950 sawed-lumber target is 16,525,000,000 board feet-more than the total output of the last pre-war year, 1940, New sawmills are going up in the main timber-producing areas and mills overrun by the Ger- mans are being rehabilitated. The veneer industry aims to surpass its 1940 figures by 1950. Target is nearly 3,500,000 board feet. New factories are being built in the Karelian Isthmus and in Komi, Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, Mol- otov and Tyumen areas. The five year plan for the indus- try includes the prduction of struc- tural parts -- window and door A Up Production frames, parquet flooring and work- ed and surface parts for general and agricultural machinery industries. Manufacture of prefabricated houses is also on the increase. The news agency reports "this is cut- ting down housing construction costs sharply and is speeding: up the work many times over." Manufac- turr of furniture is being speed- ed and the match industry is being brought ncarer the forests. Simultaneously, a dendro-chemi- cal industry is being built up, to manufacture acetic acid, acute sol- Jents, rosins and turpentine. Young Britisher Publishes Oldest U.S. Negro Paper New York--(CP)--A round-faced, moustached young Englishman is publisher of the United States' old- est negro paper. The publisher is Vincent Paul Richard Joseph Plantagenet Bourne-Vanneck, commonly called Dick, a graduate of Cambridge Uni- versity and a former engineer. The newspaper is the New Age, published in Harlem since -1880. A weekly now, it may soon become a daily. Bourne-Vanneck's interest in the negro journal isn't altogether strange. His vice-president is 'a negro--his wife. Mrs, Victoria Bourne-Vanneck was born in Cardiff, Wales, daugh- ter of a West African who went to London to study and there married a negro living in Southampton. When she was five the family moved. to. Brooklin, N. Y., but she was. educated; in Wales where she lived with a.grandmother. "I.had no thought of a career," she 'says. - "In Cardiff they don't encourage girls in such ideas. You grow up with the idea that you want to get married and be a good housewife." Now, as women's editor of the New Age, she"keeps pretty busy. The Vannetks have no fixed opinion on mixed marriages. "There. are; quite a . number of them in England," Bourne-Vanneck explains.- = "No 'one thinks much of it. . Here it's looked upon as a little strange." Vicky has a' more feminine point of 'view: r+." "You 'marry; when you're in love --if you can." « Bourne-Vanneck's aim' for New Age is to "integrate the negro into the commuriity." He gave up. .an electrical-éngineering career in Eng- land. to 'copie'to the United States because he'felt: it a "more advanced country." 'But he has found the American negro to be behind the times. "The day is past," he says, "when the negro was a distinct entity in population. He is an American like other Americans." Former publishers of the paper slanted 'the news and editorials for negro consumption. Bourne-Van- neck, who took over its publication about three months ago, intends to print. items of interest to the white population as well. As a first step, several white per- sons have been added to New Age's formerly all-negro staff. _ ANCIENT SPORT . Golf was'a popular sport in-Scot- land as early: as the 15th century, but 'its origin 'is suspected to be much ' older, "NORWEGIAN ANTARCTIC Biland, the 'Norwegian Antargtic, consists of Bouvet Island, Peter the First Island and Princess Ragnhild Land. Rumors Are Rampant In Chinese City Shanghal, Dec. 4 -- (Reuters)-- Shanghai today is a city of wild rumors, Its worried, hard-pressed popu- lation, uncertain about the future, about the food supply and soaring prices, and fearing the worst if the Chinese Communists should march in, have turned this city into one of the world's most prolific rumor factories. Each day brings a fresh crop of rumors, all credited to "reliable sources" and "official quarters," to add to the daily rehash of old ones. One which crops up regularly at least once a week, for example, is that President Chiang Kai-Shek has resigned and turned over the government to Vice-President Li Tsung-Jen. The latter is said in turn to have concluded a coalition pact with the Reds. Press agencies and newspaper of- fices receive calls at all hours from people who have "heard from re- liable quarters that - Nanking has fallen." Another wild rumor which gained apparently city-wide circulation was a report that the city's water sup- ply might be.cut off "at any mo- ment" by Red saboteurs. The rumor spread rapidly, with, the result that most Chinese fami- lies had their tubs,' basins and what- ever other containers they could lay hands on filled to the brim with water, ¢ "Peace talks" between the Nation- alists and the Communists is also a favorite tale among rumor- mongers. But observers here ate tribute this largely to = wishful thinking on the part of a popula- tion, buffeted by fears of impending disaster and longing for stable con- ditions. . city. Ritson Road. Do you expect a contractor like man Jackson to fight for low rental homes? VOTE LABOR VOTE . .. * Vote For This Program: No increase in bus fare. An end to hydro cut-offs by installing auxiliary units. Bridge over Oshawa creek at Colborne, to relieve traffic congestion from centre of Immediate action on high school south of four corners. Elimination of railroad tracks on King Street. Adequate street lighting on 200 Federal low rental units. Alder- Do you expect Ex-Mayor McCallum who owes his allegiance to G.M. to fight for labor's rights? RUTHERFORD Endorsed By: EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF LOCAL 222 UAW.A-CIO. Ladies' UAW.A.-CIO. What's Yoir Opinion on These? Is it:going to take a child's life to have. proper <lighting - installed on 'Ritson Rd.? A'low rental housing programme would cut down: the profits of real estate interests who are squeez- ing exorbitant sale prices for homes from veterans and others. As a member of the municipal committee of the Oshawa and District Labor Council, W. 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