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...Nevada desert the summer temperature ranges between 100° and 120°. In the diversion tunnels on the canyon floor it averages 10° to 20° higher. Since work began at the dam five men have been killed by accidents, twelve have died from the heat. Workers claimed the water in the tunnels is too hot to drink, while outside they have to drink river water. They complained ventilation is poor in the bunk houses, where they pay $1.50 per day, that some time ago wages for laborers were reduced from...
...seven days Walter Young, construction engineer of the Federal Bureau of Reclamation, notified the contractors to resume work, cleared the reservation of all who did not have passes signed by him. Company officials said no striker would be reemployed, said nothing about restoring old wages to workers on the dam named for the foremost U. S. wage-maintainer...
...American Kennel Club has decided to register all pure bred dogs born in the U.S. on and after next Jan. 1, by litters. The owners of the whelping dam must furnish information on the breed, number of pups, their sex, markings, whether dam fed or foster-mothered. If litter registration is not fulfilled, the pups are ineligible for later individual registration. The litter record will be added to the bitch's register. Fees: $1 within 60 days after the throw, $2 thereafter; or for members of the constituent A.K.C. clubs, nothing for the first 60 days, $1 thereafter...
...litter requirements are fulfilled, individual pups must, nonetheless, be registered as heretofore ($2 each within 18 mos. after birth, $4 thereafter). The dam's owner may make the individual registrations as "first owner," or the pup purchaser as the ''second owner." No one else may register...
...Arietta Game Preserve in northern New York, a keeper tied a clothes line to a black cherry tree. A beaver wanted the tree for a dam, chewed it close to the ground, dragged it as far as the line permitted. Then, instead of biting off the line, as it could have done with one chop of its four big flat front teeth, the beaver gnawed through the tree twice more, once just above the rope girdle, then just below: carried the two tree sections away, left the tethered bit behind...