Balloon crew eyes second Explorer flight after crash
Kearney Neb July 30 The Explorer crew still hopes for a second flight despite failing to set a height record. Maj William Kepner Capt Albert Stevens and Capt Orville Anderson salvaged instruments from the gondola after a 60 000 foot descent near Holdredge. A spectrograph survived and may yield data while other instruments and balloon fabric were damaged. The National Geographic Society confirmed the spectrograph and plans to bring all equipment to Washington for examination.
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Orville A. Anderson
National
Washington
Explorer
National Geographic Society
Deputy Sheriff Slain as Dispute Turns Fatal at Filling Station
Deputy F. J. Thompson, 68, was shot dead and his son George beaten during a dispute with transient Jimmie McGuire and Jack Southerland at a filling station near Norwood Missouri. Sheriff M. P. Claxton said McGuire and Southerland are under arrest, location withheld due to crowd fears. Several local residents and visitors are noted in unrelated travel mentions on the page.
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Norwood
F. J. Thompson
George
Jimmie McGuire
M. P. Claxton
Wright County
McGuire
Jack Southerland
Ham and Baked Beans Make Summer Dinners Satisfy
A summer friendly hot dish idea pairs baked ham with New England style beans. The recipe suggests parboiling ham with brown sugar and cloves, then baking with sugar and the skin on. Layer beans with salt pork and molasses in a bean pot, slow bake several hours, and serve from the pot. From Huyler's, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Huyler's
New York
Texas Longhorns Horns Recovered After Global Twenty Year Chase
Fort Worth reports E. Autry finally secured a prize pair of eight foot horns from a Texas Longhorn steer sought since 1915. The steer traveled from Dun Bar Ranch near the Mexican border to Florida Spain and a museum before Autry bought the mounted horns for his collection, after a $5 worldwide mail chase.
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Fort Worth
U.P
E. Autrey
Autry
San Antonio
Shell refinery workers return after union talks
East Chicago Indiana July 30 650 Shell Petroleum Company refinery workers who walked out last Wednesday returned to work at 10 o clock today. An agreement between union representatives and company officials was reached in conferences at St Louis over the weekend.
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SHELL
Chicago
Ind
Shell Petroleum Company
Oil Workers
St. Louis
Cotton Crop May Be Shortest Since 1894
The 1949 like forecast predicts a cotton crop of 9.454 million bales as of July 25, far below Bankhead limits and last year’s 13.01 million. Experts cite freakish weather and record low plantings across 30 years, with Texas output around 2.5 million bales. Doctors in France report injecting charred meat into veins to treat infections.
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New York
Benjamin Adler
Munds, Winslow & Potter
Adler
Texas
Catholics Pass Out Film Pledge Cards
Catholics distributed pledge cards of the Legion of Decency to Sacred Heart Cathedral parishioners. Bishop Robert Lucey urged reading signing and returning them, calling for a decency campaign in motion pictures and urging PTA involvement to curb indecent films.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Robert Lucey
Parent- Teacher Association
One Dairy Cow A Money Loser Says Dairy Study
A study by the Bureau of Dairy Industry in the Department of Agriculture finds that one dairy cow out of three is a money loser. The result underscores challenges in herd improvement programs across associations.
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Bureau of Dairy Industry
Department of Agriculture
Seek Hamilton in Kidnap Case
Police hunted escaped Texas desperado Raymond Hamilton after a reported kidnapping of Matt Matthews a Port Arthur storage worker. Matthews says a man matching Hamilton forced him at pistol point, the pair fled to a residence where a man and woman joined, and they released him in Nome.
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Houston
Raymond Hamilton
Texas
Matt Matthews
Port Arthur
Matthews
Hamilton
Pistol Point
Nome
Here
Lee Simmons
Job Inquiry for Domestic Work and Childcare
Reader seeks employment in house cleaning or childcare with hours that allow returning home at night. Experience noted. Address: 3112 West Eighth Avenue.
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West Eighth Avenue
Dear Tack Classified Snippet Recap
Multiple short notices request help or jobs. Names and addresses include Sami ean Nunn 3507 Polk Street Dear Tack provide farm dairy work references 1606 Monroe Street Dial 6571 Puppies offer five month females 854 North Jackson Street Dial 21828 Girl seeks housekeeping child care nursing 2306 North West Firat Avenue
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack
Monroe Street
Dial
North
Jackson Street
Kittens and Melon Tales From Dalhart and Weatherford
A Dalhart letter from Virginia Mae Bryant discusses nearby residents with kittens promised to others and a wish to move back to Amarillo. The note mentions milk for a small black and white kitten and a garbled memory of 1929 melon harvests, citing Henry Clark as a famed vine culture king and a huge melon.
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Amarillo
Virginia Mae Bryant
Peach Avenue
Dalhart
Texas
Weatherford
Henry Clark
Hammock Carried Item to Panhandle Fair
Carrol Johnson of Panhandle Texas described transporting an item to the county fair in a specially made hammock underlined by local pride and practical ingenuity.
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Carrol Johnson
Panhandle
Texas
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Stevens
Holdredge
Neb
F. G. Swain
Indianapolis
Gordon Gifford
Buchanan Street
Swain
Gifford
Carlsbad Cavern
E. M. Ratcliff
West
Nineteenth Avenue
New Mexico
Colorado
Johnny Forkner
Clarence Wismeyer
Creede, Colo
R. A. Duncan
Katharine Duncan
Gunnison
Colo
Oklahoma City
Okla
Tulsa
Sevite
Pullman
Rock Island Lines
H. W. Clutter
C.P
T.A
Mira Island
The
Legion of de
W. H. Ward
Luibbock
Broadmoor
Colorado Springs
Pikes Peak
Samijean Nunn
Polk Street
Marl
Tack Tam
Tam
Weat Firat Avenue
South Arthur Street
Seth Tum
Ohcin
Mastercraft Tailoring CO
Polk
Sherwin-Williams
A. L. Stanley
Mel
Miss Georgia
Engelhard
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