Horse and Mule Population Slumps Across Farms
Census figures show a 45 percent drop in horses and mules on farms from 1950 to 1954, with total head at 4,141,248 against 7,603,910 in 1950. The decline follows earlier losses dating to 1910 for horses and 1925 for mules, with Otter Tail County dropping from 10th to 53rd and six Southern states still using quadrupeds, plus Arizona and New Mexico in the Far West.
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Washington P
Dobbin
Maude
Census Bureau
Dobbins
Maudes
Otter Tail County
Minn
Mississippi
North Carolina
Tennessee
Louisiana
Alabama
South Carolina
Arizona
New Mexico
Scientists dispute age of skull in Neanderthal claim
In Düsseldorf, leading scientists debated German professor Eduard Jacobshagen's claim that a creek-find skull from Rhaenda is a 120,000 year old Neanderthal woman. Rom ean figure Sergio Sergi and others questioned the identification while a fluorite test to date the skull was proposed, with results to be conducted by Dr. I. P. Oakley of the British Museum.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
Rhaenda
West Germany
International Congress of Anthropologists
Eduard Jacobshagen
Marburg University
Marburg
I. P. Oakley
British Museum
London
Jacobshagen
Oakley
Bank Teller Charged In Morgantown Shortage Case
FBI in Pittsburgh began a formal inquiry into a bank shortage involving First National Bank of Morgantown West Virginia. Robert Dredge 27 a Mt. Morris resident and part time Methodist minister was arrested on fraudulant pretense charges. He allegedly withdrew about 17000 to 21000 dollars from several accounts over two years to cover home expenses and aid others. Dredge served as teller twenty years and later as assistant pastor at Morgantown Methodist Church. He was jailed in Greene County awaiting grand jury action.
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Waynesburg
Par
FBI
J. Gordon Shanklin
Pittsburgh
Robert Dredge
Mt. Morris
First National Bank of
Morgantown
W. Va
Drodge
Greene County
Ray Fisher
Tom Boyd
Fisher
W.F. Snowden
Morris
Boyd
Dredge
Morgantown Methodist Church
Scout Day Set At State Fair
Officials of the Indiana State Fair announce Scout Day for Thursday August 30 Cub Scouts Boy Scouts and Explorers with unit leaders are guests of the fair Admission is free for in uniform or with current registration card Scouts assemble at Radio Center building east of grandstand at 12 30 p m and march to the grandstand for a scout ceremony before the Grand Ole Opry Show at 1 30 p m
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Indiana State Fair Board
Radio Center
Grandstand
Teacher Finishes Driver Education Training at Indiana University
Charles B Renneisen of St Marys High School joins 23 other high school teachers in a two week driver training education course at Indiana University funded by a $5000 Allstate Foundation grant. The program trains teachers to impart highway safety and practical driving skills to students this year.
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Charles B. Renneisen
St. Mary's High School
Indiana University
Allstate Foundation
Rotary Club Meeting at Noon Today
The Rotary Club will meet at noon today at the YMCA for a regular weekly session. Harold Laib is program chairman and J L Dye will preside.
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Rotary Club
YMCA
Harold Laib
J. L. Dye
Terre Haute Tribune names new editor in Cox promotion
Terre Haute Indiana aging editor Marsee A. Cox was named Sunday editor of the Terre Haute Tribune succeeding William F. Cronin who retired due to ill health. Cox will hold both titles with Robert M. Nesbit taking on added duties as assistant editor after becoming city editor last December.
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Terre Haute, Ind
Marsee A. Cox
Terre Haute Tribune
William F. Cronin
Cox
Robert M. Nesbit
Death Mystery Deepens After Paducah Bombing
Hollow Rock Tennessee autopsy on Reuben Crews, 38, failed to reveal death cause. Crews, a suitor of band leader Vivian Chaudet's third wife, was found dead Sunday in his home. chemical analysis of organs pending. Chaudet died in a Saturday car bomb explosion in Paducah, Kentucky, described by police as a grudge killing.
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Hollow Rock
Tenn. P
Vivian Chaudet
Paducah
Roy Douglas
Huntingdon
Reuben Crews
Charlie Field
Crews
Chaudet
Kentucky
Illinois
Douglas
Fields
Chaudit
Communist party sets Feb 9 12 1957 national convention in NYC
The Communist party of the United States announced its first national convention since 1950 will be held in New York during the weekend of February 9 through 12, 1957.
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New York
Communist Party of the United States
Railways Run Longest In Texas And Illinois
Texas leads 15 355 miles of railway tracks while Illinois has 11 385 miles in the 48 states reflecting the vast scale of their networks. The figures illustrate Texas and Illinois as the states with the largest total railway mileages.
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Texas
Illinois
Polio Toll Rises in Lafayette Area
Lafayette, Indiana reported its second polio death in four cases this year as Mrs. Gerald J. Booth, 22, died from bulbar polio a week after being placed in an iron lung. The first victim, Ritchie R. Crum, 21, died August 10.
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Lafayette
Ind
W — Tippecanoe County
Gerald J. Booth
Ritchie R. Crum
False alarms prompt juvenile detentions in Evansville
Evansville detectives took two 17 year olds into custody Sunday after they turned in a false fire alarm, the 13th in an hour. The youths were turned over to their parents pending juvenile court action.
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Evansville
Ind
Return of war assets to rightful owners debated in Senate
The article discusses Egypt’s stance on nationalization and links it to U S policy on returning wartime property. It notes a bill sponsored by Kilgore and Dirksen to restore war assets to foreign owners, after hearings where senators urged respect for private property rights.
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Sen
Kilgore
Everett Dirksen
Ilinois
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
America
Return of World War II assets in doubt amid delays
The Anderson Herald notes Sen Olin Johnson and other figures push for returning seized assets. It recalls WWI assets took 38 years to fully restore, with 800000 dollars still outstanding in 1956. Despite Kilgore Dirksen bill advance, House hearings delay action as WWII asset returns lag a decade after the war.
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South Carolina
Olin Johnson
America
R. L. Hruska
R-Neb
Homer Capehart
R-Ind
William Langer
R-N.d
Senate Judiciary Committee
Kilgore- Dirksen
House
Congress
Pri
Idea Home of the Year Featured by Better Homes & Gardens
Readers are invited to visit the community or nearby area to tour the idea home of the year pictured by September Better Homes & Gardens. The issue lists the home location and availability, with copies selling wherever magazines are sold.
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Better Homes & Gardens
Idea Home of the
Idea
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