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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1957
Page
23
Dayton Ohio—The Air Material Command at Wright Patterson AFB announced on Monday the award of a $12,337,920 contract to General Motors Corp Allison Division Indianapolis for J-71 turbo jet engines.
Secretary of State Dulles urged caution in disarmament talks, saying it would be folly to dismantle free world defenses based on unsupervised Soviet promises. He warned that supervision is essential to keep any disarmament agreement safe as he opposed weakening military dispositions and noted congressional hurdles to Eisenhower's foreign aid plan.
Michael V. Swiercz a Philco Techrep communications engineer is slated for a summer assignment on a floating ice island in north polar waters as part of Project Ice Skate during the International Geophysical Year He will supervise a two way radio link between the island and the Alaskan Air Command headquarters in Anchorage and work with Air Force volunteers studying weather data.
Alexandria notes recount a July wedding plan for Judy Scott to Loyce Gaither. Judy is honored at multiple showers hosted by local women, with guest lists across Alexandria and nearby towns. Additional events include a kitchen shower for Joan Ann Flecker and a Kappa Delta Phi convention delegation set for Tampa, and a Virginia trip by local couples visiting Pvt. R. H. Dalton.
Funeral services for William FE Williams, an Alexandria businessman who died Sunday night in Kentucky, will be held at 2 p m at the Alexandria Church of God with Rev Clair Fiscus officiating. Burial will be in Park View Cemetery. Davis and Strider Funeral Home receiving friends. Also notes last rites for Mrs Martha Stafford Reed, former local teacher, who died Friday in Bloomfield New Jersey. She was sister to the late Charles Stafford of Alexandria. Salvation Army Bible School underway in Phillips Addition Building for children 3 through 18, 6:30 to 9 p m daily through June 14 with Bible instruction recreation and crafts.
John Hopkins University awarded an honorary doctor of science degree to Dr. Tracy M. Sonneborn, professor of Zoology at Indiana University, during a Tuesday ceremony in Bloomington Indiana.
In Chicago, nearly half of pedestrian fatalities occur away from regular crosswalks, highlighting danger zones outside marked crossings and the need for stricter traffic safety measures and road design interventions.
The Sudan Government awarded a consortium of German firms a five million dollar contract to excavate 83 miles of canal in Blue Nile Province. US-sourced equipment will be used. this marks the first phase of the Managil project, a forty million dollar effort to irrigate a large cotton-growing area.
The article notes that land areas globally average about 40 people per square mile, with some regions far more densely populated and others much less.
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