Prouty Wins Senate Seat as GOP Faces Democratic Tide
Vermont’s Winston L. Prouty, 52, enters the Senate as a Republican amid a Democratic wave that swept Maine and Indiana. He faces questions over liberal or conservative labels while pledging to back defense, Lake Champlain studies, veto power over appropriations, and programs aiding small farmers and education.
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Washington
Maine
Indiana
Vermont
Winston L. Prouty
Senate
Prouty
House of Representatives
William H. Meyer
GOP
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Kenneth Keating
New York
Senator Prouty
Eisenhower
Lake Champlain
Newport, Vt
First Oil Well Drill near Titusville Marks 1859 Breakthrough
The piece recalls the 1859 Titusville discovery when Edwin Drake struck oil at 69 7/8 feet after drilling began on a Seneca Oil Company venture led by Drake. The event, once mocked as Drake's Folly, launched a new industrial era by supplying lamp fuel and lubrication for growing technology.
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Bissell
Titusville
Seneca Oil Company
Edwin L. Drake
Drake
Billy Smith
Citycide Aims to Ease Urban Traffic Clashes
Urban traffic woes grow as car numbers rise in cities like Los Angeles and Miami. Experts urge uniform night day signs and one way streets, curb parking, and better sign maintenance to cut crashes and keep traffic moving amid aging streets and limited funds.
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George Barton
Northwestern University Traffic Institute
Robert Petty
Purdue University
Joseph Nadon
el Paso
Tex
Richmond
Henry F. Gruber
Evansville
Ind
Salt Lake City
Utah
Des Moines
Fort Smith
Ark
Dayton
New Hampshire
Iowa
Samuel Friedel
Maryland
Congressional Highway Safety Subcommittee
Baltimore
Chicago
Lake Shore Drive
Los Angeles
Joseph Garcia, Jr
Tulare County
Calif
Garcia
Best-Loved Baseball Song Born During Subway Ride
Laguna Beach Calif Central Press Association reports that Take Me Out to the Ball Game was written in a New York subway in 1908 by Jack Norworth, who later gained fame for Shine On Harvest Moon. He recalls scribbling lyrics in 30 minutes and debuted the song in Brooklyn before it became a national hit. Norworth, age 80, later helped found Little League in Laguna Beach and received lifetime honors from the majors at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
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Central Press Association
Laguna Beach
Calif
New York
Jack Norworth
Polo Grounds
Cooperstown Baseball Museum
Norworth
Amphion Theater
Brooklyn
American Society of Composers and Publishers
ASCAP
Jack
Los Angeles Coliseum
Tonto National Forest A Giant Tree Free Range in Arizona
Arizona's Tonto National Forest spans three million acres from desert to high mountains, with only about ten percent treed. Supervisors guard a vital water shed that supports Salt River valley irrigation, while grazing limits protect soils and flood risk. The forest yields 3.5 million board feet of pine lumber annually and attracts over two million visitors.
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Central Press Association
Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
North America
Tonto National Forest
Connecticut
U. S. Forest
Salt River
Fred Leftwich
Tonto
Spain
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Newport
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Water Conservation Board
Congress
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Foreign Affairs Committee
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St. Lawrence
Winston Prouty
Esther Fleming
Central Press
America
Oil Creek
George Bissell
United States
Pittsburgh
Samuel Kier
Benjamin Sullivan
Yale
Aes
the Messenger
Miami
New York State
Texas
Oklahoma
Mamie Eisenhower
White House
American Cancer Society
Emery Lewis, Jr
Louisville
Donna Smith
West Bath
Vaughn
Hillsboro
Waco
la Rochelle
France
Roland Schmidt
Francine Pary
By Ralph Friedman
Robert Louis Stevenson
Harry Williams
Twenty-Sixth Street
Manhattan
Arizona’s
Rex Stanley
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