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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1956
Page
3
Ashley Carter and Dorothy Siegel faced a robber at a Miami laundry. The man asked them to fill a paper bag with cash, but the clerks opened two cash drawers showing emptiness. He apologized and left. the loot was in a third drawer.
Armour Research Foundation of IIT announces a European office to channel European research trends to American companies at a lower cost than hiring a researcher. Dr. Halden A. Leedy says the program will deliver up-to-date European R and D to participating firms, with four engineers staffing the initial office and sponsors drawn from four industrial groups. In Connecticut a woman learns she cannot enlist in the Women’s Army Corps until she is 18, then both she and her aunt are sworn in after a delay, and sent to Fort McClellan.
Esther Williams, Hollywood star and former water queen, says she is leaving swimming numbers for dramatic acting. She cites dangerous underwater stunts and recalls diving from a helicopter and swimming through cold Catalina caves. Williams signs with Universal International and plans outside films, a moisture balance makeup line, and ice rink pools, noting the career change is not tied to MGM’s profits.
Dray horses Duke and Don run for Bruce Cook Transfer in Billings and rarely get tickets as bells at traffic lights trigger immediate starts. Owner Art Sage, 59, notes the two-horse team can navigate alleys and snow better than trucks, though pranks and paper debris can spook them. Cook, 69, founded the business and uses the horses for around-town deliveries as a cheap, effective ad and work force, yet acknowledges the cost of progress.
Michigan State University poultry expert Don Miller advises farmers to cultivate a henhouse manner to boost egg yields. He suggests talking softly to the birds and knocking before entering to alert them of arrival.
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