Match Box Radios and Transistors Signal New Era
New York July 14 The inventor de Forest predicts pocket size radio and miniature television sets as transistors debut at RCA with high frequency operation. RCA reports transistors oscillating in 100 to 225 megacycles, promising lighter radios and cheaper TV sets while noting potential military uses.
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Lee Dell Forest
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Radio-Electronics
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Red Flash UN's Army Wiped Out
Tokyo July 1 The Red high command claims the Communists wiped out the United Nations army and air force three times in Korea’s second year. A special war anniversary communique says 325,000 UN troops killed wounded or captured since June 26 1951. It lists 3 692 UN aircraft shot down, 2 230 Allied planes damaged, 912 tanks captured or destroyed, 517 artillery pieces, 84 ships sank or damaged, and 128 smaller craft. The casualty list includes 185 885 South Koreans 123 995 Americans 7 445 British and others.
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Red High Command
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U S Farm Prices Show Slight Drop
Prices received by farmers fell one third of one per cent for the month ended June 15 and farm living costs rose about one per cent. A beef and meat prices decline, dairy products, grains, and several truck crops weighed on the index, though gains in fruits and other crops offered partial offset. The overall index sits at 226 percent of the 1910-14 average.
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Agriculture Departments
New Head Named For A&M Math Department
Station Texas July 1 Dr BH C Klippie named head of mathematics department of Texas A and M College effective September 1 He succeeds W L Porter department head since 1932 Klippie has served on the college faculty since 1935 Porter joined the college in 1918
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Texas A and M College
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Porter
Britain Claims Atomic Progress
London reports say Britain's first atomic explosion is expected in August and could outpace allies, with scientists asserting Britain has long been capable of producing atom bombs, potentially surpassing the United States in atomic research despite critics and vast American resources.
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Mexico Prepares Military Backstop for Election Violence
Mexico City July 22 The Mexican army readied tanks and heavy weaponry as a precaution during the final week of the turbulent election campaign. Some 60,000 troops were pledged to guarantee a peaceful, democratic vote on July 6 with orders to enforce a peace pact. Authorities note repeated outbreaks have already left at least 20 dead this year.
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Defense Ministry
Flying Tigers Establish Scholarship for Orphan Son
St Louis July 18 The first annual university scholarship for sons of Flying Tiger members killed in action will be presented to seven year old Hershel Lee Gather of Tulsa Oklahoma Friday by Maj Gen Claire Chennault wartime commander of American airmen in China The event accompanies the 14th Air Force Association convention and includes gifts for Hershel such as a bicycle train set a cowboy outfit and a baseball signed by Joe DiMaggio.
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Baker Opens Campaign HQ in Houston
Robert W. Baker candidate for State Representative Position 4 opens headquarters at 505 Melrose Building Houston. He bases his campaign on economy in government and says he will be available at six times to answer questions about government and registration.
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Georgia Taft Faction Wins GOP Support in Georgia
Georgia Republicans declared a faction the legal GOP party on July 1, backing Dwight D. Eisenhower supporters over an alternative group. Superior Court Judge Chester urged unity to build a stronger party in the state.
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Rials
London Heat Wave Sees 79 Degree Dawn
Londoners faced a blistering heat wave as temperatures rose to 79 degrees by Monday, with the previous night the hottest dawn in three years at 68 degrees. Crowds sought relief, and many took to sleeping in parks to beat the heat.
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Pinay pushes European unity to save peace in Europe
Paris July 1 Premier Antonine Pinay calls for a European unity as the surest path to peace, rejecting reliance on arms alone. He urges the constituent assembly to back a European organization, notes rearmament cannot suffice, and signals unease over Russia talks in the four power parley.
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Antonine Pinay
Baytown Scouts Nominated for Sweden Trip
East Harris Chairman W J Strickler announced that Baytown Boy Scouts were recommended for a two week Sweden trip in October. Three Baytown scouts Robert Holsomback William Simmons and an alternate from Sam Houston Area council were named for the national scout officials review with a chance to be guests in Sweden.
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Gulf Offshore Well Planned Off Galveston Coast
Texas Eastern Production Corp plans to drill a new offshore well seven and a half miles off Galveston Island in the Gulf of Mexico. President HH Hemphill hopes the well will prove natural gas reserves large enough to justify building an offshore pipeline to market the gas. The well is to reach about 6,000 feet depth on the company’s lease roughly 20 miles southwest of Galveston.
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Gulf of Mexico
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