Longest Pontchartrain Causeway Nearing Completion
Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain causeway, a 23 mile overwater highway, advances toward September completion. Built to span bayous and lakes, it features two bascule openings for navigation and expansive expansion joints. The project, funded by a 448 million revenue bond, will connect Jefferson and St. Tammany parishes with six mobile safety units along the route.
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Lake’ Pontchartrain
Wayne F. Palmer
Louisiana
Lake Pontchartrain
English Channel
Dover
France
Lake Highway
Jefferson
St. ‘Ammany Parishes
Setomoby
Orleans
Mtaf
Hallow
Emergency Polio Vaccination Push In Chicago
Chicago health officials through Dr Herman Bunderen announce area hospitals will administer Salk polio vaccine to curb rising cases. State the goal to immunize children before peak polio season in August. Total cases reach 328 with 5 deaths, as 22 million city children have some immunity. Vaccine supply adequate but needles and syringes in short supply. Twenty new cases reported in West Side area. The narrative also notes unrelated siege tale about Yorktown cannonballs and Nelson.
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Chicago
Herman Bunderen
Board of Health
Buddesen
Worm learns memory in University of California study
Berkeley headlines report graduate student W J Coppack of the psychology department demonstrated that sand worms can learn and forget and then recall a learned response. In a controlled test he trained four worms to swim out of a tube to receive food after a cue and observed extinction and spontaneous recovery behaviors.
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Calif
University of California Graauate
W. J. Coppack
Ming
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