Tornado safety basics in question and answer form
Austin reports a two part feature on tornado knowledge. The first article explains where tornadoes occur how often they strike how to recognize them what weather signals precede them typical travel paths and speeds and the destructive forces involved with examples of wind and pressure effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Weather Bureau
United States
Midwestern
Central States
Kansas
Nevada
Houston Banker To Aid Boy Scout Building Fund Drive
Howard Tellepsen named Des Simpson vice-chairman of the 14 county campaign for an $800,000 Boy Scout building fund in the Houston Area Council. The drive funds camping training and service with new camps at Grand Lake Conroe El Rancho Cims Wimberly Camp Hudson and a Service Center. Advisory board features J Abercrombie Jesse H Jones Hines Baker J A Elkins Gus Wortham and FM Law Maurice Lazarus leads publicity and L H Allen heads the finance committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard ‘T.’ Tellepsen
Boy Scout Building Fund
Des Simpson
National Bank of Commerce
Houston
Simpson
Sara Houston
Grand Lake
Conroe
el Rancho Cims
Wimberly
Camp Hudson
Southwest
J. 5. Abercrombie
Jesse H. Jones
Hines Baker
J. A. Elkins
Gus Wortham
FM. Law
Maurice
Lazarus
L. H. Allen
New Medical Capsule Uses Radioactive Iodine
New York reports a breakthrough in thyroid diagnosis with atomic pills. Ordinary gelatin capsules conceal radioactive iodine, swallowed with water to identify thyroid disorders. The method promises simpler testing and earlier detection in clinical settings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Industrial and architectural innovations in early 20th century manufacturing
United Press notes iodine thyroid detectors and radioactive capsules from Abbott Laboratories, plus Foot-Kase skid resistant mats by United States Rubber Co for long feet standing work. It also highlights porcelain enamel smokestacks and exterior coatings from Seaporcel Metals for buildings, chimneys, and jet exhaust systems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbott Laboratories
Chicago
Seaporcel Metals, Inc
New York City
Cig-a-Rid Tablet Promises Quick Tobacco Freedom
An unsolicited advertisement touts Cig-a-Rid tablets as a medical breakthrough to break smoking in ten days. It claims high success, health benefits, and a money back guarantee, urging readers to order for $3 postpaid from the Cig A Rid Co in Knoxville Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reader’s Digest
Time
Tobaccco
Ciga-Rid CO
Knoxville
Tenn
Adv
Duval Jury Meets Today in San Diego Texas
The Duval county grand jury meets at 2 pm with under two weeks left in its term. It probes public funds use and has not issued a public report or indicted anyone. A new term of the 79th District Court starts April 5, with a new land jury to be sworn in.
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San Diego
Tex
Duval County
Grand Jury
John Ben Shepperd
79Th District Court
Shepperd
South Texas
George B. Parr
79Th District
Woodrow Laughlin
Texas Supreme Court
Laughlin
Texans Named Among Korean War Missing In Action
The Army released a list of missing in action personnel in Korea now presumed dead. Among those named are Texans Alfred G. Bensinger Jr and Edward M. Bowen. The list also includes service members from Arkansas Kansas Missouri Oklahoma and Texas as families await official word. The report notes the United States occupies about 38 percent of the world’s land areas.
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Washington
Korea
Arkansas
J. Kimbrough
Margaret Kimbrough
East
St. North Little Rock
Kansas
Wayne Minard
Ira
Minard
Benton
Missouri
Ralph FE. Hawkins
Rebecca M. Hawkins
Clinton
Oklahoma
Alfred G. Bensinger Jr
Veda C. Clayton
el Réno
Texas
Fred Beddingfield
Hassie B Beddingfield
Windom
Edward M. Bowen
Dorothy C. Bowen
Traan
United States
Buckshot Kratky shines in Pioneer Roundup show
Albert Buckshot Kratky of Crosby appeared in the Philo-Esquire program at the annual Pioneer Roundup hosted by Sam Houston state teachers college in Huntaville. The Prairie Sectooner chorus show features campus clubs and highlights Kratky, a freshman physical education major, 1953 Crosby High School graduate and former football captain with Student Council ties and track award.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert
Buckshot" Kratky
Crosby
Sam Houston State Teachers College
Huntaville
Buckshotts
Joe Kratky
Crosby High School
Heals
Papers of Garfield's Son Given to U S Library of Congress
The papers of Harry A. Garfield, son of President Garfield and former Williams College president, were presented to the Library of Congress. The collection spans 1854 to 1942 and includes 58,000 items such as correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, and photographs. It covers Garfield’s boyhood, college days, Williams College presidency, and brief World War I duty with the U S Fuel Administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harry A. Garfield
Williams College
James A. Garfield
Library of Congress
Isis
Garfield
U. S. Fuel Administration
Peeping Tom Arrested in Meriden Conn
MERIDEN Conn March 29 UP Gordon A Sanderson of East Hampton Conn was arrested here Sunday and charged with acting as a peeping Tom He told police he planned to move into the neighborhood and just wanted to see if his neighbors were quiet decent people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meriden, Conn
Gordon A. Sanderson
East Hampton
Conn
Sanderson
Second Arrest in Toledo Hit-Run Case
Patrolman Richard Chisholm arrested James Nolan again after a prior hit run arrest two weeks earlier. Nolan faces drunken driving charges after allegedly running a red light and crashing into the officer’s auto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Ohio
Richard Chisholm
James Nolan
Nolan
Au‘o
Rural electrification expert touts cheap delayed-action fuses
A University of Illinois specialist argues delayed-action fuses cost only a few cents more than regulars and prevent blown fuses and fires during cold weather storage of electric motors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Illinois
Radioactive H-Bomb Dust Reaches Russia Says Scientist
Washington report quotes Weather Bureau specialist Fred White stating that radioactive fallout from the Bikini hydrogen test likely reached Russia and may circumnavigate the globe. He explains upper wind patterns from the Marshall Islands and notes the plume would lose most radioactivity as it drifted toward North America and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephe L. Myler
Washington
Upp
Bikini
Russia
Fred White
Weather Bureau
Marshall Islands
White
United States
Burglary Suspect Caught Digging Out With Spoon
Jackson police say James C. Smith, a burglary suspect, was caught trying to dig his way out of the city jail Sunday using a tablespoon. He was discovered during the escape attempt and taken into custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
James C. Smith
Eily
Offivers
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United Press
United States Flubber Co
Tobbaco
Matheme
Axe
Duval
Albert Kratky
U.S
Peeping Tom
William Pointer
Matilda
Joseph
Detroit
William
Capt
William CG. Pointer
Tennessee
International
Roswell B. Per King
Richard P. Feynman
California Institute of Technology
Albert Hinstein
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Institute For Advanced Study
Feynman
Joe Adonis
New Jersey
Joseph Doto
Senate Crime Probera
Italy
Passaic
N. J
Tole Committee
Atantic
Europe
Kovar Appliance Co
UQUID
N. Alexander Drive
Openoja
SPM
Hollaway
Duncan's Maryland Club
Frederick
Cello
Golden Bantam
Bermuda
Lks
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