Rain-Maker Sees Great Future For It Could Avert Forest Fires
Scientist J Schaefer of General Electric proposes cloud seeding with dry ice to prevent forest fires and damaging hailstorms. He claims 76 percent of northwest fires are human‑started and argues that discarding thick clouds early could reduce storms. He urges insurers and farmers to record cloud types to build prevention data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Schaefer
General Electric
Schenectady
New York
Scheefer
Schaefer
Duster Tickles Tree Tops Oldster Still Has Flying Time
Harlingen feature profiles Pep Bloss a crop duster pilot born in 1900 who began flying in 1924. He claims about 19 000 hours in the air, a dog bite injury from a forced landing his days start at 3 30 am and he flies until mid morning with winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlingen
Pop Bloss
Gent
Mar. Young
Pep
Gurtis
Valley Cities To Share Rio Water
Lower Rio Grande Valley water districts will pause pumping for 32 hours starting this afternoon to allow water to flow to Brownsville and Matamoros. Valley officials expect Mexico’s release from Marie Gomez reservoir to boost river flow downstream, aiding Texas towns as readings show variable flows along the Rio Grande.
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Welaco
Rio Grande Valley
Rio Grande
Brownsville
Biatamoros
B. Cramer
Valley Water Conservation Association
Broomsville
Matamoros
Cramer
Mexico
Marie Gomez
Phillips Gas Hearing Postponed by FPC
The Federal Power Commission postponed a Phillips Petroleum Company natural gas operations hearing from May 15 to June 26 at Bartlesville Odahome. The delay came at the company's request, according to the FPC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Power Commission
Bartlesville
Odahome
Phillips Petroleum Company
FPC
Laredo Plans Major International Exposition
Laredo Chamber of Commerce directors met with two New York promoters to finalize a month long international fair to be held at the Laredo Municipal Airport base and hangar. Webb County Judge M J Raymond said the county would underwrite the exposition as requested by local businessmen.
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Laredo
Chamber of Commerce
New York
Laredo Municipal
Webb County
M J. Raymond
Harold's Drive Innn Partners Form New Venture
Harold Bergeron and Robert Gomer form a partnership and buy Brown's Chicken Inn The Rough on Decker Drive at Market Street Intersection from Mr and Mrs W W Brown They operate under the Harold's Drive Inn name with no real estate change as PB H Mears and son D A Meers own the property The six year lease remains on current terms Clifford Mc Bord of Lee Bond Realty handled the sale and lease details were not announced
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Harold Bergeron
Bayshore Motor Company
Robert Gomer
Decker Drive
Market Street
W. W. Brown
Harold
D. A. Meers
Clifford Mc Bord
Lee Bond Realty Company
Easy Sowing Pattern Ad From The Baytown Sun
An advertisement touts No 2076 pattern with sizes 12 to 48, features crisp shoulder flanges, and wrap around design in material 35 inches wide with pockets. Orders accepted by mail from Pattern Bureau The Baytown Sun NY address. price 25 cents for pattern plus extreme postage. book of fashion offered for 20 cents.
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Baureau
The
Baytown Sun
Old Chesse Station
New York
WNYK
REA Loan to Boost Farm Telephones in Plantersville Reach
The Rural Electrification Administration approved a $25,000 loan to Nevada Telephone Company serving Nava sota Texas, the first Texan grant under the program to aid farm telephone service. The lender says 196 subscribers will gain service, the firm now serves 990 customers, and plans include a new dial unit, a building at Plantersville, and 25 miles of new lines.
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Washington
Nevasota Telephone Company
Navasota
Texas
Rurel Electrification Administration
REA
Plantersville
Houston Woman May Be GOP Committeewoman
Houston report says Mrs. Carl G. Stearns wife of a Houston attorney is believed to hold the inside track for selection as national committeewoman by the Republican State Executive Committee at its meeting in Houston. The vacancy came earlier this year from Lena Gay More’s resignation of Brownsville. An observer declined to be named but said the committee already had decided on Mrs Stearns.
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Houston
Carl G. Stearns
Republican State Executive Committee
Lena Gay ‘More
Browns Ville
Stearns
Man Accused in Jewel Robbery Denied Bond
Lester Bennett of Houston had bond denied after a habeas corpus hearing in Dallas on a $40,000 jewel robbery case. District Judge Henry King ordered Bennett remanded until trial with no date set. He is among three men linked to the February 17 home robbery of Mrs. W. W. Shortal, who identified him as the robber at the hearing.
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Dallas
Tedey
Lester Bennett
Houston
Henry King
Bennett
W. W. Shortal
Halliburton Reports Higher 1950 First Quarter Earnings
Duncan Oklahoma IPC Halliburton chairman Erle Halliburton announced Halliburton Co. of Well Cementing earned 1 853 531 dollars in the first quarter of 1950, about 1 268 dollars per share, versus 1 203 460 dollars or 99 cents a share a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duncan, Okla
Erle
Halliburton
Well” Cementing
Old World Map Named America Goes On Sale At Auction
A Waldseemüller world map that first named America will be auctioned in New York with bids above 50 000. The 1507 wood map, about nine and a half by fifteen inches, shaped like a boomerang, will be on display at Parke-Bernet from May 17.
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America
New York
Columbus
Martin Waldseemuller
Hifher
Ameriga
Vespucci
Wald- Seemuller
Africa
Europe
Waldseemuller
Franz Ritter von Hausleb
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Rio Water
Pop
Bloss
Phillips Gas
Jim Bond
Harold's Drive-Inn
GOP
Karger
Delmont Hotel
Wilma Soss
U.S. Steel
Hoboken
N. J
New Jersey
Aston H. Hayward
Walton
Am~erica
Sun
Morrison's
NORGE
Tee Ee
Morrison Furniture
Baytown
Galena Park
Clinton Drive
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