Insolvent Finance Firms Hit Small Town in Pa
In St Marys Pennsylvania authorities reveal three of the town’s finance firms are insolvent by about 3.7 million dollars with 670 investors facing possible losses of lifetimes savings. Arrests for fraud have been made or anticipated as investigators tie the collapse to Industrial Finance Co Industrial Discount Co Elk Consumer Discount Co and a holding organization led by George Rupprecht. St Mary’s Finance Co remains weaker but may see losses of about 50 cents on the dollar.
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ST. Mary’s
Elk County
Clarence J. Arnold
Raymond Rupprecht
A. J. Rupprecht
Raymond
A. J
George
George Rupprecht
Carl J. Gerg
Gerg
State Banking Department
Industrial Finance Co
Industrial Discount Co
Elk Consumer Discount Co
Industrial Finance
St. Mary’s Finance Co
Conservation Conversation on Winter Bird Feeding Practices
Lawrence H. Pratt urges regular winter bird feeding and guides Sunderland district to provide safe diets for songbirds. Advice covers timing after snow, affordable feeds, preferred foods, and the use of grit and suet cakes, linking bird care to soil and water conservation and reduced future pests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Sunderland
Mason and Dixon Observe Transit of Venus in Cape Town
In 1761 Mason and Dixon voyaged on the Seahorse to Cape Town to observe the Transit of Venus. They measured the sun Venus parallax, determined Cape Town longitude, and reported six distance measurements amid hazy skies.
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Mason and
Dixon
America
William Penn
George Calvert
Baron
Baltimore
Penn
Cape
Greenwich
Mason
England
Sumatra
Seahorse
Royal Society
Cape Town
Earl of Macclesfield
Mason and Dixon
Venus
Earth
Alice de la Gaille
Genetics Study May One Day Modify Heredity
Washington AP reports advances in human genetics may enable reversing radiation damage and correcting defective genes. Johns Hopkins biologist Dr. H Bentley Glass notes potential to control mutation, and Nobel laureate Dr Hermann J Muller cites sperm banks with frozen germ cells as a path to radiation resistant future offspring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Medicine At Work
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
H. Bentley Glass
Johns Hopkins University
Hermann J. Muller
Indiana
Muller
Teller urges strong civil defense and atmospheric nuclear tests
Dr. Edward Teller told an audience in Boston that about 90 percent of Americans could survive a atomic attack with a strong civil defense system. He warned Russia leads in lighter, more deliverable weapons and called for immediate testing and expanded mass shelters to deter nuclear aggression.
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Boston
U.S
Edward Teller
Teller
University of California
Paulist Fathers Catholic Information Center
Russia
United States
Red China Paper Criticizes Nehru Over Goa Invasion
Ta Kung Pao in Hong Kong assails Indian Prime Minister Nehru for India's Goa invasion. The Beijing paper stops short of condemning the act, framing it as an effort to restore prestige, highlighting a split with the Soviet Union over the incident.
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Hong Kong
Red
China
Nehru
India
Goa
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Peiping
Ta Kung Pao
Red China
FAA Chief Fined Fifty Dollars for Pilot Error
FAA Administrator N E Halaby was fined $50 after a brush with the wing tips of an airliner at Washington National Airport on November 9. Halaby accepted the disciplinary action, noting the incident as his only accident in 28 years of flying.
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FAA
Washington
Federal Aviation Agency
N. E. Halaby
Washington National Airport
Halaby
United Air Lines
Undersea Mountains Reported by Oceanographic Ship Chain
Woods Hole, Mass. AP reports the Chain found undersea mountains 6000 feet high, capped by mud up to 1.5 miles thick, using new echo sounding gear. The Chain returned after a four month, 10000 mile Mediterranean cruise. Dr. John B. Hersey noted ocean floor heights comparable to the White Mountains.
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Woods Hole
Mass
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Chain
Mediterranean
John B. Hersey
White Mountains
Man seeks fallout shelter building tips in Raleigh
In Raleigh the North Carolina Civil Defense office received a letter asking for shelter guidance. The writer wondered if a periscope should be placed atop the structure as part of fallout shelter design.
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Raleigh, N. C
North Carolina Civil Defense Office
Sounding reveals mud cover ranges in seas
Researchers measured return times of sound waves to the ship to map seabed mud. Dr Hersey noted mud cover varied from 2 percent in the mid Atlantic to about 0.5 kilometers in the Mediterranean, indicating substantial regional differences.
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New Hampshire
Hersey
mid-Atlantic
Mediterranean
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Frank Jacobs
Princess Margaret
Viscount Lindley
London
Prince
David Albert Charles
Lawrence H. Pratt
Pitt Surveyors
South Africa
Charles Mason
Jeremiah Dix
V &V
Vogue & Vanity Hotel
Putnam Bldg
Bennington, Vt
Dr. Teller
Dragon
Wee
Cere Dragon's Shoes
Dial Bennington
Burlington Savings Bank
Mutual Savings Bank
Burlington, Vermont
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Sil
Awe
Economy Auto Stores
Inc
Zenith
E.T. Williams
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