Marshall Students Try Foreign Language Classes At School
Fourth to sixth graders at the Marshall College Laboratory School participate in conversational Spanish lessons taught by Mrs. Frank Houston. The program uses an aural oral method with no textbooks or grades, emphasizing hearing and speaking over reading.
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Kathryn Thompson Huntington
W. Va
Buenos Dias
Marshall College Laboratory School
Frank Houston
Marshall
Houston
Doctor's Orders in Comics Highlight Alfred Land Ad
In the comics page Li'l Abner features a color advertisement for Alfred Land. The strip runs alongside the daily humor and mentions a medical theme in its caption.
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Pierce
Alfred Land
Great Wealth Hunted On Navajo Reservation
On the 16 million acre Navajo Reservation geologists search for mineral wealth beneath the rocky soil. University professors from Arizona and New Mexico participate as geologists work funded by the U S Bureau of Indian Affairs to locate undeveloped riches.
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Window Rock
Ariz
Navajo Reservation
Arizona
New Mexico
U. S. Bureau of Indian Af
Milk price changes trigger regional political backlash in Wisconsin
An Associated Press survey shows rural Wisconsin leaders oppose parity payments cuts by a wide margin, warning of a 95 million dollar annual income hit to the dairy economy. Steve Miller of Marshfield calls Benson's action a political kiss of death for Republicans. Local dairy farmer Gerald Binder supports flexible supports and warns of market pressure favoring efficient farms over the inefficient.
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Wisconsin
Benson
Associated Press
Steve Miller
Marshfeild
Midwest
Enson
Ilinois
Gerald Binder
Garden pest and fertilizer guidance for broccoli plants
The article advises using about 1 tablespoon of nitrate fertilizer per plant placed in a ground circle 3 inches from the stem, repeating with nitrogen fertilizer after two weeks. If nitrate is unavailable, use 1 quart of fresh poultry manure per plant about three weeks after setting. Weekly or every ten days, dust or spray with rotenone or methoxychlor to deter worms, and apply malathion if aphids or lice appear.
Fluorine Tamed to Yield Trillions of New Materials
Washington April 1 The poisonous gas fluorine once feared is described as tamed and ready to enable at least 1,000,000,000,000 new materials for civilization. Dr Joseph H Simons of the University of Florida notes fluorocarbons can duplicate hydrocarbons with fluorine replacing hydrogen and that a single fluoro carbon plastic already has over 1,000 uses.
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Washington
Office of Naval Research
Joseph H. Simons
University of Florida
Navy
Joe
Simons
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