Broadcasters Join Army For Two Week Maneuvers Coverage
Six WLW WSAI WLWO staffers from Cincinnati join the U S Army for two weeks to cover the largest peacetime maneuvers. They broadcast from a mobile unit across Louisiana and Texas terrain, with on site transcriptions for WLW WSAI and WLWO programs. Mexican American listeners will hear Spanish broadcasts from Jorge Mayoral and Marsha Wheeler will present Consumers' Foundation segments.
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Ruston
WLW
WSAI
WLWO
Cincinnati
United States Army
Louisiana
Texas
James Cassidy
Marsha Wheeler
Consumers’ Foundation
Cadena Radio Inter-Americana
War Department
R. L. Tedford
J. B. Scott
Two Fifty-Lap Features at Greenfield Sept 13
The Midgetdrome at Greenfield Indiana schedules two fifty lap feature races for Saturday night September 13. Twenty eight fastest cars will qualify to race fourteen cars per fifty lap event. No advance admission price. Five thousand free seats available next Saturday night.
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Greenfield
Deadly Left Turn Warned By Indiana Motor Club
The Hoosier Motor Club warns drivers to perform left turns slowly and legally, citing 1940s tolls of 1,330 deaths and 91,080 injuries from improper left turns. It details proper technique, signaling, and the need to turn to the right of the center line, especially where signals or officers are absent, and notes ordinances restricting turns in congested areas.
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Hoosier
Todd Soops
Hoosier Motor Club
Indiana
Water Conservation Draws Big Attention at State Fair Exhibit
Thousands of visitors at the Indiana State Fair viewed the water conservation exhibit by the Division of Geology showing the need to protect underground and surface water. Farmers and rural residents shared drought impacts on wells and crops while urban residents noted potential municipal shortages this spring and summer.
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Division of Geology
Indianapolis
Sunday Socials Show Indiana Familiars Across Towns
Gwynneville residents visited friends in New Palestine and Indianapolis while others spent Sunday with relatives in Greenfield Shelbyville and Knightstown. Visits included the Wiry families from Riley park and Dunkirk, with several children and grandparents noted.
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C. E. Hurst
Bob
Maritta Kinsey
Indianapolis
Will Graham
Howard Haywood
Lavone Davis
Ola Haywood
Elmer Carlton
Riley Park
Greenfield
Fred Pollitt
Shelbyville
Carl VanSeyce
Rachel Sullivan
Ella Gunning
Stella Kemp
Esther Unger
Richard Springer
Knightstown
J. C. Springer and
James Smith
Earnestine Nigh
High-Speed Methods Take Toll in Livestock World
The American Foundation for Animal Health at Indianapolis reports modern speed methods damage livestock health. Vitamin deficiencies rise in cattle on dry lots and swine pushed to market. yellow corn loses vitamin A during storage, risking night and day blindness, swelling, and death without proper supplementation.
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American Foundation For Animal Health
Indianapolis
Foundation
Tree orders taken for spring planting
Orders for thousands of trees to be used in reforestation plantings on private land next spring were received by the Division of Forestry during the state fair at Indianapolis last week. More than five hundred application forms were distributed at the forestry building during the state fair.
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Division of Forestry
Indianapolis
Rising Student Health Tied to Modern Rail Food Distribution
The article notes that college students are taller than their parents due to better diets aided by modern refrigerated trains. It highlights abundant fruits vegetables and milk transported quickly from Florida Texas California to distant cities. It ends with a call for students to discuss rail transportation to return to school.
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Florida
Texas
California
Central
State Highway System Traffic Surges Across Rural Areas
James D. Adams reports an increase of nearly one million vehicle miles daily on the state highway system outside towns of over 3,500 population. Studies show about 838000 miles more traveled each day since 1937, totaling over three hundred million yearly. Ceilings on prices face Congress, yet growling costs from higher wages and farm prices threaten to push costs upward beyond control.
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Highway Planning Survey
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Jorge Mayoral
Cecil K. Carmichael
J. D. Shouse
Crosley Corp
Carmichael
Washington
Cecil Carmichael
Greerfield
Tun
Meas
Coca-Cola Bottlang CO
Tom Sapp
Pearl Bell
Westland
Jersey
Guernsey
Loraine
Victor Victrola
Thomas Mullery
Rosscovelt
Francis Biddle
Robert H. Jackson
Supreme Court
Gwynneville
Charles Irvine
New Palestine
Ed Post
H. G. Laird
Carthage
New York
Hunt
Ivory Soap
James D. Adams
The
State Highway Commission
Tom Sapp and
Rex Sexson
Walter Miller
My Farm
Westland High School
Ind
Hampshire
McCormick-Deering
Chevrolet
van Brunt
McCormick
Black Hawk
International
Fairbanks
Grover Kyser
Westland Ladies Guild
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