Allot 42 500 For Study To Lengthen Life
A Rockefeller Foundation grant of 42 500 dollars will fund a six year Cornell study on lengthening life in men and animals. Led by Drs Maynard McCay and Asdell, the project links diet to aging, aiming to extend the useful life span by delaying senescence in both humans and domestic animals.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Rockefeller Foundation
Livingston Farrand
Cornell University
Cornell
New York State College of Agriculture
L. A. Maynard
C. M. McCay
S. A. Asdell
Linn Spelling Contest Set For Saturday At Courthouse
Linn county holds its annual written and oral spelling contest Saturday at 10 30 a m in the courthouse as part of the rural teachers study center. Each rural school may enter one contestant and town schools two. The county children chorus will rehearse at 10 a m in the west courtroom before the event led by Dorothy Schenken and Ellyn McGowan.
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Linn County
Dorothy Schenken
Ellyn McGowan
Lulu B. Secrist
Mary Louise Sloan
Three PWA Workers Die in La Salle Cave-In
A cave-in at a 15 foot excavation for the La Salle-Peru township high school addition in La Salle Illinois killed three PWA workers. Names: Peter Compo Frank Just and Steve Urech. Edward Schloesser was buried but rescued. The project cost 450000 with Pete Andersen Construction Co of Chicago as contractor. Thirty workers were on site.
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LA Salle, Ill
PWA
la Salle
Peru Township
Peter Compo
Chicago
Frank Just
Peru
Steve Urech
Edward Schloesser
Schloesser
John Schloesser
Edward
Here
Pete Andersen Construction Company
Man held after alleged bus shooting near San Luis Obispo
Merle L. Smith, 50, was detained in the county psychopathic ward after allegedly firing on a school bus with 40 riders en route from San Miguel to Paso Robles. Several shots hit the bus but no injuries were reported among the passengers.
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San Luis Obispo
Calif
Merle L. Smith
San Miguel
Paso Robles
Charge Child Died After Rejection By Public Hospital
Winston Salem authorities open inquiry into allegations that 5 year old Hazell Grimes was refused admittance to City Memorial hospital for pneumonia because the father could not pay a week's advance. The hospital superintendent said the rule required prepayment and the father believed an emergency existed. The child died shortly after the denial.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
Board of Aldermen’s Hospital
City Memorial Hospital
W. T. Wilson
Hazell Grimes
James L. Grimes
J. B. Whittington
Grimes
Iowa City to Seek U S Aid for Airport Improvements
Iowa City officials discussed appealing to the federal government for funds to extend the airport runway and install lighting and fencing after Frew A. Tucker planted a 24 foot pole near the north-south runway. Mayor Martin estimated costs at about 1200 dollars to surface the runway mark lights and erect fencing. The pole prompted United Air Lines to halt landings two weeks earlier.
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Iowa City
INS
A. Tucker
Thomas E. Martin
United Air Lines
Tucker
1000-Year-Old Skye Butter Keg Resurfaces Fresh
A keg of butter buried under peat for a millennium in the Isle of Skye emerged unchanged and still fresh. The find astonishes medieval food storage lore and raises questions about the butter’s preservation.
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Isle of Skye
Iowa City Power Co. To Have New Manager
Ottumwa AP management shakeups involve Iowa City Ottumwa La Porte Ind and Kansas City. Roscoe E. Taylor will move from Ottumwa Gas to Iowa Light and Power as vice president and general manager around May 1. He succeeds Joseph R. Porter Jr. moving to Kansas City Power and Light as sales vice president. George G. Holmes will join Ottumwa as general manager from La Porte Gas and Electric. All firms are United Light and Power subsidiaries.
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Ottumwa (Ap
Ottumwa
Iowa City
la Porte
Ind
Kansas City
Roscoe E. Taylor
Ottumwa Gas Company
Iowa Light and Power Company
Taylor
Joseph R. Porter, Jr
Kansas City Power and Light Company
Funeral services for Louise Schneider in Lowden
Funeral services for 91 year old Louise Schneider of Massillon will be held at 2 p m Friday in Zion Evangelical church Lowden which she helped organize nearly 75 years ago and which was once located in a grove near her first farm home Rev F J Abele will conduct the service and burial will be in Lowden cemetery
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Lowden
Louise Schneider
Massillon
Zion Evangelical Church
Here
F. J. Abele
$10 000 Suit Seeks Damages Over Dog Named Trouble
In Milwaukee AP report Miss Adelaide Koetting 65 sues the dog's owners for $10,000 after a frisky wirehaired fox terrier named Trouble allegedly caused her to fall in a park on August 13 1933 fracturing her right leg and pelvis forcing crutch use she was previously a department store lace buyer.
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Milwaukee
Adelaide Koet
Ting
Miss Koetting
Television Engineer Killed by Charged Condenser in Lab
New York report states NBC television experiment station chief engineer Harry E. Lawrence died when a charged condenser delivered a fatal electric shock. Voltage estimated 2000 to 5000, shoes torn off by the discharge. Energy remained in the condenser despite power shutdown. RCA engineers from Camden, New Jersey had been assisting.
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New York
Harry E. Lawrence
Television Experimental Laboratory
National Broadcasting Company
Lawrence
T. J. Buzalski
RCA Manufacturing Corporation
Camden
N. J
Planned Installation In Empire State and RCA Buildings
Construction notes indicate equipment is being manufactured for later installation in the Empire State and RCA buildings.
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Empire State
RCA
Pope Leads Maundy Thursday Mass in Sistine Chapel
Tolling bells and organ music opened Holy Thursday services as Pope Pius XII and 18 cardinals attended a morning mass in the Sistine Chapel. Cardinal Pignatelli Di Belmonte presided the service while the pope sat behind a screen.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius
Sistine Chapel
Cardinal Pignatelli di Belmonte
Sacred College
Holy Father
Marriage Licenses for Springville Pair and Two From Iowa
W H McCammant and Laura Bunting of Springville obtain a marriage license. Howard E Stroud of Iowa City and Genevieve Johnson of Minneapolis Minn also secure a license.
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W. H. McCammant
Laura Bunting
Springville
Howard E. Stroud
Iowa City
Genevieve Johnson
Minneapolis, Minn
Brandon Methodist Family Night Draws Large Attendance
A large crowd attended family night at Brandon Methodist Church with Dr. W G Rowley of Mount Vernon speaking on Fireside Altars. Families marked at one hundred percent include Mrs Anna Jameison, Mrs Isabel Egeton, H R Aldermann, Albert Gates, L J Halstead, and Mr and Mrs Utoff. Two families tied for largest attendance: Mrs Rouse with four children and Mr and Mrs Utoff with three children.
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Brandon
Brandon Methodist Church
W. G. Rowley
Mount Vernon
Anna Jameison
Isabel Egeton
H. R. Aldermann
Albert Gates
L. J. Halstead
Utoff
Rouse
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