Contending Moons Debate Moon’s Hot and Cool Origins
SPACE CENTER Houston UP I reporters probe two rival theories of the moon’s origin the hot moon linked to volcanic activity and the cool moon as dried up maria. Nobel laureate Harold Urey and geologist Eugene Shoemaker lead opposing camps, weighing seismic data mascons and lava flows against possible water erosion in a debate shaping lunar history.
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Sea of Tranquillity
Prof
Harold Urey
University of California At San Diego
Urey
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Moon
Eugene Shoemaker
NASA
Shoemaker
Lunar
Cook County Electric Chair Seeks New Home
Chicago dispatch reports the historic county electric chair, used since 1930 to execute 67 people, will be transferred from the Cook County Jail to Stateville prison Joliet as 14 death row inmates move under a new state law. Officials note several parties requested the chair including museums and a bar idea.
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Chicago
UPI
Cook County
Joseph Woods
Stateville
Joliet
Cook County Board
Woods
James Dukes
Sheriff Woods
Fund to Aid Ailing Swedish Newspapers Passes
STOCKHOLM API The Swedish parliament approved a bill establishing a 125 million kroner fund to assist newspapers in financial distress. Borrowing from the fund will help papers facing closure continue publishing amid losses.
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Stockholm
API
Fat overweight all May's Drug Stores mail orders filled
Fat overweight all May's Drug Stores mail orders filled at 215 Second St 5.E.
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All May's Drug Stores
Second St. 5.E
Vista Groups To East Iowa
Vista volunteers were allocated across Iowa amid 56 of 450 statewide, aiding Community Action centers in Belle Plaine, Des Moines, Mason City, Waterloo and surrounding counties. Willard Hoing notes the north central region now doubled in size, with assignments to Benton Poweshiek Tama counties and Black Hawk Buchanan Ac on Corp in Waterloo, totaling 60 volunteers in Iowa.
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Iowa
Vista
Willard Hoing
Northcentral
Benton
Poweshiek and
Tama Counties
Black Hawk
Buchanan Acon Corp
Waterloo
You Can Win City Hall Fight By Dick Blystone
A review of small victories in city governance shows Birmingham with a large housing refund, Salem residents gaining a winter-removable footbridge for 250, and Lansing mayor launching free kid programs and youth employment services. The piece notes Oregon students using Sherman antitrust to break a tavern boycott.
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City Hall
Birmingham
Oldsters
New Bridge
Salem
Lansing
District Housing Authority
Ala
Treasury
Authority
J. Frank Trucks
George Seibels
Housing Authority
Ore
W. R. Caton
Capital Journal
Gerald Graves
Mich
Oregon
Law student theses charges against Oregon group over keg license
Harry Evans, a University of Oregon law student, mailed a thesis after distributors in Eugene required a $5 one day license to buy a keg. Federal officials investigated and charged the Oregon Restaurant and Beverage Assn. and two officers for unreasonable restraint of trade. They were convicted for boycotting beer distributors selling kegs to the public. Columbus plans a $50,000 morale project for sanitation workers with shower and locker rooms. Nashville voters repeal the $15 annual auto registration fee. costs for utilities and groceries rise.
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Harry Evans
University of Oregon
Eugene
Ore
Oregon Restaurant and Beverage Assn
Columbus
Ohio
Nashville
Tenn
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