All-Iowa Fair Program Diversified for 1952 Eight-Day Run
The All-Iowa fair announces an eight day program August 10 to 17 at Hawkeye Downs featuring the Joie Chitwood Auto Daredevil show with balloonist Eddie Allen, a premiere revue, and a varied schedule including midget auto races, a 100 mile stock car race, a Midwest Championship rodeo, and a large parade of livestock shows and farm exhibits. Top rodeo talent, the Valkyries act, and WMTs 30th anniversary stage show are planned with AAA sanctioned races closing the event.
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Andy Hanson
Eddie Allen
Allen
Aut Swenson
Chitwood
Numrs
George Stichka
Seneca
Neb
United States
Stichka
Valkyries
WMT
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Cadets
Talking Parrot Scares Prowlers Near House
In Pasadena California a parrot named Mr Potter alarmed two prowlers by screaming Help Pappy help The owner William Pff heard noises in the yard and the prowlers fled leaving loot behind in their hurried exit The parrot’s cries alerted a resident to the break in and thwarted the crime
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Pasadena
Calif
Summer Session At Coe To Enter 5th Term Monday
Coe college will open its fifth summer session Monday with registration for 10 classes. Courses run three or four credits and include second semesters of social science, history and biology. New and replacement curricula and faculty changes are noted along with two remaining registration days in late July and early August.
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Coe College
George Layton
United States
Tion
Ruth Zika
Vernon E. Lichtenstein
Don E. Fehrenbacher
Alice Page
Edwin T. Settle
Jarvis Burrer
Coe
Insect Species Richness Estimates Shared
The text notes there may be more insect species on Earth than all other animals combined. About 800000 species are cataloged in museums, including roughly 250000 beetles.
Growth and degeneration at midlife described by Dr Brady Peak
Dr Brady Peak discusses Price’s Nutrition and Physical Degeneration noting ill health linked to modern diet after 30 to 45. He cites forest Indians’ rheumatic cases and explains degeneration as a gradual loss of function affecting the heart and legs, affecting athletic and reproductive fitness.
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Weston A. Price
Canada
Price
Water supply expansion in Great Lakes cities offshore pipes
Great Lakes cities such as Chicago and Duluth face a straightforward water supply challenge. They extend pipes two to eight miles offshore to withdraw lake water beyond polluted coastal zones.
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Great Lakes
Chicago
Duluth
Interdiction in Korea and Air War Outcomes
The article discusses interdiction as a wartime tactic for cutting enemy supply lines, tracing its roots to Civil War generals and contrasting old methods with modern air power. It cites Lt. Gen. Weyland on sorties and destruction figures, notes 231,485 enemy casualties and 12 air force aces, and mentions Gen. Ridgway's upcoming official visit to Britain.
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Phil Sheridan
Jeb Stuart
U.N
Otto P. Weyland
Far East Air Forces
Korea
Paris
Matthew B. Ridgway
Supreme Command
America
NATO
Britain
Navy pilots in Korea show record firepower versus WWII era
Navy leaders tout higher bomb and rocket tonnage and more ammunition used in the Korean conflict than in WWII. Yet the story notes a shift in equipment, as modern carrier airstrikes carry a much larger bombload than the heaviest WWII carrier planes, altering comparisons of effort and effectiveness.
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Navy
Korea
Carriers
U. S
Two Headaches Bother Italian Fascist Party
In Rome sources report rising activity and a rift within the neo Fascist Italian Social Movement which ranked third in elections. Leaders may call a national congress as discord grows over alliance with monarchists and plans to meet the government anti Fascist law slated to take effect soon.
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Rome
Italian Social Movement
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British Columbia
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Webster
Stedman’s
Lou Breuer
Breuer
Sheridan
Stuart
Ridgway
Italian Fascist Party
Satan of Fine
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