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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1950
Page
16
94 year old Yukio Ozaki arrives in Washington to promote better US Japan ties and urge a moral alliance. He warns against Communist expansion and stresses US naval, military support for Japan while seeking peaceful relations and democracy preservation.
A $3,000,000 fire destroyed Haven Hall at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Flames swept the top floor of the four story building after classes ended, forcing several hundred people to evacuate. One firefighter was hospitalized and four students suffered minor injuries after a three hour battle.
A blaze gutted a building housing one of the nation’s largest government book collections, 33 000 volumes mostly irreplaceable. Robert P. Briggs valued the loss at 3 million dollars. About 200 students joined city firefighters, praised by Fire Commissioner Roland Schmid as heroes for preventing spread to a nearby structure.
A United Press experiment in New York compared two housewives, one with multiple labor saving devices and eight rooms, the other with only a washing machine. The appliance owner logged 36 hours 40 minutes of housework and walked 15.9 miles plus 28.6 miles by car, while the other logged 44 hours 50 minutes and walked 18.75 miles. Both tracked a 50-hour weekly average. both were content with their lot, though the refrigerator starved for size prompted more corner store trips.
Geology students at North Texas State College study large fossil remains uncovered near Denton. Dr. Walter Hansen says the elephant likely died about 20 000 years ago and was buried at that time.
In 1896 Guglielmo Marconi secured his initial English patent for wireless telegraphy, marking a pivotal milestone in the development of long-range radio communication.
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