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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1946
Page
2
Washington columnist Frederick C. Othman laments a scarce supply of radio call letters in the United States. He notes existing constraints as 100,000 plus licensed stations push the alphabet to its limits with letters like K and W assigned across regions and historical remappings.
The piece amusingly tracks how radio stations in South America ignore official letters with flamboyant names like Radio Magnificent and Radio Superb. It suggests a Pullman car namer would also pick bold names such as Ulysses S. Grant or Saint Princess for stations, and recalls a maritime official who exhausted hero and donor names for liberty ships before choosing another, which ultimately sank at the dock.
Robert Butler 58 stroked his six foot rattlesnake one last time before Magistrate Vincent Kowalski ordered the animal destroyed for harboring a wild and vicious animal. Butler said he bought the snake from a Texas farm about 20 years ago and loves reptiles.
Reports from Lima say the Peru quake left about 500 dead with authorities fearing more as communications were restored. The hardest hit areas include La Libertad and Ancash in the Andes影响. Most victims were native Indians or Mestizos. Flooding blocked escape routes in some locales.
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