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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1954
Page
3
Consumers hold the key as stores brim with Christmas gifts and automakers forecast five and a half million buyers for new cars. Builders expect continued housing growth and easy credit boosts purchases. Merchants and officials anticipate a strong year end, with consumer spending deciding if the coming year stays buoyant.
In Roanoke Virginia Charlie Lee Dickerson aged 71 and Martha Shelton aged 70 wed in a ceremony completing a long engagement that began fifty two years earlier when Dickerson was nineteen and frightened by Shelton’s father. The couple had each been married before.
AEC officials in Tokyo said American scientists share concern over radioactive rain reports in Japan and the U S. They cited rain in Boston Cambridge Rochester and Troy and noted natural forces dissipate radioactivity with no health hazard. News agencies criticized conference secrecy and public access.
The piece recalls Edgar A. Guest who arrived as a ragamuffin with dirty hands and a grimy face yet possessed a captivating grin. After bathing and a nurse check he proves healthy and earns gym access and honors as he grows under care.
Lt. Charles C. Anderson testified at a Camp Gordon court martial that his company Co A was slovenly when he took command on Oct 11 and that he ordered tough disciplinary measures. He described ordering strenuous exercises and described scenes of harsh treatment as necessary to restore discipline.
A resident who joined the army at 17 has been under house arrest since October 30. Maltreatment charges stem from a bivouac held October 11 to 14. Several officers testified that Anderson improved discipline in his company.
British experts complete a revolutionary hospital operating theater in Birmingham shaped like an igloo with portholes. Designer Donald Goldfinch, 39, leads the project for the city hospital board.
A Birmingham accident hospital aims to install a 70 000 theater shaped as an igloo to improve air ventilation and allow student observation through portholes. Warm sterilized air fills the ceiling to push cooler air down, with 82 adjustable lights around the walls to illuminate the operating table.
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