New Brake System From Auto Specialties Promises Safer Stopping
Michigan firm Auto Specialties Manufacturing unveils a self energized double disk brake using hydraulic plungers and ramped ball action to spread disks for stopping. The design aims for smoother control, longer life, and reduced brake fade under heavy use. The article also notes a rising car rental trend and Iowa traffic deaths through September 20.
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Auto Specialties Manufacturing Company, Inc
St. Joseph Mich
Auto Specialties
Linn County Seals Bring In Six Thousand In First Week
Residents bought 6536 dollars of the 1952 lighted candle Christmas Seals in the opening week. Sale Chairman Henry Ek reported the response was slightly above last year when 6408 dollars worth were purchased in the same period.
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Linn County
Henry Ek
Camera Club Plans Slides From McGregor Trip
Camera club members will study photo slides at the regular meeting at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Keen Teen room at the YMCA. Members should bring their What Happen slides and favorites for the study.
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McGregor
Camera Club
Keen Teen Room
YMCA
Betty Graham Nears 100 Sees Large Family Ties
Betty Graham of Van Vleet Mississippi, who will turn 100 on March 15, says she has lost count of her relatives. She estimates 11 of her 16 children are living and from them she has 226 grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
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van Vleet
Betty Graham
Executives Club To Hear Talk by Radium Seeker
Luther Gable engineer and former radium prospector speaks on Modern Miracles at 6 45 Friday at the Montrose hotel. He chairs ATIT faculty member and served in the US Army Signal Corps 88 M. He helped open radium deposits in western Canada and the Arctic and contributed to early luminous radium watch dials in America.
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Luther Gable
Executives Club
Montrose
Gable
American Television Institute For Technology
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Illinois
Canada
Arctic
Arctic Circle
Colorado
America
Dogs Draw Crowd at Denver Council Hearing
Denver residents packed a city council meeting to weigh a proposed ordinance tightening dog regulations. About 600 attended, many bringing dogs, a larger turnout than the recent rent control public hearing.
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Denver City
Denver
Hour-Long Show for Policemen's Ball in Memorial Coliseum
An hour long stage program starts the twentieth annual policemen's ball at Memorial Coliseum Monday night featuring a comedy dance team a high unit cycle act a magician and a family acrobatic group. Music by Jimmy Falmer and his dancing shoes orchestra. Proceeds benefit the widows and orphans fund with admission at 2 dollars per couple. Dancing from 9 PM to 1 AM.
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Memorial Coliseum
Jimmy Falmer
Widows and J Orphans Fund
If Not Throwed Rodeo Cowboy Earns Big Money
Buck Rutherford from Nowata Oklahoma is among the 2424 rodeo cowboys in the Rodeo Cowboys Association. The union estimates 1800 members cover expenses, 400 are big timers, with yearly earnings potential from 250 to over 30000 dollars. The circuit runs January to November with major showcases in Denver and San Francisco.
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Rodeo Cowboys Association
Buck Rutherford
Nowata
Oklo
Buck
Association
New York
Madison Square Garden
Charlie Colbert
Denver National Bank
Wall Street
Colbert
Cow Palace
San Francisco
Soldiers donate to charity during camp fund drive
At Camp Kilmer New Jersey about 25 000 troops contributed to a United Fund campaign aiding 23 nearby charities. Some 20 000 soldiers gave totaling 9 350 dollars, with gifts from pennies to 20 dollars. Generals praised the effort while locals felt ashamed at lagging private contributions.
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Camp Kilmer
N. J
United Fund
Radio Missionary To Speak in Cedar Rapids Monday Evening
Dr Clarence Jones founder of HCJB the Quito radio mission will speak at Bethany Congregational Cedar Rapids Monday at 7 30 p m He and his wife travel west coast showing new films of Ecuador work and will perform trombone solos Jones is noted gospel trombonist P K Myhre a former Cedar Rapids man is HCJB chief engineer overseeing new transmitter work
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Clarence Jones
HCJB
Quito
Ecuador
Bethany Congregational Church
Cedar Rapids
Jones
Thel
P. K. Myhre
Washington's Unanimous Electoral Glory and a 523 Vote Record
The piece notes George Washington as the only president to win unanimous electoral votes in 1789 and 1793. It also cites James Monroe with 231 of 232 in 1820 amid Federalist decline, plus Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 tally of 523 of 531 with only Maine and Vermont losing.
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Washington
George Washington
James Monroe
Monroe
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Maine
Vermont
Unusual Jail Aims to Cure Seattle Drunkards
Seattle's Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center operates as a guarded open-air facility where inmates are treated rather than jailed. Since 1948 the program has reduced drunkenness arrests from 40 000 to 20 000 yearly with 58 percent of treated men not reoffending.
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Mel Meadows
INS
Seattle
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center
Civic
iAlcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous
Rge
Sgt Burr
Cops Scratch Car Door. Chief Pays Motorist Five
A motorist parked in the police lot to pay a $20 speeding fine. Returning, he found his car door scratched. An officer said another cop bumped the door opening a squad car. The chief of police paid the motorist $5 to settle the matter.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Chinese Communists Open Literacy Drive
Hong Kong AP reports China plans a national literacy push to teach basic characters from phonetic symbols. The program targets party and government workers within two years and will roll out by economic and social classes for 475 million people.
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Hong Kong
Communist China
Peiping
Communist Party
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