Living Costs Rise in November as Auto Prices Jump
Government data show November living costs up four tenths of a percent led by higher auto prices and clothing. The index reaches 121.6, 3.2 percent above a year ago, with wage hikes planned for steel and aluminum workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Ewan Clague
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Clague
First Word in Six Months Is Yule Gift
A 12 year old San Diego girl Maurine Schow who had been unconscious for nearly six months spoke her first word Mama to her mother on July 1 after a near drowning at an Escondido swimming pool. She was revived after several minutes without oxygen, and doctors hope for further recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurine
Utah
Latterday Saints
Sharon
Salt Lake City
San Diego
Calif
Joseph B. Schow
Escondido
Geology’s Vital Role in Modern Technology
Geology underpins rocket propulsion and satellite tech, anchoring heavy plants and solving foundation problems. Earth-derived materials fuel manufacturing, with geologists locating oil, uranium, and rare elements essential to alloys and speeds. Without geology, none of the mineral products or soils and oceans that support life and industry.
Kansas Shows 3 200 ft Climb In 375 Miles
The article explains Kansas topography as an inclined plane, rising about 3 200 feet from east to west over roughly 375 miles. Elevations range from under 700 feet at Verdigris river to 4 135 feet in Wallace county, with eastern Kansas features like cuesta topography and Flint Hills, and High Plains elevations exceeding 3 500 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Plains State
Coffeyville
Montgomery County
Wallace County
Sharon Springs
Flint Hills
McPherson County
High Plains
Ness County
Toothsome Tale By Dog Geologist
Be loit, Wis. dog hunter brings home a tooth seven inches long and five inches high. Be loit College geologist John Ostrom identifies the fossil as from a prehistoric hairy mammoth, extinct about ten thousand years ago. The tale ends by noting Ethan Allen's burial in Burlington, Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beloit
Wis
Lyman Totten
Beloit College
Tor John Ostrom
Ethan Allen
Ticonderoga
Burlington
Vermont
Wrong Place to Sleep After Merry Making
Arthur Hicks slept in a police department parking lot car after a night of merriment. He was found by janitor Mike Hill and charged with public drunkenness by Columbus police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Miss
Arthur Hicks
Police Department
Mike Hill
Hill
Hicks
Hubcaps of Car Wired for Thieves in Albuquerque
Eldo McLaughlin of Albuquerque has wired his car hubcaps with a shock device to deter theft. A separate circuit shocks anyone opening doors hood or trunk, and any interference triggers the horn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
N. M
Eldo McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Betty Bland Barnette Wins Tobacco Festival Queen
Farmville resident Betty Bland Barnette aimed for the Tobacco Festival in Richmond while Associate Dean M H Bittinger warned of cutting class. If she became Festival Queen he would forgive the cuts and buy her lunch. Betty won and the dean kept his promise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmville
Betty Bland Barnette
Landwood College
Richmond
M. H. Bittinger
Betty
Dr. Bittinger
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Tribune
R.williams
Willis
Ozalid Blue Line Prints and Drafting Service
Oilfield Research Labs
N. Highland
Merry
Poinsettias
Hans FD Ute
S. Central
Charles Gearhart
Eric
Kansas PLC
Leslie Harding
Ancient
Egypt
AMF
American Bowling Congress
ABC
Acton
N. Allen
Sportsman’s Bowl