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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1957
Page
12
Report notes that pipes atop the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in 600 B.C. directed water to flowers and trees 300 feet below, illustrating early irrigation ingenuity and engineering feat.
Senate Rackets Investigating Committee probes confusion as Hard-Hearing Smitty W A Smith bus in Knoxville is linked to an attempted shooting on a Tennessee highway. Two non union truck drivers escape unhurt, Smitty suffers a left arm wound in Maryville hospital and quips there is no law against being shot.
In New York the World This Morning reports on a failed baby moon carrying van guard rocket test, U N secretary general Dag Hammarskjold seeking renewed arms control and shorter Israeli Arab flare ups. Panama City notes an aquittal for Robert C Miro and six others in the machine gun killing case of President Jose Antonio A.
West Virginia State Mines Department reports 11 fatalities last month, bringing the year’s total to 160 through November. There were 588 non fatal accidents this year and 6,461 incidents overall, with October coal production at 13,470,459 tons.
The Public Service Commission examined yesterday Sistersville’s request for authority to build and operate a sewage disposal system. The town plans to finance via revenue bonds with estimated construction costs near 300000 dollars. The PSC took the matter under consideration.
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co board approves 575,200 for outside plant in Charleston area. Allocation covers 731 poles 30 miles aerial cable and 35 miles aerial wire for a new dial central office Alum Creek plus intertoll dialing gear and extra cables along Charleston Bluefield route. The package is part of 898,000 authorized this month statewide.
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