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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1956
Page
9
Historian Harman W Nichols reviews a National Housing Center display tracing bathing history from ancient Egypt and Rome to 19th century American tubs. The tour includes a marble tub, a hat tub, beauty treatments, and the Closet tub era, ending with a childhood memory of a muddy tub mishap.
Palm Springs grows from a desert resort to a potential city of 50 000 as luxury development and millionaire investors reshape its landscape. Oilman George Cameron drives growth with Cameron Center a 12 acre complex and The Springs restaurant, while Agua Caliente Indian land sales spark debate about benefits and policy.
A veteran may change training programs under the Korean GI Bill if lack of progress was not due to his misconduct neglect or inattention and he has not already changed programs. Restrictions on…
Chicago report quotes Dr Laurence Jones known as the Piney Woods professor predicting desegregation will take fifty years. He calls it an educational problem shaped by long standing social mores. Jones notes some border states show limited progress and praises the rise of excellent Negro schools in the South. His Piney Woods Country Life School began in 1909 near Braxton Mississippi on a pine stump with $1.65, now spanning 1700 acres and educating about 6000 students.
A 71 year old Jones funds a boarding school serving grade through junior college students where most pupils pay tuition by chores. Years of fundraising support the operation and growth, including a TV appearance that spurred a one million dollar boost from viewers.
The text states GI life insurance imposes no restrictions against hazardous jobs, allowing veterans to pursue any occupation without changing policy terms or premiums. It also notes VA cannot replace a lost discharge and directs to contact the Military Personnel Records Center in St. Louis for a replacement.
The Agriculture Department forecast the 1957 farm operating costs would be somewhat higher than 1956. Costs tied to real estate, taxes, wages, machinery, and supplies were expected to rise modestly while fertilizer prices edge higher by weight. rural labor and wage rates would stay influenced by non farm employment trends.
A 1000 pound steer yields about 35 pounds of porterhouse T bone and club steaks plus sirloin and 50 pounds of round steak.
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