Almanac: Key dates and celestial notes for Friday June 13
On this day in history events include the Romo-Turtish War starting in 1877 and Jim Braddock’s 1935 boxing title win. World War II era Buzz Bombs began targeting England in 1944. In 1967 Ohio National Guards quelled a Cincinnati racial uprising. Yeats born in 1865 is cited in a thought for the day.
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United Press International
Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
Jim Braddock
Max Beer
Germany
England
William Butler Yeats
Wall Street Sees Mixed Signals As Oil Boom Looms
New York reports indicate a volatile market with technical damage to averages, especially rails, and waning investor confidence. Analysts from Hayden, Stone and W E Hutton offer cautious but divergent views, citing a potential dip before higher prices and noting cash and carry financing. Oil discoveries in Alaska emerge as the central focus with possible global impact. Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis expect long term gains from paper equities and a strong outlook for paper companies amid a growing disposal market.
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New York
Ays Hayden, Stone Inc
W. E. Hutton & Co
State Agencies Paying Big Wages To Lobbyists
Two Texas agencies pay part time legal counselors high retainers. The State Board of Pharmacy gives C Dean Davis 700 dollars a month. the Board of Examiners for Registered Nurses pays Keith J Kelly 700 dollars monthly. Other boards pay 4600 to 6000 yearly, with one instance at 9000 for a part time executive director.
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Ann Arnold Austin
UPI
State Board of Pharmacy
C. Dean Davis
Austin
State Board of Examiners
Keith J. Kelly
Kelly
Fort Worth
State Board of Dental Examiners
Carl C. Hardin Jr
Texas Dental Association
Dentists
Davis
State Pharmacy Board
Texas State Pharmaceutical Associaciation
Texas Hospital Association
Texas Association of Life Underwriters
Johnny B. Rogers
State Board of Morticians
Texas Feneral Directors and Embalmers Association
J. H. Arnette
Pharmacy Board
Annette
John Cooper
Morticians
Beard
Rogers
Morticians Board
Cooper
Nursing Board
Dean Moorehaed
State Board of Plumbing Examiners
Lynn Brown
Brown
Moorehead
Austin Law
State Board of Optometry
Will St. John Garwood
Garwood
Thomas G. Gee
Optometry
Garwood and Gee
Optometry Board
Legislative
Letters to Editor Warns of Rat Menace in Texas
A reader laments rats as costly public enemies in Childress and Texas. Citing Public Health Service figures, the letter explains rats contaminate food and property, reproduce rapidly, and require environmental cleanup to control them.
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Mr. Higley
James Cagney
Childress
Public Health Service
U. S. Department of Health
Texas
Bobby L. Davis
Texas State Department of Health
Record heat and cold across states with statewide readings
New York UPI reports the highest temperature on Thursday was 109 degrees at Presidio Texas excluding Alaska and Hawaii. The day’s low reached 24 degrees at Lewistown Montana, highlighting extreme temperature contrasts across the central United States.
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New York
Henry I of England and his many illegitimate children
The English king Henry I who ruled from 1100 to 1135 is noted to have fathered at least twenty illegitimate children, nine sons and eleven daughters, with six mistresses in addition to one or two legitimate offspring.
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United Press International
Henry I
Domesticated Insects: Silkworm and Honeybee Domestication
The passage notes that only two insects have been domesticated by humans, the Oriental silkworm and the honeybee. It highlights the unique status of these species in human practice and history.
Welfare activists push for expanded aid and rights
The article, citing Virginia Payette, details the National Welfare Rights Organization with 30,000 members in 70 cities, backed by a Labor Department grant. It covers protests, demands for higher benefits, and incidents involving welfare recipients including a New York case of asset and shelter requests, plus the historic longest bicycle.
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Virginia Payette
Dallas News
Washington
National Welfare Rights Organization
Labor Department
Welfare Rights
America
National Welfare
New York
Nixon
David Davis
Davis
Marie Antoinette
Yellowstone Attack Highlights Ageing Grizzly Encounter
A 400-pound grizzly near a Yellowstone campground mauled 5 year old Daphne Jax after being harassed by children. The bear was shot and killed. Daphne survived with cuts and a broken rib and was treated at Children’s Hospital in St Paul.
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Yellowstone National Park
Wyo
UPI
Daphne Jax
Daphne
Children’s Hospital
St. Paul
Minn
Frank C. Craighead
Moose
Malone Hagan Services Today
Final rites for Richard Malone Hagan were held at 2 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church with Pastor J. E. Shewbert officiating. Burial followed in Childress Cemetery under Newberry's direction. Active pallbearers included Cecil Park and Walter Lockhoof among others. honorary pallbearers listed. Hagan, a cotton buyer from 1938 to 1947 and founder of the local radio station, died after a long illness in Childress General Hospital.
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Richard Malone Hagan
First United Methodist Church
J. E. Shewbert
Childress Cemetery
Newberry’s
Cecil Park
Walter Lockhoof
Richard Bird
Fletcher Carter
George Morey
Earl Preston
Donald Black
Carl Denny
E. E. Chesnut
Jack Fox
Grover Fox
W. T. Ross
Truman McFarland
Mr. Hagan
Childress General Hospital
Park plans reduce bear dumps risk for grizzlies
An official warned that phasing out garbage dumps at the park will force older bears to shift feeding patterns, likely sparking more grizzly incidents in campgrounds as the transition occurs over several years.
Light Plane Bomb Attempt At Nike Missile Site
An unidentified light aircraft tried to bomb a U S Army Nike missile site near Van Nuys California on Thursday night. The homemade device, a two pound coffee can with gasoline soaked paper and a gold paint spray can, fell into a ditch outside the fence and burned out. Sight witness John MacWhirter described the end over end cannister and smoke trail before the small blast.
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van Nuys
Calif
UPS
John MacWhirter
Plane Missing Near Los Angeles Suburb Sought at All Airports
Police expanded a search to all airports around the Los Angeles suburb but found no trace of the high wing plane with a white fuselage and red tail.
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Los Angeles
Olympic gold four in a row and key world figures
Summary of a reader’s quiz with answers: Al Oerter as four time Olympic gold medalist in discus 1956 1968, Edward Teller dubbed father of the hydrogen bomb, Turkey named as first Islamic republic 1923, plus quoted lines from Proverbs Lincoln and Russell with a closing nudge to read classifieds.
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al Oerter
United States
Republic of
Turkey
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