Lighter Side World Waits for Rail Game
A humorous concept from 1940s press envisions a board game based on freight rail routes. Players move from Moose Jaw to Tampleo via Medicine Hat and Winnipeg with cards about passenger service, fare disputes, and rerouted trips reflecting railway operations and ICC actions.
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Dick West Washington
UPD
Sothern Natironal
Aimiler
Ita
Amerigar
Nervou
Gana
ICC
Nexturn
Moose Jaw
Aloose Jay
Medicine' Wat
Tampico
Pocatella
Walla Walla
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
IOC
Roose Law
Medicine Hat
Tampleo
Nebraska Would Get $39 Million Under Nixon Plan
The White House released a breakdown of Nixon revenue sharing proposing $5 billion to states on a population basis starting Oct 1, with Nebraska listed for $39 million. The plan faces opposition from Rep. Mills who announced hearings while noting no promotion of the measure.
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Nebraska
Nixon
Washington
Congress
California
Alaska
White House
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Capital Hill
Mills
Murray Weidenbaum
Treasury
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Hanged in carnival atmosphere in Guinea men say radio reports
Radio Conakry described Monday night hangings of men condemned for seeking to overthrow President Ahmed Sekou Toure as occurring in a carnival atmosphere. The broadcaster claimed 92 Guineans were condemned to death, 32 in absentia, with jubilant crowds spitting on bodies and militia intervention needed to keep demonstrators from tearing them apart in Conakry and other cities.
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Abidjan
Ivory Coast
UPL
Radio Conakry
Conakry
Baseball Bats From Northern White Ash Used
Baseball bats are crafted from northern white ash for proper hardness and weight. The best bats come from second growth trees with 12 to 18 inch diameters, as their wood is more resilient than that from larger, older trees.
McCook Woman Enters Senate Race On Democrat Ticket
Mrs Philliys Parson Lyons 62 of McCook announces she will enter Nebraska’s U S Senate primary on the Democratic ticket. Wife of attorney B L Lyons she cites today’s problems and hopes to offer new leadership. Lyons has been active in the PTA and education study groups and has held local offices in the American Association of University Women. She is mother of four. The article also oddly notes Hidalgo as the asteroid with the largest orbit and a mean diameter of 531 million miles.
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McCook Lapd
Philliys
Parson Lyons
McCook
Ald
U.S
Sinia
Jimukis
Lyons
Bil Lyng
Nolin
Nebraska
Nan
Car I
Curtis
FTA
Ind
Hubert Cros
Marghaon T. Treamann
American Associaton of
University Women
Fig
Hidalgo
Intelsat 4 satellite boost to orbit amid space spectacle
A $12.6 million Intelsat 4 commercial satellite was maneuvered toward an orbit for a permanent outpost as Atlas-Centaur rocket delays and weather affected early launch timing. Apollo 14 mission preparations and NATO link satellite activity also frame a week of space events at Cape Kennedy.
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Cape Kennedy
UPS
U.S
Space Agency
Millon Observatory
Space Center
NATO
Alan
Milelicil
America
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