Camel Saddles Find Odd Market in Midwest
ALFRED LEECH reports on Malik, a Lebanese student in Carbondale, selling camel saddles to Americans without camels. He sources from Beirut, notes costs risen by the Suez crisis, and compares prices with a New York store. He aims to fund his education and markets these wood and brocade saddles as nonprofit ventures.
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Malik
Beirut
Carmel
New York
Southern Tihhois University
Carbondale
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Two Year Nurse Course Sought by State Groups
California legislators consider amending the Nursing Practice Act to allow a two year program for registered nurses to address bedside nurse shortages. CSNA and the California League for Nursing endorse the plan, following a Los Angeles convention vote. In Monterey a separate report details a catalyzed nuclear reaction using mu mesons, a lab finding with potential energy implications but currently a short-lived, non scalable phenomenon.
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California State Nurses’ Association
California League For Nursing
Los Angeles
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Monterey
University of Caifornia
American Physical Society
Hydrogen Tombs
Berkeley
Propertiy
Aukhanian
California faces nurse shortage amid population boom says leaders
Miss Marian Shired RN executive director of the nurses association warns that California’s population surge since 1950 has created a critical nurse deficit as new graduates fall short of needed quotas. Only influx of out of state registered nurses has averted a worse crisis. The CSNA Board backs amendments allowing shortened training in accredited junior colleges for provisional study through 1963.
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Miss Marian. Shired
Nurses’ Professional Association
Miss. Alford
CSNA
National ‘League For Nursing
American Association of Junior Colleges
Board of
Socialite Dies Wife dies. husband held in Las Vegas
Francis Marion Ogg, 87, ex boxer and West Covina pool contractor, was questioned in Los Angeles about his wife Edna Rosedale Ogg s mysterious death. Police arrested him in Las Vegas after finding him watching fights in a bar. Edna Ogg was found with a fractured skull and cerebral hemorrhage at their West Covina home, injuries linked to Christmas Day.
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iKs
Reac Today
Francis Marion Ogg
West Covina
Edna Rosedale Ogg
Las Vegas
Oge
Big Stories In Bite Size News From New York
A collage of short items and quirky notes from the year’s big stories. Evangelism, education, love, weather forecasts, and Mars science fill this brisk roundup with human interest, oddities, and scientific speculation. Major figures and places thread through the snippets.
Students Seek Drink Rights at Big 7 Conference
Kansas City reports at the Big 7 conference indicate student leaders from Oklahoma University and Iowa State urge relaxing drinking restrictions. OU president Dous Matthews calls prohibitions hypocritical and favors campus fraternity houses, while ISU student body leader Chuck Henningsen argues liberalizing drinking would resemble current policies and curb class-cutting.
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Dous Matthews
Oklahoma U
Chuck Henningsen
Iowa State
Iowa St
Elvis Fan Mail Too Much for Teen Helpers in Memphis
In Memphis, Elvis Presley’s social secretary role shifts from teens to a mature woman after overwhelming daily fan mail. Seventeen-year-old Marge Heiskell lasted one week handling letters as Ben Presley was away filming, leaving the job too stressful for young workers.
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Tenn
Elvis Presley
Margo Heiskell
Margo
Presley
Marge
Police Arrest Mobster Cohen In Los Angeles
Mobster Mickey Cohen, recently running a florist shop after a prior tax evasion sentence, is arrested on a warrant charging two counts of disturbing the peace. One incident stems from a Dec. 14 clash at Schwab's Pharmacy involving Henry Maltin and a verbal altercation with Cohen described during police briefing.
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Ins
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Henry Maltin
Schwab
Vertion
Bresser
Coher
Elvis
Ling
Wanderlust misadventure and thefts in small-town mischief
In Tamna Florida Terry Shaffer ten, from Gibsonton, was helped on a trip to Alabama as police chased Jim riding a power lawn mower eight miles an hour. In Medford Massachusetts Mrs Rad Teves hid $250 in a telephone directory before leaving. At year end six men rifled through 9,000 copies of the Boston directory for cash.
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Gibsonton
Alabama
Jim
Medford
Mass
Rad Teves
Boston
Deadline on GI Insurance for Korean War veterans
J Glen Corbitt of the Veterans Administration San Francisco Regional Office warns that next Monday is the deadline for Korean conflict veterans to apply for a five year term nonconvertible GI insurance. The act ends issuance on Tuesday. VA offices in six cities stay open to 4 45 pm to accept forms.
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Sacramento
Fresno
Stockton
Special Vehicle Fees Due Soon For 1957 Auto Owners
Farmers ranchers loggers and truckers who run commercial vehicles on a weight fee basis must apply for quarterly vehicle registration and certificates within the first five days of 1957. Paul Mason of Motor Vehicles says the option applies only to weight fee vehicles and installments may be paid if registered in the first five days. If not operated, the weight fee is not due. Owners must send last quarter 1956 registration certificates with the $6 flat annual fee plus state and local taxes, and the weight fees if applicable. Office hours extend to Saturdays, and postmarks before Jan 3 1957 qualify.
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Department of Motor Vehicles
DMV
Asia's Course Seen In Red China Hands
In 1957 Asia’s path will be shaped largely by Red China’s moves as trade opens with Southeast Asia and Laos and Cambodia shift toward Beijing. Japan eyes stable ties with the West while preparing for potential shifts with Russia. Korea remains tense amid declarations and demilitarized zone divisions. Military postures and diplomacy hinge on Red China’s conduct, with prospects for calm or conflict depending on Beijing’s policies.
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Tiake Teom
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Missing Link Found In South Africa Claims New Evidence
New York reports say scientists uncovered four manlike Australopithecines in South Africa about one million years ago. They walked on heels, used jawbones as weapons, and had brain sizes near some modern humans. A second expert proposed locating a near human in the U.S. 50,000 years ago to shift evolutionary timing.
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Tisi
U.S
Dart
Dr. Dart
Federal Prison Frees Barrow gang survivor
Floyd Hamilton, sole survivor of the Barrow gang, is to be released today from Leavenworth after 18 years of a 30 year term. A Habeas Corpus hearing on jurisdiction was set for today as gas authorities plan to have an officer present. Hamilton, 49, previously escaped from Alcatraz and was convicted of bank robbery, assault and weapons violations. The Barrow gang, blamed for Midwest terror, was allegedly led by Bonnie Parker. Dr. T. Dale Stewart of the National Museum in Washington weighed in on Neanderthal remains as Hamilton’s case unfolds. Hamilton’s brother Hay was executed for a prison break, and a guard was killed.
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Turi Gine
T. Dale Stewart
J Sions
National Museum
Washington
Midwest
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Stewart
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