Collision-Proof Highways Cut Head-On Death Toll
Sylvia Porter argues for physical barriers on undivided four lane highways to prevent head-on crashes. She cites New Jersey Turnpike data showing dramatic fatality drops after steel median rails, and notes Pennsylvania and Connecticut efforts to expand barriers, linking safer roads to lower insurance costs.
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Sylvia Porter
National Safety Council
New Jersey Turnpike
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Connecticut
Merritt Parkway
The
Hall Syndicate, Inc
New MILSTICCS Language Aids Federal Catalog Coding
The U S Army Missile Command aids a defense department effort to create MILSTICCS, a standard verbal description system for about 1.9 million items in the 4.3 million item Federal catalog. Col R W Grote leads the effort with M R Howell and Mrs Catherine R Mason on a MILSTICCS committee testing 600 items across federal supply classes.
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Redstone Arsenal
U. S. Army Missile Command
Defense Department
Col
R. W. Grote
The
Missile Command
M. R. Howell
Catherine R Mason
Milsticcs
Department of Defense
Defense Logistics Services Center
Cancer science explains growth spread and cures
The article outlines cancer as a continuous growth of abnormal cells that spread through the body, with no single cause. It notes heredity and chemicals as factors, the difference between cancer cells and normal cells, and the ongoing medical research to understand and combat the disease. It ends with a few riddles and a note about joining chain links.
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Man
NASA names satellite Pegasus for meteoroid hazard study
Huntsville reports NASA Marshall Space Flight Center naming a new meteoriod technology satellite Pegasus. Built by Fairchild Stratos Corp in Hagerstown Maryland the winged craft will sweep space hundreds of miles above earth transmitting a link as it studies meteoroid hazards.
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Huntsville
Pegasus
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Nasa-Marshall Space Flight Center
Office of Advanced Research and Technology
Fairchild Stratos Corp
Hagerstown
Earth
Casimir Pulaski Nuclear Sub Joins U S Fleet
The Polaris firing submarine Casimir Pulaski joins the U S Navy today after a commissioning at Groton with a White House broadcast of President Johnson message. Postmaster General Gronouski will speak as the 44th nuclear sub to join the fleet is named for a Polish general from the American Revolution.
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Groton
Giant Expansion Expected In State
A 54000 acre site near Prattville is the leading candidate for Union Bag Camp Paper Corp to build a 43 million pulp mill as part of a 106 million expansion. A final decision awaits prerequisite conditions, but the plant will be in the South and is slated for completion by September 1967, employing 300-350 workers with a 3 to 4 million dollar annual payroll.
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Montgomery
Prattville
Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp
Union
Alligator Escapes Florida Exhibit At World’s Fair
A 200 pound six foot alligator escaped its pit at the Florida exhibit during the World’s Fair. He wandered through the grounds and was tracked to a nearby lake where officers found him that night. Local handlers said the creature had tired of its duties facing Seminole Indians.
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New York
Florida
Pegasus satellite deployment on Saturn 1 launch
The Pegasus satellite will be launched aboard a Saturn 1 rocket with folded panels that will spread once in orbit. It is expected to be among the largest objects in Earth orbit.
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James Stone
Batavia, N.Y
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Eternal
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Anne Madore
Southbridge
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Parathion
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Versical Chemical Corporation
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Decatur
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Decatur Shopping Center
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