Last Wagon West Thrill Journey Across America
Leon Gillis and his wife with six children travel from Providence Forge Virginia to Los Angeles in a covered wagon. The family aims to reach the West Coast around April or May, averaging 10 to 30 miles daily. The trip is educational for the children and inspired by Gillis's long-held dream despite minor setbacks like polio in a past family member and a cold illness during a Alabama visit.
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Birmingham
Leon Gillis
Ann
Family wagon voyage travels through Alabama countryside
Gillis, claiming ignorance of horses, is seen at Fultondale shoeing a mare as two horses pull a 6000 pound wagon. He left a Providence Forge business to travel with family, built the wagon with a wagon maker, and sleeps outside at times. The wagon carries beds a stove school books shotguns and fishing gear. The family has found much hospitality and Mrs. Gillis teaches when scenery dull.
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Gillis
Fultondale
Birmingham
Providence Forge
Muscle Shoals Gas to Serve City High School
The Muscle Shoals Natural Gas Corp. received approval from the Public Service Commission to supply gas to Muscle Shoals city high school. The firm holds a city franchise for the area but asked to serve only the school for now.
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Montgomery
Muscle Shoals Natural Gas Corp
Muscle Shoals City
Public Service Commission
Muscle Shoals
Mail Call Day Sparks Westward Family Plan
The Gillis family, traveling westward, expects to return soon and notes their mail is sent to Last Wagon West General Delivery. Mrs. Gillis recalls they write 50 to 60 letters weekly as they move through towns, with today marked as mail call in Birmingham before continuing to Meridian, Mississippi and beyond.
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Gillis
Birmingham
Meridian
Miss
Prowler Steals $240 From Money Roll in Tucson
Stanley B. Clevenger a Teamster Union representative from Deming New Mexico reported to Tucson police that a prowler took $240 from a money roll in his pants and left $600 in bills in the same roll.
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Tucson
Ariz
Stanley B. Clevenger
Demini
N.M
Teamster Union
Request Submitted For Gadsden Station
The Federal Communications Commission required an application from Metropolitan Gadsden Broadcast Coop. of Nashville Tenn for a new standard broadcast station at Attalla Ala. The station would operate on 1240 kilocycles at 250 watts with unlimited hours.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Gadsden Broadcast Coop
Nashville
Tenn
Attalla
Ala
Sweden Employs 50 000 Teachers for 1 200 000 Pupils
Sweden has 50 000 teachers serving 1.2 million pupils, a group that represents over one sixth of the population.
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Sweden
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