Weather, famine, and calls for unity in Red China
A Tokyo bound traveler reports slogans urging support for the people's republic and its communes amid unusually cold, rainy spring weather. Flooding and rice rot threaten crops in Hopeh, Nanan, Shantung, and Kiangsu, prompting officials to back 26 000 communes and convene agricultural experts to study countermeasures.
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Tokyo
Red China
People's Republic
Nihon Keizai
Hopeh
Nanan
Shantung
Kiangsu
Acid or Base Test With Red Cabbage Juice
A science note explains using red cabbage juice as an acid base indicator. Lemon juice turns the juice pink while baking soda turns it green. The piece also mentions a book Science Circus and notes flooding in Wuhan with many bridges down.
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Bob Brown
Science
Science Circus
General Features Corp
Wuhan
Visitor's two week tour notes lack of mechanization in farms
The traveler, visiting Canton, Shanghai, Hankow and Peking for two weeks, found farm mechanization largely absent and communes failing to meet the Great Leap Forward goals. He blamed bad weather, mismanagement, and Soviet withdrawal, yet praised China's youthful bands roaming the countryside with accordions and guitars in a curious parallel to Western youth.
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Canton
Shanghai
Hankow
Peking
Moulton Forms Police Auxiliary
About 20 to 30 men met with Moulton police chief Clarence Harris at the Lawrence County Courthouse to organize a 25 to 35 member police auxiliary. State troopers and local officials attended as plans for equipment, a horse troop, motorcycles, and a blood hound moved forward. Officers will take an oath to act only by mayor, police commissioner, or chief orders, with dismissal for misconduct.
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C. C. McWhorter
R. S. Spence
L. O. Lundy
Edsel Moore
Spence
Lundy
Army
Harris
John Williams
Cotton trading strengthens amid limited futures interest
The New York Cotton Exchange saw futures rise 85 cents to 2.45 as weekly gains broaden. Traders await details of the 1964 65 payment in kind program while exports reach 46.686 million bases by June 9, with ongoing relief signals from Decatur and Town Creek organizers.
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NEW York
New York Cotton Exchange
Murray teacher starts race and finishes it
Lowery Rains a rural schoolteacher filled in as track meet judge when the regular official failed to appear. He fired the gun started the meet and then called the finish as the youngsters crossed the tape.
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Murray, Ky
Lowery Rains
Rains
Toppear
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