Easter Sunrise Service Marks 25th Year at Garden of the Gods
In Colorado Springs the Easter sunrise service enters its 25th year in the Garden of the Gods. Thousands attend in the natural cathedral as a 250 voice choir and a tenor perform, with the event broadcast nationwide. Plans are coordinated by the local ministerial alliance.
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Garden of the Gods
Colorado Springs
Rocky
Luce
Pikes Peak
South Gateway Rock
Bernard Vessey
Knapp
Temple
Nature
War Souvenirs To Take Lives For Long Time
Greeley Colorado. G L Damon firearms expert at Colorado state college of education warns that guns and other souvenir weapons taken from war will kill Americans for the next twenty years. He cites unsafe handling by youths and fragile weapon parts as key risks especially with Walther P 38 pistols and Japanese rifle lugs. He urges keeping enemy arms as souvenirs and never using them.
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Greeley
Colo
G.ls
United States
G. E. Damon
Colorado State College of Education
Damon
Europe
Church Ships Heifers to Devastated European Areas
About 2 000 heifers from the United States have been shipped to devastated parts of Europe by the Heifer Project Committee of the Church of the Brethren to supply fresh milk for children and aid in rebuilding depleted herds. Since the committee began, contributions have risen and more shipments are planned, with 17 January hiefers sent to Czechoslovakia. Brethren led farm groups arrange four or more animals per shipment, with Nappanee Indiana coordinating final details and UNRRA handling overseas transport.
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United States
Europe
Church of the Brethren
Une
Fami
Czechoslovakia
Brethren
Nappanee
Ind
UNRRA
Shortage of Farm Labor Unknown to Big Harvey Family
Western Maryland profiles the Harvey family of 11 children on a 180 acre farm. Earl Harvey Sr and his wife oversee 395 cattle and 45 tons of shelled peas as Marshall, Lucile, Calvin, Fanny Mae, Freddie, Earl Jr, Robert, Guy, Ernest, Arthur, and Douglas grow in 4-H and FFA activities. The piece highlights Youth farming success, 4-H prizes, potato projects, and early preparation for agricultural careers.
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Maryland
America
Earl K. Harvey Sr
Harveys
Marshall Harvey
Lucile
Calvin
Selective Service
Fanny Mae
University of Maryland Experimental Station
United States Department of Agriculture
Garrett County
Potomac
Freddie
Earl Jr
Oakland High School
Guy
Robert
Pittsburgh
Ernest
Marshall
Fanny Mac
Soil Conservation Continuance Urged By Federal Agency
Washington report says American soil fertility fell sharply during the war as the Agricultural Adjustment Agency urges farmers to resume conservation farming. Overcropping and overgrazing by millions of acres occurred to meet wartime food demands.
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The
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
World Aviation Fair to Open at Fort Crook July 21 28
Postwar international air craft trade exposition and flight show set for Fort Crook near Omaha. Attendance projected at 250000 with about 2000 light planes expected. The AAF and navy will join in flight events with both military and civil exhibits. Steadham Acker of Birmingham directs the program. The Civil Aeronautics administration offers planning help for air marking programs.
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Fort Crook
Omaha
AAF
Navy
Steadham Acker
Birmingham
Newark
Denver
National Aviation Clinic
Oklahoma City
Civil Aeronautics Administration
First Army Number for XR-9B Helicopter Flight Tests
The XR-9B, a new helicopter, became the first aircraft to receive an army number in 1946 and is undergoing flight tests at Wright Field in Ohio.
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Wright Field
Ohio
Coyotes Bagged by Air Hunt Party in Bowdle
Ted Hagele and Al Binder hosted Minnesota hunters who flown in by Piper cub to coyote hunt. The party included Marcel lus King Donald Rugg Carl Elam Allen Goetzinger and Carl Benhoff from several towns. In the first ninety minutes they bagged three coyotes.
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Ted Hagele
al Binder
Minnesota
Marcellus King
Donald Rugg
Carl Elam
Austin
Minn
Allen Goetzinger
Hollandale
Carl Benhoff
Gettysburg
Bowdle
S.D
Safe crash landing by Arcadia brothers praised
Sam Sornberger of Arcadia California and his brother Jeff on his first plane ride landed a plane after the engine failed during a 15 minute flight from Rosemead airport. Sam, with over 2000 hours as a wartime pilot, steered to a smooth landing in a wash proving flying requires a cool head.
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Sam Sornberger
Arcadia
Calif
Jeff
Rosemead
Sam
Old veterans retire 247 D ends service years after 15
Boeing built numerous 247 D two engine low wing transports for United Air Lines in 1930. Early uses by Pennsylvania Central followed by the CAA as a lab and freight plane in Alaska. An announcement noted one 15 year old veteran has been retired.
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Boeing
United Air Lines
Pennsylvania Central
CAA
Alaska
Hoover call to feed hungry households echoed in Washington
Washington notes recount Hoover’s appeal to conserve and feed the hungry at a Washington interview. He urged households to host an invisible guest at meals while outlining grain needs, rationing ideas, and public support to prevent starvation amid postwar surplus fears.
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America
Mr. Hoover
Barbs by Bankhage on Franco and global peace
The piece critiques government stance on Franco as a threat to world peace and compares Spain's democratic elements to his regime. It notes the Swedish Garbo discoverer’s death at 64 and comments on the Indonesian situation as more complex than a simple independence struggle.
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Spain
Greta Garbo
Mochu
Java
Answers to five curious trivia questions
The sousaphone, by John Philip Sousa, is the only professionally used instrument invented by an American. Ants domesticate at least 600 crustaceans and insects as workers. A cube has twelve edges. Three million of 15,000,000 union members are women. U S towns using initials include O K Kentucky and T B Maryland.
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John Philip Sousa
O. K
Kentucky
T. B
Maryland
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