National Parks Gear Up As Wartime Closures End
Parks reopen with restored services in Yellowstone Yosemite Grand Canyon and Glacier as more than 500000 for reconditioning lodges and cabins funds from Union Pacific. New staff trained for summer. 22 new 29 passenger buses and nine passenger sedans added.
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National Parks
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Grand Canyon
Glacier National Parks
Bryce and
Zion National Parks
Cedar Breaks National Monument
Union Pacific Railroad
Oregon Caves Reopen With Harold Say as Manager
Grants Pass Oregon the Oregon caves recreational area will reopen in late May under the national park service after wartime closure. Harold B Say named general manager of the resort. Discovered in 1874 when Elijah Davidson chased a wounded bear into a canyon. the site features underground chambers and the Swiss chalet lodge, drawing travelers through the Siskiyou mountains.
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Grants Pass
Ore
Oregon Caves
National Park Service
Harold B. Say
Elijah Davidson
Davidson
Siskiyou Mountains
Eastern Parks Offer Variety To The Tourist
The Shenandoah and Smoky mountains national parks offer beauty to mid western visitors. Smoky Mountains spans 460000 acres with 200000 acres forests and 600 miles of trout streams. North entrance near Knoxville Tennessee with bus service to park. Skyline Drive runs 107 miles. Blue Ridge parkway links Smoky and Shenandoah.
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Shenandoah and Smoky Mountains National Parks
Rockies
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Knoxville, Tenn
Knoxville
Asheville
Blue Ridge National Parkway
Great Smoky Mountains
Shenandoah National Parks
Shenandoah
Roanoke
Blue Ridge
Shenandoah Valley
Piedmont Plateau
Seven Rocky Mountain Parks Open For Vacation Seekers
Glacier Grand Teton Mesa Verde Yellowstone Windcave Rocky Mountain and Bryce Canyon National Parks offer vast travel possibilities in the Rocky Mountain region. Covering about four million acres they showcase Mesa Verde’s ancient Indian ruins, Glacier’s trails and lakes, Grand Teton’s peaks, and other famed sites across the area.
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Glacier
Grand Teton
Mesa Verde
Yellowstone
Windcave
Rocky Mountain
Bryce Canyon National Parks
Rocky Mountain Plains
America
Mesa Verde National Park
Colorado
Mesa
Veterans share colonial mansion near Columbia University
Three veteran couples from Wisconsin, Washington, and North Dakota, plus 11 others, live in a 20 room 1835 colonial mansion on a 75 acre estate at Irvington on Hudson New York to alleviate housing for Columbia grad students. They enjoy country life and grow vegetables to ease city living.
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Nevis House
Donald J. Murray
Wausau
Wis
Alfred R. Stitselberger
New York
Dorothy Walker
Charles L
San Jose
Calif
Columbia University
Irvington-on-the-Hudson
New York City
Ana Way
Donald Murray
John McDonough
Seattle
Wash
Green Bay
Cameron Bremseth
Leeds
N. D
Country Squires
Nevis
Hudson River
Irvington-on-Hudson
University
T. Coleman du Pont
McDonough
Marie Mornard
Mississippi
Caught 11 Massive Sturgeon Catch in Cumberland River
Jamestown Kentucky reports John S Osborne his wife and his twin brother hauled 11 sturgeon weighing over 600 pounds near Lock 21 in the Cumberland River. They used a single No 14 electric light wire as line on a drag setup, and four men helped land a single fish.
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Jamestown
John S. Osborne
Cumberland River
John
From Hobby to Rug Business in Largo Florida
S M Rife turned rug making from a post office hobby into a thriving business. He created patterns from rags, expanded to a loom and carpet warp, and now operates a shop in a rear house supplying church groups and individuals with his products.
Opossum Guest Dining In Pasadena Yard
In Pasadena California a young opossum wandered into Carson G Bell's yard for a Sunday dinner, sampling grapevines. Bell summoned sweet potatoes and called Van Williams the famed Negro chef to join friends for the unusual feast. The animal likely traces to a 1900 Tennessee introduction of opossums to California.
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Pasadena
Calif
Carson G. Bell
Bell
van Williams
California
Flyers and aviation notes span Americas and beyond
Capt Warren B Smith a Gates Circus member and Panagra veteran crossed the Andes for the 1500th time from Santiago to Buenos Aires. Harold Binney near Bluff City Illinois built a landing strip for flyers. Bud Flowers of Canton piloted the first landing and ordered trailers for his trucking firm. East visitors will fly to Cleveland for United hunters special to pheasant country in South Dakota. Braniff to run weekly flights to Aberdeen South Dakota from Houston and Dallas starting late September. Billy Heber 16 of Franklin Pa won a Piper and logged four hours. Arthur W Grant Medina New York sells insurance and lands planes in farm backyards. Arthur C Jackson St Petersburg 80 taking flying lessons. Frank L Brandish 71 Eastport Me soloed. C J Boyd Santa Fe hunts antelope by plane. Mr and Mrs Wheaton Miees Winthrop Mass newlyweds flew 3000 miles on honeymoon. Boston Store Milwaukee offers air delivery to as far as Sturgeon Bay. Tests on airplane dusting of pecans for pest control to be repeated. 1945 tests were inconclusive. Speedy Rocket built in Fort Worth set a world speed record January 6 from Savannah Georgia to Roosevelt Field New York at 226.2 mph.
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East
Cleveland
United
South Dakota
Braniff
Aberdeen
S. D
Houston
Dallas
Billy Heber
Franklin
Arthur W. Grant
Medina
N. Y
Arthur C. Jackson
St. Petersburg
Frank L. Brandish
Eastport
C. J. Boyd
Santa Fe
N. M
Airport bill would fund seven-year private flying facilities
The proposed congressional airport bill outlines a billion-dollar program over seven years focusing on private flying facilities. It earmarks specific state allocations: New York 21,249,005. Texas 24,478,073. California 18,744,576. Pennsylvania 16,132,735. New Jersey 6,118,274. Connecticut 2,619,216, all requiring matching funds from states or municipalities.
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Congress
New York
Texas
California
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Connecticut
Washington Squirrels and Grass Debate and Policy Haste
Washington columnist notes a summer scene at the White House with a gray squirrel as a quiet observer while musing on questions of national policy. He shares letters on quack grass and crabgrass mulching, plus a discussion of OPA politics and the limits of grassroots lobbying efforts.
Barbs and Bustles From a Fateful Tour
A reader’s note recalls musician Charles Guisikoff taking 60 shirts on a Philadelphia orchestra tour that spans 42 days and likely pauses in Pittsburgh. Inflation examples show CM flooring priced at 2.75 in 1940 and 12.80 recently. A joking reference mentions a Josef Stalin tulip, and a tired metaphor about the coal industry’s ailing state plus spring weather with a sour twist.
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Charles Guisikoff
Philadelphia Orchestra
Pittsburgh
Kellogg's All Bran Promotes Gentle Constipation Relief
Advertisement touts Kellogg's All Bran as a non purgative remedy for constipation by increasing dietary bulk. It emphasizes daily use with ample water and claims rich nutrients including iron calcium phosphorus vitamins and protein. Made by Kellogg's of Battle Creek and Omaha for grocers.
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Kellogg’s Allbran
Kellogg's
Kellogg’s
Battle Creek
Omaha
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