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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1946
Page
7
The National Automatic Merchandising Association touts a coming age of self service where machines replace clerks. Vending devices will let customers fuel cars, make change, roast hot dogs, pop corn, buy tickets, insure policies, and more, all without human intervention.
Orlando based glider ace Raymon Parker rose from stolen sheets and scraps at age 15 to build and fly his first glider. He now holds one of six Golden Cs and the year’s distance record while stationed at Pine Castle Army Air Field with the Soaring Society of America. His 32 foot wing span craft soared 1 000 feet for 90 minutes aided by a California thermal and was towed by a 1916 car. He notes that was his first and last accident and also paints and carves wood miniatures.
In Arizona irrigation turns the state toward truck farming with vegetables earning 38 million dollars in 1945, surpassing cattle and cotton. Cotton and cottonseed brought 17 million dollars, while head lettuce topped 20 million, concentrated in Salt River Valley near Phoenix and Yuma Valley.
William Miskill a Chattanooga locksmith after 18 years of work has built a portable electric lock picker. He says it can open average door locks in seconds and could tempt thieves, but he will not sell it to preserve locks. The device uses a vibrating steel needle driven by coils with a tension tool to lift the tumbler and open the door.
Vernon Kahl, housing expediter for war veterans at the University of Wisconsin, converted a Verona farmer's home and a newly finished 22 unit apartment building in two weeks. He offered five spare bedrooms to students first, then mobilized lumber and neighborhood support to house 27 World War II veterans and their wives.
Mrs. James Corbett Beach of Tulsa born without arms uses her toes as fingers to diaper her five day old daughter. She demonstrates diapering skill to nurses proving she can cope as well as any mother. The baby is healthy. Beach, 23, married five years ago after high school, also drives a car and plays guitar and has appeared at fairs in New York San Francisco and Dallas.
Olympia Washington Police Chief Roy Kelly realized new tickets violated the law and ordered recall of the printed tickets. He had the entertainment tax printed on them to ensure legality and collect the revenue.
Carl F. Eggleston a former Marine Corps dog trainer has opened a free dog training school in Long Beach California He aims to prepare all breed dogs as obedient playmates and guardians for children The veteran previously trained dogs for show and special duty before the war.
Dedication ceremonies for the Winnebago county airport in Oshkosh Wisconsin featured Gen Carl A Spaatz as speaker. Ex servicemen form a G I Flight club in Seattle with 50 charter members and two grasshopper planes. A new city airport opens in Kremmling Colorado during a rodeo and horse show breakfast for visiting flyers. Ed Rowley of Eugene Oregon launches Flowers with Wings delivering field flowers by air. Ohio State football team flights to Los Angeles see only one air sick passenger. A herd of 82 Holstein cattle from Wisconsin Illinois Iowa Minnesota is flown to Colombia in shipments taking 32 hours by Willis Air Service to reduce travel sickness. A new long range navigation technique called pressure pattern flying uses WSY broadcasts for route time optimization.
Washington reporters frame the New York talks as the United States Senate Byrnes and diplomats face a split view on handling Soviet aims. Analysts cite Wallace and Fischer works to argue for a firm stand versus appeasement amid the Assembly and Foreign Ministers clash.
The piece describes Russia’s bid for German sympathy to pull Germany toward Moscow while blocking economic unity in Europe. It notes Byrnes’ swift repudiation of Wallace, Russia’s unrealized eastern frontier aims, and calls for a clear U.S. line beyond which Moscow will not be allowed to advance. It also mentions Yugoslav pressures and Tito’s possible reversal as the US stance hardens.
Sol Bloom arrives at the U.N. meeting and jokes about seven million constituents seeking tickets. A former Silver Shirt leader moves from jail to hospital for alleged alien matter. Winston Churchill sues author Louis Adamic for libel over Dinner at the White House claims.
Pattern No 8090 comes in sizes 12 14 16 18 and 20. Size 14 jumper uses 244 yards of 54 inch fabric and blouse with long sleeves uses 214 yards of 35 or 39 inch fabric.
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