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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1947
Page
3
Geologists scour the globe in a race to locate uranium and related ores, with Canada in a strategic North American position. Advances in airborne and Geiger-counter prospecting enable detection without visible ore, fueling a tense hunt for deposits that could shape future power and security.
Houston, Tex. (UP) A dollar is a dollar even to a millionaire. W. F. Hubbard, Houston supervisor of money orders and postal savings for the U S government, told a former Houston man now a New York millionaire that the dollar he left in postal savings over 20 years ago would now total about $1.49. The man said he would claim the money as one of the first dollars he ever earned.
Woodland Park Zoo’s Roly Poly the seal died after a long life marked by unusual finds inside. An autopsy revealed 101 pennies 3 medallions 4 rocks 33 tax tokens and a brass lapel with uranium signia. The piece discusses uranium deposits worldwide noting Africa Canada and Australia as major sources and touches on global atomic awareness and transport issues.
New York based Eye Bank for Sight Restoration appeals for healthy corneas as shortages leave 28 metropolitan residents awaiting operations. Founder Mrs. Aida Breckinridge urges public generosity, noting no cornea reserves and comparing need to blood bank support. The bank, at 210 East 64th Street, seeks donor awareness to aid some of 15 000 possible restorations nationwide.
Two women who had known each other for 61 years were reunited in Seattle. Miss Effie Smit, who flew in from Maiden Massachusetts, met her cousin Mrs Mary E By er, 82, whom she had not seen since 188 when Bettinger then Mary Bensyr moved to the New England and Washington Territory frontier.
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