Radioactive Rings Improve Auto Engine Lubrication Test
An atomic energy commission joint release describes testing radioactive piston rings in a California Richmond lab to measure wear as little as one millionth of an ounce. It explains how Geiger counters locate oil samples in pipelines and outlines isotopic techniques to improve fuels and refinery efficiency without exposing motorists to radioactivity.
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Paul F. Ellis
Ose Ig, Tenn
CAP
Atomic Energy
Ameritoring
California Research i
Richmond
Callt
U. S. Atom Commission
California Corporation
Texas
New Jersey
Demopolis Rotarians Sponsor Recreation Center for Negroes
Demopolis Rotary Club funds drive to build a Negro recreation center adjoining U. S. Jones High School. Plans include a swimming pool and dressing rooms. Mayor N. B. Fields calls the project a progressive move for improving race relations in the area.
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Demopolis
Demopolis Rotary Club
U. S. Jones ‘High School
N. B. Fields
Big Jim Folsom Aims to Rally Alabama Voters
The Alabama governor, 6 foot 2, 265 pounds, blends folksy rhetoric with a clear anti corruption agenda. He rejects race baiting, promises to lift roads and improve education for all, and says his hero is Andrew Jackson. Voters see him as a powerful, enduring political force.
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Alabama
Ike
Big
Jim
Folsom
Big Jim
Andrew Jackson
Andy Jackson
Andy
Eris
South
Toay
Harvard
Ozark Girl To Star In Candida Here Next Week
Ozark girl Hazel Riley stars in Candida to be presented at the City Auditorium next Friday, sponsored by the Dothan Kiwanis Club as a benefit for boys and girls work. E. B. Miles and Bill Manley head the cast with Robert C. Eberle directing, as the Auburn Players tour from Ft Benning to Dothan Camp Hill Demopolis and Linden through February.
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Auburn Players
Alabama
Polytechnic Institute
City
Dothan Kiwanis Club
Hazel Riley
Ozark
E. B. Miles
Birmingham
Bill Manley
Auburn
Dothan Club
Robert C. Eberle
API
Ft. Benning
Dothan
Camp Hill
Demopolis
Linden
Miss Riley
Blades
Miles
Jackson Committee Chairs Named In March of Dimes
Jackson County chairman Carl Neal announced a statewide drive with a corps of committee chairmen across Marianna, Malone, Greenwood, Two Egg, Dellwood, Grand Ridge, Sneads, Cypress, Cottondale, Graceville and Campbellton. Neal noted 1948 saw record poliomyelitis cases and 26,000 victims in the past year.
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Marianna
Specia
United States
Carl Neal
Jackson County
March of Dimes
Neal
J. P. Streetman
Malone
Louis Johnson
Greenwood
Jim Golson
Two Egg
John Henry Pittman
Dellwood
J. E. Mitchell
Grand Ridge
Dec Lawrence
Sneads
Emmett Wester
Cypress
J. P. Preston
Cottondale
H. D Ward
Graceville
Dumas Raines
Campbellton
E. E. Knowles
Education Council Meets In Birmingham
The creiens Advisory Education Council will hold its annual venue in Birmingham tomorrow to stage public education needs in Alabama. Council President C B. Gil more Grove Hill said more than bankers, industrialists and business, labor leaders, farmers and educators are scheduled to attend. Speakers will include Dr. A. R. Meadows, state superintendent of education, Dr. E. B. Norton, president of Florence State Teachers College, Dr. John T. Caldwell, president of Alabama College, and Dr. John R. MecClure, dean of the University of Alabama College of Education. Among problems to be studied are a proposal to makes the state superintendent of education an appointive rather than an elective office, and the shortage of qualified teachers and of school buildings. The Welsh people are of Critic stock, like the Irish.
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Council
C B. Gilmore
Grove Hill
A. R. Meadows
Local names listed from DeWitt Thom as to Bascom
A passage cites individuals including W. C. Wells from Round Lake and Compass Lake, DeWitt Thom as, Kynesville, L. R. Melvin, and Leon Wise of Bascom. The OCR yields a roster of names with no clear events or actions attached.
Early Babylonian banking cited by Britannica
The Encyclopedia Britannica notes that Babylonians had an adequate banking system by 2000 B C. Linen infused with calcium compounds is used to make eigare paper. New Zealand has no native mammals except bats.
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B. C
New Zealand
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Jg Automobiles
Petty
Raymond E.spann Insurances
Oye
Zephyr
Iseason
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Catafornia Redwood
J. L. Harris Roofing
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Season Hines
Africa
India
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Washington
Ann Cather
Sacramento
Calif
Fred Cather
Cather
San Jose
James Morel
Candida
Players
Howard College
Dorothy Best
Montgomery
Jim Wynn
Tampa
Florida
Leonard Hart
River Falls
United Warehouse Company, Inc
C. Barber
N. Cherry Granitel
Dothan Eagle
Jackson Committee
Education Council
Creiens Advisory Education Council
Josepe
S. Oates Extension
Green Meadow
Riegeldale Melba
Emory
Reigerdale
Bournedale
Bellona
Virginia
Reigeldale Ilustrious Benjamin Sie
Riegeldale
Ben’s
Mo-La-Jac Farms
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