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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1952
Page
1
Gerard Nollen discusses the dangers of unchecked prosperity and investment losses for modest earners. He warns against stock market speculation and prefers high grade investments, emphasizing U S Savings Bonds as the safest option with 3 percent compound interest. Buy U S Defense Bonds.
A series of highway patrol anecdotes reveal the sudden violence of crashes and the shock to witnesses. A flaming wreck drives a man to try entering the car, a drunken driver clutches beer while severed arms lie nearby, and a mother mourns a missing baby before realizing none exists. Relics include an 1800 Ulster County Gazette bearing Washington’s funeral details. Cattle slain by lightning at Adair and Greyhound breeding ventures in Forest City mark local notes, with no juvenile delinquency cases in Ringgold and Worth.
In Irish lore the little people roam at night and are benevolent yet mischievous, with leprechauns and fairies guarding buried gold. Workmen once bulldozed a fairy mound near Limerick, rebuilt it overnight, and avoided further disturbance. A Belfast professor notes a sacred thorn tree near Queen's University, while Patric Colum recounts a farmer refusing land due to a fairy fort. A National Geographic piece cites a feared demon linked to Kilkenny witch lore.
Four hitherto unknown fishes were added to Smithsonian collections from Gulf of Mexico shrimp investigations by the U S Fish and Wildlife Service on a 1956 51 voyage aboard the Oregon. Type specimens reside at the Smithsonian and Harvard. One skate Rajalen- Aguesa about a foot long was captured at 175 feet, with deeper depths yielding more specimens. It bears thorny ornament around the eyes head shoulders and tail plus dense small spotting on the back.
Carlton Owen told U S district court he was guilty and sought a guilty verdict after rejecting a not guilty ruling. A jury later found him guilty of failing to register under the selective service law. Federal Judge Carl Hatch remarked on the unusual nature of the case and ordered a psychiatric examination before sentencing.
Myron Kinley the U S firemaster from Tulsa was flown to Bordolano Italy to quell a natural gas well fire that burned twenty two days. A 550 pound splorive charge blew torching flames skyward ending a blaze that threatened Brescia Piacenza and Mantova. The blast halted the blaze and methane gushed harmlessly upward as police kept crowds back. The well No 2 in Europe’s richest gas field had exploded during completion and 15 workers escaped before the fire surged.
A 99 year old man in Silver Creek Georgia joined a lonely hearts club to woo and wed a 70 year old Texas miss. A Warwick Rhode Island house was spotted with five inch diameter multicolored polka dots. A robin in Danchester England nested in a workman’s bicycle saddlebag forcing daily walks until hatching. A Cypress California girl mailed her fiance in Japan an average of four letters daily for five months.
A tourist adventure climbs to the Jungfraujoch glacier high in the Alps. Visitors ride a cog railway to a tunneled ice world with an ice palace, bookstore, ice bar, and even an ice car, plus a scientific observatory studying cosmic rays. The vertical glacier community is linked by lifts and tunnels high above Wengen.
A fragmented OCR item notes Pi being calculated to 2040 decimal places in 70 hours. It references a record held by a group of mathematicians and mentions electronic computing machines and July.
Durham report cites Wake Forest sociologist Dr. Clarence H. Patrick on a Duke press book arguing alcohol use is a cultural phenomenon. The study outlines motives for drinking, including thirst, socializing, escape, conformity, and as a learned behavior within groups, stressing behavior shaped by culture.
NBC engineers develop a gun shot reinforcer to enhance pistol sound on television. The device, the size of a typewriter case, plugs into the audio line and triggers a clean gun shot in response to studio blank pistol fire, producing a louder authentic effect for viewers.
Fifteen hundred members of the Shanghai Legion of Mary resisted attempts by Communist police to compel confessions of counter-revolutionary activity. Legionnaires say many signers were not Catholics or not members, some were deceived, and misleading stories about priestly involvement were used to pressure them. A young girl recounted hours of grilling and pleas for release as authorities pressed for signatures.
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