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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1950
Page
5
Cakin Lumber Co advertises full range building supplies including lumber cement wire steel posts insulation hog houses gravel sand and paint for quick local use. The ad emphasizes ready stock and immediate delivery to contractors and homeowners.
The Washington Zoo, famed nationwide, relies on constant painting and upkeep led by Director Dr. William M. Mann. About 1500 dollars yearly in paint and materials protect 3000 animals, cages, and buildings while backgrounds and walls are colored to enhance display. WPA artists once painted habitats from Africa to the North Pole, with reptile and bird houses standing strong while large mammals reveal playful, if irreverent, scenery.
Usage by Prewworth Riley Whittier Irving Thoreau and others shows pumpkins and pumpkin pies inspire slang. Pumpkin Center and Pumpkin Chapel are Kentucky post offices. Pumpkinvine Creek flows into the Eto Wah river south of Cartersville Kentucky. In 1894 Elwood Haynes launched one of America's first fors V eles carriages on Pumpkinvine Pike.
The first farm plows were made from crooked tree branches and worked by mn power.
A University of California scientist unearthed fossil remains near Coalinga that include sea cow teeth and jaws, offering new insight into the Sirenia order. Previously only fragments existed, leaving questions about the animal’s place among mammals and its rarity on earth. Roy H. Reinhart, a paleontology teaching assistant, led the excavation.
National Park Service areas and other sites saw record visitors in 1949 with total travel at 31,864,180 for the year ending September 30, a rise of eight percent from 1948's 29,608,318. The Lake Texoma region joined the corps of engineers on July 1, but even excluding roughly 2,000,000 Texoma visitors by June 20, the total still surpassed 1948 by over 250,000.
The National Safety Council warns that traffic deaths have leveled off after a postwar decline, predicting about 32,000 lives lost annually unless new safety incentives are found. A nine month survey shows 22,320 deaths in 1949, only 2 percent below 1948. September 1949 toll reached 3,060, nearly the same as September 1948.
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