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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1950
Page
1
Fort Wayne officers detain John Clayton after arrest for nonsupport. A gopher he kept slipped from his pocket and fled to the jail. Clayton refused to enter the county jail without his pet, prompting jail staff to place the gopher in custody.
Boulder Colorado near the University of Colorado is the proposed site for a new U S Bureau of Standards radio propagation laboratory. The location at 5360 feet offers advantages for cosmic ray and solar studies used in radio communications. A Mount Evans cosmic ray station and Harvard Colorado University coronagraph at Climax illustrate related high altitude research efforts.
The article explains rubber bounce due to elasticity as the rubber returns to shape after deformation. When touching ground, compression stores energy that elastic forces release to lift the ball. Some energy is lost as internal friction heating. even in a vacuum a ball cannot rise higher than its drop point. Ordinary putty is inelastic and does not bounce because it does not revert after deformation.
The United Nations Secretariat building on Manhattan’s East River between 42nd and 48th streets rises 39 stories and should be ready for occupation before year end. Plans indicate three additional units still under contract, likely to be completed in 1951 as part of the world peace headquarters project.
Ralph N. Hoar an 18 year old from Du Quoin Illinois wins a spot with a 150 member Egyptian music camp band after competing with 25 trombonists. He lost both hands five years ago when a runaway team threw him into a hay mower. A special shoulder mechanism and steel hook enable him to play the trombone.
Eniwetok Atoll ranks high among the most battered Pacific lands. Typhoons, World War II bombs, and atomic tests have scarred the atoll in the 1941 1950 decade. The area, used as an Atomic Energy Commission proving ground, saw inhabitants moved to Uje Lang before the first atomic tests in 1948 amid heavy bombardment that razed nearby Japanese installations.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports that cigarette consumption rose by 3.5 billion in 1949 over 1948 but per capita use fell slightly as population grew. Bureau of Agricultural Economics notes a leveling of demand after years of gains with 1949 total at 352 billion cigarettes and per capita supply near 2,435.
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