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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1956
Page
9
Honolulu report notes islanders, via radio and war, now fully aware of world events. Navy destroyer Whitehurst encounters a palm-fringed atoll baseball game with improvised equipment. The local team challenges sailors, using palm leaf bases and driftwood for a makeshift field.
Salem Mass naval officer Tom Kelleher formed a sailor team that faced a native squad and lost 4 0. He praised a pitcher with a wicked curve while recalling a college level bite. David B George returning from a south seas cruise noted a Fiji island native asking about U S race issues and rejecting cigarette offers for flavor.
The Colorado Highway Dept will open bids June 14 for grading 11.25 miles of atomic access road from the Utah line eastward to Bedrock in Montrose County. Estimated cost is $828,000, funded by Atomic Energy Commission funds. project includes a 33 foot twin to mult i-plate culvert.
A White Plains company unveils a device claiming to avert airplane stalls by measuring available wing lift and warning pilots in advance if lift is fading. The instrument is marketed as a safeguard for flight safety, with the manufacturer stressing early warning and ease of use.
Hal Boyle recalls Tom Wolfe born in Asheville in a family of eight, detailing his boyhood, early fame with Look Homeward Angel, and later reverence in Asheville. The piece tours Wolfe’s preserved home with sister Mabel Wheaton describing Wolfe’s frankness and enduring legacy at Riverside Cemetery.
A cryptic passage depicts Tami feeling lost and found by a stranger as Hade shouts in a woodland scene. It mentions a tombstone and a quotation from the author’s book about Qoath showing mercy and honor to a chosen one who dies.
Colorado A&M College and University of Wyoming economists and researchers studied 500 Denver families using colored meat photos to gauge fat distribution color and USDA grades. They found consumers rarely pick the top USDA grades and producers aim for them despite consumer preferences.
Washington reports that prices for men’s tailored garments will climb next fall after a new labor contract raises wages and fringe payments. Louis Rothschild of the National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers notes the agreement by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America boosts wages and will lift wholesale prices by about 4½ percent, with consumer increases of $2 to $5.50 depending on quality. gains effective the first week of June, with earlier stock kept at old prices.
City Manager B A Cruce favors keeping the aging American LaFrance fire engine for five more years to boost insurance ratings and provide extra pumping capacity for Greenley, before placing it in Meeker museum as a local attraction for youngsters.
RAIFORD Fla Tongay a former Miami swimming instructor is ruled insane and to be moved from state prison to Florida State Hospital. He was convicted of manslaughter in the 13 year old Kathy Tongay case and has long been described as troubled. Governor Leroy Collins ordered the hearing that led to the commitment.
Lookout Point Dam on the Willamette River near Salem contains three times as much material as Egypt's Great Pyramid. The dam rises about 630 feet high, dwarfing the Great Pyramid's 482 feet structure.
The family of G. Garrett Moody and Mrs Peter Klett and family express gratitude for sympathy, comforting words, service, offerings, and help during their sorrow.
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