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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1956
Page
2
In a residential area near the airport, a Navy jet crashed after takeoff. Ten adults and children died or were injured, with five in critical condition. Pilot George E. Armstrong of Linvenpolis identified among early victims. Witnesses recalled a blazing explosion and widespread fire.
At Estes Park the Colorado Home Demonstration council hosts three day gathering with Big Bend Peckham Beebe Draw clubs represented. Health promotion theme led discussions while noon session featured members from all three groups and local officials.
In Louisa Kentucky 89 year old Grandma Sprouse and 28 year old husband Shorty celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary by rebuilding a cabin after a fire. They married when he was 18 and she 79. She fears prophecy of a vast wilderness and bad times while he works on the new log cabin near Cat Creek.
The Colorado Agriculture Dept awarded two contracts to United Hakathorn Co. of Richmond California and Hig Horn Flying Service of Greybull Wyoming to spray 150000 acres for grasshopper infestations in Las Animas and Baca counties with shared federal state and rancher funding. Initial acreage may expand as more ranchers enroll and spraying begins next Wednesday.
Jordan plans a new rent factory beside Jericho to extract chemicals from the Dead Sea. The inland sea reportedly contains around 40,000 million tons of magnesium calcium sodium chlorides and bromine but supports no fish. The ONL factory sits on a site damaged in 1948 during Arab Israel fighting. The Dead Sea measures 1080 feet deep on average and lies about 1300 feet below the Mediterranean level.
Students from across the nation attend the 1956 basic session of the National Foundation of Funeral Service School of Management in Evanston. Courses cover business administration, ethics, sales psychology, public relations, and tax control to improve service.
Fort Collins officials from the Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station report a reduced beetle program this year. About 25,000 trees will be treated in the Uncompahgre San Juan forests and 1,100 elsewhere, far below 1954-53 levels. A spraying plan targets 141,200 acres for Great Basin tent caterpillar, and pinyon needle scale threatens Mesa Verde National Monument pines.
U S officials predict a polite rejection of Soviet Premier Bulganin’s call for a new approach to disarmament. He urged a five power U N inquiry and a broad troop reduction, but Western leaders see no safeguards against violations and fear U S and allied forces would withdraw from Europe, weakening Western security. Bulganin’s letter aims to leverage his May 14 troop cut announcement to gain propaganda leverage ahead of UN deliberations.
A blue-gray creature called Rare-Bit, with a catlike head and foreparts and a rabbit's rear, has been found in Mount Maua panié drawing crowds as it walks on a leash with unusual motion.
Madison Wisconsin judge K Moll drew lots to determine who would represent a man charged with the mutilation murder of an 81 year old woman. State law provides courts appoint counsel when a defendant has no funds. Judge Hot adopted the unprecedented procedure for Orlen Arnold Shaffer because all eight county attorneys appeared reluctant to take the case.
The Weld County Colorado County Court will hear final settlement accounts for the administration of the estate of William A. Lord also known as Waldo Lord on July 21, 1956. Heirship and ownership of lands and hereditaments will be determined. interested parties may appear and present proof. Betty B. Lord, Jane E. Lord, Natalie C. Cecland, and others are named as potential heirs or claimants. Waldo and Waldo, Attorneys, Greeley, Colorado, June 4, 13, 12, 28, 1568.
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