24 Mar 1954
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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1954
Page
1
Nacogdoches reports a rural incident where Marvin McBride stopped his car on a farm to move a log blocking the road. He encountered a snake that crawled into a log hole and was bitten while attempting to remove the creature with a pole. Yellow jackets swarmed the area as McBride fled.
Paratroopers of Bilth Airborne Regimental Combat Team clashed with aggressor forces high in the Colorado Rockies during the Ski Jump exercise at Camp Hale near Leadville. About 6,000 U.S. troops participate in the final phase as the 11th and 31st Division units defend against enemy advances from the Continental Divide toward Turquoise Lake. The operation, led by civilian skiing experts from Colorado Springs, runs through Saturday.
EAST POINT GA A two year old bawls loudly as he is lifted into a barber chair. Barker John Orr tallies that a whispered request to close his eyes stops the crying, a claim supported by the reporter who witnessed the scene and noted the boy’s silence once eyes were shut.
New York columnist explores the idea of paying wives a weekly wage for domestic labor. He notes letters proposing wages spark debate, with husbands split between viewing salary as authority restored and seeing it as an unfair perk, while many wives resist the concept.
Population pressure pushes settlers to Angola highlands. A new village Cela forms with a church and school, a weekly plane service begins, crops fail in initial plots, and more settlers head toward the site.
An elderly husband, likened to a faded wolf, suggests strangest pension idea to his wife. He would endure matrimonial pay only if she contributed part to a pension fund so he could retire her from household chores. His punchline: hire a younger wife on the payroll.
A four story million dollar building in Los Angeles is being strengthened by prestressed concrete. Architects plan completion by December 1954. The method uses quarter inch steel wires stretched across floor planes to tighten the concrete as it cures, increasing strength and load-carrying capacity.
The design aims to remove a pullapart tendency in advance. The structure spans 46 feet in width. The abriskute will be about one eighth of an inch.
A fragmented, garbled passage describes a curved blade fruit knife and its use in preparing grapefruit segments and peppers. It suggests brisk kitchen tasks like removing weed pods, coring stems, and handling fresh vegetables, though details are unclear.
The Soviet Union plans a network of 3-D theaters expanding from Moscow where a 3-D system improves image quality. Director Prof. P Koslov notes the shift to a new screening and projection method, as audiences crowd theaters and foreign access remains scarce.
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