Military Bands Keep Washington Lively
United Press notes four service bands the Army Navy Air Force and Marine perform daily in Washington at the Capitol Watergate amphitheater and indoors in winter. The Marine band dates to 1798 the Navy traces to the 1800s and the Army band began in 1922. The Air Force band formed 1942 and has played for Buckingham Palace.
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Washington
Capital
Army Band
Navy Band
Air Force Band
Marine Band
Capitol
Watergate
Potomac
Lincoln
St. Louis
Navy
Army
John J. Pershing
Army Music School
U. S. Air Force
Air Force
Buckingham Palace
Army Moves Pay Section Into Mammoth Building
The Army shifts its pay operations to a new 140 acre Finance Center at Ft. Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis. The three story glass complex will employ 6 000 civilians and 500 Army staff and handle payroll for about 1 150 000 service members with extensive filing and defense bond processing.
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Indianapolis
Pentagon
Army
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Defense
Army Finance Center
Potomac
Washington
St. Louis
Humboldt printer doubles in violins and old fiddles
Jim Evans, a Humboldt Courier-Chronicle printer, collects antique violins including two Stradivarius and a 1627 Nicholaus Amati. He owns pieces from Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, and Russia and authenticates them by appraisal from renowned dealers. He also plays the instruments in his spare time.
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Humboldt, Tenn
Jim Evans
Nicholaus Amati
Czechoslovakia
Germany
France
Russia
Evans
Humboldt Courier-Chronicle
Jail Held No Place For Innocent Dog
In Boonville Indiana deputy sheriff Gabe Feltner refused to jail a dog riding in a drunken driving suspect's car. State Trooper Keith Shelton took the motorist to Evansville while the dog was kept safe at home.
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Boonville
Ind
Gabe Feltner
Keith Shelton
Feltner
Shelton
Evansville
Lightning Strikes Defy Zigzag Myth With Curved Path
A science note explains that lightning does not travel in a zigzag of acute angles but follows curved twists. It may bend sharply at times yet avoids sudden sharp directional changes, reflecting complex atmospheric electrical flow.
Beginning of KKK Like a College Literary Society
Durham reports Dr. Clarence Goddes of Duke University finds the Ku Klux Klan began as a college style literary society. The original 1867 Nashville constitution shows a mix of club formality and literary overtones with Burns Shakespeare and Latin mottoes reflecting noble sentiments.
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Durham
Ku Klux Klan
Clarence Goddes
Duke University
Georgia Review
God
Klan
Sons of Light
Cukulcan
Goddes
Pulaski
Kuklus
Duke
Nashville
Dr. Goddes
Bii
Robert Burns
Burns
Shakespeare
Dane Guard Dog Stands Vigil Over Late Master
Mike the seven year old Great Dane kept watch for six hours over the body of Dr. Louis M. Oros a 45 year old from Bridgeport who died of a heart seizure while working on property away from home.
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Easton, Conn
Mike
Louis M. Oros
Bridgeport
Store mannequins must be clothed in Ogden
In Ogden Utah the Chamber of Commerce campaign targets nude plaster mannequins in downtown store windows after parental protests. Merchants division will urge dress and drape windows to avoid embarrassment and bad taste.
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Ogden
Utah
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
LaCrosse
Wis
Chivalry In Reverse Dead In Indiana
Four Shelbyville youths helped a woman with a flat tire but her car was locked and she could not reach a spare. One youth lent his spare and arranged to meet at a service station for the exchange but is waiting.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Orchids Given to Educators by Gordon Residents
Gordon Nebraska residents honor teachers and school board members with orchids as a gesture of appreciation for their service to the community.
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Gordon
Neb
Board of Education
Caretaker Retires After Fifty Years At College
Walter D. Holliday, longtime Wake Forest College superintendent of buildings and grounds, retired after fifty years of service dating to 1904. He helped transform the campus from a cow pasture to a expanded complex including a stadium and golf course. He directed wartime housing and postwar gym restyling, with his efforts praised by trustees. He and his wife Mary Salema Bobbitt have two daughters.
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Wake Forest
Wake Forest College
Walter D. Holliday
Holliday
Walter Holliday
Gore Gymnasium
Army Finance School
Board of Trustees
Mary Salema Bobbitt
Forestville
Mary Alice Taylor Jr
Beaufort
Betty Rose Holt
Zebulon
Cornell Engineers Seek Safer Autos
Cornell University engineers announce a research program to design safer autos and reduce injuries in crashes. The project will survey auto structures that cause harm and collect traffic casualty data from the Indiana State Police for analysis.
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Ithaca, N. Y
Cornell University Engineers
Cornell Department
Indiana State Police
Ex-German Soldier Surrenders to His War Captor Years Later
At Fort MacArthur Pfe Ort win Kullman an Army reservist faced Capt. Wallace G. Aitchison and admitted he was a German World War II soldier. The officer learned Kullman had surrendered to his own platoon outside Berlin. Eight years later the ex-prisoner met the captain who praised him as a "good, thorough, well schooled soldier."
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San Pedro
Calif
Fort MacArthur
Pfe
Wedding by Three Preachers in Corydon Indiana
The ceremony united the Rev. Paul Stroup and his bride with the Rev. Bradley Stroup and the Rev. Arthur Hoffman officiating. The wedding took place in Corydon, Indiana with both fathers participating as clergy.
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