Duke Psychiatrists Grapple With Black Magic and Hexes
Duke University psychiatrists study black magic and hexes with cases showing hex victims often have mental illness. A 32-year-old man believed a conjurer cursed him after a business betrayal and sought hypnosis and treatment at Duke. Dr Kinross-Wright cautions many hex stories mask real distress and urges clinicians to understand patient beliefs to avoid unnecessary testing.
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Wendell Weisend
Durham
Duke University
Vernon Kinross-Wright
Duke Neuropsychiatrist
Southern Medical Association
Duke Hospital
Duke
Kinross-Wright
Derstand
ross-Wright
New York
Missionaries Driven From Red China Find New Work
Christian missionaries ousted from China relocate to Asia and Latin America. Fides tallies 5,495 foreign workers in China before 1949, 840 remained last month. protestant totals dwindled from 3,943 to about 2,536 in 1947 with 25 percent settling in Southeast Asia and others in Japan and Latin America. Protestant groups seek Latin American expansion, with Cuba cited as a growing field and Latin American training emphasized by the National Council of Churches. The angler fish note ends the piece.
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Red China
Asia
Latin America
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Fides
China
Roman Catholic Church
National Catholic Welfare Conference
U. S
Clyde W. Taylor
National Association of Evangelicals
New York
National Council of Churches of Christ
Roland Cross
China Committee
Taylor
Japan
Southeast Asia
W. Stanley Rycroft
Cuba
Presbyterian Church
Cave Man Not So Old Europe study reshapes timeline
Dr Kenneth Page Oakley of the British Museum reports radio carbon dating that European cave man disappeared by 1300 B C at an International Symposium. He notes earlier estimates placed decline and rise of modern Europe between 200 and 500 centuries B C with the latter seen as probable.
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Kenneth Page Oakley
British Museum of Natural History
Stork Granted Landing Limits at Scott AFB Hospital
The stork loses unlimited landings at Scott Air Force Base Hospital and must land at the base no more than 60 times a month. Overseas servicemen with wives in Southern Illinois previously received free deliveries there, but the increased base population to about 1,500 prompted the new maternity ward quota.
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Scott Air Force Base
Illinois
Ithe Base Hospital
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Beavers Seek to Dam Mississippi at Credit Island Park
In Davenport Iowa naturalists report bold beavers have felled several large trees into the Mississippi River at Credit Island Park. Beavers normally cut saplings for food and only fell big trees for dams. Park workers have daubed tree trunks with unpleasant tasting substance to protect other trees.
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Mississippi River
Credit Island Park
Credit Island
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Social security tax reversal for retired directors praised
The Social Security Board and the Internal Revenue Bureau reversed a tax rule affecting retired individuals who serve as corporate directors. Directors under 65 may opt out of social security tax on fees. those over 65 could still receive earned benefits. The change, kept mostly secret, shifts on the length of board involvement, sparking debate about policy and fairness.
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New York
Social Security Board
Internal Revenue Bureau
Treasury
Revenue Bureau
Columm
Congress
Japan Gets Television Job
Tokyo based Shibaura Electric Co will start turning out 2 000 television and radio tubes for an American company starting in February. A contract to mass produce electronic tubes was signed with the Eimo Co of the United States. The liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were built partly from scrap from the German battle fleet sunk in Scapa Flow after World War I.
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Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co
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Stocks Rest After New Highs As Market Cools
The week saw gains in November erased slightly with a small dip in all sections. Industrials down 1.60 points, rails down 22 cents, utilities down nine cents. oils led gains with several petroleum shares rising. Brokers viewed the pullback as modest after a broad late November rise.
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Jersey Standard
California Standard and
Texas Co
Petroleum
Superior
California
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Shamrock
Standard of
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Texas Pacifical and
OMIL
Kern County Land
Barber
Mission
Amerada
Houston
Northern Pacific
Williston Basin
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe, Nickel Plate
Southern Railway
St. Louis Southwestern
Coca-Cola
Firestone
Wall Street
Reading
Chrysler
Panhandle
Piper Line
Southern California Edison
Incessant Pain Killed By Surer Operation
AP reports new findings in chordotomy for ending incessant pain from cancer and other causes. The procedure cuts into the spinal cord below the brain, with the patient awake to indicate sensation. Researchers Dr. Henry G. Schwartz and Dr. James L. O'Leary of Washington University study two pain types and patient feedback to guide safer, more effective cuts.
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Alton L. Blakesler
ST. Louis
Henry G. Schwartz
James L. O'Leary
Washington University School of Medicine
God and Freedom medal project seeks national award
The Men's Club of First Congregational Church in Phoenix submitted the God and Freedom medal to the Freedom Foundation in Valley Forge for consideration. The silver coin bears God and a cross on the obverse and the American flag with Freedom on the reverse. Fifty medals were issued first, then twenty five more. Governors and national leaders received samples, with about 500 silver pieces sold and thousands of copper alloy medals distributed nationwide.
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First Congregational Church
Freedom Foundation
Valley Forge
Frederick Barnhill
Howard Pyle
Arizona
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Council Bluffs Faces Sale of Water Feature Trough
The sewer superintendent Eldon Evans announced plans to sell a heavy water trough in Council Bluffs after officials warned prospective buyers. It took 10 men and five vehicles to move the piece, with the center fountain weighing 6,000 pounds.
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Council Bluffs
Eldon Evans
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