Meteors From Space Threaten Early Space Travel Advances
New calculations show 200 million meteors enter Earth’s atmosphere daily, ranging from dust specks to larger bodies. They travel 30 000 to 180 000 mph and weigh at least 10 tons in total, often vaporizing in air. Researchers Millman and Burland presented the estimate to major science bodies.
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New York
Space
Earth
Moon
Mars
American Astronomical Society
American Assn
Science
Peter M. Millman
Miriam
Burland
National Research Council
Dominion Observatory
Canada
N C Fugitive Held By Police In Oklahoma
Tulsa police held 32 year old Carl H. Smith of Raleigh and Salisbury North Carolina as a fugitive from a North Carolina prison. Detectives said he was arrested on indecent exposure charges and fingerprinting confirmed the fugitive status. Smith used the alias Joe B. Hunt and waived extradition after admitting a term for attempted rape and an escape six weeks ago. He reported a wife and two children in Salisbury.
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Tulsa
Okla
North Carolina
Ray Jones
Carl H. Smith
Raleigh
Salisbury
N.C
Smith
Joe B. Hunt
Today's Lesson In Spelling
New York report on college spellings errors from Dr Kenneth Crooks of Kort Valley State College Georgia. He cites 100 to 500 students misspelling common words and failing basic literacy over 26 years, blaming lack of writing drills, slogans, faulty public notices, and teachers sidelining spelling instruction.
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Skeeter
Kenneth B. M. Crooks
Kort Valley State College
Georgia
The
American Assn. For the Advancement of Science
Crooks
CASH OR EASY TERMS OFFERED FOR SERVICES
A local advertisement invites customers to pay cash or use easy terms with a phone number 8905 and offers free estimates day or night.
First U S Navy Airplane Ordered in 1911
A 1911 record notes the United States Navy placed its first airpower order for a U S Navy airplane signaling early military aviation development.
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U. S. Navy
Constipation remedy touts Coronaro laxative claims
An advertisement promotes Coronaro as a new bulk laxative that remoistens dry waste and stimulates a normal urge to purge. It claims the product is gentle, safe for pregnancy, superior to older laxatives, and priced at 98 cents for a 60 tablet package. It also extols colon toning through exercise and urges readers to buy at drug counters.
Liquor Distillers Increase Prices Across North Carolina
North Carolina ABC stores will see a price rise of 5 to 15 cents per bottle after January 1 affecting about a quarter of liquor items. Distillers stockpile at old prices boosting stores in Charlotte. State auditor J Carl Wester cites 5–10 cent pint and 10–15 cent fifth increases on certain blends and bonds. Profits from local stores go to Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and public libraries with checks totaling 377000 this week and estimated profits of 1.5 million dollars for the year.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
ABC
Carl Wester
ABC Board
Mecklenburg County
Public Library System
Brevard Man Chosen to Set Up Overseas Dispensaries
Dr Norm A Boyer of Brevard named to establish dispensaries in the Near East for American civilians employed by the department. He departs Jan 8 for a Washington meeting, with wife and two children to sail Jan 22 from New York to Nicosia Cyprus where he will serve as chief. Born Winston Salem 39 years ago, educated at Wake Forest and Bowman Gray, he served in the Pacific during World War II and worked at Ecusta Paper in Pisgah Forest before private practice.
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N.C
Norman Boyer
Near East
Department
Washington
David
Cathy
New York
Nicosia
Cyprus
Boyer
Winston-Salem
Wake Forest College
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
Pacific
Navy
Ecusta Paper Corp
Pisgah Forest
Here
Prisoners Attend Mother’s Funeral After Escape
JACKSON Mich Prison officials relented to let Donald F Wolfe 25 attend his mother Mrs Katherine Wolfe 58 funeral after his escape from a Michigan prison farm when he learned she was critically ill in Los Angeles She died before he could reach her and Wolfe surrendered to St Louis police.
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Mich
Donald F. Wolfe
Michigan
Katherine Wolfe
Los Angeles
Wolfe
St. Louis
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