Baptist Hospital Expands Its Facilities During Year
Winston-Salem reports in January 1957 that the North Carolina Baptist Hospital marked its 34th year with over 16 000 patients and 122 000 outpatient visits. The year featured a cobalt 60 teletherapy unit, a $150 000 X ray underground housing, a new plastic surgery department serving 205 patients with 176 operations, an ultrasonic instrument cleaning system, and a moved blood bank with larger quarters. A Davis Memorial Chapel dedication on March 23 stood out among modernization efforts including a $50 000 boiler and stand by oil and coal systems for gas disruption protection.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina Baptist Hospital
Reid Holmes
North Carolina
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
New Davis Memorial Chapel
Lost Cove Family Leaves Secluded North Carolina Mountain Hamlet
Velmer Bailey his wife Sérvilla and children Priscilla Hosea and Isaiah leave Lost Cove in Yancy County North Carolina ending a century old era of Bailey Bryants Arrowoods and Tipptons who lived without modern utilities in a wildlife refuge area. The community once housed up to 15 families with mills school and church now sits quiet awaiting buyers for the nine remaining homes and land.
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Burnsville
N. C
Velmer Bailey
Sérvilla
Priscilla
Hosea
Isaiah
Lost Cove
Baileys
Bryants
Arrowoods
Tiptons
Yancy County
Bailey
Morgan Bailey
Poplar
The
Wildlife Commission
Clyde Fender
Evangelist
Last Cove
Sinclair Conley
Conley
Povlar
Cove
Salah
Pearson optimistic on world peace through space unity
Nobel laureate Lester B Pearson told Ottawa that discovery of intelligent life on another planet could unite East and West. He warned against escalation but hoped humanity would pursue peace on a better basis. The remark came at a Big Brother banquet where he was named Big Brother of Canada for 1958.
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Ottawa
Lester B. Pearson
Pearson
Big Brother
Canada
John Adams First President to Occupy White House
John Adams became the first president to reside in the White House in Washington DC marking a historic milestone in early American leadership.
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John Adams
White House
Washington, D. C
President Adams's Space Plea Ridiculed by Congress
Harper's magazine reveals in 1856 that President John Quincy Adams urged Congress in 1825 to create an astronomical observatory and full-time astronomer to study heavens. The plan faced “a torrent of ridicule” as lawmakers mocked a lighthouse in the skies, contrasting Eisenhower-era space aims with past scorn.
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New York
Jan
U.S
Space
Congress
Harper's Magazine
John Quincy Adams
Europe
America
Eisenhower
Harper's
John Fischer
Adams
Sith
American
Pratt National Park Emerges as Smallest U S Park in Oklahoma
Pratt National Park, the smallest in the United States, spans 1.43 square miles in south central Oklahoma, highlighting its unique status among national park sites.
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U. S. National Parks
Pratt National Park
Oklahoma
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Toe River
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High Point Township
W. F. Hester
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