YMCA health club plan aims to aid North Carolina youth
The piece argues that selective service statistics show a health concern among NC selectees and promotes YMCA facilities led by Edgar Hartley. It emphasizes attracting regular youth participation, benefits for older businessmen through milder exercise, steam baths, and massages, and calls for sizable gifts from the community to support the project.
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North Carolina
YMCA
Edgar Hartley
High Point
Rainbow River Bend color shifts after rains
The Rainbow River in Oregon changes color after rainfall due to soils washed from the Painted Hills. The creek water may appear red green blue brown or yellow at times. The phenomenon draws attention but locals remain calm as the natural display continues.
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Bend
Ore
Oregon
The Member of the Wedding and Other Books Review
W. G. Rogers surveys Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding and five more novels. He praises McCullers for a tense story of adolescence and peril, notes Dreiser and Dresser as uneven posthumous works, and highlights My Country-In-Law and A Voice Like Velvet with cautious appraisal of themes and narrative style.
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Carson MecCullers
Houghton Mifflin
Frankie
F. Jasmine
Frances
John Henry West
Berenice Sadie Brown
Barney
Damocles
Power editor spurs tiny town paper with quirky spellings
In Power Montana thirteen year old David McDonnell starts The Power, a one page mimeographed weekly, using playful misspellings to crusade for local causes. Despite early criticism, circulation bites into two pages, reaching California and Minnesota while David learns spelling and the town gains a voice.
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John Kamps
Power
Mont
David McDonnell
David
Lse
Montana
Joseph McDonnell
David Irion
Derrill _Hatchers
Jacob Heinen
Aragon Ballroom
California
Texas
North Dakota
Minnesota
When Girls Call Too Much On The Phone
A masculine reader writes guidance on how boys prefer to pursue dating and how to handle a girlfriend who calls repeatedly during vacations. He suggests bluntly claiming busyness and suggesting limited home time, then shifting to calling her yourself if needed, to avoid hurting the friendship.
Two Bodied Pig Born Near Longford Kansas
A duro jersey sow on John Russell’s farm in Longford gave birth to a unique piglet with two complete bodies and eight legs but one head. Five legs sprouted from one body and three from the other. The pig survived 15 minutes before its death and its body was sent to Kansas State College for study.
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Longford
John Russell
Kansas State College
Aluminum Silicate Deposit Explored in North Carolina
A study by the state department of conservation and development identifies Sillimanite, an aluminum silicate, spanning miles in Rutherford County to Elkin along the Yadkin River. Researchers, including Dr. J L Stuckey, say the deposit may be the only limonite outside Georgia and could suit refractories, high heat, and chemical uses with a low expansion coefficient.
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Raleigh
South Catlina
Rutherford Coat
Elkin River
Elkin
State Department of Conservatis and Development
Georgia
Iag
J. L. Stuckey
Nation Department
Wounded Veterans To Be Taken From Atlantic City
Atlantic City houses about 2100 wounded GIs in two army controlled hotels awaiting transfer by end of June. Private Tower lost a leg at a Pacific beachhead and may wait a year for an artificial limb. Veterans, many amputees, share wards at Haddon Hall and Chalfont as USO volunteers ease their days with cards, magazines, and piano music while plans to move them westward proceed.
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Dian
Crook
Red Cloud
Lucky Chance
Army War College
Martin Schmitt
War College
Schmitt
Atlantic City
N. J
INS
Pfe
Joseph Toner
Pittsburgh
France
Bataan
Tower
Pacific
Utah
California
Haddon Hall
Chalfont
Army
Thomas M. England General Hospital
Toner
USO
Joe
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Benecia
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Solon
Fox and
Woolman
Dresser
Carrie
Mary Mian
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Paris
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Random House
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Scotland Yard
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Martin F. Schmitt
University of Oklahoma
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