Thom asville Opens City Recreation June 18 Under Foust
Thom asville will launch its annual city recreation program on June 18 directed by J. D. Foust. Pools will operate daily 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Sundays 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Lessons for six to 16 year olds are free with participants to bring own swimsuits and towels.
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Thomasville
J. D. Foust
Foust
Faust
Memorial Park
Aeay
Liberty Drive
Negro Park
Kern Street
Memorial Park Stadium
Doak Park Field
Amazon Field
Church Street School
Church Street
Motorcycle Popularity Wanes As Cops Turn To Prowl Cars
The article notes a decline in police motorcycle use as patrol cars replace two wheelers. Officers cite pursuit difficulties on dirt roads, safety injuries, and shifts to three wheel or single vehicle support. Only a single two wheeler remains in service for limited tasks.
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Popu
Wn Motor
Meany Reports Merger Progress Across States
President George Meany of the AFL-CIO says the union merger is complete in six states and coalition work is advancing in others at a satisfactory pace. He notes some races are slow due to local factors and predicts completion by December 1957.
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Los Angeles
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Handcart Pioneers Made It Hard Way
Salt Lake City May 26 1900s account recalls European converts migrating to Utah by handcart in 1856. Brigham Young ordered foot journeys and carts built in Town City for groups of 500 400 and 200 starting mid June. The trek covered 1300 miles amid harsh winters prairie storms and buffalo stampede with relief trains later organized to save frozen survivors.
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Salt Lake City
England
Utah
Central
Western Plains
Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)Church
Zion
Great Salt Lake Valley
Thesa
Brigham Young
The
Mormons
America
Plains of Iowa
Iowa City
Plains
Mormon Church
Town City
Con
Vr. Bey
Aong
Senor Ellsworth
Iowa
Nebraska
Daniel W. Jones
Salt" Lake Valley
Wy- Eee
Salt Lake Val
Earth Gains Weight From Cosmic Dust
New York May 26 Earth grows heavier as meteoric dust adds 100 to 1000 tons daily. Over 2000 years the planet lost about 730 million tons of air, while total weight is about 6 followed by 21 zeros. Astronomers say the gain is tiny a fraction of a percent and poses no gravity or climate threat.
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Alton L. Blakesler
New York
Donald H. Menzel
Harvard Observatory
Window breaks and cascading mishaps across the nation
A chaotic sequence unfolds from Sumter to Virginia and Texas with a junkyard blast, a misidentified JATO bottle, minor fires, a frightened elderly man needing jaw reassembly, a rock breaking a window in Dallas, lost mail checks, a Boston will drama, and a Hawaii money hoard mystery ending with a frustrated savers tale.
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New York
Sumter
S.C
Fredericksburg
Dallas
Ft.Laudsare
Bie
Hay
Hilo
Hawaii
Twelve journalism schools reaccredited by ACEJ
The American Council on Education for Journalism accrediting committee announced reaccreditation of 12 journalism schools and 34 sequences. Edward Lindsay and Holt McPherson noted 19 sequences were reaccredited and 9 new accreditations completed since the second round began, with 20 schools to be visited next year.
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American Council
Tion
Edward Lindsay
Decatur
ACEJ
Holt McPherson
High Point
Council
Whee University
University of Illinois
Con University
University of Kentucky
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri
Northwestern University
Medill School
Sorial
Radiotelevision
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University
South Dakota State College
Texas A. & M. College
Linsay
New York
Blind student earns Duke PhD degree
Irvin Hart of Los Angeles will receive a Duke University PhD alongside about 80 peers. Blind since World War I, Hart earned the degree through tape-recorded lectures, dictation, and assistive teamwork with his wife, who read notes and provided support throughout his clinical psychology research on mothers. Duke supported his pursuit, seeing it as a worthy challenge rather than a gamble.
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Harts
Mart
Brailie
Haneres Ene Annes
Durham
Hart
Duke
Columbus Voyages to the New World Timeline
The record notes Columbus voyages to the New World in 1493 and 1464 (same voyage), 1498, and 1502 with overlapping routes and repeated journeys across the Atlantic.
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New World
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