Boxcar Kills Family as Train Miscounts Cars
A freight boxcar backed into a Houston home at dawn, killing Hilliard Davis Harris 31, his wife Johnny Mae 21 who was pregnant, and their daughter Jacqueline Vanta. A train crewman admitted miscounting 21 cars on a spur intended for 19. Homicide investigators cited the accident as the likely cause.
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A. J. Peterson
State College Textiles School Director Named
RALEIGH Dr. Edward A. Murray of Anderson 8.C. will become director on instruction in the School of Textiles at North Carolina State College Jan. 1. Dean Malcolm E. Campbell announced Murray was appointed to succeed Prof. Thomas R. Hart who died last January after 36 years of service.
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Best Play Avoids Set In Bridge
Oswald Jacoby explains three planning options for a given hand in bridge. The best method involves ruffing the third club with the ten of spades and a sequence to cash trumps and ultimate heart and diamond tricks. The article notes a separate line about frozen foods production in 1955.
Olives by Region Show Green East and Black West
The article notes color differences in olives by location with green olives east of the Mississippi and predominantly black olives west of the Rockies. It highlights regional variation in olive varieties and ripeness as a geographic feature.
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Mississippi
Rockies
Across and Down Word Puzzle Clues Listing
A compiled clue list for a crossword style puzzle with Across and Down entries ranging from 1 to 54. Includes definitions for songstress star interstice form a notion chaste and other items such as Behold Powerfully explosive Roman bronze and several abbreviations and partial phrases.
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New York
Trivia Quiz Answers They Air on Page Five A
A 1939 household with five thousand dollars would need about ten thousand in today’s buying power. Andrea Doria was larger than Stockholm. Lusitania was sunk by a submarine. Life insurers hold about one third of assets in stocks. Coal oil is kerosene. Chess has six kinds of pieces. A tutu is found in a dancer's dressing room.
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Stockholm
Mescalero Apaches Build High White Mountain Fence
In the White Mountains the Mescalero Apaches used a light plane to airlift and drop steel fence posts at set intervals, solving the logistics of erecting a high fence along the planned strip.
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White Mountains
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