Campaign Against Horror Comics Sparks Nationwide Action
A father buys a lewd horror comic for his 3 year old daughter as teens in Chicago document buyers of such material. Ann Osetek and Armella Bujnowski spark a campaign to ban horror crime and sex comics sold to children, aiming for 80 000 dollars to fund ads. Officials warn trashy comics fuel juvenile delinquency, citing cases, expert testimony, and police notes from New York and Dallas about violence and imitation.
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Ann Osetek
Armella Bujnowski
New York State Assembly
Judz John Cone
Kings County
Brooklyn “Dragons
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Dallas Morning News
Francis Raffetto
Allen Jay School Expands With New Wing In 1955
Allen Jay School in the southern High Point area adds a two story high school wing to its campus, the fourth building since the original. Principal H D Early says a 6 room one story structure will open next September to relieve crowding, with more rooms planned for the primary building and future needs including a cafeteria gym and auditorium. The school now serves grades 1 through 12 with 39 teachers and about 1100 students as of October.
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Allen Jay School
H. E. Early
C.S. Keller
Tom Alston
Spraw Jayce
Allen Jay
High Point
Ing
H. D. Early
Early
Allenia
J. K. Purvis
Miss Barrer
I. K. Purvis
Brazil's Mrs. Cancer Drives South America's First Big Cancer Institute
Dona Carmen Prudente, wife of Dr. Antonio Prudente, led the campaign to build the Central Cancer Institute in Sao Paulo. The 11 story, 310 bed hospital opened recently with 220 beds for paying patients and a charity fund supporting private industry donations. Carmen Prudente, dubbed Mrs. Cancer, organizes staff and fundraising while balancing a cheerful, energetic, public role.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
Cancer
Carmen Prudente
Dona Carmen
Antonio Prudente
Dr. Prudente
South America
Central Cancer Institute
Paris
Antonio
Prudentes
New York
Walt Disney
Carmen
Gazeta
Germany
Comic books under fire as hearings push bans
A Dallas reader describes a violent comic strip and a strikingly graphic scene. Hearings by the U S Senate on Juvenile Delinquency target comics, with clubs and lawmakers pushing bans and publishers proposing an ethics code and a comics czar.
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Dallas
Harry
U.S. Senate Committee On Juvenile Delinquency
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Rains and Storms Close Most Mexican Highways
The Communications Ministry said virtually every major highway in Mexico is impassable in part due to rains and storms. Landslides and washouts block sections on the Pan American Highway Ciudad Juarez to Mexico City route, Puebla Veracruz road, and the El Paso Laredo corridors, with traffic fused between Mexico City and Pan American Highway.
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Mexico City
Communications Ministry
Mexico
el Paso
Laredo
Tex
Ciudad Juarez - Mexico
Puebla-Veracruz
Gulf Port
Pan
Bride Officially Chosen For Prince
Tokyo October 9 A 17 year old girl who walks to school may become empress of Japan. Hat suko Kitashirakawa is named the official choice to marry Crown Prince Akihito with a formal announcement due November 3. The Kitashirakawa family has fallen on hard times since 1937, and the girl has met the prince but there is no hint they are courting. Romance is not the factor in royal marriages here.
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Tokyo
Japan
Sangyo Keizai
Hatsuko Kitashirakawa
Akihito
Ae Ee
Maj
Nagahisa Kitashirakawa
Kitashirakawas
Audrey Hepburn
Flow control valves curb faucet water waste
The article explains installing flow control valves at faucet outlets to cut water use. Valves adjust to pressure changes via a flexible washer, reducing flow to about three gallons per minute for showers, with other outlets benefiting similarly. Qualified plumbing contractors supply and install the valves.
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Plumbing and Heating Industries Bureau
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Guilford County
Department of Instructional Services
Louise Barrier
Sigrid Arne Washington
Chicago
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Ruth Causey
Celoter House
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