Daily Meditation on Faith and Perseverance
A devotional note cites 1 Corinthians 16 13 urging Christians to stand fast in faith be strong and act as men amid trials. It recalls Job facing Satan and the test of fearing God for more than riches, arguing true strength shows when danger or calamity comes unexpectedly.
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Satan
Job
God
America
Army
Office of
Glass Export
Bill Panpas
Moser
Snifter's Club
F. Chocholaty
Bohhemia
Jaroslav Neubauer
The
Foreign Trade Corporation
Culture Council
St. Vitus
Nathan Hale and the Soviet trial echo a patriot’s courage
In a Tallahassee Democrat column, the author contrasts Nathan Hale’s defiant patriotism with the 20 year gap before a Soviet Supreme Tribunal public trial. It discusses Penitent Pilot Powers, his defense options, and the Guardian’s quip that Powers appeared a misguided Virginia townsman.
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Nathan Hale
Long Island
Soviet Supreme Tribunal
Sorge
May
Jaffe
Hiss
Fuchs
Gold
Greenglass
Pontecorvo
Rosenberg
Powers
Manchester
England
Guardian
Virginia
Pre-owned and pre-planned language buries plain English
A postcard ridicules the spread of prefixes like pre owned pre planned and pre need highlighting how pre coined terms replace ordinary words. It notes the oddness of phrases such as pre owned cars pre planned homes and pre need burial insurance and laments language dilution.
Breakfast blaze drenches forest service crew in flight.
A Canadian Forest Service crew cooking breakfast in the woods was doused by 100 gallons of water dropped from a pilot serving the crest patrol. The incident left four men soaking wet, altering their hearty woodland meal into a soggy scene as the fire was quenched.
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Canadian Forest Service
Adam
Venus arms search sparked debate among archaeologists
Marion Kytitsis of Waukegan Illinois leads a voyage to Melos to recover the missing arms of Venus de Milo. Proponents argue restoration would reveal original appearance and aid archaeology, while critics warn restoration could harm the statue’s traditional artistic meaning and provoke controversy in the art world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melos
Venus de Milo
Marion Kytitsis
Waukegan. Il
Venus
Pronunciation dispute swirls around Illinois name origin
Birmingham News Now reports debate over how to say Illinois with a college editor prompting Sen. Everett Dirksen to weigh in. Linguists say Frenchified Noisy would be wrong. Algonquin Illiniwek is proposed. Chicago Sun Times opposes Tlinoise, editor seeks American but not primitive pronunciation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hlinds
Western Js
Konis University
Sen. Everett Dirksen
University of Chicago
George Sokolski on Evidence and Due Process Delays
In 1958 a garage dispute led to a long pending suit with slow justice. The piece attacks the rules of evidence as obstructing truth, cites McCarthyism and congressional inquiry, and calls for speedy procedures and non legal arbiters to resolve disputes without protracted litigation.
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Perry Mason
Joe McCarthy
McCarthy
Congressional
Weight stations monitor truck loads across North Carolina
Lynn Nisbet explains the 1952 weight station program under the Motor Vehicles Department to control truck loads for highway protection. The system, run by 26 inspectors with mobile units, collected about 1.24 million dollars in 1959, with a net profit of roughly 455 thousand after costs. Private truckers often resisted charges, while hire trucks paid voluntarily. The program aims to keep axle and weight limits within highway design parameters, benefiting infrastructure and safety.
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Motor Vehicles Department
General Assembly
North Carolina
Department of Motor Vehicles
Asheville
Charlotte
Hertford
Elizabeth City
Hillsboro-Durham
Kinston
Lumberton
Apex - Raleigh
Rural Hall-Winston-Salem
Salisbury
Statesville
Wilson
Notes on The News By Charles Pearson
A report on overweight trucks reveals 21 million pounds over limit and penalties higher than freight charges. It notes 168 stolen cars recovered worth $162,000, about 20 percent of division’s budget, and 2,564,774 trucks stopped by eleven weight stations, with NC plates dominating. Authorities made 298 arrests and 104 convictions, raising fines and costs.
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Charlotte
Lumberton
North Carolina
United States
Inspectora
Prague Visit Reveals Czechoslovakia Under Pressure and Curiosity
A traveling party reports contrasts between Poland and Czechoslovakia under Communist rule. Despite surveillance and propaganda, locals are friendly and educated, with journalists noting tight media control yet channels for critique within party lines. They visit Glass Export and Moser displays, reflect on Lidice’s memory, and stress the need for cooperation over hatred amid rising Western curiosity.
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Tallahassee
Democrat
Amarillo Globe-Times
Little Rock Gazette
Canada
New Orleans States
Birmingham News
High Point Enterprise
MAIL
Mt.au
Union Point Enterprise, Inc
North
Main Street
Cerereres
Matter Ats N.C. Am
George Sokolsky
Lynn Nisbet
Capitol
Charles Pearson
Clue
Holt McPherson
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Warsaw
U.S
Washington
Russia
Stalin
Khrushchev
Vistula
Bohemia
Old Salem
Jan Huss
Hungary
Hapsburg
Ferdinand of
Austria
Vitava
Lidice
Heydrich
Hitler
Germay
Czechoslovakian Union of Journalists
Karl Zeirs
Charles University
Communist University
Wittenburg
Leipzig
Moscow
Jeri Meisner
International Journalists Organization
Vienna
Baden
Germany
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