Stinkin Ink Feud Sparks West Virginia Texas Ink War
Richwood West Virginia reports a growing feud with Texas over a joke ink incident. Publisher Jim Comstock printed stink ink devised by New Jersey chemist Clayton Myers to celebrate a garlic ramp herb. Texas onion growers in Willacy County resist the stunt while officials quip about reputations and deadlines.
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Richwood
W. Va
West Wena
Texas
West Virginia
Jim Comstock
Nichols County News-Leader
Garic
Comstock
Clayton Myers
Fanwood
N. J
Myers
Eugenia Henry
Raymondville
Richmond
Willacy County
Tex
Nicholas County
Rheumatic Pain Relief Promises From Tru-Aid
An 80-year-old local woman credits Tru-Aid for ending pain on her right side after years of rheumatic and neuritic suffering. She walked with ease for the first time in years and calls her nerves strong as steel. The ad touts Tru-Aid as a liquid formula with three medicines targeting rheumatic causes, sold at Indiana drug stores.
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Here
Indiana
Moscow Planetarium Makes Miniature Planets for Schools
The Moscow Planetarium develops miniature planetariums with a cupola screen hung from ceilings at least fifteen feet high to project celestial images and movements. Komsomol Pravda notes it needs improvements for tower-ceilinged classrooms.
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Moscow
Moscow Planetarium
Komsomul Pravda
The Cover Girl Gets Plumper and Shorter
New York April 20 The cover girl has grown an inch shorter and heavier since ten years ago when 116 to 118 pounds and a 22 inch waist were ideal. Harry Conover, model agency head, notes teens now drive half his business while aiming for a sophisticated look. He warns modeling is short term, with only about 75 of 750 New York pros earning top rates.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Harry Conover
Beautiful Girlson
Conover
Melody Johnson
Choo Choo Johnson
Jinx Falkenburg
Candy Jones
Miss Jones
Jones Conover
Ex Fereo
New York City
Model agency boss warns against diva mindset
About 300 other girls average 125 to 150 weekly while the rest make legs. Minimum hourly rate for a Conover model is 7.50. Conover warns that treating modeling as religion can ruin a girl and that overfixation on fame is misguided. He wanders among his models like an absent minded professor.
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Conover
Hectic Move as INS Relocates to Washington
The U S Immigration and Naturalization Service is moving from its 26 story Philadelphia headquarters to Washington. Assistant Commissioner Joseph Savoretti said the move begun days ago should finish in about ten days. Commissioner Watson B Miller has returned to the capital and a temporary building near the National Guard Armory will house the agency. The move affects staff including clerks and stenographers some of whom resigned to avoid uprooting homes or due to housing shortages in Washington.
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Philadelphia
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Washington
Federal
Joseph Savoretti
Watson B. Miller
National Guard Armory
Washinon
Becker Becomes First Back-To-Back Champion In Event
Bridge by William E McKenney notes a 1931 idea from Mrs P Hal Sims for an all play format where each participant partners with every other and faces them as opponents twice. The 1937 winner was B Jay Becker, who won again this year to become the first to claim two titles.
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William E. McKenney
America
NEA Service II
P.hal
Dorothy) Sims
B. Jay Becker
Becketts Four Hearts Bid Sways Bridge Hand Story
In Huntington West Virginia a bridge hand involving Becker showed he reached four hearts after East opened two clubs and North passed. Becker inferred Norths pass urged four hearts or a double of four clubs. West led hearts and spades behaved, while a thief lifted a 134 year old oriental rug with a curse woven in Arabic. The rug, from Afghanistan, had been stolen in February and later found unwrapped under a carpet display, its haunting inscription read Whoever has me unauthorized shall suffer tragedy.
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Becker
East
West
North
Huntington
Afghanistan
Do You Know Your County Contest Rules
Rules for a weekly Indiana County photo identification contest. Six pictures, two areas A and B with duplicate weekly cash prizes. Area A requires mail or in person entries. Area B mail only. Earliest postmark wins with most correct identifications. First prize five dollars. next five winners one dollar each. Open to all, except Gazette employees. Winners announced next Wednesday.
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Indiana’ Borough
Indiana, R. C
Gazette Office
Opening Day Angling in High Mountain Streams
A long rainy spell yields misty drizzle and crowded streams as anglers pursue brook trout in mountain valleys. The author recalls a lively day of fishing, noting a belted kingfisher angling nearby, weather challenges, and a dramatic haul including a large fish that tears a coat pocket.
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Brookles
Crystal Mountain
Trout Tales and Glass Sparks Fire The Gazette
A nature piece describes trout fishing on a mountain stream with limited catches amid blooming Redbud and arbutus, a violet parade on rocky slopes, fiddleheads, a northern water thrush, and a white throated sparrow. A boy carries his first trout home in a jar. The Gazette notes radiant ceiling heating panels and a sandless acid resistant glass patent from a national lab.
Fisherman rescues slipping fish in shallow stream
A fisherman lunged into the pocket of water and splashed after a fish that slipped away through a hole. He dropped his rod, bayed into the shallows, and finally scooped the fish out onto the bank after a wild struggle.
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