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Newspaper
Kenosha Evening News
Location
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1956
Page
4
A Philadelphia Inquirer report showed gullibility in charity giving by testing solicitations for fake groups. It urged verifying credentials, confirming legitimate charities, and contacting local commerce or police if in doubt to prevent racketeers from draining funds. Seed sellers contrast suburban focus with office chatter.
Announcement by three draft boards in Kenosha reports 1 365 additional questionnaires mailed to local registrants under selective service. Also thirteen applicants filed for Kenosha city manager vacancy following H C Een resignation. deadline noon.
Letter writer Erling Johnson urges more engineers and trained technicians, noting that funding limits many youths from continuing studies. He explains engineering as a balance of broad knowledge and specialized detail and highlights the need for originality and perseverance to drive future invention and progress.
A teen girl 15 seeks guidance about a crush on a much older teacher. The columnist reassures that such crushes fade with time and urges focusing on peers. The letter also includes a 14-year-old boy asking how to ask a girl 13 to date and practical steps. Other readers discuss TV’s impact on family bonds with guidance to reconnect with parents.
Dr. John B. Crane describes Cairo as a sprawling city of over 3 million, dominated by men in gala bias robes, with few women on the streets. He notes persistent street vendors targeting Americans, their aggressive bargaining, and his growing collection of inexpensive purchases, justified by local earnings.
Dr. Edwin P. Jordan explains that deafness has multiple causes and varies by individual. He notes that hearing aids help mainly when middle ear function is impaired, but not when nerve or brain reception is damaged, and stresses proper device fitting and adjustment.
Robert Raikes founded the first Sunday school in Gloucester to aid poor children. A figurehead is a person in a high role with little real power, named for carved ship bows. Vertebrates are animals with backbones. Climate on the Ruwenzori Mountains allows parsley to reach nine feet and heather to eighty feet. Syndets are synthetic detergents used in trade names.
A traveler writes from 20 000 feet over the Atlantic on Iberia Air lines about the voyage to Madrid. He and Mary dodge tight seating, compare fellow passengers, and note stewardess help and plans for dinner and sleep as they head toward Spain.
A cargo ship pays $5,800 to pass the Suez canal and saves about $28,000 by avoiding a Cape of Good Hope voyage. The balance favors the canal route for lower costs and shorter time.
Ruth Millett argues that aging gracefully comes from living fully not chasing youth. Busy, engaged women stay vibrant while those fixated on looks often age poorly. The key is focusing on interests, helping others, staying informed, and growing in tolerance.
The article notes over 400 woodpecker varieties with about 225 in the Americas, Europe and Africa. It identifies the ivory billed woodpecker as North America’s largest and the downy as the smallest, and explains long tongues, hole drilling, and storage of acorns by California and red headed woodpeckers.
A compact Q and A review cites W. Clark Ellzey on romance, Edward Y Podolsky on sugar deficiency and judgment, and Harry Emerson Fosdick condemning the notion that 51 percent is the voice of God. The piece defends majority rule as the best available method despite its flaws.
A collage of quotes spans industrial pace, military power, and democracy. Sukarno champions shared humanity while Selwyn Lloyd warns of expansion, and Harriman quips on irrigation at Burning Tree golf course under Eisenhower.
A judge comments on how the average man owes much to his wife. The borrowing habit is criticized as a bad practice. Maple sap flow is heavy in some areas this year bringing mixed feelings. Expect to see red on foolish beachgoers this summer.
Istanbul reports that buyers for every major brand of American cigarettes have been purchasing Turkey's record 1955 high grade leaf tobacco.
John Stevens American inventor operated the world’s first steamboat ferry linking Hoboken New Jersey and New York City in 1811. Regular air service is to be started between Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
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