Pennsylvania trucking weight limits spark interstate dispute
Protests erupted at the Pennsylvania Ohio border over weight limits with trucks parking near a weighing station. Drivers protest 45 000 pound limits versus Ohio 78 000 pounds, while state police moved in and fines followed. Gov Duff warned firms blocking traffic would have vehicles bulldozed. East Africa's population increases 115 per cent in seventeen years.
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East Africa
Fewer Italians Married and Buried in 1948
Italy's Central Institute of Statistics reports 1948 saw fewer marriages and deaths than 1947. Marriages per 1000 persons fell to 82 and total deaths reached 482,054, down 34,450 from 1947, with mortality at 10.5 per 1000, versus 11.4 in 1947.
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Italy
United States
Interrupted Love Ended by Death in Denver Hospital
A 65-year-old widow Ida Lydia Arndt dies in a Denver hospital ending a decades long romance with John Arndt. They had grown up in Minneapolis, married others, reunited in 1942, and lived together until her death. Separately, Hythe loudspeakers warned residents water would run dry until 6 am with more cuts possible.
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Ida Lydia Arndt
Ida
De Alkalizing May Reclaim Desert Waste
Lancaster California a diesel engineer Carl Sues in partnership with R C Stoner a Standard Oil of California executive tests a de alkalizer to reduce desert soil pHaincreasing alfalfa yields on a 20 acre plot from 8 4 to 8 3. University of Arizona soil experts say the process helps roots absorb nutrients once minerals are dissolved The program aims to reclaim vast alkali desert wastelands turning Mojave into productive land with potential 400 dollars saved in chemicals per farm and larger future plots.
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Arizona
R. C. Stoner
Standard Oil Company of California
Lancaster
Stoner
University of Arizona
Freeder deceived by sewer silt mixup in Indianapolis
Claude Freed believed he would receive free fertile silt from the city sewer system offered by Street Commissioner Tony Maio. The delivery, however, arrived with bottles bricks boards wire and other junk mixed with the silt.
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Tony Maio
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