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Newspaper
Kenosha Evening News
Location
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1950
Page
9
Local opportunity invites investors to join a network of 60 successful units. Earnings reported up to 240 dollars daily with a patented laundering machine for Venetian blinds. Price is 6750 dollars with 24 months financing and a free booklet from Co. U. Equipment Co. Inc. Located at 101 South 44th Street Philadelphia.
United Press reports that glassed in homes on farms could cool in summer and warm in winter, making farms as comfortable as urban dwellings. The piece envisions families, workers, and livestock under glass with improved climate control.
A report notes a woman wins the Maine Democrat primary. The story mentions a solarometer device by Libbey-Owens-Ford used to calculate roof overhangs for optimal shading. David C. Sprague of Pennsylvania State College analyzes buildings where the instrument guides glass placement for energy efficiency.
Miss Lucia M. Cormier, a 38 year old Rumford book seller, wins the first district Democratic nomination with a margin over Dr. Adrian H. Scolten of Portland. Hale leads in the first district with Stetson. Maloney tops in the second district. Grant contests Payne as governor.
Chicago authorities say six year old Carol Berg was found safe with Wisconsin farm parents after a 1800 mile bus journey from Las Vegas. She rode alone to surprise her relatives, hugged her doll, and waited for her parents who were delayed by a timing mixup.
Dr. George S. Benson of Harding College told 75 industrial leaders in Waukesha that the nation can double productivity wages and living standards in 30 years with free enterprise. He warned a shift to government control could halve the standard of living and warned of future crises bringing propped up employment by state takeovers.
Katherine Zehrer won a weekly maintenance award of 50 dollars from her husband Clif Ford. The court ruled he had peeped through a hole in their apartment floor to spy on another woman bathing.
Madison, Wis. The state personnel bureau will be asked to search for a successor to Homer G. Bell, ousted enforcement director of the motor vehicle department. Ben L. Marcus said he would schedule an examination for the job as soon as possible after Bell was discharged March 27 for insubordination and neglect of duty. The personnel board upheld the action after Bell's appeal last Friday.
The Wisconsin postgraduate conference for veterinarians opened on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison to discuss dairy cow diseases. The two day meeting brings together professionals from across the state to address pressing veterinary health issues.
Canadian and American regions faced rising waters as the Fraser river threatens dikes protecting 50 000 residents in British Columbia. Wisconsin and Indiana reports of rising creeks and rivers follow widespread rainfall and evacuations including 700+ at Mission BC and Nicomen island flooding. Canadian army units help sandbag dikes and relocate evacuees amid ongoing rain and snowmelt.
Residents flee as Kootenai River rises 1.4 feet over flood stage near Bonners Ferry Idaho causing evacuation actions amid Fraser River flood concerns from two years prior.
Lloyd Hill announced plans to ride a steel barrel over Niagara Falls on July 16. He intends to avoid police by using a helicopter to drop him and the barrel upstream from the 200 foot falls, anticipating police attempts to block the stunt.
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