McClure Boy Scouts Turn Trash Into Cash For Uniforms
McClure Virginia June 8 Boy Scouts of the New Explorer Post 42 raise funds for uniforms via a trash collection venture. They collect discarded barrels donated truck help, charging two cents per customer each Saturday. They plan a Powell River trip to Norris Lake and build their own kayaks. Members include Edward Robinson Richard Edwards Kentell Robinson Jr and post advisor K V Herndon. A brief note mentions very large South American praying mantises attacking snail frogs net aids and birds.
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Garrend Wilson
McClure
Huty
Explorer
Boy Scouts of America
Powell River
Morris Lake
Boy Scouts
Norris Lake
Powell
Edward Robinson
Richard Edwards
Kentell Robinson Jr
K. V. Herndon
Tennessee Press Association Meet Opens in Chattanooga
The Tennessee Press Association began its annual summer convention in Chattanooga with representatives from 30 daily papers and 127 weeklies attending. Sessions featured round tables, newspaper exhibitions, and an Associated Press meeting led by President Ellie of the Nashville Banner, with a dinner planned at Lookout Mountain's Fairyland Club. Officers named include Jim Crawford, Glenn McNeil, William Postlewaite, Ed Critchlow, and Beecher Gentry. The American Bible Society marked its 120th year assisting the blind.
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Chattanooga
Tennessee Press Assi
Tennessee Association of the Associated Press
Paulie
Nashville Banner
TPA
Fairylod Club
Lookout Mountain
Jim Crawford
Lawrenceburg Democrat-Union
Glenn McNeil
William Postlewaite
The
Gatlinburg Press
Ed Critchlow
Union City Daily Messenger
Beecher Gentry
Cockeyle
104 Year Old Woman Goes Without Specs in Long Beach
In Long Beach California Mrs Mary M Kelly aged 104 recalls tossing spectacles at 103 saying she sees better without them and jokes she can see clearly now. She quips that many people reach a century and still laugh and enjoy life while refusing to reveal her true age.
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Long Beach
Calif
Mary M. Kelly
Woman Prefers Plumbing to Teaching in Chicago
Mrs. Lucile Oellerich of Augusta Georgia one of the nation s few women master plumbers and a former schoolteacher says plumbing is more fun than teaching. She married a plumber and helped in his office. After her husband died six years ago she began studying the trade s techniques. She is in Chicago for the convention of the National Association of Plumbing Contractors.
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Chicago
Lucile Oellerich
Augusta
Ex-GIs Still Held by Red China Amid Homecoming Waits
A list of American soldiers held by Communist China grows thinner as several decline return, with two having returned earlier and six more signaling possible homecoming in the future. Names include Cpl Edward S. Dickenson, Cpl Claude J. Batchelor, Sgt Albert Bethomee, and others, with notes on court-martial, sentences, and possible locations in Red China or Peiping. A separate note recounts a Syracuse bee incident where a beekeeper’s attempt to disperse a hive led to an overheated car and a bee-filled service station.
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TRE Associated Press
Edward S. Dickenson
Big Stone Gap
New Cumberland
Claude J. Batchelor
Kermit, Tex
Yetura
Red China
Cpl
Otho G. Bell
Olympia
Wash
Cal
Lewie W. Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
South China
Bell
Dickenson
Batchelor
Richard G. Corden
East
Providence
I. I
Peiping Radio
John R. Dunn
Baltimore
Pic
Samuel David Hawkins
Oklahoma City
Peiping University
Atlie H. Pate
Carbondale
Howard Pater
Lowell D. Skinner
Akron
Ohio
Brady Skinner
Lawrence V. Sullivan
Onaha
Ralph Sulliy
Two Beelaert Family Wins Cattle Trophies At Nebr Field Day
In SOUTH SIOUX CITY Nebraska Aberdeen Angu breeders from Nebraska Iowa Stinnespla and South Dakota held their annual field day. The Frank Beelaert family from Page Neb entered judging contests. Mr Beelaert tied for first in the men's contest but lost the trophy on a coin flip. Bob Beelaert won the junior award. Mrs Beelaert tied for first in the women's contest but also lost the trophy on a coin flip.
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South Sioux City
Dick Bruner
David City
Neb
Doan's Pills For Backache Relief Then and Now
Restless sleep and nagging backache from overexertion and stress may ease with Doan's Pills. The remedy is described as soothing and diuretic, aiding kidney function and bladder irritation, offering relief for tired, miserable days and better sleep.
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Dean
Renain
BO Sears
Donna Pil
Heat kills four coral snakes on Arizona TV show
In Phoenix the heat reached 112 degrees as Dr. Herbert L. Stahnke of Arizona State College Tempe tested coral snakes in glass cages for a weekly TV show. Four reptiles died from heat prostration just before airtime while two other snakes performed on air.
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Phoenix
Aris
Ariizona
Herbert L. Stahnke
Arizona State College
Tempe
Arizona
Stahnte
Mandins
Lightning Strikes Twice At Local Grocery Store
In Plainview Texas a pair of powerful thunderstorms struck the same area, blacking out an air conditioner and later cutting lighting at Simpkins' grocery. The report notes iron oxide coloring in local stone.
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Plainview
Tes
Texas
Simpkins
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Korea
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Ashtend
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Bfarietta
James G. Veneris
Hawthorne
Harold H. Webb
Fort Pierce
Fla
Morris R. Wills
Fort Anam X.Y
William A. Cowart
Monticello
Ark
Red Ching
Clarence GC. Adams
Memens
Baggs Peoples
Xouse
Chinese Red Cross
Rufus O. Douglas
Sam Angelo
IM. Howe
Tol
Ortort
R. G. Howard
Taion
Inx
Mattie Gor
Black Sea
Syracuse
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Cole
George Reddick
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Ba Tat
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Charles
Brecy Finne
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Orleans
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