Big Freshwater Giants From Catfish To Arapaima
Uncle Rays Corner surveys freshwater leviathans from blue catfish in Mississippi waters to giant arapaimas in the Amazon. It notes Danube flesh-eaters, South American giants over half a ton, and sturgeons weighing over a ton in U S and Russian rivers, with markets and Indian arrow hooks.
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Ocean
Mississippi
Asia
Danube
South America
Amazon
Guianas
Brazil
United States
Russia
Lake
Baikal
Russian
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Arctic Ocean
Rome
Uncle Ray
Publishers _Newspaper ‘Syndicate
Six More Counties Removed From Disaster List
Wisconsin Governor Reynolds announced six counties Burnett Polk Juneau Adams Columbia and St. Croix will be withdrawn from disaster area status tied to drought relief programs. Gov noted improved drought conditions and recent rains reducing need for emergency grazing and land diversion.
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Madison
Burnett
Polk
Juneau
Adams
Columbia
St. Croix
John W. Reynolds
Nanocuries Spark A Semantic Melee In Hearing
Congress slogged through a semantic minefield as Dr Parker explains nanocuries at a nuclear fallout hearing. Rep Price asks what it is while Jackson jokes about ignorance and Hosmer questions safe navigation through the term. Parker notes one nanocurie equals a billionth of a curie.
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Washington
Joint
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Alaska
Melvin Price
D-Ill
H. M. Parker
Atomic Energy Commission
Hanford Laboratories
Richland
Wash
Price
Parker
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Hanford
Craig Hosmer
R-Calif
Eric Johnston Dies At 66 Former MPAA Leader
Eric A. Johnston longtime business leader and head of the Motion Picture Association of America died at 66 after a stroke. He served as Chamber of Commerce president and held various government posts during and after World War II shaping free enterprise policy. Survived by wife Ina Harriet Hughes and two daughters, with services planned in Washington and burial in Spokane.
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Marine Corps
Motion Picture Association of America
Brown -Johnston Co
Spokane, Wash
Columbia Electrical and Manufacturing Co
Brown-Johnston
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Soviet Union
Johnston
Josef Stalin
Red
Chamber
Harry S. Truman
National Labor Management Advisory Committee
Inter-American Economic Development Commission
Economic Stabilization Board
War Manpower Commission
War Mobilization and Reconversion Commission
Economic Stabilization Agency
International Development Agency
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Middle East
Kennedy
Citizens Commission
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
District of Columbia
Motion Picture Association
Ina Harriet Hughes
William Carlin Fix
Herbert Butler
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Spokane
Wash
Naturopath Spears Freed After Car Theft Term
Robert Vernon Spears, 68, once investigated in the 1959 National Air Line plane crash mystery, was released from the U.S. Medical Center. He served time for stealing William Allen Taylor's car, a man linked to a plane believed lost with 42 aboard. The case linked to a California conspiracy sentence and unproven sabotage theories linger.
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Springfield
Robert Vernon Spears
National Air Line
Gulf of Mexico
U.S. Medical Center
William Allen Taylor
Los Angeles County
Spears
California
Dallas
Taylor
Tampa
Fla
Neighborhood rummage and sale notices in local listings
Local residents advertise rummage sales at 1515 Main 1517 Prospect 1919 Adams 1252 La Crosse St 619 Division and nearby events August 22 to 24 with hours. Also listings for real estate agents Bonded Realty and George Dialler plus service ads for beauty salons and eateries including Rudy's A W and Mil dred's in La Crescent and Farnam area.
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George Dialler
Berna Dean
Prospect
Adams
la Crosse St
V.F.W
6Th & Market
Gladioli
al Cuta
Farnam
Rudy’s A&w
Adele
Babes Beauty Shop
Mildred’s
la Crescent
Oak
Remarks That Fail To Tickle Typical Tycoon Remarks
A New York AP collection of satirical lines mocks a powerful businessman Bascomb D Bascomb and his staff. Jokes poke at ulcers, IRS visits, dictation on laps, and yacht disputes. The items lampoon office life and the tycoon’s command over his executives.
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New York
Internal Revenue Service
Bascomb D. Bascomb
Mother Collapses After Son Drowns in Lake Vermilion
A vacationing Illinois housewife, Mrs. Earl Norris of Aurora, was hospitalized for shock in Walker Minnesota after her 2-year-old son Larry drowned in Lake Vermilion northeast of Remer. The boy's body was found floating under a dock after he apparently fell into the water while at play and was not immediately missed.
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Walker
Minn
Illinois
Lake Vermillion
Remer
Earl Norris
Aurora
Larry
Southern Governors Sidestep Civil Rights at Conference
Southern governors at White Sulphur Springs avoided a civil rights clash. Only Wallace and Barnett pressed for a showdown while others urged moderation, signaling a trend toward avoiding extremism and seeking unity on mutual interests like education and industry.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Old South
Don McKee
Associated Press
W.va
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Barnett
George C. Wallace
Alabama
West Virginia
W. W. Barron
Wallace
Deep South
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Dixie
Kennedy
Henry Bellman
Oklahoma
National Guard
Faubus
Former Fond Du Lac City Attorney Dies
L. E. Lurvey 83 former Fond du Lac city attorney and county judge died Wednesday at St. Agnes Hospital He served as city attorney from 1909 to 1933 when he was named to the bench and retired in 1956
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Fond DU Lac
L. E. Lurvey
St. Agnes Hospital
Lurvey
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