New Castle’s 50 Year Outlook on Civic Planning
Indiana City Looks Ahead traces New Castle’s 126 year journey from a rough mill town to a planned industrial city. The 1940s civic clinic spurred a city plan commission led by Scott Chambers to pursue parks, zoning, housing, an airport, and a merged school system while shifting highways and developing parkways for less congested streets.
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Ew Castle
New Castle
Indiana
Maxwell- Briscoe
Chamber of Commerce
Sidney E. Baker
Scott Chambers
New Castle Courier-Times
Tects, Saarinen and
Birmingham
Mich
Plan Commission
Chambers
Harold
The
Castle
Santa Visits Five Year Old Boy Early After Doctor Diagnosis
Five year old Jimmy Pochon of Tarentum Pennsylvania battles a vicious chest cancer diagnosed three months ago. Doctors say death is imminent but his family seeks treatment options including University of Illinois betatron therapy which is restricted to Illinois residents on charity. local VFW groups organize a Christmas relief effort as Jimmy prepares for a final Christmas.
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Santa
Tarentum
Jimmy Pochon
Jimmy
Pittsburgh
George Pochon
Pochon
American Indow Glass
Arnold
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Valley Daily News
Chicago
University of Illinois
Lad
Roger A. Harvey
Harvey
Illinois
Amsterdam tramp eats newspapers at a remarkable rate
Gerrit Klifman a 51 year old vagrant in Amsterdam is described as consuming sixteen newspapers daily for some time He reportedly eats a half bread roll with every four newspapers or cups of coffee accompanying the habit.
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Gerrit Klifman
Amsterdam
Holland
Christmas Home Lighting Contest in Case City
La Crosse Wisconsin sponsors a Christmas home lighting contest for residents within city limits. Entries on official blanks accepted, displays must be lit nightly from Dec 19 to Jan 2, judged on artistic effect originality use of surroundings conformity to the spirit and simplicity. zones separate north and south La Crosse river areas with three winners announced Jan 8 and merchandise prizes awarded.
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Case
Chase
la Crosse River
West Avenue
Mill makes racquets from mountain ash at Laurel Hill
The highest sawmill in Australia at Laurel Hill New South Wales processes laminated tennis racquet frames from mountain ash. Steam treatment shapes the wood into almost any form, though snow at times immobilizes mill supplies for several weeks each year.
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Australia
Laurel Hill
New South Wales
Tailless Comet D Arrest Baffles Astronomers
Denver researchers study comet D Arrest returning every six and two thirds years but arriving late by hours. The tailless Jupiter family comet may reveal new solar system dynamics if timing irregularities persist, potentially hinting at solar expansion effects.
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Denver
W. A. Recht
Chamberlin Observatory
University of Denver
D’arrest
Jupiter
Earth
Herdsman Convicted Of Poisoning Five Year Old Grandchild
Jackson Mississippi dairy herdsman Houston Roberts, 42, was convicted of murder in the poisoning of his five year old granddaughter Mary Louise Hill. Evidence showed lead arsenate in medicine given to the child to collect life insurance. The judge imposed the electric chair as mandatory punishment and scheduled sentencing for Friday January 13.
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Jackson
Miss
Houston Roberts
Oem
Mary Louise Hill
Harold Cox
Roberts
American Imperialists Blamed in Bulgarian Treason Trial
A Bulgarian witness in the treason trial of 11 former Communist leaders testified that American imperialists instigated a campaign to join Bulgarian Macedonia with Yugoslavia. Christo Kalaidjiev, head of Macedonian cultural societies in Bulgaria, accused Titoists and Greek Monarcho-Fascists of backing the move and inciting physical annihilation of Greek Macedonians.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Macedonia
Yugoslavia
Christo Kalaidjiev
Five Thousand Men Wash Gold by Hand in El Oro Province
About five thousand workers extract gold from streams in Ecuador's El Oro province using manual methods. The activity sustains local livelihoods as communities rely on river sifts and seasonal flows.
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el Oro
Ecuador
Hunter Remoans Fact That He Left Office
PETROLIA Pa Norman Smith should have stayed in office and went deer hunting. He returned Saturday night without a deer and is glad he's in the insurance business. During his absence a doe jumped through a plate glass window of his office and smashed $500 worth of equipment before barging through a rear door. In 1789 Sir Alexander Mackenzie reported oil seeps during his exploration in Canada.
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Petrolia
Norman Smith
Alexander Mackenzie
Canada
Weekend fires and explosions claim many lives nationwide
The week end saw a spate of deadly fires and blasts across the United States. At Union City New Jersey a $500000 blaze killed two workers. In Birmingham Michigan a gas explosion and fire destroyed an antique shop killing four and leaving two missing. A five story tenement fire in New York City displaced over 100 tenants and claimed a three month old baby and a two year old girl among other fatalities. A farmhouse fire near Wellsville New York killed a 19 year old mother and her three year old daughter.
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Associated Press
Union City
N. J
Birmingham
Mich
New York City
Lower East Side
Harlem
Wellsville
N. Y
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Ashael Woodward
Blue River
Lm Holton
Tramp
Johnson
la Crosse
Junior Chamber of Commerce
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Howard W. Blakeslee
iBy
Helen Warner
Gregg Street
Young Jewelers
Main St
Hunter
U.S
Jayson
Yee
Pitzner
George Street
Mercury
GEO. J. Devine, Inc
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