Oregon Dust Bowl Refugees Live in Shacks and Hovels
Meager subsistence and crowded hovels mark the Oregon fringe as dust bowl migrations swell farms. Families drifted from Colorado to Oregon with few possessions, while relief workers report widespread hunger and improvised homes. Northwest planners estimate 36,000 families left dustbowl homes in seven years and warn only 10,000 new farms may be ready in five years.
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Utility conference opens with optimistic note for power industry
Atlantic City June 7 The Edison Electric Institute opens its annual meeting as William O Douglas and a utility executives committee begin talks to integrate holding systems under the 1985 act. C W Kellogg asserts the cooperation signals a favorable shift from federal scrutiny and cites major growth in customers, rates, and electrified farms since 1927.
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Entomology Trip Plans By Professor Beamer
Plans for the annual summer entomology trip led by Prof. R H Beamer progress with four graduate students joining Mr and Mrs Beamer. The group will travel by professor Beamer’s car towing a two wheel trailer carrying bedding gear and collected specimens. They will camp outdoors throughout the journey likely starting around June 19 and heading from Brownsville Texas toward the Mexican border.
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Grandmother Sets Off on 1000 Mile Motorcycle Journey
Idaho Falls on June 7 Mrs Marie Blasius 77 will depart today for a 1000 mile trip riding as a sidecar passenger with her son She prefers motorcycles to cars saying they ride easier and offer better visibility RD.
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Marie Blasius
Fire Department Extinguishes Roof Fire at Eighth Street Hotel
City fire crews fought a small roof fire at the Eighth Street hotel 744 New Hampshire yesterday afternoon at 8 o'clock. Origin of the blaze remains undetermined.
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New Hampshire
War Machine Built in Africa Fronts France Africa Defense
Paris reports France has built a powerful self reliant North African military machine to deter Italy. The defense cabinet cites 900000 to 1000000 troops in its colonial empire with Tunisia Algeria and Morocco fortifications and new roads bases and depots increasing readiness for a potential Mediterranean conflict.
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KU Commencement Night Draws Notables and Alumni
The Kansas University commencement in Hoch auditorium featured former Governor and Mrs. Landon and editor William Allen White among attendees. Drew McLaughlin and his son, plus KFKU station and Prof Dill provided commentary. Traffic flowed smoothly as graduates, including Freddy Harris after seven years in Mt Oread service, crossed the stage.
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Shirley Temple in Love with Lambs on Utah Tour
Shirley Temple, visiting Salt Lake City on a cross country tour with George F. Temple, chats about loving lambs in the western hills while preferring her Pekinese. She calls the grand canyon “so deep” and describes meeting the Dionne quintuplets en route to the White House.
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Utah
Grand Canyon
Neurologist Dr Julia Seifert Attacked in Oklahoma City
Dr Julia Seifert a 45 year old neurologist was found critically injured in her Oklahoma City bedroom by I R Coultrup a 39 year old mechanic after she was beaten. Police found footprints from a back door and no sign of forced entry with jewelry and $47 left untouched. Attendants could not identify her words as she fluctuated between consciousness.
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Council Meets Tonight in Regular City Hall Meeting
The city council will hold a regular meeting tonight at 8 o clock in the city hall.
Vacationers Mail Rate Becomes 25 Cents A Month
Read the Journal-World daily to add to summer pleasure with a vacation issue mail rate of only 25 cents per month for incoming subscribers.
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Shrinedom Convention Opens in Los Angeles
U S and Canada Shrinedom opened its annual convention in Memorial Coliseum site of the 1932 Olympic games with impressive pageantry and ceremony in Los Angeles.
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United States
Canada
Memorial Coliseum
Shrine parade opens three day program led by Sigden
Be-plumed members of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine began a three day program with an official parade before Imperial Potentate Walter S. Sigden of Sisterville West Virginia and other imperial divan members. A notice offers the Journal-World subscription renewal for summer delivery at 25 cents for two months.
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Sisterville
W. Va
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