Venezuela Sows Petroleum Seed Amid Vast Oil Boom
Venezuela's economy hinges on oil as life slows beyond the rigs on Lake Maracaibo and Caracas. The Junta's spending funds roads and housing while importing workers, equipment, and ideas. Immigrants settle near Turen as 2000 European farmers transplant, aided by fertilizer and machinery. Oil wealth raises living standards but masks inequality and a fragile distribution of wealth.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Nea
Lake Maracaibo
Fenczuela
United States
Texas
Oklahoma
Ventura
Maracaiba
New York
Junta
Autopista
Turen
Agricul
Fairview WSCS Meets at Perkins Home with Bazaar
The November meeting of the Fairview Woman's Society of Christian Service gathered at Mrs. David Perkins home. A 1:30 dessert luncheon preceded the business session with devotionals led by Mrs. Jennie Leary and a program on Interpreted Love. Readings by Dorothy Leary Ethel Cowell Mrs Perkins and Mrs Eberwein and a musical by Marie Howard followed. Seven guests attended. The annual bazaar occurred with Mrs Perkins assisted by Mrs Gerald Boehle Mrs Marie Howard and Alice Eisle Margie Schutz and Olive Meairs in charge of the bazaar. Other notes mention trips to Topeka a Vinland group teacher's meeting near Pleasant Grove school plans for a December school program and supper, and updates on local residents including recoveries and moves. Funeral for Nancy Hines held in Lawrence. Nancy, who came to the area as a child, died at 87 in Lawrence after living here and later in Lawrence. Theodore and Lloyd Howard visited Coffeyville to see their brother Guy Howard rector of the Episcopalian church.
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Fairview Wscs
David Perkins
Jennie Leary
Mabel Peters
Jesson
Dorothy Leary
Ethel Cowell
Perkins
Eberwein
Marie Howard
Gerald Boehle
Alice Eisle
Margie Schutz
Olive Meairs
Ed Howard
Theodore
Lloyd
Topeka
Lewis Hoard
Rollie Deay
Pleasant Grove
Deay
Ernest Leary
Cora Whvedon
Charles Ralston
Linda
Lawrence
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Dora Peterson
Ruby McClintock
John Sears
Flow
Nisely
Nancy Hines
Church of God In Christ
Nancy
Mary
Lloyd Howard
Coffeyville
Guy Howard
Guy
Episcopi Church
Automatic Paint Mixer Produces Correct Shades
A New York device by Standard Tech Chemicals Inc blends paints to exact colors from color chips in under a second. The compact unit stores liquid colorants, uses a revolving drum, and transfers dial settings to match base paints with lab precision across finishes and stains.
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New York
Standard-Tech Chemicals Inc
Riot Upheaval Over Teacher Transfer In Tel Aviv
In Tel Aviv an eighth grade class briefed by a teacher Ben Moshe sparked a four day disturbance after their teacher was moved to a new class. The pupils left their room marched through corridors overturned desks and staged a protest with parental aid prompting officials to restore the teacher. The students cited his patient teaching style as key to understanding.
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Ben Moshe
Uranium belts found across Northern Territory in Australia
Darwin area leads a vast field in the Northern Territory belt where over 100 uranium deposits were uncovered in an air survey. Geologists focus on the Manton Dam region 41 miles from Darwin as the belt runs from Darwin to beyond Katherine, about 220 miles south.
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Darwin
Australia
Northern Territory
Air Survey
Manton Dam
Katherine
Seaweed found in Philippine waters eyed for agar production
The Philippine Fisheries Bureau reports a special seaweed abundant in local waters as a potential agar source for bacterial growth in medical use. Officials say efforts are underway to develop commercial exploitation of the find.
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Manila
Philippine
Sunday Visitors and Family News at Torneden Home
Villa Eden and nearby families gathered for a busy week of visits and hospitality. Alfred Torneden received relatives from Eudora, Lawrence, Warrensburg, and To nganoxie, while building a cattle shed with Carl Kurtz Sr and others. Bud Pettengill’s induction into the army prompted a basket dinner at Frank Pettengill’s home.
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Carl Vernon Kurtz
Bob Hadl
Mae Wadl
Eudora
Albert ‘Forneden
Jack Davidson
Diane
Debbi
Charles Davidson
Frank Pettengill
Johnnie
Bud Pettenspill
Omaha
Nebr
Bennie
Harold Duncan
Near
Alfred Torneden
McAnerney
Carl Kurtz Sr
Carl Kurtz
Fred Oglesby
Warrensburg
Okla
Lawrence
Walter
Bud} Pettengill
Leavenworth
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Thornton
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