Builders Team With Safety Council On Home Codes
The National Safety Council and the National Association of Home Builders are finalizing a new home safety construction code to reduce deaths and injuries in houses. Last year 29,000 people died at home and 4.3 million were injured, with falls and fires accounting for many fatalities. The code, ready by October, aims to remove interior hazards through better planning and safer materials and methods, and NAHB members will be urged to adopt it voluntarily.
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Washington
National Safety Council
America
National Association of Home Builders
NAHB
Christian O. Christensen
Christensen
World’s Just A Big Stage Modern Lady Godiva
In SOUTH BEND Washington on August 8 Elsing Noggles walked away from an automobile overturning at about 70 mph and was completely nude shocking stunned spectators and prompting questions about the incident.
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Godiva
South Bend
Wash
Elsing Noggles
Milner’s late bid loses Downieville contract
Up flying contractor George Milner swooped over the county court Friday and dropped a paying bid one minute before the deadline but his bid proved too high and he lost the contract.
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Downieville
Calif
George Milner
Mrs Casey Jones keeps age secret in Chicago visit
In Chicago Mrs Casey Jones, widow of the railroad engineer famous in song, deflects a reporter's question about her age saying it is her secret and joking she is over 16 and collects an old age pension. In Santa Monica police arrest George Cross Jr. for speeding then charge him with littering a street.
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Chicago
Casey Jones
Santa Monica
Calif
George Cross Jr
Cross
Fuel Experts Begin Canvass Of Refineries
Washington Aug 8 UP Government officials recheck 450 refineries to boost aviation gasoline output for Navy and Air Force needs in case of war. Current output covers six months. aim is 20 000 barrels daily, with tax write-offs sought to expand alkylation units for high octane avgas amid jet era strain and import gaps.
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Air Force
Petroleum Administration For Defense
PAD J
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Office of Defense Mobilization
Joseph A. LaFortune
LaFortune
Armed Services Petroleum Purchasing Agency
Abadan
Iran
Free World
Port Arthur
Tex
Dear Ruth Scheduled For Sill Presentation
Pvt and Mrs Merle M Lentz of Fort Sill portray a middle age couple in the Enlisted Men's Dramatic Society comedy Dear Ruth Aug 20 and 21 at Theater No 1. Lentz, 22, trained at University of Tulsa and has performed on KOTV Tulsa and with Camden Hills theater. His wife Lynn Rott appeared with Imperial players in Cripple Creek and Goodman theater Chicago before meeting Lentz. The pair will play Judge and Mrs Harry Wilkins in a Music and Entertainment branch presentation at Fort Sill.
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Ruth
Pvt
Grove
Ohio
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Black Hills
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Camden
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Imperial Players
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Black Hills Passion Players
Spearfish
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Sill Special Services
Texas Gas Firm Wins Price Hike
The Federal Power Commission approved Texas Gas Transmission Corp to raise natural gas rates by 8.5 million dollars in an eight state region including Louisiana Arkansas Mississippi Tennessee Kentucky Illinois Indiana and Ohio. The settlement reduces the requested 8.75 million by 250 thousand and takes effect September 1 1953. The company earns a six percent return and refunds will cover sales from January 8 to September 1.
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Mississippi
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Kentucky
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Farmers Ready Ballots Vote To Be Friday
Washington Aug 8 UP wheat farmers plan a nationwide referendum on Aug 14 to decide whether to drop federal marketing quotas and high price supports for 1954 farm products. About 800000 eligible voters face a two thirds approval to sustain price supports and shape Benson administration policy next year.
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83Rd Congress
Ezra Taft Benson
Eisenhower
Benson
Congress
Faster Navy Fury Jet Sets Speed Mark
North American Aviation announced successful test flights of a new Navy Fury jet fighter reaching the high subsonic speed range. The announcement comes from Los Angeles as officials described the craft as a faster successor in Navy aviation developments.
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Los Angeles
North American Aviation, Inc
Navy Fury
Tonight’s Radio Prime Time Schedule Listing 1953
A detailed station by station schedule for August 9 1953 detailing 2:00 PM to 8:35 PM CST lineups across NBC CBS and ABC. Programs include Under Arrest Old-Fashioned Revival Hour The Shadow Counter Spy True Detective Mysteries Music and News segments with hosts Don Hollenbeck Cedric Adams Paul Harvey Barrie Craig Meet the Press and Listen to Korea among others. Channel lineups feature program titles and host names reflecting the era’s radio guide rhythm.
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ABC
Don Hollenbeck
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Jason and the
MBS
Bill Downs
Cedric Adams
Barrie Craig
NBC London
Paul Harvey
Robert Q
Waxworks
Alistair Cooke
Meet the Press
Music of the People
ABC News
Ed Morgan
Korea
Truth Serum Pries Loose Death Facts in Desert Grave
Denver reports say escaped California mental patient Michael T. Cavanaugh under truth serum led police to a desert grave near Albuquerque N M where the body of Ralph R. Welch a Tucson ex Marine was buried. Cavanaugh claimed Welch died in a Chula Vista bar room and that he moved the corpse to Tuc son before ending in New Mexico. He described driving and burying the body with a fur coat sand and sage brush to hide it and said prayers over it.
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California
Albuquerque
N. M
Michael T. Cavanaugh
Patton, Calif
Ralph R. Welch
Tucson
Ariz
Cavanaugh
Welch
Chula Vista
Calif
Tia Juana
Mexico
San Diego
Osa Welch
Aeavanaugh
Textile Dyeing Discussed Before Business Club
LaMoyne Shinn of Anadarko discussed silk textile dyeing at Friday lunch of the American Business club. Shinn runs one of Oklahoma's two silk screen dye plants. ABC members voted to sell bumper tags promoting the community as a Boy Scouts cooperative project to be attached to license plates. The club challenged Lawton Junior Chamber to a softball fund raiser and had defeated Chickasha ABC 18 to 7 earlier, followed by refreshments at Chickasha ABC members' gathering.
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Anadarko
American Business Club
Shinn
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