Sailplane Pilot Finds Pleasure Among Updrafts
Commander H. C. N. Goodhart, a Royal Navy officer with the British Joint Services Mission, is a leading sailplane pilot. He calls soaring an indescribable pleasure and describes climbs to 37,000 feet over the Sierra Nevadas, locating thermals under cumulus clouds to stay aloft. He details technique, equipment, and recent competition at Elmira, New York, where he won but was ineligible for lack of U.S. citizenship, and notes Texas thermals as his next target for a Gold C.
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H. C. N. Goodhart
Royal Navy
Joint Services
Goodhart
Sierra Nevadas
California
Elmira
N. Y
U. S
Wilmington
Del
Texas
Great Britain
Heat and Sun Wreak Fish Havoc at Glade Run Lake
In Wes tern Pennsylvania heat prostration strikes trout at Glade Run Lake as surface waters climb into the 80s. Biologists explain excessive oxygen from algae caused by bright sun and heat. anglers blamed the state, but officials say the damage will be repaired with restocking for the 1956 season.
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Pensylvania Fish Commission
Glade Run Lake
Pennsylvania
HK. Buller
Buller
Reward Offered for Phone Cable Thief in Michigan
Detroit Bell company announces a 500 dollar reward for the capture of thieves who stole over 500 feet of its cable in an open field near Trenton Michigan. The loss interrupted circuits of major news services leasing wires for a short period. Salvage valued at about 1000 dollars, repair cost estimated at 7000 dollars.
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Detroit
Up-American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Trenton
Mich
Old Pioneer Still Has His Feather Bed
ENNIS Texas UP R L Sparkman moved to Texas in a covered wagon at age 12 and has lived in Ellis county ever since. He will be 99 Saturday and still owns the feather bed he took to Baylor University and the trunk. His daughter Mrs C P Clark cares for him as eyesight fades. The family moved from Lancaster to a Bristol area farm before settling in Ennis 17 years ago. His wife Emma White died eight years ago shortly after their 65th wedding anniversary. Sparkman once ran three gins and three general stores in Ellis county and built telephone lines to Ennis. He retired at 77 and sold his holdings.
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Tex
R. L. Sparkman
Texas
Ellis County
Baylor University
Brags River
Baylor
Sparkman
C. P. Clark
Lancaster
Bristol
Emma White
Medal of Honor pension bill faces Senate delay
NEA reports on the plights of living Medal of Honor recipients amid a stalled push in Congress for a $100 per month pension. Examples include Doolittle and Foss, plus lesser-known heroes across Texas, New York, and Maryland, many on relief or struggling despite wartime valor.
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NEA
America
Senate
Jimmy Doolittle
Marine Air
Joe
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Department of Defense
House
Senate Finance Committee
Audie Murphy
Joe Foss
Russians Jam Own Delegate Report In Munich
VOA engineers report no perceptible change in Soviet jamming of Russian broadcasts as Vladimir Matskevich, Soviet first deputy minister of agriculture, leads the Russian farm delegation on a tour of the United States. He says the delegation received a friendly welcome and saw useful ideas for state and collective farms.
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Munich
Germany
Voice of America
U. S
Russia
America
VOA
Vladimir Matskevich
United States
Matskevich
Soviet Union
Nations Represented Among Foreign Students in US
A report notes that 129 distinct nations are represented by foreign students studying in the United States. The figure highlights the global reach of American higher education and reflects diverse international enrollment across U.S. colleges and universities.
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United States
Took A Long Time But He Came Back
Eighteen years after visiting Los Angeles Joseph Moreau a Vancouver BC carpenter returned with his wife and nine children declaring he came back for good at the airport stating he wanted to start a family before leaving Vancouver.
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Los Angeles
Joseph Moreau
Vancouver
B. C
Carpenter
Champion Broom Maker Visiting Lawton Relatives
Oklahoma champion broom maker and former Lawton resident R L Stout visits Lawton with his mother Nora Stout and brothers Cleo Lester and Dean. Stout, broom factory operator at Norman, was named state champion broom manufacturer. The family lived here 17 years before leaving in 1947. Stout came to Lawton in 1902.
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Oklahoma
R. L. Stout
Norman
Stout
New Jersey Woman Hits Jackpot On Milk Machine
In Redwood New Jersey Mrs Albert Van Kotten of Erskine Lakes won 38 quarts of milk from a milk vending machine after inserting a quarter. She turned 37 quarts over to the police to return to the dairy.
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New Jersey
Redwood
N.J
Albert van Kotten
Erskine Lakes
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