Automation fears loom as machines threaten workforces
UPI columnist notes that automation prompts fear and anger among workers and unions. He cites Capek's R U R and a California Electro-com machine, argues for scientific freedom to innovate, and warns halted progress could hurt the US in the cold war while reformers push a 35 hour week.
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Harry Ferguson
United Press International
Washington
UPI
Karel Capek
R.U.R
Midwest
Russia
Paul Douglas
D-Ii
California
Electro-com
Douglas
United States Senate
United States
Six Children Die In Portland Duplex Fire
A midnight fire in a two story Portland duplex at Harrigan home killed six of the Harrigan children. Mr and Mrs Harrigan and two younger children escaped. Fire officials recovered six bodies not yet identified. The blaze started near a space heater on the first floor. The couple tried to save the children before fleeing to the second floor. Remaining residents included three state wards Ramona 7 Thomas 6 and Tammy Malley 4.
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Portland
Maine
Port
William Harrigan
Harrigan
Beverly
Heidi
Ramona
Thomas
Tammy Malley
Teen Drivers Must Write Essays On Reckless Driving
In Columbia Mississippi teens who break traffic laws must compose a 500 to 1000 word essay on reckless driving and read it aloud to the mayor and police officers. Over the last five years only one juvenile has completed a second essay.
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Columbia
Miss
Widow Accepts Distinguished Flying Medal for Pilot
Peggy Deegan of Arizona accepted the Distinguished Flying Medal posthumously for her husband Maj Thomas Deegan who flew seven B57 bomber missions near the Christmas Island test site from April 26 to June 27 1962. He was killed September 9 1962 when his jet exploded over Midwest City Oklahoma after steering the craft away from a populated area.
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Deegan
Capital Student Wins Scholarship
Swarthmore Pa. Guy William Harold Parkhurst Jr. of Oklahoma City is named one of 32 Rhodes Scholars and serves as president of Swarthmore College. The award provides 2520 dollars for two years at Oxford University. Rhodes Scholarships were founded in 1902 to promote world understanding and peace.
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Swarthmore, Pa
Guy William Harold Parkhurst Jr
Oklahoma City
Rhodes
Swarthmore College
Parkhurst
University of Oklahoma
Oxford University
England
Cecil John Rhodes
Oilman Howard Whitehill Dies at 69 in Tulsa
Veteran oilman Howard J. Whitehill aged 69 died Sunday in a Tulsa hospital. He had worked in the oil business in Tulsa and Nowata for 40 years.
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TULSA
Howard J. Whitehill
Whitehill
Nowata
Flying Squirrels Glide Up to 125 Feet Says Nat Geographic
United Press International reports that flying squirrels do not truly fly but can glide as far as 125 feet using their skin membranes. The National Geographic Society provides the measure.
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United Press International
National Geographic Society
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