Bookmark design teaches library habits and a prize offer
Pioneer Benjamin Franklin created public libraries in 1731 and libraries have shaped the nation. The Library of Congress stands as the largest with over 5 million items. A sample bookmark file explains coloring, construction and usage to mark pages, plus a Junior Editors idea prize of ten dollars per used suggestion. Tomorrow: Finding the Material.
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Benjamin Franklin
United States
Library of Congress
Washington, D. C
Adlai Stevenson Opens California Campaign Tour
Adlai Stevenson begins an intensive eight day whistle-stop tour of California ahead of Kefauver in a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Kefauver plans four days in California after Stevenson visits Fresno and Sacramento programs, with California's delegation leaning toward Stevenson this time.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Adlai Stevenson
California
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Sacramento
Kefauver
California Democratic Council
Fresno
Headon
Florida
Minnesota
Stevenson
Edmund G. Brown
Photos Confirm Anti-Proton Exists
New York reports six photographs confirm the anti-proton, a nuclear particle, with Dr. Owen Chamberlain announcing at the American Physical Society meeting that the Berkeley Bevatron films captured proton explosions and a collision energy signal in one image.
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New York
University of California
Owen Chamberlain
American Physical Society
Berkeley Bevatron
Chamberlain
Fatal Baltimore Fire Probed by County Officials
Anne Arundel County commissioners planned to review a preliminary report on the Arun del Park Auditorium blaze near Baltimore that killed 10 and injured about 200 during an oyster roast by the Holy Name Society. A three member investigation team includes Harry W. Klasmeier, Sgt. Thomas Smith, and H. Charles Robinson amid eyewitness accounts of a kitchen fire spreading to the wooden ceiling and crowd chaos as lights went out.
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Annapolis
Anne Arundel County
Arundel Park Auditorium
Baltimore
Holy Name Society
St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Harry W. Klasmeier
Sgt
Thomas Smith
State Police
H. Charles Robinson
Cure Found for Blue Baby Heart Defect At Chicago Hospital
Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago announced a surgical development to cure a blue baby defect where the main arteries are reversed. The operation has been successfully performed on two small girls in the past seven months.
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Chicago
Children’s Memorial Hospital
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