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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1957
Page
11
Oklahoma's new egg law takes effect September 1 and is expected to spark a new industry. Sewell Skelton notes housewives will handle grading, with women excelling at candling eggs. Eye handling businesses will service retailers. producers will sell graded eggs for quality rewards akin to dairy.
Boston doctors join the Route 128 relocation trend. Dr Grantley W Taylor of Massachusetts General Hospital moved from Beacon Street to Weston on 128 and started his own practice. Dr William Rogers of Boston has joined him and eight or ten others will follow, all to run independent clinics in the new building to ease urban parking and traffic issues.
New York reports more than five billion dollars in gifts to public and private colleges over 14 years. Total contributions reached 2,409,393,048 with current use 1,021,485,282 endowment 730,148,844 and plant 657,875,922. Endowment totals climbed to 3,196,120,000 from 1,686,282,767 in 1939-40.
Westchester Pa UP Complicated litigation over the $13 million will of industrialist Harry Publicker heads to trial October 7 in Montgomery Pleas court. Disinherited daughter Mrs Maxwell Mangold of New York Miami contends a 1951 stroke left him without testamentary capacity. The suit, also involving Mangold’s three children, seeks to challenge a codicil that cut her out. Publicker Industries founder, Neuman family beneficiaries, and a second will contest in Philadelphia add complexity.
Nelson B. Winters of Gouverneur Chamber of Commerce received a postcard mailed March 15, 1914 by Leo Price of Ithaca asking about veterinarians in Gouverneur. Winters replied, but the reply was returned marked a person and address unknown.
Rome reports Italian authorities study plans to prevent the Leaning Tower of Pisa from leaning further. Professor Giulio Penta proposes cement-filled drilled holes to ease foundation load while Professor Armando Donato suggests a cement platform and crosspieces to support the base.
The Wisconsin Aeronautics Commission said 1,452 aircraft are currently maintained in flying condition in the state. The commission also noted that 31 licenses for aircraft dealers have been issued during 1957.
In Buffalo New York an unnamed donor dubbed Mr X sent two checks totaling 137 50 and 187 50 with notes For General Fund and Sort funds. Treasurer Lucy Curley said the sender gave no identifying details yet the city is grateful for the honest effort to rectify a prior error.
Billy Graham's New York crusade generated 31 823 stories in four weeks, outpacing King Saud's U S visit with 30 543 items. The clipping bureau notes reflects about 1 000 Graham clippings daily and roughly 60 percent of national papers carried at least one story daily.
The readable fragments mention a visitor being welcomed on a garden path by a Frances Crump Cooper and reference a goldfish lily pool. A separate fact notes that one whale species measures only 44 percent of an unspecified length when Sally grown, implying a botched OCR.
Mrs. F M Cooper in Memphis invites flower lovers to her large garden with a four year old welcome sign saying come in anytime. She rises at 5:30 a.m. to tend plants with her arthritis-weakened husband helping occasionally. She shares plants freely, having received most as gifts, and values seeing others' gardens. The yard features long rose beds and borders of trees and perennials.
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