New Army 100-Inch Infrared Lens Peering 35 Miles
Fort Monmouth NJ Army Signal Corps unveils a 100-inch infrared camera lens cap dubbed Peeping Tom. The fast F12.5 lens penetrates haze to photograph objects up to 35 miles away, enabling aerial-like detail from ground or weather blocked flights. Two camera models, one folding optical system and a seven-foot barrel, weigh 100 and 120 pounds respectively, both field-ready in five minutes and producing 5x7 stills with film or plates.
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N.J
Army Signal Corps
Signal Corps
Atlantic Highlands
Sandy Hook
Coney Island
Wall Street
Manhattan
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Maryland
ARMY
Army Signal On
Fort Hancock
Midtown Manhattan
Lower Manhattan Bay
Empire State Building
Funeral Rites for Ida Patterson at Tipton Church
Services for Mrs Ida Patterson Tipton pioneer will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church with Rev A W Lindsay officiating Burial will be in Hastings Okla cemetery She died Monday at 89 in her daughter’s Tipton home She was born February 10 1865 in Hill County Texas Married William David Patterson March 13 1884 in Hillsboro Tex Survivors include two sons Allen Patterson Hawthorne Calif and W E Patterson Tipton three daughters Mrs Hooker Mrs John Hill Phoenix Ariz and Mrs Jessie McDermott Los Angeles Calif 32 grandchildren 49 great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren
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Ida Patterson
Tipton Pioneer
First Baptist
A. W. Lindsay
Hastings
Okla
Patterson
J. M. Hooker
Tipton
Hill County
Tex
Oklahoma
William David Patterson
Hillsboro
Cleveland
Stephens County
Allen Patterson
Hawthorne
Calif
W. E. Patterson
Hooker
John Hill
Phoenix
Ariz
Jessie McDermott
Los Angeles
Grass tinder dry fire warnings issued in Comanche County
Officials warned of extreme fire danger due to tinder dry grass and weeds across Comanche County. Farmers were urged to maintain fireguards and note that even small flames can devastate farmsteads windbreaks and pastures.
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Comanche County
Harry P. Rigdon
Oklahoma A&m College
Rigdon
U.S. Wildlife Refuge
Bald Eagle Matures To White Head Neck Tail
The head neck and tail of the American bald eagle do not become white until the bird is three or four years old.
Dallas gunmen held without bond in Oklahoma City
Three Dallas men aged 20 to 23 were ordered held without bond after arraignment on two kidnaping counts and one armed robbery alongside murder charges. They were linked to the July 16 supermarket holdup in which two employees were kidnapped and detective Bennie Cravatt was killed. Peggy Fry, driver of the getaway car, is at large.
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Oklahoma City
Dallas
Bennie Cravatt
Herbie Franklin Fairis
Raymond C. Price
James Edward Skinner
Peggy Fry
Cravatt
Fannie Mae Ransom
A. W. Truman
Truman
British Egyptians Reach Suez Accord
Cairo sources report Britain and Egypt reached a principle agreement on withdrawal from the Suez Canal Zone. A British spokesman said progress has been made in the last 24 hours on clauses for a new Anglo Egyptian treaty. Negotiators will initial a preliminary accord at a meeting later Tuesday.
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Cairo
Britain
Egypt
Suez Canal Zone
Area Men In Service Area Men In Service
Ralph A. Capshaw son of Mr and Mrs William J Capshaw Chattanooga will return to Norfolk Va August 3 following a cruise on European waters part of a Naval Reserve Officer Training course Shipboard training for the future officers includes practical experience in seamanship navigation gunnery engineering and communications Midshipman Capshaw is at the University of Okla a
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Ralph A. Capshaw
William J. Capshaw
Chattanooga
Norfolk
Capshaw
University of Oklaa
Lifelong Area Friends Separated By Army
Two Chattanooga area men, Pvt. N Washburn son of Mr and Mrs J E Washburn, and Pvt. Roff W Smith son of Mr and Mrs David Smith, longtime pals since childhood, have been deployed overseas. Washburn serves in personnel at Headquarters Korea near the 38th Parallel with the 1169th Engineering Group after basic training at Camp Jee. Smith serves near Mannheim, Germany, in the 2nd Armored Division handling radio and code work with the 7th Army. Smith attended Chattanooga schools, while Washburn graduated Cameron College before enlistment.
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N. Washburn
J. E. Washburn
Chattanooga
Pvt
Roff W. Smith
David Smith
Washburn
Korea
38Th Parallel
1169Th
Aew
Cameron College
Smith
7Th Army
Mannheim
Germany
2Nd Armored Division
Judge Orders Child Weaned In Unusual California Case
In Long Beach California Superior Judge Joe Raycraft ordered Ida Lou Honeycutt and her husband John to wean their five month old baby so the wife could be jailed for forgery after pleading guilty to writing 700 dollars in bad checks. The court-ordered bottle feeding followed several attempts to delay sentencing amid the mother’s protest that she needed to breast feed.
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Long Beach
Calif
Joe Raycraft
Ida Lou Honeycutt
John
Senator Silenced by Gallery Whistle Incident
In Washington a gallery spectator whistled at Senator Margaret Chase Smith as she appeared in an evening gown. The incident violated Senate rules against audible demonstrations, but the unidentified spectator was not ejected.
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Washington
Senate
Margaret Chase Smith
R-Me
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