Former Aerial Acrobat Finds New Line in New Career
Sid Alcide once dazzled audiences as a trapeze star for 45 years before a 1959 automobile crash ended his idolized career. Now 56, he runs maintenance and operation of a Lake Pontchartrain amusement-park ride in New Orleans, saying the job gives him purpose and a chance to reconnect with fellow show people.
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UPI
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Barber installs traffic light to speed customer service
Rochester barber Vincent Scancarella, 67, mounts a red green signal on his barbershop. The device flashes green to cue customers to enter and get clipped without waiting, he says it saves waiting time and keeps steady customers.
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Vincent Scancarella
Subscription Rates for Lawton Carrier Service
Rate notice lists prepaid prices for Morning Press and Sunday Constitution with per copy charges for Constitution Subscribers and Saturday Press delivery. It specifies delivery to press and constitution subscribers in the Lawton area and notes weekend editions.
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Lawton Area
Muni
Constitution
Constitution Press
Press & Sun
Kansas Lake Uses Rubber Bottom To Contain Gas
The Hutchinson lake is lined with a butyl rubber bottom to stop saline water from seeping into nearby streams. It covers six acres with 45 tons of rubber and can hold about 300000 barrels of salt water. Underground caverns store liquefied petroleum gas and are flooded with salt water in winter to push gas into pipelines.
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Hutchinson
Ancient Nubian Monuments Saved From Nile Floods
Cairo reports UNESCO and UAR launch a third drive to save Nubian relics from Aswan dam flooding. Abu Simbel tem ples will be raised 200 feet with hydraulic pumps, costing about $60 million with one third funded by the UAR. Seventeen other sites await rescue along a 300 mile Nubian valley.
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Cairo
UPI
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Aswan High Dam
United Arab Republic
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Unesco
Abu Simbel
U.A.R
UAR
Uar-Unesco
Western Books Popular Among Chinese Reds
China has translated about 6000 foreign titles since 1949, including Twain Whitman Longfellow and Dickens. Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet sold thousands, while Homer Dante Milton and Don Quixote are among ancient and classic works now available. Russian authors also appear, with royalties left undisclosed.
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Peter Hann
Tokyo
UPI
Red
China
America
Mark Twain
Henry Longfellow
Walt Whitman
New China News Agency
New China
Red China
Peking
Moscow
Boy travels alone on train says father is driving
In Woburn Massachusetts a Baptist minister Rev H John Murchie aboard a railroad train notices a small boy traveling alone. The boy answers that he is not afraid because his father is driving.
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Woburn, Messe
UPI
H. John Murchie
Cleveland Origins and Name Spelling Change
The city site at Cleveland was surveyed in 1796 by General Moses Cleaveland. The settlement was named for him, but the spelling later dropped the first A, yielding the modern name Cleveland.
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City of
Cleveland
Moses Cleaveland
Foam latex rubber use to rise to 157 million pounds
UPI reports the Latex Foam Rubber Council projects United States consumption of latex foam rubber will reach 157 million pounds in 1963, up about 10 percent from 1962.
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New York
UPI
United States
Latex Foam Rubber Council
Standard Oil of New Jersey pays over 3 billion in taxes
Standard Oil Co of New Jersey reports 1962 taxes total more than 3 billion dollars to the U.S. and other governments. The tax bill is about four times the company's earnings, reflecting sharp profit levels for the year.
Goodyear Develops Quiet Tire for Heavy Vehicles
Akron Ohio based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company unveils a soft spoken truck tire that reduces highway noise. The muted sound results from varying tread element lengths at different points around the tire.
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Akron, Ohio
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