Magnolia Honors Retiring Magnolia Workers
Magnolia Petroleum honors four retiring employees at the annual pot luck supper in the Americas Legion hall. Plaques and pins were awarded to Harry Cremer for 39 years, Grover Spears 32 years, W. H. Roberts 35 years, and W. S. Edwards who accepted a plaque later. Wives received cash gifts. program featured Myra Stevens and Tommie on piano. Attendees included district and assistant superintendents, local staff, and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Gentry
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Americas Legion Hall
A. Hill Duncan
Harry Cremer
Grover Spears
Rush Springs
W. H. Roberts
Cyril
W. S. Edwards
Magnolia
Chemical slows water evaporation from reservoirs
Chicago reports the American Municipal Association cites U S Reclamation Bureau tests showing hexadecanol forms a thin surface film on water to reduce evaporation by 25 to 30 percent. The chemical spreads automatically, appears non toxic, and costs under 60 cents per acre.
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Chicago
American Municipal Association
U. S. Reclamation Bureau
Oregon Farmer Adopts Eight Korean Orphans
Creswell, Oregon farmer Harry Holt has adopted eight Korean orphans from the Harry Holt Orphanage. Four of the children are ill with tuberculosis and will be treated under U.S. Public Health Service supervision. Holt has placed 575 mixed-blood youths in homes across the United States and plans to bring more before Christmas.
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Portlandn
Ore
United States
Harry Holt
Korea
Holt
Creswell, Ore
U.S
Immigration Service
U.S. Public Health Service
Hames
Oregon
Italian Volcano Starts Erupting
Catania Sicily reports Etna begins erupting with explosions about every ten minutes. Volcanologists say no immediate danger exists though ashes fall into the crater and a lava tongue has advanced roughly 1000 feet down the northeast slope.
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Catania
Sicily
Etna
Zalterana
Europe
Police Trap Nets Thieves
Four thieves were caught at the Meridan Knitting Mills in Brooklyn after a staged trap by detectives Paul Reilly Pat Kelly Steve Wall and Frank Shannon. The burglars from Manhattan Bronx and Brooklyn were charged with burglary and possession of burglars tools for looting sweat ers worth 2 500 and were surprised as they attempted to drive away while a couple and two drunks inadvertently witnessed the takedown.
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New York
Meridan Knitting Mills
Brooklyn
Paul Reilly
Pat Kelly
Steve Wall
Frank Shannon
Burslar
Ernest Rodriguez
The
Bronx
Domingo Riviera
Serafin Quintana
Jesus Rodiguez
Manhattan
Baltimore theft ends near station house car
Police traced a car theft to an auto stolen near the station house. The vehicle belonged to Patrolman John L. Shaughness, prompting a double-barreled reason for the pursuit by the department.
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Baltimore
John L. Shaughness
Highway Deaths May Show Drop
The National Safety Council projected 38,600 highway deaths for 1957, about 1,000 fewer than 1956, based on nine months of data. First ten months saw 21,350 fatalities, down from 1956, while eight months saw 5.8 deaths per 100 million miles of travel, down from 6.4. October totals were 3,480, similar to October 1956.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Traveel
Montana
Idaho
Richmond
Jacksonville
Fla
Salt Lake City
Utah
Lynn
Mass
Rock Island
Mich
Refugees Haven Quiet at Camp Kicmer New Jersey
The Army camp at Camp Kicmer New Jersey, once the first U S stop for Hungarian refugees, held one of the quietest Thanksgivings as Maj Joseph J Lincavage described the abandoned site. Last year about 60 Hungarians arrived for a turkey dinner and some 33,000 compatriots followed at the peak of relief. With the refugees gone, the camp is deactivated.
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Kicmer
N. J
United States
Joseph J. Lincavage
Mom and Four Children Drown In Mishap
In Livingston Montana Mrs Charles Woods 26 and her four children Betty 6 Bruce 4 and twins James and John 3 apparently drowned when their car lost control and plunged into the Yellowstone River. The husband and father 28-year-old is believed to have been present but later left to seek work in Luther Mont. They lived in Big Timber Mont and were en route to a Thanksgiving dinner at the W Swanson ranch south of town.
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W. Swanson
the Woods
Big Timber
Mont
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