Grasfontein Ghost Town Reflects Diamond Boom’s Decline
Johannesburg, S Africa. Grasfontein once a great diamond city with 149,000 residents and $25 million annual yield. Now a ghost town with a few thousand poor, empty streets, deserted shops, and many former residents moving to Johannesburg and other Rand towns seeking work as welfare funds dwindle.
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Johannesburg
S. Africa
U.P
Grasfontein
Grosfontein
Kimberley
Rand
Lichtenburg
Appetite Claimed To Be Man's Enemy
Dr Victor Heiser told the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons in Cleveland that appetite harms health. Heler said Americans focus on quantity over quality and that hunger signals reflect real nutritional needs rather than mere desire.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Victor Heiser
American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Heiser
Heiser
Colleague clothes scout notes Oberlin fashion sober yet bold
Old Sam Mintz, famed second hand clothes buyer, tours Oberlin College. He praises yellow jazz-bow ties and neat dress among students, saying two thirds of lads sell suits to fund dates. Mintz travels nationwide to 200 campuses, financing campus dances with sales and enjoying the education of meeting college boys.
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Oberlin
U.P
Sam Mintz
Oberlin College
Sam
Whitehouse
College Residenece Hall
Mintz
Yale
Culprit Defaces Speed Limit Sign At Watch Hill
UPI reports in Watch Hill Rhode Island that a vandal altered a speed limit sign at the town entrance. Police said the sign read 85 miles per hour but the unit was 80 miles out of the way.
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Watch Hill
R. 1
UPI
Morrists
Police Dept
Firemen to See Selves in Action in Films
Boston fire fighters will have their fires photographed for a film record with sound. Fire Commissioner Reilly says the project will help study operations, assess errors, and improve response by reviewing footage of large blazes and crowd disturbances. Every angle will be analyzed to guide equipment use and boost efficiency.
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Boston
Mass
Reilly
Community visits and family gatherings in Canady area
Mrs Lettit M Canady and Mrs John Watkins of Worthington spent part of the week with Mr and Mrs Glenn Greenwell. Friends and relatives from Stafford Bloomhold Linton and Indianapolis visited or called on local families including O P McKee Ralph Perkins Lex McKee Noble Cox and others. Nearby travels included a Vincennes business trip by Lee Leekner and family and Herbert Canady with Ruby and John.
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John Watkins
Worthington
Glenn Greenwell
Chester Bradfield
Walter Sutphin
Joseph White
Stafford
Herbert Baker
Eldon Brock
Bloomheld
Starling Combs
Near Midland
Joe Benham
Linton
O. P. McKee
Henderson Griffith
Indianapolis
Lee Leekner
Manda
Herbert Canady
Ruby
John
Vincenne
Valuable clay jug found in Sierra Nevada family gift
Mrs G L Breeding of Mariposa county found a gray jug in her car that was a 85 year old wedding gift. Geologist calls it unique in the country and likely Peruvian Indian work brought by Spaniards circa 1807. The foot high vase shows a carved face with five spouts and was shown at Fresno State College museum for 12 years.
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Merced
Cal
G. L. Breeding
Mariposa County
Fresno State College
World Scout Rally and National Council Meeting Set for New York
The Biggest Scouts rally ever will unfold at the New York World's Fair on June 20 during Boy Scout Day. The 29th Annual National Council meeting runs June 29 to 98 29 with sessions at Waldorf Astoria and the Fair. Leaders including J Edgar Hoover and Owen J Roberts are slated to speak. 75 000 scouts expected at the Court of Peace and 500 or more to take citizenship obligations.
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New York World's Fair
National Council, Boy Scouts of America
Waldorf- Astoria Hotel
Alfred E. Smith
New York State
John R. Mott
All the
Y.M
Grover A. Whalen
Feir Corporation
Fiorello H. LeGuardia
New York City
National Council
Walter W. Head
St. Louis
Boy Scouts of America
Theodore Roosevelt
Daniel Carter Beard
James E. West
Pixcuilus
Boys’ Life
Boy Scout Foundation of
Greater New York
WEST ATLAS EMS M. R. Fainer
James Earl and Priscilla Louise Gabbard of Muncie are guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Parks and other relatives here. Justin C. Norris and Harley Strickland were in Detroit on business. Berniere Pergvusen of Tucsonville spent Tuesday night with Leona Ham. Clyde Ham of Newark visited the Ham and Buck families near Pleas antville and Ora Fainet with Sanday and Rovers near Bloomfield. Will Butler of Sullivan was a recent visitor.
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James Earl
Priscilla Louise Gabbard
Muncie
Silas Parks
Justin C. Norris
Harley
Strickland
Detroit
Mich
Berniere Pergvusen
Tucsonville
Leona Ham
Clyde Ham
Newark
Raymond, Ham
Garrett Buck
Marilee
Pleasantville
Ora Fainet
Sanday A
Sie Rovers
Bloomfeld
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Leo Harmon
Santa Catalina Island
Catalina
New York
Grover A Whalen
J. Edgar Hoover
Alfred E Smith
Auddie
Walter W. H
John PR. Mott
James E. Wast
Owen J. Roberts
Daniel Carter
West Atlas Ems
M. R. Fainer
T. J. Shields
Will Butler
Sullivan
General Motors
Malicoat & Baxley
South Main St
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Bloomfield
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