Reality Returns To Lives Of Ex POWs After Homecoming
A survey of 566 former POWs shows most are adapting to postwar life with families and careers. Many report good health, some need medical care, and several face marital strain, adjusting to reintegration after years away.
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Associated Press
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Palo Alto
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California
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Michael Christian
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Haircutting Not The Same In Cambria
Ed Pearson 79 has cut hair in Cambria since the 1920s. He recalls a boom before 1929 and a slow present as miners disappeared and older customers died. He notes long hair becoming common and a warm shop with a pot belly stove. The story ends with a line about the Canada United States border.
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Ed Pearson
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Heat Wave Slows Time In Canton
A heat wave in Ohio stretched power demand in Canton causing electric clocks to lose up to 10 minutes as current frequency fell. Ohio Power Co. said clocks drifted earlier in the day but corrected overnight after demand eased and frequency rose.
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Ohio Power Co
Canton
Ohio Power
Ferguson Won’t Run, Aide Predicts
COLUMBUS Ohio a top aide to State Auditor Joseph T Ferguson has predicted the 81 year old Democrat will not run in 1974 Deputy State Auditor Richard Borrer said he does not think Ferguson will run citing health problems as the likely reason Ferguson is at home recovering from a recent illness He began working in the state auditor's office in 1916 and was first elected in 1936.
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Joseph T. Ferguson
Richard Borrer
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State Auditor
Use Of Car Pools One Way To Solve Auto Pollution
Washington AP reports Walker & Dunlop employees test car pooling to cut auto use and pollution. About 51 of 90 participate with seven receiving free parking via a monthly trading stamps scheme worth 135 dollars, while a proposed one dollar daily auto tax failed. Carol Church formerly drove alone for a decade, but joined to avoid long bus waits, finding nearby coworkers who collect stamps.
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Washington
Walker & Dunlop
District of Columbia
Moira DeWilde
Suez Canal handover to Egypt marks 1956 watershed
On June 13 1956 Britain relinquished control of the Suez Canal, transferring the waterway to Egypt after 74 years. The note recalls other historical anniversaries and birthdays, including Thurgood Marshall’s 1967 Supreme Court appointment and past Cold War events.
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Egypt
Christopher Columbus
Martinique
Ottawa
U.S
John Pershing
Paris
U.S. Office of War Information
Elmer Davis
Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court
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