Weather scouts seek tornado clues from high Cloud chase
Kansas City pilot Jim Cook flies into thunderstorm squalls in an F 51 Mustang to study tornado formation. He records conditions such as temperature humidity and electric field with onboard instruments and a 16 millimeter camera. The Weather Bureau hopes better forecasts follow. The Phoebe Corporation markets airborne TV for reconnaissance and GM tests ground TV in car and appliance research.
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Jim Cook
Kansas City
Missouri
Cook
Weather Bureau
Woman makes base ball covers for 11 years in Vermont
Mrs. Beryl Coats of Hinesburg Vermont sews covers on base balls for a Connecticut firm. She has worked the job for over 11 years while raising five children. She works on assignment with a flat fee and regular hours and says she is not much of a baseball fan.
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Hinesburg
Beryl Coats
Major Southern California quake rattles San Diego to Los Angeles
A strong earthquake struck Southern California on Friday morning near the Mexican border with aftershocks felt from San Diego to Imperial Valley and Los Angeles. Seismologist Charles Richter noted the magnitude was not yet established but no damage or injuries were reported.
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San Diego
California
Imperial Valley
Maces
Irotic
Los Angeles
Charles Richter
Pruning Shrubs Right With Sharp Pruning Shears
Lexington Kentucky Professor N R Elliott of the University of Kentucky extension service warns against using butcher knives to prune shrubs. He advises sharp pruning shears for clean cuts and recommends pruning right after blooming on early flowering varieties such as forsythia spirea jasmine and japonica to keep them healthy 12 to 20 years.
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N. R. Elliott
University of Kentucky Extension Service
Elliott
Hearing May 18 On Draft Release In Texas
San Antonio faces a habeas corpus hearing May 18 for Private B R Reap a 43 year old draftee from Silver Springs Maryland seeking release from military detention. He alleges unlawful arrest and unlawful restraint by Brooke Army Hospital officers Local Selective Service Board 53 Maryland Medical Board of Appeals and state directors.
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San Antonio
Texas
Maryland
B. R. Reap
Silver Springs
Marland
Federal District Court
William B. Simborina
Brooke Army Hospital
Fort Sam Houston
Reap
Army
Alexandria
Virginia
Local
Selective Service Board Number 53
Montgomery County
Medical Board of Appeals
Maryland and
National Selective Service Directors
Pruning Shade Shrubs for Size and Blooms
With pruning snips remove about one fourth to one third of old dark canes two inches from the ground. This reduces shrub size and promotes leaves on lower stems and better blooms while preserving shape. After pruning, dig soil under branches two inches deep and scatter three to four handfuls of high grade fertilizer on the area.
Hughes Plans Jet Passenger Planes Against Boeing and Lockheed
Howard Hughes seeks government permission for Trans World Airlines to buy 25 Hughes jet airliners. Hughes Tool Company would create a jet division to build passenger planes amid a dispersal program, competing with Boeing and Lockheed.
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Howard Hughes
Aslight
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Hughes Interest
CAB
Trans World Airlines
Hughes Tool Company
Hughes
TWA
Boeing
Lockheed
Sweet old lady helps sad man at street corner
A kind elderly woman gives a dollar and offers words of cheer to a sad man on a street corner. The next day they meet again and the man whispers a cryptic note about a niece and a payment, hinting at a personal debt or repayment.
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Billy Lewallen
Norman Pender
Dovgie Dunn
Ja K Wood
Jodie Yarbrough
Joan Pittman
Sharron Stanfield
Wilma Brown
Billie Denn di
Omera Redden
Dimmute
Kownsend
Ronnie Beard
Kenneth Brown
Geneanna Newbury
Richard Johnson
James Johnson
Delora Searcy
And
Turk
Elena Cooper
Donald Grimes
Com
Moearshall
Jean Howy
Carol Mostey
Norman Tankersley
Janquetta Sapp
Pat Norton
James Hefercy
Jerry Anderson
Joe Chance
Barbara Fry
Rosemary Brininstool
Midwest
The
Phobe Corporation
General Motors
Lexington
Detroit
Martin Gorney
Gurney
Rice and Hughes Today
All Power
A-C
Bill Hughes
Rice & Hughes Auto Sales
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Hobbs, New Mexico
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