Mother builds own home from ground up in Easthampton
Mrs Shirley Crabtree of Easthampton built a nine room house with her husband Saville, starting with a concrete mixer as a gift. She did most carpentry herself over five months, funded by small jobs, and plans a sunken living room and pool. She runs a contracting side business and still relies on her husband for final plans.
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Easthampton
Mass
Shirley Beddell Crabtree
Saville
Crabtrees
Landa
Nancydean
Holyoke
Westfield
Mrs. Crabtree
Go Easy On Sun Tan This Summer
CHAPEL HILL North Carolina sunlight may give a tan but it raises skin cancer risk. Dr Herbert Z Lund visiting professor of pathology at the University of North Carolina told a scientific meeting that skin cancer is more common in the South and in warmer regions. He noted long term sun exposure causes blotches fine wrinkling and an aged look that may develop into cancer.
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Chapel Hill
N.C
Herbert Z. Lund
University of North Carolina
Lund
South
Salt Seams Of Malagash Mines 75 Feet Thick
In Malagash Nova Scotia a salt mine lies beneath the village with a 200 foot shaft and 3200 feet of tunnels extending one mile. Rock salt is mined for curing fish and table salt is produced from evaporated brine. The mine sits on nine square miles of property and supports local employment. The discovery traces to 1917 with initial drillers Peter Murray, George W. MacKay, and A R Chambers.
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Peter Murray
George W. MacKay
A. R. Chambers
New Glasgow
Malagash
Malagash Bay
Tugela Falls Listed as World’s Highest Waterfall
The Tugela Falls in Natal South Africa is described as the highest waterfall in the world with a total height of 2,810 feet.
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Natal
South Africa
Doctors Find New Drug To Temporarily Halt Cancer
CHICAGO. Discovery of tepa, a drug derived from a textile chemical, halts melanoma temporarily. In 17 patients it stopped cancer in five and slowed spread in others. one man lived well for three months then yearlong remission before relapse. Mouse data suggest potential if caught early. Melanoma causes about 3 percent of cancer deaths.
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Chicago
American Association For Cancer Research
Sydney Farber
Virginia Downing
Majib Abudydar
Children’s Cancer Research Foundation
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Farber
Tepa
Dr. Farber
Spelling Champ Doris Hall Shares Tips for Hopefuls
Doris Ann Hall, 1952 National Spelling Bee winner, offers guidance for aspirants in Hudson. She urges memorizing correct pronunciations and spellings, studying prefixes suffixes and etymology, and using a dictionary to memorize unknown words. She notes often a letter is mute in English but pronounced in origin.
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Hudson
N.C
Doris Ann Hall
Washington, D.C
Doris
Doria
Flying Squirrels Nimbly Move at Dusk Yet Often Hidden
The piece notes flying squirrels are numerous but seldom seen as they move at night or dusk. It also recalls Elias Howe's 1845 invention of the first sewing machine which greatly reduced manual sewing labor.
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Elias Howe
Life in Canada Showcased to Iron Curtain Listeners
CBC International Service portrays Canadian life with a factory girl earning 28 dollars weekly and paying 4 for room, 7 to 8 for food, leaving 16 for clothes. A farmer amasses 150 acres, 200 pigs and a $5,000 Cadillac, while a Ukrainian piece highlights farm success and a former collective farm member’s shift to private ownership amid billions spent on the service.
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Ottawa
Canada
CBC International Service
M. I. Kazanetzky
Sosula
Hand Feeding Of Young Pigs Will Save Money
A note from the Experimental Farm Brandon urges hand feeding when sows cannot provide enough milk. It describes a cows milk based formula with eggs cod liver oil and salt, fed warm five to six times daily to newborn pigs. The article notes antibiotics may help and emphasizes clean utensils and using commercial milk replacers per directions.
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Brandon
Soldier’s Straight Talk To Church Congregation
A returned GI urged church members to attend with army discipline. He mocked excuses for missing service and warned that if the church moved as a real army, many parishioners would face court martial for lax attendance. The oration contrasts military accountability with spiritual duty.
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Church of God
Reveille
Smith
Geant
Robinson
World population to double in 70 years to 5 billion
The Population Reference Bureau warned that if current birth and death rates persist the world population will reach about 5 billion in 70 years. The United States would double from 159 million to roughly 318 million by 2000, with global growth deemed a grave threat to world peace.
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Washington
Population Reference Service
United States
Bureau
Quotes on Government Moral Law and Self-Help
A collection of quotations from Mary Baker Eddy Wendell Phillips Gladstone Solon Washington and H J Van Dyke on governance, turning overturning power, self-government, and the moral implications of laws. Each line offers a concise view linking influence, authority and virtue.
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God
Mary Baker Eddy
Wendell Phillips
Washington
H. J van Dyke
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Solon
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