Pamplin City Heats Up With World’s Largest Indian Pipe Plant
In Pamplin City Virginia the world’s largest plant for Indian stone clay pipes operates with a daily capacity of 25 000 smokers and a single burning kiln handling 200 000. The Powhatan style pipe is prized and the area clay supports pipes named Ole Virginny Pow Wow Wigwam. The plant employs four regular workers plus part time help and draws tourists for gifts and souvenirs as the town centers on this industry.
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Pamplin City
E. L. Kirkpatrick
WIN
Virginia
Pamplin
Arkansas Grows Some Whoppers
Arkansas highlights contrived produce tall tales citing locals who boast about oversized crops and fish. The clippings list a cotton stalk with 85 bolls a 91 pound pumpkin a 5 percent pound sweet potato a 19 ounce apple 14 inches in circumference and two bass over 5 pounds caught on one hook.
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Little Rock
Ark
California
Florida
Arkansas
He’s Caught Up
A baby born in 1943 in Mobile Alabama weighed 2 pounds 11 ounces and measured 11 inches at birth. After two and a half years of growth he reached over 25 pounds and normal height.
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Mobile
Ala
Ronald Regan
Prefab Houses Built in 1850 in Hamilton Missouri
In Hamilton Missouri population 1600 two prefab houses from the 1850s survive. A. G. Davis sent plans to a St. Louis firm when no local carpenters existed. Lumber windows and bored peg holes arrived with assembly instructions. Otis Richardson later built another and its house remains in use after remodeling.
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Hamilton
Missouri
A. G. Davis
St. Louis
Otis Richardson
Richardson
Topsoil Erosion Warns in West Virginia
Beckley West Virginia soil expert Walter C Grum bel reports more than half of original topsoil washed away. He cites soil conservation practices boosting yields 10 to 25 percent and urges intelligent programs to protect land water forests and wildlife while stabilizing farms.
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Beckley
W. VA
West Virginia
Walter C. Grumbel
Gumbel
Man Builds Accidental Better Mouse Trap in South Carolina
S D Bishop of Bamberg South Carolina claims to have created a better mouse trap though it was accidental. He left a fish trap baited at a feed store overnight and later found five rats and 19 more trapped, catching a surprising haul.
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Bamberg
S. C
S. D
Bishop
Ex-GI Proposes Anti Snore Device for Army
Beaverton Oregon resident T M Weed a former GI has filed his no snore kit with the U S quartermaster corps. He says the device stops or reduces snoring by hindering the soft palate and uvula flutter that makes the noise. Weed says barracks mates complaints in 1942 and 1943 inspired the invention during his army service.
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Beaverton
Obe
T. M. Weed
G.I
U. S. Quartermaster Corps
Weed
Airplane crop dusting eyed for Georgia farms
Tests at the Omega plant farms in Omega Georgia show aerial dusting costs about half of tractor spraying and is far more efficient. A single plane can dust about 1000 acres per day, suggesting planes may soon be used widely in the region.
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Omega
Why Allegany Never Became Great City
Allegany New York was planned as Allegany City to be a regional hub of culture industry and commerce. Financing and surveying proceeded but Erie railroad routing in 1848 moved north of the paper city and canal termini shifted to Millgrove causing the project to be abandoned.
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Allegany
N. Y
Allegany City
Park Hotel
Erie
City
Genesee Valley
Millgrove
Olean
Martin
Marty) Maher
West Point
Grant
Pershing
Eisenhower
Maher
Army
Civil Service
Vandenberg and Labor Row Dominate Washington Scene
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan touts a Republican foreign policy while joking about his re election. CIO chief Phil Murray grills labor policy before a Senate panel attacking Truman’s approach to strikes. Dixie fertilizer rationing rises as agriculture officials warn, with regional food production patterns cited. Cap Krug and Vinson aides exit. A veterans hospital in Fort Washington, Maryland, costs taxpayers $211 daily per patient.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Michigan
Van
Truman
CIO
Phil Murray
Senate Education and Labor Committee
Murray
Lew Hines
AFL
Martin Miller
al Whitney
Jim Murray
Montana
David IL Walsh
Massachusetts
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Claude Pepper
Florida
Lister Erill
Alabama
Joe Guffey
Pennsylvania
Wayne Morse
Oregon
General Motors
Factfinding Board
Congress
Labor
Hill
Agriculture Department
Dixie Democrats
Midwest
Josiah DuBois
Vinson
Camden
N. J
Cap Krug
Virgin Islands
John L. Lewis
Fort Washington
Farm Film Foundation to Circulate 1000 Circuits
Under Foundation for American Agriculture sponsorship, the Farm Film Foundation is incorporated with Walter D. Fuller as president. The aim is to create at least 1,000 16 mm sound picture circuits nationwide, maintain a national film library, and form an advisory farm film production committee. Boards include leaders from California Fruit Growers Exchange, American Farm Bureau, National Grange, Co-operatives, and Northwest Bancorporation among others.
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WIN Star
Washington, D. C
Foundation For American Agriculture
Farm Film Foundation
Walter D. Fuller
Curtis Publishing Company
Film Foundation
America
Foundation For Amercan Agriculture
Paul Armstrong
California Fruit Growers Exchange
Herbert Voorhees
American Farm Bureau Federation
Ken Geyer
National Co-operative Milk Producers Association
Hartford
Washington
Co-operative Farm Association
Seattle
Fliers and Flying News Across States and Agencies
Oklahoma pilot Jimmy Hays visits Alva airport while aviators train army youths in 1943. Edgar Bergen opens Montebello airport for stars. Oceana budgets 4000 for a site. Delphi considers locations. G I Airlines explores air mail without landings. aviation officials meet in Washington to discuss a federal airport bill. Control towers stand by in many cities. Ontario airport boosters push modernization.
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Jimmy Hays
Oklahoma
Walt *Chambers
Hays
Alva
Okla
Edgar Bergen
Montebello
Calif
Oceana
Mich
Delphi
Ind
Independent
Elkhorn
Wis
Harvard
Ill
G.I. Airlines
Milwaukee
Asa Rountree Jr
Alabama
G.I
National Association of State Aviation Officials
Washington, D. C
William L. Anderson
Pennsylvania
Leo G. Devaney
Oregon
Edward F. Knapp
Vermont
Clarence E
Cornish
Indiana
David Cillman
West Virginia
Dexter C. Martin
South Carolina
A. W. Meadows
Texas
Philip E. Tukey
Maine
Russell Hilliard
New Hampshire
Floyd E. Evans
Michigan
Be, A. Nasser
North Dakota
C. BE. A. Brown
Ohio
Crocker Snow
Massachusetts
E. R. Fenimore
Maryland
L. L. Schroeder
Minnesota
Charles L. Payton
New Jersey
A. W. Hays
William B. Catchings
New Mexico
Flying Missionaries Train For Foreign Service
Moody Bible Institute in Chicago launches an aeronautics training program for prospective foreign missionaries. Two light planes will teach theory of flight meteorology navigation and aircraft maintenance plus civil regulations weather in mission fields and climate related maintenance. In Milan Tennessee the VA approved GI Bill flight training for veterans offering private commercial and single engine courses. Maj Arthur Wermath, famed for leading Flying Tigers units, has toured major towns as field director for the circus.
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Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
Tennessee
Milan, Tenn
Veterans’ Administration
Arthur Wermath
Feid
Flying Tigers A‘r Circus
Quit Dosing Constipation With Kellogg All-Bran Daily
An advertisement promotes Kellogg's All-Bran as a natural laxative food to ease chronic constipation. It urges daily intake with plenty of water and touts high fiber content, iron, calcium, phosphorus, vitamins, and protein for overall health.
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Kellogg’s
Battle Creek
Omaha
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Lewis and Clark
Dan Morrison
Vandenburg Gop
Senate
By Walter A. Shead
CAA
Statistical Handbook of Civil Aviation
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Oregon Observer
Ore
Oakland
San Francisco
Denver
Shreveport
Robert Overman
CAP
Hagerstown
Fairchild
Aeronca
Mack Sterl Products
Richmond
Rt. 1
Stewartville
Walter Haack
Good Carroll
Livingston County
Highway
Turner Real Estate CO
Hale , Missouri
Mlinois
R. I
J. B. Eckhart
First National Bank
Rock Island Mlinois
Russell, Minn
Lyon Co
Brawner
Rock Road
John Dittmer and Sons
Lacona
Iowa
B. E. Seeley
Mt. Pleasant
Newark
Fred McCulloch
Belle Platne
Wahlert & Guntzler
North First
Saint Louis
U. S
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