Quarry Slide Traps Three Men as Rescue Effort Continues
Fifty rescuers worked to reach two of three men buried by a Pompton Crushed Stone Co quarry slide on Monday. Granite blocks up to 40 tons covered the site. Wallace Van Orden Jr., 29, of Bloomingdale, was recovered late Monday night after rescuers cut away the truck cab. Charles Baldwin, 40, of Cedar Grove, and Grant Harris, 56, of Pompton Lakes remained missing.
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Pompton Crushed Stone Co
Wallace van Orden Jr
Bloomingdale
Charles Baldwin
Cedar Grove
Grant Harris
Pompton Lakes
You Can Repair Broken Blacktop Driveways
Repairs for crumpled edges and potholes are simple and inexpensive using gravel or crushed rock, asphaltic binder, and a homemade tamper. The guide covers digging to a solid base, layering asphalt and gravel, edging with headers, drainage fixes, and post installation guidance for concrete vs driven posts.
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MR. Fix
NEA
New York GOP Aims to Raise 1.9 Million for Campaign
The New York Republican organization set a 1.9 million dollar goal Monday to fund the 1956 state electoral effort and assist the national GOP campaign. The Republican State Committee reelected officers and named ten delegates at large to the national convention.
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Albany
N. Y
New York
Republican State Committee
15 Million Acres Under Soil Bank
The Agriculture Department estimates 8 to 15 million acres of land normally planted to major surplus crops will be placed under the soil bank program this year. Farmers receive payments from $4 to $366 an acre for removing land from production as part of a plan to curb surpluses in cotton, wheat, corn, peanuts, rice and tobacco through 1959 with up to 1.2 billion dollars yearly for reductions and conservation on idled acres.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
New Soil Bank
Soil Bank
Picked Wrong Guy To Race Against
James Johnston, 23, tried a street race in Belleville IL with Sammy Flood, 17, son of a deputy sheriff. Johnston reached 70 mph over five blocks before Flood forced him off the road. He was fined 100 dollars for careless driving, with 90 dollars suspended by Justice of the Peace Edgar Grossman.
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Belleville III
James Johnston
Johnston
East St. Louis
Sammy Flood
St. Clair County
Clifford Flood
Flood
Belleville
Cigarette Smokers Challenge Pike's Peak Race
Dr Arne Suominen a 56 year old tobacco hating physician from Delray Beach Fla has challenged any two cigarette smoking runners to race Pike's Peak in August He offers 15 minute rests and a change at the halfway point in the race to the smokers if they accept the challenge in Colorado Springs Colorado supplied remarks to the Chamber of Commerce.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Arne Suominen
Delray Beach
Fla
Pike's Peak
Suominen
Chamber of Commerce
Waiting for Subway and 1954 Dairy Decline
The clipping notes a subway delay, reports a 1 percent drop in milk cows in the United States during 1954, credits John Wesley Hyatt with inventing celluloid and the flexible roller bearing, and claims a pail of wax or salt will help remove odors in a freshly painted room.
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United States
John Wesley Hyatt
Walt
Contractor Falls Through Skylight While Estimating Bid
Boise contractor Earl Jensen climbed into the attic of the public library to estimate a roof repaint bid when he broke through a skylight and fell 20 feet to the floor. He was not badly hurt.
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Boise
Idaho
Earl Jensen
Public
Battle of Bunker Hill celebration doll parade winner
A Boston anniversary event featured a doll carriage parade with 20 girls and one boy. Curtis Weidel, age 3, won as the lone male entrant. The article notes the massive wood usage to produce U.S. paper and paperboard products annually.
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Boston
Bunker Hill
Curtis Weidel
U. S
Pulpwood Share Tops Seventeen Percent of U.S. Harvest
Pulpwood accounts for 17 percent of the annual wood harvest in the United States, reflecting its significant role in national timber output and industry demand.
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United States
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11Th & Perkins
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Castleton
Mt. Vernon
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Dodge
Dodge Engineering
Dad
Bonneville Salt Flats
Nevar
Grand Pris
Dewitt-Maxey Motor CO. Inc
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Montgomery Ward Service Dept
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