Desert lead salvager makes fortune from clay pigeon remains
Ex soldier Johnny Ballance wins a government contract to mine lead from a desert skeet range near Las Vegas. His homemade separator recovers buckshot at about 100 pounds every three minutes, selling at six cents per pound. The venture yields roughly 200 tons worth over a year, paying crew and government shares.
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Las Vegas New
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Johnny Ballance
Johnny
Kr Corps Sunnery
Sam
Air School
Ballance
Bov
G. I
Eveire
Lee
All Kiwanis Week Observed With War Bond Efforts
New Castle Kiwanis observe All Kiwanis Week as delegates meet in Atlantic City. Hamilton Holt of Macon Ga president Kiwanis International says 160000 members across US Canada sold war bonds over 2.449 billion, gathered scrap 3.144245 tons, donated 218212 pints of blood, and added 488736 blood donors.
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Keneth
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Castleton
New
Strohecker Earns BFA in Music Education at Carnegie
William M. Strohecker of Pittsburgh graduates with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in music education from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He served as principal bass viol in the Tech Symphony Orchestra and belongs to Phi Mu Alpha. He will pursue teaching. son of Mrs. Grace Strohecker of 621 West Clayton.
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Carnegie Institute: Technology of Pittsburgh
William M. Strohecker
Strohecker
Tech Suompnon
Phi Mu Alpha
William
Grace Strohecker
West Clayton
Leesburg Church Notes and Local Social Activities
Mrs Earl Haun and Mrs Charles Mills host the Dorcas Society at the church on Wednesday. Home Builders Class to meet that evening for a picnic dinner. Hosesses listed as Mr and Mrs Harold Orr and Mr and Mrs Walter Stone. Mrs Carl Sonntag and Mrs Homer Wilson hosted the Silver Tea Society at the church on Thursday with a tureen luncheon and devotions led by Mrs Samuel Oakes. In Leesburg notes Mrs Carmen Hawthorne and son Jack join Mrs Samuel Oakes and daughter Alice at Frn Greenawalt wedding in Oil City. Boy and Girl Scout troops with Rev W A Lloyd and Mrs William Kerr enjoyed a sightseeing trip to Pittsburgh. Mrs Frank Palmer confined at home. Rev and Mrs Gerald Palmer of Greenfield and Mrs Kenneth Redmond of Mercer spent Friday with Renwick Thompson. Mrs Frank Dyer of Portland Ore arrived by plane to visit parents Mr and Mrs James Oakes. James Oakes Jr met her at Cleveland airport. David Lloyd spent the weekend in Cleveland Ohio.
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Earl Haun
Charles Mills
Dorcas Society
Harold Orr
Walter Stone
Leesburg
Carmen Hawthorne
Jack
Samuel] Oakes
Alice
Oil City
Frances LaVonne Greenawalt
Warren J. Anna
Trinity Methodist Church
W. A. Lioyd
William Kerr
Pittsburgh
Frank Palmer
Gerald Palmer
Greenfield
Kenneth Redmond
Mercer
Renwick Thompson
New Wilmington
W. A. Thompson
Frank Dyer
Portland
Ore
James Oakes
Cleveland
James Oakes Jr
David Lloyd
Cricket Bat Width Sparks Debate in 19th Century Play
A batsman uses a bat four and a quarter inches wide while critics question how a pitcher can dismiss any batsman, describing it as a rare miracle in match reports.
Court House Hill Marriage License Applications Listed
Marriage license applicants from New Castle Ellwood City and surrounding areas include Wendell Morrison Lilles Keeling Leona Symer and Norman Schweikert among others. Real estate transfers show estates and township exchanges in Shenango Neshannock Big Beaver and North Beaver townships with nominal consideration. A Public Assistance rule shift assigns state responsibility for care costs to eligible needy citizens.
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Wendell Louis Morrison
Neshannock Avenue
New Castle
Lilles Adda Keeling
Mercer Street
Joseph P. McCree
Hills Ville
Lauvi A. Grubisa
Bessemer
Cecil Vivian Gahagan
Ashland Avenue
Leona Susie Symer
Edgar K. Gray
New Galilee
Norma J. Harper
Michael L. Damico
North Cascade Street
Anna Feo
Public Institutions to Care for Fined Offenders
The policy states that fines collected from offenders will be used to support public institutions with the state covering care, relieving the county of related expenses.
Senator Bankhead Improves at Naval Hospital
Sen. John Bankhead of Alabama shows continued improvement in his condition after collapsing at the Capitol on May 24 from nervous exhaustion. The 74 year old Democrat has remained hospitalized at the naval hospital as of June 11 with ongoing care.
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Naval Hospital
John Bankhead
Capitol
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Jennie Snyder
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Shenango Township
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Neshannock Township
Lawrence Savings & Trust Company
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Big Beaver Township
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Personal Finance Co
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Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers
South Third Street
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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