PTA names Mrs. Clifford Jenkins as president on TV role
Mrs Clifford N Jenkins elected head of the 12 million member PTA at its Kansas City convention. She urges parents to oversee children's TV viewing and to voice appreciation for good programs. The term lasts three years with travel costs covered. PTA started its own TV rating system in 1959.
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Gay Pauley
UPI
New York
PTA Belives
Clifford N. Jenkins
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Daddy
Jenkins
Congress of Parents and Teachers
Kansas City
Roslyn Heights
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PTA
Illinois
California
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Sailorometer Tests Boat Handling For Safety
A device by an insurance company tests boat operators like a car driver tester. The sailorometer places a trainee behind a wheel and shows motion pictures to measure reaction and adherence to safe practices.
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Chicago
King Protests Highway Order On Limestone
Rep. Thomas W. King condemned a Highways Department order banning Van Port limestone from road work. He said only gravel remains as substitute and named three affected firms Oil City Sand and Gravel Co. Tionesta Sand and Gravel Co. J.K. Davidson Sand and Gravel Co. He pressed Secretary Park Martin to reconsider after tests reportedly show Van Port limestone with natural sand compares well to other materials.
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UPI
Thomas W. King
Highways Department
Butler County Republican
King
Oil City Sand and Gravel Co
Tionesta Sand and Gravel Co
J.K. Davidson Sand and Gravel Co
Pittsburgh
Western Pennsylvania
Albert McCandless
R Butler
James Willard
R.mercer
Taylor League Meets Friday
The Progressive League will meet at 7 30 p m Friday in the Memorial Building. Airman James Vessella will preside.
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Taylor League
Taylor
Progressive League
Memorial Building
James Vessella
Vast U S pipeline network links 46 states and D C
Tulsa Oklahoma reports a network totaling about 190 500 miles of pipeline carrying crude and refined products to 46 states and the District of Columbia. It includes 47 200 miles of refined lines 75 700 miles of gathering lines and 67 600 miles of trunk lines. Annapolis notes the Navy's first submarine used a four cylinder gas engine. The hue changes from brown summer coat to snow white in winter due to seasonal shedding.
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Tulsa
Oklo
UPID
States
District of Columbia
Annapolis
U.S. Navy
Wheat harvest speeds through southern plains south of Texas
Weather and Crop Bulletin reports wheat harvest advancing rapidly in the southern Great Plains with nearly half of Texas wheat out of the fields and progress in Oklahoma and southern Kansas. Corn prospects rise with warm weather. Ohio to Mississippi states show 10 to 15 percent planting left while bottomlands drain from floods. Government buys of dried egg solids top $24.8 million, peanut butter for the national school lunch program eyed, and Australia’s Murray River noted as the continent’s greatest river.
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Washington
UPI
Great Plains
Texas
Low Plains
Blackland
Panhandle
Oklahoma
Kansas
Ohio
Mississippi
Iowa
Indiana
Agriculture Department
Eisenhower to Visit Penn State July 6
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower will visit Pennsylvania State University on July 6 for a talk to 1000 Explorer Scouts from five states and the District of Columbia and a tour of sports clinics arranged by the College of Physical Education. He will arrive by private plane at 11:30 a.m. at University Park Airport.
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University Park
Fromer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pennsylvania State University
University
Gen. Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
District of Columbia
Hetzel Union
College of Physical Education
Alpern Pushes Hearings on Charitable Solicitation Reform
Harrisburg. Atty. Gen. Anne X. Alpern urged the House Welfare Committee to hold public hearings on legislation tightening charitable fund raising in Pennsylvania. She cited a Justice Department probe showing many abuses in fund drives and said recipients often do not receive the benefits. She sent the letter to Rep. Charles D. Stone, committee chairman.
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Harrisburg
API
Anne X. Alpern
House Welfare Committee
Pennsylvania
Miss Alpern
Justice Department
Charles D. Stone
D-Beaver
Department (Justice
Mother Awarded 675000 in Polio Vaccine Suit
Los Angeles reports a jury verdict awarding Brian May 675000 to the boy and his mother 75000 in separate damages after eight hours deliberation The case against Cutter Pharmaceutical Laboratories claimed a live virus in a 1955 Salk vaccine left Brian paralyzed The defendant voiced disappointment and attorney Melvin Belli pressed for medical expense needs
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Los Angeles
UPI
Brian May
Cutter Pharmaceutical Laboratories
Berkeley
Calif
Brian
Norma May
Cutter
Fred A. Cutter
Melvin Belli
Pennsylvania bill seeks fund promoter accountability
Promoters and fund raisers would be the primary beneficiaries of the measure. A public hearing is requested to scrutinize all phases of the legislation and a comprehensive bill filed in the interest of all citizens. The bill would require fund promoters to file accounts with the state open to inspection and would curb improper expense charges in fund raising drives.
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Pennsylvania
Woman Defends Eichmann Over Lidice Child Deaths
In Jerusalem a defense affidavit claims 30 of 100 Lidice children were seen alive in Poland in 1945. Elisa Freiberg, living in Bremen, states she saw the youngsters at a Pushikovo convent until the Red Army arrived.
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Jerusalem
UPI
Lidice
Adolf Eichmann
Poland
Eichmann
Elisa Freiberg
Bremen
Germany
Pushikovo
Efichmann
Robert Servatius
Godz
Reinhard Heydrich
Rolf Guenther
Navy submarine service insignia with dolphins
The insignia features a submarine flanked by two dolphins. Dolphins are linked to Poseidon, the Greek sea god and patron deity of sailors.
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U. S. Navy Submarine Service
Poseidon
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