Ace in the Hole: US Petroleum Reserves and Shale Hope
The piece notes US known petroleum reserves at 226 billion barrels with consumption rising toward 2 billion barrels per year. It cites 290 billion barrels in shale deposits in Wyoming Colorado and Utah as a potential future source, though extraction costs are high and transport is limited. It argues civilization could suffer without oil, but shale oil could avert a crisis.
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United States
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
America
Lend Lease Account Debt Seems Russia Settlement Urgency
The article argues the United States should press Russia to settle about 11 billion dollars in lend lease goods from wartime and peacetime civilian use. It notes similar settlements with other nations and suggests Russia’s cooperation would signal better future relations. It also reflects on cautious timing amid broader talks.
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Soviet Union
Washington
Moscow
United States
Germany
Japan
Russia
Questions and Answers on Bivaro Indians Trophy Practice
The Bivaro Indians are noted for tsanisas or shrunken head trophies. Heads are shrunk to the size of an orange, with the victor wearing the tsanisa to hold supernatural power. The greatest U S crop is corn. USDA estimates a record 3,506,000,000 bushels this year.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Dear Dorothy Dix Answers on Husband Ills and Superstition
Dorothy Dix addresses a reader worried by a retired husband who feigns illness to be waited on and a daughter troubled by superstition. The advice urges returning the husband to work to occupy his mind and uses practical reasoning to dispel superstition as ignorance dissolved by intelligence.
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Dorothy Dix
Dominy Dix
Arthur H
Lufburrow Outlines Truthful Debate Principles
A. Lufburrow urges voters to focus on evidence over distortion as candidates deliver speeches. He stresses honesty in speech and argument, insisting the truth should guide public discussion and inform lessons from the campaign.
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Fifty Years Ago Local Items From The Color Of The News
The item reports clerk John Kimmell of Raising Grocery Company injured washing a storefront window. Dr. Zimmerman sent kite experiments from Cannon Hill. kites caught in a tree. Western Maryland Hotel in Emmitsburg sold for 4000 to Dr Spangler. W D Levitt Amusement Co crowd at York Station for Crystal Maze and Morenzo bears. County officials surveyed a new Brunswick to Knoxville road for land condemnation.
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John Kimmell
Raising Grocery Company
North Market Street
Charles Zimmerman
Cannon Hill
South Market Street Bridge
Western Maryland
Emmitsburg
Vincent Sebold
Cc. O. Spangler
Millerstown
York
Pennsylvania Depot
W. D. Levitt Amusement Company
Morenzo
Twenty Years Ago Local Items From The Columns Of The News
This item notes Philip Werthiedier named captain of Company C R O T C at the University. Frederick Athletic Club football loses to Salisbury Hose Company 23 to 6 with Nig Grove scoring. Ray Sieele and Rags Rinehart praised. George Dyer, manager of the Maryland Serenaders jazz band, arrives in Frederick for a family stay.
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Philip Werthedier
University of Marra
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Frederick Athletic Club
Ofsburg Hose Company
Nig Grove
Ray Sieele
Rags Rinehart
Frederick
New York State
Canada
George Dyer
Tsader
Maryland Serenaders
Draftees And Vets Guide From Major Nial
Washington remembers draft rules for wartime service. Merchant mariners are not deferred and receive the same induction as other registrants. Seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds face registration and enlistment options, with protections tied to 19th birthdays. Marriage timing affects deferment, while prior service and occupational deferments vary by local boards. College students may finish the year before induction. high school completion timing affects draftability.
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THOMAS M_ NIAL
Washington
Congress
California
Ohio
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Draft and enlistment guidelines for 4 F and pre-induction rules
The text outlines that at 21 months age a person must enlist for 12 months active duty or join an organized ante unit for three years with weekly drills and a two week summer camp, or join an inactive reserve unit for five years. It notes World War II 4 Fs have little chance of drafting unless cured, and states a person cannot be drafted until 21 days after passing the pre-induction physical, with a longer wait likely after the exam.
Strength For Today by Earl L Douglass
A modern fable about a frog trapped in a road rut who escapes when a truck forces it out. The piece stresses perseverance under pressure, self control amid work, and maintaining a respectable life despite impulses. It notes people often fear change yet must adapt when required.
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Babson Newspaper
Local residents and societies report movements and events
Mr and Mrs R McGruder Dobie return from a two week visit to Princeton New Jersey. Mr and Mrs Robert M Williams return from North Beach cottage. The Reffit and Burns families relocate to a Kingsbury home. Mrs Virgie Wachter moves into the vacated residence. Derloo family moves to Arlington Virginia. The Walkeins relocate near Dickerson with their son Alvin. they lived here twenty years. The Women’s Missionary Society meets at Mrs Kenneth Heisler’s home with refreshments prepared by her children. Ladies’ Aid plans an oyster and country ham supper for Nov 6. Mrs George Carter of Rockville dies Sept 22 at Suburban Hospital leaving seven children. Miss Pat Wade returns from a two month visit in Tennessee. A piano pupils recital at Mrs James Kerr’s home features Donald and Katherine Selby Mary Dorsey Peggy Horine Mathilde Wade and Little Sarah Horne who sang on a Washington television program. Between 1776 and 1820 a quarter million Europeans immigrated to the United States the year’s counts contrast with later periods.
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Frederick
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Rockville
Pat Wade
Buck Lodge
Tennessee
James P. Kerr
Donald
Katherine Selby
Mary’ S Dorsey
Boyds
Peggy Horine
Mathilde Wade
Sarah Horne
Ishe
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Christmas Seal Sale Prep by Troop 29 Scouts
Members of Troop 29 of the Frederick Community Chest volunteer their Saturday morning to fold seals and letters for the Christmas tubersule sale. At the Church Street School building office of the County Tuberculosis and Public Health Association, Scouts Anita Price Sandra Steele Rose Marie Cappella Mary Hartman Susan Partridge Patricia Butcher Sally Benn Nancy Hicks Suzanne Wallis Janet Felton Beverly Beavers Hiltner Reelke Smiths Jett Lorraine Fleak Robin Carter Kay Oden Jeannette Rhoderick Janet McDevitt Doris Anne Baumgardner Sylvia Oden Betty Kinna and Mrs Kenneth L Metcalf Troop Leader stand with Dr Edwin H Sponseller president Janet L Kerchner executive secretary Warren R Evans secretary.
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Frederick Community Chest
Church Street
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Berculosis and Public Health Association
Anita Price
Sandra Steele
Rose Marie — Cappella
Mary Hartman
Susan Partridge
Patrica Butcher
Sally Benn
Nancy Hicks
Suzanne Wallis
Janet Felton
Beverly Beavers
Hiltner-Reelke Smiths
Jett Lorraine Fleak
Robin Carter
Kay Oden
Edwin H. Sponseller
Janet L. Kerchner
Warren R. Evans
Jeannette Rhoderick
Janet McDevitt
Doris Anne Baumgardner
Sylvia Oden
Betty Kinna
Kenneth L Metcalf
Revercomb Plans and Porter House Budget Fails to Please
Washington Daybook reports on Revercomb and Bridges rushing a 21.7 million dollar Senate Office Building project dubbed Revercomb's Folly. No hearings were held, and the plan moves via a catch-all bill. Evictions threaten Schott's Alley residents amid housing concerns.
Vocabulary Lesson On Common Misuses And Pronunciations
This excerpt offers guidance on word usage such as using one another for plural referents and proper pronunciations for Habeas Corpus and vacillate. It includes tips for spelling, synonyms, and a daily word study routine, noting Americans bought over 21 billion dollars of life insurance in 1987.
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Paley
Washington Watches Russia US Strain Amid Dewey Campaign
Nervous politicking in Washington centers on Russia United States tensions and the 1948 race. Debates swirl over whether a change in administration would help or worsen clarity as Dewey Truman and Dulles maneuver for influence and a bipartisan foreign policy agenda aims to stabilize Paris negotiations and UN mediation prospects.
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Vandenberg
United Nations
Paris
John Foster Dulles
Warren Austin
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Tom Connally
Anniversaries and historical notes from America Today
The column lists notable births and deaths: Caroline Gilman born in Boston and died 1888. James W. Marshall born 1810 in Hunterdon County NJ. Joan Reagan born in Tennessee. Edmund Clarence Saunders born 1833. John Allen Lewis born 1806. Elbert H. Gary born near Wheaton Illinois. It also notes events: 1820 Continental Army enlistment incentives. 1871 Chicago fire. 1918 Alvin York capture.
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