Aborigines Adopt Clothing Raising Social Prestige
A historic note reports that Australian aborigines, who previously went nude, are now wearing pants and shirts. Donning garments is described as elevating social standing within communities.
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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1957
Page
8
A historic note reports that Australian aborigines, who previously went nude, are now wearing pants and shirts. Donning garments is described as elevating social standing within communities.
Close Patrol Makes Death Highway Safe on the Tucson Nogales route once called the Death Highway. Since emphasis patrol began the year, only three deaths occurred, injuries cut in half. Three-man road blocks and checkpoints reduced crashes, with Velasco citing 40,000 drivers checked and thousands cited or warned.
A United Nations disarmament push gainsx momentum as Soviet Russia proposes testing controls and a halt to production. The United States weighs a framework to cut stockpiles and limit new weapons while Eisenhower hosts Japanese Prime Minister Kishi in Washington amid a legal tug over an American court trial for a U.S. soldier in Japan. A U.N. committee condemns Soviet actions in Hungary, calling them brutal and illegitimate, with a potential U.N. Assembly meeting to pursue the report’s findings.
A group of 25 family housing buildings at Pyote Air Force Station will be sold to the highest bidder by July 17 at Kirtland Air Force Base Albuquerque New Mexico. The units measure 20 feet six inches by 108 feet and include four and six family arrangements plus one community frame garage.
The University of Chicago reports Chicago metropolitan area's population reached 5.1 million by mid-1955, up 11 percent from the 1950 census total of 5.0 million.
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