Toy Cars Go National as Adult Hobby Racing
In Pittsburg Kansas, adults race electrically powered miniature cars on wooden chip tracks. Cars reach up to 100 mph, with plastic drivers and roll bars required. Races imitate real racing with drag and circular track formats, copper brushes on the track supply power, and a master switch launches the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HOT Rods
Pitt Strippers Racing Association
Pittsburg
Roger Alexander
Robert Radford
Lawrence Wheeler
Today in History January 13 1964 highlights and notes
On January 13 1964 highlights include Emile Zola’s 1898 letter about the Dreyfus affair. Charleston founding in 1733 and Cornell’s 1875 dynamo. 1915 central Italy earthquake 30000 dead. Mussolini 1932 debt push. 1949 Odom trans Pacific flight. 1964 politics and Congo article context. Swahili note defines mama mother and papa shark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Emile Zola
Dreyfus
Zola
England
Charleston
S.C
Georgia
United States
Cornell University
Italy
Beneito Mussolini
Bill Odom
Oakland
Calif
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
International Longshoremen’s Association
Lewis
Congo
Critics press for US nuclear weapon cuts in Johnson era
Washington AP reports critics label US arms as overkill claiming the nation has amassed more than needed. Johnson approves a materials cutback while McNamara and Johnson resist halting production and no change to bases or goals of more than 1200 ICBMs and 656 Polaris missiles. Critics say cuts could save up to 15 billion annually without harming defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Johnson
United States
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
Home Workshop Cradles for Dolls by Ruth Wyeth Speers
Cradles for a family of dolls in three sizes are offered by Ruth Wyeth Speers. Extras suit grownups who collect quaint toys as servers planters or wood by the fire. Pattern 311 provides actual-size cradles for eighteen eight and four inches long.
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Ottawa Herald Pattern Dept
Bedford Hills
New York
Primate Kidney Transplants Save Four Humans
Doctors at Tulane Charity Hospital in New Orleans and Colorado General with Veterans Administration hospitals in Denver report four kidney transplants from a monkey chimpanzee and two baboons between October and December. One recipient died after a December infection, another after pneumonia, while two baboon kidney transplants at Colorado General left recipients in satisfactory condition.
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Tulane University Charity Hospital
New Orleans
Colorado General
Veterans Administration
Denver
Tulane
Jefferson Davis
Davis
Charity Hospitals
Brian McCracken
Colorado General Hospital
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ppittsburg
Kan
Basutoland
National Geographic Society
Ruth Wyeth Speers
Ottawa Savings and
Ottawa Savings and Loan
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Ottawa
FSLIC
Ad Loan Insurance
East 2Nd Street
Dean Berlin
Jess R. Gilmore
Ass’t
Chester A. Worl
Naomi Cole
Joe Newhouser
Elvira Luce
Alice Wasson
Hazel Morse
Joan Tyson
Frances Jones
Franklin County
Anderson County
Jackson
Monroe
Putnam
Reeder
Walker
City of Garnett
Coffey County
Rock Creek
Douglas County
Baldwin
Miami County
Osawatomie
Paola
Stanton
Osage County
Agency
Elk, Junction
Lincoln
Melvern
Ottawa Herald
Kansas
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