Mysteries of Underground World Beckon Adventurers
WIU features explore caves that have fascinated humanity from ancient times. The piece highlights Mammoth Cave in Kentucky Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico and Wind Cave in South Dakota as three national park cave systems inviting explorers into hidden worlds and strange scenes.
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Mammoth Cave
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Carlsbad Caverns
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Wind Cave
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National Parks Sixth In a Series Dakota
Mammoth Cave Carlsbad Caverns and Wind Cave featured in a 1946 series. Mammoth Cave, discovered in 1799, with 150 miles of explored passages offers tours from 2.5 to 7 hours and an Echo River boat trip. Carlsbad Caverns with its Big Room and bats opened as a national monument in 1923 and 1930 national park status. Wind Cave, known for box work, includes a buffalo herd and is smaller but unique. All three are accessible by paved highways with rail connections and offer modern lighting and ranger guides.
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Mammoth Cave
Houchin
Echo River
Karnak
Violet City
Jenny Lind
Martha Washington
National Park
State of
Kentucky
Carlsbad Caverns
Jim White
White
Carlsbad Cavern
Carlsbad
Wind Cave
Black Hills
South Dakota
United States
Wind Cave National Park
Park
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Hot Springs
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Mammoth Cave National Park
National Park Service
Scenic Wonders Lure Tourists to Arizona Summers
Phoenix reports northern Arizona as the top summer draw with Grand Canyon Painted Desert Petrified Forest Canyon de Chelly and Oak Creek Canyon among natural wonders. Festivals include Prescott Frontier Days July 3 6 and Prescott Smoki ceremonies August 10 plus Indian Pow Wow at Flagstaff July 4 6 and Hopi snake dances near Winslow August 15 25.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Grand Canyon
Painted Desert
Petrified Forest
Canyon de Chelly
Oak Creek Canyon
Meteor
Crater
National Park
National Monument
Prescott
Flagstaff
Winslow
Red Cross Opens Cake Hungry Vet School In Jamaica NY
The Queens Red Cross nutrition service launches the Red Cross School for Cake Hungry Vets in Jamaica after a poll showed G I husbands crave home baked cakes. The program shifts from teaching G I brides to home baking for veterans with classes of 25 and instructors including Dorothy Wettemann and Grace Lohmann.
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New York City
Queens Red Cross
G.I
Red Cross Nutrition
Red Cross School
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Grace Lohmann
Aviation Notes: Kansas contests and airport plans wind through
Sixty eight youngsters competed in a model aircraft contest in Kansas City under Model Aircraft Institute auspices and Academy of Model Aeronautics sanction. A Du Quoin civic drive seeks 10000 for a 93 acre airport site with Lions Club backing. CAP expansion discussed at Washington meet. Airplanes aided land checking for summer fallow in western Kansas as 18000 farmers on 2.5 million acres were surveyed. A highway patrolman used a Cub to locate stolen car youths hiding in the desert, leading to their capture. Helicopter prospecting eyed by Dr Francis A Thompson. Dr Frank A Brewster travels between Holdridge Lexington Oberlin for hospital work by air. Army opens aviation cadet program at Randolph Field with 500 postwar cadets beginning July 1 for 52 weeks.
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Kas
Model Aircraft Institute
Academy of Model Aeronautics
Washington
du Quoin
Lions Club
Civil Air Patrol
CAP
United States
Army Air Forces
Kansas
Glenn H. Johnson
Kansas Production and Marketing Administration
Manhattan
West Point
Air
West Point of the Air
Randolph Field
San Antonio
Tex
Horseback Trek To Follow Trails Into Adventure
Belle Fourche plans nine guided horseback caravans to Devils Tower in summer with 25 to 30 riders per trip. Western Trails, Inc. sponsors departures on June 1 11 and 21, traveling through Black Hills National Forest to Devils Tower, Wyoming, with cowboys, trail boss, and support wagons.
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Devils Tower
Western Trails, Inc
Black Hills National Forest
Overtime Parkers Get Opportunity To Repent
A single meter at the CHILLICOTHE police station offers a second chance for overtime parkers. If a violator pays a nickel within an hour of citation, forgiveness is granted. waiting 61 minutes triggers a dollar payment.
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Parkers
Chillicothe
Dainty Scalloped Frock Pattern for Tiny Girls
Simple one piece dress with scalloped edges and draw strings at neck and waist. Pattern No. 8125 offers sizes 1 through 6 years and uses 1 1/2 yards of 35 or 39 inch fabric plus 2 1/2 yards of ribbon for size 2. Colorful ribbon bows add charm.
Tricky science quiz questions from history and facts
A list of ten curiosities asks about railroad ties per mile, wars between states, first phonograph words, night blooming flowers pollinators, Statue of Liberty mouth size, sun surface temperature, first daily newspaper, taming American eagles, Philadelphia mint establishment, and water freezing direction.
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Mint
Philadelphia
Congress
War over boundary pits Georgia against North Carolina
Georgia and North Carolina fought a boundary dispute in 1810 escalating into what historians describe as a regional clash. The source item notes the event as a historical boundary contention between the two states and references the era.
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North Carolina
Mary
Thomas A. Edison
Frankfurt Zeitung
Frankfurt
Germany
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