Odd Indiana oil well yields feathers and water tale
A Terre Haute area well drilled 1696 feet failed to strike oil, only water and empty fractures found. The crew dumped cement, calcium chloride, sawdust, barnyard manure, cottonseed hulls, and even 200 pounds of chicken feathers to stop flow. A column of anecdotes follows about local characters and small-town happenings in Phoenix and Merchantville.
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CBS
Beaucoup Greenbacks
Terre Haute
Vigo County
Indiana
Westward Ho
Senate Panel Cuts Back Pay for Straus Officials
Washington October 18. Senate Appropriations Committee trimmed a House rider denying back pay to Reclamation Commissioner Michael Straus and California director Richard L. Boke for March to June 1949. They were paid again when the rider expired but are advised they may sue for owed salaries. Committee action not final pending full Senate passage and conference.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Michael Straus
Lindsay Warren
Senate
House
Prehistoric Bones Found In Colorado Gravel Pit
In Greeley Colorado workmen uncovered prehistoric bone and teeth fragments in a local gravel pit. Geologists report the remains belong to an enormous elephant dating about 15 000 years ago. Colorado State College of Education President William R Ross says the find is of great geological importance and notes teeth weighing up to 12 pounds. The discovery includes five teeth a jawbone segment and five tusk sections, all well preserved.
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Greeley
Colo
Wiliam R. Ross
Colorado State College of Education
Ross
Fund Raised To Help Baylor Baby Fight Cancer
Baylor University students in Waco raised funds from nickels and dimes to cover hospital expenses for Eddie Wayne Franks, 15 months old, son of war veterans Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Franks. Doctors call the cancer highly malignant. funds have reached $200 with local merchants and a downtown drive boosting aid. The family, hoping for care from local doctors, trusts in the hospital staff and God. Eddie underwent surgery and responds to day treatments as his mother recalls the early days of illness.
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Waco
Tex
Baylor University
Wayne Franks
Eddie Wayne Franks
Anna Ruth Franks
Baylor
Eddie
Presidential Succession Panel to Study Electoral College
A Senate approval seeks a 10 member joint committee with House allies to examine abolishing the Electoral College and to name potential successors if all officials in line die. Senators Green Myers urge action to safeguard government function during atomic age. Lodge cautions this should not block a constitutional amendment on the electoral vote.
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Senate
Theodore Francis Green
Rhode Island
Senate House Committee
Francis J. Myers
Pennsylvania
Green
Washington
Senate Rules Committee
Myers
House
Joint Committee
National Treasury
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Marshal Tolbukhim Of Soviet Dies
Moscow Radio announced the death of Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhim at 54 after a long illness. He was a hero of the Soviet offensive in Southeast Europe in World War II. The report said he died yesterday in the USSR.
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London
INS
Moscow Radio
Soviet Union
Feodor I. Tolbukhim
Europe
Wife Killer Dies In Nevada Gas Chamber
Eugene Leo Gambetta a 42 year old San Francisco bartender was executed by lethal gas at dawn in Carson City Nevada for the murder of his divorced wife Thelma Ribail in 1948. About 20 people witnessed the killing in falling snow as hydro cyanic fumes ended his life after a one minute unconsciousness and eight minutes until death. The warden noted prayer and Gambetta dined with Monsignor John Ryan before his final quest. He will be buried in Salinas California.
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Carson City
Nev
Eugene Leo Gambetta
San Francisco
Gambetta
Reno
Thelma Ribail
Scious
Richard Sheey
John Ryan
Salinas
Calif
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Joe Chowning
Merchantville
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Jack Williams
Penn Mutual
Phoenix
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St. Mary's Parochial School
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Senate Group
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Norcross Greeting Cards
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