Bellflower Navy Pilot Named Man of the Year
Lieut Cmdr Walt Decker, a jet pilot stationed at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, was named Man of the Year by the Corpus Christi Civitan Club for Civic work including leading the Big Brother Week from August 16 to 25. He was born in Long Beach in 1926, moved to Bellflower in 1935, and graduated from Excelsior High School.
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Syria to Receive Soviet Radio Station and Labs
A Moscow dispatch reports the Soviet Union agreed to provide Syria with a radio station, chemical laboratories, and rail trains. A Syrian delegation vows to continue negotiations in Moscow.
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Home of Sleeptime Pajamas sign ducks sanitation rules
Warner Bros crews used an old factory for Pajama Game location shots and posted a sign The Home of Sleeptime Pajamas. A sanitation department rep arrived thirty minutes later asking who the tenants were and if they conformed with regulations.
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False Teeth Paste to Improve Dental Fit
An early product touts PASTEETH as improved powder to raise upper or lower plates and hold a tooth more firmly in place. It claims no powdery taste or drug effects, no sour odor, and can be found at drug counters as FASTSETS.
Radioactivity Added To Dynamite For Safer Mines
The Canadian Mines Department promotes a method of adding radioactive antimony to dynamite to allow miners to detect unfired or misplaced sticks with Geiger counters. Officials say the isotope is inexpensive and safe, lasting long enough for storage, reducing deaths from explosions in mines quarries and related industries.
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