Idaho man recognized for rifle training reform
Idaho hunter Howard C. Sarvis of New Meadows is praised by Sen. Frank Church for inspiring a new Army rifle training method. After writing to President Eisenhower in anger over poor marksman results, Sarvis helped shape the "train fire" program now used at Fort Benning and across Army schools.
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Army
Idaho
Frank Church
Howard C. Sarvis
New Meadows
Church
Eisenhower
White House
Sarvis
Pentagon
Army Field Forces
Fort Benning
Idaho Mountains
First Lady of the Antarctic Mannequin Joins Navy Crew
A department store mannequin becomes the first woman aboard the McMurdo Sound wintering party in Antarctica. Donated by North Kingston merchants and escorted by Navy crew, she travels on a P2V from Quonset Point to McMurdo Sound with the windward morale mission. The feature notes the USS Independence carrier and its capacity for jet aircraft.
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Mcmurdo Sound
Antarctica
North Kingston
McMurdo Sound Air Facility
Bland
Quonset Point
Navy
Air Development Squadron Six
Nils Kingston
Antarctic
Alameda
Calif
Honolulu
Hawaii
Canton Island
Manoi
Fiji Island
Christchurch
New Zealand
McMurdo
South Pole
Harold Bracken
Navy Aviation
The
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Aerial Nitrogen Fertilizer Boosts Western Rangeland Use
Dr Dixie Smith of Wyoming University reports from a Redding conference that aerial nitrogen fertilization increases forage production on sparsely grazed rangeland. In Big Horn Mountains trials, fertilized plots averaged 1899 pounds of oven-dry forage per acre versus 1419 on unfertilized plots, a gain of about 800 pounds.
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Redding
Calif
Dixie Smith
Wyoming University Agronomist
Big Horn Mountains
Wyoming
Smith
Big
Navy aircraft carrier Independence boasts vast compartment count
Navy's newest heavy weight carrier USS Independence features over 1,500 compartments and more than 2,300 telephones, reflecting its complex internal system. A Western range conference sponsored by the National Plant Food Institute and the California Fertilizer Association drew about 300 attendees focused on range improvement and western agriculture.
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National Plant Food Institute
California Vertilizer Association
Independence
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