Senators Warn Shortage Could End Mule Era
In Lexington, Ira Drymon warns mules face extinction if immediate action isn’t taken. Senators Wayne Morse and John Sherman Cooper, with Jack and Jennet Registry leaders, discuss jackass shortage and potential reliance on tractors, noting district farms and possible wartime needs abroad.
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United States
Drymon
Thomas L. Adams
Henry Graddy
Jack and Jennet Registry
Wayne Morse
Ore
John Sherman Cooper
R. Ky
Russia
Snakebite mystery as boy cuts leg on glass in creek
In Fort Wayne Indiana Roy Brown ten slipped into a creek and suffered a deep leg gash. Police found a snake nearby but doubted a bite caused the wound and recovered a glass shard on the creek bank.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Roy Brown
Roy
State Education Committee Charts Ten Year School Building Plan
The Front Committee of the State Education Commission led by Mr. Lambeth of Statesville maps a six to ten year program to meet North Carolina school needs. It advocates joint state and local administration, notes widespread obsolete facilities, and calls for larger classrooms, better facilities for libraries, health, arts, and vocational programs with extensive new buildings and additions for both white and Negro students. The plan envisions cooperative plant planning with schools, public agencies, and professionals over the next decade.
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State Education Commission
North Carolina
Lambeth
Statesville
Sch
Button maker finds election boom in 1948 race
In New York Emanuel Ross thrives as a political button maker since 1940. He recounts selling 10,000,000 Willkie buttons in 1940 and a 1,000,000 Wallace buttons this year. The red headed impresario notes orders pour in for Eisenhower Truman and Dixiecrats with slogans his own and his French wife’s ideas.
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Emanuel Ross
Ress
Willkkie
Roosevelt
Eisenhower
Taft
Truman
Wallace
Ross
Harry
Comet
Wall Street
Henry Wallace
Ike
Button maker madam details Em press Nobelty Company items
Between elections, Em press Nobelty Company produced buttons for schools clubs and fraternal groups and even fun pieces. Whimsical titles appeared such as An t I Cute Tell it to the Marines I m Looking for a Thrill and We Need a Wage Increase Now.
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Empress Nobelty Company
Safer use of iron lung tested on medical students
Research at the University of Minnesota tests on eight volunteer med students explored hyper ventilation in iron lung treatment for polio and respiratory diseases. Excess air reduced phosphorus in blood to one half or one third and lowered blood acid, risking muscle and nerve instability and convulsions.
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Nace Ee Vans
University of Minnesota Medical
Truman Signs Farm Bill But Rebukes Congress
The report notes that overbreathing symptoms developed in healthy students within 20 to 30 minutes and subsided in 24 to 48 hours. Current studies aim to determine any lasting effects and the special impact on individuals weakened by polio.
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Bill Britt
Gary Taylor
Bruce Pearce
Jordan Pearce
Donald May
Winfield Britton
Robert Johnson
Whittington
Wade Glasson
Bob
Rapids
Perstop Busines
Crosby
Herald
Robert Deaver
Jack Best
Wayne Bartley
Billy Butler
Junior Parks
Gene Garner
Eugene
Hatchell
Freddie Fry
Walker
Bors
Truman
Congress
Bus Stalled on Tracks as Gates Descend Emergency Stop Averted
In Pennsauken New Jersey a bus stalled on railroad tracks as automatic safety gates dropped. Steeplejack Percy Pye squeezed past the bus doors just as they opened, ran about a quarter mile along the tracks waving to stop an express train. The locomotive braked and halted only feet from the bus.
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Pennsauken
N. J
Permi
Percy Pye
Trapped on trestle kill two sisters, injure others
In Boston two freight trains moving opposite directions trapped four children on a trestle. Virginia Lyons 12 and Patricia Lyons 14 were killed. Joan Lyons 17 was seriously injured while another sister was brushed by a train. Clifford Briggs 18 was not seriously hurt.
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Boston
Mass
Virginia
Patricia
Lyons
Joan
Clifford Briggs
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