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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1939
Page
3
A family friendly piece extols swimming as a universal sport for all ages and notes safe practices for beginners including warm ups and gentle water play. It then surveys canoe use from indigenous origins to modern livery practice, stressing kneeling pads, buoyancy, and proper handling to prevent tipping and to aid self rescue.
In Greensboro North Carolina Deputy Sheriff J W Donovant stopped to give three hitch hikers a lift. The trio turned out to be suspects in a string of robberies once identified by the deputy and his associates.
Claude Mc Indoo, practicing casting in Kansas City, misfired a double hook that caught his brother Philip in the scalp. At General Hospital Claude warned an intern to be careful of that plug. Four stitches were needed for Philip’s scalp wound, but the plug remained undamaged.
Three convicts Richard Sweet Alphonse Skusewich and Earl Niverson attempted a prison break at Indiana state prison Michigan City. They seized a social worker Ruth Joiner hostage but were driven off by warden and guards who fired. Joiner was wounded. The convicts faced life for kidnapping murder and robbery.
Seattle scene reports Mrs Eleanor Bradley, 22, fell from a bed while closing a window, escaping with minor injuries after a balcony spring threw her. In Kentucky, Mt Vernon dispatch says three Louisville and Nashville freight train crew died when a mountain rock fell, derailed ten cars, with a 75 by 35 by 15 foot rock blocking both tracks and delaying traffic for about 20 hours.
Waterstown resident Otis Grenert, a retired farmer who loves to keep track of things, recently spent a day at his son Elmer’s farm counting flies. He reportedly captured 50,093 flies last summer and, on a return visit, collected another 5 in a single day.
A birthday portrait shows Prince Simeon, heir to Bulgaria, with his sister Princess Maria Luisa at the royal Sofia palace. Simeon is two years old, born to King Ebcris and Queen Johanna.
Lake Arthur and nearby towns feature visits from Mrs. Fern Russell and the Popones of California, Jamerson and Crook family gatherings, and a surgical update on Mr. Mack Reynolds after an appendectomy. Local youths attend a 4-H encampment, Epworth League entertainment takes place, and church services resume with Rev. Garrett and Rev. Vine leading.
The forthcoming Automobile Facts & Figures shows motorists paid over 1.5 billion dollars last year for road costs via tolls and taxes.Gasoline taxes yielded 977.7 million, averaging 4.96 cents per gallon, and totaling 33.20 per vehicle. Federal and state taxes pushed the motorist total near 1.53 billion. Manufacturers plan further farm program checks and timely farmer payments under 1938 plans, with 1,500 audits in progress and expected disbursements in weeks.
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