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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1956
Page
3
Philadelphia plans four Philadelphia Orchestra rehearsals for about 12 000 high school pupils during the 1956 57 season. Ormandy will host using a podium microphone to explain procedures to attendees.
Electronic machines are speeding up state government work in California while not replacing elected officials. The payroll system handles about one million dollars annually with a calculator performing 3,000 calculations per hour. DMV electronic gear identifies car details within five minutes of license numbers and processes 16,000 new registrations daily. Similar setups exist across many departments, yet officials remain elected.
Pennsylvania senators approved multi million dollar appropriations in a 17 month 1955 56 session but failed to pay their own expense accounts. The auditor general said the 250 monthly expense grants would be frozen until 1957 to cover 2500 overdrawn and 1250 per senator for July through November.
Arthur Duffy, secretary of a tailoring firm, says gray suit wearers reveal their professions. Bankers favor charcoal gray for an authoritative look while advertising executives prefer lighter grays with diagonal weaves. Sales leaders choose Cornish gray and lawyers mix sedate tones with bold ties. Construction pros pick light grays with intricate weaves and newspaper executives favor salt and pepper patterns.
A new drug succinylcholine iodide provides a risk free muscle relaxant for anesthesia in large animals. The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association reports it has been used routinely on about 500 horses without toxic reaction or complications and is valuable in dog surgeries.
The piece contrasts modern rodeo earning with earlier days, noting prize money, TV bonuses, and showmanship. Tibbs flaunts luxury gear while Linder recalls a harsher ranch era, stressing the sport’s risk, discipline, and enduring appeal despite aging and the lure of life after competition.
A Rockford Michigan dump sign advises visitors to keep children in their cars, underscoring safety at the city disposal site.
East Lansing based notes state one third of all patents come from non trained inventors. Dr Schmookler of Michigan State University says many inventions come from the home workshop and non college educated individuals. He warns public belief in the expert myth may deter independent inventors.
Police Commissioner Timothy J. OConnor stated Chicago no longer uses the general showup once common in gangster lore. The city now relies on private showups with only a few suspects taken to the station for identification, replacing the cumbersome past method that saw hundreds of prisoners brought to central headquarters.
A sparsely inhabited farming village is proposed as a world science capital by plans to establish a national radio astronomy observatory funded by Congress and NSF. The facility would be contract operated by universities, start with small telescopes, rely on visiting researchers, and expand understanding of distant galaxies and cosmic structures.
Irma Izquierdo, traveling by foot with a station wagon for support, advances eight miles daily toward the Shrine of the Virgin of Cobre from Havana. Doctors and church officials debate whether her stigmata are divine or medical, while she ignores skepticism and continues eastward toward the shrine.
Science and engineering students at forty colleges and universities receive General Electric equipment valued at six hundred thousand dollars to modernize laboratories under GE's assistance program. Colleges may apply for equipment aid to solve special modernization problems.
Men of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Bangor Michigan are constructing a 13-room ranch style convent to house six nuns who will teach in the church’s new school launching next fall.
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