Family Affair Keeps County School Clean And Calm
Wallace and Grant Rundle have run Columbia Township's district school custodial duties since 1924, overseeing growing facilities, boiler work, and daily emergencies. Students help in the auditorium and grounds, while a 1940s fire incident highlighted Rundle's quick action. Enrollment climbs since 1943 44 with new buildings, shop and home economics, driver training, bands and choirs, and a strong PTA driving equipment and programs.
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Columbia District
Wallace
Grant Rundle
Columbia Township
Henry Hitchcock
Columbia School
Columbia
Rundle
Grant
Arthur
Josanne
Rita
Columbia Hill
Board of Education
Son
Litzemberg
Donald Parfitt
Euclid
Marian
PTA
Life Expectancy Good Even After Cardiac Attack
Metropolitan Life Insurance statisticians report heart disease survivors who recover to work have a favorable outlook. In a group of white men insured as standard risks who later became disabled by heart disease, more than 7 percent were alive after five years. Among arteriosclerotic cases, about 5 percent survived five years and 70 percent ten years. Activity often practicable, though survivorship was below average for those without heart impairments.
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New York
N. Y
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Young Republic Syria Among Oldest Nations
Washington reports Syria as a historic land with early roots and a long-changing rulers sequence. Damascus, Aleppo, and Homs anchor modern life, with Damascus among the oldest cities and Homs near fertile districts while Aleppo bears a storied past and a licorice flavoring trade along the Euphrates.
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Young Republic
Syria
Homs
Hashem Al-Atassi
Aleppo
Euphrates
Discovery Of Old Fort Recalls Fur Trade Struggles
Washington dispatches recall the lost Fort Henry site in eastern Saskatchewan, named for pioneer Alexander Henry. The fort, founded with Frobisher brothers in 1775 76 on Beaver Lake, is linked to the birth of the North West Company, whose early ventures and rivalries with Hudsons Bay shaped Canada’s fur trade frontier.
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Washington
Fort Henry
Saskatchewan
Canada
Lakes
Alexander Henry
Henry
New Jersey
Canadian
Frobisher Brothers
Montreal
Beaver Lake
North West Co
Washington Irving
North West Company
Hudson’s Bay
North West ‘Co
Car owner uses cow horn to herd cattle
Platteville Wisconsin resident Matt Murphy installed a horn on his car that sounds like a cow. When he drives near cows the horn imitates a bellowing moo, causing the herd to move toward the vehicle without the owner needing to call them.
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Platteville
Wis
Matt Murphy
Murphy
Coffee through the ages and a bomber group reunion
The Chatter Box notes historic coffee prices in William Penn's era and how coffee houses shaped early American life. It also reports Bernard Bernstein of Chicago seeking 409th Bomb Group (L) veterans for a Troutdale in the Pines reunion in Evergreen, Colorado, July 2 and 3, inviting former members to contact him.
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William Penn
Penn
Philadelphia
ITIS
England
TLP
Bernard B. Bernstein
Chicago
Ill
409Th
Troutdale- In-The-Pines
Evergreen
Colo
Bernstein
Albany Ave
Scene About Town adds light notes to Chronicle weekend edition
Editor Kurt Wachenheim shares a light local column with anecdotes from Viola Hayes an EST elevator operator with 30 years in service Ray Grills of Oberlin reports a ewe bearing 19 lambs over five years Bill Tedrick notes average births at 1.3 annually Councilman Kellogg will lead a bird walk and a witty line about politicians “for the birds” appears A parade of small vignettes includes school administrators former teachers palm readers and a mandolin playing photographer plus a quirky song pun about foam and Mange.
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Viola Hayes
Est
Ray Grills
Oberlin
Bill Tedrick
Ray
Science Opening New Horizons As Emphasis Shifts
New York reports the Atomic Energy Commission foresees a need for at least 6,700 new physical scientists and engineers by 1956 end, with heavy demand in metallurgy, physics, and heat transfer. Veterans urge emphasis on fundamentals over new nuclear topics, noting nuclear engineering can be learned in grad schools or on the job and production roles will grow in a decade.
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New York
Atomic Energy Commission
Civilian Atomic Energy Industry
Atomic Work
AEC
The Truly Great Are Humble and Helpful Aneke Jahn
Aneke Jahn recalls a humorous incident about humility and artistic expression. A family gifts Sonny a numbered paint set for Christmas leading to a painted horse head, a smudged cross, and a clash with an artist over removing the paint. The tale ends with a humorous reflection on parental guidance and self expression.
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Sonny
Sister
Fly Helps England’s Great Crime Catcher In Blackmail Case
A retired Scotland Yard superintendent tells how a bluebottle fly on a Soho afternoon sparked an undercover trap for a blackmailer. In a staged setup at the Purple Bird Club London police watched as the suspect pressed for 80 pounds. Palmer, an actor, was arrested with a letter script revealing the scheme. Lester, the theatre name, led to Bournemouth and a backroom confrontation. The man behind the script was jailed four years, Palmer two, and the client later entered Parliament.
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Soho
Scotland Yard
Thames River
Mr. X
Vine Street
Purple Bird Club
Winter Gardens
West End
John Palmer
Bournemouth
Lester
Palmer
Birmingham
Bolton
Belfast
Old Bailey
London
Ohio Retail Sales Dip In Early 1954 Across State
Ohio retail sales for the first two months of 1954 fell two percent from the same period in 1953, per the Bureau of Business Research at Ohio State University. Gains occurred in heating plumbing and ee dealers up 25 percent, lumber/building materials up 13 percent, and grocery meat stores up 10 percent, while declines showed in jewelry down 16 percent, florists 14 percent, appliances and music stores 20 percent, drug stores 9 percent, and grocery and furniture 8 percent, with smaller drops elsewhere.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bureau of Business Research
Ohio State University
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