Semi-Retirement Plan Aids Aging Workers and Firms
A novel plan allowing retired workers to return four hours daily is drawing wide interest from sociologists unions and the U S Department of Labor. The program, tested in Florida with a Wisconsin plant rotating workers, lets older employees bolster retirement income while younger workers learn shop skills. The Joa plan by Curt C Joa aims to resemble a farm system for manufacturing with pay rates from 1 70 to 3 50 per hour depending on role and location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Department of Labor
Pageant Magazine
Oldsters
Curt C. Joa
Joa
New York Yankees
Wisconsin
Florida
Sheboygan
Connecticut
Air Base Tower Could Serve As Real North Pole
Thule Air Base in Greenland hosts a 1,212 foot eight inch radio tower built by U S Army Engineers. The structure includes an elevator and has endured 150 mph Arctic winds, bending only up to nine feet during storms.
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Air Base
North Pole
Thule
Greenland
U.S. Army
Thule Air Base
Easter Outfit Dilemmas Then and Now in Chatter Box
The Chatter Box recalls Easter fashion indecision and outfits of 1954 and contrasts them with an 1829 Elyria Lorain Gazette ad for Stow and Johnson. It traces materials, colors, accessories, and footwear, noting no prices and a shift from ready wear to dressmaking while highlighting evolving dyes and fabrics. It closes with a playful note about Princess Margaret in white coveralls and safety helmet in a coal mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meenie
Mimie
Chronicle-Telegram
Elyria
New York
Lorain
Stow and Johnson
Messrs
Princess Margaret
Calverton
Nottingham
Eng
Famous Austrian Places Served as Odd Classrooms
In Salzburg 450 American children attend an Army sponsored grammar school with trips to historic sites as classrooms. Highlights include Hitler’s mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and Hellbrunn Palace with its water powered theater. Tours teach European history geography and culture as part of the curriculum.
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Salzburg
Austria
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Germany
Hellbrunn
Eagle’s Nest
Europe
U. S
The Lower Quinton Witchcraft Murder Case Retold
In Lower Quinton near Stratford-on-Avon a 74 year old recluse Charles Walton was found murdered with a hayfork and trouncing hook. Scotland Yard's Fabian of the Yard recounts inquiries, rival legends, and village silence as detectives search folklore clues in a case still not closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower Quinton
Cotswold
Moon Hall
Whispering Knights
Stratford-on-Avon
Shakespeare
Iw Moon
Moon Hill
Charles Walton
Albert Webb
Marston P.O.W
David Saunders
Special Branch
Upper Quinton
Admington
Webb
Birmingham
Sgt. Webb
Stratford
London
Warwickshire Constabulary
Unity in Composition Drives Noted Photography Tips
A Worchester photographer Eugene Mc Gillicuddy’s study of unity and lighting demonstrates how angle, posing, and background create a cohesive image. The piece also guides close-up techniques for flowers and explains flash exposure using lamp distance and diaphragms.
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Eugene McGillicuddy
Worchester
Mass
McGillicudy
California
Texas
Pennsylvania
Moon Radar Contact First Made In 1951
The U S Army Signal Corps achieved radar contact with the moon in February 1951. Known as Project Diana the engineers bounced a beam to the lunar surface and recorded its echo about two and a half seconds later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Moon
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Signal Corps
Doris McClintock's Silent Triumph Over Polio
A personal portrait of Doris McClintock Mantua Ohio who survived polio, learned braille, typed, and used an iron lung then walked with braces. She moved home to care for herself, learned to propel a wheelchair and sew for her children, inspiring the PTA and community with quiet resilience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alen
Doris McClintock
Doris
Mr. Yah-kop
P.T.A
Police Foundation
Sheas
Doris O
Mantua, Oh
World affairs questions and Cold War views debated
Readers discuss who shapes Washington's world policies, praising Dulles while criticizing Cutler. They weigh reliance on Germany and Japan, warn against Soviet expansion, and propose a federated world order leading to global peace. A Brooklyn reader questions People's Democracies and the editor directs a wary citizen to Mowrer.
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Washington
Germany
Japan
Portland
Ore
D. Z
Brooklyn
N. Y
Edgar Ansel Mowrer
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Freedoms Foundation
Valley Forge
Citizens’ Committee
Omar N. Bradley
Lincoln
Jefferson
Franklin
America
By Dorothy Funk
Florence
Valencia
India
Morocco
Fabian
Scotland Yard
Robert Fabian
Gina Civos
Robert Fablan
Fabian of the
Yard
British Book Centre
Spooner
J. Harvey Bloom
Ann Turner
Warwickshire
Clive Holland
John Haywood
Long Compton
R.A.F
Leamington
Royal Engineers
Midland Science Laboratory
Thames Embankment
Long
Supt
Eugene McGillicudy
Worcester
David Alan Garland
Cecil W. Garland
Camp LeJeune
N. C
David
Ray Vimpeny
Vimpeny
Grafton Rd
Cecil R. Garland
Gulf Rd
Aneke Jahn
By Edgar Ansel Mowrer
United States
F. M
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