Same Names People Often Hard To Find
New York story recalls how a TV panel show seeks real names matching celebrities or places. Producer Doris Hibbard explains they rely on letters from viewers about 3,000 weekly and phone directories nationwide to supply candidates. A mix of famous and odd names, including Julius La Rosa and Basil Rathbone, has appeared on the program.
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Jack Gavee
United Press
New York
ABC
Robert Q. Lewis
Doris Hibbard
Godfrey-La Rosa
Julus LaPosa
Brooklyn
Julius la Rosa
Basil Rathbone
Joan Alexander
Gene Rayburn
Mickey Mouse
Kansas City
King Cole
Worcester
Mass
Goldie Locks
Newburg
N. Y
Sherry Wines
Cincinnati
Hartland Club To Sponsor Fox Hunt
Hartland Conservation Club will sponsor a fox hunt on Sunday with meeting at Hartland Community Hall four miles south of East Townsend on Route 20. Last week over 175 hunters from northern Ohio joined, but only two foxes were flushed and none were shot, attributed to unusually warm weather by hunt master Ed Pheifer. Sunday's event was sponsored by the East Townsend Conservation Club.
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Wakeman
Hartland Conservation Club
Hartland
East Townsend
Ohio
Ed Pheifer
Eastern extension dropped from Pike study in Ohio plan
Ohio State Highway Director Sam Linzell said the eastern extension from Mt Vernon Wooster toward the Pennsylvania line cannot be included in the Cincinnati to Conneaut toll road study due to lack of approved funding. Bids were opened for main north-south surveys and a western extension to Toledo. inclusion of the eastern leg hinges on Controlling Board funds. If approved, the eastern segment could be studied with the overall north-south toll road plan.
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Columbus, O
Sam Linzell
Mt Vernon
Wooster
Pennsylvania
East Liverpool
Cincinnati
Conneaut
State Controlling Board
Turnpike Commission
James Shacknessy
Columbus
Toledo
G. E. Greiner Co
Baltimore
Howard, Needles, Tammon and Bergendorf
Kansas City
Linzell
Northwestern U To Study Transportation Problems
Northwestern University has created a national Transportation Center a joint project of the school of commerce the Technological Institute and the Traffic Institute. The center will conduct research offer undergraduate and graduate training and address problems across highway rail air pipeline and water transportation reflecting the president J Roscoe Miller view that transportation has become complex with many unsolved economic technical and social issues.
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Evanston, Ill
Northwestern University
School of Commerce, Technological Institute
Traffic Institute
J. Roscoe Miller
New Zealand Linen Flax Industry Faces Extinction Threat
Christchurch notes the New Zealand linen flax industry, once booming during wartime demand, now reduced to five factories and facing potential collapse. With overseas fibre prices and a planned sale of a £30,090 factory on the South Island, the sector’s future looks grim amid cyclical booms and floods in 1953.
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Christchurch
N. Z
New Zealand
South Island
New Zealand Flax Fields Shrink After Wartime Peak
The article notes New Zealand grew 121,858 acres of linen flax for the United Kingdom during wartime, but the current total is a fraction of that peak. Canterbury plains on the South Island once hosted mills and pounding engines, with wartime self sufficiency now difficult to regain.
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New Zealand
United Kingdom
Canterbury Plains
South Island
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