Vacation planning: how to dodge the two horror weeks
Sixty million Americans vacation this summer and face choices, traps, and scams. The piece urges using travel agencies, ASTA certificates, and government offices for reliable data, while warning against overreliance on luck or flashy promotions. It notes travel ads spent 10.9 million in 1953 and highlights resources from National Parks Service and Forest Service to craft safer itineraries.
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State Chambers of Commerce
National Parks Service
U.S. Forest Service
Agriculture Department
Six-member woman’s club bans gossip in Stafford Springs
In Stafford Springs Connecticut a local women’s club enforces a strict rule: gossip is banned. The group presently comprises six members and meets to uphold discreet activities.
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Stafford Springs
Conn
Czech Arms From Czechoslovakia Tied To Guatemala Cargo
A Free Europe report links a ten million dollar arms shipment to Guatemala with origin in Czechoslovakia. Brno factory supposedly produced pistols of a French pattern, shipped weekly in unmarked crates, and sent via Poland. The United States first disclosed the landing at Guatemala. Additional notes describe a Soviet film hoax portraying American atrocities in Korea as propaganda.
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John H. Martin
Poland
Free Europe
Czechoslovakia
Guatemala
United States
Washington
Stettin
Lkely
Indo-China
Geneva
Indo- China
China
Russia
Kremlin
Free Europe Committee
Korea
Naklerov
Usti and
Labem
Prague
North Korea
Two McKaskle twins depart Marine air base
At Kaneohe Marine Air Station the McKaskle twins Olan and Nolan of Winnsboro La are being transferred to Twenty Nine Palms Ca. The pair, 370 pounds total in mischief, have caused mix ups since 1952 as one brother is a master sergeant and the other a technical sergeant. They served together through World War II and Korea and each hopes for top rank after the move.
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Kaneohe
Marine Corps Air Station
T. H
Marine Air Base Squadron 13
McKaskle
Olan
Nolan
Winnsboro
Marine Training Center
Twenty- Nine Palms
Calif
Korea
Try on sweaters first says Illinois clothing specialist
Bl dh Myra Baker of the University of Illinois staff urges trying on sweaters before purchase. She notes that even sweaters of the same style and marked size can vary by as much as two inches in bust measurement and over an inch in sleeve length or width.
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Champaign
Myra Baker
University of Illinois
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