Mailbag miscellany reveals cleaner streets and idle curiosities
HAL BOYLE rounds up reader notes on Hong Kong cleanliness, litter fines up to 2000 dollars, linguistic diversity with 5000 languages, mass savings in U S Bonds, Ice Age surface coverage, elephant ivory weights, the golden mantled squirrel, masked gannets diving deep, and cemeteries near Boston to New York used for tours and recreation alongside a Tacitus quote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
New York
Hong Kong
National Geographic Society
Ludwig L. Zamenhof
Joneses
U.S
Nicholas Murray Butler
Nature
Australia
Boston
New York City
U.S. Forest Service
Tacitus
Mother appeals to kidnaper for return of her sickly baby
In Bromley England distraught mother Shirley Bullen appeals to the kidnapper holding six week old Kristen to return the infant who was abducted after being left near a public lavatory. Kristen has convulsions and misses phenobarbitone doses raising fear of brain damage. Police seek a middle aged woman seen watching the carriage near the lavatory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bromley
England
Shirley Bullen
Felicity Burchenall
Kristen
Raymond Bullen
Bullen
Air Conditioners Breed Diseases Warned by Stanford Researcher
Stanford immunologist Dr. Vincent A. Marinkovich warns home air conditioners and humidifiers can incubate mold that causes serious lung diseases. He says filters not changed regularly may harbor fungus and spray spores into rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanford
Calif
Stanford University
Vincent A. Marinkovich
63 DOT Officials To Get Big Pay Hikes
Atlanta AP reports 63 top Department of Transportation staff will receive average raises of 1375 this year, with 58 others in the merit system earning 366. The package, approved May 30, includes the highway engineer Tom Moreland rising from 28036 to 30648 and four assistants from 25380 to 27936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta, Ga
Department of Transportation
Transportation Department
State Personnel Board
Merit System
Ralph Moor
Tom Moreland
Neers
Cost of Living Council
Moor
Hospital ambulance city manager fire dept numbers
Readable fragments list three city departments with contact lines for hospital ambulance city manager and fire department. No events or names beyond basic numbers.
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Terry Pierce
Lake Lamonia
Thomasville
Tallahassee Memorial Hospital
Bull Headley Rd
UPI
Times-Enterprise
DOT
Police
Post Office
Mallare
American Ambulance
Fire Dept
State Patrol
MR. Tweedy
Mee
By Ned Riddle
Alcholics Anonymous
Goodrum
S. Crawford Street
Sally
Jacobs Pharmacy Gateway
Grady
Thomas
Colquitt
Tallahassee
Allstate
Paramount Cleaners
Frank
Frank Connell
Lees
Feinberg
South Georgia
Tidwell Studio
Ald Biddee
Mickey's
N. Love St
XYZ” Co Times- Enterprise
Whigham Nursing Center
Whigham
Ralph S. Burdette
Old Boston Road
Robert E. Maddox
Ravenwood Academy
Meigs
Georgia
Thomasville, Go
P.O
Friendly Loan Company
W.W. Heaton
Jackson St
W. Jackson Street
Times Enterprise
Archbold Memorial Hospital
Secrest Allied Service
W. Jackson
Tuck
Hannah
Hector
Peoples Furniture CO
Harley-Davidson
Chastain Bicycle Co
Dunedin
Seglers
Ochlocknee
Maytag
Cairo
SMITH
SAVA
Madison
Alday
Ut Bie
Home & Farm
Fletcher
Ponder
W. Jefferson St
Kirby-Electrolux Vacuums
United Freight Sales
N. Monroe St. Tallahassee
Singers
Singer
N. Monroe Street
Whitfield's
Singer Dealer
N. Broad St
Household Appliance Co
N. Jackson St
W.B. Dunn
N. Tallahassee
Monroe
E.C. Jordan Furniture
United Freight
N. Monroe St
David Simpson
Albany
Leamon Smith
Dothan
Alabama
Watkins Products, Inc
Winona
Minnesota
Skyline Corp
Layton Travel Trailers
Valdosta
AVON
Carol Comb
Davis Water & Waste Industries
Metcalf Ave
Roy
Seafood Market
Thomasville Seafood Met
L.C. Hatcher
Mckenzie Orchards
Barney
MSA
Thomasville Times-Enterprise
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