FULL FLIGHT Winter Sports Areas Primed For Influx of Ski Enthusiasts
Winter sports centers across the West and beyond prepare for a mass invasion as snow piles up to 20 feet deep and lifts connect major resorts. Notable spots include Atta near Salt Lake City, Brighton in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Sun Valley, Banff, and Lake Tahoe area resorts with Olympic tryouts planned and new air links expanding access.
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Oyster Blast Tops Freak Mishaps
Red Cross survey shows a series of home accidents including an oyster exploding during deep fat frying injuring a housewife’s hands and face. Other incidents involve throat injuries from a pipe fall, a hatpin removed from a child’s lung, a swallowed pencil clip, a baby skull fracture from a carriage collapse, and a woman burned pouring melted fat into a furnace. The year’s injuries and deaths rise over 1945.
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Washington
Red Cross
Harvard Observatory Celebrates Centennial In Boston
Harvard College Observatory marks its 100th founding anniversary with a four day Boston celebration from December 27 to 30. The event includes two science conventions and the world’s first planetarium to photograph stellar activity. Since 1846 the observatory has become a central hub for astronomical data in the Americas. Beginning in 1880 it has nightly photographed large sky sections, building a plate collection exceeding 600,000 for cross checking past stellar events across 68 years.
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Boston
Harvard College Observatory
Planetarium
Cenral Clearing House
Aged Woman Relies On Old Fire Recipe
In Viroqua Wisconsin Mrs Lucy Grubb nearly 101 directs neighbors during a chimney fire remarking that salt suffices while firemen prefer chemical agents. The scene shows generational contrast as responders choose modern methods.
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Viroqua, Wii
Viroqua
Lucy Grubb
Hollywood Halo Letter From a 14 Year Old Fan
A young boy writes a long fan letter to Gloria from the film Hollywood Halo. He expresses love and longing, imagines being with her, and urges privacy about his age. He calls her mom in a closing line, lamenting exposure of his status.
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Gloria
Carthay Circle
Johnny
B.S. E
Reading device aid for disabled veterans at Portland hospital
A ceiling projection reading machine funded by Portland Camp Fire Girls groups aids hospitalized veterans. Eddie Hall, a Medford navy veteran, testifies the device is easier than holding a book, using a handheld aluminum gadget to turn pages by chin. The nine‑pound unit projects pages onto the ceiling from film, with films costing 1.50 to 4 dollars. The article highlights Camp Fire Girls’ broader service history and community partnerships in supporting shut ins and handicapped children.
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Good Samaritans
Portland
Ore.) Veterans' Hospital
Camp Fire Girls
WIN
Veterans’ Hospital
Ore
Eddie Hall
Medford
Hal
Hall
Camp Fire
The
Blue Birds
Horizon
USO
Req Cross
Trenton
N. J
Zon
Catholic Youth Organization
Staten Island
N. Y
Crookston
Minn
Old Ladies
Atlanta
Chichester Hears Offers Rare 1883 Hearse for Sale
Taking cognizance of the car shortage the town of Chichester offered for sale in 1883 a model hearse with interchangeable wheels and sled runners. It had been kept in a shed for many years.
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Chichester
Oregonians Seek Hidden Indian Blood
In Portland Oregon residents react to a Supreme Court award of about 15 million dollars to four Indian heirs for land taken from Native people. The issue: who qualifies as Indian. Morgan Pryse notes many may have one fourth or more Indian blood and hidden heritage. Each Indian beneficiary will receive about 10 000 dollars.
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Portland
United States Supreme Court
Oregon
Morgan Pryse
Costly 1944 film Wilson costs six million dollars
Collier's notes the 1944 production and advertising of the most expensive motion picture, Wilson, totaled over 6 million dollars. Vast expenses fueled by spectacular scenes include a lighting sequence rivaling a city power demand.
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Wilson
Collier's
Lansing
Mich
Doctor’s Odd Cure For Ghosts On Orchard Fence Posts
A wild-eyed patient begs a doctor for relief, claiming departed relatives perch on fence tops at night. The doctor’s simple prescription is to sharpen the tops of the posts before driving away.
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