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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1954
Page
6
Washington reports the U S Treasury’s conscience fund continues to receive donations from citizens seeking to atone for past actions. Contributions range from a penny stamp to large sums, with the largest being a 20000 dollar certified check. Donors cite tax fudging, letter confessors, and minor pilferage as motives, including a Navy veteran who added interest on stolen items.
Washington says the federal government used 366 miles of red tape last year on seventy two yard spools at 69 cents each. It bought 8 950 spools costing over 4 700 dollars. The tape, five sixteenths inch wide and cotton, is the only kind used to tie up documents for storage, with enough red tape bound documents to fill seven Pentagons per the General Services Administration.
Traffic officials nationwide approve a new glow in the night stop sign using reflective sheeting with 30 000 glass beads per square inch. The signs feature a red background with white lettering and will roll out in New York and Chicago after decades of searching for a brightly visible pigment.
President Eisenhower signed a bill admitting Ohio as a state on equal footing with the originals. Historians found Congress had not formally admitted Ohio, though boundaries and constitution were approved. Ohio’s admission date set as March 1, 1803 with the first legislature meeting at Chillicothe and Edwin Tiffin taking office.
The American Medical Association Journal reported a study of women turned down as donors by the American Red Cross Blood program. It estimated that about six million American women aged 18 to 59 may be anemic despite high living standards and health advances.
In 1951 scientists recorded Earth's deepest seawater trench in the western Pacific Ocean between Guam and Yap, where depths reach about 25,040 feet. This record marks the extreme limit of oceanic depths known at the time.
Ohio's Franklin County counties install 56 air raid sirens including Columbus. A sheriff's radio transmitter triggers the network with a single push button for warning and another for all clear, tying into fire and emergency vehicle radios. An operator remains on duty 24 hours.
Denver harvested 281 acres of wheat and barley on Stapleton Airport land in a six year city lease to a grain company. This season 815 acres lay fallow while 650 acres were planted with winter wheat and the remainder in winter barley. The city earns 40 percent of crop yield, while farming helps dust control and weed management.
Washington report notes shifts in fish value, with rosefish and swordfish moving from unwanted byproducts to marketable foods. It argues misperceptions delayed utilization, urging openness to diverse marine harvests as a solution to hunger.
Washington reports that the U S population totaled 160000000 in August, registered by a Commerce Department automatic census calculator. The machine records a new resident every twelve seconds from births every eight seconds, deaths every 21 seconds, immigrants every two minutes, and exits every 17 minutes, with rate changes recent. Between 1950 census and July 1952 the population rose in 38 states and the capital. nine states fell, Montana nearly flat.
Chief Jetty Officer Robert Wigmore, a naval diver, encountered a friendly octopus near piling 30 feet below Esquimalt harbor. The octopus clung to the piling while three other tentacles probed the diver’s direction. Back aboard, Wigmore said the creature would not harm him, but joked that shipmates did not offer to test the diving suit.
London reports a new light steam engine by Sir Harry Ricardo for tropical use burning low-grade fuel including green wood. Indian eucalyptus forests could yield up to 9.25 tons per acre yearly, providing a potential 10,000 kilowatts from a 20 square kilometer forest with rotational planting.
The National Geographic Society reports a new capital city rising in Punjab beneath the Iienalayas foothills. Chandigarh will symbolize a new India blending Eastern tradition with Western innovation and will house half a million people in a modern, block-based layout with schools, parks, theaters, markets, and civic institutions.
Washington report shows 32,000,000 persons enrolled in school or college at start of 1952 53 year ending June 1953, up 1,400,000 from prior year. Elementary enrollment rose by about 1,000,000, totaling 22,800,000. high school 7,200,000 and college 2,000,000.
Miss Virginia House of Washington D C runs a museum near Manteo showcasing 500 model houses from around the world. Britain is represented by Shakespeare's home model, France by a blue porcelain villa, India by a bone Taj Mahal, and China by a jewel-box temple. The collection ranges from a prefab bungalow gifted by a builder to a tiny Blarney Castle charm. The site lies near Fort Raleigh where early English homes were built.
An oil company developed an $18 million per pound insecticide to study how household sprays kill insects. A tiny sample was produced by making flowers emit radioactive gas. Results may lead to cheaper chemicals that enhance pyrethins, derivatives of pyrethrum, currently priced at $50 to $60 a pound.
Fort Benning reports Tom the mule, last of his kind in the Third Army, has been retired to civilian pastures after a 20 year service. Once paired with two companions, he endured vaccinations with as much stoicism as any veteran. Bought at auction by Col. RN Whatley of Columbus, Georgia, he leaves behind military companionship yet will carry Army memories into civilian life.
Memphis minister Rev John J McGehee received 326 dollars from the Treasury for ruined United States currency. Once a missionary in China, he and his wife hid serial numbers in a prayer book and New Testament during imprisonment by Reds in 1951. The refund followed a special plea by Representative Clifford Davis.
Washington reports that thirty women registered as lobbyists in the first quarter of 1953 under the 1946 Lobbying Act. Twelve did so for the first time, voluntarily. Eighteen filed quarterly reports showing earnings from minimal expenses to 10,000 dollars annually. The National Milk Producers Federation lobbyists earned 9,750 dollars plus expenses. Elizabeth A. Kendall reported no salary and five dollars in expenses.
Northeast Springfield residents urged the city council to curb Chicago and Illinois Midland Railroad whistle blows. They objected to tunes like Yankee Doodle, saying two tunes could be heard, while a railroad spokesman cited standard procedures.
Chess by mail is underway between players at Toronto's A V Roe Aircraft Co plant and Thomson Houston Co in England. Players mail one move on an air mail form within 48 hours of receipt. An average match lasts 30 moves and costs about 15 cents per mailing, totaling roughly a dollar per game and taking several weeks to finish.
The term corn varies by region with England using it for wheat, Scotland and Ireland for oats, and Australia and the United States applying it to maize or corn-on-the-cob.</S>
During the Second French Empire MIL era, dances for Napoleon were often supplied by one of the first mechanical pianos. Operators pumped a handle on one side to power the instrument, providing music for social events of the period.
The USDA reports frozen orange juice is America's preferred beverage with household purchases near 55 million gallons yearly and total concentrate output around 50.5 million gallons. Cold-storage stocks at 23.242 million gallons ease short-term risk while 30 percent of families regularly use the product, with June prices rising to 16.1 cents per can.
Ontario Lands and Forests tests an effective method to slow bush fires in tinder dry areas. Planes land on water near blazes, unload fire fighters, then refill paper containers with 344 gallons each. Containers burst on impact, spilling water to halt flame spread.
Arval H. Pulley, now free from federal rent controls, raises rents from 26.25 to 30 dollars per month and adds a 15 dollar monthly pet charge. He issues a list of 19 behavioral rules, enforces a 10 PM curfew, bans children from yard eating, and requires children stay off fences and back porch rails with penalties from 10 to 15 dollars for violations.
Washington Virginia and Massachusetts plan new high speed toll roads costing about 400 million dollars. Funded entirely with local funds, no federal grants. Virginia highway will run north south near Route 1 linking to Maryland turnpike and North Carolina turnpike proposals. Massachusetts route runs from near Boston toward the New York state line.
A homesick squirrel identified by a creased right ear bounded across a Virginia lawn after being shipped with 36 others to a state park 20 miles away to curb capitol grounds overpopulation. The animal’s path back remains a mystery and exile is not advised.
A dead squid tied to a pole deters lobsters along New Caledonia shores causing divers to wear goggles and gloves to harvest them safely.
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