Baltimore Girl Wins $16 000 Spelling Prize on TV
The 12 year old Gloria Lockerman of Baltimore won $16,000 on The $64,000 Question and advances toward $32,000. Her grandmother decides whether she continues. if she takes the $16,000 or goes on, winnings go to a trust for education. A Uganda note about a tobacco factory in Junja mentions African women workers.
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New York
Gloria Lockerman
Baltimore
Gloria
McKeldin
Maryland
Granny
Bertha Key
Junja
Uganda
Geiger Counters Screen Moles for Cancer in New Test
In Los Angeles UC researchers report using a Geiger counter to assess malignancy in moles. After injecting radioactive phosphorus, a higher reading over the mole and surrounding tissue indicates cancer, with over 70 experiments showing malignant cases matched by higher radioactivity.
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Los Angeles
University of California At
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Franz Bauer
Charles Steffen
FTC orders stop to Kordolin ads overstating cure
A Federal Trade Commission examiner ruled Kordol Corporation of America must halt claims that Kordolin tablets are seven times more effective than aspirin for arthritis and rheumatism. The hearing official found the advertising false stating the product contains ordinary aspirin but in a smaller amount than standard aspirin tablets.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Kordol Corporation of America
New York City
FTC
James A. Purcell
Postal Crimes Reach New High in Year End 1955
The Post Office Department reports a record 6631 arrests for the year ended June 30, including 265 for mailing obscene material and related offenses, a 54 percent rise from the prior year. The total rose 483 over the year ending 1954.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Butane or Propane Gas and Appliances
Dawson Butane advertises year round dependable service with a contact phone number 52969 for gas and appliance needs.
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Dawson Butane
Treated Pots Promise Nonstick Cookware
Omaha news about Selinized Process Co and Frank E. Hammond introducing selinization to make metal utensils nonstick. Foods can be fried baked boiled or broiled without fats and still release cleanly from treated cookware. Discoloring and corrosion are claimed eliminated. The article also notes the first steam ferry boat crossing in 1812 and a remark on Dutch colonization.
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Omaha
Neb
Selinized Process Co
Frank E. Hammond
Hammond
Cars use more light bulbs than homes in 1955 says GE
William H. Robinson Jr. of General Electric notes that new cars average 22.8 light bulbs while the typical American home has 19 lamps. Two years ago cars had 20 lamps. the comparison highlights brighter auto lighting trends.
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Cleveland, O
William H. Robinson Jr
General Electric
Breckenridge Children Die After Poison In Yard
Two children of Mrs Frank Herpeche died within hours after eating poison found while playing in the yard in Breckenridge Mary Lee Salsman aged 6 died Saturday night before a physician arrived John Allen Salsman Jr died Sunday morning in hospital authorities investigated possible poisoning circumstances and urged caution around yard debris and toxic substances.
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Breckenridge
Frank Herpeche
Mary Lee Salsman
John Allen Salsman Jr
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