Corn Cobs Clean Plane Engines In War Labs
A Senate report details Agricultural Research Laboratories in New Orleans Albany Philadelphia and Peoria using corn cobs to remove carbon from aircraft engines. Other farm product uses include mechanized onion peeling and improved dehydrated potatoes. Ground corn cobs from hybrid seed corn prove best, with Navy standardizing the method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agricultural Research Laboratories
Senate
Department of Agriculture
New Orleans
Albany
Calif
Philadelphia
Peoria
Navy
Aberdonian Overstays Visit In London Christmas Cue
An Aberdonian visiting a friend in London lingers past his welcome as Christmas nears. His host hints that his wife and family would want him home. The Aberdonian agrees and jokes he will send for them.
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London
How To Secure Facts On Social Security
Dallas article explains that Social Security field offices provide free information on retirement survivors and disability benefits and wage records. Ernest L Tutt, Dallas office manager, says offices can advise on when to file a claim and clarify account cards and covered jobs.
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Dallas
Social Security
Social Security Board
Ernest L. Tutt
Red Cross Quota Surpassed in Whitewright Area Drive
Whitewright and nearby communities report 1518.53 raised for the Red Cross drive, with Bethel Pilot Grove and Kentucky town quotas at 1200.00. Inez Ray reports 1306.97 in Whitewright. D M Taylor yields 166.56 from Pilot Grove. Luther Gordon records 45.00 from Bethel. Kentuckytown report pending.
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Whitewright
Red Cross
Bethel
Pilot Grove
Kentuckytown
D. M. Taylor
Luther Gordon
Inez Ray
Texas Child Mortality Rate Flayed by Doctor
Dr Arild K Hansen of the University of Texas Medical School told 400 delegates at a wartime mental hygiene conference in Austin that five hundred children die unnecessarily each month in Texas. He cited immunization gaps and higher death rates from diphtheria typhoid and tuberculosis versus national figures.
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Austin
Arild K. Hansen
University of Texas Medical School
Galveston
Texas
Hansen
New York
Phillips Petroleum Chairman Slashes Salary to One Dollar
Frank Phillips, chairman of Phillips Petroleum, reduces his pay to 1 dollar a year from 50 000 due to heavy federal and state taxes. He states total take home is 309.36 dollars after deductions and that the cut took effect February 1.
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New York
Frank Phillips
Phillips Petroleum Company
Phil News
Phillips
Lost Persian cat and for sale ad findable in classifieds
Lost silver gray Persian cat reported with contact Jimmie McSpedden or call 124 for details. For sale 1936 Studebaker sedan with good rubber listed by A B Jones.
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Jimmie McSpedden
Studebaker
A. B. Jones
Governor Signs Lake Texoma Game Law
Governor Coke Stevenson signed a bill establishing uniform hunting and fishing regulations for Lake Texoma on Red River near Denison. The act requires Texas residents to hold a Lake Texoma resident hunting license and outlines fees for fishing licenses for residents and nonresidents, plus special licenses for Oklahoma residents and other states. licenses are not required for Texas youths under 17.
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Texas
Lake Texoma
Oklahoma
Lake
Texoma
Texas Population Drops 1.4 Percent in 1944
The Census Bureau estimates Texas population on July 1 1944 at 6,876,248, down 95,274 from July 1 1943 a 1.4 percent decrease. Compared with July 1 1940 the 1944 figure is 461,424 higher, up 7.2 percent, with declines tied to military inductions and civilian shifts.
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Washington
Texas
Census Bureau
Tax Information Rewards Total $77 209 in Year
The Internal Revenue Service announced rewards totaling $77,209 for tax information in the year ending June 30. A single informant earned $17,000 for leading to $917,000 in taxes from a large amusement concern, the largest reward of 65 payments. The smallest was $6.93 for tax of $108 from a salvage industry individual. Names of recipients are not disclosed.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Cracks At The Crowd Cousin Dave Rants On Freedoms
A quirky piece portrays Cousin Dave lamenting lack of real freedoms in daily life. He curses lack of freedom of religion speech and from want while worrying about providing for family. The narrator notes social insanity and cautions against advertising hard luck.
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Dave
Better world vision by Edgar A. Guest and a scent note
A poem envisions a improved future with meals, women gardening, births and weddings, work for all, diverse traits, and enduring grief. It contrasts a future society with regulations, justice, and the hope of a better race of men, followed by a strange note about anosnia or anosmic sense of smell.
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Edgar A. Guest
Texans urged to plant 1 000 000 garden plots
Austin proclamation by Governor Stevenson marks Victory Garden Week in Texas 1945 urging Texans to plant one million garden plots due to increased military demand and allied needs. Army notes more soldiers to feed and more home production required as troops abroad rise.
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Austin
Texas
Stevenson
Private’s Narrow Escape in Tent Mishap
A soldier recalls a near miss after mistaking his helmet for an intruder. He grabbed a gun and fired, then lights revealed the helmet had been the target. The exchange ends with the sergeant joking about the humor of the narrow escape.
Let 'er Drop Bursts Through Quiet Hall
A speaker demanded silence and asked for a pin drop in the hall. The crowd went still for a moment before a youth in the front row shouted Let 'er drop, breaking the hush.
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Ag. Laboratories
Marshall McNeil
Magnolia
Hansard & Gosnell
Eager
Whittle
Pascal Farley
South Bend
Lorene Johnson
Jack McSpedden
Allen T. Short
Phone 100
Hannah's
Joe Johnson
J. W. Jones
J. T. Stephens
Sherman
Tom Head
Sun Office
M. Belew le
Bryan Weber
Tom Barbee
Rick
Robert Robinson
Kirkpatrick
George K. Stephens
Stephens & Bryant
Square Deal Furniture
West
Houston
Guy Ellis
Pfe
Jack L. Thornhill
H. C. Thornhill
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
By Claude Callan
Julia
Caylor Shop
Adlerika
America
Weingarten
Denison
Milllinery
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