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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1957
Page
10
Betty Pell of the county agents office recalls the odd inquiry from a farmer who asked where to obtain a 20 acre electric blanket to dry his peanuts. The report notes this unusual request amid Territory coverage in Anadarko Oklahoma.
Edward Clark reports Burlington Wisconsin coverage of the Liars Club contest awarding top accolades to a Mission Colorado farmer tale about a plowman’s long odyssey. Honorable mentions include stories from Tears Texas and other locales with tall tales and humorous libel jabs.
Dinah Shore and George Montgomery build a $225000 home above the Sunset Strip with white quartz fireplaces a 60 foot pool waterfall and seven bathrooms. The couple design self builds and expect completion in six weeks offering a view over the Los Angeles Plain and space for their growing family and ventures.
A Soviet broadcast says Sputnik I will enter the atmosphere in the first days of January. The man made moon’s orbit is now no higher than 198 miles, down from a prelaunch height of 500 miles when launched on October 4.
A 9 year old in Ann Arbor asks University of Michigan authorities for information about space rockets stars atoms and the past and adds a postscript about the roll. The request prompts scholars to consider 1930s era public inquiries to the university.
THOROLD Ont The L G Lorriman public school and St Charles separate school received fire department plaques for best evacuation times. Lorriman posted 3314 seconds and St Charles 35 seconds in drills.
The answer notes some lie sizes are tiny enough to crawl through fine mosquito netting, while others have a wingspread of 3 inches. It asserts an infinite variety of flies and that they inhabit every region of the world where humans live.
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