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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1956
Page
6
Danish scientists report houseflies already resistant to DDT are gaining immunity to phosphate exterminators like parathion and Diazinon. In tests a significant portion survived 20 hours exposure to Bayer 21/199. U S scientists say phosphate compounds remain usable for now but resistance could rise.
Four crosses about 10 feet tall were burned in the Mobile area Friday night. Officers could not identify who planted or why they were set afire. One report said several men were seen at one cross as it burned. none wore robes or masks. None were near homes or businesses.
As of June 1 1956 an estimated total of 806 478 new cars were in dealer stocks or in transit from the factories. This compares with an all time high of 903 789 on March 1 1956 and a low of 157 607 on November 1 1954.
Dr. Jacob Kulowski reports that about 45 percent of 661 hospitalized auto crash survivors suffered facial injuries from teeth to jaws. He notes that seating position and interior features like the windshield and dashboard contribute to facial trauma, challenging the idea of the driver’s seat as the deadliest spot.
Vatican sources say Pope Pius XII delays his annual move to Castal Gandolfo due to Vatican workload. Physicians urged an earlier departure after a May 30 exam noted he is generally fit but overtired. He remains in the Vatican to prepare fall ceremonies including beatification rites for Pope Innocent XI.
Robert Graves delivers six lectures at Trinity College Cambridge 1954 55 with miscellaneous papers totaling 300 pages. The collection provokes debate among friends and foes alike praising and critiquing his views on Milton Blake Yeats Pound Auden Eliot Wordsworth and Dylan Thomas while praising Frost and Cummings. Graves skews bluntly witty sarcastic and iconoclastic arguing poetry’s worth and the limits of agreement.
A 10 year old man collapsed and died on the Philadelphia sidewalk just as Einstein Memorial Center telephoned to inform him that his wife, Pauline Shoman, 68, had died. Neighbor Mrs Mary Johnson alerted police after a passerby summoned her to call.
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