Rare New Guinea disease claims lives of natives
In Okana Hospital eastern highlands New Guinea twenty natives suffer kuru. Sir Macfarlane Burnet of Melbourne's Walter and Keilza Hall Institute notes a rare inherited disease, often fatal, with 79 cases. An Okana official reports walls shaking with hysterical laughter as victims weaken and die.
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Sydney
Australia
New Guinea
Okana Hospital
Eastern Highlands
Macfarlane Burnet
Walter and Keilza Hall
Melbourne
Kuru
Douglas School Cheerleading Welcomes Four New Members
The Douglas School cheerleading team adds Frances Washington, Margaret Christian, Jacqueline Williams, and Judith Gaither as new members. Harriet Washington and Brenda Bundy remain on the squad and Homecoming activities are being planned with enthusiastic support from faculty and students.
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Frances Washington
Margaret Christian
Jacqueline Wiliams
Judith Gaither
Harriet Washington
Brenda Bundy
WCTU Delegates Named to State Convention
Winchester WCTU will send Miss Grace Clevenger Miss Emma Ridgeway and Mrs H B Garber to the state convention at Natural Bridge October 29 31. At the September meeting annual reports showed funds spent for clothing groceries fruit and aid to the sick and evangelistic and temperance work with hundreds of cards flowers and magazines distributed and 140 members paid dues while eight new members joined and seven moved away.
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Grace Clevenger
Emma Ridgeway
H. B. Garber
Winchester Women's Christian Temperance Union
Natural Bridge
Mountain Service Commission
Friends Orphanage
WCTU
Willard
Flower Mission Department
Frances Willard
Cotansreems
Busness
Six Die In Summit Mountain Airplane Crash Near Uniontown
Six persons perished when a twin engine plane crashed in fog near Summit Mountain seven miles east of Uniontown Pennsylvania. Victims include T M McLaughlin and wife Helengrace of Shaker Heights Ohio and Standard Oil official R Stewart. Pilot Warren F Noonan and copilot Theodore O Krauss also named. Wreckage scattered. fire engulfed the craft. bodies partly ejected.
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Uniontown
Standard Oil Co
Ohio
Summit Mountain
Jumonville
Pennsylvania
Stephen R. Haky
Fayette County
T. M. McLaughlin
Shaker Heights
J. M. McLaughlin Co
Cleveland
Helengrace
Warren F. Noonan
Pilot
Middletown
Theodore O. Krauss
Haley
R. Stewart
Standard 1 of
Stewart
Stewarts
McLaughlins
White Sulphur Springs
W.va
Warren
Cornell University
Sohio
el Paso
Tex
Noonan
Social acceptance grows for typewritten letters
The discussion notes typewritten correspondence has become socially acceptable for formal and informal introductions. It argues that neat, legible typing conveys professionalism and courtesy in modern communication.
Television Schedule Highlights by Channel and Time
The listing outlines daily programs across channels 4 7 5 and 9 with time blocks for news weather sports films dramas and variety shows. It notes specific titles such as Death Valley Days Wells Fargo Twenty One Suspicion Sheena Burns and Allen Danny Thomas Studio One and Aunt related soaps and game shows with a mix of local and network offerings.
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Burns and Allen
Danny Thomas
Studio One
Unclear Correspondence Raises Formal Usage Question
A fragment discusses formal letter use and notes that some correspondences are not acceptable for formal purposes. It highlights the tension between casual recollections and formal standards.
Federal Employees Life Insurance Program History
Congress enacted the program in 1954 and by 1956 about two million federal employees were covered. The system insured roughly $10.1 billion in life coverage across the federal workforce.
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Congress
Retail Merchants To Meet Oct. 14
The Winchester Retail Merchants Association schedules its semi annual membership meeting for Monday October 14 at 7 30 pm at the George Washington Hotel. Officers will be elected.
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Winchester Retail Merchants Association
George Washington Hotel
Three Marriage Licenses Issued in Clark County
Clark County issued three marriage licenses last week. Carl Joseph Eck and Maxine Delores Yassem of Fort City were married September 28 by Rev. Robert D. Goshorn. George Paul Stefanko and Virginia Jo Downs of Ellsworth were married October 3 at Boyce. Cecil Edga Vowell and Genevieve Iden Crim of Berryville were married October 6 in Berryville. The first life insurance company of the U S was established in Philadelphia in 1759. It was called The Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers.
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Carl Joseph Eck
Maxine Delores Yassem
Fort City
Robert D. Goshorn
George Paul Stefanko
Virginia Jo Downs
Ellsworth
Boyce
Cecil Edga Vowell
Genevieve Iden Crim
Berryville
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Carleton Gadusek
Hall Institute
Douglas School News Report
Margaret Jackson
Musk Center
Winchester
S. Loudoun St
Channel 4
Channel 5
Hunter
Channel
Sheena
Three Musketeers
Guy Mitchell
Bold Journey
Voice of Firestone
Clubhouse
Frankie Lane
Lilli Palmer
Elizabeth
Billy Johnson
Milt Grant
Channel 7
Pete and His Pals
Eddie Cantor
Sir Lancelot
Channel 9
Hotel Cosmopolitan
Love of Life
Search For Tomorrow
Guiding Light
Theater of Stars
Winchester Laundromat
W. Hart St
E Ritter
Kern St
Raymond Golightly
Eft
Golightly
United States Army
Kermit R. Mason
2Nd Army
Co. 1
M. B. Clowe, Jr
Col. Mason
3Rd Bn. Staff
Ralph Cain
Pontiac
Clark
Tde Insurance
U. S
Philadelphia
The
Corporation For Relief of
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Highlander
Alain
W. H. Emmart & Son
Ford
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