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1 2 RENO EVENING GAZETTE December 29, 1953 arsges Made in Earths' Face During Year of 1953 any WaiPB On Africa's Gold Coast. VITAL STATISTICS Takoradi harbor was expanded and Harnessing of Rivers Tops Engineering Feats a new port begun at lema. cnrirt. STrnr.VTS MARRIAGES One of the world's largest blast furnaces was. lighted at ens-mouth, Ohio, by the Detroit Steel which dubbed it "Louise." At VpIsph in the Netherlands a WASHINGTON.

Rivers harnessed to provide power, water farmland, and prevent floods rank high among changes engineers made to the earth's face in 1953, the National Geographic Society 000,000 steel mill was dedicated by ton: Hazel E. Kamosky from Martin H. Karaoslcy; Bert E. Lewis from Grace Lewis; Yuk Mee Louie from Allen Kal Louie; Esther M. Marino from Joseph R.

Marino: Floyd O. Packard. frcm Kathryn T. Packard: am re B. Psrnrll from Cora Olson Parnell: William D.

Pratt from Jean S. Syme Pratt; Gerald W. Rogers from Lydla W. Rogers: Imn Schowe from Mildred A. Schowe: Joyce 8.

8ennlnger from Robert 8. Sennlngfr. Edward T. Simmona from Teas Ledrrer Simmons: Edith Smith from Bra Smith: Jeannette Louise Bier Stusrt from Stanley Clarence Stuart; Trier's Marie Taylor from Thomas E. Taylcr; Donald W.

Weger from Norma W. Weer. Woodrow Wl'ncn Stow ers from Mrytle K. towers: LaVern Thomas Arnold from Jacqueline E. Arnold: and Margaret Mas.

tin Walthall from William Henry Swim Champion Dies on Monday MILWAUKEE, Dec. 29. LB George J. Whittaker. 80, world champion swimmer of a half-century ago and credited with developing the "Australian crawl," died here yesterday.

Whittaker first won fame as a swimmer at the Chicago world's fair in 1893. In his career he beat most of the world's top swimmers and either set or equalled top swimming records until 1902 when he dropped competition to open a swimming school here. Whittaker's records included the 100-yard championship of 1 minu-ute, 12.6 seconds set in New York in 1896. Queen Juliana. Full-scale production of Dacron, the synthetic fiber, began at a new $40,000,000 plant at Kinston, N.

C. At Daggofontein in the Union of South Africa, a radio signal from England set in operation a huge new uranium concentrating plant processing wastes from the goldfields. Russian students, meanwhile, began using Moscow University's new "Trmnle of Learn in cr." one and aDnlel T. Ripley. 27, nd Gerry M.

Maryatt, 31, both Reno. ACTIONS FILED Mary 81c lar vs. Jacob Sklar; Raymond W. Brandt vs. Betty Kathleen Brandt; John S.

Sunlllvan ts. Marie Louise 8ul-llvan: Nellie L. Wright ts. John R. Wright: Esther M.

Christie ys. 8tuart D. Christie: Robert E. Wernlck ts. Rolands Wernlck: LaVern Thomas Arnold vs.

Jac Cjuellne E. Arnold: Barbara Lee vs. Rich, ard R. Lee: Margaret Mastln Walthall vs. William Henry Walthall: Merrln A.

Mc Kenrte ts. Richard M. Donahue: Albert D. Pownlng vs. Richard M.

Donahue; Vincent L. Walker et al vs. Kate N. Dodd as executrix of the estate of Onow S. Dodd.

d-ceased: Ark Lee vs. Lai Young Lee alo known as Eng Lai Tminr Wood, row Wllnon 8 towers vs. Myrtle K. Stow, ers: and Artesha Vivian Allen Wll. 11am Henry Allen.

DECREES GRANTED Anita G. Amea from Ralph W. Ames; Shelby Coyle Anderson from Flora B. Anderson; Ms B. Brownsteln from Rose Brownsteln: Gaetano Debe from Amelia BraghVerl Debe: Patsy Farole Grlcler from Vernon Walter Grtdcr; Eyrd Men-roe Harris from Clara A.

Harris: Andre Robert Hauton from Mary Ann Hsu ton; Claire Van Hern from Fred Van Horn; Charles William Howard from Betra Hy-cents Howard; Betty Cooprr-Levine from Joseph Levlne; Lillian Helen Marshall from Marilyn Eugene Marshall (cross-complaint); Helen Rosenbaus from Paul Rosenhous: Howard P. Smith from Lola L. Smith; Marjorle Tarn Sz from Dezon Chungyuan Sze; John Clifford Thrush from Evelyn Jane Thrush; Marjorle Welgman from Frederick P. Welgman; Dale Acamo from Betty Jo Acamo: Leigh-ton M. Bayless from Patricia Lee Bay-less: Margaret Jane from Phillip Walter Bogaske; Ray H.

Chamberlln from Amelia Chamberlln; Jane G. Cutler from Harold O. Cutler; Alice O. Flwh-beck from Harold W. Plschbeck: Karl P.

Harrington from Dorothy M. Harring of the world's largest college build Laurence C. Res, 42, and Jean A. Smith. 27.

both Reno; Enrol J. Byrnes. 47, and Luella a. Brockett. 41.

both Reno; Myrl C. Johnson, 47, end Maxlne K. Sehuette, 41, both Susanvtlle: Byrd Monroe Harris, 51. Reno, and Elizabeth Mao Carskaddon. 35, East Alfred J.

Bl-relll. 23, and Norma J. Cordone. 18, both James W. Coanell.

40, and Lillian Helen Earl. 31, both Reno; Charlea S. Clark. 53. and Mabel E.

Campbell. 47. both Sparks; Noble L. Crew. 28, And Jean Ellin Rule, 24.

both Reno: Andrew M. Oresch, 69. and Ruth Jeanette Lar. son. 70.

both Rno; Earle V. Dempaey, 23. Reno, and Mary Judith MacNell. 19. Hen.

derson, Howard P. Smith, 58, Reno, and Dorothy S. Runck. 46. Los Angeles.

Thomas Hauff. 28, New York City, and Jeanne R. Rlgler. 27, Reno; Charlea W. Egrert.

and Marian Arlene Mllll-pan, 16, both Susanville: James J. Hay. 69. and May Belle SUnger, 68. both Su-sanvllle: Chsrlrs J.

Munfrada, 40, and Pearl Mae Smith, 34. both Callente. Donald J. Miller, 28. Elko, and Helen J.

Barnes. 28. R-ro: Philip J. Edwards, 26, and Una D. McEwrn, 21.

both Reno; Edward H. Parsons. 63, Ban Francisco, and Ella Z. Chamberlain, 56. Reno: Forrest N.

Rockwell, 38. and Mob! E. Evans, 36, both Reno; Raymond Waldo Jones. 42, and Donna Mae TUson, 43. both Alturas; Wayne R.

fihrlver. 31. and Grace R. Por. ter, 33, both Reno: John Richard Brow, ers.

21, OrovUle. and Anna Flor-ence Crouch. 18. Qulncv. Edward C.

McGUl. 45, and Lydla M. Herd. 45, both Grass Valley. J.

C. Jones, 19, and Delores Pauline Young. 17 both Su-aanvllle; John E. Sulilvan. 46, and Gwen dolyn C.

Monahan, 32. both Spark: Mar. vln D. Gilbert. 25.

and Kathleen McCor. mick. 22, both Reno; Alfredo O. Trevlno, 24. Reno, and Lorraine F.

Wright, 20, Sparks: Reuben N. Swett. 49, Sonora. and Eleanor A. Elson.

24, Reno; Melvln C. Hyler, 40. and Alice J. Iitteral, 32, both Reno; Kenneth J. Newman.

20, and Normans C. Holmes, 18. both West, wood. Alfred Saxe, Reno, and Esther Lee Troub, 43. Hartford, ward line from Edmonton extended this year to Sarnia, Ontario.

East and west coasts of the United States were joined by pipe for the first time as a 290-mile section across the Continental Divide was completed from Sinclair, Wyoming, to Salt Lake City, Utah. In a defense emergency gasoline could now be pumped either way between Marcus Hook, and the Pacific Northwest. Other new U. S. pipelines joined East Chicago, to Toledo, Ohio, and Detroit, Wood River, 111., to Casper, Sour Lake, to Lake Charles, and Colorado City, to Nederland, near Port Arthur, Tex.

At Antwerp, Belgium, 'a new catalytic oil refinery went into operation to supply gasoline and other fuels to Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. WILDERNESS RAILROADS Railroads penetrated parts of the world where locomotive whistles had never before been heard. In northern Manitoba, a 145-mile spur was pushed to Lynn Lake, center of a new nickel-copper mining region. Trains began running on the first section of a new rail line in Uganda, from Kampala westward toward the Belgian Congo. ings.

Four years in construction, the skyscraper stands on the site where Napoleon had his first glimpse of the Kremlin in 1812. WOLVERINES WIN ANN ARBOR, Mich, Dec. 28. Michigan's hish-scoring Wolverines hit 56 per cent of their shots in the first half last night and handed inexperienced Loyola of Chicago its fifth straight loss of the basketball season 89-58. Barrow Leaves Estate to Wife WHITE PLAINS, N.

Dec. 29 (KJ) The will of Edward G. Barrow, former president of the New York Yankees baseball club who died Dec. 15, leaves his entire estate to his widow, Fannie T. Barrow, of Rye.

N. Y. The will, field In surrogate's court yesterday, puts the value of the estate at "more than $20,000." NELSON" IX HOSPITAL CHICAGO, Dec. 28. CSV-Oscar (Battling) Nelson, former ring grat, was taken to a hospital yesterday.

Police said the ailing 71-year-old ex-fighter had been helpless since the death of Mrs. Nelson Saturday. Nelson's professional boxing career spanned 22 years. At its height he was world's lightweight champion. GATE-CRASHING CRITTER BONHAM.

Tex. UPl A gatecrasher almost broke up a basketball game here between Bonham and nearby Sherman. The game was halted and a wild chase ensued before the intruder was captured and put out of the building. The non-paying fan was a 'possum. Brazil and Eolivia were linked and the Dead Sea's vast potash deposits.

Nepal's ancient isolation is being broken by a highway from India to Katmandu. BRIDGES AND TUNNELS New highway bridges in the United States span the St John's River at Jacksonville, the Severn River at Annapolis, McL, and the Missouri River just above Omaha, Neb. Mississippi's Gulf Coast U. S. 90 leaps the Bay of St.

Louis on a new four-lane span. In the heart of Los Angeles, traffic flows in layers across a four-level freeway intersection. An even more complicated junction is under construction in Pittsburgh. New York City opened its Kew Gardens Interchange on Long Island, a parkway bridge in the Bronx, a new three-lane roadway across the Brooklyn Bridge, and new traffic chamels at both ends of the George Washington Bridge. Abroad, the longest bridge in the Far East linked the porthern and southern halves of Formosa with a 6200-foot span at Hsilo.

The Philippines opened its longest steel span at Naguilian in northeastern Luzon. Germany reopened the war-destroyed Rhine bridge at Worms. Spain and Portugal were joined by a bridge at Quintamilha. The only highway bridge in" the world solely suspended from cables was built across the Rio Lempa in El Salvador by an American firm. Cuba drove a highway tunnel beneath the Almendares river in Havana.

Los Angeles completed an underpass beneath the center of its International Airport. The second auto tunnel beneath the Houston ship channel joined Baytown and La Porte. Tex. Philadelphia's long-celebrated "hole in the ground," begun in 1917, finally became the Locust Street Subway. New York opened a 54,000,000 underpass taking First Avenue underneath the new United Nations plaza.

AIRPORTS Midway between Fort Worth and Dallas, the newest major airport in the United States opened for business with a helicopter port in the center of the auto parking lot. and underground air conditioning conduits for parked planes. Jan Smuts Airport at Johannesburg, South Africa, gave jet airliners a runway two miles long, and another jet terminal was completed at Khartoum in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Turkey dedicated a huge international terminal at San Stefano near Istanbul, first of 23 modem airports now being built. Other airport construction or modernization was completed at Rio de Janeiro; Vancouver, B.

Bonn, Germany; Zurich, Switzerland; and Mongu, Northern Rhodesia. Luxurious new passenger terminals were finished at the Newark, N. airport and in downtown New York. For bus travelers. Greyhound opened a new $10,000,000 terminal in the Chicago Loop.

CANALS AND PORTS Waterborne traffic on the Mississippi has been speeded by completion of the Chain of Rocks bypass canal anc locks just north of St. Louis. The eight-mile cut, with one of the longest locks in the world, eliminates the last treacherous point of navigation SAY OUR READERS! The Rio Grande went to work for the United States and Mexico as Presidents Eisenhower and Cor-tines dedicated Falcon dam, 75 miles downstream from Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. Water impounded by the nearly five-mile-long earth barrier, backed into a lake 60 miles long, eventually will irrigate 1,300,000 acres of mesquite-and-cactus desert. Longest dam jn the world.

Falcon (pro-nouneedfal-cone) is the first of three such international projects planned for the Rio Grande Valley. On the Missouri river in North Dakota, closure of Garrison Dam, third largest in the world, put one more check on disastrous rampages of Big Muddy. Oregon dedicated Detroit dam in the Willamette basin 100 miles south of Portland. EUROPE AND ASIA The president of France inaugurated Europe's highest dam at Tignes, after six years of construction. He visited the new village built a mile up a Savoy mountainside for 100 families who had refused to believe the old Tignes would be submerged until water began lapping at their doorsteps.

Spain opened four new power plants, part of a vast river-control program that has 58. dams under construction. Israel, Turkey, and Iran were embarked upon ambitious irrigation projects. AH across India workmen labored on great river valley projects modeled after America's TVA. The largest power station in Asia ncared completion at Bokaro in the Damodar Valley.

Water flowed from Tungabhadra reservoir in south India, and from Perunchani irrigation project in Travancore-Cochin. Massanjore dam in Bengal grew beneath the skilled hands of thousands of stonemasons working without heavy machinery. Communist China claimed to have put a check, with the completion of a dam on the Hwai River, on the floods that for centuries have ravaged the densely populated region between the Hwang Ho (Yellow) and Yangtze river. In Russia, the great Ust Kamen-ogorsk dam and power station in Soviet central Asia is reported to have gone into operation in July. Hydroelectric plants began furnishing power in Norway, Scotland, Canada, and the Philippines.

Sweden and Canada were at work on great generating stations to be buried in solid rock. Italy and Greece opened new thermoelectric plants. ATOMIC POWER PLANT Power from a different source lighted the way to the future as an atomic furnace at Oak rlidge, Tennessee, became the first to operate a standard industrial turbine-generator and produce electricity in useful amounts enough to serve 50 average homes. Liquid power petroleum flowed across the wilds of the Canadian Rockies and beneath the waters of the Great Lakes in new pipelines laid in 1933. Canada's Trans Mountain line linked Edmonton and Vancouver, bringing Alberta oil to the Pacific after a construction job so tough that workers dubbed it "Big Inch-by-Inch." The deepest underwater pipeline ever attempted joined St.

Ignace and Mackinaw City, Michigan, across the 250-foot-deep Straits of Mackinac. It is part of an east by a track from Corumba to Santa Cruz de la Sierra. In western China, trains were reported operating on a new 65-mile section of a line being laid toward Sinkiang from Lanchow. The Kazakh S.S.R. was crossed by a new 265-mile link between the Urals and Siberia.

Bosnia in Yugoslavia finished tftVee rail sections, and a 310-mile line from Belgrade to the Adriatic Sea at Bar came nearer completion. At Bar a new nort is being constructed. In Turkey a 54-mile standard-gauge line between Erz-urum and Horasan was finished. Israel dedicated a new coastal railroad between Tel Aviv and Hadera. Morocco's manganese fields on the far side of the High Atlas were brought closer to the railhead at Marrakech by the completion of an 18-mile overhead cable railway eliminating the most hazardous section of a tortuous mountain road.

WORLD HIGHWAYS New highways crisscrossed the globe with asphalt and concrete. In Oklahoma the new 88-mile Turner Turnpike opened to toll-paying customers between Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Fourteen miles of the divided Baltimore-Washington Expressway went into use in Maryland, and ten miles of the new National Pike from Frederick to Washington. Once inareesihle Hafteras Island on North Carolina's Outer Ban's row has a PO-mile hard-surfaced highway from Nags Head to the village of Ilatteras whenever a storm hasn't submerged it. The road was specially built to be underwater sometimes.

Across the continent, California completed 115 miles of superhighway on the southern leg of U. S. 99 from Los Angeles north through Bakersfield. On another continent, Venezuela finished a soectacular "Autopista" through the Andes from the coast to the capital city THESE BEAUTIFUL jj NEW COOKBOOKS! in 1100 river miles from Minne These 24 wonderful cookbooks are sure catching on fast. The ninth book is ready now and thousands of the first eight titles have already been sold! No wonder.

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HARRIS FOOD CENTER 1045 E. Fourth Street 20TH CENTURY FOOD MARKET 2630 S. Virginia St MT. ROSE MARKET 711 S. Virginia St.

PACIFIC MEAT 244 E. Plasa PINKY'S MARKET 535 Cost Fourth St. R. PATRON CO. 252 Lakt Street RING-LEE COMPANY Mill and High Streets SAFEWAY STORE Mt.

Rosa ana" S. Virginia SAFEWAY STORE Liberty and S. Virginia St. SANTA CLAUS MARKET Sixth and Vina Sts. SEWELL'S 430 N.

Sierra Street TINY'S MARKET 56 W. Liberty Street WASHOE SUPER MARKET 143 N. Virginia St. WASHOE SUPER MARKET 1251 S. Virginia St.

OBTAIN YOUR RENO COOKBOOKS AT THESE LOCATIONS (Your Address I MAIL TO: Reno Newspapers Inc. (Phono) (Town) I wish to run my ad. Inclosed find BAKER'S THRIFTY FOOD MARKET 922 8 Street HANDY STOP MARKET 1935 Prater Way PYRAMID MARKET 2601 Prater Way SEWELL'S 1245 8 Street SPARKS HANSON'S FOOD MARKET 1 222 Street GENE'S FOOD MARKET 1122 8 Street Reno, Nevada.

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