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...government for lax enforcement of liquor laws. Bucking opposition from tax-conscious merchants, Editor Hames also swung the paper behind such long-needed improvements as sewer and school construction. For three straight years after Editor Hames took over in 1951, the Republican-Times walked off with the 16-state Inland Daily Press Association's award for coverage of local government...
...there exploring. It is a well-equipped group of scientists who are making the first careful, detailed study of the interior of Antarctica. Starting from Shackleton Base on the Weddell Sea, south of South America, on Nov. 24, it headed for South Ice, an advance base 250 miles inland that was established by Fuchs during the Antarctic spring (Oct.-Nov.). This is fearfully difficult country, with two high, parallel mountain ranges, the Theron Range and the Shackleton Range, looming blackly above the snow. The ice between them is torn into great crevasses. Sometimes vertical ice cliffs rise like stone walls...
...machines, down 7% from 1957. Autos, aluminum, machinery and many others are planning fewer additions. But utilities, which never caught up in 1957, will have to pile on another $200 million increase to $6.5 billion next year. Many steelmen are also pushing ahead despite lower operating levels. Says Inland Steel Co.'s President Joseph L. Block, who earmarked $280 million for a three-year expansion program: "We plan for continued growth because we believe we are a growth company in a growth industry in a growth country...
Authority & Oil. By week's end the fighting between Moroccan nationalists and Spanish colonial forces had spread south to the Spanish Sahara. Moroccan newspapers reported nationalist attacks on a village at the mouth of the Saguia el Hamra (Red River) and Spanish bombing raids on the inland villages of Smara and Sidi Ahmed el Aroussi; more than 200 Moroccans were reported killed...
...homegrown, but much more comes from foreign businessmen and mainland Italians who know a good thing when they see it. Italy's Montecatini Co. recently opened a big potash works near Syracuse employing 2,000 workers, is already building a second to tap newly discovered deposits 55 miles inland. French chemical, German beer and electric-power companies are also moving...