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...Sodium fluoride is being added to drinking water in long-range dental experiments in at least ten U.S. and Canadian cities: Newburgh, N.Y.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Bradford, Ont.; Sheboygan, Wis.; Midland, Mich.; Marshall, Tex.; Ottawa, Kans.; Evanston, 111.; Crossett, Ark.; Lewiston, Idaho...
Stout Trout. In Lewiston, Idaho, 15-year-old John Olson got a very dirty look from a steelhead trout while wading in the river, explained to the game warden that the only thing he could do was stone the 13-lb., 36-in. fish to death in self-defense...
...Blueplate. In Lewiston, Me., Judge Adrien Cote refused to send "Bosco" Boulet to the county jail because the last time he kicked about the food too much...
Died. Cornelia T. Crosby, 93, who as a sickly girl was advised to "take huge doses of outdoors" for her health, became a six-foot Maine woods' guide and first woman to hold a Maine guide license; in Lewiston, Me. She modeled the first short-skirt sports costume for women (seven inches from the ground) at the National Sportsman Show of 1895, was credited with coining the phrase "Playground of the Nation" for her native state, was believed to have caught more fish with a fly than any other woman...
Quietly last week, the North American Philips Co., Inc. announced that it will spend $20 million on the postwar expansion of its three war-working U.S. plants (at Dobbs Ferry, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and Lewiston, Me.). This was not a dazzling amount of money. Yet the news set the whole $3½-billion U.S. electronics industry on edge...