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Since February of this year, a new eleven-man presidential fact-finding commission, headed by Editor James E. Lawrence of the Lincoln (Neb.) Star, has been holding hearings across the valley, listening to arguments about how to tame the valley. Last week, in Chairman Lawrence's home city, the commission concluded its hearings and prepared to file its report and conclusions with the President. Whatever future administration is recommended, it is dead certain that the giant construction program will go on and that huge sums of money will continue to be spent on Pick-Sloan projects...
Price of Fame. In Hastings, Neb., Haberdasher Ben Sherman advertised that his "I Like Ike" neckties, regularly priced...
...next test of mass inoculations with gamma globulin as a protection against the paralyzing aftereffects of poliomyelitis, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis picked the area around Sioux City (Woodbury County, Iowa, and Dakota County, Neb.). It hoped to give the needle this week to 16,500 youngsters, aged one to eleven...
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...finally convinced, signed the little lefthander to pitch the 1948 season for Lincoln (Neb.) in the Class A Western League, brought him up to the majors the next year. Injuries to two regular Philadelphia pitchers gave Shantz his first chance. He made the most of it with the most sensational pitching debut in the history of the major leagues. Coming in as a reliefer, he pitched a full nine innings of no-hit ball, beat the Detroit Tigers 5-4 in 13 innings...