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...sugar. Wary of mechanical voting machines, which spewed out a volley of blanks at the last election three years ago, the Daughters marked their ballots by hand, sat up till 3:25 to cheer sleepily for Mrs. O'Byrne, who had nosed out Mrs. Stanley T. Manlove of Newburgh, N.Y. by 55 votes...
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...Picked last week as the Kaiser-Frazer representative for Newburgh and Beacon...
Hoping to improve its citizens' teeth, Newburgh, N.Y. is fluorinating its water supply. Last week another such town-wide test was announced: Pleasantville, N.Y. (pop. 4,357) home of The Reader's Digest, plans to try ultraviolet lamps in its three schools, seven churches and one movie to see if the rays will reduce colds, measles, mumps, etc. Nearby Mount Kisco, about the same size-and lampless-will compare notes with Pleasantville for the three years the experiment runs...
...road was foggy most of the way. In Newburgh, eleven miles north of West Point, they were stopped about 11:30 for speeding. Explaining, they got an escort instead of a ticket. After a final pause at the West Point gate, they rushed to the quarters of the waiting Adjutant. There on the doorstep Woody identified himself, raised his right hand, took the oath as a cadet of the United States Military Academy - just eight minutes before the dead line...