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With a copy of the U.S. Geological Survey's topographic quadrangle "Newton, 111.," edition of 1943, and an elementary knowledge of map reading, it should not have taken more than three minutes to determine that "latitude 38 degrees, 50 minutes, 21 seconds and longitude 88 degrees, 9 minutes, 33 seconds" was located near the center of Section 25, Township 5 North Range 9 E, 100 feet south of an east-west road; about 4,000 feet east of the Mt. Olive Church...
...would plot with the scale on the map 53,600 feet (10.1 miles) due south of the high school in the town of Newton, and 49,600 feet (9.4 miles) northwest of the high school in Olney, 21,000 feet west of Dundas and 2,820 feet south of the Richland and Jasper county line. A farm house (probably Snider's) was located 250 feet to the west and the elevation above sea level of the plotted point would be 503 feet...
...School of Education will conduct a study of 400 children in seven Newton kindergartens starting November 1, a research associate disclosed yesterday. U.S. Department of Health funds amounting to $45,000 will finance the year-long project...
...ultimate goal of our nation's top teenage students? Now I'm just a local boy, fresh out of a high-school which keeps football in one place and studies in another; but if a half-hearted, unspirited, insipid rally similar to tonight's ever took place at Newton High, we'd give up both football and our school. There are, I am told, about ten thousand students in our fair university which every day seems to assume more and more the aspect of a crimson funeral parlor. It's a funny thing, but my Chem 1 course has more...
Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME...