All this week Oxnard’s drug store has been crowded with people waiting their chance to see the X-Zalia nurse. All day she has been busy giving treatments for eczema, barber itch, sore throats, burns and cuts, and we hear she has made some remarkable cures among us. Mr. Oxnard says it is the most successful demonstration he has ever had and he has induced the X-Zalia Co. to continue it another week as there are still many people who have not had the chance to come in. Miss Smith the demonstrator is a trained graduate nurse of long experience and is ready at all hours to treat with X-Zalia any case of skin disease, inflammation, burns, etc.

50 Years Ago, 1955

•Pittsburgh – A nationwide strike of 600,000 men in the basic steel industry appeared to be on early today as top negotiators for the CIO United Steelworkers and pace-setting U.S. Steel Corp. broke up a five-hour meeting without word of agreement.

•The Portsmouth, N.H., Naval Shipyard actually is in Kittery, Maine, so Sen. Payne (R-Maine) undertook today to straighten things out. He introduced a bill to changed the name of the yard to the “Kittery-Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at Kittery, Maine.” Payne read to the Senate a resolution adopted by the Maine Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on June 19 protesting that whereas the shipyard is within the boundaries of Maine, that state has not received proper recognition.

25 Years Ago, 1980

The Southwest’s worst heat wave in more than 25 years continued to take a heavy toll Monday, with at least 61 deaths blamed on the triple-digit temperatures, crops withering in the fields and timberland going up in smoke.

The mercury surged again in Texas, where temperatures over the weekend set records. Wichita Falls recorded 110 degrees Monday afternoon. A 112-degree reading in the city on Sunday broke a 56-year-old record for the day by six degrees.