Trend Toward Short Narrow Skirts in Youth Fashion
GAILE DUGAS reports on fresh silhouettes for the youthful sophisticate featuring straight narrow looks, shorter skirts, boxy jackets, and slim ensembles in corduroy velvet and wool blends. Emily Wilkens designs adapt youth trends with beige corduroy suits, moss green sheet wool day dresses, and beaver brown velveteen afternoon pieces, all emphasizing refined, high necklines and compact silhouettes.
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Gaile Dugas
NEW York
NEA
Itl
Emily Wilkens
Civil Air Raid Warning Program Faces Delays In Mobilization
The Civil Air Raid Warning program runs behind schedule as USAF rushes civilian observer training and regional filter centers. Plans call for August drills on the Maine coast with October tests from Lake Ontario to the Virgin Islands, involving 28 to 300 volunteers per site and a 600000 dollar annual operating cost for four hours monthly.
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USAF
Maine Coast
U.S
Lake Superie
Virgin Capes
New England
Progran Anay Bohin
Bern
Cal 8
Pitts
Auro Force
Defense
Louis Johns
Ciulan
Air Force
Mame
Supetr
Ee Fee
Feerusjui
Sith Post
Omy Vrais Lignin
Anteh
Ain
Ter
GCI
Canada Railways Brace for Nationwide Strike
Canada’s railway chiefs prepare for a planned nationwide strike and urge a meeting with union leadership to plan essential service maintenance. Representatives of 15 international unions and two Canadian unions rejected the railroads’ final offers, seeking a 40-hour week with wage increases of seven to ten cents for about 124,000 workers.
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Montreal
Canada
Leada
Adam's Bridge links Ceylon to India in narrow sand bars
Claude Young, nicknamed Buddy, a five foot five inch fleet halfback, is noted as the smallest member of the New York football Yanks, highlighting the bridge-like link between the crown colony of Ceylon and the Indian mainland via Adam's Bridge.
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India
Ceylon
Keen
Claude
Buddy} Young
New York Football Yanks
Chance to Return to Old Outfit in Army Recruitment
Sgt. Charles B. Hodge in Ada announced that qualified veterans with prior service in the 1st Cavalry Division 2nd Infantry Division 7th Infantry Division 24th Infantry Division and 25th Infantry Division may enlist in the regular army for initial assignment to their former unit. Enlistees or enlisted reserve corps members may volunteer for active duty and be recalled to their prior unit in the same grade. Applications should go through the nearest organized reserve corps unit instructor.
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Charles B. Hodge
Army Air Force
Ada
1St Cavalry Division
2Nd Infantry Division
7Th Infantry Division
24Th Infantry Division
25Th Infantry Division
Regular Army
Hodge
Tegerve Corps
Swimmer William Giffard Backs 7,800 Miles In Lake Michigan
William Lewis Giffard, 58, 200 pounds, has swum in Lake Michigan for 15 years. His season runs April to November, water temperature dictates distance, and he carries a thermometer. He estimates about 500 miles swum yearly, now surpassing 7,800 miles total. He isn’t planning an English Channel crossing.
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Chicago
William Lewis Giffard
Gifford
Lake Michigan
Births and Visits Highlight Roff Society News
Roff Society News recounts births and family visit news across Oak Grove, Elk City, Tul, and nearby towns. Highlights include the birth of George Alvis Tidwell to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Tidwell, and notes on relatives such as the Smythes, Streathers, and Hugheses visiting in communities like Sulphur, Oklahoma City, and Newark.
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Alvin Tidwell
George Alvis
George Ies
Roff
Mrs. Nye
Oak Grove
E. D. Hughes
Elk City
W. P. Hughes
T. A. Strother
Charles Collins
Margaret and
Clifford
Oklahoma City
Anch
Melvin Strother
Janie
Tul- 52
Lee Roy Hunt
Hubert Wilson
Hunt Home
Ann Sheffield
Ben Tracey
Aspernant
Texas
Ben Flowers
Local residents visit kin and celebrate births across states
The roguelike update lists residents and relatives visiting in Ada and Oklahoma City. Families include D L Rice, Virginia Sue and Howard Jr, Barbara Young, Betty Bunyard, Cynthia Ann Cope, and Rudolph Lunsford with trips from Norman, Ada, Seminole, and Bott. Exams note eye treatments for Pogue and a funeral in Las Vegas New Mexico for Roy Tolliver.
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Howard Rice
Virginia Sue and
Howard Jr
Norman
D. L. Rice
Barbara Young
Oklahoma City
Johnny Cope
Ada
Valley View Hospital
Cynthia Ann
Cope
Betty Bunyard
Bott
Crowds Gather Outside Clarence House as Elizabeth Nears Birth
London crowds swell outside Clarence House awaiting Princess Elizabeth birth this weekend. About 3,000 people per hour pass the stable yard gate while doctors spend evening rounds. Prince Charles, 21 months, emerges for an airing aboard a station wagon to wave to onlookers. A stray line notes daytime death rates versus night traffic, offering no direct tie to the birth.
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London
Clarence House
Elizabeth
Stable Yard
Lancaster House
William Gilliatt
John Weir
Prince Charles
Charles
Johnson urges immediate broad price control for defense
Senator Lydon Johnston calls for immediate price controls as a military necessity citing rising costs of defense items and worsening purchasing power. He warns taxpayers face losses if inflation continues, while Congress debates a mobilization bill granting Truman broad economic powers. Johnson compares 1939 and current costs of aircraft, ships, tanks, and divisions, urging quick action.
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Washington
Lydon Johnston
Dtex
Johnson
Texas
Army
Navy
Air Force
Senate
Truman
House
Wherry
Rnek
Millikin
R - Colo
Conference of All Republicans
Sparkman Ala
Sparkman
Senate Armed Services Committee
Armed Services
Lebanon Allows Palestinian Refugees to Work on U N Projects
A United Nations source reports Lebanon has relaxed a long standing rule barring Arab Palestinian refugees from employment. Officials agreed to permit refugees to work on U N and Kennedy Mission projects aimed at boosting Arab ta tana's economy.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Palestine
United Nations
U. MN
Kennedy
Price Hikes Hit Broad Range of Goods This Week
New York reports inflation spreading across raw materials to finished products amid Korea War demand. Hides to shoes, cotton to print cloth, tin, lumber, cocoa and baking equipment show price gains. Tin climbs to a one month high and cocoa wholesale up sharply.
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New York
Tanners Council of America, Inc
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
American Machine & Foundry Co
Pacific Northwest
Defense Department
Japan
CIO Rates Congress Members by Voting Record
The CIO reviewed congressional voting and declared 1% of senators and 113 representatives had perfect records from labor’s view. It listed seven more senators and 20 representatives with only one wrong vote, and eight senators and 59 representatives with wrong votes in every instance. Fourteen senators and 44 representatives were wrong all but once. The CIO notes the list does not endorse candidates but guides union members on how lawmakers voted on labor issues.
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Washington
CIO Today
Congress
CIO
House
Political Action
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U.S. Aire Force
Wnah
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Poe
Roff Society News
C. B. Smith
Bliton Keating
Luton
Odom
Memphis
Wayne Odom
Patsy Ruth
Melvin Strothers
8. N. Bunyard
Eddie Tingle
Grand Prairie
Ida Tingle
W. W. Price
Price
Eddie Tingles
Mr. Price
Ada Davis
Covington
Melvin, McCurdy
Roy Cooper
Mt. Vernon
Cal Richardson
Dan Richardson
Alfred Weaver
June and
Mack
California
J. R. Massey
Dennison, Texas
Husbn
5. R. Chilress
Hugh Clark
Mable Clark
Karen
Fred Koch
Eva Hunter
Dallas
Jim Henry
Son Heinie
Sapulpa
G. B. Hughes
Kamay, Texas
Jim Allen Bane
Jim Edd
Newark
Paul Wilson
Jerry Ivy
L. Guestinger
T. S. Transportation Corps
Ralaa
Rarea
Les Pogue
Rudolph Lunsford
Ross
Ralph Lunsford
R. A. Fussell
Carolynn Wicholson
Paul McCurdy
George Tolliver
Las Vegas
N. M
Roy Tolliver
Wallace Wright
Jackson, Miss
George E. Wright
Sam Expy
A. B. Steen
Sherry Shanon
Arlington
R. M. Bronaugh
Mrs. Bronaugh
Houston
Marvin Creel
Jarry Melton
Lahends
Roy Lynn
Jackie
Homer Leeper
Robert Bullock
Billy and
Bobby
Atlanta Beach
Fla
Rolf
Elisabeth
Cally
Sears Johnson
Armed Service
England
Guy Fawkes
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