Marshall backs resolution for United States of Europe
Secretary of State Marshall approves a Senate resolution urging Congress to express support for a United States of Europe within the United Nations framework. He says Europe should be united but not imposed upon, and that future European organization must be decided by Europeans. The proposal by Fulbright Thomas and Boggs would only express opinion, not create law.
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Washington
Marshall
Congress
United States of Europe
United Nations
United States
Europe
Organization of Europe
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
Dark
Thomas
Utah
House
Rep. Boggs
D-La
Senate
Truman
C Boswell Named To Control Board
S C Boswell of Ada, president of Choctaw Cotton Oil Company, named to represent the Fourth district on the Oklahoma colleges board of regents joining Dr. Oliver Hodge as an eighth member. The board takes control of six state colleges replacing the state board of education for those schools. Boswell, born in Honey Grove Texas, moved to Boswell Oklahoma, later to Durant and Ada, has held multiple business roles including bank director and Walsey View Hospital president. Terms vary from one to nine seats per district. Governor Turner has not set terms.
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S. C. Boswell
Ada
Choctaw Cotton Oil Company
Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges
Oliver Hodge
Board of Regents
State Board of Education
Boswell
Honey Grove
Tex
Oklahoma
Durant
State Highway Commission
W. L. Holloway
Walsey View Hospital
Gov. Turner
A. L. Graham
Broken Arrow
W. P. Fite
Muskogee
Rector H. Swearengin
James =. Petty
Guthrie
John C. Fisher
Marlow
Bert H. Brundage
Thomas Craggist
R. L. Clifton
Enid
Health Work Are Camp Fire Factors
Camp Fire girls planning to attend Camp Adaka urged to focus on health and work while seeking happiness as the Camp Fire law embodies the camp’s ideals. The camp runs July 20 to August 3 with a second period starting July 27. Register by July 10 at Ada Public Library building.
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Adaka
Camp Adaka
Camp
Ada Public Library
AAF Orders 100 B 36 Bombers for 10,000 Mile Reach
The Army Air Forces ordered 100 B-36s, the world’s largest bomber, built by Consolidated Vultee in Fort Worth. First aircraft to RAF for static tests this week, with deliveries to finish by mid 1949. Convair aims for weekly production, eight wheel main landing gear supports 278000 pound weight enabling use of B 29 runways.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Army Air Forces
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
RAF
Harry Woodhead
Convair
Roger Ramey
Eighth Air Force
Parking Meters Stay Red In Ada Week Long Notes
Ada reports show meters largely red on Monday with free downtown parking as a taxpayer perk. Marriage license applications rose by Tuesday morning, and a Be Kind To Taxpayers Week program offered free permits and discounts through Friday. Rotary at San Francisco urged global friendship to prevent another war with a $60,000 Rotary Foundation grant for Harris fellowships.
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Ada
Della Bedford
Garvin County
Ada City
San Francisco
Rotary Club
Rotary
Richard C. Hedke
Detroit
Rotary International
Tom Clark
Russia
Hedke
Rotary Foundation
Paul P. Harris Foundation
Coalgate Announces Annual Rodeo June 26 28
Coalgate's second annual rodeo set for Thursday through Saturday June 26 27 and 28 at the Coalgate rodeo grounds six blocks from Main Street. Three night performances sponsored by the Coalgate Round-Up Club with $300 steer roping prize money plus entry fees and $150 prizes for bulldogging and for bareback bronc bull riding calf roping and saddle bronc riding. Includes trick riding and trick roping plus other entertainment not seen at larger rodeos. Approved by the Rodeo Contestants Association with points toward the outstanding cowboy of the year.
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Coalgate
Main Street
Coalgate Round-Up Club
Rodeo Contestants Association
Guerrillas Suffer Heavy Losses in Greek Clash
North Greece reports detail heavy guerrilla losses as forces under General Markos attempt to retake the Agrafa area. News accounts list 81 guerrillas killed, with 27 more killed at Velestinon near Volos and fighting in Crete where six guerrillas and two soldiers died on Mount Psyloritis.
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Athens
Greece
Agrafa
Markos
Velestinon
Volos
Crete
Psyloritis
New Airport Manager Brings Wide Flying Background
Jack Price, named Manager of Chauncey Air Field north of Ada, has a long aviation résumé. Born in Ada in 1922, he flew 65 combat missions in World War II, earned the DFC and Air Medal, and served in the 339th Fighter Group. He later inspected U S airports and helped plan a $2,000,000 Oakland improvement program. He hails from a pioneer Ada family, grandson of Mrs. C. D. Price.
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Jack Price
Chauncey Air Field
Ada
Horace Mann High School
East Central College
160Th F. A
Air Forces
Gulf Coast Flying Training Command
England
U. S
Air Inspector
Wright Field
Ohio
Tinker Field
301St
Okinawa
Far East
Inspection
Army
Oakland
Calif
Price
C. D. Price
Midwest City
Late blackberry ripening in McLoud Oklahoma due to cool spring
A late cool spring delays blackberry ripening in McLoud Oklahoma says W G Griggs marketing association manager. Picking may start the first of next week with harvest typically lasting about a month in the area.
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Mcloud
Okla
W. G. Griggs
Marketing Association
Oklahoma
Burglars Steal from Jerry's Army Navy Store
Burglars took fishing and hunting gear valued at 1500 dollars from Jerry's Army Navy store in Salem Massachusetts. Police investigate the break in as part of ongoing burglary cases in the area.
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Salem
Mass
Jerry
Everett Shaw Wins 12 Steer Roping in Clovis NM
Everett Shaw of Stonewall captured a matched steer roping in Clovis New Mexico from Cotton Lee with a 12 steer time over 100 seconds to spare. Shaw posted the fastest times, including a 19.3 second single steer, using four horses. The purse was 5000 dollars and crowds from Pontotoc and county areas witnessed the event.
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Everett Shaw
Stonewall
Clovis
New Mexico
Cotton Lee
Shaw
Lee
Pontotoc
Dick Truitt
Sugar rationing to end after House committee vote
The House Banking Committee approved a measure to end sugar rationing for home consumption. Chairman Wolcott said the overwhelming vote supports the bill, introduced by Rep. Gamble, with no impact on price control or industrial sugar rationing. Current law expires October 31, and inventory control may continue through March 31 if needed. Wolcott expects action within two to three days.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Wolcott
R-Mich
Rep
Gamble
R-Ny
Secretary of Agriculture
House
Press meeting set opens in McAlester Oklahoma
The three day spring meeting of the Oklahoma Press Association opens in McAlester on Friday. Speakers include M. N. Donosky treasurer of the Dallas Morning News. Visiting publishers will tour the U S naval ammunition depot and visit Robbers Cave state park at Wilburton.
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Mcalester
Okla
Oklahoma Press Association
M. N. Donosky
Dallas Morning News
U. S. Naval Ammunition Depot
Robbers Cave State Park
Wilburton
Turnip and Onion Displayed by Lone Grove Farmer
Ardmore reports farmer Christian Morris from near Lone Grove displayed a five pound turnip and a four pound onion, weighing in at a local exhibit highlighting unusually large garden crops.
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Ardmore
Christian Morris
Lone Grove
Senators seek full probe into German occupation money redeemed
Three Republican senators Bridges Ferguson and Knowland called for a full investigation into reports that the United States redeemed millions of German occupation marks printed by Russian authorities. They said plates to print the money were given to the Russians and questioned how much money has been redeemed and how it was distributed.
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Washington
United States
Bridges
New Hampshire
Ferguson
Michigan
Knowland
California
Congress
Capitol Hill
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
Special War Investigating Committee
War Department
Treasury
Chamber Of Commerce Urges More Paving In Ada Oklahoma
The Ada Chamber of Commerce pushes for extensive paving as heavy rains flood unpaved streets and overload sewer lines. City manager W E Hansen reports erosion and drainage issues in northeast Ada, urging a broader storm sewer program and voter support for paving.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ada
Oklahoma
United States
W. E. Hansen
East Seventh and
Beard
Mississippi
Treasury drive yields hundreds of millions in extra tax
The treasury reports a monthly gain of 180 million dollars in extra revenue from tax evasion enforcement, with hopes to exceed 200 million. Thousands of cases are under investigation, including wartime arrears and black market activity. Farmers, doctors, dentists, waiters and others are being scrutinized as investigators target cash income groups, with Kansas adding over 5 million in additional taxes after a large canvass by 128 investigators last fall.
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Washington
Treasury
Kansas
Pretty Girls Serve Free Lemonade in 90 Degree Heat
In Bluefield West Virginia today free lemonade will be handed out by pretty girls in shorts under a Chamber of Commerce promotion. The city, boasting a self described air conditioned status, hit 92 degrees yesterday and marks the third time the chamber has paid off since the offer began 13 years ago.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Chamber of Commer
C. of C
Palm tree yields 800 nuts annually for soap oil
In a single year a Babussu palm tree produces about 800 nuts. The oil extracted from the nuts is used for soap making.
Veterans Affairs office to be led by Rumpel during Ford’s leave
Ford will be on vacation for two weeks with his local Veterans Administration contact in the post office building away. In his absence Jack Rumpel from the regional office in Oklahoma City will handle the office duties. Veterans are urged to seek Rumpel for assistance and information on veterans benefits.
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Gene Ford
Veterans Administration
Vacaton
Corpus Christ
Texas
Jack Rumpel
Oklahoma City
Rumpel
Ford
Miners Resist Bill as Work Stoppages Spread in Pa
In southwestern Pennsylvania 20 soft coal mines with 11 204 workers halted production in protest over a labor bill. The Frick Coke Co. gates and Kyle mines resumed, while Ro bena and other captive pits stayed idle. UMW officials deem the actions unauthorized as Hartley Taft legislation nears a potential government takeover.
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Uniontown
Congress
Afl-United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Fayette, Greene
Washington
Gates
H C Frick Coke Co
Kyle
Robena
Frick Company
U. S. Steel Corp
Clairton Coking Works
Pittsburgh
Pott Farm Agent Receives Honors in Shawnee
James Lawrence aged 67, Pottawatomie county farm agent for 18 years, honored for 33 years with the Oklahoma A and M extension division. Eighy farm leaders attended a dinner led by Dr. H. G. Bennett. Lawrence served as county agent in Ottawa, Cleveland, and Shawnee counties before settling in Pottawatomie in 1928.
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Shawnee
Okla
James Lawrence
Pottawatomie
Oklahoma A. and
M. College Extension Division
H. G. Bennett
Lawrence
Cleveland County
Oklahoma
Ottawa County
Bennett
Shawnee Brown
Frank Keller
Ioneer
Jim Reed
Johnston County
County Agents’ Association
VA to Cut About 6100 Payrolls to Meet Truman Ceiling
The Veterans Administration orders roughly 6100 employees cut from payrolls to meet a 210000 employment ceiling set by President Truman. Reduction to be completed by August 1 with 30 day dismissal notices for all affected. Overall cuts span several branches with small reassignment in two branches due to workload.
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Washington
Pihe
Truman
Self-Reliant Figure Sits Strong
A compact note notes that a person who acts independently tends to fare well, implying success comes from self assurance and steadiness. The line hints at individual initiative as a pathway to favorable outcomes.
Community Cooperation Lifts Farmers Toward Local Stores
A reader notes strong community cooperation. Farmers feel kindly toward local stores as mutual support enhances commerce and goodwill in town.
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World Fellowship of Business
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U.S
By Edwin B. Harkinson
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William Bynes
UNW District 4
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U. S. Brewers Foundation
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