Ben-Gurion's Early Life and Return to Palestine
A historical sketch traces David Ben-Gurion born Oct 15 1886 in Plonsk Poland. It covers his Zionist activities as a youth, escape from czarist Poland, migration to Palestine in 1906, and his wartime experiences in Istanbul London and New York. It notes his family and later roles in the Jewish Legion and Haganah.
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Associated Press
David Ben - Gurion
Israel
Palestine
Grand Duchy of
Poland
David
Gurion
David Green
Constantinople
Plonsk
Warsaw
Sedgere
Tiberias
Ben- Gurion
Tel Aviv
Rothschild
Rishon le Zion
New York
Zionist Movement
Pales
Tine
Paula Moonvess
Minsk
Ben-Gurion
Geula
London
Amos
Haganah
Ben-Gurions
Renana
Jerusalem
Histadruth Federation Expands Among Jewish Population
The organized Histadruth federation now includes almost the Jewish population in Palestine under a new general labor leadership. The new prime minister is described as short and stocky with a youthful pinkish complexion and a shock of bushy white hair.
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Organized
Histadruth
Federation of Jewish
Ben-Gurion
Palestine
Cats Raised on Purely Artificial Diet At Yale
Eight full grown college cats at Yale Nutrition Laboratory have never eaten meat or milk. They are fed a fatty paste of sugar casein minerals lard corn oil and vitamins. Growth is normal and researchers Willard Krehl and Isaac West seek to learn what cats need to thrive and if they can reproduce on an artificial diet.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale Nutrition Laboratory
Willard A. Krehl
Isaac D. West
Yale School of Medicine
Easier To Get In Than To Get Out In Belgrade
Hundreds of Yugoslav returnees from Canada and Australia face confiscated passports and cannot leave. Yugoslav officials rarely grant new passports, so repatriates must stay despite wishes to visit relatives or return to adopted homes. Some were helped but many remain dissatisfied.
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Belgrade
Canada
Australia
New
Yugoslavia
Red Scientists To Study Turkmenia Wealth and Past
Turkmenia the southern Soviet republic bordering Iran will host scientific expeditions this season. The Institute of Botany and Plant Cultivation plans 53 field campaigns to study natural resources and historical sites. Turkmenia spans 485000 square kilometers, largely desert, with focus on mineral output and earthquake district surveys.
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Moscow
Turkmenia
Soviet Republic
Iran
Italy
Kara-Kum
Institute of Botany and Plant Cultivation
Republic
Price of Feed Trends Higher Across Food Markets
Food prices rose this week with wholesale indexes at seven plus dollars and near record highs. Hog and cattle prices climbed to new June records while retail fresh produce eased and demand remained strong for most items.
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Associated Press
Dun & Bradstreet
American Meat Institute
Freak birth shocks Istanbul doctors in Turkey
Turkish doctors report a 25 year old woman born a male baby with two heads four arms and three legs The child is living and under close examination at City Hospital in Eskisehir a city between Istanbul and Ankara
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Istanbul
Istanbul Press
Eskishehir
Here
Ankara
Joyce Learns Zeehan No Longer Thriving Mining Town
Australian pianist Eileen Joyce revisits her birth town Zeehan in Tasmania to find it shrunk from 8000 to 800 residents. The birthplace site is a grassy patch as miners flocked to see her. A clown shaped penny bank tops a thrift drive for children's rooms.
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Hobart
Tasmania
Eileen Joyce
Miss Joyce
Australia
Zeehan
Eileen
Club Installs New Officers
Borger special report notes the Hi-Double Club held a summer meeting at Miss Betty Gow's home. New officers include Naid Kearby president Mary Walling vice president Pat Bennett secretary Patsey Tarver treasurer Connie Howe corresponding secretary Betty Frith parliamentarian Shaun Bogan historian Shiley Nelson Jackie Dudley reporters. A party for members and escorts is planned with Miss Jo Ann Bowman hosting June 24.
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Jo Ann Bowman
Road to Assam Opened Soon Across Narrow North Strip
A 240 mile surfaced road to Assam will be opened soon connecting the province to the rest of India via a northern strip cut by Partition. Calcutta long served as Assam's export port for tea and timber, but access has been through foreign soil.
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New Delhi
India
Assam
Calcutta
Wedding Plans Revealed For Patricia Elmore And W Lindy Benson
Borger June 17 special announces the engagement and approaching marriage of Patricia Elmore to W Lindy Benson. The ceremony is set for Friday June 25 at the First Presbyterian Church with Rev James G Glenn officiating. Patricia is a Borger High School graduate and has studied at West Texas State Canyon University and the University of Kansas. She works for United Carbon Company.
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Borger
Frank Elmore
Patricia
W. Lindy Benson
Robert Benson
First Presbyterian Church
James G. Glenn
Borger High School
West
Texas State College
Canyon
University of Kansas
United Carbon Company
Ben
Borger HS Graduate Enlists After College Visit
The subject completed Borger High School education and attended Texas A and M College before enlisting in the Army, marking a transition from civilian studies to military service.
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Eon
Borger High School
Texas A. & M. College
Army
Millions homeless in Japan report shocks urban housing shortfall
A Tokyo report shows 5 780 000 homeless families in Japan amid a housing shortage worsened by population growth and chronic disaster loss from fire and earthquakes, beyond war blame.
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Japan
Tokyo
Women's Share Drives U.S. Neck Tie Market
The American Magazine reports that over 150 million neck ties are sold annually in the United States and that 80 percent are bought by women.
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United States
American Magazine
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