Global attack on disease outlined by WHO in 1949 plan
World Health Organization coordinates a global health push prioritizing malaria tuberculosis and general infections. Geneva meeting sets 1949 peak activity with five million dollars planned and aims to build national local control programs while addressing infantile paralysis cancer mental health alcoholism and other diseases.
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Paul F. Ellis
New York
First World’s Health Assembly
Geneva
WHO
United States
London
Pair Builds Big Telescope And Then Gives It Away
Two central New York men spent six years building a 127 inch reflector telescope and donated it to Colgate University after finding no suitable home. Colgate plans an observatory to house the instrument.
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Hamilton
New York
Louis Schelter
Rome City Hospital
George Burlingame
Oneida
Colgate University
Colgate
Grandmother 90 Rides Bucking Pony in Daredevil Display
The 90 year old Mrs. C. E. Dodd refused a would be rescuer and rode out the bucking pony herself. She said there was no reason she shouldn't enjoy a pony ride now and then. Harry Dodd had bought a palomino for his daughter, but the grandmother claimed the first ride.
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Mas
Equestrienne
C. E. Dodd
Harry Dodd
Handkerchief Trick Nets Bass On Virginia Lake
The episode centers on Frances Clunet who lures a five- pound large mouth bass using a hemmed handkerchief as a makeshift lure. Victor Clunet, a copper company district manager, watches as Frances wins the fight after a brief tug of war, while Vic jokes about pricey tackle and baits.
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Harman W. Nichols
Washington
Frances Clunet
Victor Clunet
Fran
Phelps Dodge Copper Products Corp
Virginia
Frances
Vic
Lady
Vie
Value Of Exchange Teachers
Eleanor Roosevelt notes three teachers arrive in New York City on exchange from Scotland and Birmingham England, to teach in New York areas Chap paqua Endicott. She urges American women’s voluntary groups to support visiting teachers and recalls a wartime aid meeting with English delegates.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
United Features Syn
Hyde Park
New York City
Scotland
Chappaqua
Birmingham
England
Endicott
Great Britain
Women's Voluntary Services
United States
Childress Parking Meter Collections Near $1,000 Mark
City officials expect August parking meter collections to top $1,000 for the third month running. Acting city secretary Arvil Patton said the latest deposit of $435 raised August totals to $891.
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Childress
Arvil Patton
Patton
War era peace effort urged by Amarillo meeting
The Amarillo Globe recounts a wartime assistance memorial meeting praising US aid and advocating peacetime international friendship. It stresses women’s roles to fight prejudice, unite communities, and begin peaceful work locally, noting New York Herald Tribune coverage of race issues in the South and urging memory of that situation nationwide.
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
America
New York Herald-Tribune
Ray Sprigle
South
Racial prejudice noted in southern city attitudes
The piece discusses lingering prejudice across groups including Mexicans, Indians, Chinese and Jews in southern cities. It notes supposedly enlightened people still hold old biases and argues that world peace begins with actions at home. Buck Creamer resigns as Paducah deputy sheriff to become Earth Jub deputy sheriff and city marshal.
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Buck Creamer
Paducah
Earth
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