Halfway mark reached in Christmas Seals drive
Potter County Tuberculosis Association reports 7273.20 raised toward a 15000 goal as letters about stamps reach residents. Campaign chair J B Briscoe urges call 2076 to obtain stamps. funds support local care and national research. Electors meet Dec 13 in Austin to cast votes. John C Bowman fined 25 for firing a gun inside city limits while hunting rabbits near his home in Los Angeles.
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Potter County
Tuberculosis Association
J. B. Briscoe
Los Angeles
John C. Bowman
Assign Special Traffic Police for Polk Street and Downtown
Captain Carle Price names five Polk Street intersections and five motorcycle units to manage Christmas traffic. Officers direct at intersections Fourth through Eighth, include downtown motor patrols watching for double parking left turns and running signals. Foot patrols run 8 am to 6 pm and motorcycle detail 8 am to 5 pm.
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Carle Price
Polk Street
Price
This Youngster Knows the Answers in Cereal Test
Carl Dudley Payne Jr. won a food mixer in a store test guessing the number of cereal pieces in a jar. He guessed seven thousand eight hundred six, with the actual count not shown in readable text.
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Soeverwines
Carmael Dudley Payne, Jr
Carl
Jaycee Dance Tickets On Sale Tomorrow
Jaycee members announce tickets for the annual Pre Christmas Junior Chamber of Commerce Dance go on sale tomorrow. Charles Woodburn Jaycee president says the event starts at 6 PM Friday at The Nat with Sherman Williams and His Orchestra. Former members and guests urged to contact Jaycee offices for reservations. Tickets are 1.25 dollars.
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Jaycee
John Storseth
Macaroni Makers Strike in Italy Disrupts Food Supply
Italian workers including macaroni makers and rice grinders walked out for higher pay, threatening bread rice and pasta supplies. The strike, backed by the General Federation of Labor and the breakaway Free Confederation, merges rival factions to push for concessions as rations tighten.
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Italy
Geel Confederation of Labor
Free Confederation
Famed Berlin Airlift Ride Described by Reporter
Wes Gallagher details a Berlin airlift flight from Rhine Main to Tempelhof, outlining the crew, cargo, and precision procedures. The article highlights the C-54 5577, pilots Captain Stephen Wysocki and Captain Henry Reynolds, engineer Sgt Marvin Miller, and the tightly managed three‑minute takeoffs and nine‑minute Berlin dash, with radar aided GCA guidance and strict control from Frankfurt to Berlin.
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Wes Gallagher
Berlin
Prankfurt
Rhine-Main
Stephen Wysocki
Chicago
Henry A. Reynolds
Sacramento
Cal
Marvin §. Miller
Vallejo
Wysocki
Frankfurt
Air Force Tests Fog Light System in Arcata
The Air Force will test an all weather approach lighting system in Arcata California to aid blind landings. Westinghouse Electric lighting division announced a 36 high power lamps row standing nearly a mile long to pierce zero zero fog with 3 3 million peak candlepower each and krypton filled quartz tubes delivering up to ten million candlepower per lamp.
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Ee Ee Air Force
Westinghouse Electric Lighting Division
Arcata
Square Dancers Plan Annual Event at Amarillo High
The Amarillo High School Square Dance Club will hold a regular meeting at 7 1 o clock in the girls gym tonight. A Friday night dance begins at 8 and is open to all square dance club members. Admission is 50 cents, proceeds go to the club’s public address system and trips for AHS boys and girls.
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Amarillo High School
AHS Club
Ohio Plane Crash Kills Three Women Employees
Three women employees are found dead in a plane wreck near Columbus Ohio. The victims are Vivian Johnson 48 general manager of General Motors Aero Products division, Betty Charles 29 and another 28 from Dayton. A coon dog hunter discovered the wreckage in a cornfield ten miles west of the city near Route 40.
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Ohio
Columbus
Here
Jamestown
General Motors’ Aero Products Division
Vivian Johnson
Betty Charles
Dayton
Much Beer Little Milk Found Here
A Cleveland survey by 50 sociology students reports 327 beer parlors in downtown and 13 000 children in the area suffer health disorders from lack of milk. More than a third of bars sit within 1000 feet of a public school. The six square mile area covers near downtown, with 115 places of worship and irregular church attendance, while over 82 percent of children attend one or more motion pictures weekly.
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Cleveland
Fenn College
Roosevelt Trees to Community Service Drive Hits Upstate Cities
Late President Franklin D Roosevelt Christmas trees will be sold in seven upstate cities this month as a community service by the United Electrical Workers Union CIO. UK international representative James Green said trees will be sold at 1.50 dollars each with profits going to locals welfare funds. Elliott Roosevelt, the late President son, arranged with five thousand trees to be handled by each local, shipping from the family estate in Dutchess County to Jamestown, Buffalo, North Tonawanda, Rome, Syracuse, Schenectady and Poughkeepsie. Roosevelt is directing the sale in New York City.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
United Electrical Workers Union
CIO
UK International
James Green
Elliott
Roosevelt
Dutchess County
Jamestown
Buffalo
North Tonawanda
Rome
Syracuse
Schenectady
Poughkeepsie
New York City
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