Money Pouring In for Intrepid Rescue Workers
SAN MARINO Calif April 20 Money floods into the rescue fund for the intrepid volunteers who labored 72 hours to reach Kathy Fiscus a 3 year old who died 100 feet down an abandoned well. More than 4 400 letters have arrived with praise and contributions while 2 800 remain unopened. The total reached 23 137 with gifts from children to a 500 check. Whitey Blickensderfer hospitalized after a hernia operation performed by a volunteer surgeon. A theater donated its Saturday jackpot and donors praised the brothers in labor who persisted in the effort.
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San Marino
Calif
Kathy Fiscus
America
United States
Huntington Memorial Hospital
Pasadena
Homer (Whitey) Blickensderfer
Whitey
Binghampton
N. Y
City approves 13 East Avenue commercial zone changes
City Council approves 13 commercial zone applications on East Avenue in the largest zoning hearing to date. Several parcels faced opposition from nearby residents while a proposal to create a town art center and reuse a GI surplus building was debated for funding sources.
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East Avenue
Tom Miller
J. T. Ward
Harry D. Pruett
W. D. Sylvester
Organized Labor
Ward
William B. Carlson
Austin
Pruett
Pauline Pinckney
Elisabet
Miller
P. A. Welty
Leo Martin
R. G. West
Adolph Kohn
407 West Seventh Street
Welty
405
West Seventh Street
West Fifth Street
Missouri Pacific
The
Austin Statesman
Bascom Giles
Delwood Community Center
Giles
Landon Bradfield
Harris Brush
Wilshire Woods Addition
Delwood Center
Draft Dodger Rubinstein’s Safe Deposit Boxes Opened
Federal officials opened two safe deposit boxes of convicted draft dodger Serge Rubinstein in New York revealing 350000 in US Treasury certificates 10000 shares of aircraft stock and several promissory notes. The inventory relates to 1300000 tax liens against Rubinstein and his corporations and a 775000 lien against his wife. Rubinstein served over two years of a two and a half year sentence and faces arraignment on a stock fraud indictment after his April 25 release from Lewisburg prison.
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New York
Serge Rubinstein
US Treasury
Rubinstein
Laurette Rubinstein
Las Vegas
Nev
Lewisburg
Irving H. Saypol
Panhandle Refining and Producing
Saypol
Manufacturers Trust Company
Forrestal Improving in Bethesda Hospital
Former Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, ill at Bethesda Naval Hospital, was reported Wednesday to be improving. No date has been set for his release.
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Washington
James Forrestal
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Army develops radar to detect storms at far horizon
Army researchers at Fort Monmouth announce a special radar set for storm detection. The device, described by Lester A. Zurcher, is more powerful than conventional radar and can reveal complete storm structure and track progress beyond the eye’s range, possibly reaching several times the 40 mile sight line.
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Washington
Army
Evans Engineering Laboratories
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Lester A. Zurcher
American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
Zurcher
West Germany Hits Postwar Production Peak in March
West Germany reported a new postwar production peak with March output reaching 89 percent of 1936 peacetime levels. The rise from February was nine percentage points as both British and American zones contributed to the gain.
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Frankfurt
Germany
West Germany
Menstrual Pain Remedy Tested
Detroit reports on experimental biology findings from Memphis researchers Dr. R. A. Woodbury and Dr. P. C. Feng showing that combining the pregnancy hormone progesterone with testosterone may relax the uterus and counter act vasopressin to relieve menstrual pain.
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Detroit
Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
Memphis
Tenn
R. A. Woodbury
P. C. Feng
University of Tennessee
US Public Health Service
Abraham Mazur
Ephraim Shorr
Cornell University Medical College
New York Hospital
New York
Yale University
Plumber’s Drill Cuts Underground Cable Halts Phone Service
In St Joseph Missouri a plumber drilling a hole damaged an underground telephone cable. More than 500 wires were severed and service to hundreds of homes was disrupted. Southwestern Bell crews repaired the line through the night and restored service by Wednesday.
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ST. Joseph, Mo
INS
St. Joseph
Southwestern Bell
Chain Stores Post Rise in March and First Quarter Income
American Stores Company reports March sales of 32.07 million dollars, up 3.8 percent from the prior year. For the first three months, sales reached 103.81 million, a 7.7 percent increase over 1948.
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New York
American Stores Company
Seamen Misconduct Hearing Adjourned For Flying Arrow Crew
A Coast Guard misconduct hearing for 23 crew members of the freighter Flying Arrow was adjourned until Friday after requests from both sides. Examiner Walter E. Lawlor noted he hoped to rule on the defense motion to dismiss by Friday. Prosecution has rested. The charges stem from alleged refusals to proceed to sea at Manila and Singapore earlier this year.
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New York
Coast Guard
Flying Arrow
Walter E. Lawlor
Manila
Singapore
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Austin’s Photographic
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