Toys will take big share of Christmas spending
A survey by Northwestern National Life says the average American family will spend about 40 dollars on Christmas gifts this year. Toys account for roughly 20 percent, with 6 dollars worth of toys for each of the 41 million children under 15, and toy sales reaching about 320 million dollars. The report notes total per family averages of 39.16 dollars for 3.67 persons, and toy purchases expected to total around 1.6 billion dollars nationwide.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Family Economic Bureau
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
US Department of Commerce
Papa
Christmas Ag
Santa Claus
Ilkman
UN Assembly Chief Credits UN with Preventing Wars
Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, president of the UN General Assembly, said crises in four years might have become wars without the UN. He noted peace making is not the UN’s duty and blamed major powers for certain failures, while praising the organization’s preventive interventions.
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York
Carlos P. Romulo
United Nations’ General Assembly
Romulo
San Francisco
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
Russia
France
World Peace Organization
Hearing Set In Dallas Plane Crash At Love Field
The Civil Aeronautics Board opens a public two day hearing in Dallas to determine the cause of the November 29 Love Field crash that killed 28 aboard the American Airlines DC6. Captain Laurens Claude of Fort Worth leads testimony with other crewmen hospitalized.
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Dallas
Texas
Civil Aeronautics Board
Love Field
Robert W. Chrisp
Washington
CAB
Laurens Claude
Fort Worth
American Airlines
Robert Lewis
William S. Forbes
Claude
Mexico City
Arkansas
Movie Production Executive Retires
London December reports Twentieth Century Fox Productions announces the resignation of managing director General Lyman Munson due to ill health. Munson suffers a severe sinus condition and is ordered to take a long rest in a warmer climate.
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London
Twentieth Century-Fox Productions, Ltd
Lyman Munson
Munson
Twentieth Century-Fox Productions
Britain
Pflugerville CROP Contributions Taken
Seven bales of cotton and 104 dollars were donated to the Christian Rural Overseas Program in ceremonies at the cotton yards Sunday. W. E. Pfluger, chairman, presented the donation. Elmore E. Torn of Taylor accepted for CROP. Speakers included Rev K. C. Hartman and M. R. Henniger.
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Jflugerville
Christian Rural Overseas Program
W. E. Pfluger
Pflugerville Crop Committee
Elmore E. Torn
Taylor
K. C. Hartman
Lutheran Church
M. R. Henniger
Eastern Colleges Dominate Rhodes Scholarship List
The 1949 Rhodes Scholars include 32 winners led by Yale with four scholars from Denver and Tuscon Nashville. Princeton and Harvard each claim three or two from Dartmouth and MIT. Rhodes awards total 500 pounds annually, two year terms with possible third year, founded 1908.
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Yale
Denver
Colo
Tuscon, Ariz
Nashville
Rhodes
Odes Trustees
Noted Editorial Cartoonist Dies
Clifford K. Berryman, 80, longtime Washington Star cartoonist, died at home after a month of illness. A self taught artist, he drew 53 years of front page comment on national affairs and popularized the Teddy Bear motif.
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Washington
Clifford K. Berryman
Washington Star
Cliff’ Berryman
Windsor
Teddy” Roosevelt
Mississippi
Berryman
Texas Oil Millionaire In Hospital for Check
Colorado E. E. Buddy Fogelson husband of Greer Garson rests at New York Hospital after entering Friday for observation. Dr. Connie M. Guion reported no abnormal findings yet and said earlier heart ailment rumors remain unconfirmed.
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New York
E. E
Buddy) Fogelson
Greer Garson
New York Hospital
Connie M. Guion
United Nations sets special session on Jerusalem trusteeship
The United Nations Security Council expands the Jerusalem issue with a special session called for next Tuesday. Nations including Australia Belgium France and Mexico support international administration while the United States and Britain oppose. The council aims to implement the assembly mandate to separate Jerusalem from Palestine with a UN governor and protected holy sites.
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Lake Success
United Nations Trusteeship Council
Jerusalem
Roger Garreau
United Nations
Holy City
General Assembly
Australia
France
United States
Britain
Israel
Belgium
New Zealand
Iraq
Mexico
Philippines
Dominican Republic
Jordan
Bethlehem
Palestine
Russia
Abdullah
Teamwork Between School and Church Highlighted by P TA
Marble Falls P TA heard Olin Miles Buckner Boy's Home superintendent discuss teamwork between school and church. Rev T R Gathright introduced the speaker as Methodist and Baptist choirs blended for Christmas carols. Nancy Ellwood’s Home Economics class prepared refreshments.
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Marble Falls
Olin Miles
Buckner Boy's
T. R. Gathright
First Baptist Church
PTA
Charles Evans
Nancy Ellwood
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