Congress to Try One Package Budget Bill in 1950
Congressional leaders plan a single omnibus appropriation for 1950 to replace multiple bills. The Senate has passed the idea, the House supports it in principle, and the plan aims to provide a clear overall fiscal picture, reduce deficit risk, and curb isolated agency spending.
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Washington
Senate
House
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
House Appropriations Committees
Pakistan Recognizes United States of Indonesia
Pakistan announced recognition of the United States of Indonesia and planned ambassador exchanges. A felicitation message was sent to President Soekarno.
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Pakistan
Republic of Indonesia
Karachi
United States of Indonesia
Soekarno
Christmas holiday traffic scars Austin area with 30 injured
Thirty people were injured in Christmas weekend accidents in and around Austin. Seventeen injuries occurred in 61 accidents within Austin city limits since Friday morning, with others hurt outside the city including a train collision on the Burnet Highway.
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Austin
Burnet Highway
Lamar Boulevard
Moonshiner's Apparent Death Turns to Oregon Murder Charge
In Grants Pass Oregon Frank Crawford Paul 44 is charged with shooting Bird Mc Guire Wilson 46 whose body was found in a cabin eight miles south of town. Paul and Gilbert Baker 34 were arrested with Baker later admitting involvement in the whiskey operation. Ballistics tests were ordered and results pending.
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Grants Pass
Ore
Frank Crawford Paul
Bird McGuire Wilson
Missouri Flats
Here
Justice
Paul
Louis Ringuette
Wilson
Ringuette
Gilbert Baker
Baker
Lloyd Lewis
Portland
Four Prisoners Escape Virginia State Camp South of Haymarket
Haymarket Virginia December 26. Four prisoners sawn leg shackles and cut their way from a state prison camp south of town. Guards fired at the fugitives who fled into nearby woods. Walter M Barnett 19 a five year robbery inmate from Fairfax County was described as dangerous.Other two fugitives were Roy Bennett 25 and John Aldrich 25 with sentences for robbery and burglary tools among other charges. This escape was the second in the area in a week.
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Haymarket
Virginia
Here
Walter M. Barnett
Fairfax County
Southernirginia
Roy Bennett
Princess Anne County
John Aldrich
Norfolk
Nevada publisher and mining authority R. L. Richie dies at 80
R. L. Dick Richie, 80, pioneer Nevada newspaper man and mining authority, died Sunday night. He edited the Nevada Mining Press until last spring and was mining editor of the Reno Evening Gazette for years. Born 1869 in Chicago, he early worked for the San Francisco Examiner and edited the Goldfield News for a decade. He helped promote the Gans Nelson prize fight and later moved to Reno in 1918 where he married Mrs. Byrd Kimsey. she survives.
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R. L
Dick) Richie
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Nevada Mining Press
Reno Evening Gazette
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Engineering
Chicago
United States
Europe
London
San Francisco Examiner
Elko County
Goldfield
Goldfield News
Gans-Nelson
Tex Rickard
Rick
Byrd Kimsey
San Francisco
Woman Killed by Rifle Gift in Christmas Tragedy
In Yuba City California Mrs. Anna Jacobs 49 gave her son David 13 a new .22 rifle for Christmas. The boy loaded the gun and planned to hunt crows. The gun fired wounding her in the right side. she died hours later in hospital.
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Yuba City
Calif
Anna Jacobs
David
Seabees Set Stage for Caribbean Maneuver
Navy Seabee unit departs Norfolk to Viequez island off Puerto Rico for Operation Portrex. They will construct camp ammo storage ramps and targets for naval gunfire and air attack to support a major peacetime exercise involving Army Navy Marines and Air Force beginning with naval maneuvers and ending in a full assault on the enemy island.
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Washington
United States
Caribbean
Norfolk
Viequez
Puerto Rico
Army
Navy
Marines
Air Force
Two Admirals Start Inspecting Southern Naval Bases Today
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman and Vice Admiral John Dale Price will begin a three day tour of southern naval aviation training facilities starting in Pensacola Florida. They will visit naval reserve installations in the region with stops in Memphis and Corpus Christi.
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Washington
Forrest P. Sherman
John Dale Price
Naval Operations
Pensacola
Florida Naval Air Training Station
Memphis
Tenn
Corpus Christi
Texas
Navy
Sherman
Price
Naval Reserve
UCLA Slates 28 Games for 1949 50 Basketball
UCLA has issued a 28 game schedule for the 1949 50 basketball season. The slate includes non conference matchups and key rivalries as the Bruins prepare for a full senior year schedule.
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UCLA
Accused Slayer Captured After 60 Hour Hunt
Wayne Odell, 21, of Steppe, Washington, wounded and captured by a 75-member posse after a 60-hour man hunt for the murder of Harold Rogers, a 47 year old farmer. Odell was cornered in a house after tear gas failed to flush him out and was shot in the arm while fleeing. Rogers was killed at his farm as he ran toward his daughter Cora Jean’s bedroom. Odell had a prior relationship with the girl, which ended in a quarrel. He was taken to a Colfax hospital for treatment and questioning.
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East Fifth Street
Brackenridge Hospital
Romana Herrera
E. A. Paulson
Speedway
Winona
Wash
Wayne Odell
Steptoe, Wash
Clarence Davis
Odell
Harold Rogers
Rogers
Cora Jean
Davis
Ell
Colfax
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