Truman called one of world's best paid men
Rep Woodruff argues President Truman ranks among the best paid individuals, estimating take home pay at 110000 yearly from a 150000 salary. He notes 42 travel and entertaining facilities, 665 staff, White House costs of nearly 1 million, and a growing luxury car fleet plus retreats at Key West and Shangri La.
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Truman
Washington
Woodruff
R-Mich
White House
Williamsburg
Key West
Fla
Maryland
Roosevelt
Hoover
Shangri-La
Baker's Hair Tonic Promises Dandruff Relief
Mrs Annie Webster of San Antonio says one bottle of Baker's Hair Tonic cleared her dandruff and itchy scalp after prior failed remedies. The ad urges readers to try Baker's Hair Tonic and Baker's "Lathernist" Shampoo with a money back guarantee from the makers.
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San Antonio
Texas
Annie Webster
E. Carson St
Baker
Baker's
Ady
UN Leader Lie Put on Spot Over Reds Seat
UN Secretary General Trygve Lie defends his push to seat Maoist China at the UN arguing the governing power in a country determines its UN seat. He seeks to save the UN though critics view the plan as pressuring Security Council alignments.
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Lie
Reds
Lake Success
Trygve Lie
China
United Nations
Mao Tze- Tung
Russia
Save
Security Council
Mao
Britain
Norway
Yugoslavia
India
United Tes
Ecuador
Egypt
Pig Scramble Gifts Boost Travis County Show
Austin merchants donated merchandise and cash for two pig scrambles at the 1950 Travis County Junior Livestock show. Beverly Sheffield urged youth roping practice and an arena. Andy Alexander’s barbecue marked the spring roundup’s end amid local horse anecdotes and jokes.
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Dave Shanks
Austin
Travis County
Charlene Nach
SS R. Price
J. R. Reed Music Company
Walgreen Drug
Louis Novy
Walter Guttman
Reynolds Penland
Zales
Stelfox
McKinnons
Bill Keen
Austin Sporting Goods
Merrit, Schaeffer and Brown
Rice Music Company
Greenwood Drug
B. F. Goodrich
Bohn Bros
Western Auto Store
Montgomery Ward
Petmecky's Sport Goods
John B. Vaught Comany
Hutchins Brothers
E. Marbrough & Sons
Charles P. Davis Hardware
Fidelity State Bank
Words Out Rate Drug
Carl Mayer
Goodfriends
White Drug Company
Karotkin Furniture Company
Southwestern Bell Telephone
H. H. Voss
Bridges Furniture Company
Arrow Mills, Inc
Fire Demolishes Newspaper Plant in Huntington
The J. W. Cloud Printing Co. plant was destroyed by fire at about 4 a m Sunday in Huntington. Loss is estimated at 60 000 with equipment records and commercial orders destroyed. The firm published the Angelina County News and printed Diboll Weekly and another Orange Texas weekly. The building was one of the oldest in Angelina County and was partially insured. The Huntington fire department responded. Huntington is about 10 miles southeast of Lufkin and has about 1500 residents.
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Huntington
J. W. Cloud Printing Co
J. W. Cloud
Angelina County News
Diboll
Orange
Texas
Cloud
Angelina County
Huntington Fire Department
Lufkin
Wichita
Kan
Seattle
Wash
Boeing
Air Force
Consolidated Vultee
Fort Worth
San Diego
Calif
California
Defense
Johnson
New England
New England Council
Boston
Department of Defense
All
GOP Puts $9 Billion Price Tag On 11 Sleighride Bills
House Republicans forming a price tag committee labeled 11 spending proposals a bureaucratic sleighride costing about 9.85 billion dollars. The panel warned reported costs were conservative and warned against blind legislation risking solvency and growth of government.
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GOP
Washington
House
Congress
Joseph W. Martin
John Taber
New York
Vursell
R-I
Federal Treasury
Ism
Rep. Taber
Taber
House Appropriations Committee
Executive Branch
Nation’s Doctors Grow But Rural Shortages Persist
The AMA reports 201,534 physicians in the United States, up 26,371 in a decade, with about one per 771 people overall and one per 500 in Chicago. Rural areas still face critical gaps, though rural health committees, incentives, and new doctors moving to small towns are improving access.
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House
Chicago
American Medical Association
AMA
United States
Eama
Palestine
Boston
New York
Uncle Sam
Frank G. Dickinson
AMA Bureau of Medical Economic Research
Arline Hibbard
AMA Rural Health Committee
AMA Physicians Placement Service
William N. Parkinson
Temple University School of Medicine
Hydrogen bomb prompts study on locating U S plants
Washington reports a federal review of industrial plant siting amid fears of atomic and hydrogen bombs. NSRB proposes underground or dispersed facilities, with guidance to space plants several miles apart to reduce target value and damage potential.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Defense Johnson
NLRB
Army
Navy
Air Force
Defense Plang
Russians Vote For Uncontested Stalin Bloc In 1949 Parliament
Moscow reports Russians elected a 1,302 member Parliament in a single-ticket Communist bloc led by Prime Minister Stalin. Voters lined up as the polls opened at 6 a.m. and closed at midnight with a turnout near universal. 1946 turnout neared 99.7 percent. Ballots mark support by accepting the bloc or opposing by crossing out a name.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Stalin
Communist Party
Danube
Bering Strait
Baltic
Sea of Japan
Council of the Union
Council of Nationalities
Ussr
Leningrad
Russia
Costs Menace British Shipbuilding as Costs Rise
The Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association reports costs about two and a half times prewar levels threatening Britain’s shipbuilding. High taxation drains earnings set aside for new vessels and port nationalization fears loom. The association warns government optimism misrepresents the sector’s distress.
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Liverpool
England
Liverpool Steamship Owners’ Association
Spellman Pilgrimage Returns to Barcelona
Cardinal Spellman of New York arrives in Barcelona with a party of U S pilgrims from Rome. A crowd of over 3,000 meets the Atlantic at the docks as Spellman officiates a mass at Santa Maria De Mar. The group then visits Tarrasa to see a cave linked to Saint Ignatius de Loyola.
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Barcelona
Spain
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
United States
Rome
Cardinal Spellman
Santa Maria de Mar
Tarrasa
Ignatius de Loyola
Reds Train Slips By to Hong Kong
Hong Kong welcomed a 12 car freight train from Shanghai marking China’s first direct rail link to the colony. The line carried silk bristles feathers and rapeseed oil and traveled by night since March 1 to evade Nationalist air attacks. Over 50 British and Chinese businessmen cheered the milestone, hoping to trade despite the blockade.
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Hong Kong
China
Shanghai
Kowloon
Texas Soldier Killed In Kansas Auto Wreck
A car crashed into a bridge abutment near Junction City Kansas early Sunday killing two soldiers and injuring a third. Corporal Wesley M Barrell of Alvin Texas and PFC Steve Ostrowsky of Onamia Minnesota were killed. Sergeant First Class Chester S Wersel the driver was seriously injured and drowsiness was cited as a factor.
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Junction City
Kas
Here
S. C. Timboo
Fort Riley
Wesley M. Barrell
Alvin, Tex
Steve Ostrowsky
Onamia Minn
Chester S. Wersel
Timbo
Wersel
Chinese Take Top Posts at Shanghai Telephone Company
A Communist Shanghai report says the American owned Shanghai Telephone Company replaced its top executives with Chinese citizens. George Kao named general manager succeeding J. C. R. Wells-Henderson, with other top posts filled by Chinese rather than Americans.
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Hong Kong
Shanghai Sunday
Shanghai Telephone Company
George Kao
Bemoe
J. C. R. Wells-Henderson
Mrs Bauerle Chosen Head of Manchaca School PTA
Mrs Jacob Bauerle named president of the Manchaca Parent Teacher Association. She will be installed with other new officers at the May meeting. Also named are Mrs Biff Hulsey as vice president and Mrs Beauford Whitehead as secretary-treasurer.
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Manchaca
ANS
Jacob Bauerle
Biff Hulsey
Beauford Whitehead
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Iowa Committee On Medical Services
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