Farm Bureau Federation Demands End to Price Controls
Seattle delegates endorsed a 72 page resolutions report calling for elimination of wage and price controls and a curb on federal sale of electric power. They urged private or state control of tidelands and power generation when dams exist, while supporting flexible farm price supports and criticizing monopolies across sectors.
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Seattle
American Farm Bureau Federation
Federation
Resolutions Committee
Year Round Christmas Aim of Florida Town
Christmas Florida residents plant a permanent Christmas tree and decorate it with weatherproof ornaments. About 200 people in the town handle Christmas mail with 12 helpers, as postmaster Mrs Juanita Tucker notes she expects more mail this year. Tourists visit to obtain a Christmas postmark on cards and gifts.
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Juanita Tucker
Purchase Livestock Marketing Facilities
The Farmers Union Terminal Association will acquire the Farmers Union Livestock Association for 300000 cash and assume a 10000 mortgage on the South St. Paul headquarters. Livestock operations will run as a department of the grain cooperative with rendering from Central By-Products Co. operating in Minnesota and Iowa plants.
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Central By-Products Co
St. Cloud
Waseca
Zumbrota
Mankato
Redwood Falls
Long Prairie
Minnesota
Iowa
Top Turkeys Bring $11 Per Pound At Northern States Show
Auction finale in Alexandria Minnesota saw turkeys sell for up to $11 per pound. Herman Schleuter of Starbuck won the 17% pound bronze broad-breasted dressed reserve champion, bought by Farm Owners Mutual Insurance Co. of St Paul. The champion 21% pound hen sold for $10 from Runestone Electric Assn. It was donated to Shriners Crippled Children’s Hospital. Other prices ranged from $1 to $5 per pound.
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Alexandria
Minn
Herman Schleuter
Starbuck
Kensington
Shriners’ Crippled Childrens Hospital
Twin Cities
Atomic subs could slip under ice to strike from hidden seas
The Navy confirms atomic submarines like the Nautilus could operate under polar ice for extended periods, launching missiles and resurfacing elsewhere. Experts note air supply, oxygen extraction, and crew endurance are being studied as long underwater missions become feasible.
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Washington
Western Hemisphere
Eurasia
U. S
Navy
Russia
Canada
Collier’s Magazine
Homer Wallin
Bureau of Ships
Pole
Arctic Sea
North Pole
Wallin
Hormel Midwest Sales Conference Heads to Austin
The second Hormel sales conference brings executives to Austin for two days. Attendees include O C Justinger George Bedessem Howard Borchardt John GIllam Warner Johnson Carl Peterson and many others from Duluth Brainerd Grand Rapids and Wisconsin towns. A similar session was held for the other half of the Midwest sales team last week.
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Midwest
George A. Hormel & Co
Austin
O. C. Justinger
George Bedessem
Howard Borchardt
John Gillam
Warner Johnson
Carl Peterson
Duluth
C. C. Morgan
Brainerd
Hal Trainer
Grand Rapids
Leon Youngman
Virginia
Homer Larson
Faribault
Ben Lorentz
Len Marx
St. Cloud
Frank O’connor
Rochester
Ed O’hara
Bill Donovan
Rockford
Neil Dottenrod
Wisconsin Rapids
Wis
N. H. Grognet
Green Bay
Sheldon Hanson
Madison
Joy Hasse
Eau Claire
Jim Hislop
Sheboygan
Leon Howser
Thai aid to Burma for capital rebuild after war damage
Thailand agrees to supply skilled labor for bricks and tiles and reconstruction work in Burma. The Burmese government cites a labor shortage and requests assistance to rebuild the capital and other towns heavily damaged by aerial bombs and shellfire in the recent conflict.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Burma
Judge's Error Clears Way for New Trial
The Minnesota Supreme Court orders a new trial in a personal injury case after Judge Harold Flynn denied final oral arguments, violating a litigant’s right to have facts argued to the jury. Earl Givans, a Railway Mail clerk from St Paul, sued the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha Railway for a collision near Cray Minn on June 14 1951. Jury awarded 5975 in damages. The railroad challenged causation and the verdict as excessive.
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ST. Paul
State Supreme Court
Harold E. Flynn
Scott County District Court
Earl Givans
West
Iowa
U. S
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis
Dulles and Lodge Spur Crusade for Freedom
Edward O. Etthell reports from Denver that John Foster Dulles and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. advocate a homefront freedom revival to weaken communism abroad. They urge stronger U N leadership, end discrimination, and private group effort to supplement aid programs while stressing a defensive, liberty driven foreign policy.
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Denver
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
National Council of Churches of Christ
Sen
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
P-Mass
United Nations
U. N
America
U. S
Dulles
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Policy versus law in store refund practices
This piece explains that stores are not legally required to honor refunds or price drops when a buyer changes their mind, though policies or promises may require it. It notes misrepresentation or defective merchandise justifies adjustments, and price differences from competitors are not obligatory refunds.
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Minnesota State Bar Association
Free Grocer in Eveleth Killing
A coroner's jury ruled the death of Charles Gray in Eveleth a justifiable homicide. Grocer Hjalmer Niemi fired under fear after Gray announced a stickup, Gray was intoxicated and no weapon found. Investigations into accomplice William Rosovich to decide on charges proceed.
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Virginia
Minn
Charles Gray
Eveleth
Gray
Hjalmer Niemi
F. R. Kochevar
St. Louis County
Rosovich
Arko
Gilbert
Niemi
Robot term traces back to Capek play in 1920s
The word robot entered popular usage after Karel Capek, a Czech writer, introduced it in his 1920s drama R. U. R. The term has since become common for mechanical and automated helpers in industry and daily life.
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Karel Capek
Western Union Grants Employee Scholarships
Western Union announced a college scholarship program for employees and their children. The first awards target students entering college in 1953 with one full tuition and board scholarship at Cornell University and two alternate $2,500 tuition scholarships at any college. Eligibility requires five years of service, earnings under $8,000, high school graduation, and no prior college attendance. Cornell will select winners based on character.
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Western Union
The
Telegraph Company
Cornell University
Cornell
Ezra Cornell
Samuel F. B. Morse
Cornell Scholarships Announced For Engineering and Related Fields
The university offers awards to students based on personality, academic achievement and leadership potential. The Cornell award restricts study to engineering, engineering physics, industrial relations, business or arts and sciences, while other scholarships may be used in any field.
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Cornell
Reds Redistribute Land to Peasants in China
A Chinese Communist official reports the land redistribution program has granted about 300 million peasants roughly 116,670,000 acres of land. The average is just over a third of an acre per person, and critics fear the reform will create uneconomical tiny parcels by breaking up viable small farms.
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Hong Kong
American luxury surprises German visitor in Dallas contrast
Horst Altmann, 30, a Kiel, Germany editor on a State Department program, studies American living standards. He notes immense numbers of cars and widespread private homes and appliances across income groups, saying U.S. streets overflow with cars unimaginable in Europe.
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Dallas
Horst Altmann
Kiel
Germany
United States
State Department
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Naperville
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Jean Peterson
Edward Rosenstein
Atom
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By Elton C. Fay
Hormel Sales Conferences
Malet
K. O. Wold Drug Co
Vain
Bridge Street
Edward O. Ethell
St. Joseph Aspirin
George Co
Westinghol
Westinghouse Refrigerators
Westinghouse
Theycu Ruc Co
North Kenwood
Plymouth Ave
Ihr
Farmers Way
Waldo E. Johannsen
E. Weter
Virgil Tipton
Moscow
Dial
J. H. Prestegard
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