Auto Club Reports Sharp Membership Gain in 1950
The Austin Automobile Club saw a 4514 percent membership rise in 1950. M. G. Rolfson, secretary, told the board at the Fox hotel meeting that members reached 886, up 277 from 1949, with a renewal rate of 94.91 percent. The group paid out 1169.55 for emergency services, including 506 local member runs, 91 local out of town runs, and 104 visiting-member runs.
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Austin Automobile Club
M. G. Rolfson
Fox Hotel
Austin
Rolfson
Canada Faces Rail Rate Boost
Canada’s railways applied for an immediate general freight-rate increase of 5 percent and a deferred increase of an unspecified amount. They seek a 10 cent per ton rise in coal and coke rates and reserve the right to specify a further five-day week impact later.
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Canada
Board of Transport Commissioners
Unaware of Injury Girl Dies After Coasting Accident
Edna Mary Ryan, a 7 year old from Albany, died of a fractured skull after slipping from a sled and striking a pole. She appeared in good health Thursday while playing with friends before collapsing Thursday night at home while watching television, coroner Frank C. O'Connor reported.
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Albany
N. Y
Edna Mary Ryan
Frank C. O'Connor
Russ A Bomb Activity Spurs Defense Fund
Senate appropriations hearings reveal Russia’s intensified atomic program as Gordon Dean details Soviet activity and U S atomic production growth while the emergency defense bill moves through Congress. Officials warn of annual defense costs approaching 45 billion dollars, urge rapid armament and base attacks.
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Defense Fund
Washington
Russia
Gordon Dean
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate Appropriations Committee
Dean
Senate
House
Senate - House
Ace Finletter
Marshall
Navy
Brazil
Chile
Argentina
Clifton B. Cates
The
Marine Corps
Korea
Educator Tolley Warns Against Saving Face at Minnesota
Syracuse University Chancellor William P Tolley told 889 University of Minnesota graduates that war is not inevitable but urged time to recover from a mood of defeat and injured pride. He warned against acting to save face that could lead to global conflict.
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Minneapolis
William P. Tolley
Syracuse University
University of Minnesota
Tolley
Refugees March South From Seoul in Bitter Winter Struggle
An American observer catalogues refugees fleeing Seoul under brutal winter. Families trudge on foot in freezing weather, bearing everything, while youths join volunteer militias. The scene shows exhausted, ill clothed travelers with little rest and stark hardship. A lone old man sits in a cave watching the march. A separate note mentions an unusually long ribbonfish sometimes called a sea serpent.
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Seoul
Stalin Receives Barbed Wire Wreath on Birthday
On Stalin's 71st birthday praise poured in from Communist states and press outlets across Moscow East Berlin Prague Sofia Bucharest Budapest and Warsaw. A German prisoner of war wreath made of barbed wire was sent to the Kremlin as a reminder of prisoners still in the Soviet Union.
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Joseph Stalin
Russia
Moscow
East Berlin
Prague
Sofia
Bucharest
Budapest
Warsaw
Kremlin
Stalin
Berlin
Soviet Union
Bombing damages Negro occupied home in Birmingham
A Thursday night blast heavily damaged a residence occupied by Mrs. Mary Leans Monk and five other tenants in a white zoning area. The first bombing since April 13 follows a U S circuit court ruling against Birmingham’s racial zoning laws. no injuries reported.
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Birmingham
Ala
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Mary Leans Monk
Wabash seeks abandon of long Ottumwa branch
The Wabash railroad asked authority to abandon 34.2 miles of its 35.5 mile line from Moulton to Ottumwa, Iowa, effectively ending service on the branch.
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Washington
Wabash Railroad
Moulton
Ottumwa
Iowa
Retail Prices Peak in November Amid Rising Farm Costs
Retail prices paid by farmers reached a record peak in mid November, up 255 percent of the 1910-14 average and one point above July 1948. The rise traced to living costs, clothing, furniture, textiles, and footwear, with building materials also higher though tempered by credit curbs.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
BAE
Carroll Reece, Tennessean Leader and Congressman
Carroll Reece born December 22 1889 in Butler Tennessee was one of 13 children and former chairman of the Republican national committee. He began as an economics instructor at New York University in 1916 and later led its school of commerce accounts and finance. He took a 1920 leave to run for Congress and won at age 30.
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B. Carroll Reece
Butler, Tenn
Republican National Committee
Tennessee
Reece
New York University
School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance
Congress
Ancient cock fighting linked Asia Persia to Greece
Historians describe cock fighting as a practice in ancient Asia and show how it spread to Greece after being observed in Persia. The transfer highlights cultural contacts across civilizations.
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Asia
Greece
Persia
Santa receives plane ticket in heartwarming letter
Bobby Hin er of LaPorte Indiana asked Santa to take him to the North Pole after delivering toys. Northwest Airlines located his father Andrew Hin er, working in Alaska, recovering from a back injury and set him to fly home on a ticket bought by local businessmen. Bobby and his family will greet him at Chicago airport.
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Alaska
North Pole
Bobby
Andrew Hiner
Jonesville
la Porte
Ronald McVickar
Chicago
Northwest Airlines
Northwest
United States
Santa Claus
High Court Throws Out Injury Verdicts
The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed two Itasca County verdicts totaling 5150 awarded to fathers of teenagers injured in a March 9, 1949 collision. It ordered judgments for Fred Nebel Sr and Carl Anderson Sr, finding no negligence by Anderson and overturning the lower awards to the Lind and Kienetz families.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota Supreme Court
Itasca
Guy E. Lind
Cambridge
Helen
Arnold Kienetz
Wanda
Fred Nebel
Carl G. Anderson
Atomic Energy Commission Grants Royalty Free Patents
The AEC announced 24 government owned patents today including a pocket sized radiation alarm gadget. It will grant royalty free licenses to manufacturers to accelerate non secret technological information sharing with industry.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
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