If You Can't Whip Em Join Em Jones Moral
Hal Boyle recounts a neighbor named Jones who moves up in life while his former neighbors imitate the Joneses. Smith Brown and Johnson pressure him to lower costs but he relocates with a cash gift, only for the new Jones family to continue the same display and debt cycles. Moral: change your name to Jones.
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New York
Smith
Brown
Johnson
Jones
Joneses
Brown and Johnson
Big Eye Telescope Reaches 2000 Million Miles Into Space
Los Angeles report says Palomar’s 200 inch Hale telescope located distant runaway star groups to support exploding universe theory. Dr Militon L Humason, Mt Wilson and Palomar observatories secretary, notes 360 million light years as new limit with 31,000 mph runaway speeds in star groups 300 million light years away.
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Los Angeles
Palomar
Milky Way
Galaxy
Earths
Milton L. Humason
Humm--A-Son
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Humason
Mt Wilson
Fifth Annual Midwest Golden Palomino Show at New Ulm
More than 200 entries are expected for the Fifth Annual Midwest Golden Palomino Horse Show to be held Monday at the fairgrounds in New Ulm. The event is sponsored jointly by the New Ulm Saddle Club and the American Legion.
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New Ulm
Fairgrounds
New Ulm Saddle Club
American Legion
Station Attendant Kills Wife and Two Daughters Then Himself
In Payallup Washington a service station attendant, Glenn Taft, 41, killed his wife Mary Ellen, 40, and daughters Glenda Lee, 16, and Louise, 18, as they slept, then shot himself. Pierce County deputies report Taft feared health issues and failure to buy a station. his wife opposed the venture and a brother noted a recent mood change.
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Payallup
Glenn Taft
Mary Ellen
Glenda Lee
Louise
Richard McCreadie
Pierce County
Taft
Jim Rooker
Rooker
Lawrence Taft
Glenn
Teamsters UK Health Welfare Fund Reaches Agreement
Representatives of teamsters unions and transportation firms agreed to establish a health and welfare fund for about 400 workers in Minnesota cities including St. Paul Minneapolis Duluth Superior Rochester and Alexandria. The plan covers insurance hospitalization and surgical benefits costing $3.93 to $3.96 per employee month. An eight cent hourly wage raise was issued June 1 under the three year contract.
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Minneapolis
Teamsters
William T. Sampson
St. Paul
Duluth-Superior
Rochester
Alexandria
Boy Brings Saw to Jail Plea Resulting in Capture
Monterey Virginia report notes Frank Ottey, with a history of jail breaks, exchanged a hacksaw blade via a boy. The boy bought the tool and handed it back to Ottey after his father alerted the jailer, ending the attempt.
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Boy
Saw
Dad
Monterey
Frank Ottey
Ottey
MacArthur Signals Campaign to Unseat Truman
Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Texas framed his tour as defending Korea policy but used Fort Worth remarks to denounce socialism and bureaucracy. He suggested citizens must act at the polls, while insisting he has no political ambitions beyond supporting America.
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Dallas
Tex
Douglas MacArthur
Texas
Truman
MacArthur
United Nations
China
Fort Worth
America
Minnesota CIO Demands Effective Rent and Price Controls
The Minnesota CIO political action committee urged an effective price control program and supported rent ceilings while opposing wage freezes. It proposed about 20 amendments to the national production administration act and reorganizing efforts to boost public interest in rent control. The note mentions a resignation connected to a Miami hearing and Gov Fuller Warren’s actions regarding Sullivan, a sheriff’s case, with a state supreme court ruling voiding the indictment.
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Minneapolis
Political Action Committee
Minnesota Cio
Senate Committee
Miami
Tallahassee
Fuller Warren
Sullivan
Warren
State Supreme Court
State Senate
Sullivan, Miami Sheriff, Resigns
Jimmy Sullivan, once a smiling county officer, resigns as sheriff of Dade County Florida amid a shift in public life and county leadership.
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Miami, Fla
Jimmy Sullivan
Rich Dade
Miami) County
Carlton Professor Dies at Carleton College
Dr Cal vin H Gingrich 70 editor of Popular Astronomy and senior Carleton professor died Sunday from a heart attack He was professor of mathematics and astronomy at the college
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Northfield
Calvin H. Gingrich
Carleton College
Gingrich
Trial set for Archbishop Grosz in Budapest indictment
Archbishop Joszef Grosz aged 64, Hungary’s top Catholic prelate since Mindszenty’s imprisonment, faces trial Friday on charges of plotting against the Communist government, black market currency dealing, aiding escapes, and related offenses. Eight others, including Ela Jos Pongracz, a U S Information Service employee, are named.
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Budapest
Hungary
Joszef Grosz
Joszef
Mindszenty
Elajos Pongracz
U. S. Information Service
Pongracz
Cut Tax Loads for 35 Firms
The Defense Production Administration issued tax reduction Certificates to 23 Wisconsin firms and 12 Minnesota firms to encourage defense industry expansion. These certificates allow deductions of up to 100 percent of capital costs over five years for investments totaling 26.696 million dollars in Wisconsin and 16.078 million dollars in Minnesota. In Minnesota the distribution includes one Duluth project of 175 thousand dollars, eight Minneapolis St Paul projects totaling 13.079 million, and three other statewide projects totaling 2.824 million. individual firm names were not given.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Joint Committee On the Economic Report
Defense Production Administration
Duluth
Minneapolis-St. Paul
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MAPLE
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U. S. Employe
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Superior Separator Company
Hopkins, Minn
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