Jokester Shriner Seeks Ideal Small Town Humor
Hoosier comedian Shriner says memory is key to comedy, not quick gags. He builds a 250 monologues around odd characters, drawing on life in a mythical small town and nostalgia to make audiences laugh at themselves. He longs for a real, simple town where neighbors share humor and identity.
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Shriner
Indiana
Pratt
Will Rogers
Rogers
Herb
Ernie Pyle
Chuckle
Havana Bakers Strike For Higher Wages
Havana bakers stage a citywide strike after 1800 workers from 400 bakeries walk out Thursday night demanding a 40 percent wage increase to offset rising living costs.
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Havana
Brookyn chemist sues over impotence linked to hormone work
William J. Sartori and his wife Rachel sue Primorganic Chemical Co. and Hopkins Co. for 1 million and 100 thousand dollars claiming prolonged work on synthetic female hormones in 1950 51 caused Sartori to become impotent and lose his husbandly services. They cite continuous hormone exposure from June 1950 to February 1951 and seek damages in New York Supreme Court. Sartori now runs a Brooklyn chemical firm.
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New York
Brooklyn
William J. Sartori
Rachel
Primorganic
Sartori
Weather Binge Wreaks Havoc Across Midcontinent
The Associated Press reports June storms inflicting heavy losses across Kansas Missouri and neighboring states. Crops in Kansas suffer 22 to 24 million dollars in damage while floods threaten tens of thousands of acres. Louisiana drought leaves no drinking water Sedalia evacuated towns floodwaters and delayed wheat harvest across the region.
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Mid-Continent
Kansas
Missouri
Midwest
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
Ohio
ARMY
Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana
Kansas City
St. Charles
St. Louis
Sedalia
Rain Brings Relief to Drought Hit South Louisiana
Soaking rains drenched parched south Louisiana on Thursday night easing a drought that hit rice and sugar cane crops hard. Across an 180 mile belt from New Orleans to Lake Charles rainfall averaged one to three inches with rural areas receiving two to three inches, while Crowley and Iberia parish counted heavy gains. Agricultural Agent W E Williams valued Iberia parish’s 2.4 inch rain at several hundred thousand dollars.
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Kansas
Missouri
Lousiana
New Orleans
Louisiana
Lake Charles
Crowley
H. S. Mitchell
Daily Signal
Mitchell
Iberia Parish
W. E. Williams
Wilson, AT T President, Dies
Leroy A. Wilson, 50, president of American Telephone and Telegraph, died Thursday after a two week hospital stay. Born in Terre Haute, he joined AT T as a traffic clerk and led the Bell system since 1948, earning $178000 annually as president of the vast communications concern. The illness was not disclosed.
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New York
Leroy A. Wilson
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Wilson
Presbyterian Hospital
Terre Haute
Ind
Rose Polytechnic Institute
Population of U S Continues to Mount
The census bureau announced that the total population of the United States including troops abroad passed 154 million this month and may reach 155 million by year end. Over the past year the population has grown about 200 thousand per month. The last official estimate was 153 million as of May 1, compared with 151,132,000 for April 1, 1950.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
White House halts mass cooling-room holiday dismissals
The White House orders a stop to agency practice of sending workers home due to heat and humidity. Individuals in acute distress may go home, but such time will be deducted from annual vacation leave.
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Washington
White House
The 438 Dilemma in Baltimore Traffic Court
A quiet man faces traffic court over an unclear ordinance number 438. Magistrate Katz and officers scramble to identify whether 438 refers to a fire code or a parking rule near Preston Center Cathedral and Howard streets, with no copy of the traffic ordinance available. The case ends unresolved as 438 remains elusive.
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Baltimore
Katz
Bureau of Legislative Reference
Preston, Center, Cathedral
Howard Streets
University Parkway
William J. Freeman
George Brannan
Beverly Ober
Traffic Bureau
Bernard Schmidt
Petain Moved to Private Mansion in France
Ailing former Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, 95, was transferred from Fort de la Pier re-Levee prison to a private mansion at Port-Joinville Ile d Yeu France. He received a June 17 commutation for age and had been condemned to life for wartime collaboration. He traveled the one mile ride in a heavily pillowed cradle in a car.
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Port-Joinville
Ile D’yeu
France
Henri Philippe Petain
Fort de la Pierre-Levee
Petain
Five Day Forecast for Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa
Forecast shows temperatures averaging 4-8 degrees below normal across Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa. Normal highs range from 78 to 86 and lows from 54 to 62 depending on region. Rain totals from north to south range 0.25 to 3 inches with showers about every 24 hours in parts.
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
One Killed Two Wounded In Shelton Gang Shooting
In Fairfield Illinois a machinegun attack left one dead and two wounded. Guy Pennington 37 and Lulu Pennington 44 were shot four times. Charlie Harris ex convict and rival to the Shelton brothers named as assailant. warrant issued for Harris. Louis Sons 49 a farmer was found shot to death at a farm house resort run by Ogie Pennington one of the brothers.
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Fairfield
Ill
Shelton
Shelton Brothers
Guy Pennington
Lulu Shelton Pennington
Charlie
Black Charlie) Harris
Gerald Mayberry
Wayne County
Harris
Penningtons
Louis Sons
Ogie Pennington
MPs Police Halt Riot At Nashville Bus Station
Military and civilian police stopped a near riot at a Nashville bus station and escorted 26 Korea-bound Negro soldiers to city jail. The group, from the third army, was en route to California then Korea. two soldiers were refused passage for drunkenness. No civil charges were filed.
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Nashville, Tenn
Nashville
A. M. McDaniels
McDaniels
Third Army
California
Korea
Traffic Fatality Rate Predicted To Reach 37000 In 1951
The national safety council warned that if current trends hold, 37,000 people will die in 1951 traffic crashes, marking the highest toll in a decade. May fatalities reached 2780, up 3 percent from 1950, lifting five month total to 13,240, up 6 percent.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
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