Polio Vaccine Progress Hints At Two Year Timeline
New York reports that researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and others expect to determine how many polio virus types exist within two years. Foundation leaders warn of a grim funding outlook, urging a March of Dimes goal to double by 1956.
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de. R. G. Gustavson
University of Nebraska
Yet Bonus In Form Of Tax Exemptions Urged
Washington report says Representative Earl Wilson of Indiana has introduced a bill to grant veterans a $25 extra income tax exemption for each six months of honorable service, with a similar exemption for each dependent. The plan claims no net revenue loss, no large federal staff needed, and safeguards the veteran from rapid loss or speculation of the bonus.
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Washington
Earl Wilson
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Wilson
Origin of phrase kick the bucket linked to hanging
A historical note traces the idiom to a man who stood on a bucket to adjust a noose and kicked away the bucket to hang himself, linking the expression to suicide by self‑hang.
Texans List . Killer Coming Back Ways To Raise From Living Dead Lithd Wrospirds Fund TiG Face Execution
Texans offered 71 views on financing a state hospital improvement program costing at least 25.9 million dollars. Suggested measures included temporary tax increases, liquor tax hikes, gas export tax, income tax, and bond issues among others. In New York, Lewis Wolfe, a 42-year-old convicted killer, awaits execution by electric chair after conditions from a psychiatric illness improved, potentially leading to release and reimposition of the death sentence.
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Alan Shivers
Claire Cox
New York
Lewis Wolfe
Wolfe
Brooklyn
Matteawan State Hospital
Beacon
Solon Wolff
Kings County
Paula Mena Wolfe
Mona
Holy Land
Louis Goldstein
Matteawen
J. B. McNeill
Matteawan
Goldstein
Too Small Pants Nearly Keeps King At Home
In Mission on January 20 a snag left M. Blankenbaker Jr. unable to wear a coronation costume. The satin pants did not fit the six foot figure, forcing him to wear a full dress suit for his Texas Citrus Fiesta royal role. Fiesta sponsors had kept his identity secret too long.
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Blankenbaker
Misrepresentation To Cost Man Year In Pen
Pat Nordyke, 21, was sentenced to one year in jail after being charged with fraud for collecting money while falsely posing as a leader of the Merch of Dimes campaign. Judge Howard Kline, who headed Sedgwick County March of Dimes last year, imposed the sentence shortly after the charge was filed.
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Sedgwick
Record Peacetime Turkey Supply Seen
Washington reports a record peacetime turkey supply expected for next fall as growers plan to raise 41,384,900 birds. The Agriculture Department notes the 1949 crop had a 31 cent a pound price support floor, requiring 21 million pounds of turkey meat to be stored by the government. Price supports for the 1950 crop are expected to be lower.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Oklahoma To Seek RFC Loan For Super Highways
Governor Roy J. Turner of Oklahoma will request a Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan next Tuesday to finance a 293 mile four lane toll road from Oklahoma City to Tulsa. He estimates the project needs 23.7 million dollars and a New York syndicate indicated last July it would invest 29 million. The route would cut travel distance by 27 miles. The Black Hills of South Dakota are described oddly as mountains.
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Roy J. Turner
Oklahoma
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
New York
L A Man Guilty In Killing Girl Six
Fred W. Stroble, 67, was found guilty of first degree murder in the slaying of six year old Linda Joyce Gillcoft. A sanity trial will determine if he faces the death penalty at San Quentin. The jury of 10 women and 2 men deliberated about four hours in Judge Charles W. Fricke’s court. If sane, Stroble faces execution after review by the California Supreme Court.
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Fred W. Stroble
Linda Joyce Gillcoft
San Quentin
Court of Superior
Charles W. Fricke
Streble
California
Fricke
California Supreme Court
Bargain Piano Offered for Cash or Easy Terms
A piano is offered for transfer to an able buyer with cash or easy terms. It is guaranteed for 10 years, on par with a new instrument. Write, call, or wire Credit Manager at Brook Mays Piano Company located at 1522 Main St, Houston Texas.
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