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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1950
Page
9
A March 14 survey by teachers at Abraham Crk High School New Jersey finds teen television use lowers study habits. Of 310 students, 25 percent report diminished academic focus due to TV.
In San Francisco on March 14 it was announced that a $300,000 memorial to the six million Jews who perished in Europe will be built on Riverside Drive. The tablet of Moses will symbolize one of the greatest contributions of the Jewish people to Western civilization as funds are raised by the American Memorial Six Million Jews of Europe, Inc. Honorary chairman is Herman Roberts of Manhattan. The project aims for completion within a year.
The State Board of Registration in Medicine fixed April 12 for a hearing on whether Dr Hermann N Sander may resume medical practice in Concord. The closed session will begin at 9 am in the State House. Sander may appear with counsel if desired. The case concerns the alleged murder of patient Abbie C Byers, who died December 4 after a cancer battle by air injection. The Herman N Sander fund announced contributions surpassing $1500 from 2306 donors.
In Talladega Alabama an Alabama states rights leader urged a mass meeting to form a people's army to resist Trumanism and purge the state Democratic Executive Committee. The Birmingham meeting would follow the 1945 party groundwork. A 300-bushel corn crop needs heavy rain.
Manila dispatch says Vice Admiral Berkey of the U S Fifth Fleet announced the US Navy will stand by as the General Gordon evacuates about 1400 persons from Communist Shanghai next week. Most evacuees are from the International Refugee Organization with around 300 Americans aboard. The Gordon will bypass Shanghai port due to mines. LSTs will ferry passengers from the city while ships stay outside three miles. Americans will be housed first as demand exceeds capacity.
CHICAGO March 14. Dr. David P. Boder of Diinvis Institute of Technology estimates about 30 percent of people cannot understand income tax forms. He says an IQ around 146 is needed for the longer forms and that many avoid filing due to a dislike of numbers and repressing unpleasant experiences.
San Antonio police search for vandals after graveside stones were dug up and dumped around town. Two 20 pound pranite stones were found in a school yard and another in a residence front yard.
West Palm Beach Florida March 14 Sammy the trained seal weighing 125 pounds vanished from an eight foot high wire enclosure. A search found no trace in Palmetto county. Owner Maxie Morris told police the $1000 animal might have been stolen. He urged finders not to shoot Sammy as he is harmless unless threatened.
Washington reports that Sir Hubert Wilkins, now a U S Army adviser in Alaska, predicted that huge submarines could travel beneath the Arctic Ocean ice to attack Russia in wartime. He said subs the size of aircraft carriers could occupy the Russian Arctic veranda and be placed to direct missiles, noting progress and feasibility of diving through the three to four foot ice and navigating the calm water beneath.
DIAMOND BLUFF Wis March 14 A feeble old mongrel dog named Pal earned a reprieve from death by waking his master to save his wife and two children from a barn fire. Victor Korte said he had scheduled Pal to be killed by a veterinarian but the blaze started in the basement and flames filled the house. After Pal woke him, Korte got his family out before the two story home burned. The vet appointment was canceled and Pal will live out his life.
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