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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1950
Page
16
In a legislative move in New Delhi the assembly debated a bill proposing three months in prison and a 200 dollar fine for any man over forty who marries a woman under twenty five.
A thousand celebrants in Miami Beach postponed singing a song during a rain delay at the opening of a new park. Milton Gill of San Francisco claimed he could not explain his car rolling 400 feet downhill into a parked vehicle while he was kissing his girl good night. An Edmond ton bandit corrected a robbery report to say he is 34 not 45 to 50, insisting he looks younger.
Mrs Hilda Hunt sues for divorce in Cleveland Ohio charging her husband came home at 4 am and aroused her ire by asking if she was angry. The article notes lettuce varieties misnamed Iceberg and contrasts true Iceberg with red tinged leaves and lack of commercial importance.
Capitol Hill chatter links Fleet Admiral Leahy to a Spain ambassadorship as Franco ties renew. GOP youth push for liberal policy stance. Teddy Roosevelt III seeks first elected office in Pennsylvania primaries for lieutenant governor or secretary of state. Pepper of Florida faces Smathers in a primary clash. Maritime Commission budget prioritizes passenger ships. UN reporters foresee a Chinese Communist joining the Security Council with no US veto. GOP plans to label Democrats soft on Communism after China loss. John Ben Sheppard of Gladewater named among 1949 Outstanding Young Men by US JC, first Texan on list since 1936. praised for Democracy Beats Communism and the Gladewater Plan reforms.
President Truman approves a 30 million Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority for a self liquidating super toll highway from Tulsa to Oklahoma City. Tolls are expected to cover the debt. The plan aims to curb future regional unemployment through public works.
Carl E. Bostrom, raised in the grain business and longtime Chicago broker, has been elected president of the Chicago Board of Trade the world’s largest grain exchange. He started as a messenger at Lowell Holt & Company and rose to director and vice president in 1949. He joined the Board of Trade in 1922 and has served as first vice president and chairman of committees, and is vice chairman of the National Grain Trade Council.
U S Army engineers completed pioneer construction on the Alaska Highway racing to finish the 1,600 mile link from Dawson Creek British Columbia to Fairbanks in seven months and 17 days setting a record for road building efficiency.
The U S government’s price support program for farm commodities will incur a record net loss of about $400 million for the current year. It will have bought around $1.6 billion in farm products and sold about $1.2 billion by June 30, a loss of 24 cents on the dollar. Last year’s loss was just over $250 million.
Seth W. Richardson, chairman of President Truman's loyalty review board, warned that Communism can flourish in the United States only if the economy collapses. He reported that of 2,800,000 government employees examined in two years, 139 were discharged for disloyalty. The 139 were chosen from an initial 10,359 cases referred to the FBI.
The swastika reappears across Germany on walls buildings and seals while efforts by U S authorities to foster a democratic spirit in western Germany continue. Limited funds prevent complete removal of wartime symbols and new seals are scarce as McClay leads democratic efforts.
Tensions rise as Madrid contemplates breaking economic ties over Buenos Aires's interpretation of trade accords. A Spanish trade mission accuses Argentina of failing to ship promised goods while Argentina alleges Spaniards sold Argentine goods for dollars in recent talks held in Buenos Aires. Both sides exchange recriminations.
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