Municipalities Seek Adequate Traffic Roads in Nation
At the American Municipal Association convention in Los Angeles, resolutions urged federal aid flexibility for county road improvements, tighter control of interstate fireworks shipments, and a national highway committee to study needs. Mayor Delesseps Morrison warned that arterial thrombosis from neglected streets burdens cities as roads become cheaper than curbing jams and delays.
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Delesseps Morrison
New Orleans
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Churchill Called Goose in House
In the British House of Commons an uproar followed accusations that Prime Minister Winston Churchill impugned Labor MP Emanuel Shinwell. Deputies booed as Churchill called a goose and noted he had been called worse. Deputy Speaker MacAndrew ruled such calling permissible in Parliament.
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London
INS
Churchill
House of Commons
Charles MacAndrew
Laborites
East London Fish Found Near South Africa Ties to Lost Species
A living East London Fish was caught off the South African coast and is linked to a species scientists believed had been extinct for about 10 million years. The discovery suggests the lineage survived in deep sea habitats and challenges the extinction timeline.
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London
South Africa
Cedar Rapids Woman Uses Puppet Shows to Demonstrate Bulbs
Miss Joyce Bruce of Enterprise Alabama and daughter of Mr and Mrs Leonard Bruce outlines a bulb education program for five Alabama counties. Serving as home service advisor for Alabama Power since June 1951 she tours nine communities with an 11 puppet cast showing bulb uses in high schools and public venues.
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Alabama
Joyce Bruce
Home Service
Alabama Power Company
Enterprise
Ala
Leonard WN. Bruce
Eleventh Street
Miss Bruce
Linn County Auditor
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Billy
Bruce
Priest Named U S Treasurer Elect Ivy Priest Signed By Eisenhower
Ivy Beker Priest, soon to control the nation s purse strings, signs autographs at Midway Airport en route to Utah. The appointment makes her the second woman named treasurer, succeeding Georgia Weese Clark, and she plans to move to Washington after Christmas with husband Roy and three children.
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Ivy Beker Priest
United States
Midway Airport
Bountiful
Utah
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