Housing shortage dents Air Forces reenlistment drive
The lack of adequate family housing for officers and enlisted airmen threatens the Army Air Forces reenlistment push. Only about 42 percent of the needed 45 000 dwelling units exist, with 13 000 in place and 6 000 more authorized this year, while costs and postwar base reductions complicate access to surplus housing.
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Washington
INS
Army Air Forces
Army
Air Forces
Air Corps
Financier Thomas Newhall Dies in Gun Cleaning Mishap
RADNOR Pa. Thomas Newhall 70 a Philadelphia financier and former J P Morgan partner was found dead with a bullet to the head in his estate recreation hall The body lay beside a .32 caliber revolver with cleaning bags and a rod nearby Police said he had been dead more than 24 hours after police battered the door and found him Monday night on the estate grounds.
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Radnor, Pa
Thomas Newhall
Philadelphia
J. P. Morgan and Company
New York
Newhall
Bad Vision and Posture Linked at Optometric Conference
An Austin optometrist reported defective vision in children often accompanies poor posture. Dr. Harmon said 30 percent of school children have bad eyesight due to bad posture, while Dr. Skeffington cited 13,000,000 students failing high school due to visual disabilities. Both urged改善 in children’s eyesight at the Great Lakes optometric conference.
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Chicago
Austin
Texas
D. B. Harmon
A. M. Skeffington
St. Louis
Graduate Clinic Foundation
Harmon
Skeffington
Notice of Appointm ent of Executrices No 19213
Iowa Linn County notice dated April 26 1947 appoints Ellen Kanealy Agnes Kanealy and Katherine K Miles as executrices of Anne W Lenders estate. Creditors urged to payment and claim filing with Linn County District Clerk. Attorneys listed as Trewin Simmons Perrine Albright Barnes Barnes and Wadsworth.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
Anne W. Lenders
Towa
Ellen Kanealy
Agnes Kanealy
Katherine K. Miles
Trewin, Simmons, Perrine and Albright
Barnes, Barnes and Wadsworth
Posture and Vision in Children Linked in Study
A study finds poor posture correlates with vision problems in children and that faulty eyesight can influence posture, highlighting a two way interplay between eye health and bodily stance.
Prisoners fed steak dinners after robbery tale
Robert Potter and his wife Rita Potter robbed Ardmore Lounge in Ardmore, Illinois, taking 55 dollars before being captured. Police reports note the couple were housed in separate cells, while the lounge owner Elliott Schwartz ordered two steak dinners as a gesture of clemency.
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Chicago
Robert Potter
Rita
Potters
Ardmore
Elliott Schwartz
Potter
Schwartz
Summerdale
Swartz
Mongoose importation banned in United States
Law prohibits bringing mongooses into the United States. The prohibition aims to prevent ecological disruption and protect native species from potential predator impacts and disease transmission.
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The
United States
City Hall approves zoning change and library board moves
The council gave first and second readings to rezone two Third avenue SE lots from B to C to permit a Willmac factory at Ninth street and Third. Height and area limits for 10 nearby lots shift to industrial, reflecting broader changes.
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Third Avenue
Twenty-ninth
Willmac Instrument Company
Twenty-ninth Street
Main Installation Planned Near Mound Avenue South Parking
A project outlines laying a main in the south parking area of Mound avenue SE. The line runs 243 feet east from a point 38 feet east of Knoll avenue. The text also references appointments to top level government positions and a stance of refraining from disturbing bureaucrats who support left wing theories of government.
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Mound Avenue
Knoll Avenue
Radical Rule If Demos Win Reece Says Radicals in Saddle
Providence Rhode Island dispatch reports Republican national chairman Reece warned that radicals would prevail if the Democrats win the 1948 presidential election. He said President Truman may not hire radicals but can win only by mobilizing radical votes, critiquing the Democratic leadership and Truman’s record.
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Providence
R. I
Carroll Reece
Truman
Reece
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Jantzen
Gantner
Hickok
Courtley
City Hall News
Charles Francis Clark
Public Library
E. G. Nichols
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Board of
Electrical Examiners
Bapane Gas Company
B Avenue
P. Kohout
James Lilly
Second Street
Fourteenth and
Sixteenth Avenues
Frank Young
George R. Stratton
F Avenue NW
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric, ‘Company
Demos
Merle E. Garmoe
D.D
Third Street
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