Radio NOTES AND COMMENT Highlights From National Broadcasts
Timely discussion by authoritative speakers on Americas Town Meeting. Topics include Voice of America funding and fall broadcast changes. Notable names: Sen. Carl Hatch Rep John Taber Frank Waldrop Ralph E. McGill. Centerpiece from Brooklyn Plymouth Church centennial. Additional notes cover guest stars and schedule shifts across networks and stations.
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The
Atlanta Constitution
Brooklyn
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
Morton Downey
CBS
Mutual
Wis
Kate Smith
Percy Faith Orchestra
Kate
Faith
NBC
Lowell Thomas
Bob Crosby Orchestra
Bob Trout
Radio Schedule Hour by Hour for May 16 1917
A dense listing of radio programs across stations WGN WMT KXEL WHO KNXEL and others with times and show titles including Buckarooos Perry Mason Burns & Allen Monte Cristo and Western Thearpy. The schedule spans morning to late evening with multiple talk music and drama offerings and varied hosts.
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WBBM
WLS
Burns and Allen
Dick Haymes
WMT
WGN
Eddie Cantor
Supper Club
Jack Smith Co
Aldrich Family
ABC
NBC
Mary Miles Wenr
Joyce Jordan
KXEL
True_ Story Bee
Fred Waring
June Baker
Jenny
KNXEL
Galen Drake
Olmsted
Helen Trent
Ted Malone
Abbott
Cost
Katie
WGN Crime Files
Rael Kenny Baker
E. Winters
WRG
Ory
Lowell Thomas
Br Malone
Kaltenborn
Kxel Farm
Matt Wo
Perry Mason
Jack Smith
Lewis
Kxnel Salva
Arm
Sam
WGN T Phillips O
WHO Farm
Reveille
Riser
Jerry
Zelda
Dreler
Dick Baker
Lew Parker
Dick Hart
Madhoust
Wishine
Clift
Helen
WGN Queen
Voice of
Iowa
Foster
Owen Cowboys
Higgins
Perkins
Pepper Young
Harlem Club
Lone Journey
WGN News
Stella Dallas
Melody
KNCL
Wid
Portia
Novelty Shop
1540
Plains
Bradley
Baker Spa
Sky King
Adv
Ft. Pg. Farrell
J Armstrong
Hop Harrigan
Henry Taylor
Independence Woman Dies in Highway Crash
A 65 year old Independence Iowa woman Mrs Ida Lower was killed in a crash on U S highway 30 five miles west of Independence. Four other occupants of the car were injured and taken to a Council Bluffs hospital. The truck driver Dale Larson 43 of Onawa Iowa and his son Clifford escaped injury.
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Missouri Valley
Floyd Wall
Ida Lower
Independence
U. S. Highway 30
Here
Lower
Dale Buck
Columbus
Neb
Council Bluffs
Wall
Dale Larson
Onawa
Clifford
Wallace Attacks Aid Policy as Europe Misery Grows
Wallace charges the Truman administration with using relief in Europe as political cover. He calls for a $150 billion over 20 years loan program for Europe and Asia including Russia, denounces Dulles and Acheson, and ties aid to freedom and anti‑Soviet aims. Also notes Robeson and CIO leader Thomas condemning reactionaries and Nazism parallels.
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Chicago
Henry A. Wallace
Truman
Europe
Progressive Citizens Committee
Wallace
Mr. Truman
Greece
Turkey
U.S
Asia
Russia
John Foster Dulles
Republican Party
Moscow
France
Dean Acheson
Cleveland
Mississippi
United Press
United States of America
Paul Robeson
R. J. Thomas
CIO
United Automobile Workers’ Union
Thomas
Nazi Germany
Germany
Wilhelm Named Assistant Director at Iowa State Institute
Dr. H A Wilhelm of the Iowa State College chemistry department has been named assistant director of the college institute of atomic research, a post announced on a Wednesday.
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Wilhelm
Iowa State Atomic Research Post
Ames, Ia
H. A. Wilhelm
Iowa State College Department of Chemistry
Institute of Atomic Repert
Wednesay
University of Iowa Adds Three Nuclear Medicine Faculty
The University of Iowa expands its nuclear medicine program with three appointments in the College of Medicine. Titus C. Evans comes from Columbia to radiobiology research. Stuart P. Barden joins radiology after training with the Army Medical Corps. Clinton D. Janney, a physiology and medical physics researcher, worked at California's UC and Oak Ridge during the war.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
College of Medicine
Virgil M. Hancher
State Board of Education
Titus C. Evans
Columbia University
Stuart P. Barden
Barden
University of Pennsylvania
Army Medical Corps
Brook General Hospital
Texas
Clinton D. Janney
Janney
University of California
E. D. Lawrence
Manahattan
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Lawrence
California
Sharp Decline Noted In Jobless Claims
Des Moines reports a downward trend in unemployment as Iowa's state employment security commission shows a five week average of 12 500 claims ending May 3 down from 28 600 a year earlier Total five week claims 62 761 versus 142 229 in 1946 A large drop in servicemen readjustment claims accompanies the general decline attributed to improved economic conditions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Employment Security Commission
Commission
Iowa City Student Wins Rosenwald Fellowship
Chicago AP reports the Julius Rosenwald Fund awarded 40 fellowships averaging $2000 to 25 Negroes and 17 white southerners. Included is Byron Leslie Burford Jr of Iowa City Iowa for a series of paintings on southern themes. He formerly lived in Jackson Mississippi and now resides at 330 Rocky Shore road.
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Chicago
Julius Rosenwald Fund
Byron Leslie Burford, Jr
Iowa City
Jackson, Miss
Burford
Rocky Shore Road
Omaha Motorist Sentenced to 15 Years for Assault Case
John L. Cox 21 pled guilty to assault with intent to commit rape after swerving onto the sidewalk, striking a mother and daughter, dragging the girl, and attempting to attack her. District Judge James T. English imposed the maximum 15 year penitentiary term.
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OMAHA
James T. English
John L. Cox
Blind Man Seeks Vision To Aid His Dog Now Going Blind
Frank Sewell a 42 year old Birmingham man blind for 12 years travels to New York to seek corneal transplants for his sight and to save his seeing eye dog Jackie who is going blind from cataracts. Surgeons at Belle Vue Hospital will examine him and consider transplant therapy if feasible. He seeks to become a seeing eye man and care for Jackie for life.
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New York
Frank Sewell
Jackie
Birmingham
Ala
Big City
Sewell
Anniston
E. Danforth
Bellevue Hospital
Churchill presses move toward United Europe and UN backing
In a London Albert Hall address Winston Churchill urged immediate British action to promote a united Europe arguing it guards against aggression and aligns with United Nations principles. He dismissed claims of a plot against Russia and urged France and Britain to lead in reintegrating Germany into Europe.
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London
INL
Winston Churchill
United States of Europe
Russia
Albert Hall
Churchill
United States
Europe
United Nations
U.N
United Europe
France
Britain
Shortest path ends in safety as boy crawls under truck
Hastings Minnesota. Two year old Johnny Reuther darted beneath a moving freight truck at his father Gregory Reuther's terminal, emerging unharmed on the other side. Witnesses watched in disbelief as the child crossed the vehicle's path in a split second with no injury.
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Hastings, Minn
Johnny Reuther
Gregory Reuther
Johnny
Negro Educator To Be Guest Teacher at Iowa
Howard Thurman, prominent Negro educator and religious leader, will serve as guest teacher in the University of Iowa school of religion in the second semester of the 1947 48 academic year. Thurman co-pastors the Fellowship Church of All Peoples in San Francisco, an interracial church. Robert S. Michaelsen, Yale Ph.D. candidate, was named assistant professor in the religion school.
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Iowa City
Howard Thurman
University of Iowa
School of Religion
Virgil M. Hancher
Thurman
Fellowship Church of All Peoples
San Francisco
Robert S. Michaelsen
Yale University
Professors James Walker and W R Irwin in university notes
Professors James A Walker pursuing a Ph D at Harvard and W R Irwin earning a Ph D at Columbia now teaching at Cornell University are cited in university English department notices.
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James A. Walker
Harvard
W. R. Irwin
Columbia University
Cornell University
Iowa centenarian and veteran Mason dies in Goldfield
Ben Bjornson 100, longtime Goldfield resident for 80 years and charter member of the local Masonic lodge, died Wednesday. He was a centenarian veteran honored by the community.
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Iowa
Mason
Goldfield, Ia
Ben Bjornson
Goldfield
Masonic Lodge
Iowa Bakers Re elect Jones Of Independence
Charles Jones of Independence was re elected president of the Iowa Bakers Association at its annual convention in Des Moines. Charles Forsberg of Waterloo was named vice president and two other officers were re elected Don Jackson of Marshalltown as secretary and Paul Stark of Des Moines as treasurer.
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Des Moines
Charles Jones
Independence
Iowa Bakers Association
Charles Forsberg
Waterloo
Don Jackson
Marshalltown
Paul Stark
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