Bermuda Vote Brings Pro-British United Party Victory
In Hamilton Bermuda 1949 Negro voters backed the pro-British United Bermuda Party winning 26 of 40 seats while the Negro Progressive Labor party secured 10 and the Bermuda Democratic party was eliminated. Sir Henry Tucker leads the new government as chief minister under a constitution shifting powers to local parliament and executive council with foreign relations and defense still under the governor.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
United Bermuda Party
House of Assembly
Negro Progressive Labor Party
Labor Party
Britain
Bermuda Democratic Party
United Party
Leopard
Walter Robinson
The
Sir Henry Tucker
Executive Council
Tucker
New York
Laborites
Navy To Close Ship Facility At Key West
The ship repair department of the U S naval station at Key West Florida will close by April 30 next year the Atlantic fleet headquarters announced. The action will affect 230 civilian employees and military personnel.
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Norfolk, Va
U.S. Naval Station
Key West
Fla
Atlantic Fleet Headquarters
Electrical Short Sparks Houston Sniper Scare
Deputies investigated a phantom sniper around the Mayo Shell Co plant on the Houston Ship Channel after loud pops sounded like a .22 rifle. An electric short in a conveyor hopper was later blamed for 75 to 100 intermittent bursts, prompting a nightlong search by 75 officers.
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Houston
Houston Ship Channel
Steve Aaron
Leroy Jones
Mayo Shell Co
Jones
Frank Wingo
Wingo
John Brite
Shell Company
Ed Selke
Selke
Boston Harbor Pollution Debate Grows in Boston
Boston officials form a committee to study pollution in the harbor. Lt. Gov. Francis Sargent tells federal and state officials the harbor faces debris, rotting piers, oil pollution and major technical and economic problems.
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Boston
Francis Sargent
Senate Panel Probes Giant Credit Reporting Firms
Senate anti trust investigators led by Senator Hart examine credit reporting agencies to see if federal safeguards are needed. Hearings planned in early summer follow complaints of errors and privacy concerns as firms like Retail Credit Co Credit Data Corp Hooper Holmes and Associated Credit Bureaus expand data gathering and computerization.
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Washington
Senate
Philip Hart
D-Mich
House Subcommittee On Privacy
Hart
Subcommittee
Hart Subcommittee
Retail Credit Co
Atlanta
Credit Data Corp
San Francisco
California
New York
Hooper-Holmes Bureau, Inc
Morristown
N. J
Associated Credit Bureaus of America, Inc
Credit Data
Harry Jordan
House Privacy Subcommittee
Credit Bureau Services, Inc
Dallas
Privacy Subcommittee
W. Lee Burge
Burge
Jordan
House
Cause of jetliner fire blamed on defective valve
The government said a defective valve started the fire that burned away the tail of a jetliner, leading to a crash near Blossburg, Pennsylvania, last June that killed all 34 aboard.
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Washington
UPI
Blossburg
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Hudson
Chloris I] Garden Club
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