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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1950
Page
16
A running summary of 1950 events includes Truman blocking foreign military aid, recognition shifts with Communist China, major disasters in Mercy Hospital Davenport and Wales plane crash, the national budget push, Korea conflict milestones, atomic weapons decisions, espionage trials, and notable deaths. Names include Truman, MacArthur, Fuchs, Hiss, Eisenhower, Dewey, and King.
Milard F Caldwell a former Florida governor was named Civilian Defense Administrator. President Truman and UK Prime Minister Attlee met at the White House Cabinet Room to discuss the Korean military disaster. UN forces withdrew from Pyongyang after 46 days of Allied occupation. President Truman’s press secretary Charles G Ross died at 65. Judith Coplon’s espionage conviction was reversed unanimously by the U S Court of Appeals. The United States and Great Britain barred appeasement of Communist China as an aggressor and the Commerce Department announced a virtual embargo on all shipments to Red China and Manchuria.
A five year Kellogg Foundation grant totaling 141700 funds expanding the Massachusetts Department of Public Health field training program. The New England Field Training Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will train physicians nurses social workers health educators and administrators in public health under co sponsorship with the Communicable Disease Center and state agencies. Dr Vlado Getting notes the move will help alleviate a long standing shortage of trained health workers and support new union health departments set by the 1949 Massachusetts law. Leon A Bradley is named director. Training will occur in Boston Brookline Cambridge Fall River Lowell Newton North Adams Pittsfield Quincy Springfield Worcester and Nashoba Boards of Health areas.
The item notes President Truman scolding music critic Paul Hume for a poor review of daughter Margaret’s concert. It also reports Harry Gold’s 30 year sentence as an atomic spy, U S Marines escaping a Chinese trap, and Commissioner A B Ler voted out as baseball head at contract end April 30 1952.
The article notes tighter newsprint supplies and price hikes to around 106 dollars per ton in New York, with a 6 dollar rise in 1949 raising annual publishing costs by about 35.4 million dollars. Canadian mills and U.S. producers have boosted rates, prompting some papers to limit ads and raise subscriptions.
West Concord-Cub Pack 33 held its annual Christmas party at Harvey Wheeler school auditorium with 43 boys present. Three new boys joined, Gordon MacWilliams Arthur Johnson and William Copeland, and Mrs. Robert Hurley became den mother for Den 1.
Four Peter Bulk Essay pupils in Concord enter a national contest sponsored by an Essay Association. Selected essays on peace or friends are published in the anthology and will be available by order. Names listed include Arthur Loomer Mary and Karl Stetson.
Disjointed local note describes a town curfew practice guiding shop closings at a fixed hour. Mentions a historical reference to a 1622 horse race wall in Clarkston near Richmond, indicating scattered archival references in the piece.
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