Suez Canal and Egypt US relations in mid century
Long excerpt recounts postwar canal control history with Egypt. Details include 1949 Egyptian control shares of Suez Canal Company, 90 percent admin posts, 7 percent board seats, profits guarantied at 1.4 million dollars, and future canal reversion in 1969. Mentions Younger remarks on contraband, and British military plans at Fayid.
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Tme
Kenneth Younger
Commons
Egypt
Israel
Younger
Britain
Cairo
Suez
Suez Canal Company
Suez Canal
Palestine Mandate
Fayid
Suez Canal Zone
Great Britain
Eden proposes Haifa oil via Suez under allied escort
British opposition leader Anthony Eden urges sending oil tankers to Haifa through the Suez Canal with allied warship escort if international rights remain unmet after Egypt’s 1948 embargo. Morrison dodges the question as the debate reflects oil politics in Haifa.
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Suez Canal
Iran
Haifa
Israel
Egypt
Venezuela
Anthony Eden
Conservative Party
Edett
Eden
Great Britain
Morrison
Sentenced for Slaying Pittsburgh Woman in 1947
Robert Herman, 29, of Lawrenceville, after four years at Farview State Hospital for the criminally insane, was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in Western Penitentiary for second degree murder in the 1947 slaying of his wife Mat. Psychiatrists had earlier declared him sane.
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Pittsburgh
Robert Herman
Lawrence Ville
Farview State Hospital
Western Penitentiary
Herman
Fai View
Her- Mat
How's Your I 9 If you can answer all 10 questions correctly you are e Genius
A reader quiz asks ten questions on topics from baseball investigations to religion, punishment methods, botany and grammar. It includes items about a congressional committee probing baseball, Protestant groups in Scandinavia, Texas longhorn cattle origins, Calvin, France's punishment method, a stone ranking next to diamond, cashew growth, division in Europe or Korea, tailless dog breeds, and a grammar correction.
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Denmark
Norway
Sweden
France
Europe
Korea
MacArthur
Girl Cancer Victim Ends Engagement in Atlanta
18 year old Betty Thompson, diagnosed with cancer and given limited time to live, breaks her engagement to sailor Tom Auburn. The couple met when he visited a Neighbor and he made several visits from Norfolk Virginia. Tom flew emergency leave to South Dakota to be with his mother after she collapsed upon hearing the news. Betty, who lost a leg two years earlier, later learned the cancer spread to her lungs and she graduated from high school on June 6. Tom remained confined at the Naval Hospital in Norfolk and was reportedly upset by the publicity surrounding their engagement.
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Atlanta
Betty Thompson
Tom Auburn
Tom
Norfolk
Sioux Falls
Betty
South Dakota
Naval Hospital
City council to elect mayor for remainder of term
Twenty years ago the City Council will choose a mayor to serve until the November election when a successor will be named to fill the unexpired term of the late Mayor L. Alexander. The vote occurs at the first regular July meeting on Monday July 6. Elsewhere the Lovell's Station pond drainage aims to develop a swimming pool. B A Lee oversaw the work and Rev J A Martin will move to Oxford Ohio in the fall. Storms caused property damage including orchard trees and the Zalneck property improvements nearby.
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L. Alexander
Lovell's Station
B.A. Lee
J. A. Martin
Westtieta
First Presbyterian Church
City
Memorial Church
Oxford, O
Trial of Pro Football Star Begins in District Court
The trial of pro football halfback Jerry Nuzum of the Pittsburgh Steubers starts today in district court on murder and manslaughter charges connected to the 1949 slaying of Ovid Coogler. A 36 man venire will report at noon, with 20 witnesses subpoenaed including Bonanna County Sheriff Apodaca, whose 1949 investigation drew scrutiny and later led to a prison term.
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Tas Urname
Jerry Nuzuim
Pittsburgh Stebters
Nuzum
Ovid
Cricket) Coogler
Tor
Charles Fowler
Happy) Apodaca
Bonanna County
Apodaca
Nusum
Pittsburgh
Salvation Army Board Names New Committees
The Salvation Army Advisory Board held its quarterly meeting naming two new committees. Building and property includes A. M. Lite, R. G. Barnes, J. B. Jahlstrand. finance includes Alton Dahlstrand, Walter Sweet, Mrs. John Rickers. program and welfare includes C. B. Wallace, Mrs. H. B. Reed, Mrs. J. M. Wells, Mrs. Fred Barton. Lt. Merlin Gaskell presided as R. Lawrence Davison reported the board has $5,500 from the Community Chest but funds remain depleted due to heavy recent demands. The Winter fires that destroyed four area homes prompted aid considerations. The board decided to continue aid efforts despite strains on resources.
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Salvation Army Advisory Board
Citatel
A. M. Lite
R. G. Barnes
J. B. Jahlstrand
Alton Dahlstrand
Walter Sweet
John Rickers
C. 8. Wallace
H. B. Reed
J. M. Wells
Fred Barton
Merlin Gaskell
R. Lawrence Davison
Salvation Army
Wlil
Four quarterly Sessions Held at Camp Allegheny
The board schedules meetings on the fourth Mondays of January April July and October. The next session will be July 23 at Camp Allegheny near Ellwood City where the board will inspect the Summer camp for boys and girls.
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Camp Allegheny
Ellwood City
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