GOP To Fight Truman Plan In 1950 Elections
Republicans push to challenge Truman's budget deficit plan as a major 1950 issue. Senator Brewster notes voters won’t forget his stance on spending, while McGrath and Southern Democrats criticize red ink and pump priming. Nourse foresees a sizeable deficit next year or two.
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Washington
Truman
Brewster
R-Me
Lee
Rewster
McGrath
Rhode Island
Clairsman
Pensacola
Fla
George
Georgia
Byrd
Virginia
Edwin G. Nourse
Economic Council
Nourse
Kansas Sells Legal Liquor Ends Prohibition Era
Kansas moves to legal liquor sales with licenses issued to over 260 stores after a 70 year prohibition. The reform follows a 1938 vote to repeal, with local option preserved in some dry cities like Medicine Lodge. Liquor will be sold packaged only, beer 3.2 percent and above now allowed.
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Topeka
Kas
Kansas
State Liquor Control Office
Medicine Lodge
Carry Nation
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Tom Thumb Locomotive Noted For Small Boiler Size
The Tom Thumb steam locomotive, recognized as the first American built steam engine, featured a boiler roughly the size of a flour barrel.
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Tom Thumb
Decatur Debates Sign Fame From Dice Slogan
Texas officials weigh the town’s notoriety sparked by the sign near the railroad station proclaiming Eighter from Decatur. The mayor and residents dispute the attraction’s value, while historian Cliff Cates links the chant to Ada from Decatur and a misheard eight roll.
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D.atur
Texas
Decatur
Wise
North Texas
Eyl. Hardwick
Cliff D.cates
Wise County
Decaturecame
Ada
Waggoner
Cates
Public forum on city dog killings and policy
A letter to the editor laments the shooting of dogs including a collie named Blackstorm. The writer criticizes a city ordinance to muzzle or shoot dogs, argues the motive to prevent rabies is valid but the method is wrong, and calls for reconsideration by officials amid public tension.
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Blackstorm
Blackie
Decatur
Deca
Athens College Expands Summer Schedule and Prep
Athens College will operate on a six day week for the last half of the summer session, with classes Saturdays. Plans for a forthcoming commencement week are under way as Dr. Perry B. James leads renovations and faculty expansion. The college pursues accreditation and broader Southern Association prospects amid community support and athletic development led by Coach Bull Smith.
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Athens College
Perry B. James
Bull” Smith
Newman
Talladega
Southern Association
Athens’ College
Aens College
Rabies furor prompts Decatur plea for action
Hazel M Kent urges Decatur residents and officials to combat rabies through public support and political response. She questions local leadership effectiveness and calls for a sane anti rabies campaign before the next election to prevent further canine euthanasia.
Largest eggs of extinct Madagascar bird weighed
The Aepyornis of Madagascar laid eggs so huge that a single egg could contain the equivalent of 15 dozen modern hen eggs, illustrating the bird's remarkable size.
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Madagascar
Steel fact finding board heads to Washington for hearings
President Truman forms a three member steel fact finding board led by Carroll Daugherty to study postwar wage raises pensions and insurance plans. They will decide hearings timing and aim to report by August 30 while unions seek a 20 cent an hour rise and big firms warn against higher costs.
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Washington
Truman
Steel Fact-Finding Board
John R. Steelman
White House
Arthur Goldberg
CIO
United Steelworkers of America
Carroll R. Daugherty
Northwestern University
David L. Col
Paterson
Samuel I. Rosenman
New York City
America
Jarrett Rites Held Monday
Services for Ronald Jarrett 21 Athens were held today at 2 pm at his parents home 18 North Marion Athens. The rites were conducted by Rev. G M Hall and Rev L W Hart and burial followed in Athens city cemetery with Spry directing. Jarrett died of hemorrhage transverse and heart failure after a hypodermic injection given early Sunday morning. He was survived by his parents two brothers Morris and Bob a sister Dorothy Mae and his grandparents J W Jarrett and Mrs S A Sharp.
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Ronald Jarrett
Athens
Clifford Jarrett
North Marion
G. M. Hall
L. W. Hart
Athens City
Jarrett
Limestone County
Griffath
Chile's Shape: Long Narrow Span of South America
A geographic note highlights Chile running a strikingly elongated route along the Pacific coast. The country measures far longer than it is wide, forming a slender strip between the Andes and the sea.
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Chile
Success of Decatur Refuge Shows Promise for Similar Projects
Washington reports the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge near Decatur Alabama demonstrates wildlife management can complement water power projects. The 38 500 acre TVA facility, established 1938, hosts 30 000 ducks and geese each fall and supports a variety of waterfowl and mammals as part of a broader program to expand artificial impoundments for power, navigation, flood control, and wildlife sanctuary.
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Washington
Uccess
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge
Decatur
Alacha
Fish and Wildlife Service
Wheeler Project
Thomas Z. Atkeson
The
Wildlife Service
TVA
Wheeler Dam
Wheeler Refuge
Joseph Wheeler
Buick Dealers Preview New Special Model Convention
About 150 Buick dealers from the Memphis area attend an all day session at the Peabody hotel July 20 to preview Buick’s redesigned lowest priced model. John E. Sheehan presides as zone manager with talks from Buick top management on manufacturing engineering sales and merchandising.
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C. E. Poole
Addison Ae
Milton Poole
Memphis
Peabody Hotel
Bea Inging
Buick
John E. Sheehan
Saios Organization
Flint
Mich
Beak of winter population peak noted in late December to early January
The text states that the winter population peak occurs in the last two weeks of December and the first two weeks of January. It adds that by late January most grainfields are bare and the hunting season ends.
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Fuge
A Strange Thing About Income Tax
A column argues that some enterprises including co operatives and trusts pay little or no federal income tax while salaried workers pay taxes, claiming a billion dollars in revenue loss yearly. It urges taxpayers to demand taxing the untaxed first before raising others' taxes through Congress.
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Congress
National Tax Equality Association
StaSalle St
Chicago, Ill
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