Florida road plans contemplate more building this year
Clearwater, Fla. UP says Florida will expand its road building program next year with a tentative budget of 54,142,954 dollars including 20,540,947 from unfinished projects. The budget calls for a 6 percent revenue increase from 1946 to 1947 with gasoline and diesel taxes funding most of it. Counties receiving surplus gas funds and notable allocations to Dade, Brevard, Duval, Osceola, Palm Beach are noted. Delegations from 21 counties attended the all day session.
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Clearwater
Fla
Phorida
Ate
Sanford
Department
Dade
Brevard
Duval
Osceola
Palm Beach
Brevard County
State highway ad push and funding moves outlined
The agency discussed newspaper radio and auto bumper ads for the Miami to Key West overseas highway. A tentative $5 000 appropriation would match federal funds for a Florida highway research program. A sign salesman was told the State opposed highway advertising. The panel favored finishing the Gulf Coast Highway segment through Paseo County to Tarpon Springs in 1947. They voted to furnish mats to all State newspapers displaying the new road numbers.
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Miami-to-Key West
Florida
Paseo County
Tarpon Springs
Postmaster Reports Record 4.5 Million Christmas Letters Flood Santa Claus
Santa Claus Indiana residents faced a flood of mail as 4,500,000 pieces arrived during Christmas 1946. Postmaster Oscar Phillips notes the volume set a new record and kept local volunteers busy handling the influx.
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Santa Claus
Ind
Oscar Phillips
Indiana
Phillips
Referee Borrowed Whistle After Ball Valve Fails
In South Bend Indianapolis UPI reports Referee Elmer Millbranth struggled as a soft ball and a malfunctioning whistle disrupted play. A replacement ball was found then a policeman lent a whistle to resume the game.
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South Bend, Ind
Elmer Millbranth
Millbranth
Fragmented OCR Notice About Rates and Insertion
A partial line of OCR text references rates per word per insertion and monetary values in unclear quotation marks. The readable fragments mention numbers like 2g 34 v1 ney ae 2 as and 7'2c, suggesting a historical ledger or classified notice format without coherent context or identifiable entities.
Negro Hurt In Slippery Hill Truck Crash Between Ozark and Newton
R C Jones of Headland sustained minor injuries when his truck trailer jackknifed on a slippery hill on Highway 231 halfway between Ozark and Newton on Klondyke Hill. The crash occurred about 3 30 p m Monday. Patrols said loss of control caused the trailer to skid off the road with damage estimated at 250 dollars.
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R.C Jones
Headland
Ozark
Newton
Klondyke Hill
Rin Tin Tin II Enters Movies In Hollywood Genealogy
Riverside California UP Rin Tin Tin II the son of Rin Tin Tin follows his famous forebears into film debuting in Rin Tin Tin Returns a Technicolor production. He lives on an eight acre ranch near Riverside with owner Lee Duncan who earned the money to buy the ranch from Rin Tin Tins earnings.
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Cal
Rin Tin Tin II
Doddom
Rin Int
Rin Tin Tin
Hollywood
Rin III
Here
Lee Duncan
Duncan
St. Mihiel
France
Ring
Darryl Zanuck
Rin
Rin II
Prowl Car Intervenes In Ottawa Style Duel
NEW WESTMINSTER B C UP local police halted an early morning duel as two men prepared to shoot it out at 60 paces. The prowler car arrived and the officers talked them out of the confrontation, ending the plan.
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New Westminster
B. C
Rotary Club Views Farm Research Film
J M Lawrence of Alabama Polytechnic Auburn presented a state farm research film at the Dothan Rotary Club and circulated a year’s farm research catalog. Guests included Betty Whiddon Al Blanding S A Davis Dr M K Smith and J Smith. A separate item reports a motorist in Laneboro facing a failure to stop charge delayed by car trouble.
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Agricultural Experiment Station
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
Dothan Rotary Club
J. M. Lawrence
M. R. Morrell
Betty Whiddon
al Blanding
Albany
S. A. Davis
Valparise
M. K. Smith
Elwood City
J. Smith
Allegheny, Pa
Lanesboro
Mass
Leo F. Langeback
Magician Tricks Dorothy Caranza in Seattle Tavern
Dorothy Caranza in Seattle says a man claiming to be a magician wowed her in a tavern by making several items vanish including spoons glasses coins and her $100 wrist watch proving his trick.
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Seattle
Dorothy Caranza
Ao Man
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