Alabama PSC Orders $666,700 in Rate Cuts and Refunds
The Alabama Public Service Commission, in its 1947-48 annual report to Gov. James E. Folsom, said rate cuts and customer refunds totaled $666,689 for the year. About 823 cases were processed, with hundreds more complaints handled informally. The commission denied a Bell Telephone Co. rate increase of about $2.5 million annually, approving a small long distance toll rise instead, and rejected a Birmingham Electric transit rate request.
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Montgomery
Alabama Public Service Commission
Commission
James E. Folsom
Te Commission
Bell Telephone Co
Birmingham Electric Co
Doctored plan claims to break laxative habit
Five New York doctors endorse a regimen with Carter's Pills to stop laxative use. The plan spans three weeks of nightly pills, daily water, and a regular time for relief, then none. It boasts 83 percent success in tested cases and argues the pills unblock the digestive tract without habit forming drugs.
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New York
Carter
Utilities face revenue boosts and rate changes described
The report cites planned increases and refunds totaling millions in new revenues. Alabama Power and Mobile Gas report specific refunds and wholesale rates, while nine independent phone firms received rate hikes to enhance service. Birmingham Electric gains about $90,000 annually for steam heat, and a commission ordered $19,000 in refunds after meter tests.
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Alabama Power Company
R. E. AL
Mobile Gas Corporation
Birmingham Electric Company
13 Year Old Father Seeks Work To Support Son
Kalamazoo with AP reports a 13-year-old father, Carl Harvey Blake Jr., battles job hunts after leaving school at sixth grade. He married a 16-year-old wife Winifred, and their son born Feb 23 at Paw Paw Hospital weighed five pounds ten ounces. Blake earned wages at a Grand Rapids construction firm and a Lawton pickle factory, and once claimed he was 18 at the hospital to be believed. He weighed 176 pounds and lives in Paw Paw while appealing to a radio station for assistance in finding employment.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Carl Harvey Blake, Jr
van Buren County
Winifred
Paw Paw
Tony Gaston
Blake
Gaston
Grand Rapids
Lawton
Shippers Advisory Board In Meeting
The Southeastern Shippers Advisory Board will meet in Birmingham to study freight car requirements and business trends for the second quarter of 1949. Pre meeting sessions include executive and joint committees. Thomas W. Martin of Alabama Power Co. will address the Southern Research Institute, along with C. L. Denk Jr., L. M. Betts, and J. F. Gilliland, among others.
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Birmingham
Southeastern Shippers Advisory Board
Thomas W. Martin
Alabama Power Co
Southern Research Institute
C. L. Denk, Jr
Atlanta
L. M. Betts
Washington
Association of American Railroads
J. F. Gilliland
Mobile
Florida Governor admits Klan past and vows ban
Tallahassee Governor Fuller Warren says he once joined the Ku Klux Klan "many years ago" to aid a friend's commissions, but quit in disgust after two or three meetings. He pledges to ask the 1849 state Legislature to outlaw the Klan and condemns its violence and intimidation.
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Tallahassee
Fuller Warren
Florida
Warren
The
Ilan
Ku Klux Klan
Klan
Upstate Farmer Dies In Traffic Accident
A Saginaw farmer was killed in a collision on the Montgomery highway about 12 miles south of Birmingham. The victim, identified as Eu...
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Birmingham
Saginaw, Ala
Montgomery Highway
Car Collision Injures Two In Birmingham Route
Gene Massey about 50 occupant of one car and C. M. Session of Calera Route One in the other car were injured. Session was brought to a Birmingham hospital for treatment.
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Gene Massey
C. M. Session
Calera Route One
Birmingham
American veterans in Rome study Roman ways on GI Bill
Ex-GIs in Rome under the GI Bill adapt to Italian life while pursuing studies and art. About 400 veterans, many ex servicewomen, share housing and stretch $75 monthly by taking odd jobs in writing, translating scripts, or acting. Vera Clarke, 27, a former WAC, is among them pursuing art in Margutta.
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Julics Humi
Rome
NEA
U. S
Italy
Italz @ pressi
Roshing
Margutta
Lati: Quarter
Vera Clarke
WAC
GIs Students Split Between Studies And Work Abroad
Among GI students several study languages while others pursue music philosophy or theology. Norman Neuerburg 23 of Hollywood copies frescoes in Pompeii for extra cash. George Saiennco, a veteran, handles publicity for U.S. movie companies and awaits other offers while studying. Most meet at the Veterans Administration office in Rome, where Louis Gall arranges supplies and checks, assisted by Theresa Gelati who once listened to a GI and later married him.
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Norman Neuerburg
Hollywood Calif
Ponpeii
George Saiennco
U.S
Romes
U. S
America
Veterans Administration Office
OCS
Louis Gall
Brootvnr
Gallo
Theresa Gelati
Providence
R. I
Long cultivated crops span four millennia in world history
About fifty plants have been cultivated for more than four thousand years including wheat barley rice apples peach olive cabbage and tea. The list highlights ancient staples and orchard crops that shaped early agriculture and cuisines across civilizations.
Modern Buildings Discourage Pigeons in Louisville
In Louisville, the newer Courier Journal and Times building across the street from the federal building has no ledges or cornices, removing resting spots for pigeons. The older federal structure with rococo features drew flocks, but the streamlined design deters perching birds.
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Louisville
UPI
Federal
Courier Journal and Times
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Jack Kingry
Don Evang
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Fla
Jim Davis
Shippers Advisory Board
Mw" Rogers
Rogers
Paumans
Ee Jewelens & Silversmiths
Gov
Harry Cope
Mer
Mayfair Jewelry Co
van Ritch Men's Store
Foster ST
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