WHO Mission Aids Ethiopia Fight Against Disease
The WHO dispatched a field mission to Addis Ababa to assess Ethiopia’s health crisis amid venereal disease and malaria. It found only one active doctor for 12,000 people and virtually no training facilities. The plan focuses on training sanitary inspectors and dressers, building health stations, mosquito control tests, and nutrition programs with FAO cooperation.
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Addee Ababa
Addis Absba
Foot and Agriculture Organization
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United Nations
Wiiu
Antioch
Tnenzato
Parable Of Talent Pays Church Debt
In Brisbane a Methodist minister sought to reduce church debt by giving $10 to each of 40 parishioners with instructions to invest and return $480 in seven weeks. End results showed $205.90 collected, $22.40 short of the $288 target, with efforts including sale of cakes and jam and purchases of wool and baby clothes.
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Brisbane
Australia
New Face For Clock On Chillon Castle
The four century old tower clock at Chillon Castle in Montreux Switzerland will receive a restored face. The clock, installed by master clockmaker Andre te Merzes in 143, has run with occasional tinkering and now will gain an improved appearance.
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Montreux
Swatzerland
Chillon
Andre Te Merzes
House of Oak Becomes House of Rock in Holy Land
EFILANT N VEH LAN reports that the settlement of Niveh Tan in the Holy Land, long tied to Zionist struggle, now builds above ground rock homes along the Jerusalem Tel Aviv road. Settlers maintain guard for cows and trenches await, singing La Chant des Deportés as they endure a fragile peace.
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Holy Land
Niveh Tan
Tibotor Gabbons
Judean Mountains
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Reek
Jerusalem
France
Belgium
Pyrenees Mountains
Spain
N'vehtan
Log Book Presumed To Be Columbus' Log Book
Vancouver reports researchers study a 22 page document claimed as Christopher Columbus personal log book kept on the voyage that led to the discovery of America. Charles P Smith says he found it in his deceased brothers Devonshire home library dusting since its alleged discovery in a leaden cask off the Welsh coast 38 years ago. He offers no authenticity claim and says it is not for sale. Authorities evaluating language and history excerpts await further study.
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Marines Land Tokyo Ike On Columbia Campus
Isaac Shapiro, a World War II veteran who toured Japan during the occupation, arrives as a freshman at Columbia University. A Marine officer who befriended him years ago helped steer him from Yokosuka to a Hawaiian high school and into college, with plans for a reunion in June 1952.
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Isaac Shapiro
Japan
Columbia University
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Shapiro
Tokyo
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Oficer
Willy
Naval Air Base
Yokosuka
Ide
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Huelty
Columbia
Veteran mill worker keeps same job past seven decades
Graniteville's James Wesley Reardon, 87, has spent 75 years at the same textile mill, earning the title grand old man of Horse Creek Valley. He began as a tack boy and rose to plant supervisor and paymaster, insisting the habit of work keeps him steady. He values education, recalls learning arithmetic, and served as a Sunday School teacher and choir leader at St. John’s Methodist Church.
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Graniteville Rotten Mill
Horse Creek Valley
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Wright Attacks Truman And Dewey At Pensacola Rally
Mississippi Governor Fielding L. Wright, the States’ Rights vice presidential candidate, told a Pensacola audience that both President Truman and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey are objectionable for seeking centralized government. He said their platforms and language are the same, with the key difference being Truman holds the office while Dewey seeks it.
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Pensacola
Fla
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Dewey
Philadelphia
Buried Ruins Of City Discovered In Asia
Danish explorer Henning Haslund-Christensen reports a major ruin site in Lashgar Satai central Asia. The city once housed about 10,000 people with a central palace and many houses now buried under dust. Investigations seek cause of decline, possibly raids by Genghis Khan or Timur Lenk. expedition HQ is Kabul.
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Kabul
Henning Haslund - Christensen
Central Asia
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Afghanistan
Genghis Khan
Timur Lan
Iho
Europe
Asia
Alabama polio rate climbs but not alarming says official
Alabama polio cases rise to 175 for the year with seven new weekly infections, nearly quadruple the 1947 pace but state health officer Dr. D G Gill cautions against alarm. Only two epidemic years in 12, with 42 of 67 counties reporting cases and several towns showing higher counts. A separate Boston report notes Massachusetts youths sailing 12,000 miles on a schooner to celebrate Christmas, aiming for Honolulu or Wake Island after a Pacific voyage.
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Alabama
D. G. Gill
Gill
Health Department
Jetter~son
Talladega
Tusca
Joosa
Mobile
Cullman
Etowah
Shelby
Pickens
Escambia
Boston
Massachusetts
Guam
Honolulu
Wake Island
Atlantic
Panama Canal
Pacific
Hawaii
Bank Tunnel Traffic and Income Figures Released
MOBILE AP reports Bank Tunnel usage reached 2,256,151 vehicles in the past year with a monthly total of 262,590. Net income for the year stood at 444,984.08 dollars, while income from another amount totaled 512,378.70 dollars according to the audit.
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Mobile
Ture
Audi
LSU Return Sparks Stellar Tutoring After Loss
Star pupil Georgis’s fine coach J Whitworth tutored Ti forward walls as LSU’s head coach Gaynell Tinaley and Al Amrigia target an end to the gals’ struggles.
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J. Whitworth
LSU
Gaynell Tinaley
al Amrgia
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