Seeing Eye Hound guards blind mare in Oklahoma farm
Gal the seeing eye hound protects Dollie the Bay mare on J. M. Illins Green Pastures farm near Spencer Oklahoma. The four year old hound guides the seven year old horse to her barn each night and keeps stray dogs away. Collins, who bought Dollie for 20 dollars five years ago, trains her as a plow horse and visits daily. An oil field nearby has locals forming attachment to the pair as Gal guards Dollie and nibbles tidbits from workers.
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Chinese Reds Slip Into Indochina Reported
Formosa dispatches claim 20,000 Chinese Communist troops slipped into Indochina to join Ho Chi Minh forces. Reportedly moved at night from Hainan island by junk to Indochina. US increases aid to French and Bao Dai government opposing Ho Chi Minh.
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Vietnam
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Crawford's Chrysanthemum Hair Do For Harriet Craig
Joan Crawford wears a chrysanthemum hair-do inspired by a bouquet in her dressing room. She names the style after the flowers and uses it for her Harriet Craig role.
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INS
Harriet Craig
Joan Crawford
Truman asks congress for home front security measures
President Truman urges passage of security bills expanding espionage penalties and foreigner controls. He backs registration of foreign trained spies, harsher peacetime espionage penalties, and broad authority to regulate defense areas. Senate and House committees move toward stronger subversive legislation.
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Truman Shakes RFC Board With Minority Picks
President Truman announced new RFC board members including Willett Cosgriff Harber Dunham and Rowe with three year or two year terms and left the chairman post open for later. The reshuffle follows GOP criticism and Senate scrutiny led by Senator Fulbright as concerns over the RFC's affairs grow.
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Yanks Trap 1 000 Reds in Korean Front pincers
American forces closed a 100 square mile pocket trapping remnants of two Red battalions as U S Fifth Regiment linked with the 35th to seal the zone near Chinju and Pusan maintained safety. Marines pushed into Kosong while Won san oil refinery suffered heavy damage from a large air strike.
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Stocks Paced By Radio TV Again
A buying splurge in radio-television stocks continued in today s market with TV shares rising to around 3 before profit taking trimmed peaks. Zenith led the radio group with gains, supported by Admiral Emerson Philco Radio Corp Elec & Musical Industries Magnavox Stewart Warner Motorola and ITT. Other gainers included Bethlehem Steel Packard US Rubber Montgomery Ward United Aircraft Grumman Allied Chemical Dow Chemical Nickel Plate. Losses appeared for General Motors Chrysler Sears Roebuck Douglas Aircraft Du Pont Eastman Kodak and General Electric.
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Burleson urges exile for treason offenders
Representative Burleson of Texas told a reporter he is drafting a resolution to exile Americans convicted of treason or disloyalty to a distant Pacific outpost where they could reflect on their sins.
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Far Pacific
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Senate Tax Bill Shapes Up For 1950 With Excess Profits Debate
Senate leaders project a tax bill by January 1 1950. Senator Connally says an excess profits tax may be proposed in a closed session. George says the bill will pass without an excess levy or not at all. A floor vote could be tight with a possible referral back for hearings. President Truman proposes raising corporate top rate from 38 to 45 percent with a 25 percent rate on the first 25000 of income.
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Dean Akers to Aid In Japanese Program
Dr. Susan Grey Akers dean of UNC library science accepts a temporary Army consultant post on library education in Japan. She is among 15 education experts chosen for an Institute for Educational Leadership from September 1950 to March 1951.
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Elderly Woman Murdered Aboard Transit Train
A Phoenix woman identified as Mrs. Park’s niece said the elderly victim boarded a train in Phoenix. The killing occurred between Bisbee Junction and Douglas while the train moved. Lantz, jailed in Bisbee, claimed a prior Army discharge and recent Tucson dismissal.
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Two Tar Heels Wounded In Action in Korea
The Department of Defense announced army casualties in Korea. North Carolina reported two wounded: Cpl. Andrew Leon Penn husband of Florence Juanita Penn of St Pauls and Cpl. Eugene Williams son of Vennie T Teasley of Statesville.
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North Carolina
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Bluestreet
St. Pauls
Eugene Williams
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State parks landscape architect wins Harvard scholarship
Raleigh August 10 Bert Heidelbach a North Carolina State College graduate and landscape architect with the state parks division has won a six week Europe study scholarship. The award comes from Harvard University following a regional competition. He will depart Friday for Europe to begin study.
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Journalism student studies police work in Minnesota
James Ford of Minneapolis, a journalism student at the University of Minnesota, spent two hours at police headquarters as part of a course. He then paid 8.55 dollars to recover his car, with 5 dollars for parking in a restricted zone and 3.55 dollars to tow it out. He quipped that school lessons cost less.
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James Ford
University of Minnesota
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Gombroon Ware Origin Traced to Persian Gulf Trade Post
Chinware known as gombroon ware derived from a Persian gulf trading post through which porcelains were shipped to the West from China, a practice noted as beginning before 1640.
Clark Leads Idaho Senate Demo race as votes counted
With 779 of 839 precincts in, D Worth Clark leads incumbent Glen E Taylor by about 1000 votes in Idaho's Democratic primary for the six year Senate term. Clark 26475 Taylor 25409 White 14507. Only a plurality required to win.
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U. S. Senate
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Taylor
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