Thurston Report Sparks Accusations of Scare Tactics in Health Plan Debate
Republican Rep Rich denounces John L Thurston testimony as shocking and political saying it scares parents and pushes socialized medicine. Senator Sparkman cautions against interpreting the figure as a scare tactic while Thurston testifies before the House Senate economic committee subpanel.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Rep
Rich
R-Pa
John L. Thurston
Federal
Thurston
United States
Sparkman
D-Ala
House-Senate Economic Committee
Federal Security
Civil rights fight centers on FEPC bill in Congress
Key Truman advisors say the civil rights agenda for the coming year will focus on the FEPC employment discrimination bill. They warn of possible filibuster but argue the debate could aid Democratic candidates in tight districts.
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Key West
Fla
Congress
FEPC
Truman
Senate
Lucas
White House
Children’s Relief Staff Expelled By Romanian Reds
In Bucharest on December 13, Romania’s Communist government ordered the entire foreign UNICEF staff to leave the country. The local Romanian UNICEF employees remain to liquidate the operation, which distributed milk and tuberculosis tests, while the health ministry decides if the office continues under state control.
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Bucharest
Romania
U.N. International Children's Emergency Fund
Unicef
U.N
Paris
Ministry of Health
Eurean
Patrolman Killed Checking Cars In Rocky Mount
An inquest was set for the death of state highway patrolman C B Avent who was killed when a car struck him and fellow patrolman J H Withers Jr while checking headlights at the Highway 301 city limit. Trace C Henry 23 was held on a technical manslaughter charge after the incident near 6 pm.
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Rocky Mount
C. B. Avent
J. H. Withers, Jr
Trace C. Henry
Henry
Rocky Mount Evening Telegram
Dement Roseman
Rocky Mount Sanatorium
Avent
State backs Piedmont Gas in Carolinas bid
North Carolina utility official J S James voiced support for Piedmont Natural Gas Corporation as the best option to bring natural gas to North and South Carolina. He testified at a power commission hearing that Piedmont uniquely plans delivery in the Carolinas, opposing Commonwealth Natural Gas and Transcontinental proposals.
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Washington
North Carolina
Piedmont Natural Gas Corporation
South Carolina
J. S. James
North Carolina Utility Commission
Piedmont
Power Commission
Carolinas
Commonwealth Natural Gas Corporation
Virginia
James
Trans- Continental Pipeline Co
Transcontinental
Carolna
North
Harry Littman
Robert E. May
Commonwealth
Littman
Woman kills husband son then takes her own life at North Carolina farm
Pendleton North Carolina December 13 coroner ruled a triple murder suicide after a woman Roberta L Stephenson 53 shot her husband D D Stephenson 59 and son B Coley Stephenson 29 at their farm home then killed herself. The coroner noted she believed she was persecuted and had studied a plan for the triple slaying. A marked rifle and notes were found in the home.
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Pendleton
N. C
James T. Buffaloe
Northampton County
Roberta L. Stephenson
D. D. Stephenson
B. Coley Stephenson
U S Threatens To Break Off Relations With Red Bulgaria
Pakistan plane crash near Karachi kills 25 including two army generals Maj Gen Sher Khan and Maj Gen Iftikhar among the dead. DC 3 crashed in desert. search parties to scene, casualties reported, later details uncertain. In Washington a separate National Airport crash kills four of 23 aboard with 19 survivors hospitalized. Bodies recovered and inquiry planned.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Here
PAK Air Company
Sher Khan
Iftikhar
Washington
UPI
National
Potomac River
Bolling Air Force Base
William Chertow
Tennis Court
Brooklyn
N. Va
Neville Lassiter
Arlington
W. J. Davis
Lloy L. Porter
Alexandria
Davis
Porter
State GOP Favors Coalition With Southern Democrats
North Carolina Republicans express strong support for a conservative coalition with southern Democrats to defeat President Truman’s Fair Deal. State chairman Sim Delapp notes openness to Bricker’s plan, while resisting a new party name. He cites shared conservative values and historic Civil War tensions as obstacles easing over time.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Sim Delapp
Lexington
Charlotte News Today
John Bicker
Ohio
Truman
Delapp
Sen. Bricker
James F. Byrnes
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert Taft
South
Causes and treatment of sex offenses against children
Washington psychiatrists explain multiple causes for crimes against children including feeble mindedness senility brain disease and poor early training. They discuss cure possibilities and argue offenders should be treated or isolated as needed and police involvement could deter repeat offenses.
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James Marlow Washington
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
America
Hoover's Eight-Point Program Aims to Slash Tax Burden
Former president Herbert Hoover unveils an eight point program to reform government arguing it would save taxpayers about two billion dollars annually. He warns this year’s deficit could top five and a half billion and urges focus on the most urgent reforms to curb federal and local spending.
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Hoover
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Truman
Lucas
Congress
Burton Named Fifth Division Road Engineer
Hugh E. Noell ends a 30 year post as fifth division engineer in Greensboro. Thomas Burton, currently seventh division engineer at Albemarle, will assume the Greensboro role January 1 1950. James H. Barnwell of Burlington becomes fifth division commissioner. W H Rogers Jr says M F Beatty moves from seventh division to fill Burton's vacancy with no immediate replacement for Beatty's old slot. Ivan Hardesty will replace J W Taylor as third district engineer of the fourth division. Taylor becomes a senior highway designer in Raleigh. Noell previously served in the ninth division before a July department reshuffle.
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Raleigh
Hugh E. Noell
State Highway Commission
Greensboro
Thomas Burton
Albemarle
James H. Barnwell
Burlington
W. H. Rogers, Jr
M. FE. Beatty
Burton
Beatty
Rogers
Ivan Hardesty
Washington
J. W. Taylor
Taylor
Noell
Red Radio Fire Alarm Box Trick Found At Attleboro
Police traced two false fire alarms to a toy wagon track leading to a three and a half year old boy's home. He climbed the cart and twisted the radio handle hoping for music from the red device on a pole.
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Attleboro
Mass
Insect resistance may worsen next year warns entomologist
Dr. A M Boyce of the University of California, president of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, warns that houseflies and certain mosquitoes show increasing resistance to DDT and other insecticides. He says resistance could spread across regions and new strains may emerge, making pest control harder with Linseed and Toxaphene as alternatives.
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Tampa
Fila
A. M. Boyce
University of California
American Association of Economic Entomologists
Nature
Boyce
Arrest of alleged head of counterfeit ring in Brooklyn
FBI agents arrested George Gillette 34 at his Brooklyn home 66 77th Street for leading a ring that produced about 1 million dollars in counterfeit American Express travelers checks. Gillette is described as brother in law of reputed underworld figure Joe Adonis.
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New York
FBI
American Express Company
Brooklyn
77Th Street
George Gillette
Gillette
Joe Adonis
Profit Taking On Market Today
New York stocks opened with fractional gains then slipped as profit taking and tax selling pressured the market. High priced Superior Oil led advances with first sales at 168 and 171, while leaders such as Republic Steel Studebaker U S Rubber Lockheed National Distillers Admiral Radio Consolidated Edison Anaconda Copper Air Reduction Du Pont Westinghouse International Paper Santa Fe Southern Railway Baltimore & Ohio Standard Oil Eastern Air Lines Johns Manville and U S Gypsum saw mixed activity.
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New York
Superior Oil
California
Republic Steel
Studebaker
U. S. Rubber
Lockheed
National Distillers
Admiral Corp
Radio Corp
Consolidated Edison
Anaconda Copper
Air Reduction
du Pont
Westinghouse Electric
International Paper
Santa Fe
Southern Railway
Baltimore & Ohio
Standard Oi
Eastern Air Lines
Johns-Manville
U. S. Gypsum
Apprenticeship Paths Highlight North Carolina Charge
Clarence Beddingfield cites the need to keep young workers in state using skills learned in schools and workshops. Howard E. Smith of Lowell, trained in Gastonia, became a Seattle mechanic after completing a NC program and receiving a completion certificate from Washington state officials.
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North Carolina
Clarence L. Beddingfield
State Department of Labor
Howard E. Smith
Lowell
Smith
Seattle
Washington
Howard Smith
Boeing Aircraft
C. B. Little Auto Service
Gastonia
Washington State
Protests Over Attacks On U S Minister in Sofia
The United States denounces Bulgarian attacks on U S Minister Donald Heath and cites ongoing restrictions at the Sofia legation that cripple its functioning. Undersecretary Webb questions Bulgaria’s intent to maintain normal relations and warns of possible rupture of ties.
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Washington
United States
Bulgaria
U. S
Donald R. Heath
State Department
Sofia
James E. Webb
Webb
Peter Voutov
Heath
Traicho Kostov
Foreign Office
Legation
Department
East Is Warm West Is Cold Weather Split Across U S
Unseasonably warm weather prevailed in the south while a cold snap hit most of the western half of the country. Temperatures ranged from 70s and 80s in the south to subzero readings in parts of Arizona and the northern plains.
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Dixie
Tampa
Meridian
Columbia
S. C
Carolina
Wilmington
Charleston
Raleigh
Charlotte
Spartanburg
Weathe Bureau
Hickory
California
Arizona
Flagstaff
Ariz
Fresno
Calif
Sacramento
Phoenix
Montana
Dakotas
Minnesota
Rocky Mountain
Bozeman
Mont
Dickinson
N. D
Great Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Pacific Coast
Tennessee
Ohio Valley
New York
New England
Midwest
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Manchuria
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Lynn Nisbet
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