Cancer research widens as 1950 efforts explore many paths
Nearly a hundred studies point to cancer therapies beyond surgery X rays and radium. Researchers list about 75 chemical retarders and several hormones and bacteria derivatives with inhibitory effects, plus extracts from normal tissue and new isotopes. Experts see progress but no fundamental breakthrough yet, as growth biology remains the key unknown.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
New York
Committee On Growth
National Cancer Institute
Rockefeller Institute
Yale University Cancer
Russia
Germany
Austria
New York City
Babe Ruth
Temple University
Father slain by son who claimed he was too old to live
Gary Indiana February 9 A 65 year old Carnegie-Illinois Steel worker and father of 12 was shot dead in his home. Police say his 29 year old son John Purevich admitted the killing saying his father was too old to live. Investigators noted the son claimed a prior intention to mercy kill and that the father had worked the day of his death.
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Gary
Ind
John Purevich
Alex
Purevich
Gary Works
Carnegie - Illinois Steel Company
T. V. Curley
Pop
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Spring Pickup Expected To Cut Down Unemployment
New York report notes unemployment near four percent, asks if this peak risks. Economists say four percent is normal, seven percent not yet dangerous, and forecast spring business pickup will reduce joblessness. Population adds about 600,000 job seekers yearly. need more jobs and stronger output. President Truman’s goal aimed to cut unemployment to about two million with a 7 percent output rise. Sawyer cites jobless total near 4.49 million.
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New York
Truman
Commerce
Sawyer
Williams warns of unemployment rise if industry stalls
W Walter Williams of Seattle, chairman of the committee for economic development, tells the National Automobile Dealers Association in Atlantic City that population growth and insufficient industry expansion threaten a larger unemployment problem. He cites low quarterly investment and calls for higher productivity and private investment to raise output per hour and expand the labor pie.
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W. Walter Williams
Seattle
Committee For Economic Development
National Automobile Dealers Association
Atlantic City
Truman
Williams
Yemen and Britain clash over Yemen Aden Protectorate oil claims
Yemen probes reports that American and British oilmen explored the Shebana Shebwa area along the Yemen Aden Protectorate border for possible petroleum reserves. Britain governs the Aden Protectorate and Yemen asserts shared sovereignty over the region.
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Cairo
Yemen
Britain
Shebana
Yemen Aden Protectorate
Aden
Shebwa
Army Hobby Shops Aim to Make Life Warier Homey
The Army expands postwar life for GIs with fully equipped hobby shops including darkrooms and woodwork. Dorothy M. Kitterman runs the program overseeing over 260 shops at forts and posts worldwide funded by post exchanges. A world-wide crafts contest drew 187 entries with top prizes of Savings Bonds for leather work ship models and a precision tool set.
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Washington
Army
Office of Special Services
Dorothy M. Kitterman
Special Services
Post Exchange
United States
Thomas W. Herren
Pentagon
Benjamin P. Moody
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Brooke General Hospital
Robert L. Barnett
Burbank
Cal
Thomas H. Hannen
Winfield Township
N. J
Fire Destroys Girls Dormitory at Palmer Memorial Institute
A $150000 blaze destroyed a girls dormitory at Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia near Burlington. The dorm housed 100 girls in 50 rooms plus laundry and infirmary. All 210 students and faculty had left to view a movie in Greensboro. firefighters from four towns fought the blaze over two hours with no injuries reported. Officials say displaced students will be housed in campus buildings and classes will continue.
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Burlington
Palmer Memorial Institute
Sedalia
Greensboro
Deadline Near On FHA Assistance
Greensboro, Feb 9. Builders not yet applying for FHA emergency Section 608 aid likely will miss mortgage loan insurance under the program. James P. McRae, state FHA director, said the office has more applications than can be processed before the March 1 expiry. Section 608 insures up to 90 percent of the estimated value of large scale rental housing projects.
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Greensboro
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
James P. McRae
Myrtle Beach to Get Summer Air Service
The Civil Aeronautics Board authorized Piedmont Aviation to serve Myrtle Beach South Carolina from May 1 to October 31 as an intermediate point on the Fayetteville Fayetteville North Carolina to Wilmington North Carolina route. Senator Maybank said the authorization may be extended beyond this year.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Myrtle Beach
S. C
Maybank
D-Sc
Piedmont Aviation, Inc
Fayetteville
N. C
Wilmington
Oswald Ryan
Newton Votes For City Manager Plan
Newton votes to adopt the city manager form in a special election with 779 for and 246 against the plan. The rapid selector machine can scan film at over 60 000 subjects per minute and may code 10 000 000 different subjects.
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Newton
FASTEETH Promises Comfort For Dentures
FASTEETH powder provides a pleasant alkaline non acid solution to hold dentures more firmly. Sprinkle on plates to improve eating and talking with no gummy taste or paste feel. Check odor breath and get PAS TEETH at any drug store.
Traffic Resumed On Southern Branch Line
TOPTON Feb 9 The Southern Railway expected to resume service today on a branch line after 16 loaded freight cars derailed yesterday no injuries were reported. The cars toppled down an embankment near Graham county. telephone lines were knocked down. The rear section of train No 68 between Andrews and Bryson City derailed on a sharp curve during a downgrade. Engineers were Otis Sherrill and Ed Hyde.
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Topton
Southern Railway
Graham County
Andrews
Bryson City
Otis Sherrill
Asheville
Ed Hyde
Three Tapped By Golden Fleece At Chapel Hill
UNC announces new Golden Fleece members O. Max Gardner Jr of Shelby Roy Holston of Ridgewood NJ and Charles Gibson of Winston-Salem. Gardner was elected to the executive committee of the board of trustees at a board meeting. A tax on both tubs once was levied by the state of Virginia.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Golden Fleece
O. Max Gardner, Jr
Shelby
Roy Holston
Ridgewood
N. J
Charles Gibson
Winston-Salem
Gardner
Board of Trustees
Virginia
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