Failure of Thomasville Foundation Drive Delays Projects
Thomasville city reports the Community Foundation Drive failed to meet its fundraising quota. Hospital needs 42500 for equipment while $13128.62 remains unallocated. Finch notes possible $25000 allocation from designated funds, with other projects like a bath house and Civic Center equipment postponed.
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Thomasville Community Foundation
Thomasville
City Memorial Hospital
E Community Foundation
Harry B. Finch
Finch
Bath House
Foundation
19 Year Olds Can't Escape Draft Says Hershey
Draft Director Hershey warned 19-year-olds face continued calls as the pool remains small. He noted monthly drafts run about 53,000 and cuts by Secretary Wilson would only yield minor relief. Hershey urged stricter deferments for students and fathers, stating the manpower problem hinges on whether fathering substitutes for service.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Hershey
Wilson
Armed Services
Rds
Annual Wage Guarantee To Top UAW's Demands
Walter P. Reuther announced that the UAW has drafted a guaranteed annual wage plan to lead wage talks with major car producers. He said a $230 monthly pension goal will be pushed for the 1955 contracts, with funds in the pension trusts expected to nearing one billion dollars by 1960. The plan aims to guarantee income regardless of annual hours worked, with details to be released at the convention.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers
Reuther
CIO
UAW
Conflicting Accounts in California DC-4 Crash
In Alvarado California a DC-4 crash killed 35 aboard a Transocean flight from Oakland to the Far East. The Civil Aeronautics Authority and Air Force investigate while Transocean and the Oakland control tower give conflicting stories about weather delays and air traffic handling.
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Alvarado
Calif
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Air Force
Transocean Airlines
Oakland
Far East
Transocean
Lee Houseman
Oakland Aiport
Houseman
509Th
Van Fleet Urges Bold Action to Beat Communism
Gen James A Van Fleet told a University of Florida audience that communism can be beaten in Korea or any front if allies are built and the United States fields a strong army. He urged decisive military defeat of Communist forces, education on communism’s goals, and warned freedom is endangered while any country falls to communism.
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Gainesville
Fla
James A. van Fleet
Korea
8Th Army
University of Florida
U. N
America
van Fleet
Washington
Senate
Earth
Anonymous donor returns conscience money to Nebraska
Chancellor R. G. Gustavson of the University of Nebraska found an anonymous letter on his desk containing two $100 bills. The sender claimed he had cheated the university in the past and returned the money as a form of conscience payment.
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Lincoln, Neb
R. G. Gustavson
University of Nebraska
Gustavson
Thomasville Kite Contest Winners Named
In a city recreation event at Thomasville, Jim Sink, a Colonial Drive School sixth grader, won first in the largest kite division and second in the novelty division using one large two stick kite. Over 30 children entered. prizes included checker sets and jigsaw puzzles with ribbon awards.
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Thomasville
Jimmy Sink
Colonial Drive School
City Recreation Department
Sink
J. D. Foust
Steve Sink
Colonial Drive
Douglas Woodall
Jimmy Branes
Clayton Smith, Jr
Liberty Drive
Nolangins
Tommy Holliday
Robert Beasley
Farrell Boyles
Kern Street School
Big Game Comes to You in India
Calcutta tale shows a city office worker killing two leopards near his home with a bicycle light spear and axe after hearing a noise. The incident unfolds 18 miles from central Calcutta as Tarapada Chakravarty and a neighbor confront the leopards at a pond.
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Calcutta
India
Tarapada Chakravarty
Oldest co ed plans homes for working girls
Virginia Golson a 70 year old student at Appalachian State Teachers College says she will campaign after graduation to establish home away from home for girls who move to cities to work. She wants churches to back shelters on a sharing basis to shield them from bad influences and loneliness.
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Miss Golson
Virginia
Tree farm project grows at Woody County Airport
Wallace Bennon, field manager, leads a sideline Christmas tree venture at Parkerburg West Virginia based Woody County Airport. He planted 2000 Scotch pine and spruce seedlings this spring with plans for 100000 trees along the field. Short term sales of table size trees are planned in three years followed by room sized trees in five years.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Woody County
Wallace Bennon
Bennon
It is about 90 miles from Key foet Fla to the nearest point
The fragment states a distance of about 90 miles from Key West Florida to the closest point, suggesting a coastal or regional reference.
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Key Foet Fla
Army Chaplain William Weitzel Travels for Soldiers in Korea
Army Chaplain William H. Weitzel of Gettysburg travels about 1000 miles monthly aiding soldiers in Korea. The piece notes Alaska’s potential statehood and a projected coal reserve scale of nearly 100 billion tons for the Twentieth Century Fund context.
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H. Weitzel
Gettysburg
Korea
Alaska
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