Surplus Funds Stir North Carolina Road School Effort
In Raleigh the Better Schools and Roads Inc executive committee plans a December 19 meeting to decide how to dispose of about fifteen thousand dollars in surplus funds. The group formed in 1949 to back bonds for school buildings and roads, and now faces proposals from returning money to donors to funding safe driving courses or building a highway engineering foundation at State College, with debates over tax and bookkeeping implications.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Better Schools and Roads, Inc
Allen Langston
State College
Badman Cook Sentenced To Gas Chamber
Wiliam Edward Cook a 23 year old desperado was sentenced to death in San Quentin gas chamber for the murder of Seattle oil salesman Robert H Dewey The convict already faced five prior 60 year sentences for kidnap murders of Mr and Mrs Carl Mosser and their three children of Atwood Illinois He may be transferred from Alcatraz to California for the automatic appeal and possible execution after the California Supreme Court ruling The federal and state authorities await formal transfer papers
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Beadman
Carl Mosser
Atwood, Ill
Federal Director of
James V. Bennett
Cook
Alcatraz Island
California
San Quentin
State Supreme Court
High Court
Department of Justice
Washington
Killer flood in Tandil leaves dead and dozens missing
In Tandil Argentina a flash flood killed twelve people and left thirty missing, police reported. The disaster struck the resort town as rescuers searched for survivors and tracked the scope of the flooding.
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Tandil
Argentina
Strikes Set Back Jet Engine Production Years
Behind the News by Leslie Gould reports strikes delaying Air Force material and jet engine output by four to five months, pushing mass production of jet planes to late 1952 or early 1953. The piece details walkout patterns, plant-by-plant disruptions, and the broader defense impact amid emerging Cold War labor sabotage concerns.
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New York
Korea
U. S
World Federation of Trade
East Berlin
Benoit Franchon
Red
Old Belt Tobacco Prices Vary On Tuesday Markets
United Press reports irregular flue cured tobacco prices across Old Belt markets with gains and losses from 50 cents to 4 dollars per hundred pounds. Six Middle Belt markets sold 852,370 pounds at 48.63 per hundred, while three Eastern Belt markets moved 354,408 pounds at 43.61. Virginia fire cured and sun cured leaves show mixed results with Richmond opening day averages around 34.33 per hundred and a total 296,646 pounds at 34.33.
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Federal
Virginia
Richmond
Youth Center Teaches Kids Citizenship
NEW YORK (UP) Eleanor Roosevelt Judge Harold R Medina and Ambassador Warren Austin received scrolls for outstanding effort to preserve our democratic way of life for the youth from a 17-year-old boy at a dinner here. The boy led the George Junior Republic near Ithaca, the world’s only coeducational self-governing youth community. Since 1895 the 550-acre project has taught citizens through a self-governing system with a town meeting, elected officials, its own court and bank, and a vocational program. The center emphasizes work first and pays in republic currency to fund room and board.
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New York
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harold R. Medina
Warren R. Austin
George
Ithaca
N. Y
William R. George
New York City
Paraguay ends war state with Germany official record
Paraguay formally concluded its state of war with Germany yesterday as reported from Asuncion. Acadia Lodge 674 A F and A M is noted in the dispatch.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Germany
Acadia Lodge
A. F
A.M
Yule Shopping Done Claims Woman of 102
Mrs. Sarah A. Swope of Lancaster is thrilled as Christmas nears. She has finished buying and wrapping presents and set up a miniature tree, but she has no plans for her 102nd birthday tomorrow.
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Lancaster
Sarah A A. Swope
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Douglas
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Pratt & Whitney
Westinghouse Elec
Wright Aero
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Pearl Harbor
United Press
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