Battle over reapportionment after 1950 census rattles Congress
In Washington the House faces a fight over reapportionment after the 1950 census. New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois may lose seats while California, Florida, Indiana and others may gain. Rankin and Byrne push options from expanding the House to delaying changes. Official counts will follow Truman’s January report and House action in 1953.
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Raymond Wilcove
Central Press
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House of Representatives
New York
Pennsylvania
Iinois
House
Judiciary Subcommittee
William T. Byrne
Byrne
Massachusetts
Truman
Congress
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Census Committee
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Missouri
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Illinois
Kentucky
Georgia
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Tennessee
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Florida
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Maryland
Michigan
Texas
Oregon
Reminder leads to missing first aid course notice
A rural school bus driver visited the Champaign county Red Cross office before the 1950 fall classes. He recalled a desk reminder about a first aid course, but staff said the course isn’t being offered that year. The notice referred to the 1949 course.
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Champaign
Champaign County
Red Cross
Walt Dinges
Scoring Devices Aid U. S. Airmen
U S Air Force uses electronic scoring devices at Wright Field to show pilots their mistakes and why. A flying laboratory records control inputs, speeds, attitudes, and instrument readings while a voice recorder and camera capture pilot comments and movements during simulated flight tests. The project aims to optimize instrument layout and lighting for modern aircraft.
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Dayton, CO
INS
U. S. Air Force
Air Materiel Command
Aero-Medical Laboratory
Dayton
Wright Field
Ethiopia Plans For Gold Mining
Experts will help Ethiopia boost gold production after ancient wealth and modern declines. The government bought new mining gear in the United States. Old western Wallega hosts historic fields, with Adola in Sidamo now emerging as a major new producer. No recent figures on output or value were published. MOVIES ADDED ROME -1%- Classic Italian film trio gains a fourth with cinema growth.
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Ethiopia
United States
Wallega
Suen
Adola
Sidamo
Israelis Rush To Leave Country Before Permits Expire
Israelis rush to exit as government orders restrict nonessential travel. El Al and foreign carriers at Lydda Airport are overwhelmed with bookings as people scramble to use existing exit permits before new limits take effect.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
India Irrigation Expands with Canal Crops Surplus Outlook
One in every eight of India's 244 million cultivated acres is watered by canal irrigation. Policy estimates project nationwide television service reaching from coast to coast by 1952.
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India
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