Arkansas Governor Promotes State Resources in New York
Governor Sid McMath spoke at a Chase National Bank luncheon in New York asserting Arkansas is recognizing and developing its natural resources through new industry. He noted per family income near four dollars and ranked third in the South for farm income, touting Arkansas’ solvent finances and a constitutional limit on yearly spending.
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Sid McMaith
New York
Chase National Bank
Arkan Gggseus
Arthur W. McCain
Holand Irvine
Arkansas
McMath
State of
Maust
You
Washington
Santa Writes to Boys and Girls of Hope Arkansas
Santa Claus sends a letter to Hope Arkansas children urging early orders for Christmas, promising a December 22 visit and radio reading every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. Miss Merry Christmas will collect letters and forward them to Santa as the busy holiday season approaches.
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Santa
Santa Claus
Hope
Arkansas
Miss Merry Christmas
North Pole
Mary Alice Rogers
KXAR
4Ightly
McMath Sees Arkansas Progress, Opposes Tax Hikes
Governor McMath told New York bankers that Arkansas finances are sound with rising revenue and no need for higher taxes. He cited gasoline, sales, and income taxes, noting deficits are curbed by revenue laws. He praised City of Hope’s growth, its industries, utilities, and three railroad lines as evidence of statewide progress.
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New York
McMath
Arkansas
City of
Hope
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City Southern
Frisco
Playboy Is Narcotics Ring Leader
New York December 2 UP A slave mustached Broadway play boy Angelo Ortiz 25 was jailed as ringleader of a multi million dollar narcotics ring. Detectives said Ortiz led them to marijuana and cocaine hidden in his apartment and a Bronx store room and offered a 25000 bribe to go free. Also jailed were his wife Rose 21 Joseph Rodriguez 40 and Ida Zayas 26. Ortiz began operations last March after a 3300000 drug ring earlier along Broadway.
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New York
Angelo Ortiz
Ortie
Bronx
Ortiz
Rose
Joseph Rodriguez
Ida Zayas
Artiz
Broadway
John Cotlouc
George Zegers
West Side
Kins
Cottone
Zegers
Oru
I U
Weather Forecast for Arkansas
Cloudy with rain in portions of Arkansas. Saturday brings cooler conditions with lingering drizzle. Forecast calls for mild temperatures and Atlantic moisture influencing the state through the weekend.
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Arkansas
Soniht
Culd
Luigi
Scout Campaign Finances Reported by Milton Dillard Team
Finance Drive chairman Milton Dillard submitted an almost complete report for 25 prospect cards assigned to his group. Assistants include Herbert Burns, Fred Robertson, Howard Byers, and Doyle Reaves. Willis’s team features Hoy Taylor, Hugh Reese, Brack Schenk, and Frank Douglas. Additional sums have been turned in at the finance office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Dillard
Finance Drive
Herbert Burns
Fred Robertson
Howard Byers
Doyle Reaves
A. S. Willis
Hoy Taylor
Hugh Reese
Brack Schenk
Frank Douglas
Bast
Pinance
Thomas Gets 6-18 Months, $10,000 Fine
Rep. Parnell Thomas was sentenced to six to eighteen months in jail and fined ten thousand dollars for padding the offices payroll. The judge ordered imprisonment for less than six months? The article notes his age and a plan to seek a congressional seat after the ruling, with his wife declaring intent to run. The case centered on abuse of government payrolls and consequences from the Un-American Activities Committee context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Parnell Thomas
Konths
Thomas
Congras- Routon & Co
Roy Yarberry
Milton Dillard
Herbert Burns
Rephan
Alexander Holt
Fred Robertson
Que McAdaims Loo
Yocum
James W. Marrow
J. D. Chesshir
Howard Tibbett
New
Frank Anderson Yoy
W. Johnson
Norman Moore
W. Frith
J. S. Burke
Hollzaff
Henry
Parnell
Mayton
V. G. Tithe
Clive Jackson
Pener
Willian Hy
W. Huckabee
Lns
Loyce Burns
Faught
Misa Cine Elm
Tuera
Yoo
Coling
Durcrdycel
Lloyd Kinard
Shields Food St
Opal Daniel
Byers Drug Store
Millard Nix
C. Lewis
Hitt's
Morgan-Lindsey
Vance Mayeum
Cece
Homer Hill
Mrs. Lopaay
Amelia Wilson Biles
Vernon
Slavenient
Hayes
Baptists Plan Christmas Music Cantata In December
The Baptist church will present Christmas music The Chorus In the Skies by Fred D Houston on Sunday December 1 at 7:30. The public is invited to this cantata. Youth choir sets carols and preaching on Wednesday December 23 at 7:13. Harold Hightower, Southwestern Seminary student, writes the devotional.
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The
Baptist
Fred D Houston
Harold Hightower
Southwestern Sentisary
McCarran urge cuts to Marshall Plan spending
Senator Pat McCarran after a Europe tour urged a nearly 3.0 billion dollar cut in Marshall Plan aid over the next two years. He proposed 1.889 billion next year and 944.5 million in 1952, arguing U.S. budget restraint is needed to prevent European dependency while acknowledging the program’s value to recovery abroad. Other senators echoed smaller cuts but avoided scrapping aid.
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Washington
Pat McCarran
D. Nev
Europe
McCarran
Senate
House
U. S
A. Willis Robertson
D-Va
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Sen. Burnet RK
Maybank
D-Sc
Congress
Guernsey 4-H Club Elects New Officers
Guernsey High School hosted a December meeting to elect 4-H officers. President Catherine Powell and others were chosen, with members receiving course selection cards. Also reported is Edwin Young killed when a tree fell on him at Freysville farm. he died later at York hospital.
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Guernsey High School
Hazel Daugherty
Catherine Powell
Francis Cotlier
Faydra Campbell
Hazel Daughterty
He Club
Yaris
Edwin Young
Freysville
Young
York Hospital
Lawsuit Targets City Over Street Widening and Alderman’s Status
The case in Hempstead Chancery Court challenges a city resolution condemning land between Main and Walnut for widening 2nd Street. Miss Lillie Middlebrooks seeks a temporary restraining order, alleging legal flaws, improper ward qualification of Alderman Frank Douglas, and that the project benefits individuals rather than the public. The action notes trees and a sidewalk on the disputed area and questions city authority to take the property.
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Main
Walnut Streets
Hempstead Chancery Court
Graves
Lillie Middlebrooks
Dee
Miss Middlebrooks
Frank Douglas
12Th Street
Main _ street
Wallnut Street
City Fee
Fire damages Oaklawn home of Tyree couple
Early today a fire gutted the Oaklawn Addition residence of Tink and Gertrude Tyree on North Oak Street. Firemen prevented total loss, with initial damage estimated around $1000. origin of the blaze was not determined.
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Tink
Gertrude Tyree
North Oak Street
Oaklawn
Orgin
Dream visit from Bongo the checkerboard ape
Hal Boyle recalls a strange dream in which a phosphorescent gorilla named New York-Fi-Bongo arrives nightly to play checkers. The visitor, with searchlight eyes, wins every game and vanishes at dawn, leaving the narrator and wife perplexed as illness makes Bongo the sole companionship and source of victory.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Bongo
Prances
Tein
Frances
Cotton Price Aid Limited to Cooperators in 1950
The county PMA announces price support for 1950 cotton limited to cooperators who plant within acreage allotments, regardless of whether quotas pass in the December 15 referendum. If quotas pass, cooperators receive 9 percent of parity for their 1950 crop. if not, 0 percent. Noncooperators receive no price support in either outcome.
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The
Production and Marketing Administration
Charles F. Brannan
Hart N. Martindale
PMA
CCC Jeanson
Hempstead
Cold and Wet Across Much of the Nation Today
The Associated Press reports cold and wet conditions prevail nationwide with temperatures near or below freezing in Minnesota Wisconsin and Northern New England. Freezing levels extend to Texas Panhandle Arkansas and Tennessee while snow falls in Eastern Washington the Eastern Dakotas Eastern Nebraska and Western Missouri. A warm stretch only occurs along the coastal plain South Texas and the Far South while many areas remain below normal.
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Associated Press
Min
Wisconsin
New England
Texas Panhandle
Arkansas
Tennessee
Washington
Dakota
Nebraska
Missouri
Texas
South
Marshall Plan Valuable Says McClellan
Arkansas Senator McClellan, returning from Western Europe, credits the Marshall plan with deterring communism and valuing aid as a permanent Cold War barrier. He sees no reason to resume full diplomatic relations with Spain, and plans to return to Arkansas next Monday with Mrs. McClellan.
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Washington
Arkansas
McClellan
Senate Appropriations
Europe
United States
Spain
M McCrettan
Fear Phone Strike May Spread Across Regions
A local CIO union official says a 200 installer strike at Southwestern Bell may spread to Missouri Kansas Arkansas Oklahoma and Texas. Western Electric workers seek higher subsistence pay amid a deadlock while another Granite City Illinois walkout occurred. Negotiations with CIO Communications Workers continue as a strike vote unfolds.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Kansas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Southwestern Bell Telphone
Western Electric Company
CIO American Communications Equipment Workers’ Union
J. H. Brashear
Western Electric
Kansas City
Brashear
Granite City
Southwestern Bell
CIO Communications Workers
Southwestern Belt
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Atomic Leak Probe Expands Into Canada Report
Washington reports say the House probe into uranium leaks broadens to Canada with two investigators sent there. Officials confirm 1000 pounds of uranium compounds shipped to the Soviet Union via Great Falls in 1943. The inquiry may revive records of a New York court action related to uranium sales and Leacock estimates.
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Washington
Russia
Canada
Uns
Rugska
Great Falls
Mont
Gei
Leslie R. Groves
United State
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Fulton Les Jr
Wlace
le Russell
Soviet Union
Civi
New York
Cag . C
Howe
Ottawa
Groves
Man Kills Wife After Finding Her With Man in Richmond
Leonard Humphries Jr 23, a fireman, admitted shooting his wife Dorothy 22 and wounding Garnett Taylor 25 after returning home and finding them with another man. He said he located them at a restaurant, followed, then shot. daughter unharmed. Detective Wright reported the confession at a police court.
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Richmond
Leonard Humphries, Jr
Garnett Taylor
Humphries
Cacea
John E. Wright
Mra. Dorthy Humphries
Taylor
Wright
Robert Gray
Hummabries
Gray
Humpries
Two men perished in San Francisco steam bath accident
One policeman was killed and another seriously burned in a Finnish steam bath after a monoxide gas leak from a heater. James Harmon, health department inspector, reported the incident and noted the heater leak. The dead man, Thomas Kelly, was found face down in the steam room.
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San Francisco
Dec
Thomas Kelly
James Harmon
Plapabng
City Health Department
Local Police Capture Two Fugitives
Hope City Police arrested Billy Clyde Hyatt aged 18 and Robert H. Osburn aged 25 on a report from an alert operator. They escaped Lonoke county jail after overpowering Sheriff Hart Jackson during a meal delivery. Also captured was accomplice Patrick Utecall. The trio had fled toward Hope on a freight train, with ties to Florida South Carolina and Lonoke County authorities. Police credited Mrs. Wade Wallace for reporting suspicious activity that led to the arrest.
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Hope City
Billy Clyde Hyatt
Robert H. Osburn
Laroke
Florida
South Carolina
Patrick Utecall
Lonoke County
Hart Jackson
Utecall
Ooh Hyatt
Osburn
Hyatt
Tor Hope
Benton
Texarkana
Lonoke
Wsilso
Jackson
Guy Grant
Pate
Pulaskit County
Little Rock
Lonoke Jail
Wallace Fey
Tulsa refinery blast claims life and injuries
J Henke died early today from burns suffered in a gas explosion and fire at the West Tulsa Refinery of a Texas company. Five others were injured, with one severely burned. Officials estimate damage well over $1,000.
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Tulsa
Okla
Dec
J. Henke
West Tulsa
Texas Company
Henke
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Scout
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Truman
Eisenhower
Key West
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Mtimates
Dwight Q. Eisenhower
State of the Union
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Columbia University
James Fr. Burhes
Luntan
Wisenhower
Byrres
Brannan
Byrnes
Coniplex
Rte
Bongy
Itrances
Boungu
Ulan
Bob
Stalin
Prague
Islovaka
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