McMath Seeks Highway Bond Plan With Backup Taxes
Governor McMath defended a 28 million dollar highway bond proposal and said voters may approve it in a special election or face a pay as you go alternative funded by taxes. He warned borrowing delays will worsen highway conditions and urged careful choice between bond financing and new taxes while Washington economists warn of an unemployment spike. The piece includes political analysis on Republican strategy and party leadership ahead of 1950 elections.
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McMath
Washington
Labou Uncing
Congress
GOP
Dewey
Truman
Republican Party
Taft
Senate
Cobbwood Wallboard Plant Nears Start in Two Weeks
Cobbwood Inc plans to begin operations at the former Southwestern Proving Ground site within about two weeks. Directors reviewed progress on a giant press as Wayne Fletcher, head of the Arkansas Resources and Development Commission, praised the company at a Rotary luncheon. Attending were Cobbwood president Guy E Basye, J. Walter Cobb Sr., developer of the wallboard process, and organizer W. W. White.
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Cobbwood, Inc
Southwestern Proving Ground Reservation
Cobbwood
Rotary Club
Wayne Fletcher
Arkansas Resources & Development Commission
Fletcher
Arkansas
Guy E. Basye
J. Walter Cobb
W. W. White
Mr. Fletcher
NLB Charges Bull Shoals Contractors in Ark Project
The National Labor Relations Board filed a charge against Ozark Idem Constructors Inc for violating the act at a flood control and power dam project near Mountain Home Arkansas. A Mountain Home hearing January 27 before a board trial examiner will address alleged failure to bargain in good faith and interference with employees in union efforts involving about 1200 workers.
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New Orleans
National Labor Relations Act
Arkansas
Mountain Home
Ark
NLRB
John F. Lebus
Ozark Idem Constructors, Inc
Little Rock
Bert Smith and
Joplin
Tri-State Council of the
Buildin Es Department
APL
Bal Shoals
Ozark
War Department
Lebus
Gordon Long to Receive Sports Award Tonight
Gordon Long, University of Arkansas football player, will receive this year’s MLS Nelson sportsmanship award in Boston. The Boston gridiron club voted Long for defending as football official from a threatening crowd at a Southwest Conference game last fall. He is accompanied by Dean Emeritus Williams Gregson of the university.
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Boston
University of Arkansas
MLS
Nelson
Boston Gridiron Club
Long
Willams
Gregson
University
Texas City Sends Money to Aid Warren Victims
A Texas City Lions Club check was donated to Warren disaster relief. A. D. Mason of Camden and Arkansas Lions District 7A announced the receipt of funds intended for Warren where 53 people died in last week’s tornado.
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Texas City
Warren
Camden
Fan
A. D. Mason
Arkansas Lions Clubs
Texas
Lions Club
Missing $80,000 in Chicago-bound mail questioned in Waukesha
In Waukesha Wisconsin over 20 postal clerks were questioned after $80,000 in good and mutilated currency sent from Waukesha National Bank to the Federal Reserve in Chicago vanished from a mail shipment. The pouch was left unguarded for about 30 minutes on a baggage wagon at the railroad station and was not on the train that departed at 6:20 p.m. Authorities fear theft but consider misrouting possible as the pouch might have been placed in another sack.
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Waukesha
Wis
Chicago
Waukesha National Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicaga
Llmer J. Holmes
Post
Atticas
Pine Demonstration by Hulsey for Washington 4-H Club
George Hulsey 4-H member led a pine seedling demonstration January 13 at the Washington 4-H Club meeting. He has planted 3000 pines as part of his forestry project this year. Officers discussed attending Officers Training School January 23 at City Hall Hope and Lorraine Blackwood led a house shows demonstration with patterns for girls. Plans for a dress revue in May were set.
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George Hulsey
Washington
George
Billy Jo Hulsey
Vesta Saunders
City Hall
Hope
Lorraine Blackwood
Is a Blonde Warmer Than a Brunette or Redhead
HAL BOYLE reports on a humorous experiment using a sentimeter to measure women and a showgirl’s reactions to valentines. The test subjects include a housewife, a secretary, a college freshman, and three Broadway showgirls, with results described as warm to hot for brunettes and redheads. A Russian bear at a bar adds a surreal capstone to the tale.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Hallmark Greeting Card Company
Lange
Luke
Norma Thornton
Town City
Abbe Marshall
Judy Sinclair
Philadelphia
Theresage
Prigter
G Office
Manet
Laura
Rita Culen
Old
Avite Doe Stidin
Ste-Bear
OY Stalin
Leebess
Swine Production Meetings Planned in Hempstead County
Special swine production meetings will be held in five Hempstead County communities on January 11 19 and 20 led by Howard G Ford Extension Swine Specialist from the University of Arkansas cooperated by Byron Huddleston Assistant County Agent Meetings address McCaskill Blevins Bingen Columbus and Guernsey schools with times 10 30 a m 1 30 p m and 22 30 p m on January 18 19 and 20 These sessions target 4 H Club members and local adults seeking relief methods in swine production.
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Hempstead
Howard G. Ford
University of Arkansas, College of Agriculture
Byron Huddleston
Meister Bahela
McCaskill
Blevins
Bingen School
Columbus School
Guernsey
Move Made to Get Sweden Off the Fence
Washington reports officials pushing a new allies only label on American arms to lure Sweden off neutrality in the cold war. State Department says equipment cannot be spared for nations not willing to join a defense pact against Communist expansion. Sweden seeks neutrality while press notes differ. Stockholm says Norway and Denmark urged neutrality, while Sweden remains aloof from the proposed US Canada NATO pact.
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Washington
Sweden
Russia
State Department
Michael McDermott
United States
Ubot
Opposiu
Folice
Weappi McDermott
Sumorr
Stockholm
Norway
Denna
Allianve
Insurance Firms Urged to Buy Arkansas Bonds
Texarkana Jap 19 UP State reporter Jack V. Clark of Milley notes Governor Sid McMath proposes a 28 million dollar bond issue funded by Arkansas insurance companies. He argues the move would save taxpayers by cutting bonding commissions and legal fees and urges legislation to back the plan even if insurers refuse.
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Texarkana
Guv
Sid McMath
Arkansas Insurance Companie
Jack V. Clark
Milley
Clark
Arkansas
Two Teens Planned Erie High School Bomb Plot
Philipsburg Pennsylvania youths, both 14, plotted to blow up Philipsburg High School using 100 sticks of dynamite and 75 blasting caps. They admitted planning for weeks, failing grades noted, and were to appear before Centre County Judge Ivan Walker for a hearing in Bellefonte. They previously stole outdoor decorations, two rifles, and tampered with a local mine company powder house.
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Philipsburg
Philipsburg High, School
Centre J
Ivan Walker
Bellefonte
Prank Ehrenfeld
Ehrenfeld
Russell Duck
Puck
Duck
Dueck
Benson Sanitarium
Bonel #ill ‘Mining Co
Originator of Little Vittles Transferred
Frankfurty Germany telegrams report the originator of Little Vittles is handed to the United States while continuing the aid operation. Halvorsen believes his next task is flying giant C74 Globemasters to move supplies, as 90,000 parachutes have dropped over the city. Berliners have sent 4,000 letters of gratitude and 7,400 Christian letters reached the U.S. via the operation.
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Frankfuy Geermany
Ty Gail
Halvorsen
United States
Praivet
Chinese Reds Take Over Key City of Tientsin
Shanghai reports say Tientsin, a major commercial city of 3 million, fell to Chinese Reds after a fierce artillery barrage. Red Gen. Lin Dao’s forces seized the burning city amid widespread destruction and civilian casualties. U.S. Consul General Robert Smyth confirmed staff safety as Reds fired rifles in the streets near the U.S. Consulate and other offices. News reached Nanking of a crushing Nationalist setback.
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Shanghai
Tientsin
Chiang ‘Kaishek
Lindao
Manchura
China
Robert Smyth
Berkeley
Calif
U.S
Smyth
Broad Victoria Road
U. S
United States Information Service Office
Nanking
Riots Report 300 Believed Dead in Africa Race Violence
In Durban and surrounding areas in Union of South Africa, about 300 Indians and native blacks are believed killed over two days of racial riots. Nearly 400 injured as clashes spread. state of emergency considered. Police and military deployments increased to restore order.
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Durban
Union of South Africa
Johannesburg
F.C. Erasmus
Durbati
Pretoria
South Africa
Jame
India
Guard Around Coronation Stone Stirs London Crowd
London reports Scotland Yard placed a heavy guard at Westminster Abbey after a threat to steal the coronation stone. The red sandstone relic, used in royal coronations since 1300, was said to have been targeted in a 16 page Scottish postmarked letter. Police called the warning possibly a hoax.
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London
UPI
Scotland
Edward II
Scotland Yard
A. A. Woodul Found Dead Near Prescott
United Press reports four deaths in Arkansas from unrelated causes over the weekend. A 70-year-old Prescott farmer, A. A. Woodul, died of a heart attack in a field, while other incidents include a highway collision near Sheridan killing Elmer George Radant and a freight-crossing death in Pine Bluff.
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United Press
Arkansas
Elmer
George Radant
Oklahoma’ City
Highway 107
Sheridan
C. A. Passmore
Oxley
Joe Eady
Pine Bluff
Catton
Belt Crossing
Carl Parker
Wall
Paris
Corbin City
Dixie No. 2
Harold Horton
Youth Held on Manslaughter Charge in Memphis Crash
In Memphis Tennessee on January 18 195? deputies charged 21 year old Tommy Nelson with manslaughter for a stolen car crash that killed Glenn Kennedy 16 and critically injured Jereditt Stewart 16. Nelson and a second occupant fled the scene before being found about a mile away walking toward the city.
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Memphis
Tenn
Sheriff's
Tommy Nelson
Glenn EF
Kennedy
Jereditt R. Stewart
Mao declares unconditional peace terms for China
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst DeWitt Mackenzie reports Mao Tse-tung demands unconditional surrender and a redrew nation. He vows violent reforms, land seizures, elimination of reactionaries, and abrogation of imperial treaties, resettling China under Communist rule. Chiang Kai-shek faces a choice as Nanking debates peace and Formosa looms as possible refuge.
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Dewitt Mackkenzie
Mano Tse-tung
Chiang Kai-shek
Stalin
China
Madame Caving
Inne
United States
Mao
America
Chang
Kuomintang
Lam
Nanking
Charly Mao
Chiang
Twig Agy
Yangtze River
Shanghai
Formosa
Mao Tsu-tung
John Roderick
Man
Commuunist Party
Ted
Shanspravst Chiba
Ives push for strategy to repeal Taft Hartley law
Washington reports outline GOP plan to trim features of the Taft Hartley act and craft an Ives Morrill style bill. Senator Morse joins committee to remove stringent provisions while Taft and Republicans press for limits on unions, amid conference changes.
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Washington
Ives
GOP
Truman
Taft
Oh Books
Yenate
Labor
Tyes
Walet
Morse
Senate
Howe
Mittee
Rita's Prince Faces Newsmen Anger in Cannes
Cannes dispatch reports Aly Khan angrily protests press attention to his globe trotting romance with Rita Hayworth. He threatens to end a planned meeting with the Aga Khan and orders his entourage to keep photographers away. Rita Hayworth meets the Aga Khan of India during a formal visit, stepping out for the first time since arriving. The couple previously sheltered in their villa as Rita battles a cold.
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Cannes
Aly’ Khan
Ithe
Adresa
Rita Hayworth
Hita
Aga Khan
Agais
Aga
Rita
Bonds May Be New AEA Head In Arkansas
A state public service commission seats reshuffle prompts Gov. Sid McMath to consider replacing three members with C. C. Wine of Texarkana while Westfall’s term expires. McMath also moves to fill three vacancies on the State Board of Education with Means Wilkerson Marvin Byrd and Frank Bailey, though Senate confirmation is uncertain as Brown and Meriwether were recently reappointed by a former governor. Continued on n:
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Little Hock
Commissio
Sid. McMath
Tian Q
Westfall
Camberesia
C. C.wine
Texarkana
McMath
Commission
Howard McCullough, Jr
Forrest City
John R. Thompson
Lite Jtle Rock
Wineseat
State ‘Board of Education
Means Wilkerson
Greenwood
Marvin Byrd
Earle
Frank
Bailey
Little Hook
Roy _ Meriwether
Roy _ Meriwether Paragould
Russel Brown
Lit Rock
Noble Gilled
Brown
Meriwett
Ben Laney
State Senate
Boste
Ike Mu
Senate
Counir
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NLB
Gordon Long
Hulsey
Boyle
Sreenka Em
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Charles W. Callahan
Buckley
W. Va
Yamagata
U. S Army
Africa
Coronation Stone
A. A. Woodul
Prescott
A. B
AEA
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