Townsend Plan Rally Opens 12th National Conven tion
The Townsend Plan rally opens with 3000 delegates at Municipal Auditorium praising Dr Francis E Townsend 86 and his pension idea of 200 monthly for over 60s financed by a 3 percent tax. Key speakers include Dr Townsend and his son Robert Townsend with talks on legislative unity and labor cooperation.
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Francis E. Townsend
Pension Plan
Townsen Club
Municipal Auditorium
Townsend Plan
Dr. Townsend
Townsend
Long Beach
Georgia
The
Republic
Norman W. Pendleton
United We Legislate
Mutual Coop
Widowed Girl Prays For Stepson’s Typhoid Recovery
MEMPHIS Tenn June 16 A 14 year old widow prays for the recovery of her 11 year old stepson from typhoid fever which killed her husband last Thursday The stepmother with two stepsons was living as a tenant farmer in north Mississippi She said she wants to keep the family together and help harvest cotton despite the hardship.
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Memphis
Tenn
James Franklin
Bobby Joe Franklin
Agreement Near On Marine Expansion
Washington reports a House Senate conference committee neared agreement on a bill to expand the Marine Corps and make its commandant a part time member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Wasilington
Wei. A
House-Senate Conference Committee
Marine Corps
Joint Chiefs of Staff
City Receives 62 Million From Oil and Gas Revenues
City auditor records show oil and gas revenues totaling more than 62 million dollars have been used in lieu of taxes over 31 years. Revenue sources include upland oil wells earning 19.09 million, gas department transfers of 28 million, and royalties from Continental Consolidated oil production about 100 thousand. Funds directed to retirement of bonded debt and to a revenue fund are noted among the totals.
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Long Beach
Signal Hill
Continental Consolidated Oir
Church Meet Sees Movies For TV Shows
Delegates at the 16th Southern California Lutheran Churches of the Missouri Synod gather at First Lutheran Church, Long Beach, to preview two pilot films for This Is the Life. The program aims to raise moral standards on television and will air in fall with a $750,000 budget for 26 films in 1952 53 produced by Family Films Inc Hollywood. More than 225 pastors, teachers, and laymen attend as plans include 20 new congregations and reports from radio television and newspapers committees.
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First Lutheran Church of
Long Beach
Convention of
Southern California Lutheran Churches of the
Missouri Synod
Tobias H. Joeckel
South Gate
California
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Family Films, Inc
Hollywood
Joeckel
Martin J. Bruer
First Lutheran Church
Burton W. Chace
A. E. Mueller
van Nuys
Southern California
The
Lutheran Church
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Irwin L. de Shetler
CIO
de Shetler
Herbert F. Haren
Haren
Townsend Organization
Robert
City
Church Meet
America
Pontiac
Fisher
Lia
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