08 Dec 1952
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1952
Page
1
Budapest correspondent recounts a government decree requiring every public contact point to maintain a complaints book. Workers and managers read and act on entries, but the tone varies from frustrated customers to precise critiques of service and goods. The system pressures staff to fix issues, while some grievances go unresolved.
Adelaide Kerr profiles the non profit This I Believe radio program, its five minute capsules five evenings weekly, its lack of sponsor and its global reach. It features successful people like Eleanor Roosevelt and Lionel Barrymore sharing personal creeds guiding their lives. Executed since 1951, the program airs on 196 US stations, 150 abroad, via Voice of America and armed forces broadcasts, with editions published in a book and supported by Help Inc.
Greta Hoffstrom, 25, becomes first woman to grace Sweden’s 1000 kronor note and will appear on lower denominations as well. The model, known as Blonde Bomb, has shifted from magazine covers to monetary history under artist Mark Sylvan’s direction. An article notes producers and voices surrounding the change and mentions Christmas plays in New Mexico.
Dr. William Feinbloom of Columbia University announced a new clear-image lens capable of giving vision to about half of the 150,000 partially blind Americans. Worn like glasses, the lens comprises two or three elements spaced about one eighth inch apart and about seven sixteenths of an inch thick. He told the Maine Optometric Association the device removes all optical blur possible for a partially blind person.
Cuban government and Cubana Airlines officials opened an investigation into a DC4 airliner crash off Bermuda that killed 37, with 17 bodies recovered and 20 listed as missing. Survivors from Spain, Cuba, and Mexico were reported progressing well at King Edward VII Hospital. The aircraft had departed Madrid for home.
A 50 year old suspect, Carl Penfer, died from shotgun wounds after a police shootout near the Georgia Tech campus following a fatal clash in which Patrolman W M Richards was killed. Homer Marvin Spruell, held on suspicion of murder, had been under guard at Grady Hospital since the Tuesday gun battle. The exchange involved four chest hits and two shots to the head.
Real estate transfer notices list parcels in Burrell Two and White Townships. Transfers include Mary J. Stromi, Harvey G. Griffith, Conda Weimer, H. B. Langham, Jacob Napolnik, Jessie Birdsall, and Pennsylvania Electric Co. with nominal sums and other considerations.
Auckland New Zealand Mo A 22 years old puma claims oldest in captivity dies in Auckland Zoo after a long illness. Reports from American papers note a 1644 earlier decision to destroy the animal but a reprieve followed then an operation to remove a throat abscess aided recovery before death from liver trouble.
Oregon Senator Wayne L Morse told 175 Stevenson volunteers that independent voters will gain control of Congress within ten years. He said liberals have not controlled Congress since 1937 and predicted a realignment of political forces. Morse, elected as a Republican in 1950, backed Adlai Stevenson and self described as an independent after Eisenhower’s election.
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