07 Jun 1948
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1948
Page
1
About 220000 Air Force enlisted personnel worldwide answered a questionnaire. Results show 34 percent say they will reenlist, 17 percent unsure, 20 percent probably not, 9 percent almost sure not. Seventy one percent like Air Force life and 63 percent think takehome pay is better than civilian life.
Wisconsin inventor unveils the Vacu-matic Carburetor system that trims fuel use by automatic supercharge based on vacuuming action. Easy to install on cars, trucks, or tractors, with free details available from Vacu-matic Carburetor Co of Wauwatosa Wisconsin.
Hollywood gossip notes that Sam Spade may move to film as Howard Duff’s private eye image lures studio offers. Duff seeks a big production for a screen version while Duchy conflicts over the deal and Ancel Blyth Winters Du Duryea star in other roles. Catalina seadrome christening and Henie party headline a busy Hollywood week. Hope visits set with Cecil B. DeMille. Governor Warren cameo teased.
New York City’s population was estimated at 8,005,000 as of January 1, up over a million in three years, per the Industrial and Development Department of the Consolidated Edison Company. The piece also surveys Hollywood gossip, stars’ contracts, tours, and film plans, plus a Melbourne report on Australia’s White Australia policy and its racial tensions.
A long list of Rochester Mills and nearby residents are noted visiting relatives in Pittsburgh Marion Center Brockway and Brockway area during Memorial Day weekend. Highlights include the Braughler family celebrating a 50th wedding anniversary with about 100 guests and the Braughters Albert and Rebecca Braughler's long marriage. Also mentioned are school award recipients Louise Galentine and Donald Elkin.
Dolores Ethel Jennings daughter of Mr and Mrs Marshall L Jennings of 1149 Oak Street Indiana has opened the Indiana Letter Shop at 640 Philadelphia Street offering stenographic services typing mimeographing bulletins forms illustrations color work and direct mail including addressing folding mailing and stamping The shop will also handle sign painting for store windows Jennings a longtime resident of the community attended Thaddeus Stevens School before graduating from Indiana High School and is now in business with phone number 2190 for patrons to contact.
NEA report details vast 1948 political convention coverage in Philadelphia. About 1200 US and foreign reporters plus 500 photo and radio staff expected. Additional telephones and telegraph circuits, press rooms, and NEA Acme HQ in Convention Hall. Telephoto service and rapid photo distribution planned. Television coverage by NBC CBS ABC and DuMont, with a signaling exposition and 6000-seat viewing hall. Radio network recording, editorial staff, and future Wallace third party use noted. technical advances in radio and rail topics also mentioned.
Hollywood marks the 52nd anniversary of the first screen kiss from 1896 in The Widow Jones. May Irwin and John C. Rice sparked a stir, drew censorship, and helped launch later talents like Theda Bara and Greta Garbo.
Reverend E C Schumacher plans to fly an overhauled Navy plane rebuilt by Harold Grace to Wyoming Montana and Colorado as part of evangelical work. Grace, who bought the craft from the government, will lend it for Schumacher a licensed pilot whose ministry spans three states.
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