Kingsport Merchants Report Holiday Market Stronger Than Ever
Merchants of Kingsport report a record Christmas season with a 50 percent rise in sales and improved merchandise at similar prices to last year. Men’s clothing is scarce due to readjusted prices, while women’s fashion remains strong as brands drive stock. Toys are plentiful but pricier, nylons have become common again, and overall department-store stock is larger and higher in quality.
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Helen Tucker
Kingsport
Santa Cloud
Kentucky Burley Soars To New Highs
Kentucky Burley tobacco markets opened with several averages above 50 dollars per hundred pounds, led by Sterling at 52.74. The statewide average reached 48.59 per hundred, $7.05 higher than last year, based on 11,555,315 pounds sold across 21 markets with Paducah and Winchester starting today. Farmers welcomed the strong opening despite small consignments to the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association.
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Lousville
Kentucky
Burley Tobacco
State Department of Agriculture
Mr Sterling
Lexington
Paducah
Winchester
State Agriculture Department
Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association
Ben Bosworth
Big Toes Play Part In Court
In Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Leo Freend declared Edward W. Pollinger the father of seven year old Matthew after observing similarities in the big toes of Pollinger and the boy. Miss Mildred Goldberg had sued to establish paternity and the judge ordered Pollinger to pay $40 a month in child support.
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Los Angeles
Leo Freend
Mildred Goldberg
Edward W. Pollinger
Matthew
Freund
Pollinger
Top Basket $62 At Rogersville
Opening day tobacco trading at Piantere No. 2 warehouse in Rogersville processed 325 354 pounds with $162 486 90 in money. Average sale price was 349 04 dollars and the top basket fetched 62 dollars. Sales continue through the week at Growers No 1 3 5 and Planters No 1 locations.
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Rogersville
Spl
Piantere
East West Dispute Deepens Over Austrian Treaty
Western and Russian diplomats diverge over German asset rights in Austria as a London conference stalls on an Austrian treaty. French minister Bidault absent in Paris. Molotov accuses the West of trying to form a colony from Germany.
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London
Georges Bideau
Paris
Russia
Austria
Zisterdorf
Danube Shipping Company
Bidault
Abrsenet
France
Maurice
Couve de Murville
Germany
Moscow
Vv. M. Molotov
Molotov
U. S
George C. Marshall
Street Scenes A Lunch Rush Comic Vignette
A downtown worker hurries through lunch at a cafe ter ia forgetting to grab tray and cutlery while a terse male coworker retrieves the items and slides them along a metal rack. A freckled bakery clerk is asked about candy and, hearing no, quietly asks if there are any suckers. A gentleman uses a device to fill a radistor with the top of a dripointor pot repurposed as a funnel.
Planes search for missing C-47 transport near Kaiserslautern
U S Air Force halted a cross nation search for a C-47 missing since Friday with 20 aboard near Kaiserslautern in French occupied Germany. Radio signals placed the craft about 20 miles south of Kaiserslautern as more than 100 planes including B 29s and Bs combed the area while rescue parties and ambulances converged on the scene.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S. Air Force
Kaisersautern
Force
Wiesbaden
Kaiserslautern
Lyon
France
Finn
Italy
Kaisernleutern
U. S
U S Ship Renville Located At Batavia For Peace Talks
The U S Navy transport Renville arrived at Batavia to host peace negotiations between Dutch and Indonesian representatives. Final arrangements and talks between the ship's captain and the United Nations Good Offices Commission were planned, with discussions likely to occur while anchored in neutral waters outside Batavia to bridge differences over the To Cal e.
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U.S
Java
Batavia
U. S. Navy
Renvills
United Nations Good Offices Commission
Gate City Group Backs Sanitation District Plan
Gate City Virginia council considers forming a sanitary district with Weber City planning group to improve water and sewer systems. Petition with 302 names from about 1400 residents supports joint action across Gate City Hiion s Moccasin Gap Weber City and Stateline. Costs rough at 800000 for the district and 435000 for Gate City. council to report next meeting.
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Gate City
Weber City Planning Commission
Hiitons
Moccasin Gap
Weber City
Stateline
Mack Wallace
C. G. Ruth
E. B. Elliott
Weber City Group
Wallace
Car Strikes Two Children In Linden Street Incident
Two sisters aged 10 and 12 were seriously injured when hit by a car driven by James L. Creech at the Walnut and Hamilton Streets crossing near a CTC bus stop. They were rushed to Holston Valley Community Hospital. the older girl’s condition was described as critical, with a compound fracture and a skull injury reported for the younger. Police noted the accident occurred around noon as the children began to cross Walnut Street behind the bus.
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Ave
Doll Johnson
Alice Eileen Johnson
Lamont Street
James L. Creech
Hilltop Ave
Lynn Garden
Walnut
Hamont
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Iva
Alice Eileen
Walnut Street
CTC
Creech
Waa
City Aldermen Vote on Smoke Control in Kingsport
Kingsport aldermen prepare for a final vote on a dust and smoke control ordinance establishing an air pollution department and fuel and stack emissions rules. If approved, it becomes law 15 days after final publication in the Times News. Budget notes include 1948 allocations for administration and health, with bids due for police radio gear and water pipe supply.
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Kingsport
Department of Air Pollution Control
Pena
Tennessee Highway Patrol
J. R. Pecktal
Emergency Europe Aid Bill Passes Senate Amid House Cuts
The 597 million dollar stop gap for Europe cleared the Senate 83 to 6 and faces House trimming of about 67.6 million. It favors Italy France Austria with debate over China aid and long term Marshall Plan cuts. Republicans split on immediate China aid and on committing to continued foreign aid. The House aims to remove aid for China and push long term reductions, while the Senate keeps a top limit through March for Europe recovery.
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Washington
Senate
House
Truman
House Foreign Affairs Committee
China
Italy
France
Austria
GOP
Martin
R-Mass
Congress
Ovary Mne
Langer
R-Nd
McKellar
D-Tenn
Moore
R-Okta
O'Daniel
D-Tex
Robertson
R-Wye
Taylor
Didaho
Europe
Wherry Demands Specific Inflation Proposals From Truman
Senator Wherry urged President Truman to submit explicit 10 point anti inflation measures to Congress, accusing vague statements of political motives. Taft pressed his own eight point plan and asked if Democrats want inflation to persist until after the election, while congressional panels prepared to hear officials on price and wage controls and banking rules.
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Washington
Wherry
R-Neb
Truman
Con- Breas
Senate
Ithas
Taft
R-Otlo
Philadelphia
Wheery
Hia Aus Plulona
White House
Capitol
Welcott
R-Mich
Meune Banking Committee
Commerce Harriman
Secretary of Treasury
Snyder
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson
Labor
Schwellenbach
Wolcott
Federal Reserve Board
Senate Banking Committee
Senate House Economic Committee
City Tax Paid Rate Hits 94 Percent Before Deadline
Ninety four per cent of M47 city taxes were paid to the city treasurer before the deadline. City recorder and treasurer J R Pecktal announced the 1947 levy totals 633207.68 dollars with 595223.31 paid by December 1. Last year 94 per cent was paid by the deadline, while the 1946 levy was 532525 and 502132 had been paid by deadline. Penalties rise from February 1 and monthly thereafter. In City Court Judge Howard Foston forfeited bonds on two speeding charges one parking violation and one case of public drunkenness.
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J. R Pecktal
City Recorder
Pecktal
Howard Foston
Atomic tests hint at new war weapons plans
Atomic tests behind secrecy at Enuwe tok Atoll near Hawaii and the Philippines suggest U S scientists may develop new weapons using atomic energy. The United Nations warned, natives displaced, and Bikini comparisons noted as tests move to a secure Pacific proving ground with full security.
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Washington
Pacific
I Atomic Emergy Commission
Eniwetok Atoll
Bikini Atoll
Sroa
Security Council of
United Nations
Melanda
Aomon
Bujiri
Bikini
Eniwetok
Hawaii
Philippines
New Gainea
Tthe
Mover
Agvance
West
United States
Army
Navy
Brien McMahon
Dconn
Senate
House Atomic Committee
Commission
Congress
Pacific Proving Grounds
Joint Committee
Atomic Energy Commission
Arabs Start Three Day General Strike in Palestine
Jerusalem authorities imposed stringent measures as Arabs began a three day general strike protesting the United Nations partition plan. Violent clashes erupted at Tel Aviv and Jaffa leaving four Jews wounded in a melee crowd near the border area amid rising tensions across Palestine.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
United Nations
Holy Land
Tel Aviv
Jaffa
Riots Rage Through Jerusalem As Arabs Attack Jewish Areas
Violence erupts in Jerusalem with thousands of Arabs flooding streets to oppose Palestine division. Shops burned, cars overturned, buses stoned as British troops and Palestine police quell the mob. Hagana mobilizes to protect Jewish property amid casualties among Jews and Arabs. Police and armored cars confront rioters. suspects reported but numbers unclear.
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Palestine
Hagana
Old City of Jerusalem
Tommy Suners
Midtown
Princess Mary's Way
St. Julian's Way
King David Hotel
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