Kingsport board approves first reading of Sunday movie ordinance
The Kingsport Board of Mayor and Aldermen passes first reading of an emergency ordinance permitting Sunday night films with a midnight to 1 am cutoff. The vote was 3 to 2 with Blankenbocer presiding and Filler opposing, citing church concerns. The measure would also adjust space rules for a local apartment project.
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Raoxville
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Kingsport
Tojo Hanged and War Criminals Executed in Tokyo
Bulletin reports Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war lords were executed today in Tokyo. The court condemned them for war crimes in the Pacific and Far East with others receiving life sentences or long terms. cremation planned for some bodies.
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Robbers Wait on Collector at Mill Street Sale
Three gunmen robbed a cash collection team at the Bilt Hiwaga Sales site yesterday. They tied up Leonard Casdeira, 74, and Diane and escaped with 3000 in cash and one dollar in checks after forcing the driver to reveal the weekly payment.
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Turbulent Street Scene Reflects Holiday Tension
Narrator describes crowds outside a downtown store window as Santa Claus impersonator controversy unfolds. A bystander criticizes a man’s behavior while a woman near the lingerie counter wonders about shopping and waiting for a wife’s selection, revealing social awkwardness and festive commerce.
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City Sets 6000 Dollar Drive To Nab Robbers
Kingsport votes a 6000 dollar special fund to aid the police in tracking a ring of safecracker robberies across East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Investigators may be hired or officers paid extra for off duty work as the Safecracker cases escalate.
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Tennessee Eyes Constitutional Reform Through Limited Convention
Tennessee lawmakers debate reform options as Governor Browning endorses a constitutional convention plan. Past efforts failed, with public votes and court questions shaping the path to ammendments and potential limited or unlimited conventions. The piece notes previous proposals and recent commission recommendations guiding legislative action.
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Sabe
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Kalamazoo
CIO United Steelworkers
Faere
Tunley
Kakwaazoo
Roy Murray
Hoffzman
Inter Mountain seeks second rate hike in Tennessee
Inter Mountain Telephone Company filed a petition with the Tennessee Railroad and Public Utilities Commission for another rate increase claiming wage raises and material costs offset last year's small rise. It cites proposed statewide exchanges, a large expansion plan, and wage hikes of five cents per hour for operators starting January 1 to fund the effort.
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Brain
Greenesville
Jonesboro
Sulmestone
Afountain City
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McGrath Predicts End of Taft Hartley Ban
Washington AP Democrat J Howard McGrath forecast the new Congress will pass a single package repealing the Taft Hartley Act and reinstating the Wagner Act. He urged simultaneous action to revise the labor law and maintain pro labor protections, tying to Truman's 1947 message. He noted no discussions with Fruman but supported prompt action.
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Hal Roach Makes Move Into Television Production
Hal Roach, longtime producer of motion picture comedies, begins a series of television productions and will channel all future work into TV. Industry insiders see this as a major transfusion as video creators ramp up and Roach joins a field already crowded with new studios and deals. Production costs in TV are cited around $79,000 per hour, with Fairbanks and others projecting substantial TV output for the fireside audience.
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Quentin Roosevelt among victims of China National Airlines crash
Rescue teams found Quentin Roosevelt among the victims of a crash near Bangit Felanth, east of here. The 23 year old grandson of former president Theodore Roosevelt, an Army captain in World War I, was aboard a CNA C-54 Skyweaver on a routine Shanghai to Hengkat flight.
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Relapses Put Four Smog Victims Back in Hospitel
Four residents of Donora Pennsylvania hospitalized again after lethal smog that killed two last October. Dr Willem Regus states the patients suffer lingering effects of the first attack and require personal treatment.
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Senate Party Scuffies Loom in Washington
The new Senate faces power jockeying as Republicans and Democrats clash over leadership posts. Tydings of Maryland is linked to a bid for Senate president pro tempore, while Nebraskan Wherry fights to keep the role of assistant leader amid GOP opposition and liberal critics. Other senators including Vandenberg, Knowland, and Lodge weigh shifts in leadership and strategy.
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Dies in Gate City Charles P Quillen 86
Charles P Quillen 86 longtime Gate City resident and Scott County Democrat died Wednesday at 6 50 am at his daughter Mrs W Horton Perrys home He served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1923 25 was Commissioner of Revenue deputy sheriff and a merchant Survived by eight sons including Clendenen G Quillen and Joseph W Quillen Funeral set for Friday 2 pm at First Methodist Church with burial in Holston View Cemetery
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Death plunge of Laurence Duggan prompts police probe
Mystery over the death of Laurence Duggan deepens as police seek to determine if he died by his own action, by accident, or due to foul play. Statements from Sumner Welles and Rep. Mundt bring espionage and conspiracy questions into the inquiry while Duggan’s colleagues and officials defend his 14 years in the State Department.
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Young Mother Accused Of Kidnapping Her Own Child
Jeanne Morgan Braget and her husband John M. Braget of Bacon Washington are accused by state police of kidnapping three year old Vicka Jeanne Smycer from her grandparents who had adopted her two years earlier. Attorney Carl B. Shelly says a felony warrant was sworn for the Bragets arrest.
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Boeltie Avera
Wash Shefley
Vicka Jeanne Smycer
Marcy M. Snyder
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Post Office Records Stone Day for Kingsport Mail
Kingsport Post Office reports a record outgoing mail day with 158 579 letter-size pieces processed Monday. Postmaster Boward Long notes 238 000 items passed through cancellation and packing before final tally.
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Rape Confessor to Undergo Mental Tests in Cook County
Chicago prosecutors announced a rape case suspect, Herlinde Perez Arias, would undergo mental tests at the Cook County behavior clinic after being questioned for over an hour. He reportedly told authorities the same account, and immigration officials in Hammond Indiana noted inconsistencies in his story.
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Herlinde Perez Arias
Cook County
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Hammond
UN Says Holland Violated Truce Despite Aid Halt
The United States halted two Marshall Plan aid programs to the Netherlands East Indies pending settlement of home issues with Indonesia. UN investigators accused the Netherlands of violating the truce as Dutch forces press a police action in Java and Sumatra.
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Die Pohet
Renville
Republic
Neal to be new state safety commissioner
Carthage publisher Neal Will Be New Safety Commissioner for the state, with Nashville newspaper reports confirming his appointment. The Nashville Automobile Club safety director Clydell Castleman is expected to head the Highway Patrol, though no comment was offered on the reports.
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Elect Cordox Browning
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