Tennessee House passes bill outlawing strikes in utilities
The Tennessee House approved a bill by a 64 to 27 vote to outlaw strikes and lockouts in electric distribution systems. The measure aims to prevent service interruptions in cooperatives and would require unresolved labor disputes to go before the State Railroad and Public Utilities Commission.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee House
State Railroad and Public Utilities Commission
Paul Phillips
Sams Would Give County's Squires Added Authority
Nashville Bureau report notes Rep Brack Sams proposes a 1948 bill to let Justices of the Peace issue civil warrants and process papers, with cases heard in General Sessions. the measure would not restore criminal warrant power. A companion Senate bill targets check clearance charges. Sullivan County visitors arrive for the session.
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Nashville
Sullivan County
Courts of General Sessions
Sullivan
Brack Sams
Justices of the Peace
Sams
General Sessions
Ullivan County
Senate
Davis Wooten
Tullahoma
Hal
Assembly
Sealing forth in Caspian Sea hunters begin early
Reports say sealing ships have begun the Caspian Sea hunt with reconnaissance planes patrolling ice floes. The inland sea, though southern, supports a large seal population and the early winter season drives catching efforts in the northern ice.
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Moscow
Caspian Sea
Caspian
Tase
J M Smith Opposes Free Textbook Bill In Tennessee
Nashville education commissioner J M Chachi Smith challenges a bill sponsored by Sen Clifford Allen to fund free textbooks for the first eight grades. He argues the plan is financially inadequate and relies on a rental system, calling it impractical and urging careful development by educators and administrators.
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Nashville
J. M. Chachi
Smith
Clifford Allen
House of Representatives
Tennessee
Salt Smith
Allen
BU Reould
Ould
Knoxville Father Freed On Charge Of Whipping Child
James Roach of Knoxville was acquitted in juvenile court of whipping his five month old daughter Judith Marie Roach. He was placed on a one year probation for neglect of the baby and admonished to care for Judith Marie and her twin brother.
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Knoxville
Tenn
James Roach
Judith Marie Roach
H. B. Webster
Roach
Judith Marie
Mine Chief Conflicts With Operators Over Mine Chief Appointment
The Senate confirmed Dr. James Boyd as Director of the Federal Bureau of Mines 56 to 11, fueling anger from United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis who ordered a March 14 28 shutdown. District leaders called the vote a slap at Lewis and condemned the appointment amid the miners strike.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Senate
Lewis
James Boyd
Federal Bureau of Mine
Mizeissippi
Truman
Dr. Boyd
Interior Committee
Boyd
John Ta Lawlat
Ceeli Urbaniak
UMW
Charleston
West Virginia
William Mitch
Dis
Vet Pension Bill Rolls Toward Passage in House
Washington reports a pension bill proposing $90 monthly payments to World War I and II veterans, age 65 and older, advancing after a tense roll call. Rep Rankin backed the measure with assurances, while Rep Phillips defended it amid fears of political backlash from veterans.
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Washington
Young
Rankin
Eed
Dayton Phillips
R- Tenn
Bouse
Newsiot
Rep. Kennedy
D-Brass
Phillips
World Peace Conference Seen as Communist Front
The World Peace Conference opening in New York is viewed by the State Department as part of Moscow's moves against the North Atlantic Security Pact. Officials say the U S bars most delegates, with 21 allowed from Soviet Russia and eastern Europe, and assert the event is an American conference with international speakers. Governor Dewey calls it a Communist Front affair but will not intervene, while Harvard astronomer Dr Harlow Shapley defends the gathering as independent and democratic.
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Edward
Bomar
Washington
New York
State Department
Moscow
Soviet
Russia
Eastern
Europe
Acheson
Harlow Shapley
Harvard
National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
Shapley
Thomas E. Dewey
Communist Front
World Congress of Partisans of Peace
Paris
Baby Expected Woman Will Then Be Made Sterile
Los Angeles case reports Georgette Brucks twenty one pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of her seven month old son Howard. She is to undergo a sterilization operation this week following court order and the end of a probation period. The baby’s father Donald Redman and the mother had been living together, an inquiry disclosed. In Tennessee a cross burning by about sixty hooded men was reported near Tracy City denouncing Communism.
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Los Angeles
Georgette Brucks
Thomas L. Ambrose
Girl Stabs Father To Death In Argument Over Sweeties
A 17 year old Seattle high school senior Loretta Jean Minneker stabbed her father W E B Minnekerny after a quarrel over her choice of boy friends. Coroner John P Brill Jr said she escaped to the kitchen where she seized a butcher knife and fatally wounded him. She was taken to King County Hospital for observation.
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Father
Sweeties
Seattle
John P. Bril, Jr
Ain
Brill
Loretta Jean Minneker
W. EB. Minnekerny
Minneker
Ann
Lorefin Jean
Hee Mothre
King County Hospital
Street Scenes and Oddities on Brow Street Display Windows
A fragment describes a street scene with a young profess in motion near a parked car. Soft shop window displays show baby chicks Easter motifs and lapels with various ornaments. A stray gray kitten, barely visible, is noticed by bystanders as observers react to the odd street tableau.
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Eeleda Ata Brow Street
Search Intensified For Missing Sister Of Slayer's Victim
Milwaukee police intensified the search for Patricia Birmingham’s missing sister Kathleen 17 and Milton Babich 19 after the slain Patricia 16 was found in the Milwaukee River. Authorities issued a warrant for Bauch on contributing to the delinquency of a minor and broadcast a general wanted alert for Kathleen and the youth.
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Milwaukee
Patricia Birmingham
Patricia
Kathleen
Milton Babich
West Allis
Milwaukee River
Bauch
Babich
Vieter
Browning Sees Rent Curbs Necessary Amid Shortage
Gov Browning on Wednesday indicated rent control may be needed while a housing shortage persists. He noted policy questions should wait for Congress to act on rent control legislation.
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Gov. Browning
Nashville
Giovernor Garden
Browning
Congress
Kingsport Safety Record In 1948 Is Poorer Than Most Cities
The National Safety Council reports Kingsport’s 1948 traffic safety was worse than most U S cities with 10 000 to 24 000 population. Four traffic deaths in 1948 yield 24 7 fatalities per 100 000, above the national 21 9 rate and above peers’ 11 2. Fatalities per 10 000 registered cars stood at 4 1 versus 3 9 average.
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National Safety Council
Kingsport
U. S
Kings Port
Safety Courell
Collision injures several in Johnson City highway crash
On the Johnson City Highway six miles from the city a head on collision between a Pontian club coupe driven by Jack Walde and a Buick caused multiple injuries. Lowell Walde and Belden Smith were among the injured. Franklin Cale of Ewing Virginia drove the Buick. Cale said he braked too late and Waldemar Walde remarked the crash happened fast.
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Jack Walde
Pismonger
Wan
Buick
Johnson City
Lowell
Mass
Gretchen van Treave
Kingsport
Lea County
Belden Smith
Ronald Pruitt
Franklin Cale
Ewing
Gretchen van Trease
Canada to Slash Taxes and Boost Consumer Goods
Ottawa reports a 32 percent cut in income taxes with broad exemptions and removal of price controls. Finance Minister Abbott says prosperity remains and inflation is easing while Prime Minister St Laurent's Liberal majority aims to push the measure to a general election. The plan would reduce national revenue by about 270 million and leave a small budget surplus despite the cuts.
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Ottawa
Douglas C. Abbott
Wes
Canada
Louis
St. Laurent
National Liberal Party
Abbott
Appalatch League 1949 schedule announced in Times
The Times publishes the Appalachian League 1949 schedule. Kingsport Cherokees open at Bristol on May 1 and host the Twins in the home opener May 2. Cherokee manager Irv Jeffries plans spring training at J. Fred Johnson Park at 10 am.
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Kingsport
Cherokees
Bristol
Twins
Irv Jeffries
J. Fred Johnson
Blonde Bride Accuses Rep Rogers in Longstanding Marriage Wreck
Washington reports Mrs Latta-Lawrence, in her mid forties, sues Capt Harald Latta-Lawrence seeking separate maintenance and an accounting of joint property. She claims Rep Edith Nourse Rogers influenced their four year romance and marriage in 1948, and alleges coercive separation and threats to Navy career advancement.
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Washington
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
Eilene Dina Latin-Lawrence
Harald Alesander
Bartheen
Jimi
Congress
Avite
Gite
Mra
Rogers
Latta-Lawrence
White House
Toledo
Ohio
Roosevelt
Wreck on Johnson City Highway Called One Of The Worst
A head on collision on Johnson City Highway injured five people, with one in poor condition at Holston Valley Hospital. James Waldemar and Franklin Cole, both from Kingsport, suffered multiple fractures. Jack Waldemar of Lowell Massachusetts had severe lacerations and broken bones. Ronald Pruitt of Kingsport and Mrs. Waldemar sustained various injuries. Cpl. J S Seehorn of the THP called the crash one of the worst he had seen.
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Virginia Dayls
Halston Valley Community Hospital
Johnson City
Cpl
J. S. Seehorn
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Jack Waldemar
Lowell
Mass
Beldon D. Smith
Ashley Street
Kingsport
Weldemars
Waldemae
Portiac
Holston Valley Community Hospital
W. EB. Epps
Fairview Avenue
A.ail
Epps
Waldemar
C. A. Whaley
Tom Littl
Highland
Robert Douglas
Highway Patrol
Dr Frank Graham Named to Senate Seat in North Carolina
Dr Frank Graham, 63, liberal president of the University of North Carolina, named by Gov Kerr Scott to the U S Senate to fill the late J Melville Broughton’s term. He upholds civil rights, supports anti poll tax and anti lynching laws, and favors equal voting rights for qualified Negroes.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
Franke
Graham
University of North Carolina
Kerr Scott
Campina
J. Melville Broughton
Washington
Congress
Thas
Truman
Greater
Roosevelt
Solunar Tables From Knight Plan Your Fishing Days
Solunar periods printed from John Alden Knight's tables guide hunting and fishing. Major periods begin at listed times with two hours later, minor periods shorter and in regular type. Times use Eastern Standard Time for days shown Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday.
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John Alden Knight
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