Navy academy opens to volunteer naval reservists
Applications for the U S naval academy are open to volunteer naval reservists for the first time, with 268 applications so far out of 160 reserve slots. Final date to apply is January 1, 1950, examinations set for April, and age limits are 21 for non veterans and 23 for veterans.
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U. S. Naval Academy
Eeaa
Navy
Annapolis
Great Lakes
Naval Academy
Volunteer Naval Reserve
J. Cary Jones
Ninth Naval District
Cruiser Milwaukee On Way To Junk Heap
The cruiser Milwaukee renamed Murmansk moved toward the junk yard in Wilmington Delaware after being loaned to Russia in World War II. Returned to Philadelphia last March it sold November 22 to American Shipbreakers Inc for 148000 dollars. Tugboats towed the 7050 ton ship to Wilmington yards. built Tacoma Washington 1923.
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Philadelphia
Milwaukee
Wilmington
Del
Murmansk
Russia
American Shipbreakers, Inc
Todd Drydock and Construction Co
Tacoma
Wash
Boy With Crippled Hand Kills Taunting Brother
A 14-year-old boy who shot and killed his 18-year-old brother at their Arlington Texas home after years of taunting will be placed on probation rather than sent back to the farm. Judge Robert Young ordered the placement following the confession by Cabe Tatum Jr that he had endured repeated abuse.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Arlington
Robert Young
Cabe Tatum, Jr
Pote
Raymond
Cars Reach Ivory Coast For New Railway
More than 300 assorted railroad cars and locomotives arrived at Bingerville on the Ivory Coast of French West Africa. The equipment, shipped from the United States, will serve the Bobo Dioulasso Ouagadougou line in Haute Volta, a 300 mile project slated for completion in 1952 after wartime delays.
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Bingerville
Ivory Coast
French West Africa
United States
Bobo- Dioulasso
Ouagadougou
Haute Volta
Five-Mill School Aid Rule Appears to Stay in Wisconsin
Madison reports the five mill tax rule for Wisconsin school districts to receive county aid will remain unless changed by 195. The Atty General has not altered his opinion that five mills were required, despite debate over whether the legislature meant three. The rule could cut county aid from wealthier rural districts, which previously enjoyed two mill requirements for county assistance.
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Madison
Wis
Gene
Legislative Council
Thomas E. Fairchild
Roy Tulane
Council
Wind power plans eyed by British researchers
Britain may harness gale energy to power electricity generation. The Electrical and Industrial Research Association reports experiments on Orkney hilltops measure wind speeds as part of plans to produce electricity equivalent to 3,000,000 tons of coal annually.
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Britain
Electrical and
Ed Industries Research Association
London
Orkney Islands
Story of Nativity Depicted by Training School Students
Training school presents annual Christmas pageant with a five scene nativity story led by Delores Capicotto as spirit of Christmas. Beverly Cowley and Brian Lynch as Mary and Joseph. Tony Thompson, Bert Baker, Joe Longfellow as Wise Men. King Herod by Al Schilling. guards Newell Holley and Roger Fuller. soldiers Jim Mack Dan Bowman John Bunge Paul Johnson. farmers Jerome Gundersen Bill Sheely. page Burton Wethe. junior high chorus angels. shepherds listed among several students.
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Training School
Delores Capicotto
Howard Fredricks
Marjorie Smith
Lester Steinhoff
Mary and
Joseph
Beverly Cowley
Brian Lynch
Wise Men
Tony Thompson
Newell Holley
Roger Fuller
James Mack
Dan Bowman
John Bunge
Paul Johnson
Jerome Gundersen
Bill Sheely
Burton Wethe
Chorus of
Angels
Sheperds
Joe Keller
John Pamperin
Frank Basset
King Holley
Tom Vine
Gary van Galder
James Burgess
Thomas Gilbertson
Burton Spangler
Roger Mohlzahn
Robert van
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Calif
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Doerflinger’s
Lee Claire
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