Holiday Dances Attract Teens In City Centers
Teens enjoyed holiday dances organized by their youth centers. Monday night 625 attended at the VFW ballroom with Larry Ziemann, the second holiday party by the city recreation department and VFW auxiliary. Regular dances occur weekly alternating between Logan and Central social centers, with plans for more holidays and summer events featuring professional bands.
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Larry Ziemann
VFW
City Recreation Department
Logan
Central
Youth Center
Vigorous Admiral Badger Heads Navy Command in China
Vice Admiral Oscar Badger, commander of U S Navy western Pacific forces, directs operations amid China's civil war. The decorated veteran, 58, known for strict rules and bold actions, earned the Medal of Honor at Vera Cruz and led Task Force 31 into Tokyo Bay, with a track record of decisive leadership and occasional friction.
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Washington
NEA
China
Tsingtao
U. S
Pentagon
Oscar Charles Badger
U. S Navy
Western Pacific
Badger
Vera Cruz
Mexic
Pacific
Tokyo Bay
dJapar Prover
Banger
Trap Ptarmigan In Canada For Release In Michigan
In Michigan news, ptarmigan bound for release in the Upper Peninsula are trapped in northern Saskatchewan. Conservation Director P. J. Hoffmaster reports progress while Harold J. Richards volunteers to supervise trapping during a private hunting trip. A. Ammon will inspect birds for disease before shipment.
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Lansing. Mich
Upper Peninsula
Saskatchewan
P. J. Hoffmaster
Harold J. Richards
Caspian
Dan
Ammon
Marshall At Home For A Long Rest
Secretary of State George C Marshall rests at Liscombe Lodge in Pinehurst North Carolina for an indefinite recuperation after a kidney operation at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington three weeks ago. Mrs Marshall joined him as physicians anticipate a lengthy convalescence.
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Pinehurst
N.C
George C Marshall
Liscombe Lodge
Marshall
Washington
Walker Reed Hospital
Post Office Receipts and December 1947 Totals
Dec 1947 postal receipts totaled 61 794.20 for the month and 62 925.20 for the first 28 days, with Wednesday reporting by Sustan Pepahdier M Dvorak. Tuesday’s receipts reached 2 266.58 as costs increase and fares rise.
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Sustan Pepahdierber
M Dvorak
Judge Arranges Honeymoon to Save Marriage
In Chicago a judge arranged and paid for a Wisconsin honeymoon to salvage a troubled marriage. Judge Julius J. Hoffman settled the case in chambers, noting the couple wed on July 3, 1983 and had focused years on their children Godfrey, four, while facing divorce.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Julius J. Hoffman
Sucport
Rose Weidman
Weidman
A. Os
Hoffman
Godfrey
Man Killed by Train at Park Street Crossing
In Oconomowoc Wisconsin Charles Prosser aged 79 was struck and killed yesterday by an eastbound Milwaukee Road Hiawatha train at the Park street crossing. He was walking to his job at the Carnation Mik plant.
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Oconomowoc
Wis
Charles Prosser
Milwaukee Road
Hiawatha
Park Street
Rosser
Carnation Mik Company
First Woman Engineer Joins Oslo Based Merchant Fleet
In eight months the merchant fleet will have its woman engineer ToFa Skailveit. She completed a two year technical course and currently serves 15 months as a stoker in the ship Tennefjell. Rats destroy or damage 200 bushels of grain annually.
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Oslo
Ian
ToFa Skailveit
Tennefjell
Keenan Named U N Conciliation Commissioner for Palestine
President Truman announced the recess appointment of Joseph B. Keenan as United States representative on the United Nations conciliation commission for Palestine. Keenan, 60, formerly led the Tokyo war crimes prosecution and served as assistant attorney general in charge of the DOJ criminal division. The post pays $12 000 annually.
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Kansas City
Truman
Josephb. Keenan
United States
United Nations Conciliation Commission For
Palestine
Keenan
Tokyo
Department of Justice
Charles G. Ross
France
Turkey
This Stamps Him As A Real Collector
Lawrence Kansas Frank Long takes his pay in canceled postage stamps. He bales wastepaper and cleans up trash rooms at the University of Kansas for the privilege of collecting stamps found in the debris. A stamp collector for 54 years he covers figures and names of posters with stamps. His latest effort is a 19 by 33 inch map of the United States filled with 836 canceled stamps using different colors for each state. His biggest covered poster showed a huge peacock with 13 000 stamps applied. Near famine conditions have developed in eastern Pakistan.
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Lawrence, Kans
Frank Long
University of Kansas
Kansas
United States
Long
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A. E. Jordan
Otto Zielke
J. B. Brenner
L. F. Kilian
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Navy
By Douglas Larsen
Annapolis
Admiral Badger
New York Harbor
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Fignts
Trap Ptarmigan
Canada
Michigan
Perageey
Pakistan
Mendoza
Mouton
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Coney
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