Lake Geneva Divided Over Air Academy Establishment
Lake Geneva Wisconsin debates the proposed air academy site near Linn township drawing protests and support. Demonstrators urge keeping the lake area out of national defense plans while Chamber leaders push for the project amid town split opinions. Local business interests frame the issue as patriotic yet costly to homes and taxable land.
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Lake Geneva
Air Academy
Wis
Wrt
Air Force
Lake Geneva Lakeshore
Linn
Chamber of Commerce
Ralph Williams
Curtis McKay
Linn Township
Harold Bannister
Academy
Bannister
Telephon e booth opens at Frederick toll plaza
Frederick Maryland reports the arrival of a new outdoor toll booth at the junction of routes 40 240 and 340. Walter Lanius the company manager offered free calls to demonstrate the system to passing motorists including Mrs Walter K Myers wife of a Washington physician who connected with her Miami based aunt a descendant of Alexander Graham Bell.
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Washington
Mercersburg
David Fairchild
Miami
Alexander Graham Bell
Myers
Mile-Long Lakefront Site Picked for Chicago Convention Hall
Chicago selects a milelong 50 acre site along Lake Michigan between 16th and 23rd streets for a new Convention and Exhibits Building. The Park District notes the hall will be the nation’s largest of its kind, surpassing Cleveland and Atlantic City venues, with exact plans yet to be drawn. The site formerly hosted the Century of Progress exposition and the Chicago Railroad Fair.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
16Th
23Rd
Park District
Cleveland
Atlantic City
Actors Nina Foch and L James Lipton Wed in City
Actress Nina Foch aged 30 and actor L James Lipton aged 29, both of New York City, obtained a marriage license yesterday. This will be Lipton's second marriage and Foch's first.
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New York
Nina Foch
L. James Lipton
Lipton
Miss Foch
New York City
Sailor Returns From Cruise Around World
Floyd A. Nelson, son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Nelson of 1532 Farwell St, returns home on leave from an around the world Navy cruise aboard the destroyer U S S Hainesworth. He recounts a collision off the Korea coast near the 38th parallel that killed one and seriously injured three on the flagship Ault.
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U.S. Navy
Floyd A. Nelsor FN
Ernest
Nelson
Farwell St
Navy
U.S.S. Haines
Ault
Korea
38Th Parallel
Yokosuka
Japan
Indochina
Formosa
Athens
Greece
Naples
Italy
la Crosse
Central High School
Mickey Jelke Inherits Funds From Brother
New York report notes society playboy Minot E Jelke gains half of an estimated 250000 estate from brother John F Jelke UT presumed dead after a training flight from Mobile to New Orleans during service in the Air National Guard. The will dated July 11 1944 left equal shares to sister Mary Louanna and brothers Charles and Minot. sister has since died.
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New York
Playboy
Minot E
Mickey) Jelke
John F. Jelke
Mobile
Ala
New Orleans
Air National Guard
Mary Louanna
Charles
Minot
Burglar Snatches 79 Pairs of Soles in Soft Footed Getaway
Police report a burglar entered the U S Medina Shoe Repair Shop in Sacramento and made a soft footed escape with 79 pairs of rubber soles.
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Sacramento
Calif
U. S. Medina
East German Ex-Foreign Minister Dertinger Sentenced
In Berlin the East German radio reports Georg Dertinger former foreign minister of the Soviet zone has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for plotting to overthrow the Red regime. Five others including two secretaries receive 13 year to 15 year terms.
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Berlin
Georg Dertinger
Soviet Zone
Red
Dertinger
High School Grad At 78 Plans For College
Walter Corlett, 78, will graduate Friday from Sacramento Adult Evening High School. An attorney by training, he has worked as a barber, mortician, and real estate man. He plans to attend junior college after graduation.
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Sacramento
Calif
Walter Corlett
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