Pengra Bros Adds Complete GMC Truck Line
Pengra Bros Sales and Service Inc at 500 South Third Street now offers a full GMC truck lineup including diesels and spare parts. The firm already carried White trucks since May 1939 and will provide the same efficient service for GMC as it has for White, with Lester Pengra as secretary and treasurer and Paul Pengra as president.
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GMC
Pengra Bros. Sales and Service Inc
South Third Street
General Motors
Lester Pengra
Pengra
Mac Will Transfer Mustangs To Korea
The U S rushed preparations to aid South Korea with war materiel including 10 F 51 Mustang fighters. General MacArthur announced the transfer was approved in Washington but no date was fixed.
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Mac
Mustangs
Korea
Tokyo
United States
South Korea
Turkey Rejects Bulgarian Charges in Frontier Clash
Istanbul reports Turkey denies hostile activity charges from Bulgaria and seeks indemnity for the killing of a Turkish correspondent by Bulgarian border guards.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Negro veterans housing demand outpaces whites in the South
A survey of 24 southern communities shows 23 percent of Negro veterans ready to enter the housing market at current prices versus 16 percent of white veterans. The article notes national urban shifts, with Negro populations rising in Los Angeles New York Portland and other areas, and that over half of Negroes now live in cities. It cites Ernest Neal on rural-to-urban migration and mechanization displacing farm families in the Old South with Delta sharecroppers moving off the land.
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Los Angeles
New York
New Jersey
Portland- Vancouver
San Francisco
Bay Area
Puget Sound Area
Philadelphia
Chicago
Ernest Neal
Rural Life Conference
Old South
Mississippi Delta
Tle
Neal
Education and Vocational Training Seen as Fix for Farm Tenants
The article cites Neal arguing the displacement of farm tenants, especially African Americans, creates urban unemployment and social strain. He urges federal aid and a national plan to retrain displaced people for productive farm work or vocational roles, with housing and education as key steps.
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Neal
Guide For Draftees Veterans GI Loan Fees and Queries
A compilations of questions from veterans about GI loan costs and benefits. Topics include lender fees, title search and appraisal charges, VA normal interruptions for studies, depositing loan funds, gas discounts at bases, combining lot and house purchases, and subsistence rules under the GI bill.
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Butler
Fort Wayne
Ind
Notre Dame
Charlotte, N. C
Ogden
Utah
Army
Navy
Air Force
J. M.S
Albany
Cal
Rich Hill
Ss. C
Negro Leader Attacks Taft Lucas Over FEPC at NAACP
Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP, denounces Senators Taft of Ohio and Lucas of Illinois as insincere on civil rights. He cites Taft’s 1948 party platform pledge and a later toothless FEPC proposal, and describes Lucas as hesitant in the FEPC fight during the NAACP convention.
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Boston
Walter White
Taft
Ohio
Lucas
D-Iii
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
White
Mr. Taft
Republican Party
FEPC
Senate
Illinois
MacArthur Rejects Russian Protest as Propaganda
General MacArthur in a memorandum to the Soviet legatees dismissed a Russian protest over the purge of 41 Japanese Communist leaders. He called the letter a shameful misuse of diplomatic privilege and opposed withdrawing orders directing the purge.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Sevastyan Polyashenko
Allied Council For
Japan
U S Plans Three Economic Experts to Iran
The United States will send three economic experts to Iran possibly this week to assess conditions and advise on measures to strengthen Iran against Soviet pressure. The move aims to identify steps the U S might take to bolster Iran's strategic position in the region.
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Washington
United States
Iran
U. S
Sydney Floods Drench East Australia With Month of Rain
Sydney endures one of its wettest Junes as month long rains push rivers over banks. Kempsey is largely submerged while Grafton sees 10 feet of water in its main street. Sydney reports 25 inches of rainfall this month and multiple drownings nationwide.
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Sydney
Australia
Kempsey
Grafton
Chiang Condemns Korean Invasion Condemns Soviet Schemes
Chiang Kai shek in Taipei denounces the Korean Republic invasion as another expression of the vicious schemes of Soviet Russia in a message to President Syngman Rhee.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Chiang Kaishek
Syngman Rhee
Russia
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Birmingham
Ala
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Thomas M. Nial
Northern States Power Company
McArthur
la Crosse
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Chiang
GMC Trucks
Pengra Bros
Yao Mmig
Cass
la Crosse, Wis
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