Oklahoma sees December rise in job applications and placements
Oklahoma employment data show December activity up with 20,650 positions filled by agency offices in 23 cities, including 12, nonfarm and 7,792 farm jobs. New applications reached 6,743, while 20,044 were registered for work. Initial unemployment claims rose to 7,596, with weekly benefits averaging 10 to 28 dollars, and veterans and federal workers also drawing benefits.
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Vandivier
Employment Service
World on a Pet’s Stage at Milwaukee Zoo
A beagle named Hermann's Lady the Third, newly mothered, tenderly cares for a two day old polar bear cub abandoned by its mother at Washington Park Zoo. Zoo officials say the beagle accepted the cub with curiosity despite being puzzled by the new “puppy.” SAN FRANCISCO: Donald H. Thomson of Turlock Calif challenges language limits as he drives a 13 foot high truck into a 12 foot 9 inch tunnel, prompting traffic reroute and tow extraction on the waterfront.
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Washington Park Zoo
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Hermann
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San Francisco
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Turlock
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Jail term for man stealing his own radio in Grand Rapids
Paul Whitlock, 37, serving a 30 day sentence for stealing his own radio. Police say he pawned the radio to a friend for 2 dollars and two days later broke into the friend's apartment to steal it back. In Pittsburgh officials schedule a six day bicycle race for Allegheny county fair.
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GRAND_ RAPIDS
Mich
Paul Whitlock
Pittsburgh
George Kelly
Belgium Eyes Controlled Liquor Sales in Bars
Belgium moves toward a cautious legalization of alcohol sales in bars cafes and night clubs allow by the drink during limited hours. Parliament expected to approve next year enabling whisky and brandy drinks to be sold openly for the first time since 1919 while enforcement remains lax.
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Brussels
Belgium
Experts Resist Tax Cuts Amid Prosperity Debate
SAM DAWSON reports experts split on tax policy as a holiday abundance prompts caution. Some economists urge keeping taxes high to fund social programs and urban renewal, while others favor tax relief for stimulus. DP: savings trends and rising rates cited as factors shaping credit conditions and borrowing.
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Sam Dawson
New York
Gerhard Colm
National Planning Assn
Donald B. Woodward
Wick Chemical
Crusader Jet Contract Boosts Navy Fighter Program
Dallas based Chance-Vought Aircraft won a 100 million dollar Navy contract to build the F-8U-1 Crusader jet fighter. The aircraft aims to be the fastest Navy fighter, targeting about 1000 mph in trials after rapid testing at Edwards AFB. The Air Force holds the current record at 822.13 mph with the Sabre.
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Dallas
Chance-Vought Aircraft, Inc
Navy
Air Force
Washington
Edwards Air Force Base
California
Keaton Improves Yet Still Critical At Sawtelle
Silent era star Buster Keaton, aged 60, was described as slightly improved but still in critical condition at Sawtelle Veterans Hospital from an intestinal ailment. He regained consciousness after a ruptured abdomen rushed him to hospital in a coma last Saturday night, with Eleanor his third wife and two sons by a previous marriage at his bedside.
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Hollywood
Buster Keaton
Sawtelle Veterans Hospital
Keaton
Charlie Chaplin
Fatty Arbuckle
Eleanor
Nobel Prize to Cornell Professor in Stockholm
Vincent Du Vigneaud of Cornell University travels to Stockholm to receive the 1955 Nobel Prize in chemistry from the Swedish Academy of Sciences for his work on sulfur compounds notably the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone.
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Stockholm
Cornell University
Vincent du Vigneaud
Vigneaud
Swedish Academy of Science
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