Next Year's Developments To Have Great Bearing On Peace Of World
The piece discusses dangers facing world peace a year ahead with warnings from Anthony Eden and Bishop Oxnam. It notes Europe's division into spheres of influence, Soviet expansion, and calls for cool leadership and practical compromises over appeasement. Also reports Houston RFC selling 13 by 10 foot kites for ten dollars used as barriers to deter enemy pilots.
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Lubbock
Texas
Avalanche-Journal
Dewitt
G. Bromley Oxnam
New York
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Ohio
Cleveland
Russia
Europe
Hitler
Germany
Italy
iSo
Oxnam
Eden
Houston
U.P
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Washington
Houston Rfc
Two Men Seek Atlantic Crossing in Ten Foot Barrel
From Sydney Nova Scotia two Canadians Mark Charlton aged 29 and Peter Olson aged 62 plan to sail a ten foot oak barrel across the Atlantic. They estimate a 40 day voyage and aim for a blue ribbon record even if the trip takes longer. The craft, launched last week, features a heavy keel and a brief superstructure.
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Sydney
Nova Scotia
Mark Charlton
Peter Olson
Twelve In Race For Queen At New Deal Hallowe'en Carnival
Twelve candidates across grades vie to be queen and escort at the New Deal schools Hallowe'en carnival. Votes tallied on penny basis have raised 405.04 for school improvements. Top contenders include Virginia Greenhill and Betty Lincecum with large vote totals. escorts to be chosen.
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New Deal
Virginia Greenhill
Donald Durham
Betty Lincecum
Dale Hodges
Rama Simmons
Sammie Williams
Gladys Brogden
Harold Williams
Charlsie Meyers
Reiner Oberhouse
Thelma Perkins
Melvin Kizer
Patsy Hood
Gwin Myatt
Juanita Norman
Betty Smith
Wanda Lene
Betty Fortenberry
Unemployed War Vets Rise in October figures
The Veterans Administration reports more than 110000 ex servicemen unemployed in the second week of October with the number rising weekly. Readjustment allowances totaling nearly 49000000 have been paid since September 1944 under the GI bill. Self employed veterans earning under 100 dollars a month saw a small decline in September. Total payments to both classes reach about 48817250.
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Washington
U.P
Veterans Administration
Broncho-line Cough Remedy Ad Promises Fast Relief
An old advertisement touts Broncho-line cough syrup promising quick relief with one dose and refunds 65 cents if not satisfied. It claims no narcotics or stomach upset and urges customers to buy via Mark Halsey Drug Co John Halsey Drug O Donnell Agent Corner Drug Store.
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Mark Halsey
Dead Week Observed At Lubbock High School
Lubbock High declares dead week as nine week exams approach. Nine and 10 oclock classes have exams Thursday while 8 11 1 30 and 2 35 classes study Friday. A pep rally follows the Friday football game with Brownfield at 3 40 in the auditorium. Dean H J McCabe announced and head cheerleader Charlotte Scoggin asks student turnout. The average turkey lays 40 to 60 eggs a year.
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Lubbock High School
Westerner World
Brownfield
H. J. McCabe
Charlotte Scoggin
Emergency Plan On Housing In Dallas Motioned
Pollard Simons of the National Home Builders Association will go to Washington to present the Dallas plan for emergency rental housing with extended government guarantees to builders. He will meet with Hugh Potter Senate leaders and housing officials to push quick adoption of the Dallas plan or a modification.
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Dallas
U.P
Pollard Simons
National Home Builders Association
Washington
Simons
National Housing
Hugh Potter
Senate Finance Committee
Walter F. George
National Housing Authority
Federal Housing Administration
Home Builders Association
Repre
Dallas plan for housing act extension gains support
A Dallas proposal would extend title six of the national housing act to back 90 percent of new homes through federal housing commitments. The plan, backed by the Ohio State Home Builders Association, seeks legislative support in Congress, with 285 cities and towns cited. Agricultural exports of Argentina exceed 80 percent.
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Federal Housing Administration
Simons
Ohio State Home Builders Association
Ohio
New Blind Cane Uses Wheel to Detect Surface Types
A novel cane for the blind features a wheel functioning as an eye to distinguish grass from sidewalks and other surfaces. By late 1944 the United States had about 411000 oil wells, roughly double the number from 1918.
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United States
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