23 May 1947
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Newspaper
Middlesboro Daily News
Location
Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1947
Page
1
Classified notice shows mailing rates for subscriptions outside city limits in Kentucky and Virginia plus Tennessee area pricing. Includes Bible verse Acts 27:22 and Samuel Smiles quote urging cheerful view of life.
A Kentucky campaign urges all citizens to register before the June 3 deadline to vote in the August primary. The effort, backed by the Kentucky Association of Student Veterans, calls for public action and local outreach, urging residents to register at county offices and plan a time to do so. Local Middlesboro notes highlight new services and a self service laundry as the town modernizes, joking that a girl barber would complete the metropolitan image.
NEA Washington correspondent Peter Edson reports on a proposed national aviation policy to substitute a single U S super airline with guaranteed profits for 16 overseas carriers. The plan includes construction and operating subsidies, foreign subsidies offset, and potential government funding to keep routes aligned with national interests amid foreign competition.
A fragmented record outlines political arguments on subsidies for transatlantic air transport, proposed aircraft fleets, and peacetime airports. It references U.S. regulatory policy, the Civil Aeronautics Board, and proposed funding schemes, with execution notices for local creditors and a sheriff sale recorded at Bell County, Kentucky.
The Dell Circuit Court issues a sheriff sale under execution on May 25, with a deputy bidder at the county seat. The sale offers two brown horses eleven years old, one gray mare ten years old, one gray horse ten years old, two black horses six years old, and one brown horse seven years old, all to be sold on five months credit or cash in hand.
Warren Ihalil, chairman, thanks The Middlesboro Daily News for a 700 dollar donation to the American Legion Memorial Home fund. He urges others to contribute and notes the debt will be paid off with donor help.
A group of Florida legislators introduced a bill to establish a new libel law allowing newspapers to be sued for publishing allegedly libelous material regardless of published refractors. The measure targets published content and signals a shift in how libel cases could be handled.
The item lists show Thursday and Friday events including a 4:30 start with Wallace Heory List and Storkwiell, and names Rene Autry and Sterling Holloway involved in the program. Details are fragmented but indicate a broadcast or stage lineup with associated performers and times.
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