Truman Relief Plan Faces Doom From Cost Fears
Washington AP reports confessional fears of rising costs threaten President Truman's plan to expand public aid for home relief to include all eligible work capable people, with likely limits on disabled workers and partial expansion of old age insurance. Congress may raise payroll taxes and limit broadened benefits while preserving separate public assistance and insurance programs.
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Truman
Congress
Social Security Committee
United States Chamber of Commerce
House
Ways and Means
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College Prank Or Not, Court Must Decide
UCLA postgraduate Charles J. Glenn but 27 faces burglary charges after being seen leaving a library window with the Bay Psalm Book. Glenn says the act was part of an initiation in a secret society. The Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1640, is among the earliest colonial copies.
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Superior Court
UCLA
Charles J. Glenn
Portland
Ore
L. C. Powell
Toledo Man Loses 38 Pounds with Rennel
A Toledo man and his wife credit Rennel with weight loss of 38 pounds for him and improvements in blood pressure for her. The ad promotes drinking grapefruit juice with Rennel, two tablespoons twice daily, claims no diet needed, money back guarantee, and urges buyers not to switch products.
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Mr. G
Breuer
Broadway
Toledo
Ohio
Rennel
Hun Orc
Prank Suspected After Rare Book Damage At University
A severe disciplinary action was discussed at a meeting with Provost Clarence Dykstra over damage to a volume from the freedom train collection. The insured book, valued at 100000 dollars, was described as priceless and hard to sell, suggesting a prank by postgraduate students rather than theft.
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Clarence Dykstra
Errol's Wife Seeks Divorce in Quiet Las Vegas Move
Nora Eddington Flynn, wife of Errol Flynn, says she will divorce the screen star. An oral agreement is in place and attorneys will formalize it within days. She plans to relocate to a ranch outside Las Vegas with the children, while Flynn has not commented. The couple has a history of separations and reconciliations and she has recently appeared publicly with singer Dick Haymes.
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Hollywood
Nora Eddington Flynn
Errol
Las Vegas
Argentines Seize Newsprint Supply
In Buenos Aires the government moved to seize control of all newsprint distribution after overruling two large independents La Prensa and La Nacion. An order limits pages per newspaper and expropriates paper stocks effective March 10, with officials arguing all papers must share available stock.
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Buenos Aires
Peraraes
la Prensa
la Nacion
Ramon Cereijo
Juan D. Peron
Progressives Hearing Demand Denied in Boston
In Boston the Progressive Party was denied a public hearing on charges it spread anti Americanism. City Council President William F. Hurley refused, saying it would be incongruous to grant such a hearing and would not protect a party he equated with crimes against God and humanity.
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Progressive Party
William F. Hurley
James M. Curley
Herbert Hyson
Hurley
Communist Party
Hyson
Daniel F. Sullivan
Sullivan
Jeremiah E. Burke High School
Pelican Rapids Center Stands Tall in High School Hoops
Pelican Rapids Minnesota Donald Short a Pelican Rapids High School basketball center stands six feet six inches tall proving there's nothing in a pet.
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Pelican Rapids
Minn
Donald Short
Middletown High Students Shine in Scholastic Art Contest
Middletown seniors Beth MacKinnon and Audrey Martin led the school with top honors at the Scholastic Magazine Regional Art Contest results announced Saturday. MacKinnon won first in colored ink and second in pencil drawing, Martin earned honorable mention and a fifth place for her oil painting. The pair received Scholastic Keys and certificates at John Shillito Company in Cincinnati, with Carl Zimmerman presenting. The exhibit runs until March 12 and MacKinnon’s and Martin’s works will be sent to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh.
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Middletown
Scholastic
Dorothy E. Wilson
Middletown Senior High School
Beth MacKinnon
Audrey Martin
Middletown High School
John Shillito Company
Cincinnati
Carl Zimmerman
MacKinnon
Martin
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
False Teeth Comfort Powder FASTEETH Ad
A vintage advertisement promotes FASTEETH a pleasant alkaline powder for dentures. It claims teeth stay firmer while eating and talking with no gummy taste or paste feel and guards against denture breath. Available at drug stores.
Local students earn art contest honors in regional event
Joanne Kramer a senior won special mention and fifth in general design. Richard Rich a sophomore earned special mention and fifth in gag cartoons. Donald Myers a sophomore won special mention and fifth in social message cartoon. Twenty two counties were represented in the regional contest per Miss Wilson.
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Joanne Kramer
Richard Rich
Donald Myers
Cure for hiccoughs by forward bend and water sip
Fort Worth brief says Adolph Newman claims the best cure for hiccoughs is to bend forward with head between the knees and drink water from the far side of a glass. He says he used this method after suffering hiccoughs for nearly three years.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Adolph Newman
Newman
Lancaster grass fire scorches 30 acres north of Lancaster
A grass and brush fire burned over 30 acres of farm and timber land north of Lancaster on Saturday before control. More than 300 volunteers fought with the Lancaster Fire Department. Flames spread from a rubbish yard pile and prompted a radio alarm for volunteers. Boy Scouts, Fire Patrol, National Guard, police, sheriff deputies, and YMCA members aided. Minor injuries only. damage deemed slight.
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Lancaster Fire Department
Boy Scouts
Lancaster Schoolboy Fire Patrol
Ohio National Guard
Police
Sheriff's Ideputies
YMCA
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