Male Crochet Champ Gives Wife Credit
Joseph Dolinas a Dunellen New Jersey railroad signal operator is named the nations male crocheting champion at the National Needle Craft Bureau eighth annual contest. He won 100 dollars for a white cotton tablecloth design after betting his wife five dollars six years earlier and learning to crochet from her. His wife Mrs Dolinas has given up crochet as he crochets in his spare time. The article also notes Mrs Thomas L Nightingale a 72 year old great grandmother from Sacramento was named grand national crocheting champion.
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National Needle Craft Bureau
Dolinas
Dolina
Sacramento, Cal
Condors Learn to Fly Months After Hatching
The California condor chick develops flight ability about six months after hatching, marking a key milestone in its early life.
Drunkometer A Breath Test Tool At Exposition
A Yale devised breath analyzer dubbed the drunkometer offers rapid, portable intoxication assessment. The device, built by Alfred Bicknell Associates and developed with Dr. Leon A. Greenberg, measures breath alcohol and estimates blood alcohol percentage. It claims to aid both convicting the guilty and clearing the innocent without blood samples.
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Alfred Bicknell Associates
Cambridge, Mass
Leon A. Greenberg and Associates
Department of Applied Physiology
Yale University
Greenberg
Bigamist at 17 convicted in Roanoke court
Sherman Lovelace, 17, was found guilty in Huntings Court of three marriages to different women. He received three years in the state penitentiary after being accused of marrying in Roanoke on August 2 1949 and in 1948 in Tennessee and Arizona. He faces federal charges of wearing a Navy uniform and possessing forged Army discharge papers. He will not be 18 until next May.
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Nm Huntings Court
Lovelace
State
Roanoke
Sullivan County
Tenn
Tucson
Ariz
Streetcar Tiff Ends In Death in Birmingham
In Birmingham Alabama a confrontation aboard a streetcar over seating in the white section led to the death of 34 year old Sammy Lee Williams who was shot by conductor M A Weeks on November 20. Both men faced assault with intent to murder charges and the county grand jury will investigate at its next session. Two other Black passengers were slightly wounded by stray bullets.
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Birmingham
Ala
Sammy Lee Williams
M. A. Weeks
R. A. MacMurdo
Weeks
Williams
MacMurdo
Opposition Looms For Any Bid To Continue Rent Controls
Washington AP report says federal rent controls face strong congressional opposition if extended next year. Tighe Woods says leaders who supported controls will again, but House Banking Chair Spence and Rep Wolcott doubt extension. Wolcott argues local handling suffices as prices rise less than other costs since 1939.
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Washington
Tighe Woods
Congress
Woods
Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
Wolcott
Rmich
Woman Freed in Court Case
In Montgomery a circuit jury acquitted 20 year old Ida Roberts of murder in the death of her newborn daughter buried in a shallow grave. Det. Capt. Lew Miller said she claimed the baby was born while hoeing peanuts and died after 15 hours.
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Montgomery
Ala
Ida Roberts
Lewis Miller
Miller
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Joseph Dolinas
Dunellen
N. J
Charles ST
Studebaker
America
McConn Motors
Middletown, Ohio
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Lule
Sanstone
Erle Hanson
Bigamist
Sherman Lovelace
Banking Committee
Bowe
Middletown
H. M. Hensley, R. M. Hensley R N
14Th Ave
Ross
Orig
E. O. M. Special
PRS
Red Cross
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