Builders and bankers clash over mortgage funding in New York
Banking leaders say mortgage credit remains ample while home builders warn of tighter lending and a potential recession in housing. Officials cite higher down payments and rates as construction slows, with FHA insurance applications slipping and factories cutting working weeks for building supply workers.
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New York
National Home Week
National Assn. of Home Builders
Emanuel M. Spiegel
American Bankers Assn
W. Harold Brenton
Washington
Des Moines
Iowa
Charles L. Clements
United States Savings and Loan League
Clements
Federal Housing Administration
Youngstown
Ohio
Republic Steel
Show Biz Notes Stir Drama and Legal Battles
Kilgallen reports Andrew Duggan begins rehearsals for Gently Does It and ASCAP plans a push against BMI. Legal minds converge on a high profile divorce case while Meyer Lansky’s deportation fight nears a stalemate amid attempted residence maneuvers.
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Andrew Duggan
ASCAP
BMI
Tin Pan Alley
Divorce Petition Filed in Butler County Court
Robert B. Piersall minor through his mother Callie Piersall filed for divorce from Betty Ruth Piersall minor with residence 2317 Sycamore Street Kenova WV in case No 70149 alleging gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. Respondent must answer by October 17 1953 or petition may be granted. Clerk Joseph T. Kiep. Deputy Anna Mae Conrad. Attorney H Taylor. Sept 1 8 15 22 29 Oct 6.
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Betty Ruth Piersall
Mary Sias
Sycamoretreet
Kenova
West Virginia
Robert B. Piersall
Callie Piersall
Common Pleas Court
Butler County
Ohio
Joseph T. Kiep
Anna Mae Conrad
Co. H. Taylor
New hospital power switch adds automatic emergency lighting
Middletown Hospital installs automatic power switch to switch to standby lines when the main feed fails. Hospital administrator William Bohman says two power lines feed lighting and the new device, installed by Cincinnati Gas and Electric, guarantees continuous illumination. A gardener jokes about growing pains and winter needs for storm doors and windows at Middletown Lumber Company.
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Middletown Hospital
William Bohman
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company
Bohman
Middletown Lumber Company
Central Avenue
Van Forcets Pants After Beino Freed
P. R. J. Cross, a 64 year old Muskogee county resident, was found running in the highway sans trousers after being freed from a car entangled in a river wreck on U S Highway 69. The overturned auto had plunged 35 feet with a trailer crushing the car. Cross survived shock and exposure and was hospitalized.
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Muskogee
Okla
P.R. J. Cross
Cross
Dr. Crane Worry Clinic: How Newspapers Aid Marital Help
A Green Bay reader recounts a husband seeking marriage advice and praising Dr. George W. Crane's bulletins in the daily paper. The column argues newspapers educate the public beyond schools, offering specific marital guidance and paid mail service for psychology charts.
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Josephine A
Green Bay
Wisconsin
Crane
Press Gazette
Washington
Fictitious Name Sounds Familiar
In Philadelphia two youths were arraigned after money orders linked to a fictitious name Paul N. Ryan. The name emerged as a forged identifier tied to the case, with probing by Commissioner Carr. The Paul and Ryan Streets area serves as the 15th Police District headquarters where the accused resided.
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Philadelphia
Paul N. Ryan
Henry P. Carr
Paul and Ryan Sts
15Th Police District
New ITS Oven Cleaner Promises Quick Grease Removal
A new jelly like formula named ITS cleans baked grease from oven surfaces without scraping. Applied by brushing on, left to stand, then wiped away with water. ITS sells at The Central Store Nation Department for $1 including a plastic brush.
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Nation
Over Seas Press Club Honors Oatis and Noel
Noels and Oatis, longtime Associated Press correspondents, received Overseas Press Club honors awarded while they were prisoners in Communist camps. Oatis earned the George Polk memorial award for courage and enterprise. Noel received a prize for best picture reporting from abroad.
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New York
Associated Press
William Oatis
Frank Noel
Overseas Press Club
Press Club
Oatis
Noel
Korea
Bing Crosby
Rivoli Theater
Memorial Press Center Fund
Prague
George Polk
Saxon Law Behind Boundary Distances for Buildings
An ancient Saxon rule requires landowners to set buildings at least two feet from the boundary to keep rainwater runoff from damaging neighbors. Britannica notes this provision aims to protect adjacent properties from water flow.
Britain Exports Five Million Pounds Wool Rags to U.S.
In the first nine months of 1952 Britain shipped wool rags valued at five million pounds to the United States. The trade reflects steady demand for textile recycling as postwar markets adjust.
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Britain
United States
Stock Clerk Trapped in Refrigerated Room Rescued
Andrew Compton a Peoria department store stock clerk was locked inside a refrigerated candy room when a bar slid and the padlock snapped. He pounded a wall and after lighting packing to trigger water from a sprinkler, firemen freed him as water rose knee high spoiling candy.
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Peoria
Ill
Andrew Compton
Compton
Police Seek Stolen Confederate Cannon Balls in Fayetteville
Fayetteville police issued a directive to locate a dozen black metal cannon balls stolen from the foot of a Confederate monument near mid-town. The spheres, bowling ball sized, were once pyramid arranged but vanished after the monument was moved and cement was not used. They disappeared over several months in single or paired thefts.
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Fayetteville
N. C
Mid-Town
Baltimore businessman buys embezzler's home
A Baltimore businessman purchased the home of Naomi Ringrose for over $50,000. Ringrose was sentenced to five years in prison last May for embezzling $350,000 from the Social Security Credit Union where she served as manager for nearly eight years. Her belongings were sold at auction last week as officials sought to recover the shortage.
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Baltimore
Naomi Ringrose
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Kremlin
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Schick
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