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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1950
Page
7
City controller Edith Cleaveland reports 1951 general revenue at 9 mills and sinking fund at 1 mill totaling 1 088 129 49, down from 1949 and 1950 levels. Library funding is diverted from millage, with 5 percent wage tax and $5 000 from general revenue allocated to aid the school board.
The piece notes a grim CIA report completed November 21 on Communist Chinese intentions in Korea. It questions whether MacArthur’s staff and Congress committees were informed and why the warning was ignored amid a grim global crisis.
The piece profiles William Ellery Channing born in Newport Rhode Island April 7 1780 and Agatha Christie born in Torquay England. It notes Channing's Harvard ties his Unitarian leadership his reformist views on slavery and his death in 1842. Christie emerges as a renowned mystery writer with works like The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
Paris dispatch reports Tehran has ordered cancellation of all Iranian army leaves and alerted frontier forces due to general uneasiness over the Korean crisis. Iran continues a border dispute with Russia and a Soviet Iranian commission was to settle eight boundary disagreements.
A humorous note about Bennett Cerf in Hollywood with a handwriting expert at an exotic club. A Dallas gas company incident involves a misrouted operator call and a jokey Dean of a law school reply. The piece mentions a postponed release due to a snowstorm and notes plans for an art course in club rooms and a 140 species octopus.
Associated Artists of New Castle will meet in their club rooms on East Washington Street above Nolan's Friday evening at 8 30 p m Plans for the New Year party will be made at the gathering
The Elm Street YWCA Friendship Club meets at 8 PM in the Center to finish aprons and discuss the Christmas party. The group will sponsor a baby contest Friday evening with mothers reporting, followed by a program.
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