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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1950
Page
4
A newspaper notice warns drivers to expect heavy weekend traffic and urges caution. It stresses the need to watch other drivers, avoid road hog behavior, and be prepared for unexpected maneuvers to keep everyone safe.
The loss of a Northwest Airlines DC-4 with 58 aboard over Lake Michigan prompts calls for swift wreckage recovery and a definitive cause. The aircraft was sturdy and reliable, on a routine New York to Minneapolis flight, amid an electrical storm with no clear mechanical failure. The article stresses improving safety measures to prevent future repeats.
A progressive move in Congress aims to remove cavalry terms from the army while Philadelphia plans to disband mounted police. West Point cadets no longer learn to ride, and horse symbolism fades from military and civic life as modern warfare and urban policing evolve.
Johnstown residents press Rep. John P. Saylor to seek a new census count after 1940 figures show 1,050 more dwelling units but a population drop from 66,688 to 62,723. The piece questions why totals are “subject to correction” and notes broader census anomalies amid housing debates. It cites low pay for enumerators and uncounted residents, and imagines future national population impacts.
The column cites Trygve Lie's open letter on the UN's task to pursue peace amid rising global tensions. It notes crises in France Britain Korea and Yugoslav reports while tracing past leaders like Caesar Napoleon Mussolini and Hitler as contrasts to today’s difficulty in achieving peace.
A columnist shares Rabbi Carl L. Manello’s account of traditional Jewish burial practices that favor simple linen shrouds, volunteer burial societies, and memorial donations to religious or charitable causes over costly flowers. The aim is equality in death and support for the community.
A verse-style reflection on the moment a nurse proclaims It’s a boy at birth. The speaker contrasts the unmeasured joy of this phrase with other cheerful messages and credits doctors and nurses for easing fears and welcoming new life.
United Nations President Carlos Romulo says the council resolution on the Korean crisis is forthright and bears the full support of peace loving peoples. Lord Vansittart calls the invasion of South Korea a new act of a third world war. Secretary of Defense Johnson notes a nucleus of forces in South Korea to deter external aggression.
Henry McLemore portrays Damascus and Beirut as twin faces of Lebanon. He notes Damascus with antiquity and Islam while Beirut shines as a modern, predominantly Christian city with a vivid social scene and plentiful fruit, hotels, and nightlife. The piece highlights hospitality toward Americans and affordable travel options, including a trip to Damascus for under ten dollars.
A Me To You note highlights an American Legion Magazine piece by National Commander Craig arguing that pinks and reds misuse law to push their cause in the United States. It urges readers to read and act to preserve forefathers' freedoms while critiquing consumer premiums and the lure of cowboy items in breakfast goods.
A quiet day noted with a mother not announcing her daughter's engagement to Elliott. A parade of 43 Roosevelts abroad and a wire promising reinforcements for Jimmy if California fails. Thurmond and Wright resist a southern dinner deal while Thuman’s grievances are misunderstood, not anger at southern Democrats.
Madame Louise Homer, famed operatic contralto born in Pittsburgh, studied in Philadelphia and Boston, sang at Covent Garden and Brussels, with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and died in 1947. King Frederick of Denmark, born March 11 1899, educated at the Naval Academy and Copenhagen University, ruled from 1947 after a WWI service and WWII occupation period.
In Washington former Secretary of State Cordell Hull warns that waging peace is an endless process needing daily and yearly vigilance, reflecting on enduring effort to maintain international stability.
Holmes Alexander critiques the Buchanan Committee on Lobby Activity and its handling of Merwin K. Hart. The piece notes Hart’s lobbying ties, committee access moves, and dual forces advocating further probes while questioning the ethics of publicizing personal beliefs. It ends by asking who will audit the investigators themselves.
In Looking At Life, Erich Brandeis urges readers to abandon self pity. He cites a 25 year old who complains after moving from a rooming situation and a job loss, urging courage, independence, and action as paths to success.
Bennett Cerf profiles a funny reindeer tale in a saloon on Eighth Avenue where a drink triggers a price dispute. It then shifts to a brief biography of Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase noting his sharp wit and postwar flirtation with a rebellious Alabama beauty.
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