Navy modernization gains quick House approval in Washington
Admiral Forrest Sherman won swift support from the House Armed Services Committee for a 350 million modernization program, including a guided missiles ship and an atomic powered submarine. The plan calls for converting a heavy cruiser for missiles and launching an atomic sub within three years, with six Essex class carriers slated for upgrades.
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Forrest F. Sherman
Sherman
House
Armed Services Comnittes
Vinson D-Ga
Vinson
Navy
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Sasseer
Russia
Davis Seeks Constitutional Convention to Boost GOP
State Senator Roy Tasco Wayts of Montgomery urged the party to call a constitutional convention to revive Alabama’s fundamental laws. Davis, a prospective Republican gubernatorial candidate, spoke to the Young Republican Club in Montgomery proposing broader home rule for counties and municipalities and criticizing the current legislature as ineffective. He emphasized the need to win voter confidence beyond criticism and demagoguery.
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Roy ‘Tasco Wayts
Montgomery
Ou Tur
Davis
Young Republican Club
Cormnty
Senate
Republican Party
Voers
Maryland considers constitutional convention proposal
The article notes a proposal for a constitutional convention with a question to appear on November's leaflets. Maryland has not held a constitutional convention in the 20th century. Davis urges revising the wide budgetary procedure and the appropriation of special funds. He favors a direct and impartial method for appointing school boards, criticizing current governor appointments based on local political organizations.
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Davis
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Lufs Stuff Thanks In Advance Displayed Note
A fragment from N A Lufburrow thanks readers for possible help in halting rising diving costs that impede going to the bay. He pledges daily thanks and praise if a solution reduces the upward trend.
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N. A. Lufburrow
South Pacific Wins Pulitzer Drama Prize
New York May 1 1950 South Pacific the Rodgers Hammerstein musical based on James A Micheners Tales of the South Pacific won the Pulitzer drama prize. The Way West by A B Guthrie Jr earned the fiction prize. Special Pulitzer awards went to Oklahoma and public service honors went to Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post Dispatch.
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Lygudway
Pulltver Prize
A. Bo Guthrie
Dwight D Eixenhowe
Columbia
Univerty i South
Oser Hammerstein
James A. Michener
South Pacific
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Pulitver
Chicago Daily News
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Two Journalists Honored for Reporting on Camden Slayings
The 1950 prize for distinguished local reporting went to Meyer Berger of the New York Times for his coverage of the September 1949 Camden neighborhood slayings by Howard Unruh. Articles on the event were co authored by George Thiem and Paul Harris for the Inolzs newspaper pages.
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George Thiem
Paul Harris
Awsreed
Meyer Berger
The
New York Times
Howard Unruh
Camden
N.org
Oldest Shore Woman Mary Avery, 104, of Salisbury
Pre Census Bureau records show Mary Avery, 104, of the Eastern Shore town near Salisbury, as Maryland's oldest county resident. She lives in the uy HOM section with her granddaughter Mrs Bishop Esick and has been bedridden after a broken hip. She remains bright and cheerful, delighting in a snuff box for company. The article notes a porcupine as the second unusual item.
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May
Witinicu
Maryland
Mary Avery
Uy Hom
Salisbury
Bishop &Esick
Alhough
Arvey
Mike
Sue
Full Protection of Law in School Hours in Maryland
Robert P. Lane, Investigation Supervisor for the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions of the U S Department of Labour in Maryland, notes that amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act extend full legal protection to minors working in agriculture during school hours if the crop is intended for interstate commerce. Previously, minors could be employed as long as school attendance was not legally required. Now,
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Baltimore
Robert P. Lane
WU. S. Depient On
Maryland
Restrictions on Minor Employment During School Season
The policy applies only during the school season to minors under 18 living in the district, with work limited to crops for interstate commerce or crops turned into interstate goods. It does not restrict employment during vacations or holidays, nor does it affect a parent's right to employ children on their own farm.
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Lane
Greatest danger America faces prompts family and public discussion
The speaker urges talking over the issue with family friends and fellow workers, framing it as the nation's greatest danger and urging collective consideration. The remark emphasizes public discourse and shared concern among diverse groups.
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