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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1952
Page
10
Secretary Brannan may release late this week a summary of a nationwide survey showing strong farmer support for federal farm aid programs. The 3,000 reports were gathered by county and state groups and will be reviewed by a non government advisory committee before any public release.
Los Angeles hosts the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council for its 70th annual meeting with Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York attending a pontifical mass and sermon to be delivered by Archbishop J Francis A McIntyre of Los Angeles. Spellman used a Pasadena audience to condemn secularist education and Communist influence on American liberty.
Mrs. Florence M. King of New Salisbury Indiana selected five cents worth of postcards while waiting for lunch in Gettysburg Pennsylvania and forgot to pay. She mailed the nickel with a letter of apology after returning home.
Des Moines Iowa Robert L Flercer was fined 25 dollars for reckless driving after his vehicle rolled downhill while attempting to start the motor and nearly struck a truck. Mercer accompanied the incident as the coasting driver without engine operation.
In Terre Haute Indiana the CIO United Auto Workers ended a 14 week strike at Allis Chalmers jet engine parts plant after accepting a three year contract. The deal raises day wage 14 cents and night wage 19 cents immediately, lifting base pay to 1.53 to 2.50 dollars, with another 4 cent raise in years two and three.
At Camp Gordon in Augusta a Pilot Rehabilitation Training Center houses 300 troubled soldiers. They train 16 weeks in infantry, including gas chamber drills, and return to regular duty with cleared records. Escapes are rare and success praised by officers and Maj. Gen. Hoover. The Army plans expansion across the five continental armies.
A $2 million libel suit pits Senator McCarthy against Senator Benton in a courtroom clash over delaying pretrial testimony of Paul G. Hoffman of the Ford Foundation. Judge Burnita Matthews set the hearing for 9 a.m. EST and a ruling before Hoffman's 10 a.m. testimony at a nearby hotel. Hoffman, once head of the ECA, is a potential key witness in the dispute over charges of fraud and deceit.
Three hundred families living on Camp Detrick near Frederick Maryland allege taxation without representation while not having voting rights. They seek restoration of voting rights and a ruling on state inheritance taxes wills probate and care for mental illness or tuberculosis. The case could affect other residents on government property and may reach the U S Supreme Court.
In Davenport a park incident freed 29 monkeys from a water flooded island when a dike leak drained the area. The primates swung through trees for hours before returning to the island at the sound of feeding buckets.
Adlai E. Stevenson’s planned farm speech at Minnesota’s Nations Plowing Contest was canceled after officials refused to let him speak the same day as Dwight D. Eisenhower. Governor Stevenson’s campaign manager said the executive committee reversed its position and moved to Sept. 5 for Eisenhower with Stevenson awaiting Sept. 6 if approved.
The Office of Price Stabilization plans to post dollar and cent price ceilings on about 300 major items in more than half of the nation's grocers. The program returns to World War II style uniform pricing to help consumers and ease grocer calculations.
Leo Arrecco drove to the Stamford police station to pay a $6 stop sign fine but lost control and crashed into the building. Officers accepted the payment and declared the matter settled.
James Marlow notes that Eisenhower and Stevenson will crisscross the country by train and plane as TV coverage expands. The piece weighs the value of personal appearances versus televised debates and suggests voters seek clear, concrete statements over high rhetoric.
Residents here beat the heat by using the town's only self service ice house. Prices are posted there, a scale is provided, and buyers weigh a block and drop payment into a tin can.
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