Phoenix Open Open teeters as Locke record in danger
Thunderbirds 1950 Open at Phoenix Country Club trims field to 60 plus ties for final round. Jimmy Demaret leads at 131 after 36 holes, with Johnny Palmer at 133 and Ed Furgol 134. Hogan opening 65 fading to 73 leaves him six back at 138 as 2,500 spectators watch.
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South Africa
Bobby Locke
Phoenix Country Club
Thunderbirds
Bantam Ben Hogan
Ninty
Jimmy Demaret
Ojai
Calif
Haberdashery
Demaret
Locke
Johnny Palmer
Badin
N. C
Ed Furgol
Royal Oak
Mich
Sam Snead
White Sulphur Springs
Hogan
Hershey
Fliers Search Yukon for US Plane With 44 Aboard
Rescue efforts span Yukon and adjacent Canada for a four engine C 54 missing after departing Anchorage for Great Falls with 44 aboard. Crew names released include Maj. Gerald Brittain and Lt. Kyle McMichael among eight, while weather hinders search in blizzard conditions.
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Selfridge Field
Mich
U. S. Air Force Air Rescue Headquarters
Canada
Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
Air Force
Anchorage
Great Falls
Mont
Biggs Field
el Paso
Tex
AIR Rescue Services
United States
Watson Lake
British Columbia
U. S
Whitehorse
Yukon
D. R. Miller
RCAF
Fort Nelson
B. C
10Th
U. S. Air Rescue Squadron
Eugene O. Strauss
Elmendorf Field
Arctic
Bernt Balchen
Adml
Richard Byrd
Biggs Air Force Base
Gerald F. Brittain
Akron
Ohio
Kyle E. McMichael
San Antonio
Joseph W. Metzler
St. Louis
Clarence A. Gibson
Grady
Ala
Clyde A. Streitman
Renfrew
Harry W. McConegly
Albion
Raymond H. Snow
Fort Worth
Mike Tisik
Wellsburg
W. Va
Alaska
Yukon Wilderness
Snag
Yukon Territory
Alaskan
Unity Bid Lays Off On Rights
In Raleigh a Southern unity conference sought harmony over the civil rights issue. Leaders from the Truman administration led by Vice President Barkley, with cabinet members Brannan Snyder Webb Gray Keyserling, planned talks on the fair deal while agreeing not to discuss race. Barkley was to speak at the Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner after driving in from Washington.
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Raleigh
N. C
Truman
Alben Barkley
Dixie States
Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan
Secretary of the Treasury
John W. Snyder
James Webb
Army
Gordon Gray
Leon Keyserling
Veep
Washington
Barkley
United States Life in Art Exhibit Comes to Phoenix
127 paintings by contemporary American artists open at the Fine Arts Center Phoenix Arizona State Fairground Monday through February 30. Works loaned by United States Senator William Benton showcase canvases by Grant Wood Thomas Benton Max Weber Doris Lee and George Bellows among others. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection on loan ends a five year tour and marks the 36th U S. exhibit. Admission is free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Fine Arts
Arizona State Fairground
Phoenix Fine Arts Association
The
Valley National Bank
Encyclopaedia Britannica
William Benton
Connecticut
Britannica
Benton
Phoenix
Grant Wood
Thomas Hart Benton
Dan Lutz
Julio de Diego
Max Weber
Doris Lee
Joseph Hirsch
George Bellows
Polio Epidemic Strikes Remote Quebec Village
The Air Force boosted mercy flights to St Augustin Quebec after four children died and about 200 may be polio sick. A Dakota transport carried doctors and nurses from Dorval to the 1000 mile round trip with Goose Bay and Grenfell Mission involvement. A mass evacuation was considered as the village lacked electricity and iron lungs.
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Montreal
Air Force
Quebec
St. Augustin
Dorval
Royal Canadian Air Force
Quebec-Labrador
Peggy Corbett
RCAF
Corbett
Goose Bay
Labrador
Sarah Ann Buskirk
Grenfell Mission
Miss Buskirk
Harrington Harbor
Claire Neville-Smith
Wind Swerves Bus Off Road In High Winds Near Pueblo
A Trailways passenger bus swerved off United States Highway 85-87 near Pueblo due to winds around 100 mph. Five passengers were injured and the driver was trapped in wreckage. victims were taken to Corwin Hospital. Patrol said 13 people were aboard. The driver’s name was withheld and not yet arrived at the hospital.
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Pueblo
Colo
Trailways
Corwin Hospital
Trailways Company
State Highway Patrol
Noted Figures Weigh In On Hydrogen Bomb Issue
International News Service reports Bernard M. Baruch and Harold Urey, both prominent figures, offering starkly differing views on developing the hydrogen bomb. Baruch argues its necessity as defense, while Urey expresses deep concern, valuing liberty over life if the weapon is pursued.
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Bernard M. Baruch
United States
Harold C. Urey
Atomic
New York
Soviet Says Western Spy Ring Smashed in Germany
Berlin dispatch reports Taegliche Rundschau claims 127 saboteurs arrested in eight groups tied to Anglo American agents. ring aimed to seize power in Eastern Germany as Soviet troops planned withdrawal. Regime regulation may curb travel into Soviet Berlin, amid a tightened blockade with truck queues at Helmstedt checkpoint.
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Berlin
Germany
Taegliche Rundschau
Red Army
Helmstedt
Sunday Cockfight Receipts Promised To Children’s Home
Admission to a four cock derby at a Tempe barn by Sun Valley Game Association will be donated to the Arizona Crippled Children's Home. Funds from a member hat will support the Convalescent Home for Crippled Children. Grant said California cockfighters may enter. entry fees are not gambling and not $50. The event starts around 10 a.m. with weights from 4 pounds 12 ounces to 6 pounds. He criticized Humane Association of Arizona for its stance and urged focus on child neglect.
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Sun Valley Game Association, Inc
Arizona Crippled Children’s Home
Harry H. Grant
South Central Avenue
Convalescent Home For Crippled Children
East
Garfield Street
Grant
California
The
Humane Association of Arizona
Sun Valley Game Farm
Grit and
Young Addict Robs Doctor and Four Patients in Chicago
A youth armed with a pistol seized Dr. M. L. Weinstein’s Chicago office last night, binding the nurse and four others. He stole a $1,000 diamond ring, $15 cash, a $150 ring, five grains of morphine, and 15 grains of cocaine, then escaped with narcotics and jewelry valued at $1,150. No one was hurt.
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Chicago
Weinstein
Dual Fire Kills Woman and Blinds Girl in Chicago
Flames swept two adjacent three story apartment buildings in Chicago early today. A woman, Mrs. Helen Ford, 38, died after being carried from her blazing room. Her 8 year old daughter Sandra Lee was critically injured and blinded in the face. About six others were seriously hurt as people leaped from windows and 75 occupants sought shelter outside. Neighbors housed the survivors in the 25 degree cold until help arrived.
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Chicago
Helen Ford
North
Clark Street
Sandra Lee
Indonesians Seize Arms Intercepted Truck West of Jakarta
The United States of Indonesia defense ministry said a Jakarta loaded truck and a sedan carrying weapons were intercepted fifty miles west of Jakarta. Two men escorting the vehicles were killed in the clash.
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Jakarta
INS
Defense Ministry of the
United States of Indonesia
Man Burns Self After Setting Gasoline On Fire In Police Car
Alfred Johnston about 40, of 1425 East Virginia Avenue, was burned critically when he lit gasoline from two tin cans kept in his shirt pockets while being transported to police headquarters. Patrolmen Nafziger and Hanger stopped the car at 13th Street and Coronado Road, and ambulance crews rushed him to St Monica's Hospital with extensive burns.
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Alfred Johnston
East Virginia Avenue
13Th Street
Coronado Road
Charles Nafziger
William Hanger
St. Monica's Hospital
VA Says Vets Good Credit Risk
VA asserts ex GI s are solid credit risks especially for home purchases. Frank W. Kelsey notes 146000 veterans have fully repaid loans totaling 570 million with others largely current on payments. VA has paid lender claims in about 13500 defaulted cases, under 1 percent of guarantees, while guarantees total about 4.8 billion.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Frank W. Kelsey
Weekend Leisure Bulletin Highlights Local Events
Schedule preview lists events across Phoenix including Ben Hogan Open at Phoenix Country Club at 9 30 a m. trips from The Gazette and Republic Building to Sacaton and Arboretum near Superior and Magma. Also includes talks at Arizona Museum and Desert Botanical Garden screenings, races at South Mountains Speedway and Greyhound park, golf polo and high school ski meet near Flagstaff plus theater listings.
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Phoenix Country Club
Phoenix Dons Club
Sacaton Indian Reservation
Gazette and Republic
van Buren Street
Mesa Chamber of Commerce
William Boyce Thompson Arboretum
Superior
Magma Copper Mine
Mesa Civic Center
Wickenburg
Fort Dale Creek
Arizona
Frontier Street
Arizona Museum
10Th Avenue
Walter Nelson
Dons Club
Desert Botanical Garden
Papago Park
Barry Goldwater
Encanto Park
South Mountains Speedway
State Fairground
Greyhound Park
March of Dimes
Phoenix College
Arizona State College
Phoenix
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Edmonton
Alta
Next of
Seward
Gulf of Alaska
Pacific Ocean
U Prince
Prince
Vancouver
Eladd
Fort Simpson
Fort Smith
Beaufort
Unity
Greater Berlin
East Berlin
ADN
Children's Home
Tempe
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