Camden Area Buries Shooting Orgy Victims
Camden N J September 9 the Cramer Hill section began burying its dead from Howard Unruh s shooting spree as 13 were killed and seven buried over two days. Six year old Orris Smith died on a hobby horse while his preschool haircut caused police lines around the home. Survivors and victims bodies will be laid to rest in nearby communities as relatives awaited arrivals from Army service in Japan. Armand Harrie 16 described how he wrestled with Unruh before the gun emptied in the kitchen, and he was later treated for a arm wound.
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Camden
N. J
Cramer Hill
Howard Unruh
Orris Smith
Unruh
John J. Pilarchik
Pennsauken
Woodbury
Alvin M. Day, Jr
Maurice Cohen
Minnie Cohen
Cohen
Leonard
Japan
Armand Harrie
Harrie
Armond
Cooper Hospital
Annexation Contested Over Petition Signatures and Rates
Lawsuit challenges annexation citing missing signatures and state law. Attorney for Coe argues residents did not sign or consent. City counted 55.27 percent property valuation signed. Some residents received rebates on fire insurance and free sewer service after annexation. refund queries await city decision.
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Jack Cavness
Coe
Twho
Sunset Drive
City Planning Department
City Council
Fire Perils 70 In Hospital Ca
Seventy patients were evacuated from the Hollywood Sanitarium after a $50,000 fire swept through the facility. Ambulances from New Westminster Vancouver and Burnaby aided the evacuation with patients moved to Columbia Hospital and Essendale Provincial Mental Hospital. The blaze started in a clothes closet and spread to upper floors.
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New Westminster
B. C
Hollywood
Vancouver
Burnaby
New West‘minster
Columbia Hospital
Essendale
Mean goose causes neighborhood mayhem at costume party
A speaker recalls a wife’s prize goose from a costume party that incited sarcasm and jealousy. The bird caused noise, hissed at kids, scared dogs, and entertained neighbors with honks, while the owners contemplate a safe home for the ill tempered animal amid concerns for the SPCA.
Road Scope executive’s lavish spending exposed in damning summary
Testimony shows Road-A-Scope of Arizona and California paid $23,854 in commissions and $22,119 in California commissions to Jonovich and Lloyd amid a $1,700 bank balance. Scudder testified no formal books existed until 1946, later created from Anderson’s notes and his personal expenditures.
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Ralston
Arizona
Jonovich
Lloyd
California
Valley National Bank
Anderson
Road-A-Scope
Charles Morgan
Scudder
Public Welfare Debate Focuses on State Clinic Plan
Labor leaders push for cost cuts and a centralized state clinic for injured workers. Delegates weigh three Public Welfare Department reform resolutions aimed at improving care for dependent children, the poor and sick, the aged, the blind, and the crippled. Proposed by the Public Employes Union, the measures are to be voted on by 150 convention delegates.
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McCluskey
Public Employes Union
Convention
Resolution seeks welfare reform and funding boosts
A historic Welfare Department turmoil spans 20 years with numerous investigations costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands. A Labor Committee is urged to work with the governor, the Legislature's Interim Committee, and the current firm examining the department. The measures seek more pension funding and larger staff.
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Welfare Department
State Board
Commissioner of Public Welfare
Public Welfare Department
Air Officials Deny Move of Plants Planned
Air Force officials say plans to disperse warplane production do not amount to moving industry. They emphasize no overall plan to relocate factories, but seek to reduce strategic bombing vulnerability by considering distribution of aircraft facilities.
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Washington
Air Force
California
Service veteran found dead at motel after incident
A man described as a service veteran stayed at a motel and was reported missing by his mother who suggested death by his own actions due to war wounds. He had registered Sept 1, broke an arm in the motel pool, then received hospital care and was released. Authorities noted an overdose treatment earlier. Some scientists mentioned jelly like interior earth theories.
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Miss Burton
Everhart
Strikes Hamper Italian Industry Report
Italy faced 28,576,199 lost work hours in the first half of 1949 due to strikes and stoppages. Astra reported 107,000 plants affected with 31,145,021 workers taking part in the labor trouble.
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Rome
Italy
Astra
Justice Rutledge Shows No Improvement
York Hospital reported today that Supreme Court Justice Wiley B. Rutledge, ill with a cerebral hemorrhage, shows no improvement. Outcome undetermined, the hospital bulletin said.
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York
York Hospital
Supreme Court
Wiley B. Rutledge
Mrs Brink Wins Plea for More Aid Relief for 11 children
In Sacramento on September 9 Mrs Jessie Brink mother of 11 and a noted relief family received additional aid she requested. An order for food and clothing was issued as her husband was unemployed and the family had relied on relief for most of the time they have lived in the area. An aside notes an early weather report attempt from 1644 by a minister in Wilmington Delaware.
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Sacramento
Jessie Brink
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