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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1950
Page
6
A dancer named Jean Armstrong recovers a string of rosary beads with a St Christopher medallion after a Baltimore hotel loss, linking the object to a young fan. Years earlier the beads helped her during hospitalization, and now she reflects on fate and gratitude amid career setbacks.
A devotional meditation speaks of Jesus sharing in human fatigue and suffering. The speaker finds solace in Jesus understanding distress and offering comforting sympathy like a loving father. The poem emphasizes divine empathy during long, tiring journeys of faith.
A dancer, short on cash, returns a rosary after a clock reads 7:30 and loses a job when the show strands her. The stage manager offers a few weeks in The Student Prince at Nixon theater as a fix mid-curve tale, while a Pittsburgh bound 7:22 freight car wreck injures none.
In a rural mystery near Fairview Obadiah, a disliked old man, is found dead from a rock thrown through his window. The narrator and neighbors recount tensions over foreclosed mortgages and disputed wages as investigators seek the killer among those who despised him. Suspects include Moses Morris and Roscoe Norbert amid eerie footprints and a night of quarrels.
A crowd gathers outside Obadiah's farm as Doc Orion investigates a death. Roscoe arrives with a tall, rawboned man. The victim likely died five hours earlier from a blunt instrument, with possible rock involvement.
Sharruf accuses Moses of murdering Obadiah with a stove poker after a scheme over a cow and mortgage. Moses denies, but blood on the poker and a doctor’s statement place the crime about five hours earlier as the sun shone. Oscar Jones appears to factor in later.
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The piece profiles radio veteran Berry who slipped into a 1940 impersonation of Ronald Colman, later breaking into radio in 1930 with a 11-role half hour show for 2.50. It also notes Charles Laughton’s admired voice at a New York luncheon, Stro mboli reception, Disney Cinderella research on the glass slipper, and Debbie Reynolds’ screen debut and new MGM contract with a Girl Scout tidbit.
General George C. Marshall extols the Red Cross National Blood Program as vital for defense and security, noting 30 regional centers serving 1,550 hospitals, 40 million people, and 688,532 vials of serum last year. He explains nationwide coordination, blood fraction use, and the move toward local chapter financing and direction.
A speaker lauds the Red Cross blood program as vital for major disasters and nationally important, noting intense voluntary effort and surprisingly low public appreciation for volunteers. The address emphasizes progress and the need for broader understanding of the program.
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