New Furniture Plant To Employ 50 In Portsmouth
Norcor Manufacturing of Green Bay Wisconsin will lease 27000 square feet in the Morley plant and start operations about April 1. The plant will employ about 50 workers initially with potential for 100 later. S W Pierce named general manager. Portsmouth office of the New Hampshire Employment Service will handle applications. Mayor Neal praised the chamber for aiding employment relief and urged ready expansion of industrial space. Pierce said the firm studied 30 locations before choosing Portsmouth.
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Norcor Manufacturing Company
Green Bar
Wis
Morier Company
Forrest MM. Eaton
Cham- Pers Odustrial Committee
David ©. Packard
Wisconsin
Eaton
Morley
S. W. Pierce
Green Bay
Gillett
Pierce
New Hampshire Employment Service
Cecil M. Neal
Chamber of Commerce
Norcor
Taft-Hartley Repeal Aims Pivot Toward Truman Goal
GTON December 22 AP reports repeal of the Taft-Hartley act remains a top labor objective for Truman though Democrats expect the law to stay in force. The piece notes ongoing debate within the party about pushing repeal versus maintaining the statute.
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Trumen
Democratic Cay
Taxpayer Fears $3 000 000 Cost in Special Session
The periodical notes that a special session could raise costs by about 3.0 to 3.9 million for education and state operations. Taxpayers worry about higher taxes as discussions focus on reorganization and teacher retirement funding. Legislative leaders signal limited votes for repeal or major revision of Taft Hartley pending next year.
Fire at Philadelphia Arsenal Shrouded in Secrecy
Dense fog and heavy fumes hampered firefighters at the Frankford arsenal in Philadelphia. Vaultlike, armor plated compartments hindered access as air hammers opened the roof. Officials cited no cause or damage details while FBI agents and arsenal staff attended the scene. Ammunition storage was confirmed but not quantified.
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FBI
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Happy Year Ahead In Market Places For U.S. Consumer
Washington reports signs of a brighter year for shoppers with more money in hand and easier installment terms. Agriculture forecasts a record peacetime pork supply in 1950 and eggs likely eight to ten cents a dozen cheaper. The Fed notes easier credit and an expanding money supply due to government outlays, while tax policy may curb some price rises and trim luxury items.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
MacArthur Calls For Independent Probe Of Missing Japanese POWs
Gen Douglas MacArthur urged Washington to seek an independent investigation into the fate of 376000 missing Japanese prisoners held by the Soviet Union. He asked negotiation for inquiry by a neutral nation or the Red Cross after reports that 374041 may have died in Russian camps.
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Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Soviet Union
MacArthur
Washington
Allied Council For Japan
International Red Cross
Robot Saboteurs Under Study by War Scientists
Washington dispatch reports military scientists weighing the deployment of robotic saboteurs to steer missiles to cities. The Defense Department glossary notes semiactive homing guiding a missile toward a radar illuminated target. A suitcase transmitter or pathfinder plane could illuminate cities, guiding fleets of missiles across oceans toward a target before final homing.
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Washington
Defense Department
Research and Development Board
Portsmouth Council Ends Year With Kisses And Farewell
The 1949 Portsmouth city council wrapped up with flowers and handshakes honoring retiring member Mrs. Mary C. Dondero after a session largely devoted to a sewer survey contract involving John W. Durgin, Sr. Tension centered on whether to nullify the 1947 contract to obtain federal funds, with Dondero and Durgin clashing over duties, while City Manager Edward C. Peterson and Councilman Thomas H. Simes weighed the implications.
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Portsmouth
John W. Durgin
Mary C. Dondero
Durgin
Edward C. Peterson
Thomas H. Simes
Dondero
Simes
Cits
Peterson
Street Fighting Technique Taught U. S. Berlin Troops
U S troops in Berlin ordered to practice riot control and street fighting tactics. The 400 military police battled a mock food-warehouse riot with protective fire, as Major General Maxwell Taylor directed similar exercises for infantry and constabulary units.
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Berlin
Maxwell DB. Taylor
U.S
Julian Ewell
Taylor
Poison Medicine Search Ends With Lad Unhurt
NEW BRUNSWICK NJ December 22 AP a two day search for a boy who was given a poisonous compound in error as a car sickness remedy ended with the lad unhurt The boy Donald Stalker aged 10 had been given a half teaspoon of silver nitrate solution obtained from a Philadelphia druggist Officials said the mother Mrs Chester W Stalker of Bur bank California believed the illness was a return of the car sickness The boy showed no evident effects after the dose but would be examined by a physician later today a druggist said he had mistakenly supplied the poisonous solution instead of the remedy for car sickness
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Durgin
Mr. Durgin
Peterson
New Brunswick
N. J
Still
Philadelphia
Chester W. Stalker
North Nizgra
Burbank
Calif
Donald
Angus Ward Sails Home From Mukden Deportation
Consul General Angus Ward and most Mukden staff deported by Chinese Communists sail for the United States aboard the liner President Wilson to report for duty.
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Yokohama
Angus Ward
Mukden
United States
President Wilson
Fugitives Returned Over Rockingham Race Fix Charge
California tour-sheet operator William H. Weaver and Forest C. Wilson were extradited to New Hampshire’s Salem jurisdiction. Wilson faces arraignment on race fixing charges for October 24 at Rockingham Park. Weaver is jailed on $12,000 bail after details alleged to involve sponges in horses nostrils to influence outcomes. Crisis won the seventh race, paying 13.60.
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Forest C. Wilson
Boston
Wilson
Granite State
Rockingham Park
Salem
William H. Weaver
Nogales
Atiz
Weaver
Rockingham
William L. Phinney
Crisis
Seid
Maine Turnpike profits erase 1949 deficit
Maine turnpike reports a sizeable profit for its second year, with over $200,000 net after expenses for 1949. Traffic rose 11.7 percent in the first 11 months, gross revenue up 90.3 percent to $822,163, and net revenue up 44.8 percent to $614,757.
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Kennebunk
Dee
Maine
Williams B. Getchell
Maine Turnpike Authority
Kittery-to-Portland
FBI Moves to Probe Detroit Blast Plot
FBI moves to investigate a dynamite plot against the CIO United Auto Workers in Detroit. The action marks the agency’s first formal intercession in the UAW CIO turmoil amid a nearly quarter-million dollar rewards offer. Detroit police say clues to the plant blast’s origin remain scant.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Federal
Security First Johnson Seeks Military Priority
Defense Secretary Louis Johnson urged prioritizing national security over economy at the New York Lawyers association meeting. He warned that excessive or insufficient military spending could damage the U S. peace time economy and endanger security while 35 pickets protested outside against armed forces Jim Crow practices at the Waldorf Astoria.
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New York
Defense
Louis Johnson
United States
Johnson
New York Lawyers Association
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Devine Appointed Trustee for UNH
Manchester attorney Maurice F. Devine was named yesterday to the University of New Hampshire board of trustees to fill the unexpired term of the late Jeremy R. Waldron of Portsmouth. The appointment was made by Gov Sherman Adams and his executive council.
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Manchester
University of New Hampshire
Maurice F. Devine
Jeremy R. Waldron
Portsmouth
Sherman Adams
Planes Collide in North Carolina. All Escaped Safely
A marine fighter and a marine transport plane collided during a flight near Denton North Carolina. The transport crashed landed at Edenton base with a damaged tail but the crew survived. The fighter crashed but managed to parachute to safety.
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N. C
Edenton
Hancock Appointed State Prison Head By Adams, Council
Concord dispatch reports Governor Adams Senate executive council approved Parker L. Hancock as New Hampshire state prison warden, replacing retiring Charles B. Clarke. Hancock, Concord overseer of the poor, will receive 5000 dollars and maintenance.
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Adams
Concord
New Hampshire
Executive Council
Sherman Adams
State Prison Board of Trustees
Parker L. Hancock
Concord Overseer of the
Charles B. Clarke
Clark
Connecticut
George Cummings
Workers Present Pope With Holy Door Tools
Workers representing 4,000,000 members of Italian Catholic Action presented Pope Pius XII with a gold gilded hammer and silver trowel to open St. Peter’s holy door for the 1950 holy year. The ceremony will involve the pope tapping the brick wall and the doorway being revealed, with similar openings at Rome’s other basilicas and about 10,000 pilgrims present. Envelopes with medals and ID cards have been distributed to pilgrims worldwide.
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St. Peter's
Rome
St. Mary Major
St. John Lateral
St. Paul
Wall
Pope Pius
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