Police Property Rooms Burgeon With Unclaimed Items
A city police custodian notes three crowded rooms hold thousands of stolen and seized items plus unclaimed goods. He cites guns liquor and odd objects including a headless Venus statue and a dented bucket used in domestic violence as examples. Auctions occur twice yearly to clear items and destroyed pistols are not sold to the public.
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Museum of Errors
Charles Peters
Ameunl
Peters
Texas Hearts Not in Groove
Lt. Lewis R. Shaw of Dallas appeals from Korea for old 45 rpm phonograph records for enlisted men. The Dallas Morning News story notes Rhode Island units received broad support, while Texas responses were scarce. Shaw urges readers to mail any usable records to his APO box in San Francisco.
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Associated Press
Korea
Lewis R. Shaw
Dallas
Dallas Morning News
Shaw
Texas
Rhode Island
San Francisco
French Claim Drinking Title
French lemon ade dealers blame home brewers for rising alcoholism in France reporting four million private stills. Prohibitionist figures show France far ahead of others in drinking with cirrhosis deaths rising from 2939 in 1944 to 4396 in 1948. Frenchmen cite alcohol as the cause of most liver complaints.
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Paris
France
Opinions Vary On Budget For National Defense
Five residents express mixed views on whether tax dollars allocate too much to defense. They debate waste, necessity, and the need to fund armed forces to deter international threats, with several supporting substantial military spending.
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Fon Davis
Oliver Missildine
Carnahan
Army
Navy
Air Force
Terry Wealdon
Washington
Perry Walden
Solons to Ask Quick Pay Hike
Washington report says General Eisenhower should lead a push for a Congress pay raise early in his administration. A top Republican source predicts action to raise pay and expenses for key middle-echelon officials, including Justice. Vice President-elect Nixon shows strong support for boosting legislative compensation as members earn 12,500 dollars salary and 2,500 dollar expense accounts.
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Washington
INS
Eisenhower
Congress
Justice
Nixon
When a gift certificate proves changing times
Al Feldman of Rosoff's haberdashery notes the drift in value of the dollar after honoring a $10 Christmas gift certificate. He recalls how the same amount would have bought a fine suit at the turn of the century, contrasting past and present purchasing power. In Denver, a driver convicted of four traffic violations pleads for time to pay fines. He returns with two wipers stained with car wax and claims travel stories from Wyoming.
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Poughkeepsie
al Feldman
Feldman
Rosoff’s Haberdashery
Denver
Wyoming
Solon Vows Income Tax Cut in New Congress
Washington a group of three influential lawmakers urged reducing federal spending before tax cuts. Representative Reed plans a little over 5 percent cut in individual income taxes next year and a further cut the following year totaling about 31 percent. Senators Bridges Byrd and Representative Taber support balancing the budget first while pursuing tax relief in the next two sessions.
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Washington
Congress
Rep. Reed
House
Ways and Means Committee
Republican Congress
Sen
Bridges
R-Nh
Senate Appropriations Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Senate
Rep. Taber
R-Ny
House Appropriations Committee
Fall Proves Santa Sturdy in Baltimore
Santa Claus actor Paul Street aged 28 suffered a tumble from a third story window while delivering gifts. He refused immediate treatment, was taken to Maryland General Hospital for suspected wrist and back injuries, then returned home to finish his duties.
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Baltimore
Santa Claus
Paul Street
Maryland General Hospital
Native grasses to lead seed program at San Antonio nursery
The Soil Conservation Service plans a 1953 focus on growing native Texas grasses for seed at the San Antonio nursery. Varieties include sand lovegrass from Bexar County, Indian grass from near Lake Worth, switchgrass from Seadrift Cotulla Falfurrias, Arizona cottontop Pearsall green sprangletop Eldorado and 4 flower trichloris Three Rivers, with commercial production aiming for 1954.
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J. H. McLean
San Antonio
Soil Conservation Service
James E. “Bud’ Smith
Smith
Texas
Bexar County
Oklahoma
Kansas
Midwest
Seadrift
Cotulla
Falfurrias
Drouth
Lake Worth
Arizona
Pearsall
Eldorado
Three Rivers
Boca Chica
Brownsville
Miss Black
Two Daughters Die in Yale Fire
London December 26 two U S air force girls died in a house fire while their father attended a Christmas mass Jeannette Feeney six and Patricia nineteen months were slain by flames. Ruth Feeney mother was badly burned as the tragedy struck Yale area housing where the Feeney family resided during the Christmas season.
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London
Britain
Jeannette Feeney
Patricia
Robert Feeney
Ruth Feeney
Reich Police Accuse West Berlin of Christmas Clash
West Berlin police are blamed by the Russian control commission for a Christmas incident described as a deadly clash involving aggressors and would-be snappers. In Vatican news, Pope Pius met in private with Archbishop Msgr. Paulino Gius Albony who returned after imprisonment and expulsion by Communist China.
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Reich
Berlin
INS
Russian Control Commission
Sergei A. Dengin
West Berlin
de Ene
Seee
Vatican City
Pius
Priv
Paulino Gius Albony
Nanni China
China
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