Tree House Reading Strips Delights TV Audience
The Tree House program on WOAT TV features emcee Dick Perry performing live ventriloquism with Bud Vinson and Johnny Digan. Perry enacts popular comic characters from Little Orphan Annie to Johnny Hazard while viewers ages six to sixty enjoy the show. The series, now at 6 p.m on Tuesdays and Thursdays, draws clamorous calls when the switchboard jams during broadcasts.
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San Antonio
Dick Perry
Weir
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Tree House
Woat. TV
Woai-Tv
Bud Vinson
Johnny Dugan
Radio Star's Wife Die From Electric Dryer Shock
Mrs. Ellen A. Carney 37 wife of radio figure Don Carney died after an electric halo dryer caused a fatal shock while she bathed. Don Carney long hosted a children's program on WOR New York.
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Miami
Ellen A. Carney
Don
Radio Fame
Don Carney
WOR
New York
Pantusa Funeral Set For Mrs Mary Pantusa Panc iuse
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Panc iuse aged 4 of 529 Cavalier Street will be held at 8 45 p m Monday at Angels chapel led by Mayes at St Francis of Paul church. She was a native San Antonian. Survivors include husband fov Pantusa, children Mrs Mary Granteri and Sam Pantusa, grandson David Pantusa, sisters Mrs Victoria Garza and Mrs Anive Sanches, and brother Franks Colose.
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Mary Panc Iuse
Cavalier St
Angels
Mays
St. Francis Fo Paul Church
San Antonian
Fov Pantusa
Mary Granteri
Sam Pantusa
David Pantusa
Victoria Garza
Anive Sanches
Franks Colose
Truman seeks UN aid for Arab refugees relief fund
In Washington on December 31 President Truman will request authorization to contribute to a UN relief fund totaling 54.9 million dollars to aid about 750000 Arab refugees from Palestine.
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UN Arab Fund
Washington
Truman
Cargeess
Palestine
Guided Missiles For Future Wars
A 1950 INS feature reports the U S guided missile program aims for 200 mile atomic warhead delivery, with development at White Sands Alamogordo Point Mugu and Inyokern. It notes Nazi V 2 lessons, funding limits, and the need for more scientists, German wartime knowledge, and a ready blueprint approach for future mass production.
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Air Force
Ford
Russia
Department of Debore
Leon Shloss
International News Service
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Mnyokern
Vannevar Bush
Joseph T. McNarney
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Ferhslear
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Ft. Bliss
F] Paso
Tacy
Phagirvam
Auto Upsets Corpus Man Hurt
R. R. Helms, 21, of Corpus Christy suffered cuts to the face and head when his auto overturned on Friday afternoon on Highway 281 about eight miles from the city. The car skidded on the wet pavement, causing loss of control.
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Corpus Christ
Hwy. 281
Contro
Sanders marks first year on bench with 1867 cases
Tudge P C Sanders of Thirty seventh District court completed his first year on the bench and issued his first annual report. He disposed of 1867 cases including 29 jury trials with 842 divorces granted 3 denied 499 dismissed 316 civil judgments 207 civil cases dismissed. He officiated at seven marriages and attended juvenile court duties. Sanders estimates his pay equates to about four dollars and fifty cents per case.
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Thirtyseventh District Court
Sanders
Neddie
Bouton Maiere
Grover Shaw Rises Pending Funeral Arrangements
Grover Shaw 597 of Vance Jackson td died Friday near Homa Texas. McCollum’s Funeral Home handles arrangements. Survivors include widow Orie Shaw. sons James C and Lem F Shaw. daughter Mrs Forrest Barnes. Brothers Claude J Ransom L Thomas L Shaw all of San Antonio. Sisters Mesdames Levi s Brook Brady Pearl Laevy Detroit Homer J Reilly Dallas J W Carothers Jerome Reilly K A Lae of San Antonio.
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Grover
Detroit
Homer J. Reilly
Dallas
J. W. Carothers
Jerome Reilly
K. A. Lae
San Antonia
Brother fires on sister in Georgia Christmas incident
In Ellaville Georgia on December 31 a brother shot at his sister 15 year old Mary Van Landingham injuring her left arm. The girl had crawled into a cardboard box house used as a Christmas puppy shelter when Billy Landingham age 22 opened fire. Officers described the weapon as a shotgun and noted the severe arm injury.
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Ellaville
Marry van Landingham
Lille
Billy
Top Women Lovers Listed By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD
The article names Wallis Simpson as the greatest American lover of the past fifty years and lists nine more famous women in order, including Lillian Russell Theda Bara Clara Bow Peggy Hopkins Joyce Greta Garbo Jean Harlow Mae West Rita Hayworth Elizabeth Taylor, with remarks on their romances and public impact.
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Hollywood
U. S
Wallie Simpson
America
Freud
Winchell and Kinsey
Wardis Warfield Simpson
Edward VIII
England
Duchess of Windsor
Lillian Russell
Theda Bava
Clara Bow
Clara
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Greta Garbo
John Gilbert
Jean Harlow
Hell's Angels
Ben Lyon
Elizabeth ‘Taylor
Miss Taylor
Tax Fraud Trial Stated for Barshop in Federal Court
Trial of Joseph J. Barshop on five counts of income tax evasion set for 9:30 a.m. Monday in federal court. Barshop, 432 Mary Towise Drive, is accused of defrauding the government by non payment of his full income tax for 1942 to 1944. Represented by Dan Mundy and Lang, Bird, Cross and Ladon of San Antonio.
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Joseph J. Barshop
Mary Towise
Tran
Dan Mundy
Naw
Lang
Mrs Anita Vivian Rites Arranged
Services for Anita Vivian 70 of 1201 W Lullwood Ave will be held at 8 45 a m Monday at Angelus Funeral Home A native of Italy she came to San Antonio 20 years ago Surviving are husband John and sons Columbo and Verarido Vivian all of San Antonio
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Anita Vivian
W. Lullwood Ave
Angelus
Italy
Sue Andiveds
San Antonio
John Vivian
Columbo and
Verarido Vivian
Town Fights Houston Growth
Pasadena, adjacent to Houston, votes to block annexation growth. Houston expanded by 79 square miles and 110,000 people, while Pasadena passes an annexation ordinance overlapping disputed territory. Legal question centers on validity of Houston’s amended ordinance and potential dual residency for residents.
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Houston
Pasadena
Noted Chicago Orgy Case Replaced By False Tale
A Chicago case involving a 15 year old girl who claimed a 16 hour orgy and multiple rapes was found to be false. Shirley Ann Simmons, a high school freshman, testified she was not raped and entered the trio’s car willingly. Police Capt. Goldberg confirmed the shift in narrative after investigation.
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Chicago
Dee
Bobby Sexetwoo
Shirley Ann Simmons
J Joseph Goldberg
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