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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1948
Page
7
Detroit report credits 38 year old waitress Imogene Corretta Yetta with foiling a bank robbery by calmly ignoring the intruder and striking his hand with a butcher knife. The would be bandit fled after yanking at the till.
London Conservative leaders discuss reducing hereditary peers by about 600 to curb the Lords powers. A committee considers admitting roughly 300 lords with notable public service records to reshaped membership under reform plans.
A reader credits Kellogg's All Bran for relief from constipation after decades of discomfort. The testimonial advises daily intake of an ounce with ample water and offers a double money back guarantee after ten days if unsatisfied.
A New York Supreme Court justice ruled that a child born via artificial insemination is legitimate. Justice Henry Clay Greenberg held that the estranged husband Antoine has a right to visit his daughter Antoinette, four, despite claims she is not his child.
The Atomic Energy Commission posted a Danger Keep Out notice covering 39 000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean around Eniwetok Atoll. Hazards will exist in a rectangular area about 173 miles by 226 miles and the danger will continue throughout 1948.
An Australian flying boat carrying 29 passengers and a 6 member crew landed at Sydney after a 380 mile Tasman Sea crossing with one engine dead. Among the passengers was Episcopal Bishop G. Ashton Oldham of Albany New York and his wife.
A band of thieves gassed passengers in a Bucharest to Iasi night train and robbed the cars. On arrival at Iasi the travelers found their luggage missing and the crime exposed by Natimnea.
Advertising copy touts Soretone Liniment for muscle strain and fatigue with warming effect. claims to attract surface blood flow for relief. Mentions economy size priced at $1.00 and notes use for athlete's foot and fungi on contact.
Joseph A. Hoban of B F Goodrich told the Midwest Implement Dealers association that Americans are harvesting 20 million more acres than in 1940 with three million fewer workers and 200000 fewer farms. He cited a doubling of the tractor population and cited 1947 export gains in wheat corn and meat as signs of a growing farm market. He noted rubber-tired tractors save 24 worker days and 675 gallons of gasoline annually per 150 acres.
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