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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1950
Page
9
A local feature records responses from Miss Jean Saks Edith Bardsley Mrs Arthur Vedder Linda Burgett Corbine Scarflno and others. Each describes personal wishes from wealth and travel to home ownership a bicycle or career training reflecting hopes in Syracuse.
The New York State Civil Defense Commission issued a blueprint for loyalty checks on civilians connected with aircraft warning services. Col Lawrence Wilkinson directed immediate volunteer enlistment to reinforce warning services and establish primary centers in 15 cities and sub centers in 26 communities. He set up a filter center per civil defense area and provided local directors with 175 organizations deemed subversive by the Justice Department.
The 68th annual Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus opened in New York with a plan to mobilize nearly 800,000 members and Catholic laymen to combat Communism. A parade on Fifth Avenue led to St. Patrick's Cathedral for a mass presided by Francis Cardinal Spellman.
In Orange County Florida the Onion Harvest Festival opened with a motorcade to the pageant site led by the Onion Queen of 1950 Miss Marion Bierstine of Pine Island. Lt. Gov. Joe R. Hanley planned to speak as he pursues the Republican gubernatorial bid. The event revived a Poland-inspired pageant with 200 performers in folk costume and Polish songs. Orange County leads US onion production with 6,000 acres yielding 3,060,000 sacks last year, nearly half of the state total.
Washington Senate investigators press a deeper inquiry into telephone wire tapping in the capital. A special subcommittee, led by Senator Pepper, questions a telephone company official and a Mayflower Hotel credit manager about 1947 wire taps on Howard Hughes suite calls.
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