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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1950
Page
2
Citizens debate the plan to relocate homes for a $260,000,000 high energy project. Police Chief John E. Steed noted confusion and blamed some residents for actions as the move proposal was announced.
A sweeping downtown Zanesville fire in a 1 million dollar blaze drew 11 departments and marked the second major fire in 48 hours after a 400000 dollar loss at the Prinate Recreation Building. In Lynchburg a son was charged with bayoneting his father, while other dispatches report a mayor linked blast in Sturgis and Chiang Kai-shek's caution on using the atom bomb.
General MacArthur announces Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClure will replace Maj. Gen. Laurence B. Keiser as commander of the Second Infantry Division. Keiser evacuated for bronchial pneumonia, not considered serious.
In a closed door session a four member GOP subcommittee considered a proposal by Senator Ives to demand Secretary Acheson’s removal but reached no conclusion. Ives said the outcome is unpredictable and Republicans may instead press for policy changes to unite both parties. President Truman urged national unity in a letter released over the weekend.
Background of President Truman and British Prime Minister Attlee conferences was read by lawmakers as signaling administration desire for greater two party collaboration. The item notes political reactions and implications for party unity and policy alignment.
A collection of obituaries notes the deaths of George Reuhl former NYS Barbers Association president and assemblyman Oliver Stanley a Conservative Party figure in Reading and cabinet member in England Reverend Perry Conroy CM Niagara University president Dr Charles Th Mack a long time physician Theodore Steeg former French premier Henry Randolph Cutphen torpedo boat designer Col Charles Franklin Craig tropical medicine authority Henry Iris former Hearst publisher Clarence Goshorn advertising executive after a Bahamas incident.
Amantea Calabria saw a new olive oil factory open yesterday under the sponsorship of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Ansa reported the plant will give 10 percent of profits to staff and 90 percent to sanitary improvements, worker training and housing, and a hospital in the impoverished area.
Fire raged across thousands of acres in south east Texas with arsonists blamed for the blazes. Three youths were charged as planes and crews searched for suspects amid the fires. A Beaumont woman, Mrs B R Harper, was critically burned near Buna in Jasper County as she fought the flames. Smoke filled the sky though damage to homes and buildings remained limited.
Four storage tanks were threatened as flames menaced a large Stumble Oil & Refining Co. tank farm near League City, a sawmill northwest of Baytown, and a rice drying plant in Alvin.
Rep Edwin A Hall of New York says former president Dewey could win the 1952 nomination and then win the general election easily. He cautions nomination would be the toughest hurdle, with a walk to victory once nominated.
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