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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1950
Page
2
The Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index remained at 6.77 this week, the highest since 6.82 on Sept 21 1948. The index is 17.9 percent above the year ago week at 5.74 and covers wholesale cost for 31 commonly used foods. ALAN 50 DIES IN WNY
General Electric announces temporary layoff of 2500 workers at its Erie refrigerator division after Jan 1 due to raw material shortages. Similar cuts threaten more jobs in locomotive and car equipment as noted by works manager Bertram Miller. Nero the zoo chimp dies at age eight. St. Louis Zoo director comments on impact.
Drought hit Yugoslavia's Adriatic coast with strong winds and floods. Metkovic suffered the worst damage as the Neretva River overflowed, destroying buildings and streets after a 45 year drought. Other reports note a jealous suitor in Italy injuring a woman and political leaders commenting on Brazil and Etna activity.
Obituaries from Los Angeles to Buffalo note the passing of Joe Nicholas Weber former AFL Musicians Union president and AFL vice president in Los Angeles John W Jack Raper long time Cleveland Press columnist who retired in 1947 in Pueblo Frederick C Hibbard renowned sculptor who gained national acclaim in Chicago John C Jackson general chairman express division Brotherhood of Railway Clerks in Buffalo.
Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly left his entire estimated 600000 estate to his widow Margaret. The will filed in Probate Court lists stocks bonds and real estate. Kelly served as mayor from 1933 to 1937 and died October 20 from a heart ailment.
Mrs. Delia Benoit of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, was deciding what to cook when a part ridge shattered the kitchen window. No injuries reported.
President Truman’s famine relief plan for Communist Yugoslavia faces a strong House battle with opposition to appeasement of Communism. Senate approved a $50 million drought relief grant, $12 million spent, but Republicans push a proposal to convert the $38 million aid into a loan to Marshal Tito’s government.
A jury of 200 citizens from education labor industry veterans groups and media will meet in Washington to hear a report on a draft plan. The plan would use an intelligence test to defer bright students and maintain draft requirements to supply scientists doctors and other professionals.
Florida educators devised a public message on a car tag reading Better Schools Make Better Communities. Designer Howard Jay Friedman, with the Florida State Department of Education, says 15,000 tags are on Florida cars and 10,000 blue and white school tags will soon travel Georgia highways.
Washington reports that most family food items are below current price ceilings and would stay that way if ceilings are set now. Farm prices must not fall below parity, a standard set during the Korean War. The Nov report shows some farm goods above ceilings, many others below, with processed foods allowed ceilings but not at the cost of depressing farm prices.
The first commercial plane load of American troops wounded in Korea arrived at Travis air base near Fairfield California. The 76 men traveled on a Pan American World Airways flight with a pressurized cabin to ease chest wounds. They were taken to the base hospital and will be flown to service hospitals near their homes. The report also notes penicillin as an effective treatment for erysipelas in a turkey flock from the University of Illinois.
Lloyd's of London set 50 to 1 odds against war disrupting the Canadian Philatelic International Exhibition in Toronto, backing insurance for the Sept. 21 to 29 stamp display with a two percent premium. Exhibition manager Leslie Davenport said Lloyd's insured varied risks from ships to sailors' teeth.
East Germany passed on first reading a law aimed at striking terror among West Germans urged to join Western defense. The bill envisions effect after a second reading next Saturday. The action follows incidents linked to collaboration with Western military policies.
The Paris Presse reports Prince Aly Khan husband of Rita Hayworth sustained a slight facial injury in an auto accident in Algiers today. The crash happened shortly after he and Rita Hayworth arrived in the North African city.
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