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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1951
Page
2
Saranac Lake report notes 28 Northland Motor Co. employees received Christmas bonuses averaging $1790.22, with $3384.30 as the top check and $860.78 the smallest. The profit sharing plan, started in 1944, allocates 60 percent of post expenses earnings before taxes to bonuses.
Washington backers of the 800 million Seaway project expect President Truman to again urge Congress to join Canada in the plan. They anticipate the request in his State of the Union message or the budget message early in the new session.
Milford Pa two men burned to death in a fire that destroyed a 10 room dwelling. A Beer truck was stolen in Boston and a 15 ton truck containing beer was recovered. Richard A Syhia son of Rep Joseph A Syhia was appointed New Bedford official. The starting salary for the tax deputy job is 3840 with a max of 4740. The issue is the 19 year old's age and whether he can legally hold the post. He cannot handle duties requiring age.
Pan American World Airways ground crews pursers and flight attendants strike for higher pay. The airline expects to run 100 percent of scheduled flights within 24 hours after operating 92 percent since the strike began. Trans Atlantic services resumed normally and Latin American and Pacific routes reported no disruption. A union negotiating panel reportedly recommended strikers return to work and cooperate with Truman appointed emergency factfinding committee.
A tearful Minneapolis mother begs for help finding Franklin Manor an 11 year old Sea Scout who fled after pedestrians misjudged his attempt to aid an old man. He had stopped a car to help the man collapsed on the sidewalk and drove away in a friend’s car when accused. He left with $4 earned, hoping to return by Christmas.
Lt. Col. Roy E. Bain of Houston piloted a C-47 transport over Moulton Texas as both engines failed. With no power and overcast hiding the ground he ordered seven crewmen to parachute. He then guided the aircraft to land safely despite critical emergency.
ITHACA NY Cornell University agricultural economists warned New York farmers face higher costs higher prices tougher competition and demands for increased production in 1952 The annual report projects 400000 fewer farm workers in 1951 due to farmed services and defense industry demand and notes fertilizer may be the only major production item likely to run short.
Jane's Fighting Ships for 1952 notes Soviet emphasis on sea power with plans for three battleships three vessels, twenty cruisers, one hundred twenty destroyers and roughly one thousand submarines. The report stresses that shipbuilding details are presented with reserve and sourced from various inputs.
Rochester approves school prayer after Board of Education votes to begin prayers in Rochester city schools. Superintendent Spinning forms a committee to plan start dates and procedures. Buffalo and New York have not acted on the regents proposal.
In Chicago a 30-foot Christmas tree was placed in Congress Plaza Grant Park. Hospital corpsman Leonard Haddad 33 a World War II veteran from the South Pacific proposed decorating the tree with blood and prayer. For each pint of blood donated to the Red Cross a red light would be added and for each prayer for peace a white light. Haddad who heads a fruit tree company said his 65 truck drivers will seek pledges from 25 000 customers.
The 60 Nation Social and Humanitarian Committee of the UN General Assembly heard Dr Yu Tsune Chi charge Red China with murdering 15,672,050 people on the mainland in two years. He urged world action to note the flagrant violation of life and human rights. Libya Independence Declared By December 27
Obituary notices list death notices for John Poch a Milwaukee stereotyper of 56 years father of William D Poch former Milwaukee Sentinel chief accountant and Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph business manager Emil Roedel a German consul in Los Angeles earlier reporter and chamber of commerce manager Edwin W Schreiber acting head of mathematics at Western Illinois State College and longtime NCTM secretary treasurer in Macomb Ol
In Chicago W Rogers of the American Finance Conference warns that defense production relies on automobiles to move workers. He cites surveys showing 13 million people out of reach of public transit and that 75 percent of workers at representative war plants rely on cars to get to work, with 98 percent of a Chicago area firm’s 1,500 employees commuting by auto.
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