Ex Air Force Vet Talks Down President Plane Safely
Thomas E Breznay, a 30-year-old former Air Force sergeant, recounts guiding Air Force 6503 to a blind landing at Washington National Airport as President Truman rode home from Missouri. He details a 39 minute handoff via ground control, amid 1500 foot ceilings and 3/8 mile visibility, expressing pride and a sense of closeness to the President.
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Icy Streets Hazard as Freezing Rain Vamps North
Weather Bureau warns of hazardous driving conditions tonight as rain changes to freezing rain and light snow. Temperatures fall from 49 at 8:50 P.M. to 15 tonight, with Syracuse Rochester and Buffalo reporting precipitation drifting westward toward Syracuse.
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Mercury
Syracuse
Rochester
Buffalo
Thinking Over Resolutions and Editorial Pace Today
Columnist Marquis Childs contemplates New Year resolutions and avoids sweeping crisis pronouncements, urging measured language. The note outlines editorial pages and accompanying features across sections 6, 13, 22, and 26 27 with mentions of comics, horoscopes, and city life.
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Marquis Childs
Washington
Baby Sitting A Hot Joke Ends In Fire Farce
Diana Hayes age 15 and Vivian Swan age 15 stayed the night at Ralph Dunning’s home when the furnace overheated. They report adding ashes to smother a blaze and finding two candies melting from heat. Firemen found a draft on the furnace left open as a radiator boiled ginger ale.
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Diana Hayes
Glencoverd
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Ralph Dunning
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Barkley Flies Back From Europe Tour Paris
Vice President elect Alben W. Barkley departed Paris aboard a U.S. Army plane late last night returning to Washington after an eight day European tour.
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City Tax Yield Reaches 96 52 Percent
GEORGE H. BEDFORD, commissioner of finance, announced today that 96.52 percent of the 1948 city and Onondaga County tax scheduled for collection has been received as of Dec. 1. The levy was $15,661,396.56 with $15,116,141.64 collected. Delinquent taxes incur penalties and notices will be sent in January and March, with an annual tax sale planned for April.
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George H. Bedford
Price of Gasoline Up Another Half Cent
Syracuse motorists face about 25 cents a gallon as major distributors raise prices by a half cent. Socony Vacuum Oil Co led the move yesterday with higher dealer prices, others followed, and local stations passed the rise to customers. Regular gas now ranges from 24.7 to 25 cents per gallon including a four tenths cent sales tax, four cents state tax, and one and a half cents federal tax. No reason was given for the hike.
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Syracuse
Socony Vacuum Oil Co
Ular
Democratic McGrath eyes Ives on Labor Committee
Democratic Senator McGrath urges GOP leaders to retain Senator Ives on the Senate Labor Committee in the new Congress. Ives, known as a labor expert, faces removal as Democrats plan an eight-to-five committee split. McGrath cites Ives’s role in keeping wage and union measures from the anti-Hartley provisions and notes Ives may stay only if a higher senior Republican yields.
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GOP
Ives
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G.O.P
Ball
Minn
Jenner Cine
Mecegrath
C.O.P
Dve
Admiral Kingman’s Wife Slaps Gunman in Downtown Robbery
In Los Angeles a gunman attacked Vice Admiral Howard F. Kingman’s wife during a downtown robbery attempt. She slapped the assailant, who then struck her with his gun as the trio fled. Kingman received treatment for bruises.
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Howard F. Kingman
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The Wrong Address at Dinner in New Orleans
Maj. Clement Winthrop spoke during a New Orleans dinner where he fished in the Gulf of Mexico. A deacon challenged a minister after service about the wording of a prayer, and the minister replied that his prayer was not addressed to the deacon.
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Clement Winthrop
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Plaque Up At New Mattydale Airport Dedicated
The former Mattydale Army air base was dedicated as Hancock Airport at 1 A M during ceremonies led by Mayor Costello and Parks Commissioner Barry. Officials from the Common Council and Chamber of Commerce attended as a plaque with their names was mounted on the central tower. The airport will be among the nation's finest when finished, with full aircraft handling capability and a spring opening for the control tower and remaining construction.
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William A. Barry
Clarence Jr. Wanwoul
Mattydale Airbase
Morell K. Brewster
Barry
Albert Hollenbeck
Costello
Lyle W. Hornbeck
Mattydale Army Airbase
Stancock Airport
Rank J. Costello
Common Council
Chamber of Commeres
Syracuse
Col
Michael Maione
138Th
Robert G. Soule
Chamber of Commerce
Donald McChesney
Chamber
Ross Angier
American Airlines
Clarence IE. Hancock
Jews Make Last Minute Cleanup
TEL AVIV AP A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Office said fighting in the Negev probably would end by the time the UN Security Council cease fire order reached the Israeli government. The official order was expected to arrive today and, by then, there would be no cause for firing. Military circles said the week long Negev battle was successful with most Jewish objectives attained.
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Negev
United Nations Security Council
Crash Kills American Pilot Over Munich Area
An American pilot was killed today in a crash of his F-47 fighter plane near Zorneding in the Munich area Germany. U S Air Force headquarters said the cause is under investigation and the pilot's name was withheld until relatives are notified.
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Munich
Major Shock Feared as Reno Quakes Continue
Visitors flee Reno amid four days of minor earthquakes in the gambling colony. Officials warn a major quake could come while hotels, airlines, trains and buses report high departures. Residents and gamblers stay calm as shocks shake Western Nevada and Northern California with minor damage and no fatalities.
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Fast Freight Derailed Near Schenectady With No Injuries
Nineteen cars of a New York Central fast freight derailed today at an overhead bridge near Alplaus, northeast of Schenectady. The derailment blocked the Boston and Maine double track into Mechanicville yards. No injuries were reported and the cause was undetermined. The T3-car train ran from Dewitt toward B and M yards, operated by a New York Central crew from Syracuse.
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New York Central
Syracuse
Seats Installed At South Park Methodist Church
Dayton parishioners will find 160 theater style seats with rounded backs and air cushions in South Park Methodist Church. Reverend James Thomas noted a member who left services due to hard benches and hopes the new seating will bring at least one more attendee next Sunday.
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Dayton
James Thomas
South Park Methodist Church
Thomas
Olives Trigger Armed Robbery in Pottstown
In Pottstown, a young man asked for olives, paid with a gun drawn, grabbed a bottle of olives and 78 cents change after Mrs. Stanley Jojanowski rang up a 22 cent sale. The robber fled with the bottle while police hunted him today.
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Pottstown
Stanley Jojanowski
New Drug May Make Africa Meat Empire
London reports Britain hails the discovery of antrycide a wonder drug that could open vast parts of Africa twice the size of the United States to meat production, immunize cattle from the tsetse fly and reshape global economics. Officials say millions of cattle and acres of fertile soil may follow in years, aligning with a forthcoming Argentina Britain meat contract.
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Africa
London
United States
Postwar reconstruction fund spat in Albany
Democratic State chairman Paul Fitzpatrick accused Governor Dewey's administration of misrepresenting New York's 697.3 million postwar reconstruction fund. He said 540.22 million remained unexpended, while Budget Chief John Burton argued the March 31 balance was 406 million with 191 million spent and 94 million in contract obligations. Burton promised figures would shift as of next year with contracts and appropriations under review.
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Albany
Paul E. Fitzpatrick
Dewey
New York
Fitzpatrick
John R. Burton
Burton
Safe Crackers Loot Fulton Market for 2000
Fulton police report safe crackers pried open a castered mounted 300 pound safe in Johnson's Market Inc. last night. An assistant warehouseman, Mike Zanewych, discovered the opened safe this morning after thieves moved it from the store office to an adjacent warehouse to hide their crime.
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Johnson's Market, Inc
Mike Zanewych
Assignment America: Inez Robb Receives Missouri Honor
Inez Robb earned the University of Missouri 1948 honor for distinguished journalism service. The citation lauded her stories of great events and interviews with famous leaders, noting her spirit of adventure and zest for journalism as she launches a daily feature column Assignment America.
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Inez Robb
University of Missouri
Assignment
America
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