Coal Reserve Drops Below Sixty Million Tons
Pittsburgh report shows the national coal stockpile at just over 60 million tons as miners east of the Mississippi halt operations on John L. Lewis's orders. Rail coal haulers furlough 67 000 workers while Sharon Steel furloughs 240 to 300, four open hearth furnaces and one blast furnace shut. Some anthracite shortages lead to rationing. 33 Schuylkill miners gain permission to move pre stoppage stockpiles amid a Lewis led memorial and protest against Dr James Boyd U S Director of Mines.
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Union Plans Nationwide Truck Card Check
The Teamsters Union announced a two part national check of over 3 million members to ensure drivers are in good standing and employers meet contracts. Beginning April 1, the audit will cover about 6.5 million registered trucks nationwide and use spotters at roadside and fueling points. no trucks will be halted on highways.
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Dave Beck
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Only a Tourist Says Truman's Partner in Paris
Eddie Jacobson, Truman's former business partner, rejected reports he was the President's envoy to Israel. He said he is merely a tourist pausing in Paris en route to Tel Aviv to meet Chaim Weizmann, hoping to see sites missed during World War I.
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Eddie Jacobson
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Chaim Weitzmann
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Israel
Weizmann
Tel Aviv
New Underground Coal Fire Aims to Create Fuel Source
A $500000 test at Gorgas Alabama Power Companys coal mine seeks to burn coal underground to produce heating gas and later synthetic fuels such as gasoline. If successful, vast undeveloped coal seams could yield low cost fuel and transform mining and energy industries.
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A. E. Sands
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Glossary of Military Phrases Circulates at Pentagon
A Pentagon glossary lists common military terms with ironic explanations for often used phrases. Examples include Concur, In conference, and Has received careful consideration, each revealing bureaucratic evasions and ambiguous meanings.
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Navy
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Recital Praise For Casadesus Tonal Beauty And Skill
The First Season of Famous Artists Series closed with Robert Casadesus at Central High School auditorium. His Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, Faure and Chabrier pieces showed refined technique and sensitive musical communication. two encores followed by a rapid departure for New York.
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Robert Casadesus
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Faure
Chabrier
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New York
Gaby Casadesus
Montreal
Syracuse
E.V.W
Last Minute Appeal Drives Red Cross Campaign
Edward E. McNally urged Syracuse and Onondaga County residents to back the local Red Cross drive in its final two days to reach a $262000 goal. He highlighted the Syracuse regional blood program opening May 1 and urged timely contributions to aid disaster relief and service to armed forces.
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Onondaga County
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McNalley
GOP Defends Taft-Hartley Draft Payment Details
Mor gan, a Washington lawyer, testified to a House subcommittee that the Republican National Committee paid 7500 to help draft the Taft-Hartley bill in 1947. He said he supplied legal language while Republicans provided policy ideas. Democrats called the arrangement surprising and questioned authorship.
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Gerald D. Morgan
Washington
Morgan
House
National Association of Manufacturers
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House Labor Committee
Rep
Jacobs
D-Ind
Lesinski
D-Mich
National Political Committee
Rep. Nixon
D-Calif
Republican National Committee
Halleck
R- Ind
Weeksl unemployment claims drop as February payments set record
Washington reports a brighter employment picture for the week ending March 12 with fewer initial unemployment claims and fewer ongoing benefits. The Bureau of Employment Security says 319,000 first-time claims, down about 12,000 from the prior week after reclassified transitional claims. February payments totaled $115,268,000, the highest February payout since 1946.
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Washington
Bureau of Employment Security
United Nations Council Ends Six Week Session
The United Nations Economic and Social Council closed a six week session in Lake Success with clashes between East and West nations. It approved Truman’s plan to uplift backward areas while debates on slave labor behind the iron curtain and U S dominance of Europe’s economy continued. Eighteen nations were represented.
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Truman
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Europe
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Liquor Board Aid Held to Grand Jury
Benjamin Hershdorfer and Nathan Greenberg Syracuse men suspended SLA investigators were held for the May grand jury after a police court hearing. A $2,000 bond was continued for Hershdorfer while Greenberg was held on $1,000 bail amid bribery accusations involving Port Byron and John Cool American Legion Post 257.
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Auburn
Benjamin Hershdorfer
Salt Springs Rd
Syracuse
State Liquor Authority
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John L. Naskiewicz
Iman
Paulb. Shanahan
Hershdorfer
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Cheney St
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Brooklyn
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Hotel
Ossorne
Arthhur Taylor
Port Byron
John Cool American Legion Post
S.L.A
Taylor
Liquor Authority
Albany
John Cool Post
Pension Bill Fees to Offer Cheaper Plan
In Congress a move to derail Rep Rankin's multi billion pension bill with a cheaper substitute backed by Rep Huber. The alternative would limit eligibility by service era require financial need and demand honorable discharge while retaining a 90 dollar monthly benefit at age 65 but trimming long term costs.
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Rankin
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Huber
D.-Qhio
House
Truman
Albany Man Named State Public Relations Director
Albany man William J. La eur was appointed to a $6,850 annual post as director of the Bureau of Public Relations in the New York State Department of Public Works. The announcement came from Superintendent Bertram D. Tallamy and notes his predecessor Robert P. Shilling resigning to join the New York Good Reads Association.
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Iis
Wiliam J. Laeur
Bureau of Public Relations
State Department of Public Works
Public Works
Bertram D. Tallamy
Robert P. Shillinglaw
Bureau
New York Good Reads Association
Wanted: Someone Who Will Make a Decision
Hal Boyle laments pervasive indecision in postwar America. He argues people fear being wrong or right, rely on others to decide, and distrust personal responsibility, mocking executives and wartime passivity while noting the absurdity of passivity in public life. The essay ends with a tongue in cheek comparison to Wong Tu who would rather be Wong.
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Wong Tu
Wong
Conductor Kostelanetz Backs Shostakovich Visit
Russian born conductor Andre Kostelanetz says he supports inviting Dmitri Shostakovich to visit the United States. His wife Lily Pons agrees. A protest signed by Ronald Reagan and other officials urged the State Department to deny visas to Soviet agents until equal rights are granted to U.S. citizens on Soviet soil.
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Andre Kostelanetz
League of Hollywood Voters
U. S
Dmitri Shostakovich
Kostelanetz
Shostakovich
Lily Pons
Voters League
Ronald Reagan
Dean Acheson
Reagan
State Department
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Church Press Group Opens Two Day Workshop
More than 30 Seventh Day Adventist Church representatives from Western and Central New York attend the institute at James Street church. Ernest J Bowden Post Standard editor leads the sessions with a plant tour planned after the afternoon program.
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Washington, D. C
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Seventh Day
Yast
Aesai
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New York
James Street
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Ernest J. Bowden
Post-Standard
J. J. Reiswig
F. R. Aldridge
New York Seventh Day Adventist Conference
Fire tears through two-story Buffalo business block injuring three
A two-alarm blaze gutted a brick two-story block in Buffalo last night. Three firemen suffered minor injuries while fighting the fire, which heavily damaged a paint supply store and a market on the first floor. Fire Commissioner Joseph S. Masterson estimated damage at 35,000 dollars and blamed an overheated furnace.
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