Reception for seniors marks ISTC commencement week start
President Tirey hosts a Sunday reception at College Lodge 2:30 to 4:30 for 1950 graduates parents and faculty opening the seventy-ninth annual commencement week. Baccalaureate service follows at 7:30 in the Student Union Building auditorium with Dr. A L Crabb as speaker. Dr. Lawrence E Eberly to play organ procesional and recessional. College choir directed by Ruthann Harrison to perform selections.
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Ralph N. Tirey
College Lodge
Indiana State Teachers College
Tireys
J. E. Grinnell
Harry Elder
Ruthann Harrison
U S Ships Delivered to Netherlands
The destroyer escorts USS Burrows and USS Rinehart were delivered to the Netherlands government and commissioned as units of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The 1240 ton ships mark the first warships transferred under the mutual defense assistance program.
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Boston
Burrows
Rinehart
Netherlands
Royal Netherlands Government
Royal Netherlands Navy
Census Nears Finish With 98 Percent Count
Washington June 1 Census Director Roy V. Peel announced the 1950 population count is about 98 percent complete as the tally nears final completion.
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Washington
Roy V. Peel
Census count progress slows in flood regions across Dakotas and West
Peel says the April 1 start for the census count aims to finish in a month but about 7000 of 230000 districts remain incomplete. The Dakotas Wyoming Montana and Minnesota face delays from floods and bad roads hindering enumerators.
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Peel
Dakotas
Wyoming
Montana
Minnesota
Want Ads C-1331 Ready Cash
Classified note promotes the C-1331 as a quick source of ready cash through want ads.
Army Probe to Dig Deeper into Mutual Benefit Association
House and armed forces subcommittee orders Col. Rosser Hunter to supply detailed details on how Pentagon offices supported The Armed Forces Mutual Benefit Association led by Maj. Gen. William H. Kasten. Maj. Gen. Louis A. Craig testified the group insurance venture operated from a Washington office and was viewed as useful to the army.
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Washington
House
Army
Rosser Hunter
Special House
Armed Forces
Pentagon
Armed Forces Mutual Benefit Association
Louis A. Craig
William H. Kasten
Army Oil
Craig
Kasten
Crag
St. Louis
New Postmaster Appointed at Paris Illinois
Paris Illinois June 1 Grady OHair was sworn in as the new postmaster by Postoffice Inspector A W Stacks of Danville. He succeeds 70 year old O Rice Jones who retired. OHair a World War I veteran is a native of Edgar county and a Paris High School and DePauw University graduate.
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Paris
Ill
Grady O’hair
Postoffice
A. W. Stacks
Danville
O. Rice Jones
Edgar County
Paris High School
de Pauw University
Greencastle
Ind
Sailor Holds Up Sunset Limited In Arizona
A 27 year old merchant sailor pulled a gun on about 25 passengers in a Southern Pacific Sunset Limited coach near Hyder Arizona. He kept them at bay for over an hour before detectives at Union Station arrested H P Huff of Polkville Mississippi on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. No shots were fired during the incident.
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Phoenix
Ariz
U.P
Southern Pacific Railroad
H. P. Huff
Polkville
Miss
Union Station
Charles Smith
Here
Yuma
Smith
Huff
Hyder
Kiwanians Hear Indianapolis Lawyer on American Greatness
John J. Haramy of Indianapolis spoke at a Kiwanis Club luncheon at the Terre Haute House. He questioned if America can sustain greatness and warned of dangers such as the government owing people a living, dictatorial influences, and declining integrity among leaders. He cited America's core value as the idea of We the People in the Constitution.
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John J. Haramy
Indianapolis
Kiwanis Club
Terre Haute House
Haramy
America
Jerusalem
Indiana University
Associated Press
United States
Lovely Perry Sheehan Named Theme Girl for World Transportation Fair
Lovely Perry Sheehan of Arcadia California is named the theme girl for the World Transportation Fair to be held at Santa Anita California from May 30 to September 9 1951. She holds a composite wheel the official insignia for the exposition.
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Lovely Perry Sheehan
Arcadia
Calif
Santa Anita
Trainmen Delayed Message Then Arrest At Phoenix
In the desert east of Yuma a message was dropped and police waited as the train rolled into Phoenix. Detective A C Special Burns and city detectives boarded. Huff, found cowering between seats, offered no resistance and was cuffed after being ordered to drop his gun.
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Desert
Yuma
Phoenix
A. C. Special Burns
Huff
Brooklyn Kid Gangs Warned By Magistrate in New York
Magistrate Benjamin Brenner warned Brooklyn's teenage gangs after Memorial Day clashes that a crackdown is coming. Eleven youths from Greene Avenue Stompers Nits Chicos and Gay Nineties faced bail ranging 2 500 to 15 000. Harvey Charles 18 held without bail for a shooting that seriously wounded a 15-year-old, with two others grazed.
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New York
Brooklyn
Benjamin Brenner
Greene Avenue Stompers
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brenner
Harvey Charles
Hoosier corn crop sixty percent planted statewide
Indianapolis report states about 60 percent of Hoosier corn is planted with some fields up. Meadows and pastures are late but fair to good. No haying reported. truck crops slow growing. Tomatoes and tobacco still being set. strawberries ripe in Posey county.
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Indianapolis
Hoosier
Posey
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Tirey
Teachers College
U.S
Quincy
Mass
Sf Samolten
Electrical and Hardware Department Store
Wabash Valley
North 6Th St
Paris, Ill
Sailor Perils
Weather Bureau
South 6Th Street
Silverstein Bros
Commode
Silverstein Brothers
Wabash Avenue
Heiz
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