Supreme Court Upholds Closed Shop Bans Across States
The Supreme Court ruled states may enact laws restricting or outlawing the closed shop. Sixteen states had such prohibitions or regulations, including North Carolina 1947 and Nebraska and Arizona 1946 amendments. The decision prompts likely Taft Hartley debates and possible future cases on workers’ rights to walk off. Justice Black authored the main opinion with a separate Arizona concurrence by Justice Murphy.
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Washington
Supreme Court
AFL
Legislative Council
High Court
Herbert Thatcher
Faste
North Carolina
Nebraska
Arizona
Congress
Truman
Murphy
Justice Black
American Federation of Labor
Rutledge
Nearby Firm Gets Contract On Road
Boonsboro Funkstown area contract awarded to BK. D. Plummer and Sons by State Roads Commission for extensive improvements on old Route Forty. Bid stands at 621,248 with right of way conditions. Work begins at Route 67 Hebreraville road near Boonsboro and extends 8 305 miles northeast to Funkstown. Construction includes vertical curve changes, relocations, bridge widening, cattle passage extension, and resurfacing with macadam and asphaltic concrete.
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Chambersburg
State Roads Commission
Boonsboro
Funkatown
BK. D. Plummer and Sons
Funkstown
Veteran Fights His Toughest Campaign With Help
Jack Jacobson wounded in Italy becomes a disabled veteran paralyzed from chest down. At the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled in New York City he learns to walk with crutches and a hand controlled car after five days a week training for year and a half. The institute has aided over 30 000 disabled persons in developing physical and vocational skills.
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Jack Jacobson
Jack
Institute For the
New York City
Helsinki
Finland
Shanghai
China
Back Yard Sink Hole Drops Ten Feet On Forest Drive
Edward W Covey of 47 Forest Drive reports part of his back yard dropped about ten feet, with a four foot wide spot sinking. He suspects a nature sink hole and plans to fill it with dirt while seeking an explanation and any risk to nearby areas.
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Forest Drive
Edward W. Covey
Child Made III By Drinking Kerosene
A Spring child was reported in good condition at Washington County Hospital after drinking kerosene at home yesterday afternoon. The one year old, John Gregory Mason, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mason.
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Washington County Hospital
John Gregory Mason
John Mason
Gladya Palmer
Washington Square
Robert Gouker
Frederick Street
Virginia A. Snook
Virginia Avenue
Maurice 8. Sigler
Summit Avenue
Despondency Blamed for Deaths of Two in Berlin
United States officials say a German girl’s despondency may have caused the deaths of two people found in a gas filled Berlin apartment on New Year’s Day. The victims are John George Fuldner 41 of Tryon North Carolina chief investigator for American military government in Berlin and Ilse Grambow described as an attractive traulien.
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Berlin
United States
John George Fuldner
Tryon
N. C
Ilse
Grambow
Traulein
Tragic 1930s murder scene and rheumatic disease stat
Investigators report a German girl found in Fuldner’s kitchen clad to a slip with the gas on, while Fuldner lay dead in a nearby bedroom. Autopsy notes both had been drinking. The case hints at a jealous motive and a fatal coupling of crime and drink. Separately a health statistic cites about one million Americans permanently disabled by rheumatic diseases.
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Fuldner
King Enters Ward Two Council Nomination
Edgar W. King, 99 South Mont Valle avenue, seeks Republican nomination for ward two councilman. King, head of King Wood Products on Main, filed his candidacy. married with two sons, long active in party work and community groups. Other Republican candidate is Kenneth Sinn. Democrats in the field include Roy Knight William Everly Harry Fridinger and Hubert Shifter Jr. A note on wasps ends with a separate fragment.
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Estinaly
Ward Two
Edgar W. King
South Mont Valla Avenue
King
King Wood Products Company
Main Avenue
Cumberland Valley Choristers
Washington Square
Young Republican Club
Kenneth 5. Sinn
Roy Knight
Wiliam Everly
Harry Fridinger
Hubert I. Shifter Jr
Birth Rate Here Continues High in County County
Health Department October figures show 151 births in Washington County plus 71 deaths. Births this fall align with prior months, suggesting a rising rate when compared to 1947, with October births close to September and August levels amid a stable deaths-to-birth margin.
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Health Department
Washington County
County death rate closely tracks state average in month
The county recorded a death rate per thousand of 11.5 versus a state average of 10.5. Half of the deaths stemmed from cancer and heart trouble, each claiming 16 lives. Cerebral hemorrhage caused eight deaths, nephritis six, and motor vehicle accidents pieu tonia and diabetes three each. Some birds take shower baths by spreading their wings in rain.
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Superior Dairy
Fred Foos
W. D. Canningham
Prem
Mra
Eva Beaudry
Emil C. Beaudry
Manchester
N. H
Greenland
New York
Beaudry
Holly’s
Washington St
Rey
Ringer Electric Service
Modern Materials Mart
Hagerstown
Pratt and Lambert
Harry C. Garvin
Franklin
Mardette
Kay Duihill
Mary Pack
Mary Peck
Dan River
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