Tomball's low cost of living praised by mayor
Tomball Texas. Mayor Cecil Faris and residents tout affordable rents and free gas and water due to local oil activity. Apartments cost 8 to 35 dollars monthly, with big houses rented around 23 to 50 dollars. Lunches priced 35 to 45 cents. cinema for adults 35 cents, kids 12 cents. The town credits oil prosperity for keeping costs low while Houston prices rise.
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Cecil Faris
Tomball
Faris
Houston
United States
Willow Grove
Big Oil Company
John Reist
Thirteen Killed In Day's Palestine Clashes
In Jerusalem suburbs a cafe bombing and an Arab-manned gas station attack left thirteen dead in a day of clashes. Arab and Jewish deaths mounted as Britons battled militants, with riots near Tel Aviv and Jaffa and a refugee ship sighting off Haifa intensifying tensions.
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Palestine
Jerusalem
Ramena
Feil
Acre
Hugo Lehrs
Safafa
Damascus
Jaffa
No Man’s Land
Tel Aviv
Royal Air Force
Haifa
Wider Roads Likely As Truck Traffic Grows in Idaho
Idaho Public Works Commissioner E W Sinclair warned that rising truck traffic will compel Idaho to expand and thicken roads. He noted 1947 Idaho truck registrations will reach about 187 300, up 10 percent from 1946, while federal figures show 1947 motor vehicles on U S roads at a record high of 37 164 000, up about 3 million from 1946.
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Tog Ida
Idaho
E. W. Sinclair
Sinclair
Federal Public Roads Administration
Keep Windshield Clean for Wiper Mechanism Health
The windshield cleaner should be run frequently between rains to preserve the mechanism. A clean glass avoids dust scratches from the wiper and protects the windshield surface.
Idahoan H. G. Peckham backs Dewey for president
Wilder Idaho promoter H G Peckham, member of the Idaho Advertising Commission, on return from an eastern trip said farmers favored Gov. Thomas E Dewey for the Republican nomination. He toured 18 midwestern and eastern states and visited Dewey at his Pawnee farm and at Albany, noting strong Dewey support.
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Wilder
Ida
H. G. Peckham
Idaho Advertising Commission
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Peckham
Dewey
Pawla
Alany
Vessels Bound For Palestine Enter Bosporus Passage
Two former American ships Pan York and Pan Crescent carrying 17 040 Jewish refugees entered the Bosporus from the Black Sea Sunday and were believed en route to Palestine Turkish medical authorities boarded at Buyukdere 10 miles north of Istanbul and allowed them to proceed after deeming them well equipped medically Also noted is an unrelated line about estimated 1946 milk production per cow at 4850 pounds.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Bosporus
Black Sea
Palestine
Buyukdere
Dardanelles
Aegean Sea
Eastern Area Suffers Quake No Damage Noted
Dover Foxcroft area felt an earthquake on Sunday with no damage reported. The tremor registered at 2 59 07 p m EST on the Boston College seismograph in Weston Mass and was described as one of the strongest in New England this year by seismologist Rev Daniel J Lineman.
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Dover-Foxcroft
Dover-Foxcraft
Boston College
Weston
Mass
Daniel J. Lineman
New England
Nine Hopes For World Peace By Dr Mott In Kansas
Lawrence Kansas Dr John L Mott 1946 Nobel Peace Prize winner outlined nine hopes for world peace noting that more money and power than ever in the United States are available to do good He warned of a tragic need for constructive thought as he addressed the Christian Frontiers Conference He cited dislocated people wounded by war disease and oppression as pressing global problems and emphasized the high death rate since the last war
Basques Gather for Annual Intermountain Shepherders Ball
Basque shepherders from the intermountain west gather for the annual Basque Shepherders Ball in Boise. The event serves as a reunion and a celebration of Basque culture with proceeds from a live turkey and lamb auction going to charity.
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Boise
Intermountain West
Turkey
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Pat Patton
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Rip Kirby
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