City with Two Police Chiefs Faces Third Chief Decision
In Litchfield Illinois the city debates a third police chief as two incumbents clash. Mayor C Willard Peterson backs Leroy Franklin while former chief R G Stiefel refuses to yield. A council vote is set to settle who leads the force.
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Litchfield
Ill
R. G. Stiefel
Leroy Franklin
Franklin
C. Willard Peterson
Stiefel
Richard Smith
Joe Jolly
Peterson
Ex-GIs Seek Release From Medieval Vermont Detention
Two penniless ex-GI veterans, Ralph J. Fugatt and Bernard J. Smith Jr., remain jailed in Rutland County on unpaid damages under a medieval-like debtor law. Critics and attorneys push for release via habeas corpus. bail denial and long sentences threaten their futures.
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Rutland County
Fugatt
Springfield
Vermont
George N. Harman
Mountain Fuel awards Salt Lake gas line contract
Mountain Fuel Supply awards a contract to Enoch Smith and Sons of Salt Lake City to build a 32 mile 20 inch natural gas line from Coalville to Salt Lake City at nearly 2 million dollars. The project would raise Salt Lake City gas supply by about 20 percent, with Coalville serving as a distribution point for Colorado and Wyoming wells. President J C Donnell II notes peak demands may still exceed supply without high producing wells at Church Buttefield Wyoming.
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Salt Lake City
Mountain Fuel Supply Company
Enoch Smith and Sons Company
Coalville
Utah
Colorado
Wyoming
J. C. Donnell II
Church Buttefield
Broadway Show South Pacific May Be Suspended Over Scalping
New York city officials threatened to revoke the Majestic theater license over ticket scalping tied to South Pacific. Theater owner Lee Shubert agreed to provide box office records after box office treasurer Jack Pearl was suspended. Producers Rodgers Hayward Hammerstein II and Logan welcomed the probe into 32 ticket agencies as scalping eyed.
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New York
Lee Shubert
John Murtagh
Majestic Theater
Ezio Pinza
Mary Martin
Jack Pearl
Murtagh
Shubert
Pearl
Richard Rodgers
Leland Hayward
Oscar Hammerstein, II
Joshua Logan
Rodgers
Hayward
Indian School Names George Boyce New Superintendent
Washington UP reports George Boyce of Window Rock Arizona was named superintendent of the new Indian training school at Brigham City Utah. The same release notes a 3.7 million dollar appropriation to remodel Bushnell General Hospital awaiting President Truman's signature. Boyce to assume duties within the next ten days.
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Washington
George
Boyce
Window Rock
Ariz
Esterday
New Indian Training School
Brigham City
Utah
House of Representatives
Senate
Harry S. Truman
Inventor Howard Bixby fatally shot in Glendale workshop
Howard Bixby 68, a wealthy California inventor known for a vast model navy, was found dead in his Glendale workshop. Authorities say he was shot in the head by a .38 pistol handle removed as if for an experiment.
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Glendale
Calif
Howard Bixby
California
Senate Bars Two Witnesses In Communist Inquiry
Two would be witnesses refused to answer if they are Communists and were barred from testifying at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing led by Sen. Herbert O Conor. The Rev John Carr Jr of New York and Thomas D Buchanan Jr left the stand after orders to testify. Earlier Arthur Schutzer of New York had been removed for defying a similar order.
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Washington
ULP
Senate
John Carr, Jr
New York
Young Progressives of America
Thomas D. Buchanan
Civil Rights Congress
Arthur Schutzer
New York American Labor Party
Spud-Onion Meeting Set for Sun Valley
Boise reports the 21st annual Idaho Potato and Onion Shippers Association convention will be held in Sun Valley June 9-11. Speakers include Ralph Trigg of the USDA, C. W. Kitchen of United Fresh, A. E. Stoddard of Union Pacific, and Virgil Pinkley of The Mirror.
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Boise
Idaho Potato and Onion Shippers Association, Inc
Sun Valley
Ralph Trigg
U. S. Agriculture Department
Production and Marketing Administration
C. W. Kitchen
United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association
Washington, D. C
A. E. Stoddard
Union Pacific Railroad
Virgil Pinkley
the Mirror
Los Angeles
Canyon County Has Most Cattle in Idaho
The U S Department of Agriculture reports Canyon County leads Idaho in cattle population with 62 200 head. Ada County follows with 53 400, and other major counties include Twin Falls 48 900 Cassia 49 700 Owyhee 45 600 Bingham 46 800 Lemhi 40 500 and Idaho 42 300. Idaho's statewide cattle estimate rises to 976 000 from 930 000 in 1948.
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Boise
Canyon County
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Canyon
Ada County
Twin Falls
Cassia
Owyhee
Bingham
Lemhi
Idaho
Larry B. Stanley Joined Psi Omega Fraternity
Larry B. Stanley of Poca tello, a student at the St. Louis University School of Dentistry, has been initiated into Ta Zeta chapter of the Psi Omega National dental fraternity.
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Larry B. Stanley
Pocatello
School of Dentistry
St. Louis University
Ta Zeta
Psi Omega
National
Dental Fraternity
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