26 Jan 1950
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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1950
Page
1
A breezy reminiscence contrasts Humphrey Bogart’s modern antics with Junius Brutus Booth’s era on stage. The piece recalls Booth’s London fame, riots at Covent Garden, and audacious NY performances, including drunken boasts and daring acts that kept audiences engaged.
The account follows Paul Sparrow, a self marketing vaudeville performer who built his image with careful music choices and stage tricks. After years of success he faced waning audience response and a failed comeback attempt at Olympia Theater that revealed dwindling confidence and a declining act.
A veteran showman recounts Paul Sparrow’s daring stage antics during a Richard III performance in which he attacked a rival actor, then wowed the crowd with contortionist dance while enduring boos. Sparrow explains he staged the heckler routine to stay employable in vaudeville, proving enterprising must prevail.
A reflective devotional poem urging quiet trust in divine care. The speaker recalls Master lessons about sparrows and lilies, admitting slow to learn and asking God to grant grace and forgiveness. The piece emphasizes daily faith and value to God.
In a BR Day feature the arrival of Dennis Day's second son Eugene Dennis is noted, following Patrick James McNulty's first birthday. The piece recounts Day's accidental high pitched on air voice, how Mary Livingston steered Jack Benney to audition him for Benny program, and Day's nervous early days before the successful career.
The 1950 census prompts postwar reapportionment reshaping of seats in Congress. Urban migration trims New York by three and Pennsylvania by two, while Illinois Georgia Arkansas Kentucky Mississippi North Carolina Tennessee and Oklahoma lose at least one each. California gains eight, with Florida Indiana Michigan Texas Oregon and Washington gaining at least one. Further shifts possible as population moves westward.
The department of agriculture warns up to 100 million acres may go seedless due to a seed shortage totaling about 446 million pounds of grass and legume seeds and reduced acreage allotments for basic crops. About 30 million acres could be released from wheat cotton tobacco potatoes rice and other allotment crops to curb surplus. Grass seed needs are forecast at 756 million pounds, far above the 310 million produced this year.
About 800 applications sit with the rural electric administration from firms seeking to provide rural telephone service under last session’s law. Private telephone companies cooperate with REA, offering help, while electric utilities opposed the program. Established firms dominate applications, noting they installed 350,000 rural phones in 1949 without REA, and new telephone coops must be organized as REA prefers not to use existing electric coops.
The administration faces key bills as campaign issues. HR 6000 would extend Social Security to about 11 million more people and raise monthly benefits from 26 to 44 dollars, with payroll deductions for workers and employers. An education aid bill, passed by the Senate last session with roughly 300 million in appropriations, is likely to pass this session despite past religious controversy and House committee snags.
Boston reports that Tracerlab Inc founders have developed a beta gauge using Oak Ridge isotopes to detect minute variations in tobacco. The device measures five millionths of an inch differences, promising uniform cigarette quality and enabling noncontact material control in multiple industries with Brown electronic recording equipment.
A Midwest survey shows over 65 percent of homemakers prefer colors other than white for kitchens. Gray leads at 15 percent, with cream at 14 percent, blue-green and yellow at nine percent each, while color perception and new appliances boost efficiency and style in postwar kitchens.
In Detroit the Oak Park Christian Chapel faced a week of icy nights as a white Angora cat and her litter hid in the church heating ducts. Reverend James B. Shallow feared furnace use might suffocate them. After luring out mother Snowball and two kittens, an electrician used a long wire and mirrors to coax the remaining hidden kittens from the ducts and ensure all were out.
OsHkosh Wisconsin inmate Harold Harnitz serves a drunken driving term under a special act and knits nightly in the Winnebago county jail. Under jail matron Grace Cooper guidance the 31 year old has produced argyle socks a sweater and a shawl showcasing craft while awaiting release.
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