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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1950
Page
6
Georgia state police questioned the judge ment in the case of 26 year old Jean Carter who pleaded guilty to automobile theft and stealing a patrol car in Mineoville.
In St Paul Minnesota federal judge Dennis Donovan administered the naturalization oath to Nicolas Pastoret a 79 year old Luxembourg flag maker on his deathbed at Our Lady of Good Counsel Free Cancer Home Pastoret expressed pride saying he could finally call it his own and thanked God for America The Saint Johns River in Idaho is mentioned as a notable navigable river in the report.
Researchers at the University of California L. Houett and Kenneth Hagen discovered green lacewings prey on mealybugs in pear groves. They hatched a million lace wing eggs in a lab and released larvae into pear tree crotches near Santa Clara. Mealybug populations declined for about two years.
Afghanistan held a rare exhibition of the Prophet Mohammed’s cloak, the nation’s holiest relic, to seek divine aid for King Mohammed Zahir Shah who traveled to France for an eye operation. The event recalled the 1929 display and Amanullah Khan’s failed bid to spark rebellion years earlier.
Nearly half of Italy's towns and villages lack adequate water supply. Public works minister Umberto Tupini said 3,000 towns have only public fountains with no home water pipes. About 1,000 municipalities must rely on wells or rainwater reservoirs.
Lancaster Pennsylvania crime report details a confession from Edward Gibbs a Franklin and Marshall College senior and former Air Force repairman regarding the January 10 murder of Marian Baker. Gibbs described impulse driven actions including choking and beating the 21 year old in a parked car and later led police to evidence.
In Parliament Laborite Mont Forlick proposes 41 austerity cruises to help Malta. Britain would convert old aircraft carriers into passenger ships carrying about 500, with passengers doing light work. Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones counters that many practical problems are ignored.
Canada's Royal Agricultural Winter Fair ended its season as the largest expo of its kind. Housed in a 264 acre complex, it hosted 1 200 horses 2 200 cattle 1 200 sheep 1 000 swine and 18 000 poultry over two weeks. Grand Champion Holstein sold for over 20 000 to a Bogota buyer. American and international entries competed, with Western Canadian farms dominant in beef and Eastern in dairy.
Edgar Reynolds, a Reynolda farmer, accuses a WPA crew of beavers of eating his corn along the Little Blue River and chewing pilings, causing a bridge collapse. He claims about two acres of corn were damaged by the beavers and cites disrupted pavements as further evidence.
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