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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1950
Page
19
Nineteen years after Knute Rockne died in a Kansas plane crash Notre Dame honors his memory with a Rockne Memorial breakfast at the faculty dining hall. James Crowley former Four Horsemen backfield star will be speaker at the event sponsored by the St Joseph Valley Notre Dame Club.
Augusta Ga. VPi The Masters Golf Tournament plans to award a $100 qualification prize to every professional who fails to finish in the top 24 money winners. Cliff Roberts says the event on April 9 at the Augusta National course will also guarantee at least a $10,000 prize fund. Roberts notes twofold aims: support younger pros out of the money and encourage older champions to participate.
Governor Dewey signed a 1 million dollar bill to fund state aid for a statewide county library system in 1980 81. The measure, pushed by the Institute of Pacific Relations and state boards, aims to expand knowledge and friendship among nations while funding a continuing program of financial assistance.
Kenneth C. Tucker, 24, of San Angelo Texas, died at the Harbenita Race Track when his stock car crashed into the fence and rolled in front of another car Wednesday night.
Tom Carmody of New York is appointed basketball coach at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point. He will also serve as a physical training instructor.
Members of the Band of Iran Grotto prepared for a state convention last night by appointing three judges for bardo contests at a dinner at Paul’s Restaurant. The convention in Troy on Sept 3 and 9 will feature 24 visiting grotto bands with judges William Noller George Slater and Willam Themb lay. H Losworth MacChesney president of the State Grotto Association and Ray H. Prout addressed the gathering. Entertainment included the Banlak Sisters and duets by Mrs Brenzel and Mrs Pettinger plus magic by Morton Walrath. The meeting was opened by monarch W Wraderick HL Ibbott and past monarch Haries Grosberg.
Senator McCarthy charged Owen Lattimore with links to communism and said the State Department houses two interlocking operations loyal to Moscow. He claimed policy guidance came from Moscow and criticized the Far Eastern Division and the Voice of America. McCarthy asserted only a small percentage of staff are sympathetic yet damaging, while Acheson prepared a lengthy Capitol Hill defense.
Acheson urged quick approval of a bill to send technical health, science, industrial and public administration missions to economically backward areas. He noted prior small scale efforts, including typhus control and farming improvements, and said skilled volunteers could yield large results with modest spending.
The article notes a long term Point Four program and Acheson’s view that results may take five to ten years. He promises new markets and raw materials, private capital flow, and broader policy beyond security to counter communism. Also mentions U.N. role and Eisenhower urging aid to neo communist nations. Churchill praised opposition exit as government vows to carry on after defeat in House and Lords.
Lawton Pace a four year old native of the capital is described as a former Master General who became assistant budget director. Born in Little Rock on July 5 1912 Pace is a graduate of the Hill School Princeton University and Harvard Law School. His wife Margaret Janney of Philadelphia and their two daughters are noted. Outside work he excels in tennis golf and bridge.
Mrs. Ruby Denny Edwards, forty, collapsed and died last night while bowling. Oneida County Coroner Thomas A. Cox ruled death from a heart attack induced by strain. The report also notes Cerro de Pasco Peru houses the world’s highest post office at an altitude of 14 385 feet per the National Geographic Society.
Officials announced a drastic overhaul ending the Thompson Trophy event and banning old type surplus military airplanes from the 1939 program. The decision affects the national air races and reflects broader changes to future aviation events.
Edward J. Grant, longtime registrar at Columbia University, died early yesterday in New York. He served thirty years at the college and was en route to a convention of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars when his death occurred. His wife survives him.
Elmer B Staats, a ten year veteran of the Budget Bureau rising from stenographer to executive assistant, was promoted to assistant director. A native of Sylvia Kansas and graduate of McPherson College and the Kansas and Minnesota Universities, he joined the Bureau in 1939 after Brookings Institution work. He is married with three children.
Belgium sees no resolution as Premier designate Albert Devese fails to quell the ferval crisis. He urged progress after meeting exiled King Le pula in Switzerland, signaling ongoing political deadlock and calls for leadership.
Rev Weldon Crossland D D pastor of Asbury WIst Methodist Church in Rochester delivered a Lent sermon at St Mark's Methodist asserting true security lies in religion as a treasure within. He warned a security conscious world faces death on every side while wealth and health prove temporary. Services were directed by Rev Lirnh Diffendorf with assist Rev Donald R Lewis.
Czechoslovakia demanded the United States hand over eight Czechs accused of kidnapping and planning an air escape for an anti Communist group to West Germany last week. Prague also pressed punishment for U S officials who questioned defectors. The State Department and the American high commission in West Germany declined comment. An American official in Frankfurt said it is not U S policy to forcibly return political refugees. Of 84 Czechs who landed at Erding Air Base, 26 chose to remain in the United States.
Bavarian youth press claims a 12 year old boy writes and produces a play lampooning politics with figures like the Intersocial Party led by August Hacker in Nuernberg. His troupe names the Republican Union of Germany hoping for ties to the U S GOP while other figures advocate expert rule and party dissolution. Laguna Beach boy Lynn Reynolds, also 12, enters as California’s youngest playwright with Bavaria’s rolling bills are always Penny Has Paralysis presented during a March of Dimes drive.
The deadline for filing state income tax withheld reports by employers of non residents was extended from February 18 to March 1 by a bill signed by Governor Dewey. State Tax Commissioner Spencer said early filings used the maximum rate, causing faulty returns and refunds. the change aligns filing with the Legislature set rate. Reports cover taxes withheld for workers outside New York but employed in the state. resident workers face no withholding.
Singapore reports that Malayan mosquitoes are not resistant to DDT and that Dr J W Field, director at the Institute of Medical Research in Malaya, comments on American reports of DDT resistance in U S mosquito strains.
A 15 month old named Dominic DeCario of 521 Hoosick Street was taken by police car to St Marys Hospital last night. Patrolmen John Kane and Edwin Bloomer removed the child from his home where he was held prior to transport.
Hospital plans to bring beauty treatment equipment to patients’ bedsides. Attendants are trained in hospital ethics and aim to perform procedures without disturbing the patient’s condition.
The City of Troy hearings list multiple parcels in Rensselaer County for public auction. Notices name Alfred Roehe Commission of Public Works and refer to condemned lands including parcels on Camp Bell Highway and West Elm Grove Street. The record cites prior deeds and a 1950 judgment for foreclosure and sale in the Supreme Court.
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