Africans Battle Desert Locust Plague Across East Africa
Begashaw Abebe, executive secretary of the Desert Locust Control Organization for East Africa, warns that a highland invasion would trigger an economic disaster. Governments of Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, French Somaliland, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania unite to report signs to police posts as FAO says 20 countries face locust swarms in a belt from India to Morocco needing 5.6 million dollars this year. Kenyas air force and ground units spray swarms, with spotters coordinating aerial and ground efforts to curb the outbreak.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Begashaw Abebe
Food and Agricultural Organization
Frontier
Abebe
Court Raps Industrial Commission Over 51 Month Delay
The Arizona Court of Appeals harshly criticizes the Industrial Commission for delaying Harvey Lambs workers compensation claim for 51 months. Lamb, a Mesa salesman, sought increased compensation arguing his pre existing emphysema plus arm injury constituted a greater disability. The court noted multiple doctors and hearings but faulted the commission for not recognizing emphysema as a prior disability and for delaying the decision.
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Phoenix
UPI
Arizona Industrial Commission
State Court of Appeals
Harvey Lamb
C.8. Stapley Co
Mesa
Industrial Commission
Lamb
Golden Age Club Meets For Cards And Dance At Sabbar Temple
Golden Age No 1 Golden Age Club 1 holds a 10 a.m. Monday gathering at Sabbar Temple 2900 E Broadway for cards and dancing after a business session. Attendees are asked to bring a sack lunch. The club welcomes all senior citizens.
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Golden Age Club
Sabbar Temple
E. Broadway
Citi
Helpful Cabbie Gets Tip
Cabbie Jim Newman earned $250 for helping a stranger in distress. Morris Lewis, a grocery operator from Indianola Mississippi, was treated after a nosebleed and broken artery and sent thanks through a receptionist and later via a $250 check to Newman for his kindness.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Jim Newman
California
Newman
Morris Lewis
Indianola
Miss
Lewis
Firework Factory Explosions Kill Five Children in Brazil
In Belfort Roxo Rio de Janeiro a firecracker factory explosion killed five children making fireworks for Christmas. In La Plata Argentina another blast killed two workers at a separate factory.
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Rio DE Janeiro
UPI
Rio
Belfort Roxe
la Plata
Argentina
Helen Hayes To Teach Seminar At University Of Illinois Chicago
CHICAGO AP Helen Hayes will teach a playreading seminar at the University of Illinois Chicago starting in February. The 68 year old actress, called the first lady of the American theater, was named distinguished professor of speech and theater by Chancellor Norman A. Parker. Miss Hayes is finishing an engagement in George Kelley’s The Show Off.
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Chicago
Helen Hayes
University of Illinois In
Miss Hayes
First Lady of
the American Theater
University
Norman A. Parker
George Kelley
Edgewater Beach Hotel to Be Razed for Apartment Project
The Edgewater Beach Hotel on Chicago’s North Side will be torn down to make way for a $70 million apartment complex. Judge James B. Parsons approved a $1 million sale to Marshall M. Holleb’s investor group, who will assume $6.309 million in mortgage and liens. Co-developer Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. owns a $1.834 million first mortgage and 1,000-room hotel closed since December 21, 1967 amid bankruptcy proceedings.
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Chicago
Edgewater Beach
North Side
Marshall M. Holleh
James B. Parsons
U.S. District Court
H. R. Weissberg Corp
New York
Weissberg Corp
Parsons
Holleb
Harold Shemsky
Dunbar Builders Corp
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Nunn - Bush - Nettleton
S - Jarman
Winthrop Guide
Step
Freeman - Guild Hall
Verde’s
Park & Shop
Veal
Skaggs Drug
East Broadway
East Grant Road
Holleh’s
Montgomery, Wvard
Eannsistor
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Airline
Yi Me Uke
Wards Finest
S Derde Nee
Elcon Shopping Center
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Wards
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