Virginia Farm Law Changes Span Agriculture and Timber
The 1952 Virginia Assembly pass notes show extensive amendments chiefly on livestock markets timber and farm enforcement. Key measures raise auction bond to 5000 authorize one license for auctioneers tax shifts for livestock traders and expand forest service authority to combat tree diseases and infestations. Changes ease seed fertilizer rules and permit skimmed milk and oyster packing standards while relaxing some regulatory burdens.
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Virginia Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Commonwealth
State Forest Service
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County Board of Supervisors
Commissioner of Agriculture
Virginia
Virginia Rural Rehabilitation Corporation
Virginia Department of Agriculure
Navy Patrol Plane Lands After Polar Flight
A Navy P2V Neptune bomber and crew of 12 landed at Thule Air Base Greenland after a late Saturday flight from Point Barrow Alaska. One bomber reported engine trouble and remained on Ice Island T3, while the other aimed to refuel and return to Alaska as part of Operation Ski Jump.
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Thule Air Force Base
Greenland
North Pole
Alaskan Air Command
Pole
Thule
Point Barrow
T 3
Refused Cigaret Man Jumps in Canal
An unidentified Negro man about 35 asked Ollie Booker for a cigarette in Richmond this morning. After being refused a cigarette, he declared he would take to the water, ran across the street, and leaped into the James River canal.
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Richmond
James River Canal
Ollie Booker
Booker
Newbold Morris Plans White House Report Tug at Cleanup
Newbold Morris, ousted as federal cleanup chief, says he will personally deliver his report to the White House. In a radio interview he claimed President Truman supported his mission and methods, despite Morris being dismissed last week by Attorney General J Howard McGrath.
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New York
Newbold Morris
White House
American Broadcasting Company
Radio Network
Morris
United States
J Howard McGrath
Truman
Why the totalizer at race tracks is called the Julius
The device is named for Sir George Julius an Australian engineer who invented it. It first saw use on January 14 1932 at a racing venue.
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Julius
Sir George Julius
RKO Lays Off 100 Employees Amid Hollywood Red Scare
Howard Hughes placed about 100 RKO Studio workers on leave of absence amid a production standstill. The move follows a dispute with screenwriter Pau Jarrico after his refusal to testify to a congressional committee about communism. Both sides seek screen credit rights.
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Hughes
Pau Jarrico
Jarrico
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