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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1950
Page
12
Mexican reports say film actress Myrna Loy arrived in Mexico City yesterday and intends to divorce producer Gene Markey in Cuernavaca while he is reported to be in Europe.
Local channel schedules present theater films and talk shows across WNEW WITG AL WOP. Notable entries include Fa tlight Theater at 6 00 and Broadway Open House at 11 00. Also listed are Muppet Shop Captain Video On Trial and Garry Moore with Weather updates.
Dispatches claim the Chinese Reds would commit 150000 troops to the Korean conflict if the North Koreans are driven back to the 28th parallel. Reports also allege a Moscow Peiping pact favoring infiltration over open invasion to avert a new world war. Molotov’s flight to Peiping July 31 to August 10 is cited as fueling the pact talks.
The article notes newly covered groups including 5,000,000 self employed 1,000,000 domestic servants and 700,000 regular farm workers. Benefits for the 3,000,000 aged persons and survivors will rise by about 7.42 percent beginning around November 1.
Proposed changes would nearly double the retirement rate for nonretirees and boost maximum family benefits from 85 to 150 dollars monthly. Payroll taxes would rise from 2 to 3 percent by 1954 1960 1965 and 1970 with the tax applying to the first 3600 of earnings. Disabled beneficiaries around 200000 would receive first time home relief payments under public assistance, separate from the insurance program.
Plans are ready for swift evacuation of most of the 200 Americans in Yugoslavia if Moscow orders a Korea treatment. No imminent invasion expected. Evacuees would be air or rail moved, with a skeleton diplomatic staff, likely to Rome.
The Australians refer to the area between the coast and the interior as The Outback. The term captures the sparse, rugged interior and distant, remote landscapes.
In Phoenix a Peoria, Arizona, youth William Joseph Jones aged 18 sought military entry. After eating two dozen bananas a day for a week he finally joined and served in Japan. His uncle and aunt report Pfc Jones is missing in action in Korea.
In pre dawn fog two men moved along a Baltimore pier with a small instrument. A customs officer alerted authorities and police captured them as amateur photographers seeking unusual harbor light.
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