Newspaper Boys Honored
By Issuance of Special
3-Cent Postage Stamp
PHILADELPHIA, (IP) — The
nation’s great paused Saturday to
pay tribute to the kid next door—
the boy who delivers your news
paper.
The youthful champions of free
enterprise got special recognition
when the U.S. post offices place
on sale a three cent stamp honor
ing their service to community
and country.
In a special ceremony at Ben
jamin Franklin Institute, Post
master General Jesse M. Donald
son presented the first stamp to a
newspaper boy. The Franklin In
stitute was chosen, Donaldson
said, because Franklin was “prob
ably the first newspaper boy.”
The stamp will be sold exclu
sively in Philadelphia for a short
time and then will be placed on
sale throughout the nation. It de
picts a newspaper boy carrying
papers in an average American
community. On the boy’s bag is
the legend “Busy Boys—Better
Boys.” The stamp, printed in
three shades of purple, was adopt
ed from a sketch made by the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin’s
editorial cartoonist, F. O. Alex
ander
Opposes Egyptian Land Reform
With Tommy-Gun Fire
EL MINYA, Egypt, {IP) — A
special military court sent Sayed
Adel Saleh Lamlum. 23-year-old
scion of one of Egypt’s wealthiest
families, to prison for life Sunday
because he opposed the govern
ment’s land reform plans with
tommygun fire.
Suit Charges Radio-Active
Health Tonic Brings On
Ossification of Body
CHILLICOTrfE, O., (/P) — Miss
Blanche Hardyman, 35, of Cin
cinnati has filed a $251,270 dam
age suit against a man she claims
gave her a passion stimulant in
stead of a health tonic that may
harden some of her body tissues
into bone.
The Common Pleas suit alleges
Walter Haberer “assaulted” her
by administering a “radio-active”
salt solution to her several times
between July 1 and Aug. 7, 1951.
Miss Hardyman claims Haberer
said the “chloradium” solution
would restore her vitality.
Instead she alleges her health
was injured permanently and she
was in danger of ossification
through radium poisoning.
Ossification results in harden
ing of body tissue into bone.
174 Stitches Fail To Save Tot
Attacked by German Shepherd
LOS ANGELES, (TP)—Frederick
Gage, 2, died yesterday from in
juries suffered when a German
shepherd dog attacked him three
days ago. Doctors took 174
stitches in his face and head in
an attempt to save his life.
Hitler SS Officer On Trial
COLOGNE, Germany, </P)—Dr.
Emmanuel Schaefer, former col
onel in Hitler's SS, went on trial
here Monday charged with partial
responsibility in the killing of
6,000 Jewish women and children
in Yugoslavia in the spring of
1942.
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Plane Manufacturers Hire
More Americans Than
Any Other Industry
Plane manufacturers in this
country will hire more Americans
in the next 17 months than any
other U.S-. industry, according to
“Planes,” official publication of
Aircraft Industries Association.
An article in the current issue
of Planes states that present em
ployment figures of 640,000 are
expected to rise at approximately
875,000 by January, 1954. By the
first quarter of 1954, the industry
will have more than tripled its
pre-Korean work force, it is esti
mated, with aircraft or aircraft
equipment being manufactured in
at least 33 states.
Biggest shortages today are in
engineering, scientific, and highly
skilled categories.
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W. W. “Chief” Laws Chas. D. Jones
FOR SENATOR FOR SENATOR
WE PLEDGE OURSELVES AS FOLLOWS :
1— To repeal the Property Tax.
2— For a more equitable distribution of road funds.
3— To maintain our schools at the highest possible standard
consistent with our tax program.
4— A continued program of construction of landing fields
throughout the Division. |
5— To encourage in every way possible the mining develop
ment and industry and a completely equipped Assay Office. i
6— To keep taxes to the lowest possible figure to efficiently
handle the affairs of the Territory.
As Gold Mining is of the utmost importance in our Division
we pledge ourselves to do all in our power to have gold freed
from the crippling regulations imposed upon it. j