NEWS IN BRIEF
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PETERSBURG,(/P) —A faulty
oil stove exploded in the First
Presbyterian Church before
morning services yes t e r d a y ,
spreading flames to the second
floor before they were quelled by
the volunteer fire department.
Damage was confined to the
front of the building. No estimate
of the loss has been made.
The Rev. R. B. Spivey said the
explosion occurred as he was ap
proaching the stove about 8 a.m.,
He and his wife salvaged most of
the water-soaked hymnals and
prayer books after the lire was
extinguished.
TOLEDO. O. (/Pi—Gordon Stut
ler wonders today whether epsom
* salts and chicken could be tem
porary cure for his month’s siege
of hiccups.
“About 10 o’clock Saturday
night I took some epsom salts and !
ate a chicken leg.” he said. “Short
ly afterwards the hiccups quit. I ,
though I was cured but they
started again at 4 p.m. Sunday.” !
Stutler since Nov. 12 has had to
enlist the help of neighbors in
i MEDAL AWARDED TO
JACKIE ROBINSON
New York, (/P) — The George
| Washington Carver Memorial In-1
stitute’s 1949 gold award for bet- |
I ferment of race relations has gone
1 to Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn
Dodgers' Negro star.
The award, to be presented at
ceremonies in the near future, was
announced last night by Robert D.
Hobday, chairman of the insti
tute’s award committee.
Previous winners included Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 194fi: pub
lisher William Randolph Hearst. :
1947; and movie magnate Darryl
F. Zanuck, 1948. .
answering his telephone, so many
people call to offer cures.
BUENOS. AIRES, (^) — The
1,230-ton cargo ship Oeste is afire
in the South Atlantic and her 28
crewmen are fighting the blaze
below decks, maritime authorities
announced today. The fire broke
out last night and the ship radioed
she would try to make Mar Del
Plata, Argentina. The ship left
Buenos Aires Saturday en route
to a Patagonian port with general
cargo. • I
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Truman Won’t Try
To Balance Budget
WASHINGTON. (JP) — Law
makers greeted without surprise
Saturday the news that President
Truman won’t submit a balanced
budget to Congress. But they split
on what to do about it.
Rep. Reed <R.-N. Y.) called the i
announcement by budget director
Frank Pace “A better Christmas
present” for Americans — ”al- !
though it is not wholly unexpect
ed"—and demanded a cut in
spending.
But Senator Thye (R.-Minn.) |
said that while he favors econ
omy, he opposes the view of most
of his colleagues with whom he
traveled to Europe that the cuts
should be made in foreign recov- |
ery funds.
Pace made his statement about!
the budget outlook Friday at Key 1
West, Fla., after a conference with
Mr. Truman. Pace said there is lit- i
tie probability of balancing the
federal budget next year unless i
Congress votes new taxes.
Congress members already have
made it fairly plan that they don’t
take kindly to the idea of upping i
WORK ON SCHOOL LIGHTING
IS PROGRESSING
Jim McAlee of the Fixit Shop
has just completed installing 24
fluorescent fixtures in the Nome
School, bringing up to par the
lighting in six classrooms on the
main floor.
Due to insufficient funds the
upper grades will not get better
lighting until 30 more light fix
tures can be procured. Mr. McAlee
states that these rooms are badly
in need of better lights as the light
meter which is used as a gauge in
dicates there is not enough light
for reading purposes, thereby
straining the children’s eyes.
Mr. McAlee also rewired the
auditorium so that it is now in
compliance with the National Fire
Underwriters specifications.
taxes. Iteed said in his statement:
“On the eve of Christmas the
over-taxed American who is now
paying more than 25 per cent of
his income to be governed is told
that he will have to dig deeper
next year. . . .
“The people of the nation have
received a bitter Christmas pres
ent from the government, the
news that it will cost them a lot
more dollars to let the Truman
administration govern them.”
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|U. S. Army Trained
Russians In Art Of
Using Radar
WASHINGTON, f/P) — The se
| crets of America's wartime detec
i tion and gunfire radar were taught
I to a dozen Russian trainees at Fort
Monmouth. N. J., in 1944 when
the U. S. and the Soviets were al
lies. i
This was affirmed by the army
' in the wake of a controversy over
whether the Russians received ra
dar-equipped planes under lend
I lease.
Fort Monmouth is the signal
corps training and development
center near Red Bank. So far as
could be determined, it was the
only place where the army trained
Russians in radar technique.
The army told reporters the
Russians were trained in radar
detection and tracking of low fly
ing buzz bombs and aircraft, ra
dar artillery direction, and “iff”
—radar identification of planes as
friend or foe.
The Soviet training was related
by the army in response to ques
tions arising out of statements by
I former air force major G. Racey
j Jordan that at least one radar
equipped transport plane went to
the Russians under lend-lease.
Jordan said he removed radar
from four Soviet-bound planes at
Great Falls, Mont.
The air force has said that C-47
planes did not generally have
military search radar at the time.
Another instance of radar-re
moval from a lend-lease C-4 was
related by former air force Col
onel Frank H. Collins of Washing
ton.
Appearing on the program of
radio commentator Fulton Lewis,
Jr., Collins said he had ordered
equipment removed from the
plane in the spring of 1944 just
before it was flown away by a
Russian officer.
Collins said the plane had come
from Oklahoma City enroute, via
Minneapolis and Alaska, to Rus
sia.
HOW TO EAT MILK
BERKELEY, Calif. (JP) — Some
people need milk for nutrition but
for various reasons can’t or won’t
drink it. A University of Califor
nia research project found that
powdered milk mixed into the
dough of whose-wheat bread,
makes the bread more nourishing,
stay fresh longer, less crumbly,
and better for toast.
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