davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Census on Religions
Praised as Example ol
Church Cooperation

The city-Wide religious census
now being taken in the Washing
ton metropolitan area was praised
today as probably the finest
example of denominational CO.
operation ever experienced here"
About 1000 volunteer canvass
ers from $50 Washington-area
churches started calling at neigh
borhood homes early yesterday.
From $4,000 families they will
ascertain the regular church at
tendants and, more important,
those who have no church affilia-
tions
The survey ends Sunday when
the canvasserS will turn in their
cards to their respective ministers.
Then the cards will be processed
and the information gained from
the survey shared by all the
churches.
The survey, sponsored by the
w a sh hington Federation of
Churches, is one of the many
similar programs being conducted
during 1850 throughout the United
States.
Climaxing a year-long evangel-
ism program in Washington, Of
which the church census is vital
part, will be preaching mission
in Is neighborhoods from October
80 to November 3. Eighteen out
standing ministers or lay leaders
will be brought to Washington for
the occasion.
John Halko, director of the
federation's Research and Church
Planning Department, is in charge
of the church census this week.
"All the participating churches
entered the survey with great en-
thusiasm he said. One Catholic
church is taking part. The ma
jority of TIE churches represented
are Baptls1, Episcopal, Methodist
and Presbyterian, with "sprin-
king" Of other denominations,
Mr.. Halko said.
The estimated 10000 families to
be visited were not selected to
provide a :ross-section for sur
vey purposes. The census is be-
ing taken in the neighborhoods
served by each of the participat-
ing churcnes.
Neighborhoods in Arlington,
Mount Rainier, Be-
thesda and Silver Spring are
among those to be canvassed.
Evening star., 1950-01-23

else would be better off if they
stayed at home and paid more
attention to raising a family"
X X X X
CAFETERIAS-The Admins
tration's bill to set up a new Gov
ernment corporation to operate
Federal cafeterias here has been
introduced by Representative
Ramsay, Democrat. of West Vir-
ginia. President Truman in his
budget message to Congress pro-
posed such a move to operate
eating places for Federal en-
ployes.
On the Senate side, the ad-
ministration's measure already
has been introduced and the
Senate Civil Service Committee
will set a date for hearings soon
The legislation would eliminate
the present private concessionaire
setup in the operation of Govern
ment cafeterias.
X X
DISMTSSALS - Many of the
Governments independent agen-
cies are in a quandry over the
order of Chairman Thomas of the
House Appropriations Subcom-
mittee on the independent Offices
bill to absorb the entire cost of
last years Federal pay raise.
They are not sure whether
they're supposed to absorb the
cost by July l or if it is to be
during the 1851 fiscal year.
They're hoping that Mr.. Thomas
and the committee will clarity
the situation.
A July l deadline undoubtedly
would mean a series Of firings in
the independent agencies. But
the agencies are hoping that the
committee will give them ade-
quate time to absorb the cost
so that layoffs can be kept at
a minimum.
AVALANCHE-More than 49,
600 persons here have applied to
take the examination for tenn
porary Census Bureau clerical and
tabulating machine jobs that will
be filled in connection with the
1850 census. The jobs are ex-
pected to last from one to three
years.
Many thousands more here are
expected to apply for these jobs
before the closing date for &C
cepting applications is announced.
The flood of applications COM
pletely surprised Census Bureau
and Civil Service Commission Of
f1cials. but it again emphasized
the growing number of persons
in the Washington area who are
seeking Federal employment.
(The Federal Spotlight radio
program featuring additional
ne1Us and Uie,Us OF the GoUern-
naent is heard each Saturday at
Gas pm. over WMAL, the Star
Station.)
Evening star., 1950-01-23
a. Stitches in Cut Heart
May Save Youths Life
BY the Associated Press

NORRISTOWN, Pa, Jan. 23.-
Doctors stitched the heart of 18-
year-old Roland Mancini last
night after it had been ripped
open by a knife and apparently
saved the youths life.
The emergency operation was
performed at Montgomery Hospi-
tai by DR.. Donald Headings. It
was the second time in the hos
pitfalls history that a patients
heart was stitched.
Four stitches were taken.
Young Mancini was accidentally
stabbed in the chest by a friend,
Police Chief T. Mason Osborne of
suburban Plymouth township re-
ported.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Flood Threat Centers
On Lower Mississippi
As Cairo Level Drops
BY the Associofed Press

The major Midwest flood threat
centered today along the lower
Mississippi River, where it al
ready has driven an estimated
$500 lowland dwellers from their
homes.
The stream was running bank
full and slowly rising but Army
engineers said they expected the
crest to roll safely on providing
the area escapes any heavy rains.
At Cairo, ILL.,, where the Ohio
River empties into the Mississippi.
the city counted itself virtually
out of flood danger. Although
still Is feet above technical flood
stage, the stream had dropped
about a foot since Friday. easing
pressure on the levees.
The flooding vas mostly in
three counties of upper West Ten
nessee, described as lowlands
which are overfowed nearly every
year.
Southern Temperatures Mild.
Weather in the area today
brought some measure of comfort
to those threatened by a further
rise as the crest swept down.
stream. Temperatures were mild
over all the southern two-thirds
of the Nation and the only pre-
cipitation was a harmless light
drizzle at some points.
A narrow band of subnormal
cold lay across the northern edge
of the country. In parts of the
Dakotas and Minnesota the mer-
curry was we'll below zero. Penn
bina, N. OAK, was the coldest
spot, with 16 degrees below.
Snow continued falling today in
Northern Montana, the Dakotas,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi-
gan. It was light, however, ex-
cept along Lake Superior and in
upper Michigan.
More rain fell along the Pacific
Coast from Northern California
northward to Washington and
eastward into Southern Idaho
and Utah, while the area from
Illinois eastward to New York and
Pennsylvania had light drizzle.
1900 to Be Flown Out.
Meanwhile aerial evacuation of
1900 marooned railway passeng-
ers in British Colombia was
started yesterday.
Four Trans-Canada and Cana
dian Pacific Airlines planes were
sent to Penticton and Kamloops,
B. c., from Vancouver to pick up
the passengers from six west
bound trains, stalled three days
by snowslides.
The airlift will remain in eff
feet until the Fraser Valley slides,
about lis miles east of Vancouver,
are cleared.
Near klamath Falls, Greg,
Southern Pacific Railway crews
labored at the edge of lake and
under thawing bluff today to
restore mainline tracks blocked. by
a freight train wreck, The train
hit a boulder loosened by thaw
Saturday night. ...
Of1c'Als hoped the route would
be cleared of wreckage of 81
smashed freight cars and the rails
refaid BY noon. ~
Five passenger trains were
stalled early yesterday behind the
block. The railroad estimated
1900 passengers later were shut
tied by school buses around the
wreck scene. The stalled trains
then reversed and returned to
Portland, Oreg., and Oakland,
Calf, terminals.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Herndon Players to Offer
The Bishop Misbehuves'

The Herndon CVaO Players will
present a play, THE Bishop Mis-
behaves" at pm. Saturday at the
Oakton School. Proceeds will be
turned over to the Fairfax County
March of Dimes campaign.
Joel Harris. chairman of the
drive, said the Falls Church Jew
ish Women's Study Group will
sponsor a square dance from 9
o'clock to midnight the same night
at the Falls Church High School.
1t also will be for the benefit of the
campaign.
Evening star., 1950-01-23

QdGlnS dSeIlCy,
GSA in a num-
ber' of cases
retained WAA
employees, who
in turn bump
ed" other GSA
workers out of
their jobs.
These GSA
e m p ! o y e S
claimed t h a t
the WAA work
erS should have
b e en- dismiss
ed instead of
fhopo co1vac ond
Evening star., 1950-01-23

effects of coal
gas fumes that
felled him, his
daughter and
g r anddaughter
early yesterday.
Mrs. Charles
A. Sweeny, the
daughter, and
Isabelle Sweeny,
Is, W no also
were overcome
at their home,
SAB. Edgemoor
lane, Bethesda,
said they were
all right today.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Fec Rightto Ban Radio
License 10 Newspaper
As Monopoly Upheld


The right of the Federal Com
munications Commission to deny
a radio station license to a news
paper firm on grounds the paper
lndulged in monopolistic prac-
tees was affirmed today by the
United States Court of Appeals.
In an opinion by Judge George
T. Washington. the court rejected
appeals by the Mansfield Journal
Co. and the Lorain Journal Co.
The same stockholders own and
control both papers in the two
Ohio cities.
The firms protested these find
ings by the FEC:
That the Mansfield Journal, as
the only newspaper in the COM
munity, "coerced" its advertisers
into exclusive advertising con-
tracts with it and to refrain from
advertising on. Station WMAN,
the city'sa only radio station.
The FEC further found that the
paper showed a marked hostil-
ity' to the radio station by re-
fusing to publish 'WNfAN's pro-
gram log and by falling to carry
any comments about the station
unless unfavorable.
Bid for Licenses Refused.
The FEC concluded that these
actions were for the purpose of
suppressing competition and OBJ
tanning a monopoly on mass adj
vertising and news dissemination
1t refused both papers bid for
radio licenses, stating that such
practices were likely to continue
and be reinforced" by the acqui-
sition of a radio station. This,
the FEC ruled would be incon-
sistent with the public interest.
In their protest, the papers
claimed that FEC went beyond it's
powers by studying their compet-
tive activities; that the FCC's
ruling amounted to a judgment
that the papers were guilty of a
crime without trial by jury, and
that FCC's license refusal on the
basis of the Mansfield papers ad-
vertising and news policies was an
invasion of the freedom of the
press.
The court held, however, that
the commission acted fully" with
in its Jurisdiction.
"In determining whether par
ticular applicant should be per-
mitted to operate so important
and restricted a facility as radio
station, which reaches into the
homes of so many people, it is
appropriate that the commission
examine pertinent aspects of the
past history of the applicant, "
Judge Washington wrote.
Public Service Held Impaired.
In the present case, the court
noted, that FEC decided it would
be contrary to the public inter-
est" to grant a license to a news
paper which has attempted to
suppress competition.
Dealing with the appellants ar
gument that FEC in effect had
taken upon itself the enforcement
of antitrust laws, the court de-
clared:
Whether Mansfield's activities
do or do not amount to a positive
violation of law, and neither this
court nor the FEC is determining
that question, they still may. i'm
pair Mansf1eld's ability to serve
the public
The ultimate" question, the
court emphasized, was not wheth-
er the Mansfield paper was inno-
cent or guilty of any monopoly
charge, but whether it was quail
fled or unqualified to have radio
license.
The court pointed out that FEC
never tried to censor the papers
editorial policy, nor does the FEC
ruling require the paper to stop
anv pf tho r,ro ctinoc II apnonoc II,
Evening star., 1950-01-23
The Federal Spotlight
More LoyoH 'Bumpings' Due
In General Services Agency
By Joseph Young

Additional layof "bumpngs"
Administration.
of disnssals isn't expected be but
will situation that already
cials plenty of headaches.
trouble started when the
Evening star., 1950-01-23
.Crosser Recovering
After Gas 0vercomes
Him and 7 Of Family

Representative Crosser, Demo-
crat, of Ohio's 21st District, was
reported recovering today from the
Evening star., 1950-01-23

dying War Assets Administration.
Under a Civil Service Commission
ruling that WAA was not a liqui-
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Mostly
cloudy and continued mild today,
tonight and tomorrow. Highest
temepraturs today in the upper
SOS and lowest tonight around 46
degrees.
Maryland and Virginia-Mostly
cloudy and mild tonight and to-
morrow with chance of some light
rain or drizzle in mountains OF
extreme west portion. Lowest
temperature tonight in 40s.
Wind velocity, 6 miles per hour;
direction, south-southeast.
River Report
(From U. s. Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferr,
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah cleal
at HarperS Ferry
Humidity.
(Readings at Washington National Airport.
Yesterday Pct. To-day Pct
Hoon---- SO Midnight $500 81
Evening star., 1950-01-23

High and Low for Yesterday.
High, so, at 1850 pm.
Low, 81, at $40 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 72, on January q.
Lowest, %, on January 20.
Evening star., 1950-01-23

(The Federal Spotlight radio
program featuring additional
7ne1Cs and DieaUs OF the Gouern-
ment is heard each Saturday at
Gas pm. oUer WMAL, the Star
Station.)
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10
SENIOR INTERMEDIATE

8:00-Gary Moore
 8:30-Not So Quiet, Please 9:00-Zeke Manners 9:15-Melody Roundup 9:30-To be announced 10:00-Jack Berch 10:15-Chiquita 10:30-Platter Previews 11:00-Personal Album 11:15-Strike Up The Band 11:30-I. & E. Special Noon-Luncheon Turntable 12:30-Album Music l2:45-At Ease
 1:0O-Around World In History 1:15-Jack Smith
 1:30-Yesterday's Best C:00-Matinee Melodies
 3:00-Name It For A Song
 3:30-MuSical Varieties
 3:45-Album Music
 4:00-Supper Club
 4:15-Second Hand luke Box 4:30-To Be Announced
 5:00-News-Short Wave
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10
Kills Incurably HI Brother

ALLENTOWN, Pa, (P) - "He asked me to shoot him. pondered it. He often had asked me to do the same thing. I finally decided to do it."
 With these words, Harold Mohr, 36, was quoted by district attor- ney Kenneth H. Koch, today as saying he shot and killed his 55- year-old brother, Walter, Wednes- day night because he was incur
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10
Friday. March 10. 1850

ably i'll of cancer and was blind"
 Harold Mohr was charged with murder after making his verbal statement to Koch and a third brother, Coplay police chief Ralph Mohn.
 pr. George s. Boyes, county coroner, said Walter was killed instantly by 30 caliber rifle bull let fired into his back.
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10
MISS BEER. SUNSHINE

STRATFORD-ON-AVON, Eng land, (P) - Americans find this hometown of Shakespeare a fine place but there are some things they miss here. For example, beer after the theater( saloons close early), coffee at the inn and Gal ifornia sunshine"
 That's what some of them said in answering a questionnaire sub mtted to l949 overseas visitors.
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10

Although the ancients appar- ently knew zinc as separate metal, the knowledge seems to have been lost in the Middle Ages.
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10
JUNIOR INTERMEDIATE

 JUNIOR INTERMEDIATE
 The Junior Intermediate start their meetings by saluting the flag and then we repeat the promise and laws. and sing songs.
 New officers weer elected: Eliz- abteh Fricke, pres; Arlene Muller, vice pres; Sigrid Olsen, re- elected secretary because she is good at the job. Sadie Bell is the new treasurer.
 This weeks program was in Mrs. Gallagher'S room where we learned about National Girl Scout Week which is next week.
 Mary Jeanne Boucher, Scribe. BROWNIE
 Last week we learned to make the paint for finger painting. Some of the girls made lovely pictures.
 Theresa Norbert had her tenth birthday and is ready to fly to the Intermediate Troop.
 We made little ladies for favorS by using little paper baking cups trimmed with lace paper doilies.
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10
Friday. March 10. 1850

500 pm.-News-Short Wave 5:15-Music of The Masters 6:00-Proudly We Hail
 6:30-From Bookshelf of World 7:00-Number Please 8:00-Family Theater 8:30-Sports Q
 9:00-Henry Aldrich
 9:30-The Big Story 10:00-One Night Stand 10:30-G.I. live 1O:45-Words with Music HOO pm.-Sign Off
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10
Girl Scout News
SENIOR


 Several weeks ago the Senior Girl Scouts gave a program for the other Girl Scouts, to raise money for the Juliette Low Fund. The donation came to somewhere around $500.
 We plan to give a special num- Der on the program the Girl Scouts are giving in April.
 Donna Miller, Scribe SENIOR INTERMEDIATE
 Our troop is planning to give a play for the other Girl Scout troop the name of it is "Young Michael Angelo"
 Tn tap dancing we have finished learning two dances, and It. Sano
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10
A. F. R. s. MARKS AIR FORGE BASE NOME, ALASKA

Former Radio Station WxLN will be known in the future as A. F. R. S., Marks Air Force Base.
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10
Sunday. March l2. 1850

 1O:0O-Sunday Morn. Coffee Shor 10:30-Chapel Call 11:OO-Mrs. Housewife 11:30-Piano Play House Noon-Dick Jergens 12:15-Passing Parade 12:30-Enchanted Hour 1:0O-Angelus 1:30-Concert Hall 2:0O-Broadway Playhouse 3:0O-Fellowship Hour 3:3O-Show Time 4:O0-Hollywood Bowl 6:00-Jill's luke Box 6:30-Greatest Story Ever Told 7:00-Curt Massey 7:3O-This Is Broadway 8:00-Fred Allen 8:30-Command Performance 9:00-Phil Harris 9:30-Theatre U. s. A. l0:00-Jane Pickens 10:30-Magic Rhythm ll:00-Dragnet l1:3O-Take A Chorus 12:00-Sing Off
 Monday. March l3. 1850 FOO a.m.-Morning Melodies 7:15-Morning Devotions 7:30-Sunrise Serenade
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10
Saturday. March II. 1850

TOO a.m.-Morning Melodies 7:15-Morning Devotions 7:30-Sunrise Serenade 8:0O-Let's Pretend 8:30-Not So Quiet, Please 9:00-WXLN Ranch House 9:l5-Redd Harper 9:30-Mid-Morning Madness 1O:00-Remember l0:l5-Bob Carlton l0:3O-Platter Previews 1l:00-Lucky Grab Bag 11:15-Solitary Singer 11:30-I. & E. Special Noon-Album Music 12 15-PaSsing Parade 12:30-Album Music 12:45-Serenade
 1:00-Around World In History 1:15-Lanny Ross
 1:30-Fairy Tale Time 2:00-CBS Symphony
 3:00-Name It For A Song 3:3O-Musical Varieties 4:00-Album Music
 4:15-Second Hand luke Box 4:30-Stars In Song
 5:O0-SongS of Long Ago 5:30-Hymns From Home 6:00-Nelson Eddy
 6:30-Science Magazine of Air 6:45-Album Music
 7:00-The Cisco Kid
 7:30-Hit Parade 8:00-Grand OF Opre
 8:30-Our Miss Brooks
 9:0O-Noah Webster Says 9:30-Richard Diamond 10:00-Mail Call 10:30-Rex Maupin Orchestra 10:45-Words with Music 11:0O-After Hours Stuff Midnight-Sign Off
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-10

is now teaching us a new dance.
 Dorothea Hudert, Scribe
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1950-02-10
The World OUe1.

nounced in his list year, is as sig
nificant for science as the Rela-
tivity Theory of 45 years ago.
And the man who formulated it is
as modest as ever before and as
unimpressed with the outward
trappings of glory.
But the great scientist is not
and never has been Indifferent in
matters of basic Importance. He
is passionate in his love for
democracy and his hatred of war,
and he does not lack courage to
express his views.
1t was for this reason that he,
whose Relatively Theory had been
the very basis for the American
development of the atom bomb,
was deliberately kept in ignorance
of the progress of the Manhattan
project. He was considered a poor
security risk.
cit was like not telling God
about the creation" someone said.
But DR.. EinsteIn did not cease
to speak his mind, and only re-
Gently warned against our present
policy vis-a-vis Germany. "This is
the same madness the Western
Powers committed after the last
war;" he declared.
Small wonder that certain mill
tary leaders are finding it hard
to get along with Professor Elm
stein. Only recently Rear Ad-
miral James Fife, commander of
the submarine force of the u. S.
Atlantic Fleet, became angered by
DIR. Einstein's suggestion that the
atomic bomb had made national
ism obsolete, and declared that if
Einstein doesn't like American
ism or our nationalism, then he
should go back where he came
from and try Mr.. Hitler again."
Thus say our makers of war to
the man of peace who has changed
the entire concept of the universe.
And while they offer to unburden
themselves of this troublesome
genius, they open welcoming arms
to their latest collaborators- the
new Hitlers of Germany.
UNDER OVER JERU-
SALEM In all the sound and
fury with regard to Jerusalem,
one fact has been studiously
ignored. The U.N. Charter thus
defines the objective of the trus-
teeship system:
''To promote the political, eco
nomic, social and educational ad-
vancement of the trust territories,
and their progressive development
towards self-government or inde-
pendence as may be appropriate
to the particular circumstances of
each territory and its peoples and
the freely expressed wishes of the
people concerned"
1t appears that the Trusteeship
Council was never authorized by
the Charter to do anything but
care for "the administration of
territories whose people have not
yet attained full measure of
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1950-02-10
Root Of the Matter.

in the mind of this writer as to
the propriety of expecting the two
religious institutions to bear the
burden of cost involved in the use
of their facilities by non-congre-
gational groups.
Adult groups which have no
funds and youth groups under
community or fraternal auspices
need places to meet and carry on
programs. If there were a Jewish
Community Center in the COM
munity, the costs of this service
would be a definite charge on
community funds.
The fact that temple and syna-
gogue facilities are being used be-
cause we have no Center does not
change the nature of the COM
munity's obligation.
In addition there is a wide
spread demand for leisure time
activities among the Jewish
groups. In terms of the preserva-
ton and fruition of Jewish group
life, this demand, which is a re-
Election of very real need, is a
heaven-sent opportunity for this
community to make a valid con-
tribution to that preservation and
fruition, by making some effort
to fill those needs and in so doing
bring people into closer relation
ship with Jewish life.
It's worth thinking about.
4 4
The United Jewish Appeal is in
the midst of a series of discus
sions with Southwestern commu-
mites about 1850 goals. The UJA,
through it's official spokesman, has
gone on record not only in endors-
ing local community organization
with it's services as a legitimate
charge on welfare funds, but has
gone so far as to say that a major
portion of local administrative
costs are a reasonable charge on
the UJA itself.
The UJA has long recognized
that campaigns without local COM
munity organization and stability
would be even worse than the
worst examples of 1949 failures
to reach even decent percentages
of goals.