Week of June 1, 1950

In a news conference - President Truman says the world is closer to peace now,

than it was five years ago. It was a reply to a recent Gallup pole, in which most

Americans believe to expect a war within five years.

The village “upper Hookena” on the

Kono coast near Hilo, Hawaii is

destroyed by Lava in the continuing

Mauna Loa eruption. The Coast Guard,

parked off the west coast of the island of

Hawaii, rescued persons trapped

between the three molten rivers of lava

making their way down to the sea.

The biggest rain in 50 years hits

Galveston, TX - hitting the area with 14

inches of rain in 24 hours. Most of downtown was under 3 feet of water. Loss is

estimated to be $400 thousand.

Nine year-old Arnold Alberts is crushed by a 500-pound tombstone after he had

gone with his family to the Mt Olive Cemetery in De Pere, Wisconsin. The

parents heard the boy scream and found him dead under the stone.

B.F Goodrich introduces a tire that needs to tube! No tube to pinch, to puncture,

to purchase!

New at the store - Kelloggs Corn Pops. No sugar needed! Great new cereal with

the sweetenin’ already on it!

Bing Crosby says - Minute Maid Orange Juice is better for your health - it’s

cheaper than oranges by the dozen and far more convenient!

CBS says that by September 30 - its live television programming from New York

will be seen as far south as Jacksonville, FL and as far

west as Omaha, Nebraska by extension of the coaxial

cable.

foot Amicalola Falls in Georgia after she lost her footing.

A studio chauffeur caught her, almost going over with

her.

Week of June 1, 1950

(The “Other” Budwiser) This had nothing to do with Anheuser- Busch, but

was brewed by competitor DuBois Brewery of Pennsylvania

government to purge all 24 members of the

Communist Party’s Central Committee. In a letter, the

general said that the Communisists formed a “sinister

groupment similar to Japan’s wartime militarists.

“Their aims, if achieved, would surely lead Japan to

an even worse disaster.”

Week of June 1, 1950

Here’s the pricing for Columbia Records

$8.14 ... 33 1/3 album - $4.85 ... 7”

singles (45RPM) - .69-$1.00.

At the mart - Grade “A” Bacon - .49lb ...

Grade “B” Bacon - .43lb ... Avg price for

a candy bar - 3 cents...

Paul D. Gilbert, head of the National Association of Retail

dressed man on the international scene.” “A lot of the world’s

problems would be solved if Joe Stalin would come over

here and get himself a nice summer suit, a good straw hat

and a pair of brown and white shoes.”

Paul Harvey will begin a new weekly series of radio

commentaries heard on the ABC radio network beginning in

several weeks. The broadcasts will air at 10:45PM.

Joan Blondell divorces for the third time - this time to New

York Producer Michael Todd

In Philadelphia, Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Robert

Villemain of France in a unanimous 15-round decision.

Booksellers say that television is reducing book sales in some areas - light fiction

and children’s books have been the hardest hit so far.

ABC radio begins another round of” Superman” episodes

beginning this week. The show will be heard twice a week -

Lois Lane and Ross Martin is the show’s announcer.

Bob Hope gets a new sponsor - the Ligggett & Myers Tobacco

Company beginning in fall. His contract with Lever Brothers

expired this week.

Week of June 1, 1950

NBC outbids CBS for the radio and television rights to

week with his producer - John Guedel for the next 8 years.

Desoto-Plymouth has been signed as the radio sponsor.

Thursday Night TV includes - The Pinky Lee Show, Stop The

Music, What’s Name Of Song, The Ed Wynn Show

Gene Autry completes six half-hour westerns for CBS-TV.

Wrigley’s will sponsor the program.

Pop music this week in 1950 - “Hoop-Dee-

Doo” - Perry Como, Sentimental Me” - Ames

Foolish Heart” - Gordon Jenkins

At the movies -

Rhonda Fleming

Robert Ryan

Howard Keel

Orson Wells

Peters, Cesar Romero, Keenan Wynn

Albright.