Week of March 29, 1950

Staying at his white house in Key West, President

Truman is cut off from telephone contact with the

mainland by a fire in Perine, Florida. The fire

burned all of the telephone circuits into Key West,

leaving the area dependent on the armed forces

radio teletype and a Western Union Morse code

circuit.

Identifying Alaska as the weakest link in the nation’s defense link, General

Eisenhower calls for increased military outlays for the area. The outlays called for

Garrisons in the state, Modernization of aircraft and Army equipment, Intelligence

and Industrial mobilization.

Also in Florida, Dolly, a circus elephant with the Ringling Brothers circus is put to

death using cyanide after killing a 5 year-old boy who was feeding her peanuts.

In Whitinsville, Mass - fireman respond to an alarm pulled from an alarm box.

When they arrive, a frightened woman was standing next to the box with a letter

written in English. The woman didn’t know how to communicate in English and

the letter explained that in her country, mailboxes are painted red.

Husband and wife team - the flying Bixbys take off from Newark in the second

hop of thier round the world trip as they try to break the speed record. Originating

from San Francisco, the couple’s plane did 350mph. The record was set by Bill

Odom in 1947 at 73 hours and 5 minutes.

Bell labs say they have developed a new type of

electric eye called a phototransistor. It operates

much like the Bell-invented transistor, except it can

be switched on or off by incoming light instead of

electric current. Bell says its advantage is that it can

deliver high power in a photo-controlled circuit,

eliminating amplification.

In Washington, DC - RCA demonstrates a picture

tube, which can receive programs in color and

monochrome (black & white). The demonstration

completed RCA’s compatible broadcast system,

where conventional TV’s won’t become obsolete

because of programs transmitted in color. In fact, the color program was

transmitted without area residents even knowing it was a color program. Their

Week of March 29, 1950

black and white TV’s received the program just fine. The broadcast was made on

Channel 4 WRC-TV.

At the store - a Hopalong

Cassidy “kids TV” - winds

with key. Gives a true-to-

life television impression

of Hopalong’s antics, in

black and white, as clear

as can be. Four complete

movie scripts run through

each “TV set”

automatically. Case is

attractive palomino color

and has a picture of

Hoppy for decoration.

Just $1.98.

Don’t forget to pick-up Wonder Bread at the mart - helps build strong bodies- 8

ways: Muscle (has protein), Bones & Teeth (has calcium), Body Cells (has

phosphorus), Blood (has iron), Appetite (has B vitamins), Growth (more B

vitamins), Brain (niacin) and energy (sugar).

At Sears - Chain-link fencing just 57 cents a foot ... A Brownie “Hawkeye” Box

Camera - $5.50... Best Sears Allstate Car Battery - for Buicks, Pontiacs and

other cars using long batteries - $12.12.

At the mart - 10lb bag of sugar - .85 ... Skippy peanut butter (regular or chunky) -

12oz jar - .32 ... Beef pot roast - .49lb ... Del Monte Golden Corn - (3) 17oz cans -

.37

from her husband and business manager Martin Melcher. The

judge kiddingly, asked her to “sing her way out of this one.” Her

reply was - “I can’t.”

Life With Luigi, Johnny Dollar, Fibber McGee &

Molly, Big Town, Counterspy, Phillip Marlowe, Red

Ryder, Pursuit, People Are Funny, Cavalcade Of

America w/Richard Widmark, The Hardy Family (Mickey Rooney),

The Count Of Monte Cristo, Mr. And Mrs North, Mystery Is My

Week of March 29, 1950

Hobby, Beulah The Maid

Goose’ - Frankie Laine, “Music! Music! Music!” - Teresa

Brewer, “If I Knew You Were Comin’ (I’ve Baked A Cake)” -

Eileen Barton, “Quicksilver” - Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters,

“It Isn’t Fair” - Sammy Kaye “(Here Comes) Peter Cottontail”

- Gene Autry

At the movies -

Sterling

Wilding

Week of March 29, 1950