Americana

P: The New Orleans city council adopted an ordinance calling for a bus line to replace the streetcar named Desire.

P: In nine eastern states, another trout season got under way. By the thousands, fishermen struggled out of bed before dawn, bundled into several layers of clothing, pulled on their waders, tuned up their tackle, gulped hot coffee and were off. As light broke, they slogged into the ice-cold waters of such favorite streams as the Wiscoy, the Willowemoc, the Ausable, the Beaverkill and the Lackawaxen.

P: In Macon, Ga., 15-year-old Helen Myers had to leave high school because she refused to wear shorts in gym classes. Her guardian, a minister in the Friends of Jesus Church, said shorts are indecent.

P: To foster closer relations with his parishioners, the Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, rector of Manhattan's Protestant Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest, instituted an after-service "coffee hour" for Sunday morning churchgoers.

P: The Atomic Energy Commission offered a bonus of $10,000 to anybody who could find a new U.S. deposit of high-grade uranium ore--payable upon the delivery of 20 short tons.

P: At the request of their parents, the ashes of Lieut. Harwood Sharp of El Cerrito, Calif, and Radioman James Langiotti of Orlando, Fla., who were captured and executed by the Japanese after they had fought together as a bomber team through seven months of the Pacific war, were scattered over the waters five miles east of Hawaii's Diamond Head.

P: The Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site at Hyde Park received a wire recorder, planned to use it to preserve personal reminiscences of people who had known the late President.*

P: The Washington Times-Herald's Inquiring Photographer asked several plump women about their reaction to the Too Fat Polka. Samples: 1) "I have such a little squirt of a husband someone has to have some heft around the house." 2) "I'm just well rounded."

P: Georgia Comptroller Zach Cravey started a public subscription campaign to raise funds for a statue of the late Gene Talmadge, to be erected on the lawn of the state Capitol.

P: After a lobster fisherman found a 1748 Portuguese doubloon in the sand flats of New Jersey's Shrewsbury River, gold-hungry citizens swarmed over the spot by the hundreds, set to work with pails, rakes and shovels, found about 15 more coins before angry cottage-owners called the cops.

P: The Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened its 1948 tour with a 33-day stand in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The show's biggest hit: Unus of Vienna, "gravity -defying equilibristic wonder" who balances himself on his forefinger on a glass ball, then does a one-hand stand atop a cane while twirling hoops with his feet, his mouth and his free hand.

P: In California's northern redwood country, striking A.F.L. lumbermen and sawmill workers voted to go back to work for the first time since January 1946--thus ending the oldest strike in the U.S.

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