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...melancholy end of a shipbuilding era last week. In Henry J. Kaiser's record-holding Richmond Shipbuilding Corp. Yard No. 2 in California, the S.S. Benjamin Warner (named after the father of Hollywood's Warner brothers) slid into San Francisco Bay. It was the 1,147th Liberty ship launched on the West Coast-and the last...
...147th year, the U.S. made good its annual treaty obligations to Indian tribes of the Six Nations. In Salamanca, N.Y., Indian Agent Charles H. Berry started distribution of $4,500 in cash and calico to 5,085 Senecas, Tuscaroras, Onondagas, Cayugas and Oneidas. (The Mohawks never signed the treaty, get nothing.) New York tribesmen always take their share in calico. This year they find themselves shortchanged. Thanks to inflation, they get only three yards of calico apiece, instead of the five yards each got last year...
More nostalgic than any memoir, however, is The Old Farmer's Almanac which last week made its 147th annual appearance. Published for the last two years by Little, Brown (is), it now lacks the crotchety personal stamp of Founder Robert Thomas, no longer carries temperance articles, nor illustrates them by pictures of a sinister mother mixing gin with milk to pacify the baby...
...reporters were talking about Fundamentalists-chief subject of conversation in Cincinnati last week as 1,000 commissioners (ministers and elders) gathered for the 147th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. But beyond stressing the obvious point that it would not do to call a Fundamentalist a scoundrel, such libel talk only exaggerated the simple fact that the "Bible-believing" minority of the Presbyterian Church was restless, irritable, unhappy. Well it might be, for it knew that the 147th General Assembly was ready to belabor it and vote it down at every turn...
...JERSEY: While the 147th Legislature in its closing hours was passing 27 bills over the veto of Governor Silzer, a storm tore off a section of the State House roof and blew in the plate glass windows of the Senate gallery. Governor Silzer's only comment on the last work of the legislators was: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow. If they stayed they could not do any more good, and if they leave they cannot do any more harm...