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...Legion spilled over into territory marked for Jewish control by the U.N. partition plan, Britain apparently was not going to try to check him. On British insistence, the Security Council voted for another sanctionless truce order, with a 36-hour time limit. While U.N. debated, U.S. Consul General Thomas Wasson, member of the U.N. Truce Commission appointed last month, was killed in Jerusalem by a sniper's bullet...
...Valentina Pavlovna Wasson of New York City has two adopted children. Like most foster parents, she fretted about telling her children that they were adopted. She finally solved her problem by doing a picture book for them about a Man and His Wife who were "happily married for many years. Their one trouble was that they had no babies of their own." The care they take in selecting a baby and the care the orphanage takes in checking on the foster parents-even peeking under their beds for dust (see cut)-are all described so as to reassure the children...
...Warm air for sinuses is what Dr. William Walter Wasson of Denver advises if the sinuses are chronically diseased. He has patients sleep in rooms "well ventilated with warm air of the proper humidity...
Last April Commissioner Wasson ordered Arkansas banks to keep only enough cash on hand to make change, to require customers needing larger sums to give advance notice so cash can be brought from reserve banks. Furthermore he ordered each bank to keep 85% of its cash in its vaults under time lock; when the vault was open to keep the bank's doors locked or have two armed guards stationed at the doors until the time lock was reset. Object: to bring down the high cost of holdup insurance...
...unmasked bandits entered Booneville's Citizens Bank one evening at 6:30 and made their exit with $2,000 in cash. In firing Cashier Williams, Bank Commissioner Wasson explained: "Bank robberies in Arkansas are going to stop. . . . We are determined that the profit shall be taken out of robbing banks...