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October 15, 1947

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Park Ave. Residents, Businesses Oppose Plans for City Jubilee Site; PARK AVE. OPPOSES JUBILEE SITE PLAN

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Park Avenue does not want the proposed Greater New York Golden Jubilee. The Park Avenue Association got a flood of protest calls yesterday from Park Avenue hotel men, residents and from street-level shops.

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FOOD DRIVE GAINING, LUCKMAN ASSERTS; Greater Support of Meatless Tuesday Cited -- Large Cut in Beer Output Urged Food Drive Is Declared Gaining; Luckman Asks Cut in Beer Output

By Harold B. Hintonspecial To the New York Times

Internal Revenue Bur repts wheat and other grains consumption, July-Aug; Luckman sees laid-off workers employed elsewhere in liquor indus

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Broadcast Tells of Battling Elements in Plane Rescues; BROADCAST TELLS OF HEROIC RESCUES

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2 crew members hurt

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Notable Births

1947Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress^[†]

Fatma Hümeyra Akbay is a Turkish actress, singer, composer, and lyricist. In the 1970s she was a noted singer and actress. Her popularity with the new generation rose in the 2000s with the hit sitcom Avrupa Yakası, Yalan Dünya by Gülse Birsel. She played in popular youth series "Melekler Korusun" and "Şahsiyet" which won International Emmy Awards. She played in Çağan Irmak's many films like Babam ve Oğlum, Unutursam Fısılda.

1947Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer^[†]

Jaroslav Erno Šedivý is a Czech rock drummer. He was member of The Primitives Group, thereafter Flamengo and also Energit. In 1973 he emigrated to the United States, where he worked with a most groups including Jello Biafra's backing band and Invisible Pedestrian. Between 1974-1979 he lived in various towns in California and between 1979-1980 in New York. In 1990s he was member of Life After Life with another Czech emigrant Jim Čert. From 2009 he was member of 2zzex.