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Educ Bd com asks 153 new elementary schools by '54; links needs to housing projects; J Marshall comments
Pres Truman and Fed Security Agency to sponsor Soc Security Act amendment to grant Fed payments to states for gen relief; Repr Forand offers bill providing Fed grants for 50-75% of total state aid costs; agency seen urging elimination of residence requirements
s on Cardinal Mindszenty arrest
Connally and Vandenberg say pact would not morally or legally obligate US to fight if members were attacked, Sen; issue raised by Sen Donnell; Reston sees conflict with Adm stand
1949Ken Anderson, American football player[†]
Kenneth Allan Anderson is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 16 seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals. He later returned as a position coach.
1949Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.[†]
Gerald Lankester Harding CBE was a British archaeologist who was the director of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan from 1936 to 1956. His tenure spanned the period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered and brought to public awareness. Without his efforts many of the scrolls might have disappeared into private collections never to be seen again.