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Judge signs 2 orders for city to defend auto tax, refuses to stay city from imposing tax; 5 commercial carriers and individual auto owner filing suits listed; Mayor, Controller Joseph and NYS reprs conf on effort to solve city's problems
PSC grants NY Central 25% rise in basic commuter fares; schedule; Harlem div old and new fares compared, table; case revd
Lt Gen Doolittle holds field safe; infers immediate reopening; Admr Horne concurs
Burbank studio sec destroyed by fire
Peiping radio warns UN on retaliating against Dodd captors; new machine gun emplacements and barbed wire fencing being built; UN troops illus guarding Compound 62; Boatner illus in guard tower
1952Howard Hampton, Canadian lawyer and politician[†]
Howard George Hampton is a politician who was a member of Provincial Parliament for the province of Ontario. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, from 1987 to 1999 in the electoral district of Rainy River, and from 1999 to 2011 in the redistributed electoral district of Kenora—Rainy River. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, he was also the party's leader from 1996 to 2009. Hampton retired from the legislature at the 2011 Ontario provincial election and subsequently joined Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP as a member of the law firm's corporate social responsibility and aboriginal affairs groups.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]