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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1949
Page
4
Weekly news analysis notes President Truman signs a bill extending U S aid to Europe by fifteen months and reports a new U S bond sale drive. The editors clarify opinions reflect the Eastern Newspaper Union analysts, not the paper.
The men who dug for little Kathy Fiscus, a 3-year-old who died in a California well, are being honored nationwide. The Kathy Fiscus rescue fund has received over 2,200 donations from nearly every state, with an initial $1,020 envelope and an average gift around $5.10. Contributions span 10 cents to $50, projected to total above $11,000 for the workers who labored 52 hours to reach the child 92 feet down the shaft.
President Truman signed a 5.58 billion dollar aid bill for the European recovery program with one billion available immediately. He offered seven pens to witnesses and kept one for Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, joking it might look forged. The action commits more than one eighth of the federal budget to foreign aid while the UN debates Mindszenty trials with Hungary and Bulgaria.
President Truman opened the Opportunity Bond Drive urging nationwide purchase of one billion forty million dollars in U S savings bonds to strengthen national security. He praised bond buyers from farmers to housewives and lauded 3 million volunteers plus 250000 newsboys to spread the drive to 12 million homes while noting recession and employment concerns. The piece also summarizes projected Old Age and Survivors Insurance costs and debates on extending coverage to the entire labor force, highlighting pros and cons of widening the program.
The council noted that 92 cities with populations over 10 000 reported no traffic deaths in 1948. Medford Massachusetts with about 167 477 residents was the largest city to achieve this record.
Senator Fear of Delaware says rural areas still face some of the nation s worst housing conditions. The remark came during a Senate committee hearing on the multi billion dollar housing bill. He notes scarce discussion of rural needs despite their pressing demand.
Agriculture officials in Washington urged quick approval of direct subsidies for pork and milk to offset expected oversupply. Brannan cited talks with President Truman as lawmakers weigh a program that would let prices find equilibrium via supply and demand, with the government paying the difference from support prices. Critics warn the plan would cost billions and shift tax burdens to farmers and taxpayers while not aiding them long term. Separately researchers report a promising cancer blood test from University of Chicago work, showing cancer patients differ in blood serum from healthy individuals and most non cancer diseases, potentially enabling earlier, cheaper detection.
Nature lovers in New Zealand rejoiced as a sturdy male kiwi chick hatched at the Hawke's Bay game farm. The chick, the sixth in the only known surviving family of the nocturnal flightless bird once believed extinct, spent 81 days incubating before breaking the shell.
A narrator recalls befriending a Newfoundland dog in Chicago then tracing to Newfoundland island. He describes Port au Bas, Cabot Strait, a lone railway across the island, forests, elk, and the island’s economy of cod, fish, pulp, and paper. He notes sparse settlements, Irish-descended fisher folk, and the island’s colonial history and future under Canadian rule.
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