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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1951
Page
3
The Ways and Means Committee backs a 2.95 billion dollar annual tax rise with a 3 percent bracket hike. A single earner at $2,000 would owe $322, up from $280, with brackets moving from 20 to 23 percent, 22 to 25 percent, and 26 to 29 percent. The proposal remains tentative, subject to further legislative changes.
Dr. Mary T. Martin Sloop, 77, of Crossmore NC, named American Mother of 1951 for her work with the underprivileged in the mountains. The piece also notes Rita Hayworth’s Reno divorce bid, and ongoing Korea War developments with General Marshall testifying and UN forces ready for a second Communist offensive. It critiques Paris talks and labels the 82nd Congress as a “talking congress” with few laws enacted.
The 1951 June Dairy Month campaign emphasizes milk and dairy products as essentials for a stronger nation. It highlights ice cream’s 100th anniversary impact, the economic role of dairies from farms to stores, and the health benefits of calcium, riboflavin, and vitamin A in dairy foods.
A dairy in West Stanwood Washington is using a new cow to can process that preserves whole milk in airless steam at 278 degrees for eight seconds. Milk shipped to Alaska Japan and the armed forces stays fresh without heavy refrigeration for six months to a year.
April weather and insect damage reduced official winter wheat prospects by 44 million bushels, atop a 173 million bushel cut from March. As of May 1 the crop was forecast at 682 million bushels, the smallest since 1943, compared with 750 million bushels last year.
The ice cream business grew from consumer demand for specialties like the ice cream soda, first popular in Philadelphia in 1874. The ice cream cone debuted at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and spurred hundreds of new parlors, while steam powered equipment by Horton in the 1870s enabled mass production.
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