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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1946
Page
3
A call to restore free enterprise in America argues that war pushed central planning, government management, and control. It warns of dark economic effects from taxes and laws, urges three measures: lower taxes on profits and dividends, balance the federal budget, and improve industrial relations to raise wages and national wealth.
A Q and A style summary covers loan guarantees for veterans building multi family homes up to a total of four units per veteran group. It states hospital bed totals 94 817 now across 106 VA hospitals and projects 161 832 with expansion. It lists amendments to national service life insurance offering three new policy types and flexible beneficiary settlements. It explains that weekly adjustment allowances are depleted by each week a veteran receives payment.
Washington officials announce immediate government effort to assemble a 2.1 billion dollar war reserve stockpile of critical materials. The plan includes asbestos chromite Manila sisal fibers jewel lead pepper rubber tin zinc with purchases to be phased over five years to limit domestic disruption.
A Berlin Red Cross spokesman says German mothers from the Russian-occupied Brandenburg districts report thousands of children disappeared in recent months. They allege the children were moved to Russian camps for indoctrination and that local Russian authorities dismissed their appeals. Named missing numbers include 202 in Luebben and 134 in Kalau, with further reports from Spreewald, Spremberg, Cottens, Beeskow, and Luckau.
A coroner's jury ruled that Dorothy Szabo and Andrew Seaman died when three army planes flew at needless low altitude and two collided, causing one to strike barns at the North Montana State fairgrounds and ignite a fire. Witness R B Covington recalled narrowly escaping as his horse spooked and the crash occurred nearby.
Covington said the crash was fortunate and could have occurred two or three minutes later, which would have forced jockeys and horse handlers to return to the barn after the recently run race.
The August crop report from the agriculture department projects a record U.S. crop year with 1942 as a milestone and 27 percent above the 1923-32 average. Corn and wheat lead gains with near record oats and barley, while tobacco peaches plums roses other truck crops also rise.
A Lincoln remark asserts that the country and its institutions belong to its inhabitants, underscoring the foundational principle of popular sovereignty and citizen ownership.
The War Assets Administration reports a wholesale shakeup of its electronics division with drastic changes including the dismissal of 52 paid consultants. Director Robert M Littlejohn ordered the reorganization amid resignations by Robert S McCurdy and the ouster of scores of Washington and field employees. Senators Wiley and Wherry criticized the division for failing to move surplus radio equipment to veterans and small business and for monopolistic sale methods.
The Montana department of agriculture forecast a 1946 wool crop of 22,234,000 pounds, down 1,724,000 pounds from 1945 due to fewer sheep being shorn, according to the department's report.
Frank Max invited friends and neighbors to pick his unpicked peaches but that night the trees were stripped by unknown persons. He laments loss of human nature as the fruit vanished from his trees in West Plains Missouri on August 16.
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