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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1946
Page
2
Western Newspaper Unicon reports that U.S. lawmakers expect early action in Congress to regulate unions. The Case bill is cited as a likely measure to hold unions financially accountable and reform exclusive, restrictively funded outfits. Hollywood bombings over jurisdictional disputes are cited as example cases driving reform.
The piece argues Congress and Republican leaders may push swift reforms to prevent strikes in essential services like light, heat, food distribution, and transport. It warns against overreaching leadership in Congress and notes labor tensions, CIO wage demands, and political strain from unions and allied advisers amid an uncertain economy.
The piece questions why the Pacific Coast conference ceded Rose Bowl control to the Big Nine, noting a shift from West Coast leadership to a revenue driven, commercially complex arrangement. It argues Army should have been the sole selection and outlines future implications for Sugar Cotton and Orange Bowls.
The season delivered many memorable moments from Assault’s Kentucky Derby stretch run and the Louis–Mauriello exchange to the Zale Graziano midweight bout and the dramatic final World Series game. Upsets in the Penn Cornell and Army Navy games also stood out as underdogs surged back to shine.
A Red Cross survey records a string of home accidents in Washington. An oyster exploded while cooking in deep fat burning a housewife, another man injured by a pipe in his mouth, a hatpin removed from a child’s lung, a swallowed pencil clip, a baby’s skull fracture from a carriage collapse, a hammer strike on a man’s head, and a woman burned pouring melted fat into a furnace. The survey notes rising accident and death figures over 1945.
Harvard college observatory marks its 100th anniversary with a four day December event in Boston. Two science conventions are planned as the world’s first planetarium to photograph stellar activity is highlighted. Since 1880 the observatory has photographed vast sky sections nightly, amassing over 500000 plates to study past stellar activity.
In Viroqua Wisconsin the oldest resident Mrs Lucy Grubb near age 110 advised firefighters to pause a blaze by sprinkling a little salt on the fire The younger fire team preferred chemical extinguishers revealing a clash between generations during the home fire incident.
Baltimore based posthumous Johns Hopkins bulletin reports Dr. Walter E. Dandy believed a brain center for consciousness exists in the corpus striatum near the midbrain, supported by operations over 15 years. He died last April.
In Sneedville Tennessee Phyllis Lawson two was injured fatally when a rooster attacked her at her grandparents home Mrs H W Lawson witnessed the incident and said the child wandered into the yard the rooster jumped and gored her in the head causing fatal internal bleeding per Dr Samuel Johnson report
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