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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1946
Page
6
A reader cites Kathleen Norris on attitude and self direction, urging women to replace negative thinking with clear desires. A Chicago couple shares how focusing on what they want transformed debt, housing, and family life, turning negatives into a practical, hopeful future.
A Miss Norris guidance piece cites two letters showing attitude shifts can prevent misery. One renter laments endless bills and faults in home life. The other, toward divorce, follows Miss Norris advice, clears debts, and buys a country cottage, finding purpose in gardening and maintenance.
Speakers from 200 institutions urge American colleges to provide facilities for women as veterans return, warning that many thousands of high school girls will be unable to gain admission if policy remains unchanged.
Virginia Vale reports on Tex and Fal Frank McCrary and Falkenberg hosting a husband and wife radio show on WEAF New York. Their plane broadcast over New Jersey and Connecticut draws praise for wall to wall moments and war service credibility. NBC may widen the reach if possible. Fred Allen and Tallulah Bankhead插 May 5 broadcast left fans yearning for more.
CBS quipmaster Bob Hawk pinch-hit for Arthur Godfrey on morning broadcasts and substituted in the Broadway revue Three to Make Ready marking his New York stage debut.
George Raft will receive guidance from Barry Kenitsky, Broadway's famed detective, to portray an authentic sleuth in RKO's Nocturne. Producer Joan Harrison demands realism, preferring Raft resemble a real detective rather than a fictional screen type. Kenitsky, who worked on gangster cases for two decades, will advise on method and demeanor.
The National Barn Dance in McLeansboro joins the American Legion in a national homecoming for National Commander John Stelle on Saturday June 8. The celebration will conclude with an old fashioned barbecue at midnight.
Bob Burns declined leading the Hoboes Association of America but retains a life membership after meeting two major requirements. He has hoboed in every state and logged a total of 100000 miles.
Barbara Jo Allen, creator of the man-chasin and source of Vera on CBS This Is My Best, appears in Earl Carroll's Sketchbook now in production. She plays a witty designer who jokes about romance but has no designs on any man.
Parks Johnson and Warren Hull come back from vacation to host Vox Pop at a new time replacing CBS Inner Sanctum. Parks rests on his Texas ranch while Hull experiments with television shows.
Fragmentary text notes a smallpox scare affecting Alan Hale and his vaccination injuring his left arm, temporarily taking him from the Cheyenne cast, with stray lines mentioning Tex Beneke, Glenn Miller, Meadowbrook, and Dick Nelson.
Lois Bernhardt recalls wartime service as secretary to James Byrnes at the Potsdam Big Three, typing the Japanese surrender terms and aiding in UN Charter work in San Francisco. A Schaller, Iowa native, she later left the state department to marry Robert Bernhardt and now works in Iowa State purchasing while her husband studies dairy science.
Terrell county Georgia buys 259 acres near Dawson for an airport. Aberdeen Flying Service Idaho sends an aerial photo to a local paper. Starr Nelson 80 from Delta Colorado plans a flight to Grand Junction to see his girl when weather allows. Various pilots from Kansas Idaho Montana and Iowa engage in flying activities and training in Decorah and nearby areas.
Ben Ash, a 95 year old pioneer Indian scout and peace officer, died recently at the State Soldiers' Home in Hot Springs. He served as wagon master for General Custer and as an Indian scout during the Messiah war from 1889 to 1890 in western South Dakota, later becoming deputy U.S. marshal at Pierre and Hughes County sheriff. He operated a cattle ranch on the Moreau River in Perkins County and was credited with building the first Renee Of, he: Bite: at dalemnarek.
MINNEAPOLIS. It costs 44 percent more to build a home today than in 1940, or a house that could be built for 5000 in 1940 costs 7200 today and will cost more in six months. Northwestern National Life Insurance Co says a survey shows four of five veterans want homes costing 6000 or less. After World War I both materials and labor costs rose rapidly.
A quiz item lists six questions covering bull fighting origins, Thomas Jonathan Jackson as Stonewall Jackson, 1860 US steel output time, yarn needed for nylon stockings, caffeine content equality among coffee beans, and which president first mounted the Washington Monument.
The excerpt lists facts: a Moorish introduction, Stonewall Jackson, a quarter past an hour, about a mile and a quarter, a seasonwide variation up to 3000 percent, and President Truman surveying a bridge across the Potomac from above to gauge its appearance.
A historical quiz notes WWII helicopter service on Atlantic anti submarine patrols and Burma rescue work. It cites 1945 airport totals at 3 255 with plans to double under a National Airport Plan. The plan calls for 3 new airports and improvements to 1 625 fields to achieve even regional distribution.
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