UNRRA consultant recalls China service and meals abroad
Miss Anne B Zaloha, a Chicago welfare worker with UNRRA in China for 14 months, describes relief work from Kiangsi to Kiu Kiang and a Chinese restaurant meal where raw meat is cooked in soup. She notes donors and local ties, including Vesta Angell and Beulah Sammons, and shares letters to five sisters and a brother.
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Anne B. Zaloha
Albert
West Calendar Avehue
China
Zaloha
UNRRA
Chinese National Rehabilitation and Relief ‘Association
Chicago
Vesta Angell
Beulah Sammons
la Grange
Northwestern University
University of Nebraska
Kiukiang
Ching
Suburbs Aim for Safest City Water in Nation
Chicago and suburban water during March is described as probably the safest in the country by Oscar E. Hewitt, commissioner of public works. The city seeks unqualified approval from the U S Public Health Service, citing a new automatic testing device that records residual chlorine every minute and allows rapid adjustment of dosage.
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Water Department
U. S. Public Health Service
Hewitt
Department
The
Health Service
W. W. DeBerard
U._S. Public Health Service
Legion Meeting Here Elects Erhardt to Lead Reburial Effort
A Fifth District American Legion meeting at LaGrange Pest No. 41 appointed Elmer Erhardt of Austin Pest No. 52 as commander to organize repatriation services for war dead. Marshall Blake of the Chicago Quartermaster depot praised the Legion’s role in assisting the War Department, noting plans with 46 posts and graves registration chiefs for a program to return about 18,000 remains monthly starting Oct 4, with initial delays.
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Fifth District Council
American Legion
LaGrange Pest No. 41
Elmer Erhardt
Austin ‘Pest No. 52
Glenn A. Gilliland
Chitago
Erhardt
Marshall Blake
Chcago
U.S. Army
Blake
Crosby Impressed By New Industries Progress in South
The Rev. T. L. Crosby notes in his LaGrange Congregationalist column that the Deep South is changing with larger and better farms, more beef and dairy cattle, growing oil wells, rising manufacturing income, and increased funding for schools and churches. He traveled Mississippi and observed plantation welfare, tenant uplift, and renewed American culture as the region advances economically and educationally.
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T. L. Crosby
South
Mississippi Delta
Mississippi
Deep South
America
How to Obtain Listings Says Thorsen at Real Estate Board Meeting
Joe A Thorsen a LaGrange realtor discusses acquiring property listings in a Chicago Real Estate board talk reprinted in National Real Estate and Guiding Journal April issue. He urges choosing a desirable area, reviewing sales records, contacting former clients for referrals, and creating complete property briefs with upgrades and living advantages. The article highlights forms used by his office and lists boards and members by state.
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Joe A. Thorsen
LaGrange Realtor
Chicago Real Estate Board
Naticonal Real Sestate
Guiding Journal
LaGrange Redlior
Thorsen
the LaGranger
Real Estate Journal
la Grange Board
Illinois
Private flying activity before the war by sector
A Twentieth Century Fund report shows average private aircraft traveled 15 600 miles annually before the war. Instructional flying accounted for 43 percent of miles, pleasure flying 33 percent, and commercial and business flights 24 percent.
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Twentieth Century Fund
Catholic Schools in Chicago Diocese to Require Accident Prevention Courses
Red Cross instructors will teach compulsory accident prevention in all 403 parochial elementary schools in the Chicago diocese. High schools may add the program to curricula. about 800 Red Cross instructors will train starting next month. Safety coordinators and councils will survey classrooms and playgrounds to cut hazards amid a noted low accident rate. Members include Sister Mary Carmelyn and Father Stanley Stoga, with other Red Cross school committee members from religious orders.
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Red Cross Acc’dent
Chicago
Msgr
D. F. Gunningham
Chicago Archdiocesan School Board
Red Cross
Sisiter Mary Carmelyn
B.V.M
Mundelein College
American Red Cross Accident Prevention Committee
Mary Carmelyn
Truman
National Highway Safety and
Red Cross Accident Prevention Committee
Stanley C. Stoga
Mary Archangela
0.S.S
Sancaslaus
Dolores
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