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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1948
Page
4
By Bill Schoentgen WNU staff writer the weekly news analysis notes an approaching Berlin crisis and the first peacetime draft amid a special session opening campaigns. The piece hints at political maneuvering and timing. editors caution about speculative production dates.
The Berlin blockade crisis prompts recall of Gen. Clay and Ambassador Murphy as talks continue. The United States vows not to yield but seeks peaceful solutions while reinforcing air power. Draft notices set August 30 as registration begins for 9.5 million men, with first draftees due by late September. The campaign calendar accelerates as third and fourth parties contest the race. States rights Democrats rally in Birmingham with Thurmond Wright ticket amid competing threats to Truman.
Quotes from Dorothy Kenyon and Judge Sherman Minton on women in skill unions and Communist influence. The remarks touch on brain capacity of women and union politics as a basis for congressional action.
Retiring mail chief Ira R. T. Smith notes crank letters to the President have risen from 10-12 daily in Taft's era to 40-50, a volume he says rarely reaches the President. He warns letters often waste time, as most do not reach him directly.
A little burrowing owl eats its own weight every 24 hours. An old barn owl with a brood of three or four must capture more rodents in a night than 3 dozen cats as its young feed on their own weight every 12 hours.
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