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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 18, 1946

Page

4

Radio notes on Bikini test and varied network lineups

Coverage of the second Bikini atom bomb test will be slim with a single 15 minute pooled broadcast at 3 30 next Wednesday July 25. CBS starts You and the Atom nightly at 9 15 until Aug 16 while NBC airs The Fifth Horseman on Thursdays at 8 30 and A challenges listeners with How Do You Pronounce It at 6 30 pm Thursdays. The article lists multiple programs and guest performers across ABC CBS NBC and regional stations detailing schedules and special broadcasts.

Bikini CBS NBC Lawrence NBC Who

Evening Radio Schedule July 18 1946

Radio listings show hourly programming across stations WMT WGN EXEL and Ia. centennial segments at 6 45 p m followed by 7 p m news music and drama blocks featuring hosts Dick Ha lam Abner O Neills and O Neills war Hobby Lobby.

Meredith Willson WGN Dick Haymes WMT Music Hall Eccees Hobby Lobby Jack Haley Vaughn Monroe Peee Stuart Erwin Oevere Dick Ha W News Lam Abner

Radio Schedule from WGN and WMT Stations July 19 1946

Evening lineup lists WGN and WMT programs with music talks dramas news and serialized shows. Highlights include WGN Nighttime programs at 9 30 pm and 10 38 pm plus daytime features on WMT from breakfast to late afternoon continuations.

War Department bars covert phone recordings by officers

Washington AP report states the war department forbids recording telephone conversations without notifying the other party. The order, issued by Secretary Patterson, comes after testimony to the senate war investigating committee that devices were attached to many department telephones and that transcripts were made of calls by congressmen.

Washington War Department Patterson Senate War Investigating Committee

Mine Supervisor Agreement Boosts Wages in West PA Mines

Vice Admiral Moreell announced a historic wage and working condition pact covering 136 Jones and Laughlin steel mine supervisors at four western Pennsylvania bituminous mines. The deal with United Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Workers District 50 raises pay by 1.85 dollars per day plus overtime after 40 hours retroactive to May 22, 1946, and marks a test case in unionizing mine foremen under government seizure. Separate accords cover J and L clerical and technical workers and Industrial Collieries clerical staff.

Pennsylvania Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation Admiral Moreell United Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Workers District 50 United Mine Workers AFL John L. Lewis J. and L Industrial Collieries Corporationtion Johnstown Bethlehem Steel Corporation J. and L. and Industrial Collieries

Government UMW Pact Grants Hourly Mine Wage Rise 1814

The recent government United Mine Workers agreement covers miners with an hourly pay increase of 1814 units and additional awards. Details specify concessions to wage scales and bonus provisions for employment periods and productivity bonuses in the mining sector.

UMW

Lung offers for Hughes refused by surgeon

Los Angeles report says Howard Hughes, now out of critical condition, turned to business as Dr Verne Mason rejected offers of two donors to provide a lung. Glenn Odekirk of Hughes Aircraft and Noah Dietrich of Hughes Tool Co were briefed as others proposed including a war widow and ex air corps captain.

Los Angeles INS Howard Hughes Glenn Odekirk Hughes Aircraft Noah Dietrich Hughes Tool Company Hughes’ Fortune Eugene Texas Verne Mason Air Corps Hughes Sharon Miller John Burke Byron Kemmerly Mason

Spies Inside Oak Ridge Plant Warned by Rankin

Rep. John Rankin accused there are spies inside the Oak Ridge Tennessee atomic facility and said investigators are pursuing them. He urged killing the civilian control bill to keep the bomb under military control amid a partisan debate.

Washington John E. Rankin D-Miss House Oak Ridge, Tenn., Atomic Plant House Committee On un-American Affairs Rankin J. Parnell Thomas Rn.j Andrei Gromyko United Nations Security Council Russia Clare Boothe Luce R-Conn

August Support Prices For Iowa Potatoes Fixed

A. J. Loveland of the Iowa Production and Marketing administration said August support prices for Iowa potatoes are 2.00 per cwt for U S No 1 packed for shipment and 1.55 per cwt for U S No 1 at the farm gate. The move, expected to prevent low marketings as potatoes matured early this year. About 15 counties in Iowa grow potatoes commercially, and the program aims to protect growers against weak prices due to heavy sales.

DES Moines A. J. Loveland Iowa Production and Marketing Administration Committee Iowa U. S. Department of Agriculture U. S Loveland

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