Consumer Reports Rates 1948 Cars and Appliances
Consumers Union ranks 38 car models including Studebaker Champion DeLuxe top in price group and Chevrolet Stylemaster as Best Buy. The report notes 17 postwar designs among them and highlights safety, durability and economy. Also covered are Sears Kenmore washers, installation needs, and cereals cost study with cheapest oatmeal options among brands.
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Consumers Union
Consumer Reports
Kenmore
Sears Kenmore
B.C
IGA
YWCA Camp Lenmary Opens June 12 Near New Trenton
The YWCA at Camp Lenmary near New Trenton Indiana will open its first camping period June 12 offering swimming tennis badminton croquet archery fishing hiking nature lore and arts. Registrations are available at the YWCA office Cherry 7090. Camp sessions run June 12-20 adults June 21-July 3 fourth to sixth graders July 5-17 seventh to ninth graders July 19-31 seventh to ninth graders August 2-14 tenth to twelfth graders and August 30-September 6 adults.
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Camp
Lenmary
Y.W.C.A
New Trenton
Ind
Cincinnati
Y.W. C.A
Whitewater
Scouts Portray Indiana Strike In Circus Parade
Indianapolis Scouts staged a two day circus with over 10 000 participants highlighting Hoosier economics and conservation. A mock strike scene featured a cheese cloth factory sign reading This Plant on Strike as juvenile scabs feinted entry and were beaten back by pickets.
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Indianapolis
Boy Scouts
Indiana
Wage Increases Reported At Fur & Leather Convention
Atlantic City May 17 delegates from the Ind Fur and Leather Workers Union CIO reported substantial third round wage gains in both the fur and leather industries. The executive board said 10c to 14c raises have been won in leather plants under union contract. Most members enjoy 2 week vacations eight paid holidays hospitalization retirement funds and health insurance.
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Atlantic City
Ind. Fur & Leather Workers Union
CIO
Steel Pier
Office Workers Push Unity Parley in CIO Fight
Philadelphia report details United Office & Professional Workers board proposing a national CIO unity conference May 14 16 to halt raiding and oppose the Mundt bill. The 40000 UOPWA members in insurance film and tech face critical bargaining in coming months as an Independent Political Committee raises funds for endorsed candidates and Henry Wallace third party effort.
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Philadelphia
CIO
Mundt
United Office & Professional Workers Executive Board
National Cio
UCPWA
UOPWA
Henry Wallace
UPA 98 Committee Heads To Be Elected In June
Nominations for Local 98 United Paperworkers committee chairs and stewards were set for a June vote. Candidates include Catherine McDonough and Sara Gunter for Social and Welfare, Al Fangmeyer and August Ellenbrecht for Safety and Health, with stewards named for Maintenance Loading Dock Ink Room Press Room Make-up and other departments.
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Local 98
United Paperworkers
Catherine McDonough
Sara Gunter
al Fangmeyer
August Ellenbrecht
Roger Petraffke
Ed Weilen
Ray Brinkmat
Harry Bachman
Fred Scheer
Ed Berger
Mildred Hoffman
Local 98 Mourns Loss as Longtime Staffs Pass Away
Ed Dut tinger Doc La Vonder Carl Haeth Norma Quinlan Sara Gunter Inez Morgan Marcella Hicks Harold Thompson are listed under Box Dept Glueing Machines with day and night shifts. Local 98 extends condolences to John Mahoney for 45 years of daily work. U S Printing mourns a veteran employee. Roy Cozart Bud Hoffman led the sick committee to a family home.
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Ed Duttinger
Doc la Vonder
Carl Haeth
Norma Quinlan
Sara Gunter
Inez
Morgan
Marcella Hicks
Harold Thompson
Local 98
John Mahoney
U.S. Printing
Roy Cozart
Bud Hoffman
Warratt to Wed This Saturday
Egret reports Warratt will marry this coming Saturday. The notice notes the upcoming wedding date and mentions the couple’s plans.
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Egret
Warratt
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North Bend Road
Suntan Toys
Federated Press Pattern Service
Ave. of the Americas
New York
N.Y
Fur & Leather Convention
Elizabeth Engel Upa-S
Ed Jung
Deare Ae
Gordon Leachman
Sam Steading
Roy
Bud
Schramm
Rugh, Inc
CLUB
Flamingo
Greater
York Street
Newport, KY
Robbe
Mabley’s Men's Shoes
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