Water Works Considers $1 725 000 Improvement Plan
Water trustees study bonds to fund a two stage upgrade at Narrows and Dodge Park. Burns & McDonnell propose Plan A-2 abolishing the 10 percent prompt payment discount to help retire bonds and finance a complete modern purification and pumping system with phased construction beginning immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Counc Blutts
Burns & McDonnell Mop
Inenie Company
Kansas City
Narrows
Missouri River
Illinois Central Railroad
Burns & McDonnell
Dodge Park
Broadway Station
Cvew Chemical
Iowa Farmers Insure 1948 Corn Crop Across Counties
About 4,100 farmers in eight Iowa counties have insured their 1948 corn crops with the federal crop insurance program. Marion county was dropped for poor participation. Osceola Madison Story Floyd Scott Washington and Pottawattamie counties were added along with Buena Vista. premiums vary by county from 40 cents to 1 per acre, with protection from 18 to 30 per acre depending on the county.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Maurice O'Reilly
Buena Vista
Marion
Marion County
Osceola
Madison
Story
Floyd
Scott
Washington
Neat Pottawattamie
O'Reilly
Bueng Vista County
Pottawattamie County
Floyd County
Buena Vista County
Barker Named to County School Job
Ernest W. Barker, 37, director of elementary education in Council Bluffs schools, was elected Pottawattamie county superintendent of schools. He will succeed Mrs. Laury Leonard, resigned Aug. 2, on a $5,000 yearly three year contract. Barker came from Moberly Missouri with a Missouri education master’s degree, previously Jefferson City principal, and now married with one child. The board raised Leonard’s salary to $416 monthly until Aug. 1 and Eyres’ salary to $2,500 yearly until retirement Aug. 1.
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Ernest W. Barker
Council Bruffs
Pottawattamie County
Laury Leonsard
Barker
Council Bluffy
Moberly
University of Missouri
Jefferson City
County Board of Education
Leonard
Ethel Eyres
Shere
Plea to Toss Pension Block Admitted by Van Horn
In Washington on Wednesday Ezra Van Horn trustee of the miners welfare and retirement fund asked a federal court to dismiss a pension payments injunction tied to a July work contract. Lewis Bridges and other trustees oppose the move arguing the court lacks jurisdiction under Taft Hartley.
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Washington
Lewis
Ezra van Horn
Styles Bridges
van Horn
Bridges
Une
United Mine Workers of America
Taft Gaining in Late Count of Ohio Vote
In Ohio Taft nears victory in the GOP presidential nominating contest, with 11 delegates secured and Stassen trailing. Final results may push Taft past Stassen, affecting the split of 53 delegates including automatic at large and district selections. Lausche wins the Democratic gubernatorial nod as Truman gains support for the national nomination.
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Jack Ball
Columbus
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Harold E. Stassen
Taft
Stassen
Ohioan
Jedi
Washington
Philadelphi
Orga
Ning
Carrington
Marshall
Bob Stassen
Ed “D. Schnor
Springfield
Congress
Clarence Brown
Margaret E
Bakershod
Forrest Anders
Lausche
Nebraska
Staasen
Frank J. Lausche
Truman
Meat Strike Talks Fail to Produce Progress
Washington government mediation attempts to end a five day meat workers strike broke off Wednesday with no visible progress. The federal mediation and conciliation service terminated a series of sessions with the Big Four packing companies and CIO packing house workers. There appeared to be no immediate settlement prospects.
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Washington
Federal Mediation and Concilation ‘Service
Marshall Pleads For Single World Peace
Secretary of State Marshall urged that the Soviet Union be persuaded it can live side by side with Western powers in peace within the United Nations. He warned against drastic UN changes without Russian consent, saying such action could destroy the organization and spark rival alliances. He testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee while it weighs reorganization options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washingon
Marshall
Soviet Union
United Nations
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
Russia
Yeto
Warren’ Austin
U. 8
Peace League
Mansfield
Latin America
Bogota
House Committee
Anderson Predicts Farm Price Decline In Next Few Years
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson told a University of Pennsylvania audience that farm prices will decline about one third in the next few years even under favorable conditions, with a worst case repeat of 1920 21 possible if conditions fail. He urged world economic recovery domestic farm programs and a strong domestic industry to keep food demand high and avert depression.
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Anderson
Philadelphia
Con Jong
University of Pennsylvania
Nation Faces Two Major Strike Threats
The nation confronts two rail and automobile strike threats with a third looming in New York City transit. Mediation sought to avert a Tuesday rail walkout affecting about 190,000 rail workers. Chrysler plans for a strike after a walkout the day before. In Michigan extensive law questions complicate a possible vote, while the CIO Transport Workers Union threatens a Friday strike at 2 a.m. affecting about 3.5 million riders and demanding a 24 cent hourly raise for 000 workers.
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Associated Pros
Metropolitee Transportation
New Yorsity
Chrysler. Corporation
Michigan
Emil Mazey
Pete Uaw
Chrysler
New York
CIO’ Transport Workers
Thes Union
Admits $400 Theft at Harlan Grocery
Russell Schiltz, 22, of Harlan, is jailed in Shelby County on a larceny charge after admitting breaking into the Stowe grocery in Harlan early Sunday and taking $400 in cash and checks. He also confessed to stealing a carton of cigars from a Roberts Transfer truck on April 11. Bond is set at $1,000.
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Harlan
Russell Schiltz
Shelby County
Orre
Gearhart
Schiltz
Stowe
Roberts
Seek Agreement on Defense Bill in Congress
Washington reporters describe a conference plan between Senate and House Republican leaders to reach consensus on defense legislation. Key disputes include a new draft and universal military training, with Senate proposing 161000 youths for one year and 1926-age group service, while the House rejects 18-year-old training and considers volunteer bonuses to avoid a draft.
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Washington
Senate
House Republian
Taft
Ohio
GOB
Martin
Senate Armed Services Committee
House
House’ Committee
Leo Allen
RHL
Allen
House Tales Committee
Delays Deportation of Gerhard Eisler and Four Others
Federal Judge Alan Goldsborough approved delay hearings for Gerhard Eisler and four others facing possible deportation over alleged communist affiliations. The order requires hearings by examiners unaffiliated with the immigration service, with prosecution continuing under independent branches.
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Washington
Alan" Goldsborough
Gerhard Eisler
United ‘States
Galdsborough
Immigration Service
Weather Report From The Weather Bureau
The forecast notes a warmer trend for Nebraska and surrounding areas. In the vicinity of Fair Thursday, little change is expected with gradual warming continuing into the day.
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Weather Bureau
Nebraskeee Ir
Petition Drive Enters City Street Resurfacing Campaign
The city moves to resurface dirt streets under a get out of the mud program. Residents in the 200 block on Jordan Street contributed 105.98 dollars toward a gravel oil dirt mix, with the city paying half the material up to 8500 dollars in total. Labor and equipment are provided by the city, and a Fourth Ward meeting is set to explain the program. Alderman Madigan and the Southside Improvement Club urge dirt street residents to join, with petitions to be presented to the council Monday.
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Kennard W. Gardiner
Peple
Jordan Street
Theity
Kline W. Taylor
George
Sparks
Fourth Ward
Kenneth A. Madigan
Southside Improvement Club
Improvement Club
Bethany Presbyterian Church
Nineteenth Avahue
Seventh Street
Madigan
Willis Shrader
Muddy Fifth
Truman nominates Maj Gen Muir Stephen Fair as vice chief
Washington Wednesday President Truman named Maj Gen Muir Stephen Fair to be vice chief of staff of the U S Air Force with the rank of four star general.
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Washington
Truman
Muir
Stephen Fair
Child
U. S. Air Force
Belgian coalition cabinet resigns after subsidy dispute
Premier Paul Henri Spaak announced the resignation of Belgium's coalition government on Wednesday night. The cabinet, in office since March 1947, collapsed over disagreements on school subsidies. Spaak said the prince regent would begin consultations with political leaders to form a new government.
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Brussels
Paul- Henri Spaak
Sprak
Ween
Bill Drafted For Barge Line Sale
A bill authorizing sale of the Inland Waterways corporation will reach House consideration within two weeks. The Interstate Commerce Committee approved the measure, giving the secretary of commerce wide latitude to dispose of the barge lines, either as a whole or in two units, while preserving going‑concern value and essential Mississippi river system services. The amendment requires continued common carrier service, a minimum trips per year for small business, and continued pioneer barge transport to Kansas City, Omaha, and Sioux City.
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Bruce Brissat
Washington
Inland Waterways Corporation
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Secretary of Commerce
Warrior River
Mississippi
Missouri
Mississippi Waterways
Inland Waterways Arpoatba
Kansas City
Omaha
Neb
President to Tour Pacific Northwest
Senator Magnuson said President Truman will tour the Pacific Northwest during a Berkeley speech at the University of California in June. The trip will include Spokane Seattle and Olympia with Gov Wallgren hosting at Olympia and a stop to view the Hanford atomic energy project in the Pasco Hanford area.
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Washington
Magnuson
Sarona Chosen as Capital of Proposed Hebrew State
James M. Long reports Sarona, near Tel Aviv, to be the provisional capital of a new Hebrew state to proclaim independence in ten days. The government will meet in former Adolf Hitler portraits halls with a 50,000 strong army ready to defend sovereignty.
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Sarona
James M. Long
Palestine
Adolf Hitter
David’ Beni
Hes
United Nations
Lake
Jt É
Tel Aviv
Kjaffe
Hitler
World ‘Zionist Organizations
Truman Aims to Avert Rail Strike
Washington reports President Truman still hopes to settle the wage dispute and avert a threatened railroad walkout. White House spokesman Charles G. Ross said mediation continues as Frank Douglas of the National Mediation Board meets with Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman amid talk of possible government seizure if needed. The 100,000 union members threaten to strike, risking crippling rail service for a nation of 1.25 million workers.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Frank Douglas
National (Railway) Medigation Board
John R. Steelman
Iun
David B. Robertson
The
Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen
Robertson
Frank P. Douglass
National Mediation Board
Chicago
Douglass
Francis A. Silver
Office of Detense Transportation
Silver
Justice Department
Biliver
Brotherhoods
Hremen
Presidential Emergency Board
Mediation Board
Congress
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