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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1949
Page
4
A late 1940s style local column mixes subscription rates for The Anniston Star with a collage of global and national topics. It touches dairy imports in Alabama, upcoming major league camps, Chinese resistance to Japan, Southern Railway ads, legislative finances, and political debates. It also references heat pump tests in TVA territory, weather disruptions in Decatur, and wartime era intrigue around Capone era investigations.
WESTBROOK argues Editor Field defends TVA funding for a 54000000 steam plant and criticizes critics as alarmist. The piece contrasts Field's view with Dewey and Truman and questions flood control, malaria, fertilizer use, and TVA economics while forecasting television's impact on Hollywood and radio.
Advice column urges readers to recognize wrong paths and halt progress to regain perspective. It stresses retracing steps when needed and avoiding stubborn persistence that leads to dead ends, urging better habits at home work and in relationships.
President Truman asks Congress to raise taxes by about four billion dollars on corporations and high incomes and to boost social security and add a health insurance tax. Estimated first year receipts total around six billion, funds go to trust accounts, with debates over timing and scope. Also noted are war debt concerns and a rapid rise in modern farmhouses since 1940.
President Truman leans on former Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson to back the farm program as he sits low on the agriculture committee's seniority list. Anderson, a New Mexico senator, is expected to counterbalance Southern power and push for farm cooperatives while relying on a small, shared staff.
Mackenzies column outlines how Britain and Israel clash over control of the Negev in Southern Palestine. He notes strategic value to Suez, oil routes, and airfields, with Moscow backed by Czechoslovakia amid arms embargo tensions.
New York Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, part of Memorial Hospital, releases its first report outlining three new research paths. It details soil modification, chemical kills, and radioactive isotope approaches to attack cancer, plus early notes on hormone links and leukemia responses.
The Southeastern Area Advisory Council of the American Red Cross convenes in Birmingham with E. Roland Harriman as guest speaker. The meeting reviews policy matters as leaders from 11 Southeastern cities attend, and the drive planning begins in early March. Attending national board members include Mrs. Floyd McRae of Atlanta Bonnie Huff of Charleston S C and S R Finley of Chattanooga.
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