Youth Council Leads Richfield Springs Toward Future
Richfield Springs youths form a broad council from diverse jobs to address local issues. They run annual programs like I Am an American Day, support school and community groups, and study past changes to guide future development. They funded a Christmas charity and a successful community carnival, and boosted local industries such as dairying and fishing gear plants. They plan tourist improvements at Canadaraga Lake while preserving historical roots.
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Youth Council of
Richfield Springs
N. Y
Upstate New York
American Legion
New York State
Canadaraga Lake
Texas Politicians Slow in Own Towns
In Taylor Texas two Williamson county politicians Mr. A and Mr. B faced off in a local contest. Each claimed to have contacted 100 voters with 90 pledging support, one reporting from Mr. B's hometown and the other from Mr. A's.
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Texas
Taylor
Williamson County
Mr. A
Mr. B
Two Year Old Donna Jean Stuns Guests With Speech
In Cranston Rhode Island 2 year old Donna Jean Stabile chatters confidently greeting guests with a 400 word vocabulary well beyond typical expectations for her age. Psychologists say her rapid speech is unusual and she teases her father in checkers by declaring she wins a game she plays with her doll.
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Cranston
Thomas Stabile
Donna Jean
Donna Ean
Girds for Peace Reflects on AAF Growth and Power
The piece marks the 39th anniversary of the Army Air Forces and highlights its expansion from a three man division in 1907 to a wartime force of 2,383,000 personnel and 64,591 planes by March 1944. It notes jet-era shifts, wartime achievements, and the enduring goal of air power as peace power.
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Army Air Forces
RAF
America
Americas
Carl Spaatz
Europe
U. S
AAF
Army
Fort Omaha
Neb
Air Transport Command
Washington Digest Soviet Aid Seen as Great Mistake
The article discusses American policy debates on World War II era aid to the USSR, arguing Roosevelt and Churchill misread Moscow and that appeasement failed. It notes Eisenhower’s and Butcher’s views, highlights Russia’s firm no stance, and touches on OPA politics, barbers broadcasting atomic facts, and the requisites for presidential proclamations and the Great Seal.
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Churchill
Russia
Europe
Roosevelt
Stalin
Eisenhower
Boswell
Butcher
State Department
News of Fliers and Flying Airport Chatter
War Asset administration declares Arlington airport surplus and Chamber of Commerce moves to acquire it. A DuMac air service plane flipped near LaSalle Colorado but the pilot was unharmed. Dean Boyd builds a private farm runway in Illinois. Robert S. Jondahl to manage Glasgow Montana airport. Oregon studies aerial tree planting with seedings in Tillamook Burn and Polk County. Grandma flies plane at 80 on 62nd wedding anniversary. Lakeview Oregon airport opens to public after navy operation. Flying Farmers of Oklahoma formed in 1944 with 38 members.
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War Asset Administration
Arlington
Arlington Heights
Ill
Chamber of Commerce
DuMac Air Service
LaSalle
Colo
Dean Boyd
Willow Hill
Taylor Craft
Robert S. Jondahl
Glasgow, Mont
Oregon State Forestry Department
Great Tillamook Burn
Polk County
Anna Hartman
Glenshaw
Mrs. Hartman
Barbs by Bankhage on farm labor and rising food costs
The piece observes longer meals and increased produce as wages rise on farms. It notes hired hands with shorter hours and cows shifting milking times. A narrator laments rising food prices while humorously recalling a clerk adding strawberry cream to a chocolate soda and charging more.
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United States
Youth Council
N.Y
E.bi Kirke
Wisconsin
Catherine Mueller
Lake
Wis
Selden F. Waldo
U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce
Milwaukee
Waldo
Gainesville
Fila
Henry Kearns
Pasadena
Calif
Jaycee National
GIRDS
Wright Brothers
Kittyhawk
N. C
Germany
Poland
Washington
D. C
Philadelphia
Washington Digest
Baukhage
WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
England
Dunkirk
Balkans
Greece
Berlin
France
Low Countries
Italy
Security Council
Ghengis Khan
OPA
Congress
House of Representatives
Lillian C. Watford
Tri-State Atomic Information Committee
Barbers
White House
Senate
House
Hull
Cordell
George B. Stratemeyer
Air Defense Command
O.gu
Dick Powell
Lakeview
Ore
Navy
The
Flying Farmers of Oklahoma
Bankhage
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Chicago
Tere
Soretone
McKesson & Robbins
NaCay
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
WNU
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