Life Is Good Life in Small Towns Good Editors Say
Wisconsin editors at the Wisconsin Press association meeting report life in small towns is bright. Towns face housing, schools and tax worries mainly tied to Camp McCoy and regional growth, while lakes and new projects spur property values and summer activity.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Press Association
Max F. Ninman
Reedsburg Times-Press
Ellsworth S. Coe
Whitewater Register
County Park Board
State Conservation Commission
Whitewater
State Health Department
Francis F. Schweinler
Mosinee
Dairy Town Welcomes Mrs. MacArthur in Murfreesboro Parade
Murfreesboro Tennessee drew about 50000 residents to greet Gen Douglas MacArthur and family. The town famed as Mrs MacArthurs home hosted the visit linking Civil War battle histories to a modern parade. The MacArthur plane landed at Stewart Air Force Base and traveled via Stones River National Military Park.
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Murfreesboro
Tenn
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Arthur
Tennessee
Stewart Air Force Base
Stones River National Military Park
Richard E. Beard
Arthur MacArthur
Stone’s River
Sherman
Floods Hit Small Towns Along Mississippi River
Floodwaters from the Mississippi devastated towns near Muscatine Iowa and across the river in Illinois. The flood forced mass evacuations of up to 2 000 families in South Muscatine as water surged over levees and farmland, with engineers dynamiting a levee to create an escape point. Damage assessments were not yet available.
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Muscatine
Iowa
Minois
Mississippi
South Muscatine
Inllinois
Upper Mississippi
Vocational Agriculture Classes Pay Students Big Earnings
In Princeton Missouri 62 students in a vocational agriculture class earned an average of 778.21 dollars from 1950 projects, totaling 49 thousand 027 dollars and 11 cents. They completed 183 projects and 279 improvement projects plus 291 farm practices, with income from livestock crops and labor valued at 30 cents per hour.
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Princeton
Clyde L. Taff
Taff
Old Doc Praised For Service To Union Grove
In Union Grove Wisconsin about a quarter of the town attended a dinner in the high school auditorium to honor Dr R W McCracken known as Old Doc He is 79 and has served the town for 55 years The commercial club and Lions Club organized the event giving a certificate of appreciation and a dinner ticket paid for an easy chair The doctor plans to keep working and has no retirement in mind
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Union Grove
Wis
R. W. McCracken
Doc’ McCracken
McCracken
Doc McCracken
Union Grove Commercial Club
Lions Club
Middlebury High Students Rally for Crippled Classmate
In Middlebury Vermont five hundred residents danced at a Beverly Boise benefit held at the high school gym to raise funds for an artificial leg for Beverly Boise who lost her leg in a 1949 auto crash. The $700-plus raised will be placed in a separate bank account by Principal Ralph Eaton.
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Middlebury
Vermont
Beverly Boise
Middlebury High School
Beverly
Ralph Eaton
Transshipment of war materials linked to Communist states
The column notes ongoing shipments of strategic materials from the United States to Communist countries via European firms. It cites Rolfe G. Grote of New York and the Pacific Trading Corporation of Boston among transshipments to Soviet Russia, Communist China, Czechoslovakia, and Belgium. It also references Aluminum Corporation of Canada shipments to Czechoslovakia and Poland.
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U.S.A
Rolfe G. Grote
New York
Switzerland
Soviet Russia
Pacific Trading Corporation of
Boston
China
Harris Chemical Corporation of
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Aluminum Corporation of Canada
Aluminum Corporation of America
Poland
Children’s Day Gains Popularity and National Observance
The third annual Children’s Day will be celebrated nationwide on June 9 with civic groups and merchants promoting gifts and activities. Dorothea Warren Fox created a commemorative poster as stores prepare display materials, while the National Flag Week runs June 10–16 with community plans to honor Old Glory and national ideals.
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National Council
Dorothea Warren Fox
United States
Motion
Chester W. Nimitz
International Food Exposition Week announced in Illinois
Gov Adlai E Stevenson and Mayor Martin Kennelly designate June 9 through 15 as International Food Exposition Week. The event, sponsored by the National Association of Retail Grocers, will run at Navy Pier with two miles of exhibits and a huge national food market. It will run alongside the association’s 52nd annual convention.
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Illinois
Adlai E. Stevenson
Chicago
Martin Kennelly
National Association of Retail Grocers
United States
Navy Pier
Club Objective Is Child Welfare
The Expectant Fathers Club aims to promote infant care education for fathers, cooperate with public welfare agencies and Red Cross, provide courses to reduce infant mortality, and join efforts to curb juvenile delinquency while improving children’s recreational and educational facilities. Membership cards and paper pins are free. write Max Hess Jr in Allentown, Pa.
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Expectant Fathers Club
Boards of Health
Red Cross
Max Hess, Jr
Allentown
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Wilbur Mills
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Michigan
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