Congress debates selective service and draft power
AP report outlines Congress concern over the Selective Service system with 2,790 local boards, the draft machinery, and bids to modify the law. Vinson shifts stance, proposing a emergency only draft policy, while current law faces delay as Congress weighs the fate of conscription. The piece recalls 1948 49 draft history and postwar manpower levels and enlistees.
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Dames Marlow
Itwre
Congress
Truman
Vinson
Georgia
House Armed Services Committee
Senate
House
Iene
Armed Frees
Jane Vpns
Recrhauments
Ar Aw
Acmed Terces — Xhivn
Ine
Sei
Aligady Fager
Tel Aviv Growth Presses Toward Water Expansion
Tel Aviv nears 250 000 population as immigration continues to rise. City planners draft plans for a new water supply to support continued growth and possibly double the existing figure.
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Aviv
Tel Avi
Tel Aviv
Quarter lunch item at Redlands school causes smiles
A child munched a 25 cent piece during a school lunch, with a physician noting no health risk. The quirky moment showed the youngster’s playful relief as the coin disappeared down her throat while waiting for noon.
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Redlands
Maisha Gumpert
Presbyterians Vote To End News Service
In Decatur Georgia the Presbyterians voted to end the church news service after nine years. A publicity department will replace it under Wyatt Boggs with Asha Navv and other leaders handling publicity for the church’s upcoming assembly. Budget details include 421195 overall with 44 for publicity and 31 for other needs, to be reviewed by the General Assembly at the Massane Springs church.
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Decatur Ga
Presbyterian
United States
Mass
Atanta
Department of
Publielazane
Wyat Bog Lpl
Srinch
Mascane'ta Springs
Vai Dune
Fae Ray Jeri Tayere
Awc Dee
Tok Yeung
J. Gs Patton
Derathy
Florida Cabinet releases funds for emergency welfare
TALLAHASSEE UP The Cabinet released more than 5500 000 to meet emergency welfare and educational needs. Key allocations included 300 000 for old age assistance 24 000 to the blind 125 600 for a University of Florida heating plant 45 829 to the state hospital 16 789 to the Jordan Farm Colony 4023 to the Industrial School for Girls and 1312 to the Industrial School for Boys The move followed a request for 951 197 and prompted committee review with possible cuts. Also two men were hospitalized after a car struck a Seaboard Railroad freight train in Mulberry Florida injuring both occupants.
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C. M. Gay
Ar Adden
University of Flor Ga
T He State Hospital
Jorda Farm Colony
Industrial School For Girls
Industrial School For Boys
Joints Matter
Tnscosity of Florida
Renander
Miler
Butlers
Direcor
Omer Graban
Jobo Mathews
Jackson
Senate
Gay
Alsace-born youths held as prisoners with German army
AP report notes several Alsace Lorraine youths, drafted with German forces after 1940 occupation, remain prisoners in Russia or elsewhere. Most were sent east as Nazis advanced, with wartime lines drawn along Vosges fronts. Families and officials report ongoing displacements and interrupted fates.
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Strasbourg
Alsace Lorraine
Russia
Fale
Hhe Vosges
Alsave
Tareraina
Hospital Plan Gains Blue Cross Enrollment in 1948
The Blue Cross Commission announced that nearly 34,000,908 people in the United States and Canada enrolled in Blue Cross hospitalization plans by year end 1948. Commission director Richard Jones cited this as about 3 percent of the U S population and a similar share of Canada’s. The note also mentions numerous automotive tax variations across states, including five federal taxes.
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Chicago
United States
Canada
Blue Cross
Blue Cross Commission
Richard Jones
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