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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1948
Page
8
Henry Ford visits Santa Fe stalls and meets an Indian craftsman selling unique carved chairs. Ford asks price of one and for a bulk order, hearing the craftsman explain higher pricing for repetitive designs to honor effort and assure profit.
In a sharp exchange a professor questions why notes are being taken. A student replies he already has his grandfather's notes making the professor frustrated. The humorous exchange hinges on money and generational remembrances during a lecture.
A columnist contrasts baseball rookies and race horses in odds, bonuses, and prospects. He notes Wakefield and Simmons as top-paid rookies, with farm systems in Florida and Georgia producing hundreds of hopefuls, and compares boxing and golf paths, citing Ray Stevens and the duffer’s role in golf culture while detailing common faults like slicing.
The Tennessee Valley Authority marks its 15th year while facing a hostile congressional climate. The Senate public works committee backs a bill to strip TVA of autonomous power, forcing direct appropriations and ending home rule. Private power interests pivot, praising TVA’s flood control and hydro power but opposing steam generation. The fight centers on a proposed New Johnsonville steam plant and broader funding, risking TVA’s survival if appropriations are cut. Treasury, meanwhile, pushes savings bonds to steer purchasing power and curb price pressures.
Danny Joe Martin the speaker of the house influences John Lewis to accept Sen Styles Bridges as a third member of the pension board ending the coal strike. Lewis earns less for miners than Murray offered, causing a four week loss of work at 75 dollars weekly and widespread debt. Undersecretary Ned Dodd may head the FAO UN, with Charles Brannan set to succeed Clinton Anderson, who seeks the New Mexico senate seat against Patrick Hurley.
Pattern No 1760 offers sizes 12 through 20 with 38 inch fabric. The dainty outfit features wing sleeves and lace trim. complete with slip and panties. Pattern No 1675 covers sizes 1 through 6 with fabric requirements for a dress and slip. includes 62 pages of family frock ideas in the Spring and Summer Fashion book.
The Patrick Henry house in Red House Virginia's Charlotte County, burned in 1919, will be restored to its colonial state with period furnishings. The home honors Henry known for demanding English rights for Virginians and liberty for all Americans. He was a slave holder who opposed slavery as economic and social evil and was a lawyer and politician who helped arm Virginia in 1775. His famous "Give me liberty or give me death" speech marked his greatest moment.
A skull deformation once found by a French anthropologist near Vera Cruz is examined for deliberate infant head shaping by Indians of Mexico and the southwestern United States centuries before European contact. Extreme cases show hornlike protrusions on the skull top and fronts, with some instances producing a peaked head.
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