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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1945
Page
3
A grammar school student explains public utilities as government owned and for all people's use. Public ownership means the city or community controls utilities like streetcars buses and post offices, ensuring access for all classes.
The author argues private ownership funds essential services through broad investment, not a few fat cats. He claims over 80 percent of electric industry is private yet benefits come from many savers and insurers, with government taxes and regulation shaping profits.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Leck of Cedar Rapids spent the weekend with their parents Mr and Mrs Ed Leek and Mr and Mrs Hori Sturm.
Mr and Mrs Roy Coan of Des Moines arrived Sunday for a few days at sister Mrs J S Francio's home. Monday they, with Mrs Francis, drove to Red Oak to spend the day with sister Mrs Raph Franklin and husband.
Newsweek reports that OPA price controls are losing ground due to public interference while wartime needs justify continuation. The piece cautions that peacetime control risks government profli gacy and eroding freedoms, urging continued cooperation only as emergency measures. The New York Times backs shifting the burden of proof on wartime controls when peace returns.
First Lt Leural Smalley of the Philippine Islands arrives Friday for an 80 day leave to visit his parents Mr and Mrs Ralph Smalley. Afterward he will go to New Orleans Louisiana to a school of instruction for a few weeks. Visitors to the W C Fulton home include Mr and Mrs Barry Brown Gilbert Brown Betty Rivey Mrs Helen Jones and daughter Mary and Ward McCreary all of Des Moines.
Senator Forrest C. Donnell of Missouri entertains new U S senators at a Washington D C event marking indoctrination into Senate life at the National Press Club with freshmen in attendance.
Eight year old Henry Bush of San Francisco poses with a large bonito landed off Ocracoke Island in North Carolina. His father Lieutenant Commander B H Bush helped lift the catch while noting the bonito as a relative of the mackerel and a fish that sometimes pulls up close to shore.
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