Debts Pile Up Profits Drop Yet Alaskan Colony Remains Home
Ernie Pyle reports from Palmer Alaska on the Matanuska colonists two and a half years after arrival. Fifteen of 170 are self supporting. the rest struggle with borrowing, drink, and uncertain income from butter eggs poultry beef vegetables and small jobs for the corporation. Cash income ranges from 10 to 50 dollars a month, with many farmers still in debt as development costs loom.
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Alaskan Valley Colony
Ernie Pyle
NEA Service
Palmer
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Matanuska
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Charlic
Matanuska Valley
Allen Fredericks
Fredericks
States
Mrs. Fredericks
William Hynig
Hynig
Walter Pippel
Pippel
Minneapolis
Fipper
Anchorage
Hope Elmer
Bernice Heroux
Minnesota
Eve
Heroux
Matanuski Colony
Matanusky Colony
Matanuska colonists face debts and hopeful progress
A reporter tours Matanuska Valley farms, noting debts from government loans, two year work relief plans, and a shift to cooperative selling. Colonists like Pippel and Heroux show varied outcomes, optimism amid high costs, while officials expect later generations to reap full benefits.
Martin Sole Union Power Is Given President Homer Martin
Delegates of the United Automobile Workers voted Sunday night to place President Homer Martin in control of the union's Executive Committee for two years. The fractious convention, meeting in Milwaukee, selected Toledo Ohio as the 1958 convention city after bids from Kansas City Cleveland New York and San Francisco.
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United Automobile Workers Convention
Homer Martin
Kansas City
Cleveland
New York
San Francisco
Toledo
Argentina’s Justo Faces Off In September Election
Argentina’s president Augustin Justo dominates the campaign though constitution bars re election. Ortiz, once finance minister, backs the Justo program while de Alvear, former president, denounces the regime for corruption. Ortiz favors conservative liberal coalition. de Alvear runs Radical party with broad Argentine backing.
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Buenos Aires
Augustin P. Justo
Argentina
Roberto M. Ortiz
Justo
Marcela T. de Alvear
Ortiz
Liberal
Juston
de Alvear
Radical
Dr. Ortiz
Alvear
Radical Party
Radicals
Great Western Railway
Unity faction leaders urge followers to accept decision
On the committee the unity faction leaders urged their followers to abide by the decision and refrain from delaying proceedings by persisting in a demand for a roll call.
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Unity
Women Rule the Roost at German Hay Harvest Festival
In Huettenrode in the Harz Mountains village the annual hay harvest festival features women leading the festivities. They run the feast select the hay queen and parade through the streets. Dancing follows with women choosing partners and rewarding them with chocolate hearts and free beer.
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Huettenrode
Germany
Harz Mountains
Forerunner F rock Pattern 8033 Pattern Bonu offer
Forerunner of fall this yoke frock pattern 8033 targets slim silhouettes with a bow tied neckline. Includes a full step by step sew chart and offers rayon crepe or silk crepe options in multiple sizes with yardage details and a 15 cent pattern bonus. Send name address style number and size with payment to Today’s Patterns Brooklyn NY.
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Tate
Sterling Place
Brooklyn
N. Y
Homemaker Lentil and Soy Bean Dishes from Old Recipe
Old style kitchen directions describe lentils soaked overnight then boiled and seasoned with onion and fat. Additional recipe covers baked soy beans with yellow soy beans salt pork molasses onion and mustard for 6 to 8 servings.
Bean Pot Method With Salt Pork and Tomato Blend
In the bean pot add salt pork cut into strips. Mix salt, mustard, catsup and molluscs, add 1 cup hot water and pour this mixture over the beans. Cover the pot and bake in a very slow oven at 250 degrees for 10 hours, adding water as needed to keep beans covered.
Split Pea Roast and German Bone Control Notice
A recipe for split pea roast lists stale bread crumbs, green split peas, walnuts, and milk with bake steps and a white sauce. Berlin reports a government drive to purge foreign glues and fertilizers, forcing licenses for bone dealers and requiring schools to collect kitchen leftovers for canvarsing kitchens.
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Geonany
Berlin
Germany
Third Reich
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