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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1948
Page
3
Kansas City police chief Frank B. Collins urges neighbors to act as watchful guardians when families vacation. He presents four steps: daily checks for signs of break in, collecting mail, knowing the vacation address and how to reach family members, and promptly reporting suspicious activity to police.
Detectives advise homeowners to announce vacations and take guard measures to deter thieves. Tips include suspending milk deliveries, leaving a light on, and notifying police of travel plans to ensure extra patrols. Hoover cites 40 percent of 373,450 U S burglaries last year involved homes.
Gov Donnelly and advisers prepare price lists and purchase steps for a state silver service to gift the battleship Missouri. Judge Collet and Richard Nacy will present final facts to Gov Donnelly by Monday, with $10,000 state funds due to be spent before July 1.
The Senate judiciary committee approved a bill to compensate American civilians interned by the enemy in World War II. It sets $1 daily for WWII POWs not fed to Geneva standards, and civilian internees receive the same rate as interned soldiers. Heads of families get $60 monthly. $28 for an interned wife, $20 for the first child, $10 for the second. Next of kin receive a flat $7,500.
At a stormy three hour meeting in Oak Ridge Tennessee 875 Atomic Trades and Labor council members vote 271 to 60 to ratify a wage package averaging 1.52 dollars an hour in a three month dispute with Carbide and Carbon Chemical corporation. The agreement is retroactive to December 18 and follows government action under Taft Hartley.
George M. Burns of the Kansas City Safety council urged motorists to observe the Save-a-Life week campaign running through June 25. He stressed that traffic signs signals and pavement markings are life saving and as deserving of respect as police. Burns urged strict observance of highway signs shapes include round railroad crossing markers oblong speed limit signs diamond warnings and eight sided stop signs. The drive partners with the National Safety council and city police while Fox Midwest theaters show Driven to Kill.
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