1949 Farm Goals Set For Poultry Milk And Vegetables
Washington plans higher production in 1949 for poultry milk vegetables sheep and lambs with goals from the agriculture department. Poultry 35 100 000 turkeys and 700 000 000 young chickens up 10 percent while laying hens cut by 20 000 000 to 405 000 000. Milk up 3 percent to 120 000 000 000 pounds. Vegetables acreage up to 717 850 with rises for lima beans corn cucumbers snap beans sweet potatoes beets watermelons and tomatoes. Sheep and lambs boosted by at least 2 000 000. spring pig crop up 17 percent. Additional funding and displaced person resettlement noted as thousands of farmers offer homes and jobs to Europeans.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Edward M. O'Connor
Displaced Persons Commission
North Central
Congress
Coldest Weather Reaches Subzero in Wisconsin
The first sub zero reading of the season hits Wisconsin with five degrees below at Land O Lakes and temperatures ranging from three at Park Falls to eighteen in Milwaukee. Forecaster H J Thompson warns of colder air returning tomorrow as light snow and partly cloudy skies prevail.
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Wisconsin
Land O'Lakes
Federal
H. J. Thompson
Milwaukee
Park Falls
Wausau
Lone Rock
la Crosse
Madison
Beloit
Thompson
Railroad President Visits Kenosha for Talks
Charles J. Graham president of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia railroad visited Kenosha today for business conferences. He arrived in his private railroad car and conducted several in person meetings and telephone contacts from the car.
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Charles J. Graham
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad
Kenosha
Graham
Kenosha County adopts record budget and school aid plan
The Kenosha County Board approved a record general tax of 1 123 937 57 with one dissenting vote 26 to 1. Supervisor Erwin W Lange opposed. The budget includes state and county taxes to fund towns villages and cities. Madison approved a tentative new state school aid system costing about 23 million dollars annually to boost direct aids and transportation with incentives and classed districts. The plan aims to raise about 8 million more annually than now and uses a mix of direct aids transportation and county per pupil payments. The measure removes surplus funds and includes radio equipment purchases for highway trucks debated for economy. The board also elected members to county school committees.
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Kenosha County
County Board of Supervisors
Erwin W. Lange
Kenosha
Finance Committee
Madison
Wis
U.P
State Commission
Joseph G. Rhode
Rhode
Harold Herzog
Urban Eppers
Clarence Ericksen
Erwin Klos
Erwin Lange
Joseph Molinaro
Joseph Rhode
George Smith
Dun and Bradstreet index hits 17 month low
New York reported Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index fell two cents in the week ended November 30 to 6.36 dollars, tying the 17 month low set on November 2, the agency announced.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
U S Plans Giant Ship At Newport News Yard
The U S plans a superliner for United States Lines with a low bid of 67.35 million dollars. The vessel will be the largest built in the nation and may carry 2,000 passengers or up to 12,000 troops.
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Washington
U.S
Newport News
Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp
United States Lines
Queen of the American Merchant Marine
British claim Bulgaria and Romania exceed postwar arms limits
London reports Bulgaria and Romania have expanded armed forces beyond the 1946 peace treaty limits. In Hollywood, director Raymond McCarey, 44, brother of Leo McCarey, is found dead in his apartment, police say it appears to be suicide.
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London
Bulgaria
Romania
Hollywood
U.P
Raymond McCarey
Leo McCarey
Traffic Cops As Santa Claus
In Springfield Massachusetts a girl's wish to have traffic cops dressed as Santa Claus for Christmas makes Police Chief Raymond P. Gallagher uneasy. Mayor Daniel B. Brunton said the chief paled and suggested there will be no traffic Santas on Main Street.
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Springfield
Mass
Raymond P. Gallagher
Main Street
Daniel B. Brunton
Brunton
Gallagher
Truman Backs Hoover Plan to Reshape Federal Agencies
President Truman approved a bipartisan commission's plan to reorganize about 60 federal agencies aiming to save up to 3 billion dollars annually. Herbert Hoover announced the move after a 45 minute White House meeting, outlining options to place agencies into cabinet departments or six new administrations, with a focus on central services and veterans' affairs.
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Washington
Truman
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Hoover
Mr. Truman
White House
Commission
Veterans’ Affairs
Train Fireman Dies at Post Near Chicago
John C. Zager a 58 year old fireman aboard the North Western Ashland Limited died of a heart attack after the 6 pm departure from the depot. Engineer Frank Kanberg found him slumped in the cab and Lake Forest police and a doctor tried to revive him for over half an hour. The casualty delayed the train by 45 minutes en route to Kenosha and held a suburban service for 19 minutes.
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North Western Railroad
Ashland
Kenosha
Ashland Limited
Hayworth Wins Final Divorce Decree From Welles
Rita Hayworth, vacationing with Ali Khan, obtained her final divorce decree from Orson Welles. Rumors swirl about a possible marriage to Khan during their trip to Mexico Cuba and New Orleans. Khan, son of the Aga Khan, is reportedly married in India. They left the area November 1 after meeting on the French Riviera last summer.
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Hollywood
U.P
Rita Hayworth
Ali Khan
Orson Welles
Khan
Mexico
Cuba
New Orleans
India
French Riviera
Miss Hayworth
Aga Khan
Madame Chiang Arrives in Washington for Aid Mission
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of China's leader, arrives in Washington seeking renewed U.S. backing for the Nationalist government. She is welcomed by Mrs. George C. Marshall and later stays with Mrs. Marshall in Leesburg, Virginia. No conference times set amid questions about U.S. willingness to aid in China’s war.
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Washington
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
George C. Marshall
Wellington Koo
Madame Chiang
San Francisco
President Truman
State Department
Walter Butterworth
Mrs. Marshall
Marshall
Leesburg
Chiang
Koo
H. H. Kung
Stanley Woodward
White House
Walter Reed Hospital
Truman
U. S
Chiang Kai Shek
Raymond Muir
John R. Redman
Western Sea Frontier
Center
Moffett Field
Cal
Nationalist Defense Lines Form Near Nanking Amid Communist Advance
Two Nationalist army groups race to establish a southern Huai river line to shield Nanking as government suspends Suchow air link. About 85 000 troops man the new front while the 12th army group containing 140 000 troops remains encircled near Suhsien south of Suchow.
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Nanking
Huai River
Yangtze Valley
Pengpu
Suchow
12Th Army
Suhsien
489 Leave China Shanghai
The Army transport Republic sailed today with 489 Americans departing war torn China for the United States.
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China
Shanghai
Republic
Wartorn China
United States
Kenosha Industry Shows Stable Payroll Growth in 1948
Latest industrial employment figures indicate Kenosha factories added over 140 million in wages last year, with total plant employment at 17 194 in October up from 15 732 in 1947. Nash Motors continues hiring to support 1949 auto production while others report stable staffing and a shrinking floating workforce.
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Kenosha
Ed Grass
Simmons Company
Joseph V. Quarles
Quarles
Chicago
Nash Motors
Nash
Macwhyte Company
Macwhyte
American Brass Company
Snap-On Tools Corp
Coopers, Inc
Wisconsin Telephone wage dispute heads to conciliator
The Wisconsin Employment Relations Board named Thomas P. Whelan of Milwaukee as conciliator in a wage dispute between Wisconsin Telephone and the Communications Workers union Division 23. The company objects to conciliation under the anti strike law, noting its contract runs to May 27 next year while the union seeks relief. The board cited risk of a strike disrupting essential service and described the union as pressing for economic pressure through a strike if unrelieved.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
Thomas P. Whelan
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Division 23
Communications Workers of America
WERB
New Secretary for Legislative Council in Wisconsin
Madison announces Earl Sachse 39 formerly assistant attorney general assumes duties as executive secretary of the Wisconsin legislative council. He succeeds Philip Haber man who resigned in October to lead the Wisconsin Bar association.
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Madison
Earl Sachse
Wisconsin Legislative Council
Philip S. Haberman
Wisconsin Bar Association
Dream Bowers Pleads Guilty In Bank Robbery Dream
In Jacksonville a 52-year-old carpenter named Jack Bowers dreamed of stealing 70000 dollars. He built a gadget to probe the Barnett National bank night depository and made off with 552.96 in cash and about 900 in checks before being arrested. He pleaded guilty in federal court and faces sentencing Friday before Judge Dozier Devane.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Ker Plunk
Jack Bowers
Barnett National Bank
Bowers
St. Johns
Dozier Devane
Berlin mayor barred from city hall in partition move
Mayor Ferdinand Friedensburg was refused admittance to Berlin city hall in the Soviet sector and transferred his administration to West Berlin. He called an emergency session of the city assembly at a new western headquarters and planned to keep government functioning despite the division.
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Berlin
U.P
Ferdinand Friedensburg
West Berlin
Friedensburg
Vote recount adds Democratic seat in New York district
The New York recount confirms John C. Davies a Democrat defeats incumbent Hadden C. Fuller a Republican in the 35th district boosting Democrats to 262 seats to 171 for Republicans with one American Labor seat and one vacancy.
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Washington
New York
Congress
John C. Davies
Hadden C. Fuller
Upstate
Western powers warn Russia as Berlin split deepens
The United States Britain and France warned Russia they reserve the right to act to keep their position in Berlin after Moscow set up a separate Soviet zone government amid the city’s division. Bramuglia planned a technical committee to study currency and trade issues as delegates consider closing the UN session.
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Paris
V.P
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Berlin
Juan A. Bramuglia
United Nations Security Council
Security Council
Bramuglia Committee
Bramuglia
United Nations
Me&n
General Assembly
Russian Move Dims Outlook for Berlin Crisis
A top state department official said Russia’s formation of a separate government in eastern Berlin makes a peaceful west east solution harder if not impossible. The move is seen as intimidation, timing amid UN efforts, and signals to the German people what to expect if western troops withdraw. The official warned against underestimating Western resolve.
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Washington
State Department
Russia
Berlin
United States
Europe
United Nations
Record air speed exceeds sound in German wind tunnels
The Navy announced that an air speed of 3 960 miles per hour was achieved in captured German wind tunnels, more than five times the speed of sound.
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Washington
U.P
Navy
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Yoder
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Hayworth
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Legislative Council
Dream
Rude Awakening
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