Rural Electrification Agency Funds Build Huge Coop Networks
The Rural Electrification Administration authorized nearly 55 million dollars in 90 days for 10 borrowers forming super power cooperatives. These federations, now 23 nationwide, build generating plants and transmit power to farmers, expanding beyond private utility supply to meet rising demand and lower rates.
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Washington
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
Clyde Ellis
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Ellis
Old Dominion Power Cooperative
Chase City
Land Power
Wis
Inflation Fears Rise As Steel Prices Jump
Steel raised prices by about four dollars a ton last week triggering concerns that consumer costs will rise. Economists see 1950 as a buyer's market and expect competition to temper the impact. Major producers delayed decisions while Congress and President debated the implications and labor costs tied to new benefits.
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New York
U. S
U. S. Steel
Washington
Joseph O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Joint
Congressional Economic Committee
Benjamin F. Fairless
CIO
American Iron and Steel Institute
Three Nations Plan Standardized Arms and Training
Britain, the United States, and Canada announced a plan to standardize arms and training to remove technical differences hindering cooperation from two world wars. The move aims for swift integration of personnel and equipment in a future conflict, while officials emphasize no binding obligations exist. Leftist opposition and debates warn of aggression toward Soviet Russia.
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London
Britain
United States
Canada
Washington
Russia
Ministry of Defense
Reds Reported Building Up Naval Strength
Jane's Fighting Ships reports Soviet naval expansion with three 35,000-ton battleships and 750 to 1,000 long-range submarines by 1951 as part of a five year plan. It notes Germany and USSR shipyards running around the clock and U S Navy reductions but a 2,600-ship fleet remains and future warships loom.
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London
Britain
United States
Soviet
Russia
Jane’s Fighting Ships
Soviet Union
Jane's
Ussr
Germany
Moscow
Jane
Jane’s
U. S. Navy
Atlantic
Pacific
Demos See Political Profits From Civil Rights Investment
Washington Democrats count on swift political gains from a civil rights showdown in the next session. Senate clashes over a permanent FEPC bill pit party factions, with Taft opposing the administration plan and Republicans betting on voluntary compliance. The House faces a similar stalemate, while the new Senate rule could curb filibusters, shaping blame and credit on civil rights progress.
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Demos
Washington
Congress
Lucas
Illinois
Senate
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Administere Oe
Five Children Die in Emmett Farmhouse Fire
A flash fire in a two story Emmett Michigan farmhouse killed five Bethway children aged three to eleven who were upstairs. The parents and five other children escaped through downstairs windows with the grandmother and mother treated for burns and shock while two older siblings were hospitalized with serious burns. The fire, likely started by a heating stove, destroyed the structure.
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Emmett, Mich
Emmett
Clarence Bethway
Irene
Mr. Bethway
Della
Freddie Bethway
Beverly Ann
David
Billy
Thomas
Joe
Mary Lou
Port Huron
Mich) General Hospital
Louis Bethway
Community newspaper speaks to advertisers and readers
A friendly message salutes the community paper and its advertisers as partners in serving residents. It frames ongoing efforts to improve community coverage and support local business.
Federal hires 5200 disabled workers in 1949 first ten months
The Civil Service Commission reported that during the first ten months of 1949 the federal government employed 5,200 physically handicapped individuals. This reflects ongoing efforts to expand employment opportunities for people with disabilities within government service.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Poles Recall Minister to Swedish Capital
Poland recalls its minister Czeslaw Bobrowski from Stockholm after he criticized Polish police methods toward Swedes arrested in Poland. Eight Poles have left the legation in protest against the Warsaw regime since the war’s end.
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Stockholm
Poland
Sweden
Czeslaw Bobrowski
Bobrowski
Warsaw
Legation
Tribune survey winner favors illustrated ads
Betty Barron wins $25 for most appealing illustrated ads in Tribune survey covering ads from Nov 28 to Dec 4. Barron, 2149 Mississippi St, plans Christmas gift for husband James Arron, Northwest Airlines station manager. She is a former nurse from Pennsylvania who moved to La Crosse three years ago.
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Betty Barron
Mississippi Street
White Horse
Alaska
Billy
Judy
Philip
Barron
Helen Stolander
Viroqua
May Bypass Union Shop Clause In Building Industry Cases
Washington reports Taft Hartley enforcement chief Robert N. Denham favors bypassing the union shop election requirement in large building industry cases. Denham, the NLRB general counsel, will announce a policy shift to ignore such cases unless a prior NLRB election is shown.
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Washington
Robert N. Denham
Denham
National Labor Relations Board
AFL
Fom
NLRB
Senate
Building Trades Department
Von Manstein Gets 18 Years For Atrocities
A British military court in Hamburg sentenced former Field Marshal Erich von Manstein to 18 years for nine atrocities by German troops against Poles and Russians during World War II. He was found guilty on nine counts, acquitted on eight, and will serve his term at Werl prison alongside other convicted German commanders.
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Hamburg
Germany
Erich von Manstein
Manstein
Hitler
Poland
Russia
Britain
Winston Churchill
Walter von Brauchitsch
Gerd von Rundstedt
Adolf Strauss
Werl
Hamm
Albert Kesselring
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
20th Swift Worker Dies in Sioux City Explosion
Mrs. Alice Hammond a 25 year old Sioux City bookkeeper died at a hospital Monday from injuries suffered in the Swift and Co packing plant explosion last Wednesday. She is the 20th death from the incident. Thirty eight of the injured remained hospitalized Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Alice Hammond
Swift and Co
Hammond
Monay
88 Year Old Woman Jailed Over Butter Theft
An 88 year old Oakland woman, Mrs. Margaret Russell, was jailed on a theft charge for two cubes of butter valued at 38 cents. Special officer Carl Becker reported she claimed she paid for all items but later said she might have forgotten the butter. Her trial was set for the police court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Calif
Margaret Russell
Becker
Russell
Postal Center Here Crowded
Post office crowds filled the lobby on a Monday morning as patrons mailed Christmas cards and packages. Postmaster Wenzel M. Dvorak directed customers and noted that 1949 receipts through November 30 were close to the 1948 record of $539,549.66, with a projection to reach about $600,000 for 1949.
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Wenzel M. Dvorak
Dvorak
Local Weather Forecast for La Crosse Area
Cloudy tonight and Tuesday with light snow starting late tonight. Snow or rain persists Tuesday, with colder air after noon. Low around 26 tonight, high near 32 Tuesday.
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la Crosse
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White House
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Austria
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North
Reds
By Jack Bell
Bill Clears Group
House
House Labor Committee
Rules Committee
Brooklyn
Emerson
Kelly Furniture Roller’s
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Maytag & Home Appliances
Piggly Wiggly
Sears Roebuck
Continental Clothiers
Continental Cloth
Coulee Region Machine Co. Dairy & Home Appliance Co. Maytag & Home Appliances
National Tea Pitzner’s Cleaners
Art's Dairyland
Avalon
H. M. Curtis Agency
W. T. Grant Co
Hoeschlers
Howards Clothes
Modern Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co
Paul's Jewelry Quality Lumber & Coal
Roth's
Flor-Mart
Rowley Office Equip. Co
Tausche’s
Tausche’s Hardware
Terry's Wilkinson Fuel Co
Young Jewelers
Anderson Tire Service and Sporting Goods
Dahl Motors
Geo. J. Devine, Inc
Hammes Truck Sales
Low Motors Meigheny Nelson Int Co
Shannon .Motors
Voigt Auto Co
Tribune
Mrs
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By George Boultwood
Swift
First Presbyterian Church
Harry Worth
Viterbo College
Leota
Emanuel
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