Expanded Wisconsin blind aid program approved
The Wisconsin state board of public welfare approved an expanded aid program for about 4 000 blind residents, proposing diversified industrial activities home industry vending stands and enhanced social services including talking books and radios. The board also correlated the activities of child welfare youth services and the Wisconsin Child Center. Truffles grow underground and are located by dogs trained to detect their scent.
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Green Bay
Wis
Wisconsin
State Board of Public Welfare
Division of Child Welfare
Division of Youth Services
Wisconsin Child Center
B. P. Kramer
Green Bay State Reformatory
Kramer
Wrigley Field
Chicago
Labor Movement Threatens U. S. Political System
The U S Chamber of Commerce warned that the American labor movement threatens political stability. In its pamphlet Labor in Politics the chamber warned of a potential third party rise or capture of a major party, noting CIO and AFL involvement in campaigns and urging business action from grassroots to national levels.
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Labor Movement
U. S
Chamber
Washington
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
CIO
AFL
Girl Scout Troops Report End of Year Meetings
Troops 20 24 32 38 41 and 45 held meetings at churches schools and homes. Activities included badge ceremonies cookouts games songs candy making and a mother daughter party with a Truth and Consequence show. Final meetings noted for June and Mothers Day gifts given.
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Wesley Methodist Church
Myrick Park
Scribe
Barbara Graff
Hamilton
Kay Benaud
North Presbyterian Church
French Island
Logan School
Barbara Ulrich
Blessed Sacrament School
Barbara Beranek
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church
Commerce Department Gets Big Assignment
Washington reports President Truman reshapes the government elevating the commerce department to new prestige. Secretary Charles Sawyer becomes supervising head of maritime affairs and could oversee the Reconstruction Finance Corporation lending operations in July, expanding the department to a $2 billion agency.
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Washington
Truman
Department of Commerce
Sec
Charles Sawyer
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Cincinnati
Woman Drowns in Three Feet of Water on Wisconsin Lake
A 64 year old Shorewood woman, Henrietta Casper, visiting at a friend’s home on the west shore of Nagawicka Lake, drowned in three feet of water. Her husband Edward Casper found the body near a pier at 7 15 am. Coroner Alvin Johnson ruled accidental drowning. Waukesha firefighters worked an hour with respirators to attempt revival.
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Delafield
Wis
Shorewood
Nagawicka Lake
Henrietta Casper
Edward
Friends
Alvin Johnson
Waukesha County
Waukesha
Truman era spoils system echoes Jacksonian history
The piece discusses how Truman, like Andrew Jackson, relied on political cronies for government jobs and hints at a potential successor. It notes Jackson’s kitchen cabinet and Jackson’s 1831 renomination move, and suggests Truman may consider Vinson as a future president, possibly sent to Moscow to seek peace with Stalin.
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Jackson
Truman
Missouri
Missouri Gang.”’ Jackson
White House
Martin van Buren
New York
van Buren
Fred M. Vinson
Kentucky
Supreme Court
Vinson
Surveys Look Toward Gas Line to Superior and Duluth
The Superior Evening Telegram reports surveys point to a natural gas pipeline from Alberta to Superior Duluth and the Minnesota iron range. No gas now in the area. The survey serves a Winnipeg syndicate seeking Canadian approval to build Alberta to Winnipeg and possibly extend to the head of the lakes.
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Superior
Wis
Superior Evening Telegram
Alberta
Duluth
Minnesota Iron Range
Winnipeg
Job Hunting Less Of Risk For Migrants
Migrant farm workers face fewer risks due to a federal state employment service reporting system providing up to date job locations durations wages and living conditions. Four migratory streams move workers from the South up the Atlantic seaboard Texas to the Midwest the intermountain route and the West Coast with routes and office locations listed. Dried Gulf shrimp are exported to Hawaii the Philippines and China.
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Washington
Sam
California
U. S. Employment Service
Seaboard
Gulf of Mexico
Hawaii
Philippines
China
Dad's budget braces for higher living costs this summer
The piece notes a looming rise in prices across food, housing, and durable goods as demand outpaces supplies. It cites belt-tightening factors like rising productivity, higher labor costs, and increased plant capacity, while warning inflation may persist through summer and into fall.
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Sam Dawson
New York
Dad
New liquid car wax cuts polishing time dramatically
The June Reader's Digest features a liquid wax you can swab on in eight minutes and wipe off in twelve, leaving a durable shine for months. A dollar buys enough for two polishes, and the Digest Consumer Report summarizes 38 lasting interest articles from current books and magazines.
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Reader’s Digest
Consumer Report
Current Books
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