Food Situation Shows Beef Shortage and Surplus Potatoes
Washington reports a beef shortage while potatoes flood markets as WFA urges eating more tubers. Dairy shortages persist with rationing for canned milk butter and cheese. fluid milk may face limits in underproducing areas. Pork and lamb share rationing impacts as armed forces and lend lease claims rise.
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OPA
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Beef cattle prices and wartime supply concerns noted
Cattlemen fear subsidy bans in Congress may force losses and keep beef off the market. Demand from armed forces and consumers remains high, with shortages despite holding stock. A black market disrupts normal distribution, while wartime rationing raises questions about postwar eating. A collision on Ninth and Rhode Island damaged two cars. no injuries reported. Journal-World ads highlight monthly farm product sales.
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Milton H. Button
Wisconsin State Department of Agriculture
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Rhode Island
J.M. Stone
Charles Roberts
Ninth Street
Stone
Market Basket Prize to Mrs Malone for Meat Loaf
The Market Basket Prize this week went to Mrs James Malone of 1108 Kentucky Street for her meat loaf recipe Chicken and Ham Loaf. The winner earns a prize and the next contest requests submissions for a Chicken Salad recipe.
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James Malone
Kentucky Street
Market Basket
New Law Aids Kansas Couples Refusing Three Day Wait
Kansas City reporters note the Missouri three day wait for marriage licenses, effective July 1, reduces local licenses. Kilmer, the license clerk, says couples ride to Kansas for instant issuance, where licenses are granted on application.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
James A. Kilmer
Congress in for a Busy Session This September
President Roosevelt said Congress will have much to do when it returns in September. He offered no comment on the subsidy issue, but indicated he may address it later. He noted planning for postwar employment is being studied to establish orderly policy. Congress cut funding for the National Resources Planning Board. American farmers project six million acres of flaxseed in 1948.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Executive Branch
National Resources Planning Board
Drowned brothers among eel-farm accident details
Two boys Lawrence Schemper 12 and James Schemper 9, sons of Albert and Mrs Schemper, drowned in a pond on their eel farm while wading. The Schemper family also has three daughters. Father operates a store at Luctor. In Manhattan Kansas LP George Stelter of Abilene becomes vice president for the north central region of the National Future Farmers of America succeeding Willard Wisek of Nebraska. Stelter, a former Kansas FFA president, now farms near Abilene.
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George Stelter
Abilene
National Future Farmers ‘of America
North Central Region
Willard Wisek
Nebraska
Stelter
Kansas Ffa
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