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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1947
Page
3
Unions press for a national wage settlement for about 337000 of 550000 telecom workers while companies resist a countrywide deal preferring local agreements. Bargaining centers on wage demands with a deadline approaching and arbitration proposals split between national and area plans.
W O Mara announced at a meeting that all regular Sears employees employed before July 15 last year share in the Friday night bonus. The amount depended on service and position, under the national profit sharing plan for workers with one year or more service.
April building permits reached 62 150 for four days lifting the year to 3 503 459 in the city building office. Inspector H B Hamilton reported Saturday with a note that last week’s permits totaled 75 800 and March 31 showed 950.
Harvard Lampoon publishes its parody awards naming Orson Welles and Alexis Smith as the worst performers of 1946. The column also singles out worst supporting performances, miscast actors, and the ten worst films including Night and Day and No Leave No Love.
Paris reports the arrest in Germany of Georges Delfanne a 34 year old Belgian described as a dangerous Gestapo secret agent during the occupation. Police say he used the water torture to extract information from French patriots. Also Ferruccio Parri former wartime partisan leader and later Italian premier departed for the United States with Carlo Levi to attend conferences with the American Society for Cultural Relations with Italy.
The Southwest grain sorghum progress is credited to the Lubbock Experiment Station and agronomist R. E. Karper. His crossbreeds and breeding work boosted sorghum's farm economy role in semi arid regions, with Country Gentleman highlighting the research in April. Karper recalls 1913 drought showing sorghums outyielded corn varieties.
In Greenville Illinois Sheriff David E Blankenship wed deputy Dolores I Meskie. The report notes Meskie’s focus on sorghums and collaboration with farmers, scientists, and agronomists. It highlights sorghums’ promising Southwest role and potential industrial use with higher per acre yields as breeding advances continue. In Chicago on April 5 state legislatures supported a constitutional amendment limiting the president to two terms or ten years, with ratification by a majority of states and approval by three fourths.
Fire damaged the meal room of the Swift and Gell mill in Gainesville last night. The extent of the damage and the cause of the blaze were not yet determined.
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