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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1947
Page
6
President Harry S. Truman urges conservation of natural resources nationwide in a Sunday dispatch. The Associated Press reports his emphasis on prudent use to safeguard future needs amid postwar energy pressures and national development.
A mid-century report outlines construction plans for Grapevine and Lavon dams in Texas to regulate upper Trinity flows and create a large reservoir. It notes federal and state participation with officials praising conservation and hydroelectric development. The piece also references Truman’s remarks on national resource stewardship and Everglades park establishment.
The document estimates 1,000 rheumatic fever cases with 10 year outlooks. Forty nine percent resume normal activity, twenty percent are slightly limited, thirteen and a half percent severely limited, and twenty percent die. Fourteen records are missing.
Call for public help to locate any child under 14 within Lubbock city limits who may be overlooked by Santa. Print plainly on this coupon and mail to Chief Goodfellow, P.O. Box 491, Lubbock, with family race marked white or negro to aid address verification.
On Pearl Harbor Day six years past Texans faced rising prices and inflation warnings as farms and businesses supplied war needs. The report notes cheap goods, new aircraft rumors from Italy, crowded classified ads, and reactions from Dallas to Corpus Christi. U.S. Congress members Poage Johnson and Gossett voiced urgent wartime resolve.
In Joe Connellsville a caller on a telephone switchboard halted a fire by intercepting a business call. Fire Chief James C. Manross deployed a extinguisher to suppress the short circuit blaze. Other items note wartime quotes, Texas recruitment, and mineral details like tron.
House Veterans Affairs Chair Mrs. Rogers says three priority measures moved for action before Christmas. The goals: raise subsistence for veterans in school, establish disability benefits for tuberculosis contracted in service, and extend the $1,600 auto mobile allowance for veterans who lost limbs or sight. All have Senate passage or pending status. action hoped at a special session with Speaker Martin. A separate item notes the West Point completed its first postwar year of service carrying 32,000 passengers on 17 Atlantic runs after an $8 million rebuild.
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