Social Security Expansion Bill Moves Through Congress
Senators Wagner and Dingell introduced a multi billion dollar Social Security expansion including health care. The plan raises worker contributions to 4 percent and employer payrolls by 1 percent while broadening coverage to 15 million workers and creating universal health insurance with hospital care for up to 60 days a year. The proposal also plans 10 year federal state funding for rural hospitals and a permanent U S Employment Service.
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Washington
Wagner
Dingell
D-Mich
U. S. Employment Service
Goethe Archives Safe After War Damage In Weimar
Weimar Germany—Goethe and Schiller archives survive bombing largely intact. Wahl, caretaker, says Goethehaus furniture manuscripts and artifacts escaped intact though garret rooms and Urbino room damaged. Remains of Goethe and Schiller moved to Jena and brought back under military order.
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Goethehaus
Wahl
Urbino
Goethe
Schiller
Jena
Watt and Gutenberg Not Inventors of Inventions
The article argues that Watt did not invent the steam engine and Gutenberg did not invent typography, noting both were prolific refiners rather than original creators. It emphasizes the broader history of invention and innovation.
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Watt
Gutenberg
Cantaloups Move From District To Markets
Eight carloads of cantaloupes have moved from this district to markets in Texas Oklahoma and Louisiana. Buy A War Bond TODAY.
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Cantaloupes
Laredo
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
GI Sports Drive Aims To Build Postwar Programs In Germany
After the war lull, Army officials and GIs unite to launch a broad sports program in the European theater. Maj. Dukehart leads a 29th Infantry Division initiative forming division and battalion teams in baseball softball boxing and track with water sports and golf badminton and horseshoes also featured. Veteran golfer Pfc. Hamper, a former Minnesota champion, helps with golf instruction and the unit recalls earlier ETO titles in football boxing softball and basketball.
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Katena
Mretec
Tommy A. Dukehart
Baltimore
Maj
Dukehart
Minnesota
Pfc
Thomas Hamper
St. Paul
Johnson High School
Duluth
San Antonio
Tex
England
Texas Cowboy Reunion set for July with 2330 in prizes
Stamford notes final prep for the 15th annual Texas Cowboy Reunion to run July 2 to 4. Invitations go to chambers of commerce and officials. Red Wedgeworth and Doc Pursley will announce rodeo events. Bill Lyons to supply stock. judges include Proctor Humphreys Willingham and Hutson. Quarter Horse show led by Roy Arledge. Old Timers to meet concurrent with events.
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Stamford
Chambers of Commerce
E. O
Red” Wedgeworth
Pampa
Texas Cowboy Reunion
American Quarter Horse Association
Roy Arledge
Texas Cowboy Reunion Association
Chas. Coombs
Allied war correspondents lost on Western Front honor roll
May 24 report lists fifteen Allied correspondents killed while covering the Western front from D-day to VE-day. Supreme Allied Headquarters posts the roll of honor with at least 29 wounded or injured, five captured, and one missing.
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Paris
Western Front
D-day
Ve-Day
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Tony
Junkyard riches in Saipan amid old hangar ruins
In the Marianas a salvage chief Major Harry S. Weber runs a billion-dollar junkyard outside a prewar hangar. They salvage B-29s from battle damage and crashes, stripping usable parts, tagging items, and shipping them to a central warehouse. They explode fuselages with TNT to speed dismantling, turning wrecks into movable pieces.
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Saipan
Marianas
Harry S. Weber
Long Island
N.Y
Jima
Weber
Lowell as Virginia Woolf Godfather Highlighted
A historical note credits James Russell Lowell as the godfather to the English novelist, critic, and essayist Virginia Woolf, reflecting a literary lineage across generations.
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James Russell Lowell
Virginia Woolf
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Government May Act To Halt Pollution
Rep. Hatton W. Sumners says the federal government may intervene if Texas local governments fail to stop Trinity river pollution between Fort Worth and Dallas. He cites correspondence with J. E. Sturrock of the Texas Water Conservation Association and warns of state power failure enabling federal action.
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Washington
Texas
Hatton W. Sumners
D., Tex
Sumners
Trinity River
Fort Worth
Dallas
Congressional
J. E. Sturrock
Austin
Texas Water Conservation Association
Trinity
Sturrock
Names Of Schools In 2 Cities Changed
The RAF Training Command announced changes to three air corps training schools under Midland and Houston. The Midland bombardier instructor school becomes the AAF Central School for Bombing, while the Houston navigation instructors school at Ellington Field becomes the AAF Central School For Navigation. The Laredo central school for flexible gunnery is the third in the command.
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Air Corps
Midland
Houston
RAF Training Command
AAF Central School
Ellington Field
AAF Central
Laredo
Sea Star Threat to Oyster Beds Reported
The sea star is identified as a pest on oyster beds feeding on oysters and destroying them in large numbers.
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Kenneth. L. Dixon
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