OPA Chief Sees Path To Stabilization Victory
OPA Administrator Paul Porter told ABC listeners that achieving economy wide stabilization matters more than securing meat next week. He warned of dangerous public psychology risking inflation gains and urged public understanding and price control support. Porter noted most price increases under OPA extension are near completion and clothing prices may peak soon.
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Women Conference Set for Waco by Texas Journalists
The Texas Women's Press association will meet in Waco October 28-29 with Oveta Culp Hobby of the Houston Post delivering the keynote speech. Dollilee Davis Smith chairs the program with speakers from the Dallas, Houston, San Antonio areas and others. Ruth Carter and Alma Lee Holman lead the group, while plans for the 1947 national convention are announced.
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Fort Worth
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No Charge After Brief Call Leads Police to Safe Drive
Police neutral on drunk driving after a cafe call at 5 a.m. Saturday. A man feared driving home so police ferried his car, discovering he was not drunk though his reflexes seemed dulled. He had cut himself escaping a hospital and wandered in underwear. Other notes include a local baseball tie to James Garner and a Texas sixth grader’s Halloween story in Children’s Activities. Dallas deputies served bench warrants and held two suspects for Dallas trials on theft and burglary charges.
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Anderson Lands Radio Program in Albuquerque Anniversary Speech
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson praised the National Farm and Home hour on its 18th anniversary in a radio speech in Albuquerque. He cited world price stabilization efforts started in Copenhagen and stressed agriculture as the foundation of civilization and a key to world peace, noting a 20 percent higher crop yield per acre since the war.
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Hearing Planned On Surplus Property
Washington Oct 5 The House surplus property investigating committee plans another full week of hearings to speed disposal of surplus war material. Committee counsel Hugh Wise said next witnesses would likely be government representatives, with hearings resuming Tuesday. Wise warned he has three options in play and will have one ready for Thursday.
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WAAP
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Wise
Jester Seeks Inauguration as Truman Hails Victory
Beauford Jester Texas governor nominal winner returns to Austin after East trip. President Truman congratulates him on the victory and follows the campaign. Jester plans inauguration in January and jokes about defeating Republican opponent. He will speak at the Panhandle South Plains fair in Lubbock before returning to Austin.
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NBC
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GOP Plans House Clean Sweep by Targeting Bureaucracy
Rep. Clarence J. Brown says if Republicans gain control next month they will remove about two thirds of federal workers to purge radicals and restore order. He spoke in Jefferson City at a Missouri Republican Women’s clubs address, condemning Washington as humiliating.
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Two Negroes Killed In Auto Collision Near Katy
In Katy Texas on October 5 two San Antonio Black passengers Rosie Lee Burke 32 and Lindsay Butler 38 died when their car rear ended a six wheel truck. Back seat riders Jim Scott 21 and Willie Crockett 21 were injured and taken to a Houston hospital Crockett listed as serious. Truck driver William Hawkins 23 said he was traveling toward Houston two miles east of Katy when the collision occurred. No charges were filed.
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U.P
San Antonio
Bison Seen by Cortés in Aztec Era Menagerie
In 1521 Cortés and his expedition encountered the bison not in the wild but within Montezuma I I s zoo in Tenochtitlan. The sighting marks one of the earliest European records of the species.
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Anahuac
Mexico
Montezuma
Oklahoma rancher Turner taps need to modify meat regulations
Oklahoma City October 5 Farmers and stockmen voice anger at feeding and marketing rules. Roy J Turner Democrat candidate for governor argues regulations affect livestock viability and calls for national policy changes while vowing to press for modification or removal through his office and as American Hereford Association president.
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Roy J. Turner
Turner
Oklahoma
American Hereford Association
Wheat Named as Key Grain Crop in New Zealand
Wheat is described as the most important grain crop in New Zealand highlighting its prominence in agriculture. This portrayal emphasizes its central role in national farming and food supply.
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New Zeland
Blink Rates and Tombstone’s Western Rise
The Better Vision Institute notes eye blinking varies from three to twenty times per minute. The article recalls Tombstone, Arizona, once a booming mining town, matching San Francisco in its western prominence a century ago.
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Better Vision Institute
Tombstone
Ariz
San Francisco
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