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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1951
Page
3
The Marshall Herald lists subscription at 2.00 per year local advertising at 35c per column inch and 20 per line with a minimum of two lines. The notice indicates postal handling and editor names Mark Stewart and Carlos Stewart.
A humorous rewrite of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address satirizes taxation and government spending. The speaker laments heightened taxes and debt while urging taxpayers to stay devoted to reporting income and resisting higher brackets in the next year.
A mixed page features a WW II era patriotic poem by Clarence Edwin Flynn urging vigilance and readiness, followed by a short verse about resilience, then a bulb of agricultural guidance urging crop care and seed cleaning. The items reflect wartime sentiment and farming tips from a county extension note.
Congress advanced a new tax bill and eyed a price control bill amid rising living costs and political bickering. The House approved the largest military construction program in history, with $5.77 billion in authorizations, and passed foreign aid measures with smaller cuts than expected. An housing defense-area program of $1.635 billion drew opposition as critics framed it as socialism, citing defense-area living conditions and housing needs.
The Senate narrowly upheld an amendment reducing salvage program proceeds for defense spending while preserving defense budget lines. Observers warn of patchwork flood relief in the Missouri River valley and ponder a Missouri Valley Authority or regional study to rebalance resources among Kansas and Missouri watersheds.
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