Urban residents earn more than farmers per 1949 income study
The Agriculture Department reports that average farm income in 1949 was 763 dollars per person, while urban nonfarm residents averaged 1555 dollars. Including food and housing values, the gap remains, with city dwellers advantaged by cash wages and investments.
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Martin
Washington
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
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Iowa
California
Illinois
GE Drops Recognition From Two Unions
General Electric announced it would not recognize either rival union faction at plants in Philadelphia Syracuse Lynnfield and Pittsfield affecting about 27000 workers. G E president L R Bouware confirmed the withdrawal of recognition. Delaware O Dwight W Martin of Crosley Radio was named a trustee of Ohio Wesleyan University.
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New York
General Electric Company
G. E
L. R. Boulware
Philadelphia
Syracuse
Lynn
Pittsfield
Mass
Delaware
Dwight W. Martin
Crosley Radio Corporation
Cincinnat
Ohio Wesleyan University
Martin
Ohio Wesleyan
Butler County Courts Records and Probate Notes
The docket lists divorce cases including Della Marie Couch of Hamilton against Fay Couch and several neglect and cruelty actions involving John F Cohony Doris J Collopy John Brown Melba Fay Welly Louis D Kelly Arthur Connelly and Sally Shepherd with addresses in Hamilton Middletown and New Miami. Probate notes show Clarence N Rommel estate appraised at 83000 with Matilda K Rommel as administratrix and Robert C Todd estate inventory of 101980.03 with 3500 realty. Alfred Swift and Frank Todd as executors.
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Della Marie Couch
Hamilton
Fay Couch
John F. Cohony
Doris J Collopy
Brown
John Brown
Melba Fay Welly
Harmiton
Lous D. Kelly
New Miami
Marilyn Connelly
Calumet St
Middletown
Arthur Connelly
Manchester Rd
Muljared Shepherd
Shelby Shepherd
Clarence N. Rommel
Mathilda K. Rommel
Robert C Todd
Alred Swift
Frank Todd
Rat Control Efforts Cut Infestations in Cleveland
Deputy Health Commissioner E. B. Buchanan said only about one percent of Cleveland food-handling places were rat-infested last year, a drop from eighty two percent in 1942, reflecting progress in city sanitation and pest control measures.
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Cleveland
E. B. Buchanan
Romania asks news bureaus to be closed
Romania orders the American and British information services shut down in Bucharest. Grigore Preoteasa relayed the notice to the diplomats last night and the move is linked to East West tensions with Romania Bulgaria and Hungary.
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Romania
Bucharest
Grigore Preoteasa
Bulgaria
Hungary
U. S
City Briefs and Society Notes From Friday
Knights of Pythias Lafay ette Lodge No 37 meets at Castle Hall at 7 30 p m Alcoholics Anonymous gathers at 7 45 p m Monthly National Association of Power Engineers meeting at 7 30 p m at the YRCA Also Moscow embassy says it was dropped from about 40 Soviet publications mailing lists The embassy notes it still receives a selective set of newspapers with 14 papers from outside Moscow.
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Knights of Pythias
Lafayette Lodge No
Castle Hall
National Association of Power Engineers
YRCA
Moscow
United States
France to Crack Down on Communists as U S Arms Arrive
Paris reports warn that the first U S military aid shipment to France could trigger Communist riots at ports. Observers say the aid will lift French morale and begin rebuilding France’s compromised military strength amid postwar reverses and Indochina tensions.
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France
U. S
Paris
America
Russia
Ho Ch: Minh
Indochina
Dawg
Beck
Ameniea
Funs
Honor Student Nurse of Cleveland Named
Miss Ann Isaker 21 of Shelbs, Ohio, a student at Lutheran Hospital, selected as Miss American Student Nurse of Cleveland. Mrs. Frank Lausche presented the honor with an airline ticket to San Francisco for the triennial nursing convention May 17-18.
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Cleveland
Misa
Ann Isaker
Shelbs, O
Lutheran Hogepital
Celle
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Miss Baker
San Franccisco
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Alcohols Anonymous
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Blumberg & Cohen, Inc
Thorn Metal Windows
Girard Ave
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SeLoffee Shoppe
Central Ave
Sunbeam Restaurant
John E. Methven
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