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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1945
Page
4
Classified notices list job openings and household requests including two men for furnace work, clerical and domestic help, a cheese factory position, and general household listings. Probed entries show employers in Rockford Freeport Janesville New Glarus and others seeking laborers cooks maids and housekeepers with varying hours and wages.
More than 13 000 German prisoners of war from Fort Sheridan will work on 150 projects in 125 communities across upper Michigan Wisconsin and Illinois by July 1 Brig Gen John T Pierce announced.
Commander of the base camp reports branch camps for prisoners of war will be set up in 42 towns. Agricultural work in Wisconsin Illinois will employ 9 500 men and upper Michigan lumber camps 1 250 workers in pulpwood rail road tie fencepost and chemical wood industries. Wisconsin projects include truck gardening field work cannery vineyard work manual labor in condensed milk plants and harvesting crops. Treasury to gain about 1 000 000 in July and August from prisoner earnings paid at prevailing wage.
Washington reports fats and oils will remain scarce into spring or early summer 1946. Production this year will be about 700000 long tons less than 1944 due to lower hog and flax crops. Civilian per capita consumption may drop to about 36 pounds from prewar levels near 45 pounds.
On Saturday June 23 the treasury reported total government spending excluding corporations at 97.827 billion, surpassing last year’s 93.744 billion and signaling a yearly total near 99 to 100 billion. Next year’s budget is estimated at 82.53 billion. Including corporations, expenditures fall about 600 million as they net income from the year.
Livestock totals show salable hogs 11 500 and cattle 3 800 with steady to higher bids for steers up to 17.85 and yearlings around 17.50. Sheep markets mostly steady with spring lambs 16.00 to 16.35, butter and eggs firm, live poultry unchanged. Wheat fell from highs, barley down slightly while corn and oats firm. railcar availability cited.
The University of Wisconsin board of regents approved plans for 12 postwar construction projects and an 1945-46 educational funding package of 8,893,213 dollars. Five immediate projects include hospital expansion, dormitory, power unit, dairy building, and home economics extension.
The government closes its fiscal year with spending near 100 billion dollars and revenue around 46 billion, setting two world records. Forecasts anticipate smaller figures in 1946 as the Budget Bureau expects spending reductions and lower collections starting July 1.
A New York market session saw heavy selling with the ticker tape briefly lagging actual floor trades by two minutes and losses of 1 to 3 points. Aviation and specialty stocks lead demand but many pivots including rails and steels stumble while stopless orders spark a relapse as traders fear higher margins next week.
Pattern 9247 offers a waist and shoulder shirring design for a slender, practical afternoon dress. It lists sizes 34 through 46 and requires 2% yards of 39 inch fabric in size 36. Send 20 cents to Monroe Evening Times at 232 West 18th Street New York.
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