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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1949
Page
2
The piece notes a shift in steel industry labor talks as CIO yields on wage raises, prompting a management funded pension and insurance plan. It cites Philip Murray moving to new leadership, White House mediation, and a possible path to peace or further strikes.
The piece argues the public cannot easily grasp proposed fixes for Britain’s dollar squeeze and warns devaluation plans may hurt American exports. It suggests British leaders will avoid blame on the labor government, preferring remedies that aid Britain politically while election pressure rises. Washington’s restraint is urged to keep a possible solution within reach.
Water pressure neared normal across Columbus after a water main break yesterday nearly cut off the system. The break occurred 50 feet from a prior break on the same main ten months earlier, and the cause remained unknown.
Gov Heil signs the Thomson bill abolishing the state board of control and consolidating all state welfare activities. Kiwanis and Lions hold a joint session at Union Church adjourning to the courthouse for a Citizenship Day address by Prof. R. J. Colbert. Barn and silo on Fred Bitz farm in Jefferson township destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Earl Flogerzi recalls Alaska’s steep prices in Fairbanks after 16 months there. Milk at 50 to 60 cents a quart, bread 30 cents a loaf, produce high, and a small melon costing 3.50. She notes trucking shortages and local garden plots as offset. Her husband, S. Sgt. Flogerzi, is being reassigned. she plans to join him once stationed.
Ottawa approves a 1150 mile pipeline from Edmonton to Superior to ship Alberta crude oil via Great Lakes tankers. Built by Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. route runs through Gretna Man to North Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin ending at Superior with refinery deliveries in Sarnia Ontario. Fort William and Port Arthur oppose the plan during the board hearings.
Gerald A. Hutt of Bridgeport pled guilty to kidnapping five year old Janie Franz in Mercer County. He faces a prison term of 30 years to life with sentencing set for September 23.
Washington reports that Philip Murray and the steel industry faces a 60 day postponement on a looming strike after the conciliation board’s recommendations. Cyrus S Ching, head of the government's conciliation service, urged industry cooperation and backed a pension and social insurance package while wage talks stalled. John L Lewis and the United Mine Workers shift focus to coal talks as steel bargaining concludes.
In a tense labor landscape Walter Reuther and Murray steer strategic paths with Ford and Chrysler. The CIO auto workers chief and the president direct tactics during ongoing fact finding hearings in New York.
Duluth report says the Minnesota heiress Mrs. Robert Park 32 a former Jane Alworth filed for divorce from Park alleging alimony custody and division of joint property. She is linked to a $6 million Duluth estate left by Marshall H Alworth in 1942 and is identified as a former New York orchestra leader.
Patchogue New York reports parking meters in the business district reached a million nickels since installation thirty three months ago. Justice Charles N. Butler notes 75 violators were fined one dollar each, out of 317 meters in operation.
Milwaukee Wisconsin bumper crops field and sweet corn benefit from weather conditions says the U S weather bureau weekly crop summary Field corn safe in southern third of state north Sweet corn canning nearly completed Farmers have silo filling done and more fodder left Harvests progress potato digging yields fair to good Beekeepers report best honey yield in a decade Apple crop large and plums loaded Cranberries ripening earlier than usual harvest to be in full stride Pastures freshened after rains and good start for stand of grains new grass seedings fall plowing
Dr. David M. Cowgill, public health officer of Abilene Texas, was named director of the Eau Claire city county health department yesterday. The post had been vacant since January.
The federal government faces a test of applying state anti gambling laws to Indian reservation residents as a case opens. Judge Patrick T. Stone ordered briefs in ten days after Anna Maulson and Richard Losseur pleaded innocent to charges of possessing slot machines on Lac du Flambeau reservation.
Senate democratic leaders shelved until January the decision on repealing oleomargarine taxes. Senator Lucas of Illinois indicated the measure faced delay and would be reconsidered after the holidays.
After a party policy committee meeting lawmakers agreed not to raise the oleomargarine tax issue in the senate until the next congress. The House voted to repeal the 10 cents a pound tax on colored oleomargarine and 0.25 cents per pound on uncolored. Lucas said repealing the oleomargarine tax will be among first measures next year.
Walter Hunt, the inventor of the safety pin, sold all rights to his invention in 1849 for four hundred dollars. The deal transferred ownership to an unspecified party, ending Hunt's control over the design.
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