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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1947
Page
2
Washington report warns the US faces a tight food supply with bumper wheat yet little carryover and corn at risk due to wet spring. Pork and meat are short, butter and cheese reserves low, while retail prices rise faster than wholesale costs. admin plans a public dieting push to curb consumption.
News analysis notes Truman issued 74 vetoes to the 79th Congress with Democrats in power and cites Roosevelt Cleveland Grant as veto leaders. It explains pocket veto mechanics, lists presidents who rarely or never used veto power, and discusses controversy over majority rule versus executive restraint. The piece also surveys European aid questions and relief reports amid looming food shortages.
The author laments impending Dutch elm disease threatening historic elms in Washington DC and reflects on the White House grounds where many presidents planted trees. He cites a proposed cut to federal elm disease funding and notes elms’ value beyond beauty, including use in wood and historic plantings by Adams, Lincoln, and McKinley.
Rep. Hartley charged that big business and big labor colluded to push a coal mining contract for the United Mine Workers, citing a checkoff clause on initiation fees and union assessments as unlawful under the Taft Hartley act. He warned of broader evils in industry wide bargaining.
The article notes higher pay and better home life lure bright young career officers from the navy and army into civilian work. In ten months over 1,700 naval officers resigned commissions at Annapolis for higher paying civilian positions, while the army lost 259 West Point officers, a number the service can spare.
Agriculture department reports farmers earned about 11.7 billion dollars from product sales in the first six months of 1947, with government payments lifting the total to around 12 billion. Meat animal sales rose 70 percent, dairy receipts up 30 percent, and crop receipts about 3.8 billion, with grains and tobacco driving much of the gain.
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