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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1948
Page
6
The guide offers household refinishing advice including cleaning woodwork with clear turpentine then paste wax, choosing concrete floors over planks for basements, and methods to remove old paint from white limed oak finishes. It also covers refinishing a brass bed with sandpaper turpentine and enamel coats.
United States fish and wildlife service seeks a noise to deter young salmon from spillways and turbines on the Columbia River. Salmon travel from the sea to spawn further upstream, with young fish often killed trying to descend through dam structures. If a suitable noise is found, many fish lives could be saved.
Doris, living in East Branch with her daughter Jean, plots a fresh Susy Horatious yarn to please publishers. Jean guides gossip and daily life as Doris types feverishly, then wins an advance after the synopsis satisfies editors and hints at an easy street ahead.
Doris and Jean face dreams of New York as they finish a book about teen life. The draft narrates Jean’s gossip filled world with Petey and Chuck, a big move, and family tension over whether to publish in 1968. Doris weighs consequences while Jean clutches fame and youth.
Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey urged readiness to process the first draft batch by October 15 with a January 1 qualifier for the second call. He noted pressure to start with 19 year olds, while the armed services favored prioritizing 24 and 25 year olds.
Senator Joe O Mahoney cites Federal Reserve and official reports showing profits of large firms rising after taxes. He notes General Electric profits exceed 20 percent of net worth, General Motors 19.9 percent, and U S Steel 10 percent, with 1947 profits quintupled from 1939. Wages fail to keep pace with rising living costs, as Americans pay 37 billion dollars more for goods than in 1946.
The piece notes a school fashion craze introducing 60 inch gold metal chains for wear as festooned neckwear, belts, and wrist pieces. It suggests styling with a creperate dress, brooch center festoon, waist cinching, and watch-chain wrist use. It continues the pattern of seasonal jewelry crazes among high school students.
President Truman berated Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall Under secretary William Draper and Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley over policy as he charged drag on re building Germany and criticized segregation in the army. Air Chief of Staff Spaatz plans public critique on military readiness and postwar strategy.
A collection of domestic tips covers safe use of mineral oil in food, onion slicing with a metal grater to prevent finger cuts, maintenance of chromium plated pans, cleaning a glass oven door with baking soda, odor absorption in the fridge with oil of wintergreen, securing loose linoleum, repurposing worn sheets into dish towels, and drying prune additions to brown sugar to avoid hardening.
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