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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1939
Page
6
The report lists prize winners in Spring and Spring Evening Leagues with captains averages, pins, and cash awards. Social items include visits from residents of Easton and Bethlehem, a large Black Dance and Festival by the Boy Scouts Mothers Auxiliary, and various family gatherings and hospitality events.
A political column presents Franklyn Waltman and Charles Michelson arguing for both major parties with balanced scrutiny. It contrasts Democratic critiques of New Deal policy with GOP messaging, notes Congress battles, and cites Mark Sullivan on Roosevelt Farley dynamics, while questioning fiscal and political motives in a period of partisan tension.
The passage credits Senate leader Charles L. McNary and House member Joseph W. Martin Jr. for Republican sagacity and results. It notes the minority party's militant, constructive stance and predicts productive reforms when Republicans gain federal control in January 1941.
The NAB with about 400 stations seeks better terms for licensing music from ASCAP, which controls songs and collects roughly 5 percent of stations grossing over four million dollars last year. The dispute, ongoing through 1940, centers on a new payment method and alternative music sources.
NBC radio summer listenership leaps past last year with Judy Garland Mickey Rooney and Woody Herman appearing across NBC nets from New York to Glen Island while Cape Cod picks up NBC telecast signals. In a zany promo 3000 fans crowd the Commodore for hotel ballroom broadcast as air conditioning sponsor tangles with glamour housemaid contest.
Developments indicate the steel industry keeps pace with a brighter business outlook. U S Steel reports 1939 Q2 net income of 1.3 million versus a 5 million loss a year earlier. Steel firms' earnings exceed 12 million, vs 9.5 million deficit in 1938. General Motors sells 50 000 more cars in June 1939 than June 1938. Building material firms double net profits. Life insurance new writing up 22.1 percent in June 1939 from June 1938. Despite data, critics blame the New Deal amid calls for Republican victory and a Hamilton Fish revival talk.
Bath A. A. edged Warren Chemical 5 to 4 in a close Sunday game at Bath. Pitchers Silfies and Brammick mirrored each other in hits allowed and strikeouts. Bath led early. Warren pressed late but could not tie the score. Ervin Chando Armbruster Minnich doubled. Groller hit a three-base. Silfies struck out six. Brammick five. Klusko stole a base. Umpires Boylin and Quinn.
Members of three Nazareth YWCA Ladies Bowling League groups enjoyed a log cabin picnic at Nazareth Municipal Park last Wednesday. The event included a covered dish social a brief business meeting and prize awards during which Mrs Marie Vogel announced her resignation.
A damaged line references Cantourd, Tang, Langaee, and Vols in a sports context. The legible portion hints at a team roster or player names but lacks clear action, score, or event details to determine outcome or date.
Mrs J H Newhart Miss Beatrice Newhart Mr and Mrs Clarence Schaffer Mrs John Howell Mrs Elwood Bauman Miss Rosa Hussmich Miss Anna Glass Miss Francis Glass Miss Helen Simons Mrs Mary Hahn Mr and Mrs Warren Klotz Mr and Mrs William Ackerman Miss Catherine Uhler Mr and Mrs Clarence Happel and Mrs Peters attended the World’s Fair in New York recently. Philip Lehr spent a week in Catasauqua with grandparents Mr and Mrs Andrew Junkin. Mrs Milton Schaffer Nazareth visited Mrs J A Fetherol. Miss Joan Fuls visited her grandmother Mrs Floyd Morris of Cherry Hill. Mrs C E Sandt Mrs Helen Sandt Lehr and Mr and Mrs George Carling returned after a nine day trip through the Thousand Islands Canada and the New England States. On Tuesday night they stayed with Mr and Mrs B F Taylor of Rochester N Y. They called on Mr and Mrs Elmer Santee of Williamson N Y and on Mrs George Hammond and Miss Gertrude Hammond and Miss Eleanor Spinney in Eliot Maine. The last day of their trip was spent at the World’s Fair New York.
The Social Security Board in field offices warns that current lump-sum claimants and workers turning 65 by 1940 could receive monthly retirement benefits under the amended act. It eliminates the age 65 stop date and lowers qualifying years to as little as a year and a half of covered employment, broadening eligibility and increasing lifetime benefits.
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