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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1941
Page
4
Wartime production drives defense industry employment and predicted national income, yet critics warn a return to peacetime pricing and shortages of civilian goods. The author argues a wartime economy cannot be judged by peacetime metrics and that price controls may fail to prevent shortages as defense needs pull resources away from consumer goods.
An analysis argues TVA dominance in the Southeast forces private utilities to ramp up generation as rainfall falters and TVA reservoirs drop. It warns of a looming 1,000,000 kilowatt shortfall and urges returning power to private companies that provide reliable, taxpaying service nationwide.
Work is well advanced on laying the first continental underground toll cable by AT&T. West and east crews will splice at Wendover Utah, the 1915 open wire milestone. The system plans include 09 and 10 to 7 channel telephony, teletype, telegraph, radio and picture transmission, with 25,000 tons of cable and nearly half a million miles of wire buried to ensure emergency communications.
In Gettysburg at the G A R State Encampment only three Civil War veterans attend as Pennsylvania counts just 85 survivors. The meeting selects a future encampment site while recalling Memorial Day and the nation’s debt to preservers.
Youths finishing school will work this summer but may waste money on luxuries. Wise youths save, help family, pay board, and donate to church. They should seek medical exams, then invest for self improvement rather than buy cars. Warns on phony correspondence schools and urges vocational guidance. Practical parenting tips follow.
At a farewell dinner Chiang Kai-shek declared Japan exhausted by years of resistance and predicted China would win the war with only material and economic aid from the United States. Despite the Shansi Honan frontier pressure, observers see renewed Chinese push for help while Britain absorbs more needs. Old China believes victory is possible even under heavy handicaps.
A guide on making the best of a cold wet weekend by staying indoors with your hostess. Plan cheerful entertainment and join games with enthusiasm to become the popular guest.
A collage of quirky lines and jokes about delays in shipments, the last word in bathing salts, wedding age rules, naval rationing, and candidacy tricks. It riffs on everyday quirks from newspapers and society, with jokes about marriage, work, and politics.
A worried reader asks about timing for engagements and gifts. The answer advises waiting until financial stability, then gifting attendants at rehearsal or before, offering items like a traveling bag, and detailing invitation etiquette for envelopes and family members. Tone reflects a midcentury newspaper advice column on social norms.
Unclear fragmentary notes reference distrust in circumstantial evidence and a domestic matter involving a wife and property. Doris Dazzle appears unsettled while Flossie Fernivill offers help. A man is jailed for selling his wife for 700 dollars amid a call to curb profiteering.
Central Press columnist Charles J. Stewart examines Nazi moves against German Christian Scientists as part of a broader repression tied to asset freezes and consulate closures. He notes the Gestapo action appears original and questions state department protection while comparing to Catholic and Jewish persecutions.
International News Service reports Defense Direct or-General William Knudsen warns that a German overrun of Russia risks American security. Capt Eddie Rickenbacker describes recovery from a severe air crash as emerging from wilderness to sunlight. Anthony Eden stresses Britain will aid Russia while noting divergent paths. Senator Bennett Champ Clark denounces aid to Russia as inviting Communist propaganda spread in the United States.
War mars growth and makes man a brute while wealth cannot buy skill or happiness. A woman can tidy a room or prep herself, but man gains no true cure for troubles. The idle mind, says a maxim, finds work for the devil and makes some believe they are ill.
Washington observers describe a powerful group within the administration that urges deferring bold moves until broad public support is evident. They argue leaders should not outpace public sentiment, while many say Roosevelt has measured progress toward war and avoided alienating the country.
The records mention Arthur Middleton of Middleton Place South Carolina a Whig leader and Continental Congress delegate plus connections to Annapolis Maryland and a Maryland standards work. Also listed is John Alexander Anderson a Presbyterian clergyman college president congressman Civil War chaplain and Kansas State Agricultural College president with long parliamentary service.
A brief devotional note cites Hebrews four verse twenty three about the word of God as living and active. It emphasizes its power to judge motives, discern thoughts, and reach to the inner being. The message frames scriptural reflection as a guide for daily meditation.
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