Unemployment Claims Dip as Week Ends March 26
The Bureau of Employment Security reports a drop in jobless benefits with 1,949,700 unemployed drawing compensation, down 6,000 from the prior week, and first-time claims down 18,200 to 313,200, signaling a possible peak of insured unemployment. A legislative bill to form a State Advisory Commission on Education was rejected in Annapolis, while a note on farm accidents suggests time lost could exceed half the national wheat crop.
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Bureau of Employment Security
Robert C. Goodwin
The
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Legislative Council
State Advisory Commission On Education
House
Senate
Guy Johnson
Employment Takes Upturn
Washington reports March jobless total fell 54,000 in March the first decline in five months. Census says 480,000 more people employed than February boosting the labor force to 60,814,000. Unemployed 3,187,000 employed 57,647,000. Officials pleased by the upturn noting unemployment trend stopped at least temporarily despite year over year rise of 727,000 from March 1948. Seasonal expansions in agriculture and other industries offset continued jobless pressure.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sawyer
White House
Making Paper From Straw And Grass, Memphis Apr 1
Scientists report progress in making paper from straw and grass and claim trees can be grown bigger and faster. E R Timlowski, chemist, says 90 percent of U S paper could come from waste straw and grasses. Victor Schoffelmayer cites fast growing hybrids to meet U S lumber needs with no imports.
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E.R. Timlowski
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Victor Schoffelmayer
Southwest Research Center
San Antonio
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Clevelaird
Ohio
New Paper From Straw Fibers Could Cut Newsprint Costs
Industrial scale use of straw and grasses for newsprint and other papers advances with long fiber processing. Plants planned on the West Coast Midwest and possibly the South to utilize residue from grains and sugar cane stalks. Timlowskis refinement and Schoffelmayers cross bred fast growing trees promise higher yields for farmers and lumbermen.
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Midwest
Timlowski
Schoffelmayer
Hybrid corn boosts U.S. production without more acres
The story notes that hybrid corn has nearly doubled U.S. corn production while corn acreage remains largely unchanged, indicating gains come from higher yields per acre rather than expansion of plantable land.
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U. S
Governor Nominates Two Montgomery Magistrates
Annapolis April 1 Governor Lane announced a lapse in the February 25 green bag to the Senate. Alfred D. Noyes of Rockville is named trial magistrate for juvenile causes and Luke J. Bennett Jr. of Takoma Park as Justice of the Peace for the 13th Election District. The names go to the Senate Executive Nominating Committee for confirmation.
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Lane
Montgomery County
Senate
Alfred D. Noyes
Rockville
Luke J. Bennett, Jr
Takoma Park
Paying Creditors With Stolen Bank Money
FBI reports a missing bank official from Staten Island who vanished after $883,660 disappeared from a Broadway branch where he served as assistant manager. He reportedly mailed at least $76,385 to creditors and others, while authorities investigate the source of funds and Crowe remains at large.
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FBI
Richard H. Crowe
Staten Island
National City Bank
Broadway
Crowe
Bank and FBI pursue missing man in embezzlement case
A bank spokesman cited a law to compel creditors to repay money to the bank’s insurer. The FBI said it sent wanted notices with Crowe’s photo nationwide. He faces two Federal Reserve Act charges for embezzling National Bank funds as the search focused on Florida. In Congress Rep Vinson of Georgia, 68, was hospitalized in Nava Hospital for a kidney ailment with a kidney colic, condition listed as satisfactory by Dr George W Calver.
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Crowe
Florida
Vinson III
Washington
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
House Arm Services Committee
Nava Hospital
George W. Calver
Vinson
Calve
Last Letter From Jackson Husband Reaches Wife
A fragment notes a man in Jackson wrote his final letter to his wife earlier in the week, indicating a recent event tied to Jackson. The brief hints at personal tragedy or disruption affecting a family in the area.
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