Inflation Is Ruinous To Plane Program
The Senate House Economic Committee warns that galloping inflation has eroded funds for aircraft the government might otherwise buy. In its annual report it urges Congress to enact a stronger wage and price control law swiftly, with focus on farm and food prices. If inflation continues, the committee says, the Kremlin could destroy the economic basis of this government and threaten the free world. Automatic raises are condemned by a majority of the committee.
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Inflation Fight Report Urges Positive Action and Tax Hikes
A congressional committee blasts escalator wage provisions as inflating prices and urges decisive action to curb costs. It condemns non military spending, calls for steeper taxes to fund defense on a pay as you go basis, and favors rapid passage of a $10 billion tax increase while resisting subsidies. The report notes price rollbacks promised but not achieved and favors expanded production to counter inflation.
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Three Shot To Deaths Youth Confesses in Dover
In Dover Delaware a 16 year old boy, William A Nickle, confessed to a triple killing at a home on Delaware Street. The victims were Charles Brown 49 his wife Mary 42 and Browns sister Myrtle Brown Moved from Shelby Kentucky to help. Nickle fled to Pearsons Corner after midnight last night and was arrested there by Dover Police with the assistance of Norris County Prosecutor John B Collins.
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John J. Valley
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Tragic triple homicide tied to teen with rifle purchase
A 22 caliber rifle bought days earlier by Nickle sparked a fatal sequence as he shot his aunt Marvy Brown in the face and stomach then killed Myrtle Brown in a chair and later Brow n in bed, according to Collins mid Valley reconstruction.
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Ted Williams tops league batting in 1938 with .366 mark
Ted Williams of the Minneapolis team led the American Association hitting with a .366 average. The Boston Red Sox star achieved the best batting performance in the league.
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Bright Boys To Be Deferred By Truman Plan
President Truman announced a draft deferment plan for bright college students drawing mixed reactions from educators. Vanderbilt University president Dr Harvie Branscomb warned against grading based deferments while noting likely criticism that bright students avoid fighting. In contrast Rufus H Fite Gerald chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh praised the plan as a splendid arrangement affecting about one million college students nationwide.
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Draft deferments tied to aptitude tests and college records
The News reports that spring and summer aptitude tests will determine draft deferrals for high scorers and college-record holders, while students with low scores face compulsory service. Numbers depend on military manpower needs. In other news, eighteen girls attended the Star 4-H Club meeting at Regina Fifer's Buckeys town home with a cooling group project.
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