Potatoes In Stores Here Report Price Surge
Potatoes, once scarce at any price, flooded stores as ceilings were lifted. Prices jumped from 6.30 to 6.36 per hundred pounds to 8 or 9, with sales at 10 cents a pound. retailers limited purchases. some reported strong demand and quick shipments from warehouses. In Baltimore the market boomed with wholesale potato prices at 8 to 9 per 100 pounds after price controls ended. A grocer noted 9 cents a pound retail, warning prices could rise to 10 or 12 tomorrow. Meanwhile British Navy unveiled TV gear to view sea bottom images from 3,500 feet, showing a wreck 240 feet down off Falmouth Bay.
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Wholesale potato prices surge after price ceiling removal
Wholesale prices of potatoes jumped today, in at least one case to double yesterday, after government lifted price ceilings. Increases generally ranged from about 30 to 50 percent with brisk bidding reported for the scarce supplies reaching wholesale markets.
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Agricultural Bill Passes
Washington June 6 the Senate approved a farm appropriations bill providing more than 1.3 billion dollars for agricultural programs for the year starting July 1. The chamber rejected a bid to cut next year's farm payments by 100 million, a move backed by Sen Anderson and Sen Douglas. The measure goes to the House with numerous amendments likely to be debated.
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Girl Acrobat Loses Arm In Baltimore
An 18 year old English acrobat Sylvia Downs suffered a crushed arm when a bus touched a curb and an iron pole in Baltimore. The arm was amputated at Mercy Hospital. She had joined Ringling Brothers Circus two months earlier and witnessed by noon shoppers at Lexington and Liberty Streets.
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Construction of New Library At School For Deaf Authorized
The Maryland State School for the Deaf will begin late August on a new library building. It should be ready for occupancy by the second semester. The project stems from a ten year plan and was approved in the governor’s budget. Local architect Charles F. Bowers drew the plans. The library will house valuable books and gifts from alumni, friends, and colleges. Dr Ignatius Bjorlee urges enhanced reading to aid deaf students, stressing independent reading and language development as vital.
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The Mary land school plans a building not as a traditional library but as a language development laboratory. Evening study hours will be supervised by a teacher, followed by recreation for discussion and reading. The hall will feature exhibits and bulletin boards to encourage live language use and class integration.
Victor Products Co under NLRB order
The National Labor Relations Board orders Victor Products Corp of Hagerstown Maryland to halt discouraging union membership and to offer rehiring to 18 workers fired during the 1950 strike. It dismisses a union complaint about good faith bargaining and upholds the dismissal of 13 workers while CIO union claims stem from the April 1950 walkout. A separate note from Frankfurt reports two MIG jets with Czech markings seen over a U.S. Army barracks in West Germany.
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Red Scare Campaign Reaches New Fervor
In Berlin in June 1946 the Stalinist campaign against West Germany’s alignment with the West grew more intense. Bors Waller Ulbricht urged East German workers to arm for homeland defense to block what he called Western enslavement. He warned Germans would be swallowed by bankers and magnates as Bonn faced Western treatise ratification.
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Fabulous Pottery Owner Dies At 60 In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh June 6 Lewis P Reese aged 60 owner of Fabulous Pottery died today at West Penn Hospital after being admitted last Wednesday. Reese who produced $30,000 Christmas Parties for his employer and handed out bonuses was known for his Scio Pottery ventures and charitable offerings to staff.
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Reese plan aims potters to donate to universities
Reese proposes giving his Scio pottery business to a university while he stays in charge until death or retirement to beat inheritance taxes estimated at 74 percent. Duquesne University first rejected the offer, citing its management and labor award to Reese. The idea surfaces amid Reese’s 1932 bankruptcy recovery and a 1933 profit split with his employer totaling $225,000.
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