War costs and lessons from World War II
This reflection notes the heavy ongoing costs of World War II, domestic price pressures, shortages, and dislocation. It cites a forecast that war debts and veteran care will reach seven hundred billion dollars in the U S within 25 years, far exceeding WWI costs and underscoring the need to avert future conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Une
Surveyorforence Board
Trent
Britain
Russia
United States
Activities For Youth Develops Gifts Through Oversight
Youth crave activity and seek outlets to express talents in music, manual skill, leadership and organization. Careful parental oversight prevents mischief and lost focus on schoolwork while schools play a key role in discovering and developing these gifts for future usefulness.
Dear Miss Dix Advice On Engagements And Women Rights
Dorothy Dix answers a troubled reader about delaying marriage due to illness and the fiancé waiting. She cautions against breaking the engagement for two years, notes ideal marriage ages 23 and 21, and warns against a partner who would humiliate or abuse a future wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy DIX
Hye
Local items recall 1897 court oath and holiday closures
John L. Jordan swears in Judge John C. Motier at the courthouse as Gov. Lowndes sends the commission. Motier earns 3500 annually, succeeding Judge Linch whose 30 years of service ended. Thanksgiving closed offices, a Fair Grounds football game, a Junior Hall dance, and various church fairs noted. Sleighing by Esterly and Eyler. sale of 16 horses at Fairy Grounds with prices from 50 to 112.50. Ice forms in gutters and pools on a sunny day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Jordan
John C. Motier
Court House
Richard Esterly
Thomas Eyler
North Market Street
North Merket Street
Tuscarora
C. M. deGarmendia
Fairy Grounds
Thanksgiving Day Warmest on Record in Local Notes
Twenty years ago the Nov 24 1827 column notes a Thanksgiving Day with a record high 68 in the area. Residents report crowds on the open road and car horns near the State Armory dances drawing complaints. John C Motter 43 son of the late Rev Isaac Motter dies in Scranton. Rev Charles H Corbett accepts St John’s Lutheran Thurmont pastorate arriving from Linthicum Heights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Armory
John C. Motter
Isaac C. Motter
Motter
First National Bank
Scranton
Charles H. Corbett
St John’s Lutheran Church, Thurmont
Sickness Updates From Local Hospitals
Among The Sick shows patients at Church Home Hospital Baltimore facing a major operation and slow recovery. Mrs Mary B Young of Wilson Avenue will stay home weeks after a dislocated ankle from a curb incident on Market Street. Mrs Myrtle Swot of 322 East Second Street returns home from Frederick Memorial Hospital after abdominal operation. Mrs Roland W Harbaugh, once treated at Frederick Memorial Hospital, goes home to Braddock Heights on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ara
East Southstreet
Church Homeland Hospital
Baltimore
Mary B. Young
Wilson Avenue
Young
Mariket Street
Myrtle
East Second Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Roland W Harbaugh
Frederic Memorial Hospital
Braddock Heights
Sundar
Weather and Canada Price Ceiling Developments
The report lists two hours of precipitation ending at 8 a.m. and a November year-to-date total of 65 inches with high and low temperatures from yesterday and prior year. It notes river conditions on multiple streams and mentions Ottawa restoring price ceilings on many processed foods as Canada’s government launches the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckeystown
Poomac
Restores
Ottawa
Canada
Washington Daybook on Knutson NAM ties and diplomacy
Washington memo notes Rep John Knutson pushing tax cuts favored by NAM while industry leaders praise his stance. It also sketches possible shifts in U S diplomatic posts under Truman including Lew Douglas and Bedell Smith amid foreign aid debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tess Coffin
Washington
John Koutson
National Association of Manufacturers
Lovesick
House
Ways and Means
NAM
Old John
Congress
Knutson
Congress of American Industry
Association
The
NAM News
Robert R. Wason
Europe
America
Earl Bunting
Wason
Ralph Flanders
Vermont
U. S
Lew Douglas
Great Britain
George Marshall
Douglas
Marhall
Truman
Bob LaFollette
Wisconsin
Roosevelt
Bedell Smith
Beedle” Smith
Russia
Marshall
Smith
Stalin
Jefferson Caffrey
France
State Department
U.S
Paris
Why Housing Costs Climb Even as Wages Rise
An analysis from a national survey of about 60 cities argues high building costs stem from reduced output per worker and price controls. It notes bricklayers now lay 540 bricks daily at $18.96, while prewar output and wages rose, and accuses unions and government of suppressing full facts to mask monopoly-like slowdowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Congress of the
United States
Department of Justice
Congress
America
Doctor Explains Alcohol Effects On The Body
Dr William A O Brien outlines how alcohol depresses the nervous system. Acute intoxication impairs judgment and coordination and delirium tremens can occur in chronic drinkers, with liver cirrhosis and reduced life expectancy noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. O'Brien
NEA
Questi
Saturday Seminar at Hood College on Marshall Plan
Irwin Tobin of the State Department leads a Saturday seminar at Hood College on the Marshall Plan's economic and political aspects. The event, first in a Town Hall series, includes experts from Goucher College and other bodies and covers European recovery, World Bank, IMF, and U.S. aid conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irwin Tobin
United States Department of State
Hood College
Town Hall Organization
United States
Europe
World Bank
International “Monetary Fund
U.S
Tobin
Val Lorwin
State Department
Gertrude Bussey
Goucher College
Omi Riches
Adinistration
Gyan Chand
International Monetary Fund
Katherine Marshall
Women’s International League For Peace and Freedom
Oliver Reddick
Hood
Town Hall
Social Visits Highlight Weekend in Ladiesburg District
Mr and Mrs Walter Lind hosted with sons Joseph and Rev, and daughter Betty while other families from Linwood and Frederick visited relatives in the area. Neighbors Roy Lind and many others shared meals and evenings at various homes. A covered dish supper organized by the Middleburg church Ladies Aid is planned for November 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladiesburg
Walter Lind
Joseph
Betty
James Eyles
Gail Kline
Withide
C. W. Binkley
Linwood
Quinten Dixon
Douglas
Barbar
Frederick
Frank Gaver
Rome
Roy Sr
Glen Reck. Pa
Water Lind
Faerick
Ernest Coldwell
F. H. Birely
Norman Stitely
Curtis Smith
Middleburg Church Hall
iDadies Aid
Middleburg Church
Wheat Hoarding and Tax Rules Roil Texas Farms
Texas farmland giants hold large wheat crops to shield profits from high taxes. Vega residents report eight families harvest 30 000 to 200 000 bushels each. Farmers store grain in barns and quonset huts awaiting 1948 tax year and favorable prices. Government loans appear minor and tax policy drives the hoarding, with CCC loans limited to a fraction of total production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Edson
NEA
Washington
Houston Harte
Texas
San Ange
Standard and Times
Texas Parhandle
Harte
Vega
Tex
Canadian
Tom Campbell
Montana
U. S
Truman
U. S. Department of Agriculture Crop Reporting Board
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Court Takes Jurisdiction Of Children In Pryor Family Case
Juvenile Court under Associate Judge Patrick Sehnauffer assumed jurisdiction over six of seven Pryor children from Lantz after a hearing. The children were returned to their parents with supervision by county probation officer Mrs. William C. Roderick. One 15 year old daughter failed to appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mirs
Allen L. Pryor
Lantz
Patrick 31. Sehnauffer
William C. Roderick
Pryor
Roderick
Prior
If Was
Womans Club Meeting in Sykesville Highlights
The November Womans Club gathering at Mrs. J. M. Harris’s home drew a large crowd in Sykesville. Seitz spoke on Russia. two guests were welcomed, and two new members, Mrs. Wilbur Fimmer and Mrs. Robert Taylor, were elected. A pocketbook filling demo for overseas aid was shown, and plans for a band concert and school book presentation were announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sykesville
Womans Club of
J. M. Harris
John J. Lankartes
Seitz
Ray Brown
Sirs. Brown
Mirs
T. J. Smith
Robert Greer Shields
Wilbur Fimmer
Robert Taylor
Michael Seitz
Marley Cass
Cnd
Colony
D. W. Cauthorn
Horace Jeferson
Clarence Clarke
A.C Brown
William Shafer
R. RK. Barnes, Jr
Grimm
Airs
A. Brown
Olive Forthman
Willoughby Anport
William Shipley
Allport
Big Four Open Meeting Tomorrow in London
Preparations whirl as about 500 aides and experts finalize plans for the Big Four Foreign Ministers conference in London. Molotov arrives. Bidault joins coalition cabinet and Bevin and Marshall anticipated to meet. Sokolovsky Zarubin Vishinsky and Smirnov lead Soviet team in Vienna London discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Tomorow
Germany
Austria
V. M. Molotov
Georges Bidault
Doubis
France
Georgi N. Zarubin
A.S. Smirnov
Foreign Ministers Council
Lump In Breast Calls Yor Early Examination
A Baltimore doctor urges women to see a physician within 24 hours of noticing a breast lump. Dr L Clarence Cohn at St Agnes Hospital says only about one in three such cases are cancer, but early action improves outlook. He cites survival rate increases with early detection and discusses figures from 1,240 cases over 23 years. A deed recorded shows Woodsboro property sale from All S Bowers to Robert Shriner for about $7,500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
L. Clarence Cohn
St Agnes” Hospital
Cohn
Southern Medical Association
Tist
C Clerk
Woodsboro
All S Bowers
Robe
Shriner
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Eroai
A ON Are. Co
Audit Bureau
Freceren Nc
Miss DIX
the News
Washington Daybook
Kuwissa
Raymond Baldwin
Connecticut
Baldwin
Mr. Truman
Clifford
David Lawrence
Chicago
Chicaza
AFL International Typographical Union
Campbell
iSomrmabh Mss
Globe Irods
Daniel Lind
Sophie Linge
Reno Grabil
Fames
Johnsville
Mor. Gaver
the Frank Gaver
Calvary Methodist Church
Fishers
George A. Lockard
Melvin T. Tabler
Edward M. Mantz
State Sanatorium
Civil Service Commission
EA Service
HREH
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