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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1943
Page
3
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The list presents eight items ranging from sacred art symbolism to social history. It includes references to ambersgris value at about 900 dollars per pound and mentions clock making, Esek Hopkins, consanguineous relations, Virginia, Noah, and an ancient context of male dominance.
Western Newspaper Union reports reduced manpower requirements for 1944, Allied drives sever rail lines in Nazi areas, continued operations in the Southwest Pacific, and an expanding stance in the anti subsidies debate.
The House approved a draft deferment bill delaying fathers and reviewing occupational deferrals within districts. The army expects to trim 548000 personnel, reaching 7652000 total, with spending cuts and halted armament programs saving over 10 billion dollars. Red Army rail disruptions trigger Nazi counterattacks in the Baltic region as reservists in the Baltic states are mobilized.
U S forces reinforce on Bougainville for a major assault on the 40,000 defending Japs at their last Solomons stronghold. Liberator bombers strike Gilberts and Marshalls while U S warships shell Buka air base on the island chain.
Agricultural directors from South Dakota Iowa Wisconsin Nebraska and Florida oppose continued subsidy programs as Economic Stabilization Director Fred Vinson weighs as much as nine million dollars a month in subsidies to millers to curb bread prices. The measure drew Senate and House criticism over inflation and price supports for pork and hog products with Bowles and Jones announcing adjustments to pork values and farm sale allowances. The piece notes a broader push for 24 000 new oil wells in 1944 focusing on the Powder River basin and royalty relief to spur development in the Rocky Mountain region.
The House considered a resolution to grant non-operating railroad workers an eight cent per hour wage increase while mid October 1943 rail employment stood at 1,367,817, 4 percent above the prior year but 100,000 short of needs. The Office of Economic Stabilization rejected the raise and offered a 10 cent raise for the lowest paid and 4 cents for the highest, with shortages in operating and maintenance classifications.
Undersecretary Robert Patterson noted the War Department is studying peacetime disposal of its 43 181 183 acres while the federal government owns 383 600 533 acres. The army navy bought 15 hotels for 15 million, some sold to private owners such as the Stevens in Chicago for 5 528 101. UNRRA projects vast postwar aid needs across Europe and Asia with feeding vaccination and quarantine centers. Lend lease food shipments account for one eighth of U S supply with civilians receiving three fourths of production and detailed shares of dairy, oils, fruits, vegetables and grains.
Delegates meeting in Chicago at the National Victory Garden Institute convention resolved to raise next year’s garden output by at least 25 percent and seek about a 33 percent boost in WPB supplies of tools fertilizer and insecticides. They call for 600000 pressure cookers for canning and extra gasoline for cooperative gardens.
Brookings Institute president Harry Moulton told the American Finance conference in Washington that peak war production demand has passed and raw material stocks are adequate or excessive. He forecasts more cancellations of war contracts. WPB figures show a push to produce two million electric irons next year if materials are released, with 500,000 irons targeted in Q1 1944. Prior annual iron sales reached about three million.
New sicknesses labeled Jeep Disease and Destroyer Stomach emerge among troops. Jeep Disease refers to a spinal cyst and related pain from rough vehicle riding, while Destroyer Stomach is a subacute gastritis linked to prolonged sea sickness and irregular meals in North Atlantic service.
J Edmund Good vice president of a chemical company told the Mid American Chemurgic conference and the National Farm Chemurgic council in Cincinnati that the war cuts off foreign insecticide imports. He said 90 percent of prior imports can be replaced with American farm products and highlighted castor beans as a growing domestic supply. A newly developed insecticide named Spra Kast is derived from the castor bean.
Expenditure of a few cents for a vermifuge like phenothiazine for goats is a good investment, say veterinarians. More than a million pounds of beeswax yearly is needed for war products including adhesives waterproofing belts machinery and plane coverings.
Advertises a bright red wool hood and mittens for a two four or six year old girl. Describes double shell edging and scalloped ruffle to protect the neck. To obtain complete crochet instructions send 16 cents, name, address, and pattern No. 5638 to Home Needlework 530 South Wells St. War conditions may delay some orders.
On October 31, 1929, a Perricone family near Beaumont Texas welcomed four fraternal boys in a rare quadruple birth. The event highlighted the 22 possible quadruplet combinations including identical and fraternal mixes.
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