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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1947
Page
2
Washington outlines universal military training as distinct from conscription. The plan would create a National Security Training Corps with civilian advisory board and a Selective Training System to register, classify, and manage trainees, expanding reserve forces while preserving civilian liberties.
The Senate voted 72 to 1 to ratify the Rio conference defense treaty among 21 American republics. It confirms automatic stand ready against external attack and voluntary aid within the hemisphere with post attack consultations. President Truman seeks to convert the Panama Canal to a sea level route and create a unified Atlantic command. The administration's inflation bill would grant rationing powers to manage scarce goods amid Republican criticism of socialist implications.
New Jersey cattleman Eugene K. Denton reports success feeding 20 yearlings a diet based on ground potatoes salt and molasses for 25 days. The steers gained 14 pounds daily, about 25 percent per head. Rutgers Prof. William Ljundah calls the trial a success and Denton releases the formula.
The Idaho-Utah-Wyoming rock phosphate belt holds about six billion tons and could reshape the intermountain agricultural economy. J R Simplot started a superphosphate plant at Pocatello in 1944, now producing 200000 tons yearly of 18 percent phosphate fertilizer, aiding western farming expansion.
J P Seiberling, president of Seiberling Rubber, told a House committee that selling government owned synthetic rubber plants to private firms would force small buyers to rely on competitors. He argued big industry controls markets, undermining true free enterprise until a national rubber stockpile is built and mandatory synthetic use ends.
The column riffs on Walter Winchell’s mock news style and references Eisenhower on newsreels, stage chatter about Vicki Cummings, and quips about King George and Bob Hope. It recalls the Thaw murder case and Evelyn Nesbit, noting a New York World contest offering $500 for a death‑penalty argument.
DREW PEARSON reports that Federal Reserve insiders say voluntary price controls are ineffective and that Congress will likely enact the President's 10 point plan for compulsory controls. The piece cites the mail order sector’s rush to lower down payments after Regulation W expired, with some firms offering ten percent deposits or no down payment, fueling fears of inflation and a depression repeat.
A light column notes a New York woman who picketed a lover’s home to protest not marrying her. It blends romance with legal language and social satire about relationships and arbitration style disagreements.
A hostile analysis targets the Teamsters with Dan Tobin as international president and Dave Beck of Seattle rising to challenge him. Beck pushes a new executive vice president role with broad powers while Tobin seeks to limit competition amid internal strife and a costly San Francisco convention.
After the war a plan to spend billions to rehabilitate Europe is proposed. Congress or the President would appoint an organization or individuals to administer the funds. Taxpayers demand the brightest minds with production know-how to oversee the effort.
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