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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1948
Page
2
A veteran journalist muses on diary writing from 1904 to 1947. He recalls his sparse entries around Archduke Ferdinand’s 1914 assassination and notes how diaries reveal more about the writer than history. The piece ponders memory, handwriting, and journal usefulness.
Israel claims a diplomatic win by agreeing to a UN requested cease fire on all Palestine fronts as Jerusalem battles continue. Arab leaders resist, insisting on removing Jewish control. The move places UN pressure on Arab forces and shifts the onus to them to halt fighting.
President Truman urged Congress to expand social security, proposing a 50 percent benefits increase and protections for 20 million more people. The plan adds coverage to farm and domestic workers, the self employed, and small firms employees, plus disability insurance and higher federal aid for dependent children. The move comes amid rising prices and a wary Congress, as inflation and possible recession loom.
John L Lewis leads talks as United Mine Workers face a June 30 contract expiry. He opposes Southern Coal Producers seating, presses 14 regional groups may bargain separately, signaling a 1948 campaign for higher wages and potential injunctions amid pension walkouts and depleted coal stocks.
U S agriculture department projects Europe will produce more of its food this year than in 1946. Early May reports show good crop prospects across Europe and the Soviet Union with bread grains, wheat and rye, set to rebound from last year’s shortfall.
An air force B 36 superbomber flew 8000 miles nonstop with a five ton dummy bomb load and stayed aloft about 36 hours. It landed with roughly 1200 gallons of fuel left, enough to fly two or three more hours.
The U S dairy industry faces a looming crisis as population and birth rates rise while beef prices push cows to slaughter. High prices and hunger abroad drive producers to reduce herds, risking a shortage by 1952 and possible rationing in a land once rich with milk and honey.
In Chicago this July a 114 foot by 210 foot sign will blaze across Lake Shore drive. A mile and a half of neon tubing will illuminate letters 38 to 58 feet high to promote a distillery’s leading product as the switch is thrown to turn on the enormous display.
In Oregon the presidential primary drew hoopla as Dewey moved ahead of Stassen, whose wins in Wisconsin and Nebraska faced a setback. Stassen still heads to the June 21 convention with about 200 pledged delegates. Dewey also projects similar support. A 548 vote convention threshold remains decisive.
George W Harvey, winner of Richmond Va safe-driving contest, was fined five dollars in court for driving too slowly. Buckingham Palace in London released spot news to the press. Princess Margaret Rose contracted measles. A new postmaster was appointed in Oceana West Virginia named Please Wright. Magistrate Francis X Giaccone in New York heard ten deaf mutes plead guilty to loud boisterous conduct, fined one dollar each. A Somerset Pennsylvania department store blamed spring weather for 60 degree temperatures and advertised straw hats with earmuffs.
A collage of gossip and commentary including a jab at Congressman Hoftwit s press bill and hopes for press freedom, brief editorials on Steinbeck and Soviet criticism, comic quips from various personalities, and notes on stage and society figures amid wartime chatter.
A royal jester faces execution for punning until the king relents and pardons him if he vows never to joke again. The jester’s last quip sealed his fate as execution proceeds. In a hotel, a woman seeks a fire escape and ends up in a bath area with a towel-clad man asking where the fire is.
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