Defense highway bill advances with hefty funding mixed with defense aims
The House approved a defense highway bill totaling 170 million dollars sending it to conference with the Senate. It authorizes 160 million for access roads to military reservations and defense industries plus 10 million for engineering surveys. The bill lifts federal share to 75 percent on strategic network projects during the emergency. It also covers loans and payroll issues amid wartime measures and small business concerns.
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Mexico
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Gasoline Rationing Ended in Eastern States
Defense official Harald Ickes announced no shortage of supplies this week and ended daily post seven o clock closures impacting motorists. Ickes urged decisive action and called for repeal of the neutrality act joining Wendell Willkie in urging Congress Republicans to take a stand.
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Wendell Willkie
Congress
Defense Savings Stamps explained as defense program tool
Treasury explains Defense Savings Stamps are part of the Defense Program and can be bought at post offices banks or savings institutions. Stamps titled America on Guard may be exchanged for Defense Savings Bonds at many post offices and banks.
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Washington, DC
Army Motor Vehicle Safety Record Hits 99 Percent
The Quartermaster Corps reports during a recent maneuver 35,000 trucks and cars operated day and night produced fewer than 1 percent with accidents or mechanical breakdowns. The corps supplies most Army motor vehicles and stresses safe operation.
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Treat soldiers with respect and friendship, not scorn
A Chanute Field Soldier urges the public to honor servicemen, noting most are worthy despite some bad apples. He warns that soldiers face the hardest battle in peacetime as civilians mock or mistreat them, and asks readers to greet them as friends for the protection their uniform represents.
Idaho WPA Workers Train for U S Defense
Idaho WPA trainees show 86 percent completion in National Defense Training courses across Boise Pocatello Nampa Welser Moscow Sandpoint and Logan Utah. Programs cover aircraft sheet metal welding tool forging machinist blacksmithing radio pattern making foundry with job placement efforts aiding graduates into private industry and defense work.
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Idaho Potato Recipe Contest Draws National Chefs
L. E. Sargent of the Idaho Advertising Commission announced a national contest for the best Idaho Potato recipe with cash prizes of 100, 50, 25, 15 and 10 dollars. Entries must include cost per serving and a letter on how the recipe was publicized. The contest aims to promote Idaho potatoes in about 35,000 restaurants and hotels via trade magazines.
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L. E. Sargent
Idaho Advertising Commission
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Death Claims Two Lives In Idaho Road Tragedies
A driver died two hours after his car crushed chest when a roadster skidded on a rain slick highway near a state police officer. In southeast Idaho a red light encounter killed instantly the wife of the first driver as another car collided at the intersection.
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Statements by Nazi officials quoted in 1940s interview
An archival quotation presents Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels asserting a global German dominance mission. The piece reflects wartime propaganda and outlines intent to use force to compel nations like the United States to submit, via statements attributed in a Kurt Luedeke interview.
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Paul J Goebbels
Reichsminister
New York
Adolf Hitler
Kurt Luedeke
National Forest Timber For Sale in Cache Forest
Sealed bids for 684 000 feet b m Engleman spruce and alpine fir timber on about 90 acres in Paris Canyon Cache National Forest Idaho are due December 1 1941. Minimum bid 2.00 per foot b m. deposit 200.00 to Regional Fiscal Agent Ogden Utah. also 0.60 per foot b m for slash disposal and timber stand improvement.
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Utah
Boise Meridian
Paris Canyon
Cache National Forest
Idaho
Forest Service
Ogden
Sightless Workers Produce Million Army Pillowcases
The War Department distributes defense work to many small groups. The Quartermaster Corps has engaged sightless workers in 25 institutions across 14 states to produce 1,000,000 pillowcases for the Army.
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Quartermaster Corps
Notice For Bids Paris Idaho Fire Hose Supplies
Sealed proposals will be received by the City of Paris Idaho until 5 o clock p m November 5 1941 for supplying one hundred feet of 2 in fire hose two hundred feet of 1 in fire hose with siamese connection and fixtures Proposals may be delivered to the Clerk after publication and before 5 p m November 5 1941 Dated October 21 1941 Paris Idaho S Sleight Mayor W Smith Hoge Clerk 023-30
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