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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1941
Page
4
The passage extols private medicine and the free enterprise system, contrasting it with totalitarian models. It claims higher living standards, greater worker benefits, and broader access to medicine in the United States, citing lower diphtheria death rates and more physicians per population.
A Portland Oregon poll by the Oregorien finds ninety percent support federal steps to curb defense industry strikes, with seventy nine percent favoring compulsory arbitration. The results show union workers oppose strikes as strongly as the general public, amid wartime conscription and high wages.
The piece surveys the administration's wartime policy shifts and the impact on economic activity. It notes the removal of remaining wartime controls and assesses ongoing fiscal and market responses amid anticipated presidential address.
The speech sparks wide reactions from Britain to Japan with praise for U.S. resolve and caution from Vichy. Bipartisan talk in Congress threatens to curb aid to Britain and maintain neutrality while Nazi pressure increases on the British Isles. At home, observers note more is needed than words to arm allies. The issue frames debates on U.S. involvement as the nation weighs war risks and strategic aid.
The article explains how half an inch of rain on an acre equals about 14 090 gallons and over a square mile can total 36 000 tons. It notes Yuma Arizona, the typical desert dryness, a record 11 inches in 24 hours in 1921, and cites North America rainfall patterns and the Himalaya as the wettest area with about 400 inches annually.
Salmon travel long distances returning to freshwater to spawn. They often stay within 50 miles of their entry river but may reach 230 to 600 miles offshore before returning. They leap cascades and waterfalls, and dams require ladders or trucking to help them pass. Some salmon travel over 2,000 miles up rivers like the Yukon.
Doctors report Sulfalhiazole effective against staphylococcus aureus meningitis in a child. Frederick W. Dietel and Albert D. Kais note unusual causation in children but high mortality without treatment. The drug was given by mouth daily for three nine day periods with complete recovery after three weeks.
A Granville prisoner finished a 2 day sentence for drunkenness, rode into town with a guard, then got drunk again. He was recaptured after the guard returned to camp, this time ordered to serve 60 days.
Physicists compare the universe to a small world where objects like an orange and an electron remain inconceivably distinct at extreme magnification. An orange scaled to planetary size would still leave the electron invisible to the eye.
A Gulf of Mexico project at Freeport Texas plans a large plant to extract magnesium from seawater. It will treat 12,000,000 gallons daily and produce magnesium for use in aircraft and other industries, highlighting magnesium’s light weight and rising importance relative to aluminum and steel.
In Southport North Carolina a shrimp port workers are paid in nickels. Boats return by afternoon and pickers line up at troughs to receive payments based on shrimp picked. A good picker can earn as much as two dollars in a short afternoon.
A Chicago lab and the U S Weather Bureau report ragweed pollen widespread with Indianapolis and Peoria showing high indexes while Seattle and several western cities register zero. Pollen density measured by sticky slides and daily grain counts determine the index.
National Automobile lab advises American travelers leaving the U S for short or extended trips to Canada or Mexico to carry evidence of citizenship. Regulations do not require it now but it is a precaution so aliens should carry passports or naturalization papers to ease re entry.
A fragment notes that during hot winds in South fenetica South Africa and Asia Minor crimes and murder may occur with reduced punishment, citing Cobier's as authority. The text highlights seasonal violence and weak penalties during windy periods.
After a service a well dressed woman tells her daughter she dislikes the clergyman. The daughter asks what to expect for five cents, revealing a snide remark about the event and the church.
A brief exchange shows Mr Stownard remarking on his wife’s trouble and Mr Wise replying with a wry joke about her having the worst of it. The snippet captures a casual, playful mood between two men in a social setting.
A young man struggles to reach the Fear platform catching his breath after missing a step at the last station. A bronzed middle aged man taunts him about his youth and speed while recalling his own train catching prowess.
A humorous exchange imagines crowds cheering an automobile arrival replacing horse drawn carriages. The Chairmen propose a subcommittee to flag the car drink gasoline and then push it forward.
A bystander asks what is wrong as a motorist stares at his car. The driver mutters garbled phrases including Hather and party horse. He asserts that 30 of the horses are dead from the way it acts, hinting at mechanical failure.
In a split kitchen scene Mrs. Justwed laments underbaked bread saying she added baking powder yet the loaf remains moist. Mr. Justwed offers no clear remedy as the couple argue over the failing bake and household mishap.
Mr Mackton asks about the decision at a political gathering. Henrietta describes a new purse form to accommodate mills coinage and halt tents. She insists that as market baskets shrink, handbags must grow larger to cope with rising needs.
A father asks about final grades, the son says he did well in almost all studies and jokes he failed in history, likening himself to Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. The punchline is that he went down in history.
This week twenty years ago reports a church fast day for global relief funds, a high school basketball win at Cedar, and local social notes. Verna Orton wins Kou trophy, Carlisle Hoyle leaves Evanston for construction work, Mitchell families hold a reunion, and District Court sessions plus a local play by Waller Stack Company are noted.
Navy offers sailors support and trophies at no cost to promote health, morale, and teamwork through baseball, basketball, football, rifle, boxing, wrestling, sailing, and swimming. It argues athletic training develops energetic minds and self sacrifice akin to wartime preparation.
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