Oklahoma Plans Sesquicentennial Pageant at State Fair
Oklahoma marks 150 years since Maj. Jean Pierre Chouteau founded a trading post near Salina in Mayes county. A Muskogee celebration during the state fair week will feature a pageant reenacting Chouteau’s arrival, with descendants and officials presenting the official sesquicentennial event.
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War Treks Fail To Lead Farm Youths to City
A bureau of agricultural economics report shows more than a million World War II veterans returned to farm work nationwide. By July 1 total veterans on farms reached 145000, including 713 farm operators or family members and 20200 hired workers, making up nine percent of farm employment. Northeast and Pacific coast saw more veterans returning to farms than entering service, while other regions ranged 60 to 70 percent. Overall 11 million were engaged in farm work.
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Program To Stress Value of Citizenship To New Prospects
The Justice Department announced a nationwide program to emphasize the worth and meaning of American citizenship for prospective citizens. A national advisory committee will be named by Attorney General Tom Clark to aid the program, which includes pamphlets for prospective entrants and new citizens and enlistment of the bench, bar, civil and educational groups to stress citizenship responsibilities.
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Vacation Costs Hit New High as Travel Booms
War weary Americans plan long summers away with travel bans lifted and duty lightened. Hotels inns and cottages raise rates 15 to over 100 percent since prewar, some up to 50 dollars a day for two. Boat and bicycle rentals and golf fees surge, while fishing and hunting guides demand higher pay. more trouble ahead if business slows.
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Fishermen Census Tracks Size and Returns for Market
California fish and game officials conduct a semiannual census of fish to estimate how many will be offered for sale or sent to canneries. They use three methods: recording boat catches and prices, sampling 50 fish per catch to gauge average size, and tagging 100 fish to study reappearance rates across seasons.
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Washington Never Sleeps Even in Summer
A Washington columnist notes the capital’s bustle continues through summer. Herefers to Herblock’s caricature of General Jackson in Lafayette Park and discusses ongoing government work, from Yugoslavia to Dardanelles, war surplus probes, and CFA price controls, balancing a wary historical perspective with current events.
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Profits or Wages and Prices in Government Policy
A reader questions whether profits or wages drive prices after OPA changes. The piece argues lawmakers shaped price rules to reflect costs in farming and manufacturing, asking who bears the blame for high prices while noting a stray mention of a new pest control rival to DDT and a joking murder reference.
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Barbs and Bits on a War Prisoner Tale
A fragmentary note from Baukhage’s column recounts a prisoner who discarded a life story manuscript only to salvage it and sell it for 24 dollars in a magazine. Other odd vignettes include a make shift prison, a barbed wire sting, a mistaken lottery bill mishap, a shopkeeper’s shrug at clever pets, and a hitchhiker’s airplane forced landing.
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