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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1947
Page
2
Collier’s reports the late Princess Der Ling kept a nightly court on Golondrina island off Lower California during 1928 29. A palace was built and about 300 entertainers attended daily as court members to aid her memoir writing and recall her Imperial Court days.
Vegetables seasoned with Table-Grade Nu Maid Margarine draw praise at home. The ad style note claims Nu Maid makes foods taste better and other dishes improve with its use.
Washington analysis notes Truman’s 74 vetoes to 79th congress and Roosevelt’s 631 vetoes, with early presidents like Washington starting the practice and others rarely using it. The piece surveys veto history, pocket veto mechanics, and the debate over executive power versus majority rule.
The author laments the loss of elm trees on a historic avenue and warns that Dutch elm disease, with two DC cases, imperils these venerable trees. He notes federal cutbacks to control programs, the Morristown lab, and the elm as a prized urban shade tree with uses from slack cooperage to veneers, while recalling presidentially planted specimen trees in the White House grounds.
Rep. Fred A. Hartley charges big business and labor with betraying the public in the coal mining contract with the United Mine Workers as southern operators sign soft coal pacts. He cites a claimed illegal wage checkoff and collusion to skirt the Taft Hartley Act while Europe prepares for the Paris reconstruction talks with Hungary and four other Communist-led governments among those declining invitations.
The navy saw a surge in resignations with over 1,700 officers leaving Annapolis commissions in the last ten months to take higher paying civilian jobs. The army fared better with 259 West Point officers resigning in the same period, a loss still deemed hard to replace.
A late National Industrial Conference board report shows farm assets rising about 90 percent from 53.7 billion in 1940 to 101.5 billion in 1946 and gross farm income up 124 percent. Real estate leads asset growth, while cash farm marketings more than double, and government payments remain steady. Princess Elizabeth and Lt Philip Mountbatten announce engagement with royal approval, likely autumn wedding. A petroleum export license to Russia is granted after Weichel urges denial, amid moves to halt shipment of 248000 barrels aboard three West Coast tankers.
The Agriculture Department reports farm income for the first six months of 1947 rose 30 percent from a year earlier, with farmers earning about 11.7 billion from sales and about 12 billion from government payments. Meat animal sales led gains, dairy receipts rose 30 percent, and crop receipts reached roughly 3.8 billion.
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