Camp Fire Girls Reveal 35 Years Of Community Service
A 1947 feature celebrates Camp Fire Girls with 360000 members in 222 councils from Maine to California. The Going Places anniversary project highlights leadership training in Reading Pennsylvania Dayton Ohio and St Paul Minnesota, plus wartime orphan adoption in Oregon and California and new baby care courses in Dayton. The piece traces the organization from 1912 incorporation to its broad civic programs and national reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
California
Camp Fire
Reading
Dayton
Ohio
St. Paul
Minn
Klamath County
Ore
Washington
Horizon Clubbers
Sacramento
Calif
AIRPORT CHATTER AND FLIGHT FACTS IN AMERICA
High school aeronautics classes use a retired AT-6 war surplus plane bought for 200 dollars for training. Renton Vocational school trains on Cessna transports, overhauled by 140 WWII veterans. Navy activates a new air reserve unit in Denver aiming for 400 full time personnel and 1500 trainees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chatsworth
Ill
Renton Vocational School
Renton
Wash
Navy
Denver
Wisconsin State Senate
Experienced Senate Chairs Lead 80th Congress Committees
Senate committees of the 80th congress are led by seasoned lawmakers with an average 11 years in the upper house. Capper and Revercomb head agriculture and public works while Wiley and White steer judiciary and interstate commerce. Taft chairs labor and public welfare as the panel debates postwar policy and union reforms.
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Walter A. Shead
Washington
Senate
Chapman Revercomb
West Virginia
Arthur Capper
Kansas
Sen
Sen. Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Capper
Agriculture and Forestry Committee
Kenneth McKellar
Tenn
Grain
Topeka
Michigan
Kansas City
W. Va
Public Works Committee
Revercomb
Covington
Charleston
Republican State Executive Committee
Young Republican League of West Virginia
Charleston Bar Association
National Resources Planning Board
Wallace H. White JR
Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
White
House
Clyde M. Reed
Congress
Maine
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Labor Department
Taft
William Howard Taft
Ohio House of Representatives
State Senate
United States Senate
Sewing Circle Patterns for Youthful Frock and Blouses
The notice advertises a short sleeved youthful frock with a surplice closing and a special occasion blouse with few pieces. It highlights fabrics and sizes 12 to 20 for pattern No 8123 and notes 14 requires 1 14 yards of fabric. Readers are urged to send twenty five cents with pattern orders for the Spring Fashion book and receive a free hat.
Wisconsin Historical Society Seeks End to Civil War Bond
A bill in the Wisconsin Senate would free the State Historical Society from its Civil War era restrictions. Current law limits the society to gathering data and exhibits about the war of the rebellion and the measure aims to lift these bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
State Senate
Wisconsin State Historical Society
RTA
Building Bee Solves Holdrege Housing Shortage
Holdrege Nebraska revives a building bee to ease a housing shortage. D C Leffler recalls pioneer practice and neighbors pitch in cooperative plan. Coupons offered for builders and volunteers, with contractors guiding nighttime work. Hope rises for long questers to find quarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holdrege
Neb
Plains Country
D. C. Leffler
The Questions Answer Key Summary
The response lists six Q A pairs: dog watch two hours. Wisconsin 1903 primary method adoption. Celts priests prophets and wise men called druids. ascorbic acid vitamin C. apostle Levi is Matthew. China tea consumption eight million pounds yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaul
Ireland
Britain
Levi
China
Frisco Oakland Bridge Staff of Two Hundred Sixty Four
The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge employs 264 staff to manage its eight mile span and heavy traffic. The force includes 29 mechanics dedicated to servicing disabled cars, averaging 43 requests daily. The bridge operates its own police and fire departments.
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San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
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Camp Fire Girls
Hanieana
Horizon
Blue Birds
Earl Weber
Dunlap
Iowa
Harvey Weber
Wayne Adkins
Elmo, Mo
Adkins
Keith
Donnie
Ontario
New York
Joe Laflamm
Gogama
Berkeley
University of California
THE
Washington Scene
Alexander Wiley
Judiciary Committee
Wiley
Republican Conference
Chippewa Falls
Chippewa County
Labor and Public Welfare
Wisconsin
Matthew
Frisco-Oakland Bridge
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Quonaie
Broadway
ST. Louis
Leston
Fleischmann
Figie
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