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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1948
Page
2
Ex Rolling Stone Jim Brent, Clifton Webb, and Maureen O Hara are profiled amid radio and film history. Highlights include Stop the Music prizes, Kings of the Olympics at UA, Bacall screams, Godfrey’s Thousand Islands song, and Goldwyn helicopter tech shaping future cinema. Gary Cooper in The Fountainhead with King Vidor directing.
Rural letters say farm price declines offer only break in inflation as farmers seek proportionate cuts in the items they buy. Economists expect prices to ease gradually to parity with government support likely after April 1. 1948 farm income may fall about 16 percent from 1947.
A satirical column notes Washington press dispatches and Broadway gossip. It jokes about the Argentine ambassador pressuring Truman to invite the Perons, mentions Evita, Henry Wallace, and a Brooklyn crime pattern, then swivels to Hugh Martin and a Texas flavored song written for a Texas luncheon and its path to commercial use. It ends with Texas City disaster headlines boosting a show tune.
Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine convenes his aviation advisory panel and hires three major press services to publicize its plan. The report calls for a five year U. S. aviation program, mothballed planes, new production capacity, and push for air route coordination and an independent air safety agency. It also condemns the army and navy for failing to unify military aviation.
H. S. Phillips College laments looming enrollment targets near five million by 1960. educators warn of educational inflation and a tide of classroom mediocracy. they cite overcrowding, reduced student engagement, and shifts in campus culture from glee clubs to paid freshman work. Nancy Walker warns about contracts and small type.
The piece suggests a DOJ driven anti trust case against Philip Murray CIO and the Hollywood-Wall Street moving picture trust. It frames the trial as a long running production with election year stakes and predicts acquittal on Taft Hartley charges using CIO News to boost a candidate. It implies pressure and timing affect the case.
WRIGHT PATTERSON argues that pork barrel items in federal budgets are political favors that buy votes. He notes many provisions allocate millions rather than billions, collectively draining taxpayers’ money from state and district projects.
The 28th annual Easter sunrise service gathers about 30 000 worshipers in Colorado Springs at Garden of the Gods. Rev Thomas Dick Jr delivers the sermon under Pikes Peak with radio broadcast to coast to coast on KVOR from 6 30 to 7 a m Mountain Standard Time. The event, sponsored by the Colorado Springs Ministerial alliance, features the 300 voice choir under Frank Gilles and long time soloist Bernard Vessey.
Denver judges introduce an easy payment plan for municipal court fines. The system assesses credit to determine eligibility and allows payment by installments. If a second offense occurs before paying the first fine, the offender goes to jail.
Frank A. Reno a 32 year old father of two serves full time with the Worcester fire department. He was appointed while in France and after losing his left leg was cleared by civil service to operate the fire alarm telegraph system.
Winchester veteran Col. John Hanlon returns a wartime debt by gifting bedsheets to Hemroulle villagers who lent camouflage sheets for 502nd parachute infantry during the Battle of the Bulge. Each sheet bears a Winchester donor name. Over 600 sheets were given to Bastogne's old folks home.
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