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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1947
Page
2
Annoyances like lights dimming when the fridge starts and outlets for appliances are addressed. The article promotes a home wiring guide and a Reader Service booklet No 15 with building and remodeling facts and related information.
Jack Smith, voted most promising star in a nationwide poll, promises a better show tonight. Tune at 6 15 this evening for his performance on the new Voice of St Louis.
Memphis authorities and builders tackle veterans housing with new starts in 1946 and fast completion in 1947. Wallace E Johnson leads with timber from own sawmill, in-house brick swaps, and air shipments for windows and doors. Public utilities aid by waiving meters, lowering costs for veterans homes priced 5250 to 7000 dollars.
The writer notes Dupont Circle will be undercut for an underpass to ease traffic as 68,000 cars daily are forecast in a decade. A highway survey cites a 75 percent drop in accidents after previous circle underpasses, with the project costing 3.8 million dollars and destroying mature trees along Connecticut Avenue and around Dupont Circle.
A sweeping trio of tornadoes sliced through rural areas near Fairmont North Carolina and Bright Water Arkansas, killing at least 10 people, leaving about 300 homeless, and damaging tobacco crops. The storm also hit Worth Missouri and Clio Iowa, with numerous injuries and extensive property losses. A Dallas Texas near miss left two dead and four injured as additional twisters disrupted rail lines near Huntingdon.
An underground explosion at the Small Spring Hill mine near Terre Haute Indiana killed eight miners and left three survivors. Eleven men were working on ventilating systems for federal inspection after a safety shutdown earlier in April.
First Mexican chief executive to make a state visit to Washington, President Miguel Aleman is hosted by President Truman with a full schedule arranged by state war and navy departments and Mexican officials. He speaks to the Pan American Union and Congress urging hemispheric unity and independence, and begins talks on an American loan.
In a real life rescue during a Gettysburg scene, Errol Flynn leapt to save Tom D Andrea after his horse stumbled. Both actors escaped unharmed as the narrative mirrored movie endings. British censors require twin beds in public films to discourage cuddling, prompting re shoots for My Awful Wife with a $30 000 cost.
Prices of farm products declined about 1 percent in the month ended April 15 after reaching record levels in mid March. The mid April price index stood at 276 percent of the 1909 14 average, down from 280 in mid March, while costs for production materials rose, pushing parity prices higher. Hog prices dropped 2.10 dollars per hundredweight to 24.30, butterfat 69.5 cents per pound, and milk and grain prices edged lower amid seasonal production.
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