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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1947
Page
2
Sample thank you notes for various occasions are included in Reader Service booklet No. 27. Send 25 cents to Weeks Newspaper Service, 243 West 17th Street, New York 11, New York, with your name address zone and booklet title No. 27.
U N delegates gather at town hall for the new session as tensions over a permanent peace committee and the veto loom. The writer recalls past conferences, translation mishaps, and the roles of Mrs Pandit Nehru and Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt amid calls for stronger assembly powers.
President Truman announces a citizens food conservation program to curb waste and support Europe with potential stopgap aid. Luckman of Lever Brothers named committee president as U N assembly tackles Palestine Korea Balkans and press freedom debates amid postwar trials and Hirohito inquiry.
In Camden Joseph Valentino received 10 days after admitting he believed Miss McGhee was his wife. In Houston retired Lt. Gen. Ira C. Baker began civilian life as vice president of Hughes Tool Co. In Hamilton a painting bought at auction was identified as Palm Sunday Morning by Calfano valued at 20000. In Pittsburgh City Council moved to repair all sidewalks due to fashion and pavement dangers.
The 1939 note from Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to Sumner Welles urged an open passport hearing for Hanns Eisler Austrian refugee accused of communism. Eisler brother Gerhart was a Kremlin agent. Eisler later became a songwriter in Hollywood and applied for German Communist Party membership in 1926. Mrs Roosevelt said the note was routine and she knew Eisler little.
Farm cooperatives in 1945-46 totaled a record six billion dollars in business with over five million farmers participating. California led in dollar volume at 652 million, Minnesota next at 477 million, and grain cooperatives topped 2,256 groups with 1.45 billion in trade. Dairy groups and Illinois and Wisconsin memberships also notable.
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