Audit of Portsmouth 1947 Books Shows Sound City Finances
The Bigelow audit of Portsmouth’s 1947 accounts shows a projected year end operating surplus of 164 001 with a cash balance of 227 790 and revenues 24 290 above expectations. It notes over expended appropriations by 12 253 and outlines changes urged, including a central payroll system and unified department payrolls. The report also points to misdating and equipment-account issues in the street department and details net liabilities of 52 931 after deductions from receivables and taxes.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth Herald
Bigelow
Cty
Water Department
Howe
Mga
Morley Company
Dixiecrats Meet To Plan Battle For Presidency
In Houston Texas State Rights Democrats gather to present battle tactics to Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Thurmond will formally accept as States Rights candidate for president with Fielding Wright as running mate. Mississippi’s suggested vice presidential candidate is expected to arrive from Jackson. Texas Dixiecrats return from Austin with party protests as the Democratic committee certifies Truman Barkley tickets and rejects a referendum on Thurmond Truman in the Aug 28 primary.
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Houston
Tex
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
South
Jackson
Texas
Austin
Truman
Barkley
City to Celebrate 100th Anniversary
Portsmouth marks its centennial with a reorganized Chamber of Commerce hosting committees for membership retail by laws and centennial observance. James B. Smith leads the event with Keith Field Albert Welfson and Harry Kirp aiding. New committees were named at a Morley company meeting.
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Portsmouth
Chamber of Commerce
James B. Smith
New Castle
Keith Field
Albert Welfson
Harry Kirp
Morley Company
Ralph Wood
Arthur J. Healey
Charles Scripture
John L. Scott
Winfield W. Scott
O. ¢. Brown
George Chick
Frederick D. Gardner
Fred Cushman
Frederick S. Gray
Philip F. Gray
Raymond F. Blake
Theodore Rk, Butler
Melvin Goodman
Arthur J. Reinhart
Harry Winebaum
George J. Scott
Herman Page
Mr. Field
Lafayette Road
Confident Dewey Curtails Speeches
Governor Thomas E. Dewey shown by friends as so confident he may make fewer than 10 major campaign speeches. The GOP course not fixed until Albany meeting with Earl Warren, Dewey's running mate, next week, signaling a quieter pace versus Truman’s heavy whistle campaign by the Democratic National Committee.
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Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
Friends
Albany
Earl Warren
California
Dewey
GOP
Truman
Democratic National Committee
Greenland Bay Youth Falls From Haystack Fractures Skull
A Greenland Bay boy about ten was rushed to the navy hospital in Carlsen with a fractured skull after a fall from a haystack. George Lee Lehto, son of Chief Petty Officer George E. Lehto, was in serious condition when transferred from Portsmouth naval hospital. Officials said initial checks could not yet determine the full extent of his injuries.
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S Iven
Greenland
Navy Hospital
Carlsen
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
George Lee Lehto
George E. Lehto
Naval Hospital
Record Harvest Forecast As Crop Report Is Set
The Agriculture Department reports a record breaking crop season with yields of corn wheat oats rye barley and rice seen far above previous seasons. Strong harvests for flaxseed dry beans tobacco peanuts sugar cane and sugar beets are already influencing prices with wheat down 30 percent and corn about 20 percent since January. Lower prices are expected for meat dairy and eggs as expanded grain output boosts livestock production and storage space constraints threaten corn stocks.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
United States
Third Party Challenges Shake New Hampshire Campaigns
In New Hampshire a Sept 14 primary shapes up with Dartmouth professor Herbert Hill proposing a brain trust of educators and Democrats to reform state government. Former Rep Sherman Adams blasts the idea as insidious central control while Adams’ rival is John McIntire. Progressive candidate Harold Horne launches a 65 city stump tour in his bid in the second district, while the party vows to broaden outreach despite Manchester leafleting clashes involving city officials.
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Dartmouth
Herbert W. Hill
Hanover
Brain Trust
Progressive Party
Warne
Hill
Adams
Harry Carlson
Meriden Farmer
Democratic National
Manchester
Alexander Keranikas
Goffstown
Progressive
Congress
Air Force Apology Over Wells Plane Crash Incident
The Air Force apologized to The Portsmouth Herald for the treatment of three reporters and a photographer at the Wells crash scene. Col. Benny Vicello at Grenier Air Force Base blamed inexperience and stated any damage to film was against policy. Herald editors claim a shoot to kill warning was given and demand full disclosure and accountability.
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Portsmouth Herald
Air Force
Wells
Benny Yvicellle
Grenier Air Force Base
Manchester
J. D. Hartford
The
Herald
Vicellio
Fim
Vicellia Slso
Hartford
Air Force Headquarters
James WY. Forrestal
Forrestal
U S Takes a Punch At Its Living Costs
The government plans to raise payments on short term securities to curb borrowing and inflation. Treasury notes will move from 3 8 to 4 4 percent, increasing cost to the government. Sept 15 and Oct 1 set the dates for this shift as $10.5 billion matures. Federal controls on credit may follow with new price and wage powers.
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Washington
Treasury
Snyder
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
Truman
Woman Minister to Lead Newfields Church Pulpit
The Rev Ida Augusta Green of Washington DC will assume the pastorate of Newfields Community Church starting September 1. A Oberlin graduate with a Michigan master's, she has lectured on temperance in Europe and trained at Chicago Theological Seminary. She has served churches in Groton New York Buda Illinois Havre de Grace Maryland and Billings Montana and has spent time in Honolulu Puerto Rico and Deering training.
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Newfields Community Church
Ida Augusta Green
Washington, D.C
Newfields
Oberlin College
University of Michigan
Miss Green
Scotland
England
Ireland
Chicago Theological Seminary
Europe
Sherwood Eddy
Mexico City
Caribbean
Groton
Buda
Webster Congregational Christian Church
Havre de-Grace
Billings
Mont
Honolulu
Puerto Rico
Cemetery Ghosts Hobble Wells Selectmen in Old Burial Row
The Wells town cemetery dispute explodes as figures from the pre revolutionary era appear in a spiritual visitation. The Abraham Lincoln Women’s Relief corps at Wells Grange hall discuss Bill Byrnes and his home built near the burial ground. Selectmen consider fences or hedges to encircle graves of Josh Littlefield and five early settlers including an Indian fighter. Byrnes family resist, while residents tease a possible abandonment of the site unless the cemetery is reactivated under town control.
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Josiah Littlefield
Wells
Josh
Bill Byrnes
Abraham Lingoin
Relief Corps
Byrnes
Bill
James Brewster
Selectmen
Selectman
Brewster
Archie Wormwood
Mr. Brewster
Littlefield
Geraldine
Bille
New York
Agent Denies Leet Tells Bentley Secrets At Senate Hearing
Former OSS operative Lee, 33, testified he disclosed no secret information to Elizabeth Bentley, a confessed Soviet agent, while Bentley accused him of sharing details about Oak Ridge and OSS operations in China and the Balkans. The House committee pressed Bentley and Lee in turn and noted subpoena possibilities. Lee said his association with Bentley was social, not espionage, and defended his wartime conduct and loyalty to the country.
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Washington
Duncan C. Les
OSS
Elizabeth T. Bentley
House UN- American Activities Committee
Leet
Miss Bentley
Lee
Office of Strategic Servicer
Oak Ridge
Tens
China
Balkans
Rhodes
Mary Price
Miss Price
War Production Board
Truman signs housing bill amid GOP neglect charge
President Truman signed the housing bill into law criticizing Republican leaders for blocking the Taft-Blender-Wagner bill, which would have provided public housing and slum clearance. He called the GOP measure inadequate and said it lacks public housing and urban slum clearance provisions while urging broader help for the housing shortage.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Mr. Truman
Taft Bilender-Wagner
GOP
Cong Bess
House of Representatives
End of Violent Strike Brings Dayton Return to Work
In Dayton Ohio on August 10 peace arrived at Univisions plant after three months of dispute. About 610 United Electrical workers return to their jobs following a unanimous Local 768 vote approving a settlement. The accord includes mediation on rehiring 11 strikers accused of violations, adherence to a National Labor Relations Board ruling on election, immediate end to picketing and violence, and an 11 cent per hour raise backdated to July 27 with restored positions or comparable jobs for those filled since the strike began.
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Dayton
Ohio
Univisions
National Guard
United Electrical
Nations Labor Relations Board
Uni- Vis
Hampton Search For Missing Girl Proves Fruitless
Hampton Police Chief John J. Malek reported the fruitless search for Ruth Eisenberg a 22 year old nurse from Newtown Connecticut. A thorough sweep of the Hampton area found no sighting of Miss Eisenberg or her photographs. The Newark girl had been identified by a Brooklyn New Jersey couple who gave her a ride toward Hampton Center. She was last seen at Boston North Station the night of July 20 believed en route by train from Bridgeport Connecticut to Portsmouth.
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Ruth Eisenberg
Newtown
Eisenberg
Boston
North Station
Bridgeport
Berlin blockade rumors spark talks bog down in Kremlin
Rumors of a Soviet move to reopen the Berlin rail link were discounted as talks among the three western envoys and Foreign Minister Molotov stalled on immediate settlement. Western officials noted continued deadlock while Berlin faces shortages and competing food offices emerge in the city.
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Berlin
Mcemed
Ine
der Kurler
Aso
Ellard Denied New Hearing in Embezzlement Case
Concord August 10 AP The state supreme court denied Leon Ellard a rehearing and prepared to notify a lower court that the 58 year old former Salem Major store manager must serve two to three years in state prison. He was found guilty of embezzling four thousand dollars from the liquor store in Rockingham County.
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Concord
State Supreme Court
Leon
Ellard
Salem Mqnor
Rockingham County
Nquor
Four-Man Board To Inspect Sub At Local Yard
A four man board from Washington will visit Portsmouth naval base Monday to inspect the USS Quillack in a materiel review. The submarine has been at New London for overhaul after arriving June 23. The board includes Rear Adm Braisted, Capt Christmas, Comdr Gibson and D. A. Lindquist with base officials coordinating the inspection.
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Washington, D. C
Portsmouth Naval Base
Quillack
New London
Conn
Comdr
Mareshall H. Austin
USN
F.A. Braisted
W. F. Christmas
High Price of Eating Adds To Fight on Farm Support
New York dispatch notes rising food costs sharpen debate on taxpayer help for farm price supports. Government price supports keep wheat corn cotton and potatoes above market for both farmers and consumers, with forecasts of large crops and potential transfers of grain to Uncle Sam.
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New York
Jearm
Uncle Sam
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