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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1947
Page
2
Corpus Christi hosts a revival of Buccaneer Days on June 12 to 14 led by pirate Jean Lafitte impersonators. The program features sail vessel arrivals, parades, aquatic shows, boat races, fireworks, square dancing, and multiple bands with Miss Texas heading to Miss America.
Lighting, seeding, and fencing work starts on Dubuque Iowa’s new 2.5 million airport with 116 contact lights and a 51 foot beacon tower. Arlington Heights Illinois becomes Arlington Flying Center under Aircraft Services and Sales for civilian training. Colorado Flying Farmers meet at Fort Collins and St. Louis hosts an aviation clinic tied to a regional air fair. Lenox Iowa airport improves to meet government rules for flight instruction. A world tour by Indiana business leaders begins in New York with stops in 12 countries including England and Egypt. A Toledo New York flight reports a cocker spaniel giving birth midair and continue to Bangor.
Wiscon sin Central Airlines plans a 1 495 mile route serving 43 communities across Illinois Minnesota Upper Michigan and Wisconsin. The DC 3 two engine transports with 21 seats will operate after Civil Aeronautics certification.
The piece reports Junius Wood accusing a Moscow based Lenin school of training foreigners and returning disloyal Americans to undermine the United States. It cites a congressional record mention and warns of undercover influence in unions public offices and police. The author notes Wood’s controversial claims and relies on unnamed sources labeled as "old grads."
A physician warned of starvation in Britain and Germany while Europe struggles. The speaker urges Americans to send CARE food packages delivering 40 963 calories for 10 dollars, plus blankets and cotton goods, to listed European countries and the United Kingdom through CARE, a non profit with government blessing.
Peter Duffy, 106, boasts he can pull weeds faster and out-hoe any gardener in Oelwein. Deafness is his only handicap as he reads the evening paper without glasses, and he lists 24 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren amid tales of farming, travel, and a life spanning decades.
New York report that Harry L Donnelly, a 51 year old former traveling salesman, graduated summa cum laude as valedictorian from St. John’s University Law School in Brooklyn. He entered law study as a gag after 25 years on the road and led his class in scholarship despite high school completion in 1912.
The measure would raise postal rates for parcel post by about 30 percent and move air mail from five to six cents an ounce. It also adds roughly 30 percent to second class mail rates for newspapers outside their home county and preserves the three cent local rate after July 1. The new rates would take effect 60 days after passage and signing. Federal economists warn price gains across sectors threaten inflation and expect farm prices to stabilize below 1946 peaks as production rebounds.
Reserve board economists say a price readjustment is coming as a healthy inevitability. They note a downtrend in prices is needed to address inconsistencies in a mixed rigged and free economy, with about 14 million organized workers having derived benefits.
The battleship Oklahoma, first of the super-dreadnoughts, spent 31 years at sea and saw no action in World War I. At Pearl Harbor she was sunk by five Japanese torpedoes on December 7, 1941, raised, and later scrapped. In a final act she drifted from the surface and sank three miles deep northeast of Pearl Harbor marking the end of an era.
Thousands of university students in Shanghai Nanking and Peiping defy Chiang Kai-shek ordering quiet down marching in protests calling for an immediate end to the civil war. About 25 000 students from 16 universities strike demanding grading reform higher government living allowances and an end to war.
The Department of Agriculture warns the world food situation will stay critical in 1947 48 due to foreign crop losses. Output may rise in top nations but declines in import reliant countries will keep grain movement high to maintain supplies.
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