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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1948
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union notes a new crisis in Germany with Soviet threats against Berlin. The piece discusses a potential Berlin airlift and a proposed extension of rent control amid mounting tensions.
The Berlin airlift faces a fresh Soviet challenge as Moscow warns against unidentified foreign aircraft over the Soviet zone. American officials vow full responsibility if Americans are harmed. Separately, Rent Director Tighe Woods outlines plans to extend rent controls beyond March 31 and tighten enforcement with eviction restoration treble damages and criminal sanctions.
Elder statesman Lucius Clobb contrasts a failed barber poll with political wit in Pawhooley county as Mayor Ryerson Bucket jokes about the race. In Washington, Rep. J. Parnell Thomas faces a federal indictment over payroll padding and fictitious staff.
The article reports ongoing gains in electric power production, with output more than doubling over eight years and rising to record monthly highs. For the first nine months of 1948 production was about 11 percent above the 1947 period, and 1947 output was 15 percent above 1946, with unit costs to consumers lower than before the war.
News from China reports panic along the coast with Red advances threatening Nanking and Shanghai while American evacuations proceed. In the United States the GOP contemplates reform with Harold Stassen eyed to lead a liberal reconstruction for the 1952 campaign.
The United Nations releases a plan to legally declare deceased the millions of refugees and soldiers missing from 1939 to 1945. The move aims to resolve inheritances adoptions and remarriages tied to unresolved disappearances during wartime persecutions.
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