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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1949
Page
9
The piece argues that one fifth of national income funds federal governance and larger social programs. editors warn overextended taxes under a growing state. It contrasts social security expansion with a preference for freedom, noting economists fear fiscal chaos if socialism accelerates and government spending continues to rise.
The Telegraph urges Nebraska lawmakers to consolidate many country and high schools to cut red tape and reduce costs. It notes Cheyenne County could trim districts by half with proper studies, aiming for larger, more efficient schools and easing teacher shortages. It backs keeping the Schroeder Law for gas tax funds pending careful study and legislative judgment.
The American Farm Bureau Foundation urged against price controls saying they won’t curb inflation and emphasizing money, fiscal, and credit policy. The piece argues free enterprise yields abundance, with profits kept small by competition, contrasting it with England where price controls drove turkeys into the black market and hurt families.
President Truman outlines twenty six recommendations spanning anti inflation measures and economic controls. Key items include extending consumer and bank credit powers, regulate commodity speculation, expand wage and rent controls, raise minimum wage, reform Taft Hartley and Wagner acts, strengthen the Labor Department, expand social security and public housing, push public power and rural electrification, approve St Lawrence Seaway, manage tide lands oil, boost education aid, create a new department, advance civil rights, universal military training, restore reciprocal trade, and admit displaced persons.
CARE announces a seed package endorsed by U S Secretary of Agriculture Charles F Brannan to help European families. The $4 package includes 28 vegetable varieties with delivery in 11 European countries and enough seed to plant a 50 by 150 foot garden. Orders go to CARE, 50 Broad Street, New York, or any CARE office. Place orders early to ensure timely planting season delivery.
The Telegraph reprints The Love Down from January 7 to meet high demand after the blizzard. Readers who missed the original issue can now access the commentary in full.
Grandpappy Lowe recalls a decade old blizzard that trapped residents in the Fine Apartments for days. The tale of isolation, improvised meals, a bridge tournament, dwindling supplies, and camaraderie ends with relief as the storm fades and a return to work looms.
Scotch tape offered with good stock and convenient hand and desk dispensers as announced in The Telegraph.
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