Government growth and role of Agriculture Department
A discussion notes that the Agriculture Department has expanded beyond its original scope to affect urban consumers and overall national welfare, with a 1947 cost reflecting increased operation beyond its early mandate. It cites Hoover task force findings on expanding functions and the need for conservation of soil and water while ensuring food and forest product supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Amer
Department
Hoover Commission Urges Merging Agencies Under Agriculture
The Hoover Commission recommends transferring multiple federal activities into the Department of Agriculture to cut costs. It proposes creating an Agricultural Resources Conservation Administration to manage soil water timber range and wildlife, consolidating forest and grazing duties from Interior. The plan aims to reduce Interior budget while boosting Agriculture and streamline services. It lists numerous credit and disaster programs now under Agriculture and related agencies, totaling about $2 billion invested with $7 billion lending authority. Dissent within the Agriculture analysis cites Acheson Rowe Jr. and Pollock.
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Agricultural Resources Conservation Administration
Department of Interior
Hoover
Bureau of Land Management
Oregon and
California
Coos Bay Wagon Rd
Fish and Wildlife Service
Department of the Interior
Department of Agriculture
Federal Land Banks
Production Credit Corp
Banks For Cooperatives
Federal Intermediate Credit Banks
Farmers Home Administration
The
Rural Electrification Administration
Federal Crop Insurance Corp
Agriculture Department Disaster Loans
Commodity Credit Corp
Regional Agricultural Credit Corporations
Agricultural Market Act Revolving Fund
Joint Stock-Land Banks
Federal Farm Mortgage Corp
Hoover Commission
Hoover Committee
Dean Acheson
James H. Rowe Jr
James K. Pollock
King Features Syndicate
Georgia Gibbs on life with comedians and their quirks
New York columnist George Tucker profiles Georgia Gibbs known as Her Nibbs describing her time with Danny Kaye Jimmy Durante Milton Berle Bob Hope and Red Skelton She notes the joke oriented life and why she would not marry a comedian while detailing stars on stage and their routines and restless energy
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New, York
IFE
Danny Kaye
Jimmy Durante
Milton Berle
Bob Hope
Ralph Morgan
Red Skelton
Georgia
Gibbs
Georgia Gibbs
Nibbs
Worcester
Mass
Miss Gibbs Talks Gags and Gags About Radio Talent
Hal Boyle notes vacation timing and quick comebacks. Miss Gibbs recalls Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye as inspirations, plus her height and stage heels. She says touring hurts romance, preferring the housewife label.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Skelton
Danny Kaye
Danny
Miss Gibbs
Clergy Confront Labor Corruption in Union Power Fight
Westbrook Pegler argues clergy finally challenge union bosses amid alleged theft by workers and slowdowns. He claims labor statistics are inflated, urges restitution for stolen wages, and calls for moral action against corrupt leadership within the A F of L and CIO.
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Westbrook
Timken Loco Model Shown Here in Public Exhibit
Timken Roller Bearing Co displays a quarter size working model of a Norfolk and Western steam locomotive. The exhibit, seen at the Chicago Railroad Fair, runs daily for two weeks at The Pearl Motor Co. 600 Market Ave S. Viewing is free, daily 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. except Sunday 1 to 10 p.m. The model features Timken taper roller bearings on driving axles lead and tender trucks with operating wheels and pistons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk & Western
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Pearl Motor Co
Canton
Gambrinus
Timken
Union Pacific Livestock Cars
Chesapeake & Ohio
Kenneth J Wagner completes refrigeration training in Chicago
Kenneth J. Wagner of 820 5th St NE finished specialized refrigeration training at the Utilities Engineering Institute in Chicago after nearly a year of preparatory study. He had been attending shop classes there improving his technical skills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth J. Wagner
5Th St
Utiities Engineering Institute
Chicago
Quarantine Lifting Ends Five Year Dog Rabies Rule
Stark general health district board of health orders immediate end to the five year rabies quarantine for dogs. Dr. P. L. Harris says the quarantine is no longer needed and future orders will come from the health board. Sanitarian duties shift to the Stark County Dog Warden for dog bite investigations. State law requires tied confinement for 10 days after a bite and physician reports on incidents.
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Board of Health
Stark General Health District
P. L. Harris
Harris
Board
Health Board
Stark County
Infant Dies After Futile Marietta to Cleveland Dash
An 11 day old Marietta baby died after emergency surgery in Cleveland Clinic. Merle Don Allum had been rushed via police escorted ambulance from Marietta for esophageal stenosis and pneumonia. He was the first child of Donal and Mrs. Allum. his father works at B F Goodrich and his mother is a nurse.
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Cleveland
Marietta
Merle Don Allum
Cleveland Clinic
Donal Allum
B. F. Goodrich Co
Plate Agency Moves Deputy Registrar Ben Marconi
Ben Marconi, listed as a deputy registrar in the 1949 auto license plate sale, has established new quarters at 2348 Mahoning road NE after formerly selling plates at 122 Court Avenue SW.
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Ben Marconi
Mahoning Rd
Court Ave
Hagenbeck Circus Reopens for German Tour in 1940s
Hamburg report says the Hagenbeck Circus and zoo, damaged by war, begin a modest April tour within Germany. About 200 animals travel, with 95 wagons and a top for 4000 spectators. Lorenz Hagenbeck 66 leads, with Carl-Heinrich 37 and Erich 36 in management.
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Hamburg
Hagenbeck
Gottfried Class
Carl Hagenbeck
Hagenbecks
Germany
Hannibal
Alps
St. Gotthard Pass
Morocco
Gretel
Lorenz Hagenbeck
Carl-Heinrich Hagenbeck
Erich Hagenbeck
Stove Flames Fatal Fire Claims St. Ida Hinkle
Mrs Ida Hinkle aged 73 died after flames from a stove ignited her clothing and caused fatal burns in her Cincinnati home. The incident occurred in her residence with neighbors reporting the blaze.
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Cincinnati
wMiss
Ida Hinkle
Negro Music Cataloged by Cleveland Woman
Mrs. Clayborne George, wife of a former Cleveland councilman, has compiled a catalog of 12 000 musical compositions by American Negroes or inspired by them.
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Cleveland
Clayborne George
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George E. Sokolsky
America
George Tucker
Hal Boyle
the Associated Press
By Westbrook Pegler
Department of Labor
Rhode Island
C.I.0
A. F
AIR Force
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Dynamic Model Unit
Adam Stolzenberger
Greenbrier
Sterling
Gorham
Bax
Frankfort Distillers Corp
N.Y
Royal
Office Equipment CO
Tusc. W
Epson Crowkeree
Keet Canton
Worth Canton
Harter Bank
Hunter Green
Your Gorham
Third ST. NW
RTC
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