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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1942
Page
6
Clarke Beach analyzes how wartime disruptions threaten state finances. Tax reels include drops in highway revenue as motor fuel demand shrinks, while construction priorities and defense needs reshape sources of income. Officials fear bond payments but note some offset from federal funding and road projects.
The Associated Press reports cigarette sales now run about 20 percent higher than 1941 averages and continue rising. The Office of Price Administration explains its decision against a manufacturers' price hike that would lift retail prices. The five leading cigarette firms posted over 21 percent net income in 1941 after taxes, versus 17 percent in prewar 1936-39.
The text traces Munich’s impact with Czechoslovakia suffering first from the diplo matic meeting while Hitler annexed the Sudetenland and Poland moved on Teschen. It notes Nazi infiltration, the end of Czechoslovakia, and the exile of President Eduard Benes. It ends with a call for unity for Europe’s return to democracy and freedom.
A Potsdam Red Cross committee calls for hiring an expert soap maker to teach housewives how to supply soap amid wartime fat shortages. The Farm Security Administration urges saving soap by using soft water, hardening the cake, avoiding prolonged soggy use, dissolving scraps for shampoos, dishwashing, and chopping scraps into chips for reuse.
In Oakland California on March 24 the Agriculture Adjustment Administration began studying the possible need to revive transportation by the old-time five-span mule teams as a means to move freight and goods if conditions warrant.
Valley Forge Park will receive its first statue of George Washington a 12 foot likeness designed by Gif ford MacGregor Proctor of New York. Valley Forge Park commissioners said the memorial honors Washington during the harsh winter of 1777 78 and the armys struggles.
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