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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1949
Page
3
Britain remains the only western nation with general wartime style rationing four years after victory. Housewives face weekly shortages and high costs as meat and sugar rations shrink. jam is the only basic food that has come off rationing. Meat remains scarce with a long path to normal consumption.
The article outlines weekly ration allowances for Britons across multiple categories including sugar meat butter and milk with varying child ages and notes a monthly 24 point system for nonfood items. It highlights nonrationed fish frequent table presence and coffee never rationed. It covers costs for meat rice and syrup in points and remarks on sweets being rationed then briefly dere rationed before being re introduced due to demand.
In Atlanta a moving van delivering W. B Taylor’s furniture dropped a mattress on a residential street. The driver paused to recover it, but a second vehicle arrived as a man sprang out, grabbed the mattress and drove off before aid could arrive.
University of Nebraska forester Earl G. Maxwell reports trees add an average 326.06 dollars yearly to farm value from 300 landowners survey. Benefits include fuel saving 13.53, fuel wood 22.67, post and poles 6.44, garden yield 13.40, wind protection 29.63, crop production 343.03, and livestock protection 197.06 amid notes of a startled truck driver who failed to note a license.
Harold 3B. Collier, Republican candidate for State Treasurer from Norwalk, is a married County Treasurer in his third term. He has two sons and two daughters and has led state and local government groups as past president of the State Association of County Treasurers.
Ney Club, noted for one of the state’s largest banquets, features a vice president of the Norwalk Kiwanis who is poised for the presidency after years on multiple committees. Copenhagen tests streetcars with rubber wheels in a modern transit trial.
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