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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1947
Page
7
The Elyria Chronicle Telegram notes the 65th anniversary of Girl Scouting to be celebrated on March 1. It highlights the organization s progress through wars and depressions and praises the over one million members and international links with Girl Guides.
Congress may act to extend the draft while pressing for armed forces integration. The Army seeks older trained manpower and peacetime force goals of 1,070,000 Army and 670,000 Navy, with volunteers and reserves to tide over discharges. Universal military training is favored as a future solution to sustain a professional force and readiness.
A garbled but urgent plea warns Britain must fund Greece to check Soviet influence and hold back midwar chaos. It argues Britain bears billions in loans, must deploy troops, and push economic recovery to prevent a wider collapse across Europe.
Washington column notes hundreds of thousands of veterans live with relatives as Congress stalls on housing bills. Taft Ellender push long range public housing. Tobey blocks and delays. House backs Helen Gahagan Douglas plan for a $1 billion rental program with eventual sales. Incident at Senate luncheon appears discriminatory against a Black veteran. Senate investigations move from box cars to press freedom worries, as Republicans clash with Wherry over coverage.
At the University of Louisville GI students are increasingly taking babysitting jobs. The dean of women's office operates as a babysitting agency, with rates around 50 to 60 cents an hour, sometimes $2 to $3 per evening. Notable sitter George Esselman notes Army experience aids this work, while others like John Espie see benefits and few drawbacks. The program helps faculty families and provides students extra funds under the GI Bill.
Washington officials warned that midyear price drops could dim consumer purchasing power and slow business expansion through December 1947. The Agriculture Department forecast a 5 to 10 percent production drop in the last half of the year, with farm prices sliding 7.0 to 38 percent from January levels and wholesale food prices 15 to 20 percent below December highs.
The combined Future Homemakers groups from Oberlin Wellington Ridgeville and South Amherst will hold a meeting at Ridgeville High on March 12. At a recent Clearview High gathering members presented piano solos by Frances Ondo and Margaret Guinsack, a vocal by Betty Sova and Veronica Rumshinski, plus several comedy acts framed as a Hit Parade.
Lorain County Jewish War Veterans post adopts resolution urging immigration authorities to ban Axis Sally from the United States. The measure labels Sally a traitor for wartime radio propaganda and says her return would desecrate memorials of American soldiers who died in World War II.
RANGOON Burma Twenty eight people including seven British soldiers died when a passenger train was attacked by native guerrillas near Pyis Yong station south of Mandalay. Four others injured and one Indian soldier among the dead. The attack disrupted Burma’s Burmite railway line during heavy rain. France expects to harvest over 6.6 million tons of wheat this year, a 50 percent rise.
A fragmentary report shows stock and bond quotations from the Cleveland Stock Exchange on a Friday in March 1947. Listings include several firms such as J K Smith & Company, Elyria Law Trust, Harshaw Chem, Perry Fay, Lorain County Savings & Trust, and others with prices and lots numbers indicated.
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