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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1951
Page
17
A 1950 vital statistics review notes record lows in death and infant mortality, with an estimated 3.7 million births and 18.5 million new Americans in five years. The piece links rising population to expanding industry and demand for schools, clothing, homes, and cars as peacetime growth continues.
A Sunday ceremony marks caps for 63,000 nurses in the class of 1953 at the M. B. Johnson School of Nursing. The piece notes nursing demand exceeds supply and cites 87 percent of nurses as homemakers. It urges more women to pursue nurse training to meet manpower needs.
Editor and Publisher survey shows 55 829 072 newspapers sold daily last year in the United States and Canada, a record. Advertising revenue also rose to an all-time high per the Public Education note from the National Education Association. The daily paper is described as a history book of life and a school at the front door.
ANE McMASTER reports Western Union customers use telegrams as alarm clocks and taunting reminders. Subscribers pay per message, with some operators warned of identity denial, while others joke about their own labels and daily routines.
The Washington Merry-Go-Word reports from Berlin that the eastern border near the Soviet zone is porous and crossed nightly by locals. Pearson argues Churchill mischaracterized the Curtain as impervious and urges U S efforts to influence people behind it.
The piece surveys how U S state department radio RIAS in Berlin reaches East Germans with entertainment and political commentary to obscure Soviet control. It contrasts RIASs standard wave with the Voice of America shortwave effort in Salonika and argues for a network of regional stations to penetrate behind the Iron Curtain. It notes East German appetite for outside information and recalls wartime leaflet and Bible printing schemes as a cue for renewed propaganda efforts.
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