Florida Parks Feature Myakka River As Subtropical Veldt
Florida lists eight state parks and highlights Myakka River State Park with acres of subtropical vegetation, river and lakes, noting its veldt like landscape and wide open plains.
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1948
Page
10
Florida lists eight state parks and highlights Myakka River State Park with acres of subtropical vegetation, river and lakes, noting its veldt like landscape and wide open plains.
A new steam electric locomotive is being developed by Westinghouse engineers expected to consume about 50 percent less coal than current steam units. The project highlights advancing efficiency in railway power technology and aims to cut fuel use while boosting performance.
In New York state 54 percent of communities rely entirely on highways for goods transport. Many products crucial to the state economy move almost exclusively by truck, underscoring road network importance.
Boston dispatch reports United Steelworkers voting to oppose Henry A Wallace's third party move. Delegates adopted a CIO aligned resolution pledging support for independent political activity to elect a Congress dedicated to American interests.
Secretary Treasurer David J. Mac Donald detailed a plan to build a potent PAC-Steel Workers organization with $200,000 in 1947 for a working fund. Steelworkers aim to raise $928,670 on June 17 as Philip Murray Day for PAC work while delegates call for lifting the Palestine arms embargo. Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey denounces Taft Hartley as anti labor legislation.
A fragment cites a statement that labor groups were “prepared and authored by historic enemies of organized labor,” signaling hostilities between rival labor factions and historical rivalries shaping modern debates.
In Shamokin Pennsylvania a dead man Willard Krieger was elected by voters in the recent primary for Republican committee man receiving 77 votes to his rival's 76. Krieger died after ballots were printed and friends sought to block the rival, aiming for appointment to fill the post. A fatality story from New York describes Solomon Mulich, a cab driver of 37 years, in two accidents that killed a 9 year old and a 55 year old, leading to his claim he would never drive again.
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