Legislators Sack Plan YM President
Congress opens discussion on President Truman's reform plan to reorganize the executive branch with support from a Republican senator seeking to end the filibuster. Lawton urged permanent authority with no exemptions as Dawson predicted bipartisan backing.
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Plan YM
Washington
Admintration
Truman
Fredrick J. Lawton
House Executive Expenditures Committee
Lawton
Committee
William L. Dawson
Congress
Congressional
Foreign, Trade
Willard L. Thorp
House
Ways and Means
Senate Rules Committee
Wayne L. Morse
Ore
Senate
Vale Fire Levelled Block Destroys Shops and Apartments
A large fire in Vale Oregon destroyed seven businesses and seven apartments in the main business district. Loss is estimated between 150000 and 200000 with unknown causes. The fire also wiped out Vale's telephone exchange as volunteers from Nyssa Ontario and Payette helped battle the blaze in twenty below zero conditions.
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Vale
Ore
Nyssatani Ontario
Payette Ida
Henry C. Smith
Town Tavern
Parlov'’n Market
Peerson Furniture Co
Yale Drug
Workman's Variety Store
Der‘nl
C. C. Burrow
Railroads Urged to Limit Rate Increases in 62nd Report
The Interstate Commerce Commission warned that further railroad rate hikes should be avoided to prevent harming business. In its 62nd annual report to Congress, the commission urged cost cuts and noted rising carrier costs from inflation and wage hikes. Rates rose 44 percent from 1939 to 1948, while wholesale prices jumped 110 percent. temporary increases were authorized for regions east and west of the Mississippi. Hearings on a permanent increase were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Mississippi
Roosevelt P-T A picks winners at January meeting
A large group of Roosevelt parents attended the Roosevelt P T A meeting on Wednesday January 19. President Mrs D S Thornock led the business portion and Judd the principal announced the top P TA membership prizes won by Griffins room Smiths room Reesor and Walkers rooms.
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Roosevelt P-Ta
D. S. Thornock
Judd
Miss Griffins
Miss Smith
Reesor
Walker
Belva Carstenson
Betty Bailey
A.R. Merrill
Margaret Truman to Pursue Singing Career
Margaret Truman announced she will put marriage on hold and pursue a full time concert career starting in October. The 24 year old daughter of the president indicated the plan on Monday and said she would focus on professional singing for about a year.
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Washington
Margaret Truman
Poland and Albania sign first trade pact in Warsaw
Poland and Albania ink a one year trade agreement effective immediately. The pact was signed in Warsaw and announced by Moscow radio, marking the first trade accord between the two nations.
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London
Poland
Albania
Moscow Radio
Warsaw
Miss Truman Signs Booking Agent for 1949-50 Season
The entertainer signed James A. Davidson of New York to handle her bookings for the 1949-50 season and will resume voice studies within two weeks under renowned tutor C. V. Bos.
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James A. Davidson
New York
Miss Truman
C. V. Bos
Sheepman recounts bid to save flock in Utah blizzard
Clyde Hatch recalls guiding a two-tractor caravan through five foot drifts and three feet of snow to reach 15 000 sheep trapped near Simpson Springs Utah. He describes nearby wrecks on U S 40 and says more than half his herd was saved while two trucks and a crew were stranded and later recovered.
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Clyde Hatch
James R. McCauley
United Press
Simpson Springs
Utah
U. S. Hway 40
Salt Safity
Dugway Mountains
Bountiful
Bill Moore
Rupert
Ida
Bill
Glenn Bemmon
Glenn
Moore
Record Iron and Steel Workers Earning Half-Year Total
Workers in the iron and steel industry earned one billion dollars in the first half of 1948, surpassing their entire earnings for the previous full year. The figure reflects a surge in wages amid postwar industrial activity and demand.
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Senate Agricultural Committee
Charles F. Brannan
Elmer Thomas
Okla
Brannan
Charles Sawyer
Senate Commerce Committee
Supreme Court
Brentee D., Ky
House Banking Committee
Tighe E. Woods
Oleo
August H. Andresen
Minn
John Lesinski
Mich
House Labor Committee
Barkley
Alben W. Barkley
Toins Barbara Jo
Bette Jean Nord
Seattle
Wash
Street Car Men’s Union
Local 587
Walter Nord
the Audit Bureau of Circulations
The
Bureau
United States
Canada
B. C
Pocatello
Post
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Phillips 66
Wasatch
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