Truman seeks extended grain ration power into October
President Truman asked Congress to extend the temporary power to ration grain for distillers through Oct. 31 and to preserve controls on distiller inventories and the wheat ban in beverage alcohol. He warned that meeting a 500 million bushel famine-export goal requires drastic conservation, noting Senate approval but House inaction.
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Truman
Congress
Washington
House
Senate
United States
House Banking Committee
Jesse P. Wolcott
Mich
Clinton
P. Anderson
Anderson
Butcher Sends Free Hamburger Nationwide in Price War
In St Helens Oregon, a local meat price war spreads nationally as butcher Roy Harrington ships prepaid dry ice packed free hamburgers to mail order customers. The dispute began when Norman Raymond and Ernest Peterson opened Rite Price Market with 35 cents a pound hamburger, triggering others to cut prices and even give away meat.
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ST. Helens
Obe
St. Helen’s
Columbia River
Pacific Northwest
Jack Sappington
Norman Raymond
Ernest Peterson
Hamburge
Roy Harrington
Seoee Meg
Big Rapids
Mich
Long Beach
Calif
Harrington
Spud Growers Plan 10 Percent Acreage Increase
Idaho potato growers intend to raise about 144000 acres this year up about ten percent. Eastern Idaho shows more acreage, while south central and southwestern districts remain steady. Idaho had 12200000 bushels on hand as of January 1, just over half the merchantable storage from the 1946 crop.
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BOISE
Idaho
Bureau
Stassen Backs Debate with Dewey on Campaign Issues
Republican hopeful Harold E. Stassen said he would be glad to accept a challenge to debate Gov. Thomas E. Dewey on the main issues of the 1948 campaign. The piece notes caution against careless driving as a cause of auto accidents.
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Durham
N. N
Harold E. Stassen
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Standards Set For Operating Idaho Hospitals
The Idaho Hospital advisory council adopted operation and maintenance standards for general hospitals, maternity homes and nursing homes in Idaho. The 1947 legislature authorized the standards and a first copy was presented to Gov. C. A. Robins. Public health director L. J. Peterson said eight months were spent formulating the standards for all licensed hospitals with tuberculosis and medical hospital minimums to follow in coming months.
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Boise
Idaho Hospital Advisory Council
Idaho
C. A. Robins
L. J. Peterson
Falling Logs Kill Boise Worker on Idaho City Highway
William S. Weaver, 27, of Boise, was crushed to death when a truck load of logs toppled on him on the Idaho City highway fifteen miles east of Boise. Sheriff Don Headrick said Victor Walbey, Idaho City, was driving the load to a Boise valley sawmill and stopped to straighten it after it shifted. Weaver, in another logging truck, stopped to aid. As he walked beside the crooked load, the heavy logs shifted and pinned him. a wrecker removed two logs from his body.
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Boise
William S. Weaver
Idaho City
Don Headrick
Victor Walbey
Boise Valley
Weaver
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