Sewage Costs 100 Millions Impel Policy Renewal
Boise reports that water pollution costs total 100 million dollars annually, with District Engineer C. T. Wright urging renewal of a central sewage disposal program and federal support for education, research, and enforcement. He notes needs for proper treatment of domestic and industrial wastes and suggests reactivating the halted program. Public health nursing shortages are highlighted, comparing Idaho to Utah and Colorado.
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Boise
Idaho Public Health Association
C. T. Wright
Denver
Idaho
Ruth Freeman
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Manpower Controls Under Discussion In Idaho
Idaho considers loosening manpower controls after July 1 as three management labor committees meet. Until action is taken, Idaho WMC Director A. J. Tillman warns employers to strictly follow current regulations amid reports of ongoing shortages in essential industries.
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Boise
Idaho
Idaho Wmc
A. J. Tillman
Russians Met Americans Serious After July 1
Three committees are established for southwestern southeastern and northern Idaho. Present controls include a 48 hour work week in the Pocatello area and in logging lumbering and nonferrous metal industries. Employment ceilings are in effect across the state.
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Southwestern
Southeastern
Northern
Idaho
Pocatello
Boy Foils Escape At Western Penitentiary
Five year old George Gregor stumbled into a tunnel dug by unidentified convicts at Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh. Guards were alerted when he climbed from a hole outside the wall after slipping from crumbling ground. Prisoners had dug 32 feet toward the exterior with makeshift tools and a three foot diameter bore. Warden Stanley Ashe said they had a good chance to escape until the boy's discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Penitentiary
Stanley P. Ashe
Ashe
Idaho crops hampered by cold weather and late plantings
The weather bureau reports cool wet conditions slowed cultivation of raw crops and thinning of beets in Idaho. Late potato and bean planting is delayed in the south with some late seeding in the north. Green pea output falls to 190000 bushels, lettuce to 88000 crates, while dragonfly note closes the segment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
Hailey
Hill City
Mountain Home
Driggs
Malad City
Idaho
Department of Agriculture Division of Agricultural Statistics
Farmers Seek Return to Standard Time Debate in Congress
Washington reports lawmakers are weighing a return to pre 1942 standard time as war time rules may end automatically after hostilities. Farm families strongly favor standard time while some industrial spokesmen push for making daylight longer permanent.
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Washington
Congress
House Commerce Committee
New B-29 Field Opens in Pacific Guam
Adm Chester W Nimitz dedicates a giant new B 29 field on Guam to end the war swiftly. The fifth Marianas base rose from jungle in two months with Army Navy crews. General Armstrong leads the Superfortress units from the new field.
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Guam
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Army
Navy
Marianas
Armstrong
Europe
Rouen
France
Germany
Wilhelmshaven
Group backs agreement forming nationwide Bretton Woods support committee
A Boston group agrees to form a nationwide committee of business leaders and bankers to back the Bretton Woods agreement and promote its adoption and implementation across sectors. The move signals broad business backing for the postwar monetary framework championed by the alliance of nations.
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Boston
Business and Industry Committee for Bretton Woods Inc Formed
Ralph E. Flanders announces the creation of the Business and Industry Committee for Bretton Woods Inc to express the views of American businessmen seeking enlarged foreign trade opportunities and broader economic benefits for the United States. The Vermont industrialist and Boston Fed president outlines the group’s aim to influence policy in favor of international economic engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph E. Flanders
Vermont
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Flanders
Business and Industry Committee For
Bretton Woods, Inc
Grange Backs CVA In Oregon Debate
Oregon Grange Master Morton Tompkins says private power foes push anti CVA propaganda and that no farm group opposes CVA. He notes the Grange supports CVA, sees benefits in local autonomy, while Sen. Hugh Mitchell’s CVA bill has been studied and endorsed in part for its good provisions.
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Portland
Anti- Columbia Valley Authority
Oregon Grange
Morton Tompkins
CVA
Grange
Northwest
Tompkins
Hugh Mitchell
D.wash
Sugar Cane Born From Rajah’s Earthly Paradise Wish
Hindu legends say a Rajah sought heaven on earth and ordered his chief magician to create an earthly paradise, giving rise to sugar cane as the result.
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Utah
Colorado
Kenneth M. Lemon
Orange Lemon
Ogden and Pocatello
Elbe River
Lemon
F.C. Winter
Ogden
Ogden Standard- Examiner
Boy Foils
Pittsburgh
George Gregor
Pocsisiis
Ontgomery Ward
Pacific
Resen
Cook Drug
Montgomery Ward
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