Taft accuses Truman on price policy and abroad spending
Senator Taft told a senate committee that the Truman administration shifted focus from keeping prices down to heavy overseas spending. He urged public hearings on the price situation and argued loans to foreign buyers raise competition and U.S. prices. Truman had last spoken on the issue at a May 15 news conference.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Senate-House Committee On Economic Report
Joint Committee
Association Fears Federal Housing Plan Sparks Socialism
Morton Bodfish of Chicago warned at the Pacific Northwest savings and loan convention that federal public housing would worsen the housing shortage and promote socialism. Delegates elected R. Floyd Hewitt of Boise as president, B. E. Buckmaster of Tacoma as vice president, and Roy C. Pauley of Boise as secretary. The next convention was set for June 1948 in Idaho.
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Salt Lake City
Morton Bodfish
Chicago
United States Savings and Loan League
Bodfish
Pacific Northwest Conference of Savings and Loan Associations
R. Floyd Hewitt
Provident Federal Savings and Loan Association
Boise
B. E. Buckmaster
Pacific First Federal Savings and Loan
Tacoma
Wash
Roy C. Pauley
Federal Savings and Loan Association
Idaho
Workers Take Poll on Ford Strike Vote
The UAW-CIO announced a strike vote among about 130000 members in nearly 40 Ford plants while wage talks continue. The union seeks a 234 cent hourly raise and new retirement plan, Ford offering 15 cents. The poll was authorized May 27 with a 30 day waiting period to expire June 27.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
Union
Ford
Uaw-Cio
Middleton Votes Dry in Town Referendum
Middleton voters rejected liquor by the drink Tuesday by a landslide 111 to 2. The result ends sales of alcoholic beverages in the town, reflecting a dry outcome for the local governance.
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Middleton
Utilities Buy Most Power
The Bureau of Reclamation said privately owned utilities were its best customers for electricity in the last fiscal year ending June 30 1946. Private utilities paid 42 cents of every dollar received from hydroelectric power, while municipalities and rural entities paid 20.4 and 1.8 cents respectively, with federal agencies at 18 cents. Gross income reached 20,448,936 with operating costs of 5,345,930. irrigation projects earnings included Minidoka 368,230 Shoshone 234,349 Boise 95,519.
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Washington
Bureau of Reclamation
Bureau
Minidoka
Shoshone
Boise
Police Identify Hitchhiker Killed Near Clearfield Utah
Salt Lake City officials announced that a hitchhiker killed seven weeks earlier near Clearfield was identified by fingerprints as James R. Gill aged 26 of El Paso Texas. The telegram informing his wife arrived after her death. Harold M. Ellis, 26, of Salt Lake City faces hit and run charges and awaits trial on $200 bond.
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Salt Lake City
R. H Wootton
State Bureau of Identification and Investigation
Clearfield
Utah
James R. Gill
el Paso
Tex
Gill
Wootton
Fl Paso
U.S
Harold M. Ellis
State Highway Patrol
Liberty
Economic council proclaimed for German zones in Europe
General Lucius D. Clay announced in the American zone the creation of an economic council to direct reconstruction and regulate transport, trade, price controls, and utilities. A similar measure was issued in the British zone by Lt. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson and takes effect June 10, uniting the zones economically since January. The council is empowered to adopt ordinances, appoint executive directors, and approve annual budgets.
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Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
Brian Robertson
Economic Council
Executive Committee
Council
Victor Favors Sale In Idaho Falis Vote
In Victor 65 to 32 voters favored liquor by the drink in a special election yesterday the first of nine upper Snake River valley communities to vote on the proposal this month Rexburg Iona Sugar City Ucon Shelley Tetonia Driggs and Aberdeen set June 17 for their ballots. Of 97 votes cast Victor noted 32 against legal sale while 46 signed petitions last month requesting the dry election.
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Idaho
WSCS Meeting Friday Dessert Luncheon at Church Parlor
The WSCS of the Methodist church will meet Friday at 1 30 p m for a dessert luncheon in the church parlor. The business meeting will be directed by president Mrs Reginald Cleave. Devotion will be given by Mrs A L Austin. Mrs Robert Hollen will be
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WSCS
The
Methodist Church
Reginald Cleave
A. L. Austin
Robert Hollen
Children and the Law program highlights from Jerome meeting
In charge of the program entitled The Children and the Law various members of the society will give highlights of the district meeting held in Jerome May 8. Boston is the largest American fishing port on the Atlantic.
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Jerome
Boston
Man Freed From Ten Year Brick in Stomach Tale
A man reports ten years of a brick like sensation in the stomach due to a lump of undigested food. After using INNER-AID with 12 herbs his symptoms vanish in one day and bowels regain regularity. The ad claims the product cleanses bowels clears gas and aids liver and kidneys. Sold by all drug stores.
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Sunkist
California-Arizona
Sunkist California Oranges
Srewant
Michael W. Straus
Mississippi
the Union
Victor
Sale
Hunt’s
Bens
Crisco
Shefford Cheval
Sauerkraut
Spark's
del Monte
Weary Lee Taylor
Phillips
Q. P. S. Quality Meats
Sirloin Steak Rc
Nabisco
North Main
Libby
Stores
Delrich
Miracle
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