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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1947
Page
1
Washington outlines universal military training, contrasting it with conscription. The article describes the National Security Training Corps, the policy commission, the advisory board, and selective training elements as aims to build ready reserve forces for future emergencies.
Senate approved the inter American defense treaty 72 to 1 pledging mutual aid in armed attacks outside the hemisphere and voluntary aid within. President Truman urged a sea level Panama Canal and a unified Atlantic command while Congress debated a rationing bill granting broad power to allocate scarce goods and even purchase crops.
New Jersey cattleman Eugene Denton fed 20 yearlings a diet of ground potatoes salt and molasses for 25 days. They gained 1.4 pounds per day on average. Rutgers professor William Lijndahl called the experiment a success. Denton shared the simple formula: 1060 pounds of potatoes per ton with salt and molasses water. Separately former Kansas governor Landon endorsed Eisenhower for president as the 1948 race loomed. Eisenhower was slated to become Columbia University president on June 7 prior to the Republican convention.
Idaho holds a major share of the United States phosphate rock, a key plant food. J R Simplot built a superphosphate plant at Pocatello in 1944, now expanding to 200000 tons yearly of 18 percent phosphate, boosting a broader intermountain agricultural economy.
William H. Samelius, dean of American fine watchmakers and Elgin horology educator since 1881, explains why modern watches demand tighter tolerances. He notes parts fit within .0001 inch, tiny roller jewels, and twenty thousand tiny screws, as students learn the craft in 1 to 14 months.
In St Louis, Tolliver, an 18 year old jailed for breaking into a building, received a $5 reward after turning in a family heirloom watch mechanism found in a trash box. Fontbonne college students had reported the loss to Warden Hensley, who praised the honesty and noted a harsher outcome if he had sold the piece.
NEHALEM, ORE. Charles L. Judd spent seven of his 79 summers chasing a salmon in the Nehalem river. He finally hooked an 80 pound Chinook after a 90 minute struggle. He quipped that his family doubted he could catch a salmon and wanted proof.
Fountain street near the Baltimore docks features red brick row houses with two white wooden steps ledges. Residents turn the steps up during the day and pull them inside at night, a local custom amid evening chats. Disagreement exists over the origin of this practice among residents.
Audubon Iowa article notes the shift from traditional corn husking bees to mechanical pickers. Two-row machines harvest 560–800 bushels daily versus 80–100 for four men. Growth from 20,029 pickers in 1939 to over 60,000 today, one machine per 168 acres, but Elmer G. Carlson and brother Varl hope contests endure with revived interest.
A lawsuit seeks to clear title to a narrow land strip two and a half inches wide and 140 feet long between a theater and a store in Montana. The case, filed in Hamilton, underscores the odd width issue in property records.
Nebraska women registering to vote must state their exact age, not just legal age. The requirement comes after Lancaster County Attorney Frederick Wagener requested an official opinion. the state attorney general ruled that precise age must be given on registration forms.
In Benton county Opal Gardemann a former teacher started Hobby Harbor as a small country store in her farm home near Shellsburg Iowa. Stock rose from 600 to about 5000 dollars as she plans remodeling to add more merchandise. Locals and motorists stop by to buy radios washing machines and other hard to obtain items.
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