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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1948
Page
8
Joyce prepares to elope with Terry. In the doorway her memory, longing, and fear surface as they drive away under a new moon. She reflects on youth, love, and the irreversible change ahead while Terry asks if they should tell her mother before they leave.
In early spring a couple drives through the night and fear gives way to longing as Terry confesses love to Joyce. They reach Lakewood Maternity Hospital, where the future holds new beginnings and the couple ascends the steps toward welcoming lights.
The piece argues most habits are useful and outlines how success stems from forming right thinking patterns. It urges decisive action for a week to replace faulty thoughts, then tracing admired individuals to reveal how their right habits shape personality and achievement.
A Labrador rescue method, dog sled teams located by parachute, reduces hours to reach crash survivors in dense Labrador terrain. Sgt George E Abbott of Norfolk, Virginia, conceives dogsled operation enabling para-doctors to reach, treat, and evacuate the injured within minutes.
Six year old Janice and Jeanette Washburn of Mattapoisett Mass are identical twins who lost their first baby teeth on the same day and later their second teeth in parallel. Dentist Dr George M Teasdale found this coincidence remarkable to him but the twins mother treated it as an old story.
The Tennessee Valley Authority reaches its 26th anniversary under threat as Congress considers stripping its autonomous power and forcing direct appropriations. Private power lobbyists shift from criticizing TVA as socialistic to opposing its steam generating plant plans, fearing loss of cheap regional power and national defense needs. If funding is cut, TVA could be crippled or dead.
The Treasury aims to boost savings bond purchases by drawing off purchasing power and easing price pressures. It also restores the payroll savings plan to help war-era savers resume systematic bond buying.
The column recalls Joe Martin wresting control from the White House by persuading John Lewis to accept Sen. Styles Bridges as a third pension board member. It notes the administration cited Lewis for contempt, affecting miners’ pay and a coal strike. Murray, the neutral member, resigned. Miners lost four weeks’ work at $75 weekly, totaling $100 million, with widespread debt and joblessness.
Information from sources says N. E. Dodd, undersecretary of agriculture, may be named director general of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, succeeding Sir John Orr. If so, Charles F. Branan could replace Clinton Anderson as agriculture secretary when Anderson runs for U.S. Senate in New Mexico this year, facing Patrick J. Hurley.
A Spring and Summer FASHION feature offers sewing guidance for home dressmakers. Includes a free pattern inside Pattern No. 1675 for sizes 1 to 6 years. Describes a dainty summer outfit with wing sleeves and scallop trim, plus slip and panties.
The Henry home Red Hill in Charlotte County Virginia, long forgotten, will be restored to Patrick Henry era condition and furnished with period furniture. The site, burned in 1019, is planned as a national shrine honoring Henry who urged Virginia rights, fought for American liberty, and delivered his famed Give me liberty or give me death speech amid rising tensions in 1775. He was a lawyer and politician who owned slaves, viewing slavery as both economic and social evil.
A strange skull deformation practiced by Indians of Mexico and the southwestern United States centuries before Europeans arrived is studied at the Smithsonian. Flattening of the top back of the head via infant pressure produced three horned appearances in one skull found by a French anthropologist near Vera Cruz about 108 years ago. Some individuals show flattened foreheads creating high peaked heads.
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