U S Faces Crisis in School System
A wartime wave of teacher shortages threatens American education as Coronet magazine estimates 75,000 teachers lost to war work and emergency certificates rise. Critics urge federal aid and local action while noting low pay and weak social life drive teachers away, endangering democracy’s future.
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Censorship Beat Sparks Dodgson Irony in Moscow
A New York Times correspondent in Moscow notes how censorship can alter readers and cites Drew Middleton's piece on Tiya Ehrenburg in Izvestia. The write up frames Ehrenburg’s U.S. articles beside Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland to illustrate misunderstood satire by censors.
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Army and Navy alter draft plan and flight record set
The Army revises postwar draft plans allowing 18 year olds to be inducted with six months of intensive training and multiple service options including college, West Point, or Annapolis. A special conduct code and a 30 dollar monthly allowance accompany benefits if eligible. In aviation news, Commander Thomas D Davies lands the Truculent Turtle after a 11,238 mile flight in 65 hours 17 minutes, despite engine trouble and rough weather. A baby kangaroo souvenir aboard highlights the long endurance journey from Perth to Washington.
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Reconversion warns of inflation risk and scarce supplies
Reconversion Director John R. Steelman warned Congress that the wartime economy faces a fork toward stability or boom bust. He urged business to hold prices, labor to avoid high wage demands, farmers to maintain record output, and consumers to curb spending amid 58 million employed and $172 billion annual output. He noted 6 percent inventory buildup signaling hoarding and predicted worsening meat shortages with fats oils and sugars tight. clothing prices may rise another ten percent by year end 1946.
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Farm Value Reaches Billion Dollar Level in 1946
Washington report from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics shows the U.S. farm plant total value at 101.5 billion dollars on January 1, 1946, up nearly 12 percent from 1945 and about 80 percent since 1940. Real estate leads with 56.8 billion, while financial assets exceed 26 billion. creditors’ claims stand at 6.3 billion.
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Ten Commandments of Safety for Hunters
Dot and Ernie Lind, famed exhibition shooters, urge all hunters to follow safety rules as millions take to fields this fall. Clip the Ten Commandments of Safety and study them before heading out to keep hunting as one of America's safest sports.
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Ernie Lind
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America
Commandments for Hunting Safety Rules
A historical list of ten gun safety commandments emphasizes treating every gun as loaded, carrying unloaded or broken down, and keeping muzzles controlled. It warns against obstruction in the barrel, never pointing at what you don’t intend to shoot, never leaving a loaded gun unattended, and avoiding dangerous actions like climbing with a loaded gun or shooting at hard surfaces. It also cautions against mixing gunpowder and alcohol.
Gun totin Woman Patrols Town In Illinois
In Carrier Mills Illinois local east side officers a gun totin policewoman Mary Brown a Negro widow known for social work patrols her beat from 4 pm to midnight wearing a blue suit visored cap a new badge and pistol formerly guard at the state training school for girls she says she has not been scared yet and chose Antfoot work after state job difficulties
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No Fun in Own Job, Resorts to Clowning
Walter Gleason, 72, Shrewsbury's undertaker and longtime drum major, dons a clown suit to lead parades. He began clowning two decades ago and has led about 15 parades this year, much to locals and especially children’s delight.
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Honest Parking Pays Dividend in St Louis Honor System
In downtown St. Louis two honor system parking lots report 95 percent honesty after three years. Customers drop nickels and dimes in rusty mailboxes or leave promissory notes for the next day when exact change is missing. The program began in April 1943 due to high attendant costs.
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