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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1949
Page
1
In this column the rise of 10 cent pay stations is examined as American Telephone tests dime-a-call booths amid rising costs. Public hearings loom with figures suggesting nickel calls are no longer profitable, while critics demand better roominess and ventilation in future phone booths.
Robert Q. Lewis finished a CBS run from August to October stepping in for Arthur Godfrey on radio and TV. Sonny Tufts carried a daily thermos lunch to the Easy Living set. The Huston father son team will reunite for Columbia with Reminiscences of a Cowboy directed by John Huston. Walter Huston co stars with Montgomery Clift. Walter Kieran moves Ladies Be Seated and One Man's Opinion to ABC replacing Against the Storm and Queen for a Day. Cathy Lewis returns to My Friend Irma after illness and Marie Wilson comments on her.
Mrs. Holbrook reveals the necklace was a set of imitations while the originals were kept in a New York safety deposit. Captain Talbert confirms the imitations were returned to avoid alerting the thief during a cruise. The cruise party remains on edge as investigators regroup.
A scrambled crossword clue list with across and down entries, many misspelled or garbled. Includes references like archeol, Eccl, and inconsistent numbering, suggesting a damaged puzzle page with partial word fragments and misaligned clues.
Analysis notes U S crop output near peak as Lewis signals potential strike actions. Steel industry pushes back against wage increase proposals amid labor tensions.
The Agriculture Department projects a near record U S crop in 1949 with corn at about 3 5 billion bushels nearly matching last year and likely triggering government price supports for 1950. Wheat, rice, nuts and other crops also remain strong while plans to curb surpluses loom. In Czechoslovakia the Communist regime accuses priests of network activity amid arrests as church and state clash over control and negotiations.
The Army and Air Force ended a crisis at maneuvers as the Army admitted its ground-umpire could not assess the Air Force’s sudden strikes in Germany. The Air Force commander had warned he might pull planes home after the Army challenged air claims.
In the background of autumnal imagery John L. Lewis warned of possible coal industry disruption over missed welfare fund payments by southern operators. The National Coal Association labeled his remarks a direct threat while steel unions halted a wage increase bid, accepting President Truman's extension and a presidential fact finding board. Six major steel producers joined the truce extension, awaiting board formula responses.
Senator Aiken defended the flexible farm-support law he helped write, claiming wheat and cotton price supports would be set at 83 to 90 percent of parity in 1950. He attacked critics as misrepresenting the act, insisting the 1948 law yields higher guarantees than 60 percent.
Washington talks on Europe's crisis drew mixed reviews in Britain with London accusing Washington of manipulating Britain while U.S. critics blamed the labor government for Britain's financial woes. An emergent consensus favored currency devaluation, supported by John Snyder and echoed by the World Bank and IMF. Meanwhile U.S. social security expansion could raise tax costs to 15 billion in 1960 and 30 billion by 2000, per the Chicago based Research Council for Economic Security. The report outlines four expansion steps and cost as a share of taxable payrolls, from 9.7 to 11.4 percent in 1960 rising to 13.3 to 18.8 percent by 2000. Everything apparently happens in Brooklyn, where World Series games were to be shown on theater screens funded by a $10,000 investment with support from baseball officials.
Career diplomat Robert D Murphy a former adviser to General Eisenhower was nominated as U S ambassador to Belgium. He would replace Admiral Alan G Kirk who has been named ambassador to Russia. The report cites a Communist organizers meeting at Beacon New York relayed by Maurice Malkin a Brooklyn former Communist official to a Senate subcommittee on immigration.
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