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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1947
Page
4
James Marlow reports on rival views as Congress debates extending rent control laws. The piece traces the wartime origin and repeated renewals, noting pressure from real estate and homebuilding sectors to end controls while President Truman signals intent to ask Congress to extend the policy beyond June.
Corporal Donald Lang of Troop G receives a technical sergeant appointment in the New York State Police, with duties in traffic engineering and accident records. The rent control bill advances in the Senate, proposing one year extension or local citizen input in determining control, while the House mulls a 10 percent rent cap and broad material controls, to be reconciled before a final vote.
Plymouth Pa Trotting home from school Thomas Williams found 24 counterfeit style greenbacks and distributed them as play money among classmates. A boy took one home and alerted police after spending it. An $80 bill was returned to Thomas by Aveling Maro a farmer who said he lost it on the way to market. Maro gave Thomas a real $80 bill and said he was studying the note to avoid mistaking fool’s gold for treasure.
Iiverman, a resident of Ellsworth and veteran marine engineer, died at his home on Third Avenue after a long illness. He served on the tug George J. Cooley for forty years and was a familiar figure on the Judson River. He belonged to the Trinkly Episcopal Church. Survived by three daughters and three sons, the family will hold funeral rites from the residence with interment at Oakwood Cemetery.
Executors of Charles Woolworth present an inventory and appeal to the Orphans Court to appraise the Woolworth estate valued at about 15.69 million dollars, with a 1 percent designation noted in Beranton.
The report lists Woolworth assets including a vast personal property stock worth $10,099,078 and $8,908,445 in FW Woolworth Company holdings. It notes a deep investment in the Flat Nose Home Bank of Scranton with $4,224,017 in a business account and $7,212 in a savings account. Italy imposes price controls on unoperated goods amid deflation fears.
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