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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1945
Page
4
The 7th Congress, spanning wartime to peace, ends its session tonight with adjournment likely for a second term. unless a last minute anomaly delays, leaders expect a January 14 return for the new session in a continuation year.
The 70th Congress enacted the United Nations Charter, funded UN bodies, extended lend lease and trade acts, and created Bretton Woods. Domestically it appropriated about 82 billion dollars during wartime, later recouped unused funds, extended drafts, raised the debt limit to 300 billion, extended price controls, rewrote the GI Bill, cut taxes, and reorganized government. It also deferred actions on a British loan, pensions, universal military training, and other major measures to the next year.
The article surveys how President Truman’s labor and foreign policy proposals faced stiff resistance in Congress. Lawmakers rejected new labor legislation, balked at work-or-lose rights, and did not advance repeal attempts on foreign loan defaults. Treaties failed to gain Senate approval and a controversial line of succession proposal was stalled. Unemployment reforms stalled as conferences loom next year. Multiple investigations dominated, from Pearl Harbor to State Department China policy and Roosevelt era finances.
A Wednesday party at Samatitan Hospital honored all staff. Nursing students staged a play and a Santa figure gave each employee a year of service bonus. Directors, auxiliaries, and board members sent greetings and a Christmas printing was presented.
On the first day of the session the House created a permanent committee on un American activities. Lawmakers did not pause for vacations, with travel of delegates and investigators continuing abroad as Japan’s surrender ended.
St Marys parish closed its drive for wartime relief to Europe and the Near East with 3178 cans of food received valued at about 802 dollars. Christmas music festival planned at First Presbyterian Church with chairs of Protestant churches rehearsing and a supper to follow hosted by the Ladies Aid Society. Star Unity Club of Past Matrons of Junis Chapter BS elects officers at annual Christmas party hosted by Mrs Mitford Frost. next meeting set for Jan 15 at Mrs Charles Mead's home.
Green Island health officer Dr. Ferdinand Hagerly reported the general health as good. Influenza in the village shows a mild form with throat irritation, fever rise, headache, muscle soreness, and cough. Ten cases were reported recently. prevention urged to avoid contact with the afflicted.
St Louis officers discover a peculiar incident where eight month old Janeon McKinney cried in a car in a downtown parking lot. Juvenile Officer Thomas Ryan quickly diapered the infant to calm her arresting parents as they returned from Christman shopping. The McKinneys, Richard F P McKinney and Lawrenteville I, left the child in the car, a passerby alerted the parking lot attendant who notified police.
Fire Chief Carl A. Smith estimated the loss at $1000 from a blaze that broke out in a one and a half frame dwelling owned by Philip Roder at 4 Ford Avenue yesterday. Five men were summoned by box alarm at 3 28 and returned at 9 14 am. The fire started in the basement and burned through the first floor and part of the upper floor. An overheated heater is blamed. In other news Rabbi Reuben A. Slonim was elected president of the Ministerial Association of Troy and Vicinity, succeeding Rev. Herbert C. Willenberg. Tev. Brad ford H. Burnham was named to the executive committee. Rabbi Slonim had been duties at the temple since July 1944.
A fragmented report suggests De Haverly believed Green Island had fewer issues than nearby areas. It mentions Christmas vacation school closings possibly aiding preservation of lithographic work.
The text discusses naming quirks in the western states, noting South Dakota known as the Coyote state and references to the Sunine and Sturg places. It mentions New Mexico Florida and California as contenders for titles, labeled as The Ponloaula and Gotten, respectively.
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