Farms Dangerous Safety Week Figures Show
Supervisors of the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District back President Truman's call for each farmer to remove at least one safety hazard daily until every farm is as safe as possible. National Farm Safety Week was proclaimed for July 21 to 27 with plans for cooperation among the Soil Conservation Service and Extension Service. Secretary Clinton P Anderson noted accident rates fall with safety programs and that farming remains the nation’s most dangerous occupation, with 24 percent of occupational deaths despite 16 percent of workers. In wartime, farm fatalities exceeded combat deaths in early years, and last year over 14 000 farm people were killed in farm accidents.
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Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District
President
National Farm Safety Week
Soil Conservation Service Extension Service
Department of Agriculture
Clinton P Anderson
America
Farm accidents and fires threaten food supply and lives
Reports warn that 4500,000 were injured with one in every hundred disabled for life. Farm accidents and fires drain farmer income, costing about 1 on every 10 dollars. Machinery, horses, and dangerous animals pose the greatest danger, followed by falls and burns, threatening food for Americans and war-torn regions.
Rodents and Insects Cut Global Grain Supply
Washington report says pests fungi and moisture destroy about one tenth of annual cereals peas beans and oil seeds. FAO scientists estimate losses at 72 500 000 tons, far exceeding projected wheat output, urging improved handling methods at farm level to curb waste.
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Washington
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
FAO
Tree Seeding by Air Being Tried in Oregon
Oregon foresters test aerial seedling with two seed mixes on 1400 acre Tillamook burn area and 800 acre Polk county site. Poison strips and rodent control accompany planting. results expected in coming years. If successful, method could reduce labor and speed reforestation in a shrinking timber resource.
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Salem
Oregon State, Forestry Department
Oregons
United Press
Tillanook
Polk County
Port Oxford
Foresters
Jefferson Barracks to Be Abandoned After 120 Years
Historic Jefferson Barracks in St Louis will soon be surplus and turned over to the War Assets Administration. Officials and others seek the wooded acreage along the Mississippi while memory of figures like Grant, Sherman, and Lee lingers in a once active post that housed noted leaders and Civil War veterans.
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ST Louis
Jefferson Barracks
Ulysses. Grant
Robert E Lee
War Assets Administration
Missinnippi
United Press
Black Hawk
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Davis
Willam Tecumseh Sherman
Phil Sheridan
Zachary Old
Rough and
Taylor John C Frement
Grant
Lee
Lieutenant Grant
Mexico
Gravels Road
Julia Dent
Cordwood
Sherman
Hell
Picket’s Victim Receives $20,000 Award in Gary Case
Charles Titus of Hobart Indiana won a $20,000 damage judgment for injuries from CIO pickets in 1941 outside US Steel plate mill in Gary. Titus, permanently disabled per his claim, had the Lake County suit moved to Kentland after seeking higher damages. Frank Grider led the strike outside the plant as Titus refused to leave a bus.
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Kentland Ind
Charles Titus
Hobart
Ind
CIO
Gary
Lake County
Titus
Kentland
Frank Grider
Plate
Variation of Rope Trick Enthralls Excited Crowd
Fort Worth reports a rodeo contestant, 32 year old Levis Powers, walking along a windy canyon when a near gale struck. The gust toppled a bar to a third floor ledge. Powers escaped uninjured, then returned to his hotel, retrieved a lariat, and calmly retrieved his hat before departing.
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Fort Worth
Levis Powers
Powers
Roosevelt USES Office Starts New System for Worker Referrals
The Roosevelt US Employment Service outlines a new inter office placement system at a Salt Lake City training meeting. Local offices in Ogden Park City Price Provo Salt Lake City and Craig Colorado will refer workers directly to employers. The change aims to reduce migration and speed job matching for 16 000 seasonal and migratory workers plus veterans and displaced war workers.
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US Employment Service
Interoffice
Utah
Salt Lake City
Wall J
McClellan
Theocal
Vernal Express Brief Notices Aug 1 1940
Local brief items from The Vernal Express include community notices and short updates in a late July to early August 1940 context. Read as concise items reflecting daily town affairs and public notices in Vernal Utah.
Utah job openings shared weekly for statewide access
Utah USES offices coordinate weekly to inventory all unified job openings and relay them statewide. Local offices collect data, compile it at the state level, and distribute to every Utah office so interviewers have access to openings across the state. A safety factor in auto racing introduces a lightweight radio linked system for pit communications.
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Utsh
Renin
Utah
Roosevelt
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Cuba
Anawer
Maraballi
Ratimere
Larson Sand & Gravel
Clark LarSon
Whew
Seattle
Neil D. Roseboom
Lelt
Jack Allison
Veterans Administration
Fish and Wildlife Service
Wiley’s Resort
Deviks
Vernal
Picket
Seiberling
Fred
Frank
Tire Shop
Thurs
Ip Dtankpolis
Emil Andros
Wor
Farmer’s
Steava Bootetra
Porte Fergueen
Murdock Machinery CO
Ford Ferguson Dealers
Vernal Auto Shop
Jeffries
Henry Meyer
Sgt
Cpl
Prc
Vernal City
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