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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1948
Page
9
A ten member commission from the American Association of School Administrators says education is the world’s best defense against war. The group urges adults to continue studying to keep up with a new era of world events.
Finland weighs Stalin's request to join Soviet defense pacts seen as a bid to control politics after Czechoslovakia. Senator Vandenberg pushes for swift Marshall Plan action while probing steel price hikes and atomic security issues.
Rear Adm Ellis M. Zacharian claims three new weapons exist that outrank the atomic bomb in sheer destructiveness. He notes U.S. attention has developed them since the war and suggests they are likely of a bacteriological nature.
The text notes a coveat by Southern Democrats against nominating President Truman again, recalling that prior vice presidents faced presidency and some were renominated for a full term. It asks which two were, implying a historical precedent question.
The text lists figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Coolidge among renominated names with scattered references to Dwight D. Eisenhower and other political figures. Fragmented place mentions include New York and Brooklyn with garbled names and positions, offering little coherent context.
The British Jerusalem garrison commander Brig. G. P. Jones warns that prolonged Arab Jewish violence will not continue and that force will be used, possibly with weapons beyond those available to combatants. In the U S South, Truman faces party dissension as South Carolina and Tennessee Democrats reject his civil rights push and Mississippi Democrats threaten to bolt the convention unless they back anti southern civil rights measures.
In a fiery speech Virginia Governor William Tuck denounces President Truman’s oil rights policy and urges voters to oppose it. He calls for a joint session of the Virginia General Assembly to consider keeping Truman’s name off the ballot and to allow electors to back another Democratic candidate.
Dr Clarence A. Bille of the University of Cincinnati notes more than 70 people die yearly from air pollution in Chicago with a large share occurring in other American industrial cities. He cites pollution as a major cause of time lost from work.
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