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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1947
Page
8
A Saturday Evening Post piece argues high prices result from supply and demand shifts rather than a single scapegoat. It notes price controls ended, wages rose, and inflation impacts cost of living, warning that tighter controls hinder production and longer-term hardship remains until underlying factors are fixed.
The Conference Board notes that consumers compare current car and shirt prices to prewar levels and worry that income in 1939 would be inadequate. Corrections to inflation are greeted as a coming depression by many, except those on fixed incomes, while a boom is viewed similarly.
Nocona News editor F. L. Perry found a 1922 advice passage likely by T. R. Stump urging a nation and town to suspend business and advertising, howl in gloom, curse the country and neighbors, then calm down and get back to work. The snippet reflects wartime or postwar sentiment and local editorial culture.
A historical note recalls Alexander the Great having his living spaces perfumed with myrrh each day while contrasting China’s monuments as memorials to wise men rather than warriors.
Delegations from eighteen nations meet in Atlantic City New Jersey to bring order to the chaotic radio communications field. The Radio Bands conference is under way seeking to establish a satisfactory framework and duration for talks remains uncertain.
Texas wage data from January to May 1947 show both weekly and hourly earnings rising across most sectors. Lumber and timber lead hourly gains at about 20 percent, with furniture, finished lumber, and crude petroleum near 17 percent. Crude petroleum workers earn about 1.51 per hour. refining at 1.50. Only the dyeing and cleaning industry fell 10 percent from 1946 to May 1947.
Delegates tackle a sweeping revision of the radio spectrum, dividing it into bands for long and short wave broadcasting, television, aeronautical and shipping communications, police and medical calls, amateurs, and military needs. Consensus appears unlikely as nations press for favorable allocations.
The discussion notes that predicting friction among radio services is likely as spectrum is fixed and cannot stretch to fit all parties. The central issue is that finite spectrum prevents accommodating every service and listener demand.
The Menard News notes that the father does not use the family car very often but is always allowed to drive it to the filling station.
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