National Safety Council Fights Americans’ Accident Toll
The National Safety Council formed in 1913 has grown from 2 paid staff to a 370-strong team with 6,200 supporting companies and 2,900 associations. It reports declines in industrial and home deaths since 1928 and promotes safety through publications, posters, surveys, and local safety groups.
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United States
National Safety Council
Chicago
The
Safety Council
Howard Pyle
Arizona
Meat prices only look high
College Station readers are told that meat spending has fallen from 7 percent of income in 1920 to about 4 percent now while incomes for other goods rose. USDA grades guide retail beef veal lamb and pork visibility with Prime to Utility ranges and consumer advice on cooking. local agents offer meat cookery information.
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College Station
Ed Uracek
Extension Livestock Marketing
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U. S
USDA
Avacek
Uvacek
Cerama Star shrine drive aims to honor Texas founders
A $950,000 statewide campaign announced by Gov. Price Daniel, with leaders from Galveston Dallas and Houston, seeks to build a five acre Cerama Star memorial at Washington on the Brazos to honor the 59 Texans who declared independence on March 2 1836. The project envisions a Lone Star shaped complex of ceramics and a Light of Texas Freedom beacon atop a central tower.
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Austin
Washington on-the-Brazos
Republic of Texas
Price Daniel
Mary Moody Northen
Galveston
Robert L. Thornton
Dallas
Gus S. Wortham
Houston
Clyde E. Gray
Woodville
Brenham
Old Washington
Alamo
Goliad
San Jacinto
Texas
Texas Press Association
The
Texas In
Lone Star
Texas Freedom
Dallas group pursues lodge financing as marina project stalls
John Prather of Dallas, Eisenhower Development Corp., says a $350,000 note against the marina led to repossession actions while Lamplighters Inns withdrew from operating the lodge after the $500,000 marina likely won’t finish for the season. The state parks board remains uncommitted as prior financing attempts fail. The lake lodge plan echoes past efforts on Texas side near Texoma. In separate items, draft status guidance and polio case counts update readers on civic and health matters.
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John Prather
Dallas
Eisenhower Development Corporation
State Parks Board
Bill Collins
Lamplighters Inns, Inc
St. Louis
Prather
Parks Board
Texas
Oklahoma
Lake Texoma
Still Need a Litter in Hagerstown Commentary
The Morning Herald notes railroads dropping unneeded work and unions fighting featherbedding. It compares the idea to hiring a babysitter as a metaphor for ongoing hiring costs and labor policies, while also citing a London auction where a Chippendale satin wood and mahogany commode sold for a world record $70,000.
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Hagerstown
Morning Herald
London
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