Republicans Prepare to Sound Get Tough Policy
Washington reports show congressional Republicans urged grass roots at Lincoln Day dinners to stop Democratic compromise and fight. Key figures like Senators Wherry Brewster Cain and Vandenburg weigh tough lines on Taft Hartley repeal and bipartisan foreign policy, with Detroit event eyed.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Dewey
New York
Brewster
Maine
Cincinati
Sacramento
San Diego
Ad Muncie
Ind
Cain
Winston-Salem
N. C
Vandenburg
Farm sale notices list livestock and goods offered
Sales Directory lists multiple sales with dates and locations around Winchester and Berryville. Items include livestock machinery furniture and household goods. Entries cover Claude Poston Edna L Largent Charles Edwards Barr White Hall and H O Light Grimes with dates February 16 19 23 24 and 25 and starting times at 10 a.m. or 11 a.m. These notices provide sale sites near Stephens City Millwood Winchester Berryville and nearby roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. C. White
Stephens City
Claude Poston
Millwood
Edna L. Largent
Bufflick Road
Winchester
Charles Edwards
Berryville
Marvin Chapel Church
Answers to Daily Quiz Summary
The excerpt lists correct answers to a Page 4 quiz covering tax filing options, true statements, geography, government, history, science, and time, plus a question on the frigate bird. It describes the frigate as a large sea bird with vast wingspan, noted as graceful, related to pelicans, called man of war, tropical distribution, about 40 inches long, wingspan 7 to 8 feet, with black metallic upper plumage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
House of Representatives
Honduras
Mediterranean
Tropics
Peach Varieties Recommended for Virginia Growers
Virginia Tech horticulture expert Robert C. Moore releases a 1949 list of peach varieties for growers. Elberta remains dominant for commercial plantings, with early red free ripening before Elberta and several yellow fleshed and freestone substitutes offering earlier or later fruit, along with new contenders Dixired Redskin and Hale Harrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blacksburg
Robert C. Moore
Virginia Tech Department of Horticulture
Moore
Roanoke
Elberta
Redhaven
Golden Jubilee
Elberta Halehaven
Sullivan
Shipper
Dixired
Redskin
Hale Harrison
Norway Russia Pact Debate Sparks Party Lines
The Norwegian press debates Soviet non aggression plans with Oslo’s communist paper calling for peace and opposition to U S policy. Oslo officials say no official reply will come until Halvard Lange returns from Washington.
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Norwegian Journal of Commerce
Russia
Norway
Oslo
Reiheten
U. S
Einer Gerhardsen
Halvard Lange
Washington
Commission urges broad reorganization of the executive branch
A 12 member bipartisan commission reports the United States spends heavily due to disorganization and unclear authority. It proposes consolidating offices, strengthening the presidents staff, and creating an office of the economic adviser and a reorganized budget and personnel structure. Twenty seven specific recommendations would require legislation and aim to streamline government agencies and lines of command.
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Commission
Commission On
Congress
Acheson
Defense
Forestal
United States
Council of Economic Advisers
Economic Adviser
National Security Council
Army
Air and Navy
Secretary of Defense
Forrestal
Department
Navy
Air
Budget
Budget Bureau
Treasury Department
Civil Service Commission
The
Security Council
National Security Resources Board
Fifth Army to expand snow relief into four Nebraska counties
Gov. Val Peterson declared a state of emergency in Dixon Wayne Stanton and Platte counties as the Fifth Army prepares to push bulldozers into the blizzard area. Haylift operations taper while air missions focus on urgent human needs and cattle access to feed increases.
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Omaha
Fifth Army
Nebraska
Val Peterson
C. W. Anderson
Federal Works Administration
Dixon
Wayne
Stanton
Platte
Pick
Midwest
Lewis A. Pick
Wyoming-Nebraska
South Dakota
Russians Demand Clear Assurances From Norway Observers Report
Western embassy observers read a Soviet note and demand categorical guarantees that Norwegian territory will not be made available to American or British armed forces. They suggest any Nordic arrangements implying such obligations would be seen as hostile and aggressive toward the Soviet Union. Norway remains central in the discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Russia
Sweden
Denmark
Soviet Union Non Aggression Pact Vision North of Romania
A discussion notes that the Soviet western border north of Romania lacks a pact of friendship and mutual aid with Russia. It suggests a non aggression pact, likely less comprehensive than existing mutual aid agreements.
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Romania
Russia
Virginia workers help harvest 1948 crops without foreign labor
The Virginia State Employment Service reported 1948 crops were harvested without imported foreign labor or POW workers and with no significant spoilage from manpower shortages. The farm labor advisory committee in Richmond heard recommendations to recruit smaller crews and better supervision for next season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker McC. Bond
Farm Labor Advisory Committee
VSES
Powell
Virginia
Virginia State Employment Service
Richmond
Frank A. Cavedo
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Employment Service
Virginia Seasonal Agricultural Workers Placed Locally
Officials report a large share of Virginia's seasonal workers were harvest hands with vegetable and berry producers in Norfolk and the Eastern Shore. About 80 percent were sourced locally, with 16 percent coming from Florida and Atlantic Seaboard states south of Virginia.
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Norfolk
Eastern Shore
Piedmont
Shenandoah Valley
Bel
Virginia
Cavedo
Florida
Atlantic Seaboard
Old Dominion
Boy Scouts an American institution of character building
The article extols the Boy Scouts as a constructive force shaping moral strength and good citizenship. It emphasizes self-reliance and argues for wholehearted public support of the organization as an American institution of character building.
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Boy Scouts Organization
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