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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1949
Page
9
After a long dispute, a five day week is accepted by railroads and unions. The board recommended a five day schedule and wage steps totaling a $640,000,000 cost. Yardmasters’ claim for shorter weeks was noted as unmet. The agreement marks a milestone in U S industrial policy and wage hour reform.
At 18 in 1930 Otto was proclaimed Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary in Belgium before his family at Steeneckerzeel Castle. The ceremony marked his ascent to royal titles within the Habsburg lineage.
In Pittsburgh March 2147 the UMW leader John L. Lewis faces Senate action on Dr. James Boyd's nomination to head the U S Bureau of Mines as miners enter the second week of a shutdown. Stockpiles stand at 60 million tons with 463,000 idle miners and 70,000 railroad workers furloughed.
Rome March 21 Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza told the Italian Senate that Russia has divided the world by aggression and threat of aggression. He called the North Atlantic defense alliance the last possible guarantee of peace as 37 senators prepared to speak including at least 10 communists.
The president suffers three congressional setbacks including a rent control bill allowing local control, a failed anti filibuster rule change for civil rights action, and a Senate committee pigeonholing Mon Wallgren for the National Resources Security Board chair.
Washington March 21 The administration seeks more than 1 billion dollars in military aid for Western Europe in the first year to re arm allies under the proposed treaty and mutual aid plan. Senate support for the North Atlantic treaty appears strong with broad GOP and Democratic backing in both houses.
The Senate labor committee sent the administration labor bill to the Senate with eight Democrats backing it and five Republicans opposing. The report denounces Taft-Hartley and proposes repealing it to restore the Wagner Act with additions from President Truman. Senator Thom as and Representative Lesinski sponsor the measure.
The Association of American Railroads states the longest straight track is 78.86 miles on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad between Wilmington and Hamlet, North Carolina.
Bernard Baruch warned the United States must seek a decision on world peace to address high prices taxes and jobs. He said the cold war must be resolved and urged cautious measures while considering aid and armament levels and the burden on Americans. He warned that until questions are settled all citizens are prisoners of federal policy.
Paris reports final returns show De Gaullists with about 25 percent of the popular vote and 170 cantonal seats, the Communists about 23 percent with 15 seats, while the government bloc totals 3 667 830 votes across 723 seats.
Premier Queuille's radical party won 138 seats while the Socialists took 108 and Independent Socialists 37. Popular Republicans held 36, Paul Reynaud's Independent Republicans secured 199 seats as a supporting faction, with 20 more seats to unclassified office holders.
Mrs. McCormac presented five sets of educational boxes to Frederick county schools aided by the Frederick-Clarke Garden club and the Garden Clubs of Virginia. Richard C. Potter praised the project as a standout conservation effort, with boxes covering soil conservation trees and birds. The program plans further subjects like lumber insects and cattle with teachers encouraged to add local materials.
Mrs. McCormac emphasized that each box serves as a miniature reference library on a subject. She noted contests like the Virginia Bankers Assn event show the need for widely available library material for school pupils. Notable photos include State Senator Raymond Guest's Warren county farm and other scientifically sound developments.
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