Parity Price Reform Faces Senate House Opposition
The administration's plan to modernize farm parity prices drew early resistance on Capitol Hill with Rep. Page calling it modernization in reverse and Rep. Hill warning of a battle ahead. The proposal advocates state and county farmer committees, floor parity, and updated price supports to ensure food consumption stays above a minimum level. It also outlines seven policy points including queuing quotas, direct price supports, adjustable supports, loans, marketing agreements, and a foreign trade program. Expansion of the school lunch program is urged to boost demand for milk eggs meat fruits and vegetables.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Rep
Page
D-Ga
Agriculture Committee
Congress
William
Hill
R-Cole
Anderson
Agriculture Department
Department
Senate
House Agriculture
Congressional
Carl C. Farrington
Reward offered for orchard and packing house thefts
A continuation notice offers a $100 reward for information leading to the conviction of anyone stealing from orchards or packing houses. Also listed are for sale items and a dinner notice at John Mann Church with contact numbers, plus a job vacancy requiring ages 22 to 32 and high school education at Headquarters Chief Boyd.
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H. F. Byrd
Butler's
John Mann Church
Susan Tokes
Dept
Boyd
Machine pays off in biscuits for dog fed
Ha Johnson built a slot machine that pays dog biscuits. A wooden trip platform triggers a biscuit drop, solving how he can feed his dog Sandy when absent. Sandy reportedly learned the mechanism in about 30 minutes.
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Cago
Ha Johnson
Sandy
Johnson
Bar associations back Tavenner for state judgeship
The Winchester Clarke Shenandoah counties bar groups endorse Frank S. Tavenner Jr. for the vacancy on the state Supreme Court of Appeals created by Judge Henry W. Holt's death. Warren Page and others in Harrisonburg Rockingham counties may follow. Tavenner, U S attorney for the western Virginia district, is serving in Tokyo as acting chief prosecutor in war crimes trials. He left DOJ duty to assist in prosecuting Japanese war criminals. He is Shenandoah County born and Woodstock raised.
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Bar
Winchester
Clarke
Shenandoah Counties
Frank S. Tavenner Jr
Woodstock
U. S
Western Virginia
Tuck
State Supreme Court of Appeals
Henry W. Holt
Warren
Page County
Harrisonburg
Rockingham County
Japan
Tavenner
Shenandoah County
F. S. Tavenner Sr
Tokyo
Department of Justice
Roanoke College
Highway Deaths Drop Though Traffic Grows
Richmond dispatch reports state highway fatalities fell 18 percent and pedestrian deaths 36.5 percent in the first nine months despite a 12.73 percent rise in traffic. January through October fatalities totaled 496 versus 752 in 1941 and 605 in the prior year, with officials warning November and December typically produce peak accidents due to drinking, football crowds, shorter days, holidays, and weather.
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Richmond
E. H. Williams Jr
Governor's Highway Safety Committee
Williams
Poland backs partition for Palestine at United Nations
Poland urged the UN General Assembly to back a partition plan and to permit immediate immigration of 250000 European Jewish refugees to Palestine. Delegate Winiewicz said Bi national state not feasible now while stressing POLAND's stance showed Eastern Europe diverged from the Soviet bloc on Palestine. Russia signaled support for partition if cooperation fails. the US position was awaited.
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Poland
Palestine
Josef Winiesscz
General Assembly
Palestine Committee
Uruguay
Panama
Pakistan
Winiewicz
U.N. Special Committee On Palestine
Unscop
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Russia
United States
English Literature Teaching Is Shifted
Charlottsville Virginia report states that high schools abandon chronological study of English literature in favor of teaching by content or type. University of Virginia professor Dr. Richard A Meade argues readers study for content and that pupils confront material few adults would choose.
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Charlottesville
University of Viginia
English Journal
Richard A. Meade
Officers Recalled to Supervise Burial of War Dead
Richmond October 8 Lt Col Austin Bland Pamplin of Richmond was recalled for three months to supervise the returning of bodies of war dead to Virginia for burial Col John J Featherston Virginia military district executive announced Major George O Timberlake Jr also called to active service as assistant claims officer Both men are reserve army members
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Richmond
Austin Bland Pamplin
Virginia
John J. Featherston
Virginia Military District Executive
Cornel Featherston
George O. Timberlake Jr
Pamplin
Reserve Army
10 Percent Freight Rate Boost Set for Monday
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized a 10 percent emergency freight rate increase totaling about 700 million dollars annually for U.S. railroads, with aims to take effect next Monday while a permanent 27 percent request awaits decision.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
South
Pilotless British rocket plane hits 900 mph in sonic test
A pilotless eight foot wing span rocket plane built in mahogany reached an estimated 900 miles per hour in an experiment by Britain’s supply ministry to study speeds near and beyond the sound barrier. The craft, launched from a bomber over the Atlantic, carried a 2000 horsepower motor and radio gear to relay data while future tests will use swept wing designs.
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Padstow
Eng
Atlantic
Supply Ministry
Ben Lockspeiser
Min
Iistry
Berryville Council approves new water and sewer rates
Berryville council passed on second reading an ordinance raising commercial water rates to 40 cents per 1000 gallons for the first 10 000, then 30 cents, 25 cents and 20 cents thereafter. Sewer charges set at 2.25 per quarter plus 1.50 for a second closet and 75 cents for each closet over two. Committees were named to report in November and test Lee spring water volume. An extra 300 feet of Byrd Avenue was designated for surfacing.
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Berryville
W. D. Wisecarver
John L. Enders
Roy E. Potts
Lee Spring
D. Blanton Allen
Wisecarver
Enders
Byrd Ave
State Urges Truckers To Finish Hauling Early
Virginia highway officials urged truckers and farmers to complete heavy hauling on secondary roads and lightly surfaced primary roads in early fall. The 1938 act lets the department fix maximum vehicle weight, with school buses and milk trucks exempt. In 1945-46 severe weather and heavy hauling damaged over 3,000 miles of highway and widespread load limits followed.
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Richmond
State Highway Department
General Assembly
Merchants oppose Virginia sales tax plan
FRONT ROYAL October 8 The retail merchants association reports opposition to a Virginia sales tax plan. President Walter A. Wine states the group stands against the tax as drafted.
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Front Royal
Virginia
Walter A. Wine
Race for Wrong Train Is Fatal
Texarkana report says R. P. Teel age 46 of Marshall Texas died while racing to catch a train. He fell about 20 feet from a stairway to a concrete platform at Union station in Texarkana.
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Texarkana
Tex
R. P. Teel
Marshall
Union Station
Anthracite Briquets for Immediate Delivery
A. C. Slonaker & Son advertises anthracite briquets for immediate delivery, noting availability and prompt service from their operation.
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A. C. Slonaker & Son
Richmond unions report high food costs squeeze families
A Richmond survey of 414 workers shows per capita weekly income 15.25 dollars with 9.39 dollars spent on food, about 61.5 percent of income. Families of 2.3 rely on 41.18 weekly wages. many cut meat eggs milk and report inability to buy clothing furniture or necessities. AFL CIO and unions urge price rise and minimum wage increase to 65 to 75 cents.
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Richmond
Congressional
Brownlie Lee Jones
School For Southern Workers
W. H. C. Murry
Richmond Central Trades and Labor Council
AFL
CIO
Dancer testifies of deadly yacht confrontation in Cuba
Patricia Schmidt testified in Havana's Audiencia court over the Mee murder aboard the yacht Laura. She said Chicago lawyer John Lester Mee threatened to kill her and demanded she leave, then struck and kicked her before dying. She described fleeing and attempting to take costumes and money.
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Havana
Patricia Schmidt
Audiencia Court
John Lester Mee
Chicago
Laura
Jack
Cash Statements By AFL and CIO Not Required
Senator Ball and NLRB Chairman He announced that the CIO and AFL need not file financial statements under Taft-Hartley. The decision follows a board ruling that top CIO and AFL officials need not sign non Communist pledges to use NLRB facilities. The law requires unions using facilities to file statements and affidavits. The question had been whether the provision applied to parent organizations or only to individual unions.
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Washington
Ball
R - Minn
National Labor Relations Board
CIO
AFL
NLRB
AFL and
British Plight Summed Up By Economic Czar
Sir Stafford Cripps warned at a news conference that Britain faces deeper dollar cuts unless new dollar aid arrives soon. He cited gold sales and a possible descent into a low mood that could impact Europe and global trade. Washington reports also note talks on German occupation finances to conserve scarce dollars for Britain.
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London
Stafford Cripps
Britain
Europe
Cripps
Sterling
United States
Sir Stafford
U. 8
Washington
Truman Appeals To Women In Food Saving
President Truman urged American women to support the food saving program during Democratic women’s day in Washington. Market reports noted price shifts in meat and grain with hogs and steers up, butter steady, eggs unchanged, and futures rising for wheat and corn. In North Tonawanda a grocer launched an inflation fighting campaign by cutting prices to benefit consumers.
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Washington
Truman
Chicago
St. Louis
Chicago Board of Trade
North Tonawanda
Bernie Guido
County tuberculosis clinic X-rays 228 people
A Frederick County Tuberculosis Association clinic X-rayed 228 individuals yesterday including 97 teachers and 45 food handlers. The event, led by executive secretary Mrs A W Wright, marked the first county clinic since spring. National X-Ray Co of Orange NJ produced the images and will station in Alexandria for the rest of the week.
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Frederick County
Poultry Price Drops on Eve of Observance in Winchester
Winchester buyers cut heavy breed broiler prices to 31 32 cents and leghorn broilers to 24 25 cents on the eve of a poultryless day. Restaurants split on compliance with the national request, while housewives and residents express mixed views on egg and poultry restrictions and potential food conservation.
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On National Administration
Winchester
Metropollitan
James Pappas
Red Wing
Earl M. Lewis
Robert Manuel
W. Boscawen St
William Lohr
Apple Pix Girls To Star In News Films This Month
Winchester chamber of commerce announces orchard scenes featuring local girls to be shot Friday or Saturday by MGM and Fox Movietone News. The footage of girls picking apples will debut around national Week at month end.
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Winchester Chamber of Commerce
MGM
Fox Movietone News
Henry Hardenburg
Winchester Chamber
Attlee Shakeup Prompts Mixed British Reaction
London reports on a drastic Labor government overhaul with five cabinet ousted and Emanuel Shinwell demoted. Press response splits along lines with praise and protests. Critics say more changes needed while Cripps gains power as economic czar. Abe Moffat and union leaders voice mixed support for Gaitskell and Shinwell.
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Emanuel Shinwell
Daily Herald
Daily
Graphic
Attlee
Liberal ‘News Chronical
Daily Telegraph
Daily Worker
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