Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1951 — Page 6
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Goes to Cleaners Providence. R.l.—(UP)—When workers at the [.Purity laundr.. opened one of several, bags which a route man had collected, out popped a cat. r- T - Named for its one-time London cwner, the 4 4^-carat Hope diamond is presumed to be part of the Tavernier £lue, brought from In dia in 1638 and made part of the Trench crown jewels. Reappearing in much reduced size as the Hope Diamond, it is associated by tradition with eleven violent J deaths Colorado selected the white and lavender columbine as that state’s Official flower in 1899.
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Experts have {found that the fatnous medieval . tree the “Court Linda,'’ of Germany, v. ith its branches supported by 30 stone, jplllars, Is 1,200 years old this year, dating for the days of Charlemagne, reports the German tourist office. — ; First created in 1781, the Department of State was called the Department of Foreign Affairs. — One of the largest city-govern-ing bodies in the country is Chicago’s 60-member city council. More than half of the Netherlarids’ 10,000,000 people live below sei level, protected by dykes. \
All Beef Sold At Retail Now Under Ceiling Beef Under Fixed Dollars-And-Cents Ceiling On Prices 1 Washington, Maj/ 14 — (UP) — All beef sold in all retail stores .cross the nation went under fixed dollars-and-cents price ceilings today. ' On the average the prices ought to be about what the housewife has been \ paying since January, the office of price stabilization (OPS) said. But by Oct. 1, it said, meat controls are expected to roll back beef cut; prices by Starting today beef must be displayed in different trays according to quality —choice, good, com'mfercial and utility. The ceiling prices go IptO effect immediately but retailers have until June 4 to post them all customers can see. This is the first time dollars-and-cents ceilings have been placed on any major consumer item since World War II controls ended. The ceilings vary according to: , 1. Quality and fsut of beef. 2. Size of store\ There are three classes, depending on volume of business.\ - t . 3. The area of the country the store is located in. Some areas produce more meat than others. All sms?l independent grocers in the same part of the country, for instance, must observe ’ tire Tame ceiling price for the same cut of beef of the same quality. This also gpes for medium-sized stores, chain stores, supermarkets and the like. \ \ OPS said it expected some of the prices in the 300,000 or so meat retail Stores to .the country to come down a little and some to go up slightly. On the whole prices ought to stay about where they are. Even as the fixed cteilings went into effect, cattlemen were seeking to butcher the OPS order. They claim the order means blackmarkets and shortages, j Secretary of agriculture Charles F. Brannan was called before the house agriculture committee tomorrow to give a specific answer as to whether he opposes or supports the price rollback. / Price sta'bijizer Michael V. DiSalle, whq issued the order, was told to bring his meat experts to the committee’s hearing room and demonstrate on two -beef carcasses how to cut them up and tag them to meet the beef order’s regulations. The meat industry will supply the- carcasses and all the tools for the unusual demontration on Priday. The cattlemen claim the beet can’t be cut to comply with the order. The beef ceiling-prices action Is just the beginning of a government move to roll back beef pri ; ces. OPS officials were said to feel that to a large extent' the wpole program to control living costs depends dn what happens with meat.
UNITED (Continued From Page One) ~ —i —.-. 4 T — movement out of the Chinese staging area was astride the central Ifwacon-Chunchon corridor and in the demote mountain region east «|nd northeast of Chunchon. A’lied. warplanes continued to blast co|nmuni-t supply lines throughout North Korea. V More thah 450 fighters and fighter bombers struck as far north as Huichon, within 4*5 miles of the Manchurian frontier, following up 1,075 attacks by carrierbased and far east air fdrce planes Sunday. * But the U. S. Bth army reported a general lack of heavy fighting on the ground, where the Reds seemed waiting for an auspicious moment to unleash round two of their spring offensive. Pilots blasted 129 rail cars, four locomotives, 300 enemy occupied buildings and numerous other targets in sweeps against the Red supply lines during the day. B-29 superfortresses* joined the destrpctioh with raids against the railroad marshalling yards on the east coast and the airfield southwest of Hungnam. The Bth army estimated enemy casualties Sunday at 910, mostly on the eastern apd central fronts. A 15-hour battle developed on the eastern front when advancing South Korean troops menaced the Reds’ main supply route between Tnje and the east coast town of Kansong. jl The Red attack forced the South Koreans to retreat south of the highway. ■ « I ‘ ' Thei western world knows the world’s highest mountain as Mt. Orientals call it Chomolunga—“goddess mother of the world.”
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CHICAGO (CoaOwwed From »*—e O»<) milk supply and delivery system td normal, ■ - Both settlements provide for twoyear contracts The “inside” dairy workers were granted a 10 percent wage boost, retroactive to May 1, and will re* ceive an additional $3 pay boost nfext May 1, They now earn $70.10 per. week .» The dealers also agreed to increase payments into their pension fund sj.so per week per employe and to eliminate all “split shifts” as of next May 1. ' The agreement affected for the drivers gives them an immediate $2 weekly pay boost retroactive to May 1; They now earn $77 per week. On Oct 1, their work will be reduced from six to five days without loss in pay, and they
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will be given an additional $3. They will receive another $3 pay next May 1. i k UN COMMITTEE (Co»tl«Med From Pag* O»e> not "bn the UN members al#ne. 'lt, was a foregone conclusion, however, that the communist part of the world under the Kremlin’s domination would Ignore the embargo when it is Approved by the general assembly. \ The embargo, tiross said, would demonstrate the unity of UN members in respect to the Korean war. “If, happily,” be said, ''the Chinese communists and the North Koreans should cease hostilities, undoubtedly this committee would consider the termination of the embargo.”
Dirksen Speaks To Republican Editors Home Front Freedom Must Be Preserved / r ' f ■ '■ '■ !■■■'■ L Indianapolis, May 14 —(UP) — When freedom dies here nothing else matters, Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R., 111., said here Saturday in a. speech before the Indiana Re\ publican editorial association. ' Dirksen told the GOP editors’ annual spring conference that America must not forget that an important ant J communist “beachhead,” in addition to the war in Korea, is the battle to preserve freedom on the home front. “Our strength is not in the bomb . . . or in a few divisions in Europe,” Dirksen said. ** “Our strength lies in a strategic plan that suggested by both Hoover and MacArthur, the core of which is physical power, sustained moral poWer behind a moral leadership in peop’e have "faith” Earlier, the association’s resolution committee denounced administration controls which “open the doors to Communism by their trend toward a socialistic state.” A committee report charged that “our vacillating foreign policy has served to confuse both our own citizens and residents of other countries.” E. W. Schergens, Tell City, bepresident and Paul Riddick, LaGrange, was elected first vicepresident. Other new officers were Dow Richardson, Kokomo, second vicepresident; £laude Billings, Akron, secretary, and Lee Craig, Delphi, treasurer. 4
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