Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1945, Cairo, Egypt A few re plants and shipyards throughout nation continued to scale Down this there is no that War workers sire anxious to immediately obtain jobs in private an a Survey of the employ ment situation shows that far More than have been but it brought into focus certain some workers Are showing reluctance to accept jobs paying than abnormal War Plant and Many women or aged men who took jobs just for the duration Are no longer the labor while persons Are crowding employment offices in some other cities reported Are awaiting applicants who have not other War workers Are taking Long anticipated vacations or standing by for attractive jobs in reconverted a noted that fluctuating conditions Render a True picture of the employment situation but reported a relatively heavy de Mand for workers in food and Gen eral merchandise As Well As in service in some prewar services Are being installation of dial telephones has begun fris co meat and soap salesmen Are soliciting orders in Boston and Roadside lunch stands and Gas stations Are quickly too much ado a cheerful note was struck by regional opa chief at san he said that too much ado is being raised1 Over reconversion unemployment since predictions of widespread unemployment Are with the nationwide consumer these figures help in jobs available against War Plant in new jobs were available with fewer than persons re employ in where have been wac director William Fitzgerald predicted six or seven years of the Best peacetime Prosperity when recon version is fully in where exware workers have been Laid Only have reapplied for Kansas reported that it has jobs available but War workers Are turning them Down because the wages Are a similar situation was noted m siamese twins born Rita Miranda gave birth to siamese girl twins at her Avondale Home sat urday the which Are joined at the lower were Given an even Chance to fill a Motorist drove into a filling station and relished being Able to filler up As he pulled the inconsistent demand for support his there were August the old Corner pump flows freely with the Bright tidings of reconversion and a peacetime flow of civilian goods came rumblings of trouble Over x in what was considered one of the most important government statements concerning recover opa announced last week that prices of new durable goods such As washing machines would be on Par very Little More than the prewar it ride scored its new by ordering 1942 ceilings on prices for Irones and aluminium Kitchen the office of economic stabilization gave formal Blessing to the policy by issuing a directive which approved these outlined earlier by opa where labor and material costs have risen Sig they will be Given compensating Price wholesalers and retailers will be required to absorb such in creases to a reasonable extent to prevent retail prices from mount manufacturers will be required to produce about the same pro portion of Low priced goods As they did before the this particularly is designed to Stop a general increase in the Tost of be wont sen but these decisions were not heartily welcomed by although washing machines were trickling off the production Linet of general electric in a Plant which two Days previously had been cleared of Bazooka Machin the company announced that Here is graphic proof of what happened As soon As the lifted Gas ration fuel hungry their starvation diet now fish 34th looking East from eighth in new York seizes Illinois Central lines to Avert jurisdictional strike Chicago by order of the the government seized the Illinois Central Railroad system last week to prevent a threatened strike of members of the lines brotherhood of Loco motive firemen and the seizure brought an indefinite strike postponement by the Union because of jurisdictional had been at Odds another rail Rockefeller bows out of state Washington president tru Man has accepted the resignation of Nelson Rockefeller As assist ant Secretary of state in charge it shines until Grimes seeks 15lj Over the May 42 allows a percent makers of lightweight the demand for said that some mail so would have to Helotie unless they could ask higher a few Days ced Price policy Small volume manufacturers designed to help War workers and other beginners launch Ian even though they Lack the sufficient capital to sorb the abnormally High Cost of setting up a it is restricted to beginners whose net sales will be or less the plan permits1 such manufacturers to select one of two methods adopt ceiling prices now for comparable goods or compute their own ceilings by add info the profit margin supplied by opa to their own estimated operating in the latter such Pri Ces would be recomputed three months to use actual opera ring costs instead of Outlook More cheerful prices or no the Outlook for the average civilian was much while Agri culture Anderson warned Public against an a tins spree now that the War is he prom ised an improvement in the supplies of Many he had no definite word on the end of meat rationing but said that supplies Are with the result that Point values could soon be canned fish and evaporated milk will be More abundant Anderson warned against pointing out that Start intr people other parts of the world must still be for most exciting news the return it amused to the the dropped to War in photo finish at draft Board los Angeles a 28yearold Mountaineer descended from the Kentucky Hills recently and found out More turned some of them the Ernest Learned to his amazement that the had been at War with Germany and Japan and that the three had been Defeated respectively after considerable Trou his patriotism set off by this momentous the Mountaineer hurried the nearest draft Board and he told draft Board officials that since there were no newspapers or radio in the Hills near he had simply been out of report Normal oper in ordering with rail officials president the declared that a Page in the Railroad Industry at this time is in where a Wildcat strike at a Plant of the Youngstown Sheet and tube com Pany has officers of the striking1 Union have been suspended for the unauthorized imported workers riot Twenty two Hundred who were imported from the Baha Mas and Jamaica for work on Flo Rida farms and were awaiting shipment rioted this week at Camp former army Camp now used by the War food admin cause of the demonstration has not been six rioters were of the week was the return of latin american and i Nylon and both of which appointed the present ambassador were freed of a slight technicality blocks immediate use of Nylon for hosiery but web promised nylons by or by Christmas at the very web warned that several months will probably before there Are enough Nylon stockings to fill the demand but when the factories get they Are expected to turn out an unprecedented for Best news concerned the government threw open Texas digs out after 4day Hurricane a Gulf Hurri with winds of up to 135 raged Over heavily populated sections of the Central Texas coast this leaving six dead and causing property damage estimated in Early estimates of the terrific transmitted by patched communications placed crop and property damage in millions of Cotton damage is estimated at while the Rice loss is much the one of the most destructive in Gulf coast his died Down West of Relief and rehabilitation were be gun along a 300mile stretch of the Central some of the hardest hit sections were still isolated but fragmentary reports formed a Bleak picture of battered and in undated sea level wrecked hundreds homeless Ami its Iii throughout the stricken the red Cross cared for and fed thousands of in Bay City an Inland town of it least citizens needed Bay where a 135 Mph wind was still Cut off from out Side a telephoning a moment the line went the Community was being torn apart by the these were preliminary and unofficial of damage port 000 port and Corpus coastal residents evacuated storm victims were and Charles Reeves of san Antonio and their two Young the four deaths occurred in an Auti Uio bile Accident blamed n rain and poor other Niri Cane victims were Glenn is Nib of port Arkansas and Joe Green of port who drowned when a fishing boat the storm struck Between Corpus Christi and sending 100 Mph blows across the Rich Indus trial and farming As High tides and heavy seas pounded the Flat coastal most roads and much of the Highway Between the two cities were under torrential Rains measured up to seven inches at some communications were snarled and coastal residents swarmed out such Points As Rockport and port Hurricane winds of 101 Mph battered the Christi Advance bad teen heeded and hundreds of naval training planes bad been moved High tides pushed sea water into the coastal snap Power and communication lines and the wind raked Trees in to Spruille to succeed the fourth state change within recent is construed As further stiffening in our attitude toward the present Argentine government and its fas Cist Braden has sharply criticized Argentina dictatorship during his few months As ambassador in accepting the president Truman thanked Rocke Feller for his part in building co operation among american republics both As coordinator of inter american and in the state hires Hoss trader believe it or heres the Guy who sold Hirohito the famed White Horst which Halsey is to ride through the streets of Hes Dewey famous los Angeles horse the japs always claimed that the bought a year before Pearl har is of arabian blood but Burden discloses that its a Western cow Pony of Pinto he displays the original scud c to prove Acme the Gates on abolish ed1 us earlier quota of this and told manufacturers to make As Many As no spare tires Cost of the new which will Lack spare will be about the same As in Bowles quickly denied a Detroit report alleging a 14 percent jump in another development was welcomed by those who need new tires to go with their unlimited web officials predicted that tire production might jump to a 100 percent in within the next few household rubber goods will he released from control radio sets arid parts available to Supply All civilian needs within eight an estimated new models Are forthcoming this year but will have few improvements Over pre War the Federal housing administration announced that it is returning to its prewar program of insuring a portages on and House hungry folks were told that although they cant Start building right they can at least Start arranging a More than private institutions Banks and ready to lend the Money with Cha re converting itself for peacetime web revealed that it is eliminating the old wartime priorities control system and stunting a new limited method tended to Speed production bottlenecks and the interests of
