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Military government weekly information bulletin
Number 57 (September 1946)
General, pp. 21-23
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ZONE NEWS BRIEFS All newspapers in the US Zone have been authorized, providing newsprint is available, to put out extra editions when the Nurem- berg trial verdicts are announced. These will be the first "extras" to be authorized in the US Zone. American consulates in the US Zone have been authorized by an OMGUS directive to perform temporarily informal services on an ad hoc basis on behalf of the Philippine Gov- ernment. A revised allocation, effective 20 August, increased the weekly coal tonnage from the Ruhr for rail movement from 150,829 to 183,351 tons. There was a corresponding decrease in tonnage allocated for movement via inland waterways. US ZONE GAS SERVICE Eight times as many consumers in the Zone now have gas service as in October 1945. The number of gas plants in operation now are three and one-half times more than last October and the production of gas is five and one-half times greater. The dismantling of three and one-half plants approved as advance reparations to the Soviet Union is being accelerated by the use of displaced person as well as German labor. The work is reported ahead of sched- ule. Two youth periodicals have been given permission for increases in their circulation in view of their value in the reeducation of German youth. The circulation of "Horizont" was increased from 50,000 to 150,000 and of "Pinguin" from 50,000 to 250,000. The Karlsruhe Technische Hochschule has taken a five-year lease on the former Tele- graphenkaserne in Karlsruhe, Wuerttemberg- Baden. The work of repairing and remodel- ing the buildings was begun in order to have them ready for occupancy in November. Persons having a bona fide interest in conducting private searches for missing American personnel or the bodies of Amer- ican war dead are to receive maximum as- sistance under a War Department direc- tive. Unclassified information and data can be funished these persons to aid in their search. Gas generators have been installed on 383 US two and one-half ton trucks now operat- ing in the German transport economy. The gas-generator installations on these vehicles have proved successful and a program is being initiated to procure additional genera- tors for this purpose. TIRE PRODUCTION AIDED Tire-producing firms in the US Zone re- ceived sufficient buna from the other three zones to increase tire production 65 percent in July as compared with that of June. Shortages of coal and labor have handicap- ped the processing of available buna. Approximately 900 teachers are to be graduated next year from seven teachers colleges in Wuerttemberg-Baden on comple- tion of a special one-year course being con- ducted to alleviate the need of teachers in the Land. In Bavaria, 4,795 teacher-candi- dates are being trained in sate and denom- inational teacher training schools. YOUTH BOOK EXPOSITION An International Youth Book Exposition is being held in the Wurttemberg-Land Li- brary in Stuttgart. More than 4,000 chil- dren's book and drawings from 14 countries are on display. A reviewing board, consisting of licensees, professional men and members of theatrical and musical unions, is being set up in Stutt- gart to screen applications for theatrical and musical positions which do not require licenses. The Bremen Board of Education in con- junction with the Labor Office has put into operation a plan under which 4,700 teachers and pupils from Bremen schools are engaged in clearing debris from the city during their summer vacation. 23
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