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This winter's smoke has been the worst so far. Prodded by the city newspapers (and by ambitions for a third term in 1941) St. Louis' stubborn Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann last December agreed that slow moves for smoke abatement had to be turned into fast moves for smoke elimination, set up a seven-man board to consider new measures...
...fuel burning equipment to burn it smokelessly; 2) all others must use smokeless fuel - coke, oil, briquettes, gas; 3) if necessary the city must buy, sell and distribute smokeless fuel to bring it to consumers cheaply. Those measures were designed to eliminate St. Louis smoke in three years. Mayor Dickmann endorsed the plan, pledged that he would push the recommendations, and deep breathers could look forward to the day when St. Louis air would again be fresh...
...that, if the nudes were kept draped through the winter, the city might charge 10? a peek and so liquidate its record $3,332,000 deficit. Art lovers wanted the unveiling put off till spring, when the plaza would look more verdant and hopeful. Barrel-chested Mayor Bernard Francis Dickmann last week gathered himself together and chose a December date. Director of Streets and Sewers Frank J. McDevitt objected to the whole thing, on the ground that motorists would look at the nudes instead of watching where they were going. But St. Louis art lovers reflected proudly that, whenever...
...months ago St. Louis was one of the worst one-week stands in the U. S. But last fall 586 St. Louisans, from Mayor Bernard Francis Dickmann down, joined a subscription group, the Playgoers, guaranteed basic audiences for touring companies. By last week ten good plays had been royally received in St. Louis, eight more were coming. Showmen checked up, agreed that St. Louis had become the road's best host...
Fantastic too were the estimates of completely altering St. Louis' methods of burning fuel. Realtor Dickmann, who wants to be re-elected mayor during Passover, put his ear to the Lenten ground, telegraphed "my kindest regards" to Illinois' Governor Henry Horner and last week signed the ordinance which next winter may make St. Louis cleaner than Pittsburgh...