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Playtime. In Emporia, Kans., Mrs. Carrie Stepter, 104, declaring "I've worked for more than 100 years and now I'm going to play a while," bought herself a pair of unrationed play shoes...
...over. But most felt that they had already lived through a sort of V-E week, and across the great Main Street of America there was only a little cheering. In Des Moines a housewife telephoned a newspaper: "Shall I go ahead and bake a pie for tomorrow?" In Emporia, Kans., as in most of the nation's towns and villages, it was another Monday and another washday. But on this Monday, Emporia got the news that four more of its sons had been killed in battle...
...From Emporia, Kans., made famous by the late William Allen White as the archetypical U.S. small town, came a surprising fact: though the town has had no particular war boom, last year no less than 10% of the Senior High School's 640 pupils earned enough (i.e., $500) to make them file federal income-tax returns (64 reported paying taxes...
...Emporia boy & girl wage earners (median age: 16) worked at 62 different jobs, mostly the usual peacetime ones of selling, waiting on table, house and farm work, soda-jerking, tending filling stations...
...Future Farmer of America, Ernest Farr, of Route 4, Emporia. had the top 1944 income. His farm record book showed an income of $2,617.20 (of which he saved...