12 THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN Television Swedish Elec?on Turnout Is Large Swedish Book On Early I. W. America ‘ Has Arrived If the Swedish voters offered the previous elections. On the any surprise this time, it was the whole, it can also be said :\ personal chronniclc of life in were widely circulated in that lively interest they expressed in the Conservatives and the years ago. great interest In Farm- America 100 written and stimulated public affairs. the Liberal Gothen- ers' Union maintained their posi- by an early Swedish immigrant to among his countrymen in the pos- burg daily Ilandelstldplngen said tions. The only Television has now “arrived" in loser was the Com- in an editorial on the recent munist Party, this country. will be published In sibilities of life in America. Denmark. In November the Dan- mu- and it was a seri. nicipal and provincial elections. ous defeat it December by the l'niverslty of In his memoirs. Unonius re- ish State Radio begins regular suffered. But the The attendance at the polls was Communists can be .‘Iinnpsota transmissions from Copenhagen. pushed back Press for tho Schish counts in detail his experience in in any previous For the time being the transmis- larger than elec- still farther. To accomplish this, Historical Society. tions of this kind. It represented it is sions will be on a modest scale, essential that in all the new? somewhat more than eighty per 1y elected municipal The book. A PIONEER IN consisting of three programmes a representa- NORTHWEST AMERICA. 1841‘ week. cent of all those entitled to vote, tions a solid democratic front be is a translation which is eight points more than established against the lackeys 1858, Volume I, Radio engineers and program- of the memoirs the old record for municipal elec- Moscow." of of Gustaf Unonius. me planners have experimented The original two-volume work tions and only two and one-half was with television for a long time published Uppsala, points less than the all-time mark first at Swe- and when some television demon- den. in 1861—62. reached in the Riksdag elections strations were at a radio ' given in 1948. Swedish Korea Jonas Oscar Backlund, translat- exhibition in Copenhagen in Aug- or of the forthcoming volume, is ust the public showed such a great An editorial in the Liberal Dag- ens editor of the Swedish language interest that the. state radio con- Nyheter congratulated the So- Hospital Busy newspaper. Svenska Amerikanaren trollers decided to get television cial-Democratic Party and its lead- Tribunen. Chicago. Nils W. 013- transmissions going er, Prime Minister Tage Erland- at once. ‘ On September 25, who edited the book, is now er, on their handsome victory. the Swedish son. In the Danish radio trade the voluntary Red Cross serving public “This wlll be conceded in all sin- hospital in as affairs officer decision came as no surprise. The Pusan, port city for the U. S‘ Department of State cerity by the Liberals, who do in southeastern factories have their models de—- Korea. received its first patients. at Reykjavik. on leave J. O. Backlund not. on the other hand, hide their Iceland. signed and completed, and the consisting of about from his position as assistant pro- satisfaction over the fact that one hundred locating a land claim in Wiscon- whole technical apparatus neces- wounded. At first it planned fessor of Scandinavian at the Uni- their party managed consoli- was sary for the mass production of to to form a mobile versity of Chicago. sin Trrritory, the hardships and date the large gains it made in Swedish field television receivers is ready to hospital, able to satisfactions he encountered in pi- care for two hun~ Gustaf Unonius was a member meet the demand. dred wounded, but subsequently of the first group of Swedish im- oneer farming. and his penetrating Kids Pickers the capacity was expanded con- politics religion Norse migrants who settled in the Mid- views on the and Thousands of Norwegian school siderably which limited the unit's dle His letters and memoirs of the West. new country. Swedish Displays children are volunteering as potato mobility. On the ground floor of I! Ngw York City pickers in all parts of the coun- hospital are the reception to oms The New \‘ork showroom of the try. Ifthey wish, they may be ex- and the clinics. and on the second Swedish Rorstrand Porcelain Fac- cused from school for six days. floor is a. ward for 140 patients. In tories. located at 225 Fifth Ave. Yippee!! a dozen nearby tents some three Visit hundred opened in September. The at- more patients will soon tractive and ingenious decor, feat- Oslo Celebration Ends be cared for. In other te-nts as uring upright rotating well as in permanent structures window The end of 0310’s 900th anniver- FALL panels with small shelves on connected with the main building This each sary celebrations. recently.‘ was for are offices, laboratories. a dental side displaying items. was marked by a giant festival in the designed clinic. and quarters for the per- and constructed in Swed- Town Hall square. en by the ASKI company. 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