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Show National News Summary Federal Employees While an average of 482 new workers were added to the federal feder-al pay roll each day during July, this was a drop from the 525-a-day average noted for the seven months since December. The number of civilian job-holders totaled 2,107,244 on July 31, an increase of 14,931 for July and a gain of 111,856 since December Decem-ber 31. . i Libraries In the United States. 23,000.-000 23,000.-000 persons are-served by public libraries with an annual operating operat-ing income of 25 cents or less per capita, according to the U. S. Office of Education, which reports that more than half the schools throughout the country have either totally inadequate school libraries or none at all. Meat Prospects The Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture holds out little hope for meat-hungry Americans this fall Meat-eaters can expect little improvement im-provement in the meat situation this winter in the line of beefsteak, beef-steak, lamb chops or pork, in spite of better livestock feed supplies and a record-breaking corn crop. In fact, the Department Depart-ment predicted that "meat production pro-duction per capita for the rest of 1948 will run around ten per cent less . than the rate at the same time last year." On prices the Department does not even hazard a guess. Tax Collections Collection of . taxes by the Federal, Stale and local governments govern-ments averaged S344.46 for each of the 144,000,000 Americans during the fiscal year ended June 30. 1947. The Federal government gov-ernment got the lion's share of . the total, a per capita average of $257.36 against $46.84 for the states and S40.26 for local governments. gov-ernments. Total tax collections of the Federal, state and local governments combined were $49.603,000,000 nearly a fourth of the 1947 national income of $202,500,000,000 but $3,445,000,-000 $3,445,000,-000 below fiscal 1945's record high total tax. |