Site Picked For Hoof and Mouth Lab On Plum Island
Secretary Brannan selected Plum Island, Long Island Sound, as the site for a multi factor laboratory to study foot and mouth disease and other livestock diseases. Public hearings in Connecticut and Long Island showed mixed local sentiment, but support for the research remained. Plum Island spans 800 acres, roughly 1 mile wide at its broadest and 1.25 miles from the mainland.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Charles
E. Brannan
Plums Island
Long Island
Dhs
Brannan
Connecticut
Department
Carter
Plum Island
Brannai
GIs Provoke British Protest Over Magazine Photo
A Picture Post photograph of an American GI embracing an English girl in London sparks protests from 21 British soldiers in the Suez Canal Zone. Reynolds News reports complaints saying the image mocks English respectability and calls for Britain to wake up before it becomes a 49th state.
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London
Suez Canal Zone
Reynolds News
Britain
Unon Picture Post
Reynolds
England
Crosby Lions Club Plans Ladies Night Event
Crosby Lions Club schedules a Ladies Night at 7 pm on Thursday at President O. O. Hare's home. R. E B. Reynolds chairs the program committee with about 50 expected attendees.
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Crosby Lions Club
Crosby's
Lions Club
O. O. Hare
R. E B. Reynolds
Crosby FFA Fair Opens With Full Dress Parade
Crosby FFA Fair begins with a full dress parade featuring marching bands uniformed firemen and auxiliary members. Houston Arabia Temple Shrine Band invited. acceptance unknown until August. Rodeo shows nightly August 28 29 and 30 by professional cowboys. Livestock show in stock buildings judged by Harris County AAA office. A carnival sets near the arena. August 29 designated Baytown Highlands day with dedicated exhibits.
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Crosby
Houston
Arabia Temple Shrine
Southwestern Rodeo Association
Ional
Harris County
AAA
Jones
Baytown- Highlands
Baytown and
Highlands
Truce Outlook Dark as Ever in Korean Talks Deadlock
The outlook for a Korean armistice is as bleak as ever with renewed deadlock over repatriation of prisoners. Talks at Panmunjom have yielded only brief sessions and no compromise, as both sides cling to their positions on voluntary repatriation and Geneva protections.
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Homer Jenks
United Nations
Panmunjom
Fie UN
Radio Peiping
Dele-Gates
Peiping
Xin
Sto
Korea
Texas Will Like Adlai Says Albert
Eight term Democratic congressman Albert Thomas of Houston says Texans will warm to Adlai Stevenson as they see and hear him. He forecasts Stevenson will carry Texas in November against Dwight D. Eisenhower, noting Stevenson has made a tremendous difference for the Democrats.
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Houston
Sen
Richard Russell
Georgia
Adlai Stevenson
Wingis
Texas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rep
Albert Thomas
Stevenson
Thomas
Top AFL Leaders To Serve On WSB
Washington July 25 AFL officials voted to serve on the revised Wage Stabilization Board while warning the price wage controls law will spur more wage increases. The AFL executive council said it would participate despite the Defense Production Act weakening stabilization, as the board nears takeover. The CIO is believed to follow suit, with Archibald Cox expected as new board chair at the construction wage section after Nathen Feinsinger.
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Washington
AFL
AFL Executive Council
White House
CIO
Nathen P. Feinsinger
Archibald Cox
YA Charged With Blame For Slaying
New York July 29 A judge accused the Veterans Administration of responsibility for the death of 18 year old Eileen Fahey on the Columbia University campus two weeks ago. Bayard Peakes a deranged physicist who confessed he shot a secretary he had never seen because his book was ignored pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to a first degree murder charge. Judge Streit said VA records showed Peakes had been insane for years and at large despite danger to the public.
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New York
Veterans Administration
Eileen Fahey
Columbia University
Bayard ‘P. Peakes
Saul S. Streit
Peakes
Streit
Columbia
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