War clouds loom over Southeast Asia in broad stakes
Editorial warns of a possible limited war in Southeast Asia as Red China nudges toward Quemoy and Matsu with Russia’s stance in flux. It notes U S commitment to defend Formosa and Pescadores, U S warnings to Red China, and the new Kremlin shift after Malenkov. The piece contrasts Asia tensions with a New York column about Madison Avenue racing club Bangtail Preferred, Inc. and stockholders dreaming of buying a racehorse.
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Southeast Asia
Republic of China
United States
Russia
Dulles
Chiang Kai-Shek
Formosa
Red China
Quemoy
Matsu Islands
Chiang
Matsu
U.S
Pescadores
Reds
Malenkov
Bulganin
Kremlin
Red
Chou’En-Lai
China
Bangtail
Ben Duffy
Batten, Barton, Durstine
Osborne
Madison Avenue
New York
Poundstott
Alfred Glynne Vanderbilt
Dave Camerer
Dartmouth
Poundy
Gene Leorne
Ted Husing
Dick Andrade
Bob Considine
Hhe
Devil Diver
Look Alive
Vandervill
Preferred, Inc
Primrose
Baytown Sun staff boast of college degrees and experience
A Baytown Sun memo lauds newsroom staff and training, noting about 40 workers produce the daily edition and many hold college or university degrees while others rely on experience. A humorous anecdote recalls soldiers in England misidentifying a visiting officer as a bellhop.
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TUE Baytown Sun
The
Sun
Washington talk on third party bids and union unity
The piece weighs prospects for a third party in the 1958 election, noting Republican dissidents may rally behind Eisenhower while Democrats doubt such a split helps them. It also covers union unity reducing strikes, housing surveys, and a lame duck perils tale featuring Harold Hagen and a failed post office job bid.
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Washington
GOP
Leonard Hall
White House
Eisenhower
Harold C. Hagen
R-Minn
Hagen
Government Printing Office
Arthur Summerfield
Summerfield
Childlike faith heralded as key to entering God’s kingdom
A compact religious reflection cites Luke 18 17 teaching that those who do not receive the kingdom of God as a child cannot enter. The verse emphasizes humility, trust, and openness in faith as essential virtues for salvation.
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Kingdom of God
You're Telling Me! A New Yorker satiric column
William Ritt riffs on arrest oddities and social quirks with witty asides. A thief wears a junior police badge while a cafe executive extols atmosphere and a frying bacon actor prompts a joke. He notes seventeenth century taverns as debate hubs now termed left side argument.
Lawmakers and Slavery Big Issue in Congress in 1855
A century ago this week advertisements show Servant for sale listings while Congress heatedly debated slavery with labels like know nothingisms. An Ohio member proclaimed Ohio by 80 000 votes will reject slavery as Southerners shouted do it and sweep me from the house. Texas quarrels and Breckinridge remarks followed with no action that week. Ads note a Winchester Academy assistant teacher needed with annual salary and wigs remained a popular item with Gibb Co offering wigs and repairs.
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Harman W. Nichols
Washington
Congress
Ohio
South
Jovity
Otio
Kansas
Nebraska
Texas
Longhorn
Breckinridge
Winchester Academy
Wiliam J. Johnston
Winchester
Gibb Co
Sale manager warned as maps reveal sales force spread
A sales manager in the Pennsylvania sector pins a live relief map behind his desk to monitor where each salesman lies. The boss warns a failing performer that he is not yet fired, but a loosened pin signals a possible pep talk and renewed discipline.
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Ragsdale
Pennsylvania
Tim
Washington Scandal and McCarthy Clash in Red Scare Era
Washington column recalls three Oregon judges detained for drunken driving after a Coos Bay meeting and Sen. Neuberger’s probe into Judge East’s sobriety. It also lampoons White House praise for cabinet members, reviews McCarthy’s elusive Communist charges, and notes a Puerto Rico assassination scare prompting heightened security at the White House and Capitol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. District
William East
Eisenhower
Coos Bay
Ore
Wayne Warner
Eugene
Reedsport
Warner
Frank B. Reed
Chester _ Anderson
Oregon
U. S
Qast
Reed
Anderson
Puerto Rico
Washington
White House
Capitol Hill
Interior
Doug McKay
FBI
Secret Service
Fragmented historical notes on water power and missions
Fragmented text notes a claim about ten tons of falling water per kilowatt hour and a reference to Father Junipero Serra founding missions in California in 1769. It also mentions a secret kept years, a lobster with four possible life years, and Senator McCarthy's 1950 expectancy of sixty years.
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State Department
Acheson
Byrnes
McCarthy
Philip Jessup
GOP
Charles Evans Hughes
Joe
Hughes
Senate
Scott McLeod
Junipero Serra
Francis
Goos
California
Sen. McCarthy
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Butch
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Ber
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Congress of Industries Organizations
Walter Reuther
Central Press
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Reuther
Auto Workers’ Union
Commerce Department
William Ritt
Grandpappy Jenkins
Late Republic of
Bennett Cert
Bogolyubov
Henry Ford
James Gibbons Huneker
Delilah
Samson
Massachusetts Colony
Vermont
Knute Rockne
Notre Dame Fame
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Samuel A. Mutchmore
San Francisco
Freddie Martin
San Mateo
Hollywood
Columbia
Betty Ann Grove
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Germany
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Wisconsin
Lincoln
Spain
Henry Clay
Stribling
Clyde McCullough
Cass Michaels
United States Senate
Niccolo Machiavelli
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Poland
Mery Griffin
Carl Schurz
Drew Pearson
Wichit House
Dick Neuberger
Oregon Coast
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East
Neuberger
Max Rabb
Tice
Rabb
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