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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1956
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text from an 1866 to 1953 Baily Telegraph description mentions publishers and circulation details. It lists the Telegraph Printing Co and Broad Street Bluefield, with Associated Press news use, but contains many garbled phrases and lacks a clear event or person.
Fragmentary text quotes Daniel 4 26 and a cryptic line about the heavens nets and Leo Tre. The passage appears as a miscellaneous excerpt without a clear news event or identifiable people or organizations. The reading resembles a devotional or literary snippet rather than a report.
A four month Dodge Corp compilation shows residential contracts up 8 percent by dollar value in 37 states, while actual house starts fell from 275,000 to 219,000 in early 1956. The piece notes inflation in costs, shift to luxury homes, viable credit for high equity mortgages, and potential price spikes if more low income housing is pushed amid limited materials and labor.
A Senate Juvenile Delinquency Committee report targets pornography as a money making filth that harms youth. Critics dispute links to sex crimes and urge distinguishing obscene material from literature while calling for action by educated editors and policymakers.
Ray Tucker carries reader questions on Eisenhower odds in 1962, Democratic prospects, and Cyprus policy. We note concerns over Cyprus martial law, British hold on bases, and US oil interests shaping East of Suez power balances.
Hollywood glances at Pajama Game casting with John Raitt and Doris Day as top leads while Doris Day’s salary surpasses 250000 for Warners. Rock Hudson considered for the male role. Cary Grant rumored for South Pacific. Sinatra quashes Spain rumors. John Wayne recounts daughter Toni’s wedding with Dan La Cava and Saint Barbara visit.
A Washington analysis argues Moscow mask a hard power agenda behind talk of peace in the Middle East. It contends Soviet leaders seek to exploit Western divisions, arm Arab states, and delay full-scale conflict while maintaining influence globally. Khrushchev and Bulganin are cited as strategic trailblazers in this plan.
Washington observers see broad agreement that a combined federal and state funding approach will back a $51.5 billion highway program, with pay as you go plans raising gasoline and vehicle taxes. The proposal aims to boost construction, steel, cement and fuel demand, while potentially lifting local property assessments.
The article notes the USDA reports world coffee production in 1955-56 rising 18 percent from 1954-55, with a perceived artificial shortage in mild coffees. It warns price rises may trigger boycotts and that sustained householder cuts could lower prices, while mentions new spray products and aerosol packaging trending. It also references political talk of a two billion dollar surplus and spending pressures on lawmakers.
H J Phillips notes that Ford’s first annual public stockholder meeting held under tented setup attracted by a circus atmosphere. A big top and a dozen small tents were erected in Dearborn, changing mood from indoor meetings to one of spectacle. Henry Ford II appeared as a glamorous performer while Ernest Breech led as chairman.
A lively column riffs on stockholder meetings becoming big tent events with spectacle and humor. It recalls Ford figures and Ernest statistics while imagining grand entertainments and public roles for industry leaders amid amusing asides and media gossip.
Senate testimony by General Alexander Barmine on refugees from Iron Curtain states. He cites coercion, kidnapping, and forced repatriation by Soviet blocs, and argues humane sanctuary in the United States is threatened by rigid immigration rules. He warns deportation could return refugees to slave labor or death.
A digest of brief reminiscences from 50 to 10 years past, mentioning Prof J B McClure and family vacationing in Kentucky, G W Harris visiting Lynchburg relatives, a 40 year ago coal institute meeting, large Tower grounds carnival crowds, five Baltimore reporters jailed for contempt, August safety day, a 20 year sequence on wage law, the Virginia Asher Bible class anniversary, a 10 year UN Spain report, and a Seminole maid linked to a tragedy in the Everglades.
A South Minneapolis woman faced a clock crisis after gifting her mother an eight day clock. Air mail service refused to ship a ticking package, and the clock could not be delivered on time. A jeweler ultimately unwound the timepiece to resolve the situation.
Fred Seaton, newly named Secretary of the Interior, may reverse Eisenhower era tide lands and energy policies. The Nebraska figure opposed tide lands oil to Gulf states and clashed with old guard Republicans over oil, gas, wildlife refuges, and Rogue River forest deals.
A slender cypress stands winter bare as sun sinks. White herons pause on lingering branches then drift to rest. The bare tree becomes a moonlit canvas as the birds settle, a quiet nocturnal scene described by Phyllis M. Flaig in The Lyric.
Editorial argues Moscow's push to force exiles back to Russia backfires. It notes that publicizing a refusals spread in the United States, amplifying anti regime sentiment while many others remain unheard. The piece predicts Moscow will abandon the plan to curb propaganda losses.
A Finnish town fined a resident 30 dollars for drunken driving of a reindeer. The Memphis Commercial Appeal notes such conduct as an example not to be imported, using a humorous caution about potential reindeer use locally.
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