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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1955
Page
4
Snippet lists HUGH IKE SHOTT 1866 and 1953 establishment, with old Bluefield Maine-like address 412 Bland Street, mentions daily and mail editions, carrier delivery, and advertising bureau notes. Contains fragmented information about circulation practices and telegraph news credits.
A short devotional note urges daily warning and dwelling on God's word. It suggests that dedicating fleeting seconds to Bible study improves thinking and yields repayment in spiritual insight. The tone is exhortative and faith-centered.
The article notes thousands of graduates enter the workforce and urges choosing agriculture, where skilled labor is most needed. It highlights a shrinking farming workforce to 15 percent, low agriculture degrees at Penn State at 200, and starting salaries from 4000 to over 10000 with 45 percent earning 4000 to 6000, reflecting pay perceptions and demand.
The piece celebrates summer as the favored vacation season with schools out and Americans planning trips across the United States and to Canada and beyond. It notes rising bookings for ocean voyages and European flights and urges readers to seize the season from its outset.
Civil defense tests across Washington D C to Houston and a Colorado county of 00 families exposed gaps in mass evacuation planning. Officials emphasize repeated drills to improve timing and coordination as mass population movement remains untested and uncertain without an escalation of cold war tensions.
In Washington the split between conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic Party deepens. Averell Harriman presses a 1956 presidential bid while Adlai Stevenson and Democratic Chairman Paul Butler court Dixie sentiment. Harriman pushes reform against Rayburn Johnson cooperators. Stevenson seeks middle course.
Deanna Durbin to debut on television in Remember 1938 with Ti Bacio. Anthony Quinn as Gauguin rumored for Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas. Esther Williams cancels Aquacade abroad due to indoor venue issues. Bob Crosby set for Gleason show. Betty Grable rehearses Shower of Stars. Kim Novak delays marriage amid tough career year. Gregory Peck on set with sons. John Huston targets Santa Anita racecourse.
Robert Ruark notes a Houston crowd reacting to the return of Davy Crockett as played by Fess Parker. He calls the TV revival a healthy sign for juvenile interest and contrasts it with his own nostalgia for earlier era fascination.
A writer reflects on Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and Ernest Thompson Seton as enduring symbols of frontier life. He praises simple outdoor pleasures from camping and fishing to firewood and tent pitching, contrasting them with modern excess. He notes a nostalgic ideal of boyhood mentorship and the healthy thrill of wilderness living.
In Heidelberg Germany near Munich the writer notes beer wagons, barmaids with strong arms, and a US Army PX selling inexpensive American beer. Nearby farms grow long white asparagus, while a university teaches the art of traction, all portraying a beery town with imported brews and local produce.
The narrator notes American forces will occupy German hotel spaces and move soldiers into American apartment buildings, freeing 1000 hotel rooms for tourists. He describes a Heidelberg wine tasting led by Dr. Hans Huber with local wines and cordial remarks from the lord mayor, amid a relaxed scene of hospitality.
A whimsical dispatch notes Heidelberg drink culture with wine in glass number eight and boar bacon. It contrasts drinking eras with American canned beer reception and hints at returning to ice water among congressmen. The writer jokes about German tastes and future travels aboard a Lufthansa flight.
Washington observes mounting inflation as wage hikes ripple across sectors. Auto workers gains, CIO Steelworkers demands, and UAW pressure in farm equipment set a trend. Congressional moves on postal, government, and social security pay boost raise costs and taxes, signaling higher prices ahead.
W. H. Youngman, seed marketing expert, notes Australia will be a growing market for United States seeds. World rice production for the crop year ending this month is forecast at 261.2 billion pounds, down 4.4 percent from 1953-54, excluding China, North Korea, and the Soviet Union.
A fragmentary note references Senator Soaper and a collision with fury as a punchline in a Spillane style spoof. It includes a waiter's flaming brandy joke and a gunman named Schultz suggesting burning the check. The piece ends with a quip about outdated slang.
The article contrasts Churchill and Roosevelt in wartime diplomacy at Yalta and Geneva. It notes Churchill's perceived understanding of European trends, Khrushchev's climb from miner to power player, and Stalin's heirs Malenkov Beria Molotov, with Beria dead and Molotov fading as Khrushchev reshapes the Soviet apparatus.
The column traces events from fifty to ten years ago. Rev B Vaught visited Bluefield. E H Smith and family traveled west. Attorney Geo azewell in and W R Davis visited Luray. A train wreck in Newamet killed thirty seven. Pocahontas coal marked the best week. Jackson Drug Store opened in Richlands. John W Simon Bluefield notable death. The Yanks advanced in Luzon and the Black Hawk division planned a New York gala welcome.
A crowded local store hands out balloons to children. A young boy asks for two balloons and is refused. he explains his sister has one for his brother, but the clerk replies that only one balloon may be given per boy.
Drew Pearson reports Clare Boothe Luce, ambassador to Italy, secretly backs a 1956 Republican bid for vice president to boost female ticket appeal. The piece notes party leaders prefer Margaret Chase Smith, while Luce’s Catholic conversion and potential nomination challenge shape a looming convention fight. It also covers Secretary Talbott facing upheaval over the Air Force Academy plans, with critics citing glass architecture, cost overruns, altitude risks, and football viability as costs rise.
Rosemary Cobham imagines a tranquil country life with foxes, pheasants, a papered bedroom, sun room, Bach, books, and writing. The poem foresees peaceful darkness creeping over a world, inviting sleep and a sense of heaven drawing near.
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