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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1955
Page
5
The notice cites subscription rates and terms from the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Advertising representative is The Kate Agency. It references a price around 16.20 dollars and mentions circulation metrics.
A devotional fragment collection presents biblical quotes and Epistle-like sayings. The text includes Malachi exhortations to righteousness and diligence, alongside aphorisms about water droplets accumulating and wise men gathering insight.
Five years after North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25 1950 the United States pressed aid measures with Truman ordering forces under MacArthur and the Seventh Fleet to deter further aggression. The UN Security Council called for a cease fire and sanctions with Russia absent.
The Post Office revises ordinary stamps for the first time in 17 years under Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield. Fourteen denominations are dropped and a new 40 cent stamp added, limiting letters to three stamps for up to one dollar. Several stamps are discontinued due to low sales. New issues include six Presidents, six historic shrines, and six famous Americans with various denominations. The article also adds unrelated quips about longevity and peace talks.
Soviet chemists claim to have devised a new list of perfumes. If they smell no better than Moscow’s propaganda, they should be named Stinko No 1, No 2, No 3, etc.
The article describes Paul M. Butler’s Texas visit challenging Democratic alignment among Stevenson, Butler, Harriman, and De Sapio factions. It notes tensions with conservative Texans over Roosevelt-Harriman-Wallace wings, feuds within the party, and implications for the 1956 nomination as De Sapio seeks White House leverage.
A sprawling Hollywood gossip column lists Gordon Mac Rae pursuing film rights for Here Comes Mr. Jordan as a Broadway musical, Tony Curtis in Studs Lonigan, Jack Webb paying for travel, Gene Nelson touring London and Glasgow, Milton Berle selling 125000 copies of Not Yet, Ingrid Bergman seeking a Broadway part in Paris, Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow, Danny Kaye squaring a blank Las Vegas check, Helen Forrest and Paul Hogan reconciling, Marisa Pavan and Arthur Loew Jr. marrying, Rosemary Clooney delaying a boat voyage during a shipping strike, Judy Holliday touring Europe, Valier cleared for a Paramount picture, Paul Gaitlye’s Des Moines premiere, Kay Speckels’ Cinderella tale and a courtside remark about a lawyer.
The piece portrays Robert Ruark arguing that Soviet praise of their cars and the US market dominance provoke suspicion among Europeans. He ridicules Soviet claims and notes abundant Chevrolets in a European parking lot, suggesting American autos spark contemplation of industrial superiority and even political doubt.
Washington hearing probes military warehouses reportedly holding massive surplus rubber heels. Officials from the Army Navy and Air Force describe stockpiles estimated up to 52 million pairs. Representative Chet Holi restrained questions target how McNamara managed such large quantities in Schenectady.
A fragmented account describes generals and lawmakers debating huge totals of heels and soles in wartime inventories. Gen McNamara notes Army sales drop to a trickle after Commerce Dept pressure, while representatives question figures and inspectors recount piled stocks.
A study led by Charles L. Lapp advises salesmen to avoid profanity and overused exclamations, opt for precise adjectives, and reference buyers’ words. It notes ad agencies and retailers anticipate modest summer sales gains, with many maintaining higher stock and promotions, while a Newark showroom faced counterfeit dollar bill issues.
A California manufacturer in San Jose has created a machine capable of slicing up to four tons of string beans per hour. In unrelated items, New York seeks to promote tequila drinking and a bill by Rep. John H. Ray aims to regulate a nonins ych machine. The piece includes varied notes on labor market advertising and public sentiment on crime.
A discussion on how the United Nations Charter operates within U S law noting that a treaty is the law of the land and may supersede federal or state laws. The piece compares U S and British systems, Bricker and George amendments, and the need for constitutional change to alter treaty effects.
Readable fragments show references to Governor Hatfield in Bluefield and a Stonega Coal Company officer near Stonega. Also mention of a Sing Sing inmate facing execution and Eisenhower visiting a hospital at White Sulphur Springs.
A quirky column ponders how Whitman’s Leaves of Grass centennial is handled. It speculates admirers should grow beards and jokes about Reds buying age and Russia stockpiling items like suitcases for smuggling atomic combs into Grand Central Station.
Nelson Rockefeller played penny-ante poker on the President's plane to San Francisco with Congressmen Miller Mailliard Younger and Scudder, losing seven dollars as Harold Siassen warned he might dump stocks to cover losses. The page also covers Senate debates over Hell's Canyon dam, internal Pentagon briefings on Operation Alert, and other political notes.
A compact verse meditation on how seasons rewrite memory and feeling as Earth becomes the manuscript of time. The piece, attributed to Harry Zlotnik in the New York Times, contrasts austere winter with spring’s festive prose and playful writing on the ground.
President Eisenhower warned that world peace may take a generation to achieve and that the long conflict begun in 1914 leaves many problems unsolved, promising a rough road ahead for international efforts.
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