Public Health Service Waste Report Targets VA Hospitals
The Hoover Commission calls for major reform in federal medical care citing waste and duplicated effort. It highlights Beckley and Clarksburg VA hospitals as uneconomic and inefficient and urges closing 12 Public Health Service general hospitals and consolidating services. The panel estimates potential net annual savings around 300 million dollars through tighter control and reorganizations.
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Clarksburg
Beckley
Congress
Commission
Herbert Hoover
Commission On Organization of the Executive Branch
U. S. Public Health Service General Hospitals
Military Services
Veterans Administration
Medical Services
Freed Americans Land Red Captors
Two Americans released from Chinese jails arrived on the free side of the Bamboo Curtain. Rickett, 25, and Bersohn, 9, recited their alleged confessions to reporters. Mrs. Rickett, daughter of Yonkers residents, said she wanted to return home and work for people. Bersohn, Harvard graduate and medical student, praised Red treatment and claimed many others were convicted as spies. The pair appeared healthy though nervous, and described their imprisonment and experiences.
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Hong Kong
INS
Aeeien
Ty Austin
Rickett
Malcolin- Berselin
Red Justice
Harold W. Austin
Yonkers
N.Y
Hersohn
Bersonn
Harvard
Bersohn
Unclear source text obituary and market notes
Obituary and notices mix with fragmented market and sport hints. References to Fulbright questionnaire responses from brokers dealers and financial writers appear alongside scattered radio and television terms and women’s activities. The readable fragments do not form a coherent event or tribute.
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Fulbright
Illand
Scipants
Kin of Pair Reds Freed Unbelieving
New York reports reveal skeptical reactions from the fathers of Malcolm Bersohn and Mrs Adele Austin after their relatives were freed by Chinese Reds. Attorney A. B. Bersohn notes his son likely confessed to acts to secure release while the mother praises her ex-husband’s efforts. The son had studied in Harvard and Peiping, and was imprisoned by Reds in 1951 before turning up in China. Page 9 Col. 2.
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New York
Malcolm Bersohn
Adele Austin
Esc
Pai
A. BP. Bersohn
China
Bersohn
Neo
Lony
Jessiésie Berson
Husnd
Harvard
University of Chicago
Pei Ping
Reds
Wall Street Boom Praised Amid Mixed Economic Signals
Senate Banking Committee released general results of a poll on stock market conditions. Most traders expressed fair confidence while economists showed caution. A small minority believed prices were dangerously high ahead of hearings. The poll covered 113 economists with 26 replies. J William Fulbright chaired the panel.
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Washington
INS
Senate Banking Committee
Wall Street
J. William Fulbright de Kk
China Battle Will Be Test Of Asia Pacts
Washington reports describe a coming test of Secretary of State Dulles new anti Communist alliance system in Asia. The struggle centers on Red China over Formosa and Quemoy Matsu plus allied troop and air defenses as Britain weighs its stakes. Dulles spoke with Eden at Bangkok amid talks to strengthen Southeast Asia security under the Manila Pact signed last September.
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Washington
Dulles
Asia
Red China
United States
State
Defense Department
Formosa
Quemoy
Quemoy-Matsu
Eden
Bangkok
Southeast Asia
Storms swell state streams and I 10
Storms and heavy rains during the night sent several rivers rising in Southern West Virginia. State police and the Road Commission reported water on at least four highways in Mercer and McDowell counties, with traffic blocked at one or more locations.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Road Commission
Mercer
McDowell
Carl ‘Long
SRC
Princeton
Bluestone
U. 5S
Spanishburg
Mercer County
Long
Washington
INS
Supreme Court
William
Douglas
Soviet Union
Russia
Robert F. Kennedy
Senate-Government Operations Committee
Sen
John Kennedy
D-Mass
India
University of ‘Calcutta
Tibet
Sora aUelas
Himalayas
Forgotten Faces Of Patient Misses His Own Life
A 32 year old man with brain injury suffers visual agnosia and cannot recognize his wife or his two children in crowds. He identifies himself only by sticking out his tongue to test the mirror image. He can tell a cow from a dog by recalling horns. The patient continues work at a Bay Area military installation.
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MacRae
San Francisco Bay Area
Definition of middle age and self-image humor
A lighthearted note on middle age describes the visible change in posture as one pulls in the stomach, joking that the act creates the appearance of tensing the abdomen more than usual. The piece plays on self-deprecating humor about aging and body shape.
Democrats Back Tax Compromise To Delay Cuts
Senate Democrats reportedly back a plan delaying a 20 per person income tax cut and extending corporate and excise levies to July 1 1956, as House passage of the cut could trigger a revenue loss. The measure aims to boost Treasury receipts in the new fiscal year while stalling the tax cut. A Chicago crime note reports Lola DeWitt Stewart, 27, in a Psychopathic Hospital with her dead three year old daughter, while police recount a sordid hotel-room tale.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
George
Senate Finance Committee
Eisenhow
Democratic Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Treasury
House
Com
Chicago
Lola DeWitt Stewart
South Side
Stewart
Family ties trail to Chicago burial in Wis granddaughter
Mrs. Stewart's mother Mrs. Luella DeWitt Gunther of Pitts ville Wis arrived in Chicago to be with her daughter and to bury her granddaughter Fancy.
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Stewart
Luella DeWitt Gunther
Pittsville
Wis
Chicago
Fancy
Youth shoots mother, hijacks couple, then kills self
A 20 year old New Jersey youth shot his mother and forced a couple to drive for hours before turning the gun on himself. Charles Johnson, 20, had been ordered to reenlist in the Army by March 11. His mother Ann Johnson, 43, was wounded and hospitalized. An unrelated widow linked to Charles lived with him. Police reported he killed his mother after declaring jail or Army service inevitable.
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Perth-Amboy
N. J
Charles
New York
Charles . Johnson
Aldisch
Evan
Ofa
Ann Johnson
Perth Amboy General Hospital
Staten Island
Adge
Slayer Halc L Bullet Fells Man in Flight
Night watchman Reuben Desper shot and killed a prowler known as Raymond Cox alias Carter, 63, during a struggle at the Charleston city incinerator on Slack Street near Elk River. Desper fired after Cox swung a chair. authorities expect possible self defense ruling.
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Reuben Desper
Coal Branch Heights
Charleston
Slack St
Raymond “(Hogey) Cox
Carter
Court St
Asc
Coalich
Heights
Kanawha ‘County
Elk River
W. D. Sergent
Cox
Desper
Saar Rider May Impair French Status
Bonn reports the Bundestag ratified national rearmament by a large majority under Chancellor Adenauer. The chamber also backed making the Saar an autonomous territory under a European commissioner. The vote tied to the Saar pact risks French ratification. A Socialist motion to withdraw French troops failed. Final ratification in Germany due within three weeks by the Bundesrat remains expected.
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Bonn
Germany
West
Bundestag
Konrad Adenauer
Saar
Adelauer
Paris
Bonn Republic
Bundesrat
Aly
Adenauer
Japan Election Shows Democrats Lead In Early Vote
Tokyo Feb 28 The Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Hatoyama gained a strong early advantage in Japan's sixth postwar election as conservative urban districts split with Liberal rivals. Early tallies from Tokyo Kobe Osaka Nagoya and North Kyushu show Democrats with 106 of 234 seats decided while Liberals reach 178 of 467 with the Communists yet to win a seat. The final result will determine the next government and prime minister.
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Jim Becker
Tokyo
Ickiya Hatoyama
Democrats
Japan
United States
House of Representatives
Kobe
Osaka
Nagoya
Kushu
Chy
Taxi Operators Union to Confer as Strike Looms
The city’s taxi operators will meet at 2 pm with Teamsters union reps in a last effort to avert a strike. A union spokesman said cab drivers with all city companies except Red Star Cabs will strike at midnight if terms aren’t met, seeking a five cent hourly raise to 10. The vote to strike followed disagreement over pay terms.
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Teamsters
Cab Ao Vanies
Red Star Cabs
Gazette expands want ads with 18 phones in West Virginia
The Gazette announces an upgrade to 18 telephone lines for want ads, ensuring faster service with no more waiting or busy signals. Want Ad Headquarters operates from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. at phone 60-611, promising reliable results for readers seeking advertisements.
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the Gazette
Ad Service
West Virginia
Gazette
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Los Angeles
Donald MacRae
University of California
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Fia
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