Don t Dare Get Sick Doctor Urges Hospital Insurance Plan
A Charleston physician endorses hospital deductible insurance like auto coverage to curb rising costs. He cites 80 percent ethical doctors and 15 percent questionable practices, as medical groups push programs to end abuse and improve patient care across hospitals.
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Blue Cross
Charleston
Hos
Rhiantita
Gazette
Thomas F
Charles E. Staats
West Virginia
Isociation
Mayor Predicts Charleston Sewer Plant Starts Jan 1
Mayor Copenhaver announced Charleston's million dollar sewage disposal plant will operate by January 1, cutting Kanawha River pollution by 60 percent. He noted costs exceeded original $10 million estimate by over two million dollars and projected completion of interceptions to Capitol Street with full city service by 1958.
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Copenhaver
Charleston
Kanawha
Sanitary Board
Capitol St
Inside Today Section Guide and Page References
A catalog of newspaper sections and page numbers across sections including Obituaries Funerals Astrology Women's Activities Home Building Community News Gazette Want Ads and Dr Alvarez with index note for State Magazine on page 4m
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Gazette
Alvarez
State
FHA VA Tighten Home Loan Credit Rules
The government tightens housing loan terms to curb inflation risk. FHA and VA raise minimum cash payments by 2 percent and cut maximum loan terms by 5 years, with VA buyers now required to put at least 2 percent down. FHA extends maximum insured mortgage to 30 years for loans insured last year.
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Fha
Washington
Federal Housing Administration
Veterans Administration
Imum
Photo finish clocks speed on New Jersey road jockey test
N J police record a high speed road test near Monmouth Park as twenty five drivers race on Monmouth Road at 60 to 80 mph using electronic timing devices. State police observe while winning tickets pay from 20 to 30 dollars.
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Wreehold
N. J
Monmouth Park
Monmouth Rd
Pigskin Pageant Returns on Kanawha Boulevard Friday
The Charlestown Fraternal Order of Police winner in last year's Non-Commercial Division will participate again this year. Watch the Pageant on Friday night August 12 on Kanawha Boulevard starting at 6 p.m.
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Charileston Fra
Coal gains drive West Virginia business in first half 1955
West Virginia reports strong uptrend across trade, production and finance for January to June 1955. Coal production rose 22.6 percent adding the largest dollar contribution, with natural gas up 13.6 percent and electric energy up 8.2 percent. Bank transactions and building permits climbed, while treasury receipts from gasoline and sales taxes fell.
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West Virginia
State Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Chou En-lai signals desire for no war over Formosa
Peiping the premier said Red China seeks no war with the United States and that the release of U S civilians held behind the Bamboo Curtain can be settled at Geneva. He suggested talks might ease tension around Formosa while keeping China free to pursue its goal there.
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Tokyo
China
Peiping
United States
U. S
Geneva
Chou En-lai
Formosa
Red China
Chiou
State Dulles
Chou
Communist People’s Congress
Red
U.S
U. S. State Department
Washington
Sen. George
D-Ga
U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Taipei
Chiang Kaishek
Taiwan
Wang Ping Nan
Poland
U. Alexis Johnson
Czechoslovakia
Cool air on the way as Midwest heat toll rises
The Midwest endured another day of sweltering heat with 28 heat deaths reported across Illinois Iowa Missouri and Nebraska. Temperatures hit 103 to 104 in several Iowa cities and Omaha Nebraska while a cool front north of Montana moves southeast toward Chicago and lower Michigan by Monday.
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Associated Press
Canada
U. S. Weather Bureau
Chicago
Midwest
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Estherville
Omaha
Nebra
Mercury
Montana
Weather Bureau
Lower
Michigan
Congress to Quit Monday With Lots of Work Ahead
The 84th Congress edged toward adjournment as the House overran its target and recessed, leaving the Senate to finish a backlog of calendar bills. The session produced over 975 measures and approved a $31.88 billion defense appropriation plus a $1.625 billion supplemental and a wage hike to one dollar.
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Congress
Washington
INS
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Capital Transit Co
White House
Fourth official named in North South game promotions panel
Irvin Taubkin promotion manager of The New York Times and past president of the National Newspaper Promotion Assn joins Will Grimsley and Mr and Mrs Chester Gould to judge the North South Pigskin Pageant divisions. Four judges will select Miss North and Miss South from 21 beauty queen representatives at the 22nd annual game. Taubkin has 29 years in newspapers and began as a copyboy at The New York Times.
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Irvin
Taubkin
The
New York Times
Promotion Assn
Wi11
Grimsley
Chester Gould
Dick Tracy
Miss North
Tts
Sears
New York
Page & Col
Strike Looms At Fletcher Enamel Plant
Some 450 kitchenware workers at the Fletcher Enamel Co. plant in Dunbar threaten a walkout when the contract ends at midnight tonight. Union leaders say a 20 cent hourly raise and fringe benefits are at stake while a last-ditch meeting set for 9 30 AM aims to avert a strike. If no agreement is reached the plant will be shut down at least Monday.
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Fletcher Enamel Co
Dunbar
George Asbury
CIO Coke, Gas and Atomic Workers Ton
J. Carrol Fletcher Jr
Lars
Colo
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Thomas F. Stafford
the Gazette
Don Seagle
Ben Means Jr
Johnson Rd
Oakmont Rd
South Hills
Charleston General Hospital
Keith Mace
Cident Prevention Bureau
Lew Raines
James A. Hill
Elk River
Albert M. Cole
Treasury
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Earle C. Clements
D-Ky
Fletcher Enamel Plant
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