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Charleston Gazette in Charleston, West Virginia

08 Jun 1957

Page 12

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Charleston Gazette

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Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 08, 1957

Page

12

18 Nations Parade In Huge Sea Show

Washington reports the first international naval review in U S waters since 1907 opens at Hampton Roads Virginia with 60 U S ships and 40 foreign vessels. Adm Jerauld Wright leads 18 nations including Britain France Spain Denmark and Brazil in a Jamestown Festival salute to sea power. Defense Secretary Wilson will headline the formal review aboard USS Canberra amid a 19 gun salute.

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Washington INS Free World Hampton Roads U. S Britain Adm Jerauld Wright America Atlantic North America Defense Charles E. Wilson Eisenhower Canberra Wilson Monitor Belgium Canada Cuba Denmark Dominican Republic France Great Britain Italy Netherlands Norway Peru Portugal Spain Turkey Uruguay Venezuela Naval
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Bison decline traced from vast ancient herd to near extinction

The article asks how many bison existed 1000 years ago and notes naturalists estimate 50 to 60 million in the distant herd. By 1830 about 20 million remained, 15 million perished in two decades, and by 1900 fewer than a thousand survived. It cites factors of hunting, land loss, blizzards, floods, prairie fires, and human activity reducing the herd.

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North America Leif Ericson Mas Nature America Ernest Thompson Seton
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Smokers Draw More Putts Than in Fifty Six

West Virginia cigarette smokers taxed more packages from January to April rising 5.8 percent over 1956 with 62,743,000 packages taxed and $712,202 in taxes. April saw a slight decline with 14,244,000 packages taxed versus 14,295,000 in 1956. Harold E. Stassen leaves London for U.S. to attend son Glen’s University of Virginia graduation as disarmament talks pause.

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Richmond West Virginia Tobacco Tax Council West Stassen London INS Harold E. Stassen U.S Glen University of Virginia U. S
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