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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1954
Page
4
A brief Inspirational thought appears on page four of The Charleston Gazette dated Saturday June 19 1954. The excerpt notes that all unhappy conditions cease to intrude in time and are to be regarded as temporary, attributed to K. H.
Dr. K C Wu, former Formosan governor, accuses U S aid to Formosa of propping up a Soviet like police state. He faults Chiang Kai-shek and son Chiang Ching kuo for authoritarian rule, urges aid be used to fight communism while keeping Formosa within U S influence.
The public seeks cheaper drink options as coffee prices climb. Substitutes and extenders mixed with regular coffee promise similar taste at lower cost. Past shortages of butter led to pleo, used by many without detection in blind tests. Synthetic coffee could curb expenses and capture a lasting share of the market.
The supreme court ruling in the Phillips Petroleum case affirms the FPC must regulate prices charged by independent producers to interstate pipelines to protect consumers. Wisconsin and Milwaukee officials commend the stance while warning gas interests may push Congress to curb regulation again. The state cites Phillips customers paying $24,000,000 more than needed since 1951.
Readers discuss McCarthy era headline chasing and praise or censure of men in shorts. Brief letters touch on fashion culture and biblical interpretation, referencing a local editor and residents from Gazette letters pages and a note about a legend of a silver and lead mine.
Doris Fleeson reports on McCarthy’s continued grip on the Senate leadership fallout. Republican and Democratic leaders seek unity to protect Eisenhower program, while Flanders hints at new steps before adjournment. Democrats weigh party responsibility, wary of Flanders’s history, as McCarthy’s fate looms through mid July.
Drew Pearson reflects on a line of 230 graduates at Amherst College, juxtaposing their uncertain era with 1932 as he notes war risks, defense buildup, and the nation’s failed peace efforts. He laments rabble-rousers and foresees possible Southeast Asia involvement for June graduates.
A collage of light verse and quirky notes from columnists and readers includes a nine year old Albuquerque girl writing Mars to urge peacemaking, a humorous Arizona bill proposing rear window Ds or Rs for certain drivers, a carrier boy’s odd name collection, musings on teachers’ salaries timing, a horseshoes joke, a Burmese actress love liver joke, poetry quips about liver in romance, and a dig at dictators likened to Chaplin as political humor.
Military intelligence at 301 Schermerhorn St in Brooklyn overheard longshoremen plotting to strike the Army docks at the Embarkation Port. The meeting, led by Tough Tony Anastasias and supported by pro Soviet Bridges loyalists, elected Anthony Impliazzo and Thomas DiBello to lead Local 27-1 within the Brooklyn port union.
LOCAL Mercury hit 100 degrees in Charleston. Appalachian Electric Power Co accepted Ward and Ward bid 229700 for a new building at Virginia and Truslow Streets. Winfield plans to rebuild after a fire that destroyed nine buildings. NATIONAL Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri held its triennial convention at River Forest Illinois. FOREIGN floods devastate many villages in the Cachar District India with hundreds drowned.
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