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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1952
Page
7
A reader asks how to manage a four and a half year old who resists sharing and plays with one child, while another parent frets over snubbing and misheard terms. The column suggests letting kids settle disputes, avoiding parental feuds, and notes a thyroid condition discovery in a reader’s child. A 32 page booklet on the first six months of a baby is offered.
Reader tips include using metal lath as a scraper for plaster walls and garden tools, painting baseboards first to avoid dirt on woodwork, and placing stiff cardboard under brushes to protect floors. Others suggest a coin to clean window glass and high pass filters to reduce TV interference. Brass kick plates stay cleaner with clear lacquer after polishing. When replacing a roof shingle, choose weathered ones to blend in. Send home repair questions to Mr Cobb for possible column answers.
President Truman slipped from the White House to dine aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg berthed at the naval gun factory with his nephew 3. C. Truman of Grandview Missouri. Young Truman's wife and four children joined the trip. J C Truman is Vivian Truman's son.
Virgil H. Lewis aged 26, former personal secretary to General Douglas MacArthur, was found dead after his car crashed through a guard rail on U S Highway 56 near Oakland California. A brother said Lewis served five years as MacArthur’s secretary in the Far East and returned in 1949.
The Charleston Gazette advertises a No. 40 cotton crochet pattern 843 to make a chair-set or buffet piece with directions. Send twenty-five cents to receive the pattern and pattern number. Also offered is a Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog for twenty cents.
The Army reports total enemy military casualties in Korea at 1 623 404 through June 13, up 19 815 since May 14. Red battle casualties rise 11 202 and non battle losses 8 967 while counted prisoners of war drop 554, prompting questions about prisoner counts.
Ottawa city commissioners proposed a safety measure to assist handicapped travelers. A police car will meet all passenger trains and offer free rides from the station to local destinations to transport persons with disabilities.
The Defense Department released casualty list No. 589 naming 70 additional U.S. service members from the Korean War. It reports 10 killed, 85 wounded, four injured and one missing.
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