Desert Feud Star Betty Johnson Returns Home
Betty Johnson, famed Hillcrest star, comes home after a grueling year with cameras and critics. She plans to marry Bill Saunders, renew her country roots, and leave show business behind after a New York move, amid town celebrate and a crushed letter signaling her firing.
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Silver Creek
Pat Quigley
Bill Saunders
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Hollywood
Good Readers Define Themselves By Curiosity Not Degrees
The University of Chicago's 17th annual conference reported that reading ability rises with curiosity, not with years of schooling. William S. Grey said good readers seek world understanding, enjoy reading, and apply it to daily life.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
William S. Grey
Gray
World Glory Tanker Casts Gasoline Capacity Record
The 45 100 ton super-tanker World Glory built at a local shipyard can carry enough gasoline to fill a line of railroad tank cars 14 miles long.
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Quincy
World Glory
National Retarded Children's Week Promotes Welfare Efforts
Mental deficiency tops common child handicaps with polio and others listed. In 100000 people eight polio victims and eight thousand mentally retarded exist. Public awareness drives by the National Association for Retarded Children, SMARC member, led by Joseph H. Rooney Jr., urge communities to help mentally retarded individuals gain self sufficiency and work, not lifelong burdens.
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South Middlesex Association
Joseph H. Rooney, Jr
SMARC
South Middlesex
Reminiscences From Old Timers Across Rural America
Readers share memories of dairy farms in Ohio and ice cream by five cent scoops, early ice cream parlors, and the arrival of automobiles. Other notes recall wall to wall carpets, threshing season beds, and straw ticks, with details from South Dakota and Kentucky contributors.
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Altin M. Thorn
Lemmon
South Dakota
Community Press Service
Frankfort
Kentucky
Auto Crashes While Couple Fights in Portsmouth
In Portsmouth New Hampshire a husband and wife argued beside their car at the foot of an embankment. The unattended vehicle rolled down the embankment and crashed after they had exited. Neither were hurt and they walked home.
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Portsmouth
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Building Boom To Continue In 1954 Experts Say
Two industry authorities in a recent ABC radio “It's YOUR Business” talk projected a continued construction boom through 1954 with housing and public buildings rising at a strong pace. Thomas S. Holden of F W Dodge Corps. noted last year's 34 billion dollar total will be exceeded, and mortgage money should remain available according to W A Clarke of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.
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ABC Radio Network
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F. W. Dodge Corps
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Mortgage Bankers Association of America
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Ohio Edison Co
Akron
Kenneth R. Miller
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New York
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Jet planes stay aloft as long as pilots stay awake
In Farmingdale New York Mundy I Peale president of Republic Aviation Corp says the swept wing F84F Thunderstreaks can stay aloft as long as the pilot remains awake four external tanks add 1360 gallons of fuel for special missions and the fighter refueling system allows in flight gassing up from tanker planes for the U S and Allied Air Forces delivery.
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Republic Aviation Corp
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Soldiers on Ice Cap Probe Arctic Snow And Roads
A U S Army task force at Thule Greenland studies snow characteristics to assess building roads and airfields from snow. The group includes 20 engineers and 25 scientists on ice cap work plus another 59 officers and 25 scientists near the shore. Agencies involved span Fort Belvoir and several weather and permafrost labs with Northwestern Minnesota and Tufts personnel. The team plans to return to Fort Belvoir in October.
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This Man Snaked Way To Success
Moody Lentz grew from a boy who kept a copperhead hidden in his bedroom to become general curator at St Louis Forest Park Zoo. He hauled a suitcase full of snakes to meet curator Marlin Perkins, which launched his zoo career and shaped his view on snakes. Buy U. S. Savings Bonds.
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St. Louis Forest Park Zoo
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Ark
Hendrix College
Conway
Marlin Perkins
Forest Park
Perkins
George P. Vierheller
Zoo
Arkansas
Nora Drake title kept after Nora becomes Mrs Molina
Producers kept the title This is Nora Drake after Nora Drake marries Fred Molina, preserving the show’s name while the character leads a double life. Milton Lewis wrote Nora’s marriage into the plot, and ongoing business use of maiden names influenced the decision.
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Milton Lewis
Nora
Fred Molina
Miss Drake
Molina
Peter Potter
Hollywood
Potter
Judy Garland
Bing Crosby
Milestone Exhibit At Midwest Mineralogical Gathering
About 500 attendees marked the 14th annual Milwaukee convention of the Midwest Federation of Mineralogical and Geological Societies. Thousands of stones were placed on exhibit as part of the event.
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Milwaukee
Midwest Federation of Mineralogical and Geological Societies
Tax cuts touted as long run employment and growth driver
The National Association of Manufacturers argues in a study that tax reduction serves as a long run stimulus to employment and economic growth. It defines consumer spending as daily purchases and investment spending as purchases of machinery buildings and tools used in production.
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National Association of Manufacturers
Defeatist to confidence shift in GOP coverage noted
Observers call the Republicans’ “defeatist complex” fading as optimism grows over November elections. Some credit public perception of integrity guiding voter support, and First Lady symbolism with purple stockings sparks fashion chatter. Rep. Clarence J. Brown cites Hoover Commission on postwar spare parts waste in jeep maintenance as example of military excess.
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Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Republican
Hoover Commission
Armed Services
Card playing trends and dairy note in daily life
The passage notes that more women than men play cards in the United States today and that five major companies produce about 75,000,000 decks annually, marking a $50,000,000 industry. It also highlights cottage cheese as a low cost protein source with half a cup equaling the protein of a 4 ounce serving of lean meat.
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U.S
Veteran Mer As Elected Commander In Unopposed Victory
VFW delegates at the 55th encampment chose Merton B. Tee of South Dakota as commander-in-chief, unopposed, with Wayne E. Rich of City Kansas elected in other offices. The meeting discussed investigations into Communist influence, urging careful FBI cooperation while avoiding direct field action and noting tensions with Norwalk Connecticut and Yellow Spring resolution debates.
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Merton B. Tee
S.D
Ye’ Nion
Wayne E. Rich
FBI
VFW
Yellow Spring
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