British Army Girls Seek to Escape Gov Issue Undies
Dame Irene Ward pledges to push for a pantie allowance for army women and to question Defense Minister Sir Walter Monckton in Parliament. WRAC personnel decry current khaki bloomers and white briefs, saying the era’s design is outdated and unflattering.
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Gov
Eddy Gilmore
London
Dame Greene Ward
House of Commons
Irene
Defense
Walter Monckton
Arene
Royal Army Corps
Japanese Film Exports Rise in 1955 Worldwide sales
Kyodo News reports 1955 saw 1 050 feature films and 385 newsreels exported from Japan. Overseas profit reached 796 507 dollars, up 37 percent from 1954. Major buyers included the United States Formosa and Okinawa.
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Tokyoō
Kyodo News Service
United States
Formosa
Connie Hammack Buried After Stillborn Daughter Report
Funeral services were held Saturday at Center Springs Church for Connie Dianne Hammack two day old daughter of Mr and Mrs William C Hammack Somerville. She died Saturday morning at Hartselle Hospital with Rev Robert Heaps officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing interment in the adjacent cemetery. Survived by parents and one sister Polly Ann. A separate note mentions a jail booking incident where a suspect pled guilty to stealing cigarettes while held on an assault charge.
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Hartselle
Connie Dianne Hammack
William C. Hammack
Somerville 1
Center Springs Church
Connie
Hartselle Hospital
Robert Heaps
Peck Funeral Home
Polly Ann
Cotton Prices Hover In Narrow Weekly Trading Range
New York July 7 Cotton prices in the domestic market held within a tight trading range for the week. At Friday’s close active futures on the New York Cotton Exchange moved from 1.10 dollars a bale lower to 90 cents higher, with May showing the sharpest loss and December the best gain. Markets cited limited incentives, light price fixing, hedge selling, and modest demand for distant deliveries. Private estimates suggested possible smaller 1956 plantings, around 16.25 million acres, with potential yields shaping a 10.7 to 13.7 million bale crop, versus 14.7 million last year. Exports through July 3 ran about 2.027 million bales for the season, down from 3.395 million a year ago.
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New York
New York Cotton Exchange
New York Cotton Exchange Service Bureau
Favorable Rates Albany N Y Telephone Firms Publicized
Greenwich and Salamanca customers obtain lower rates as Richard H Balch public service commissioner explains that users who formed their own companies to gain service from larger firms may retain favorable terms.
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Albany
N. Y
Greenwich
Salamanca
Richard H. Balch
Public Service
Connecticut Democrats Choose State Convention Delegation
Gov. Abraham Ribicoff leads a 40 member Connecticut delegation to back Adlai Stevenson. Delegates will vote as a unit for the candidate favored by a majority, with the convention also approving a resolution urging full federal enforcement of the Supreme Court’s school segregation ruling.
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Adlai Stevenson
Abraham Ribicoff
Stevenson
Steven
Son
Supreme Court
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