Something More Needed editorial
The Chamber of Commerce should poll its delegation for banquet ideas and shift to an annual meeting format. The piece argues the current banquet, while social and PR friendly, lacks accountability and forward planning. A future meeting could include board reports, hopes, and member suggestions to guide the year.
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Chamber OF Commerce
Chamber
CAB
Stengthen
Lee
Nowskeds
Ross Rizley
Republican of
Oklahoma
Joe Adams
Rizley
Republican High Command
Nixon
Eisenhower
Chicago
Herbert Brownell
Len Hall
National Security Council
Census shows farm consolidation favors large units
The Census Bureau reports big farms over 1,000 acres doubled in 30 years while small farms under 10 acres also rise and medium farms fall. The piece argues legislation should adapt to growing large and weekend farms, cautioning against prioritizing 10-acre wheat exemptions and urging food security through balanced support.
Sermon In The Ring A Boxing Tale From Harlem
A fight announcer's cadence reveals a sermon like tale of Sugar Ray Robinson once Walker Smith in Harlem. He and friends gamble near a Methodist church where a minister halts their escape, guiding Walker to boxing’s profits and virtue. Bobo Olson’s estranged wife cites his loose living for a decisive defeat.
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Sugar Ray Robinson
Walker Smith
Harlem Methodist
Walker
Sugar Ray
Bobo Olson
Bobo
Fragmented reader quotes from Lyons News Wellington and others
A collage of quotes from Lyons News and Wellington News and Au gusta Gazette about debt and media sensibilities. The text juxtaposes a schoolboy speech on national debt with remarks on predicting weather and sports reporting. It notes irony in predictions not materializing and debt as an enduring theme.
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TV One
Lyons News
Wellington News
Garden City Telegram masthead details and publishing info
The text lists the Garden City Telegram masthead and production staff details including editors, advertising manager, and office locations. It also mentions Associated Press rights and subscription rates for Kansas and nearby counties.
Taft Republicans Sour Over Ike Run Delay
The Taft wing complains as Ike delay in announcing re run prospects splinters the party. Key figures like Reece Hallanan Knowland show unease while Dewey allies maneuver for influence and 1956 planning. Cabinet picks and CAB shifts fuel intra party tensions and bipartisan critique in Washington.
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Washington
Ike
Carroll Reece
Tennessee
Walter Hallanan
West Virginia
Len Hail
Chicago
Bl Knowland
California
Taft
Senate
Knowland
Roosevelt
Tom Dewey
Dewey
Eisenhower
Jim Hagerty
Herbert Brownell
State Dulles
Scretary
Labor Mitchell
GOP
Len Hall
Bill Knowland
Prayer and Praise Placeholder Fragment
Prayer and devotion reference Hebrews 1 1 to 3 and Jesus revelation. The message thanks God for Christ glory and seeks grace to follow him as the way truth and life.
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Jesus
Jesus Christ
Marion County School Official to State Post
Adel F Throck Morton state superintendent appoints C C Rice Marion County school superintendent as curriculum assistant in the State Department of Education Rice to assume duties early next month replacing Ernest C Plath who resigned September 1 to join the University of Oklahoma faculty
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Topeka
Adel F. Throck- Morton
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
C.C. Rice
Marion County
State Department of Education
Rice
Ernest C. Plath
University of Oklahoma
Predictions from Dr Gernsback on 1955 Christmas cards
Hugo Gernsback’s annual Christmas card foresees odd futures from airmobiles and space burials to brain electronicization and a sex measurer. He suggests flying funerary ships, living brains wired to machines, and an electromicro-perceptor to test marriage compatibility, ending with a note that being alive in 1955 is a privilege.
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New York
Hugo Gernsback
America
Gernsback
Radio-Electronics
Dr. Gernsback
Earth
Outer Space
Gerns
Crossword by Eugene Sheffer puzzle on a variety of clues
The page presents a Eugene Sheffer crossword with horizontal and vertical clues, including denominations remnant exclamation and watchful, plus cryptic themes. The puzzle list shows multiple questions and answers with a note claiming yesterday's solution and a remark about windpipe and wealand being normal synonyms.
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Gudio
New Elevator Planned By Large KC Company
The Commander Larabee Milling Co of Kansas City plans a new elevator boosting grain storage by over one million bushels for the 1956 harvest, giving the firm a capacity of 214 million bushels.
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KC Company
Kansas City i
Commander-Larabee Milling Co
Illness Fatal to Overbrook Mayor Carl Coffman
Carl C Coffman 68 long serving Overbrook mayor and state examiner for 16 years died after a two week illness in a Topeka hospital He had operated a local hardware store in Overbrook and served as mayor for five years
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Overbrook
Kas
Carl C. Coffman
Topeka
Coffman
Grass skirts roll from Fukuoka to Hawaii
World Today briefs report a Fukuoka factory producing grass skirts for shipment to Hawaii with the first batch due in February. British Ambassador George L. Clutton flies to Singapore for the Southeast Asia diplomats’ conference. In Berlin 57 Soviet liberated German POWs reach West Berlin, part of a larger return. Moscow radio says 840000 Soviet troops have been removed to aid agricultural drive.
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Fukuoka
Japan
Hawaii
Manila
George L. Clutton
Singapore
United Kingdom
Southeast Asia
Berlin
Soviet Union
West Berlin
ADN
Soviet Zone
Tomorow
London
Moscow Radio
Kremlin
Christmas Earrings Sparkle in Town Nurse's Bold Style
A Nurse Lucy Wilfley wears Distaff Side Snazzie earrings bought at a Jetmore service station. Santa visits are recalled with fond, humorous notes about town characters including Clarence Downing and Mrs Minnie Hanna. March of Dimes funding supported Jonas Salk polio vaccine research at University of Pittsburgh labs.
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Lucy
Willie” Wilfley
Jetmore
Minnie Hanna
Hanna
Helen Reed
Jonas Salk
University of Pittsburgh
Salk
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House of Representatives
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American Airlines
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