Polio Clinic Bus Schedules For Tuesday And Next Week
Transportation schedules announced for second Salk polio vaccine shots across five clinics. Buses run from Taggton Brighte Haymond Knottville Mt Airy Hepzibah Taylor Park Union Simpson Rosemont and West Grafton routes with pickup times and school stops listed.
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Ronald Knotts
East Grafton Clinic
Mt. Airy
Pruntytown
Hepzibah
Taylor School
Park Union School
Flemington Clinic
Simpson School
Rosemont School
West Grafton Clinic
New England polio cases rise. nurses sought in Boston
Polio cases in New England near 1000 with Boston reporting 14 new cases and 62 statewide. Health officials urge trained nurses to bolster hospital staffs as New Hampshire Rhode Island and Connecticut add several cases while Maine and Vermont report none. Dr John Cauley appeals for more nurses amid widespread postponement orders for youth events.
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Boston
New England
Health Department
Masachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Main
Vermont
John Cauley
Mistake Cuts Grafton Budget
A clerical error trimmed Graf ton’s 1955-56 fiscal year budget estimate and tax levy by 8320.41. City Manager J Frank Wiseman indicated the cut stemmed from a mistake in the various funds balance on hand and planned talks with a State Tax Commissioner representative for full details.
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Grafton
J. Frank Wiseman
State Tax Commissioner
Hiroshima Then and Now: Aug 6 Marks 10th Anniversary
International photos revisit the fateful day of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the city then unbombed. The single bombing killed or injured about half of the 360000 residents and destroyed about 2 percent of buildings.
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima Observes 10th Anniversary of A Bomb
Hiroshima marked ten years since the atomic blast with church bells and sirens at 8 15 am. Prime Minister Hatogawa urged scientists to tame atomic energy for mankind. About ten thousand Japanese and foreigners attended rites before the cenotaph as 500 peace doves were released. The bombing killed 91233, with 9428 seriously injured and 27997 wounded.
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Hiroshima
Japan
Ichiro Hatogawa
Hato~yama
French leave feared as Vienna tightens guard posts
Austrian reports say Vienna has increased armed guards around Red Army barracks and western military sites to deter desertions amid withdrawal of Soviet troops. In Albany Harriman calls his 1956 Democratic bid a "$64,000 question" in remarks about his political future.
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Vienna
Austria
Red Army
Albany
N.Y
Averell Harriman
Five Candidates Seek Queen Title At Taylor Fair
Five candidates announced for the Taylor County Fair Calico Queen title. Ballots will decide the queen after the horse parade on August 19 at 6 30 p m. Candidates Paula June Klepfel Jean Hinkins Donna Cooper Margaret Alberto Kraft and Mary Catherine Poling are sponsored by local groups. Ballots cost 10 cents and count 100 votes. Ballots may be deposited at the County Agent's office with Miss Glennis Stevens.
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Taylor County Fair
Queen Committee
Walter Jordan
Paula June Klepfel
Paul Klepfel
Rt. 4
Grafton
VFW
Mary Catherine Poling
Jessie Poling
Thornton
Sevier
Sunoco Station
Jordan
Glennis Stevens
Water Shortage Report
City officials were unavailable for details on a possible water shortage amid heavy usage in extreme heat. The large concrete reservoir is reported to be dropping about 10 inches daily, with nine feet remaining yesterday and four feet more lost since pumps failed to restore levels. Officials cited continuous stream usage in Blueville to water livestock and said it would be stopped.
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Blueville
Ivestock
Wife vanishes after airman’s return from Red China
Tokyo reports say Airman Daniel Schmidt failed to reach his wife Una by phone as she had remarried during his captivity. He wore a gold wedding ring at release, but the finger was bare in Tokyo. Una Schmidt and her new husband Ford Fine fled Soda Springs to dodge reporters. Schmidt, anxious to see his young son, remains focused on reuniting with his family as the group of released airmen undergoes medical checks in Tokyo before a press conference.
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Una Schmidt Fine
Soda Springs
Colo
Daniel C. Schmidt
Red China Perood
Alford D. Fine
Wowin
Laci
Danny
Schinidt
Tokyo
Daniel Schmidt
Schmidt
Red
China
Una
Redding
Calif
Enoch Arden
Alford Fine
Air Force
Clark Air Force Base
Manila
Flers
Tachkawa Air Base
Red China
Hong Kong
John K. Arnold
Silver Spring
Steve E. Kiba, Jr
Akron
John W. Buck
Armathwaite
Tenn
Wallace L. Brown
Banks
Ala
Eugene J. Vandi
Clayton
N. C
William Baumer
Lewisburg
Elmer F. Llewellyn
Misgoula
Mont
Howard W. Brown
St. Paul
Minn
John W. Thompson II
Orange
Portland
Ore
Harry M. Benjamin, Jr
Worthington
Fyer
Hollywood Deaths Renew Superstition
The deaths of Carmen Miranda and Suzan Ball within 19 hours renew the show business superstition that tragedy comes in threes. Miranda died of a heart attack and Ball from lung cancer, following Sunday's plane crash death of actor Robert Francis.
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Hollywood
Carmen Miranda
Suzan Ball
Miss Miranda
Miss Ball
Robert Francis
Hurricane Cowpie swerves toward Atlantic shipping lanes
East Coast alerts as hurricane Cowpie moves west-northwest from Leeward Islands toward San Juan advisory places center about 300 miles east of Puerto Rico. Winds extend 75 miles from center with gales 125 miles. warnings issued for Leeward Islands and Virgin Islands. landfalls unlikely, storm to pass over open Atlantic threatening ships more than people.
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North West Indies
Cape Hatteras
Leeward and
Virgin Islands
Agrto Rico
Biri Juan
P. R
San Juan
Ished
Morgibny
Atlante
Typhoon Hope Poses Threat to Japan from Okinawa
A typhoon named Hope swirled past the U S military base on Okinawa with winds up to 88 miles per hour. The storm moves north-northeast at 15 miles an hour on a 400 mile front and could strike Japan Sunday, as a Guam based weather plane monitored its path. Weather officials tracked two other tropical disturbances east of Luzon and south of Hong Kong.
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United Prestoryoff
U. S
Okinawa
Japan
Lth
Hope
Luzon
Philippines
Hong Kong
High Heat Ahead at Grafton Weather Post
Cooler readings at the Grafton observation site on Friday, official high 94 with a low of 68 after a late afternoon rainstorm that produced 0.75 inch of precipitation. Forecast: partly cloudy and hot, with scattered thundershowers tonight and Sunday, highs 90 to 96 and lows 66 to 74.
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Grafton
Mother of five drowns trying to save son in pond
Louise Bussard, 29, mother of five, drowned on a family farm near Herb as her oldest son fell into a pond and she tried to rescue him. Authorities reported the tragedy occurred late Friday with neighbors assisting in the effort. Her death follows the perilous accident on the Dubois farm.
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Washington
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Pen
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Labor Department
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Safidy
A. M. McMil
West Virginia
State Health Department
del Mar
Bobby Brotato
Dél Mar
New York
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Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
House Un-American Activities Committee
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