Grafton Sentinel facing publication details and rates
The Grafton Sentinel, daily except Sunday, lists address and telephones in Grafton West Virginia. It notes circulation rates for home delivery and mail, with 6 months at 6 dollars and 1 year at 12 dollars, plus monthly options and regional delivery notes.
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National Advertising Representatives
Bottenelli-Kimball, Inc. Publishers Representative
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Bulganin Rejects Eisenhower Arms Plan At Geneva
Premier Bulganin of the Soviet Union dismissed Eisenhower's proposal for an arms and aerial reconnaissance exchange as lacking real significance. He argued vast terrains enable concealment, undermining trust, and said the plan would derail upcoming peace talks with the four foreign ministers.
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Supreme Soviet
Nikolai Bul Banin
Eisenhower
United States
Soviet Union
Bulganin
Geneva
Bulgania
US rejects Chinese students poll proposal as ruse
The United States denounces a Communist China call for a third power to survey Chinese students in the U S to choose homeward travel. Accepting would place foreign agencies in U S missions, replacing Nationalist China and signaling de facto recognition of Mao’s regime. Washington notes students may choose Formosa or other destinations.
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China
United States
Mao Tse-tung
Formosa
Eisenhower weighs age of presidents at end of term
President Eisenhower discussed aging in office with Ohio legislators urging him to seek a second term. He cited predecessors who neared seventy, noting Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan as nearing 70 at term end and stated he would be two months into 70 after a second term. He attributes his health to West Point training and disciplined upkeep.
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Eisenhower
White House
Ohio
Andrew Jackson
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
West Point
Safest Big City Jaywalking Claim For New York
The American Automobile Association judged New York as the safest large city for pedestrians for a second year. Pedestrian deaths fell 5.7 percent and injuries 13 percent from 1953, despite a 10.6 percent rise in traffic. The article credits New Yorkers’ training from cradle to traffic discipline.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
American Automobile Association
Traf
Prospects of rapid growth in electronics and energy
Dr. W G Baker of General Electric forecasts American industry will spend six to seven billion dollars annually on research by 1965 to fund new products and improve old ones. He predicts the national product could reach a half trillion dollars in ten years, with electronics and atomic energy driving the surge.
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Wo RG Baker
Electronics di
General Electric
Baker
Schenectady
Electronics
Crewtronics
Core of Inclusion Theme in Labor Sec Speech
James P. Mitchell urges equality across race creed and national origin, citing Washington Jefferson Lincoln and others to show prejudice harms national unity. He argues government must uphold equal citizenship and liberty, with leaders setting the example. continued tomorrow.
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God
Seo
America
George Washington
Newport
Rhode Island
Moses Seixas
Washington
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Hood
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Jackson
Eisenhower
Daily Across Crossword Clues Mixed and Confusing
A scrambled crossword style list with numbered clues for across and down entries, featuring a mix of verb, noun, and descriptor hints, plus stray phrases and potential misprints. The compilation includes references to places, people, and linguistic notes, suggesting a puzzle page draft with inconsistent formatting and partial solvable items.
State Fair Sets Rhythm With High School Bands
West Virginia State Fair officials promise entertaining week from Aug 22 to 27 with guest high school bands daily. Frankford Sutton Weir Oceana and Scott High School bands join Miss West Virginia Mary Lou Fryman for appearances. 200000+ visitors expected at the 1955 exposition featuring agriculture exhibits and modern living appliances.
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Lewisburg
Ross H. Tuckwiller
West Virginia
West
Tuckwiller
C. Thomas Sydenstricker
D. Spurgeon MacQueen
Frankford High School
Fred Neely
Sutton High School
Blaine Corder
Weir High School
Weirton
George E. Swelter
Oceana High School
Earl Smith
Scott High School
Madison
Boone County
Atlantic City
Ultra-thin metal entrepreneur aids U S industry
Monroe Sherman of Flushing New York heads a growing $ multi million enterprise by tearing steel into five ten thousandths of an inch thick strips. His ultra thin metals with thickness tolerance of one tenth of the bar in this letter I enable radar guided missiles and civilian devices alike. Sherman's rise from humble start to president of American Silver company follows Horatio Alger ideal.
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Central Press Association
New York
Monroe Sherman
Flushing
N.Y
Sherman
American Silver Company
Horatio Alger
Greenbrier County Fair Opens With Spectacle of 100 Acts
The Greenbrier County fair at Lewisburg Ronceverte crossroads hosts a king size U S Army display and classic shows. The fair features Jer sey cattle from Biltmore Farms Asher ville N C A helicopter visit by West Virginia National Guardsmen Hapgoods Dream Dollhouse Charleston Junior League Children s Museum Hamid World Cruise Revue with 50 performers and 18 Roxy ettes, 10 circus and stage acts 18 harness races four horse shows 30 rides a mid way of thirty shows and 30 rides nightly fireworks automobile and farm equipment displays a million dollar livestock show and 1000 exhibits from cotton bag dresses to canned pickle Apricot pits used to clean traction motor armature cores in diesel locomotives.
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U. S. Army Atomic Artillery
Biltmore Farms
Asherville
N.C
Biltmore Estate
West Virginia National Guardsmen
Hapgoods
Dream Dollhouse
Charleston Junior League
Children's Museum
Hamid
Farouk offered movie contract and faux parrots claim
A stream of quirky notes from the era include Farouk offered a film role while a man claims he can converse with geese and ducks. Other items mention two New Yorkers buying a pearl trimmed car for 30000 dollars and fashion hues for next year.
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Egypt
Farouk
Groucho and the Louvre Cigar Box Gaffe in Paris
The piece recounts Groucho Marx meeting an honest bullfighter and joking about bulls. In Paris at the Louvre a misplaced cigar was crushed by the crowd as a radio announcer handed him Havanas. Flora Perry of Flora McDonald College notes an old man in gardens preferring to breathe early.
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Groucho Marx
Mexico
Marx
Groucho
Louvre
Paris
Red Springs
N. C
Flora Perry
McDonald College
Misa Perry
Bennett Cert
King Syndicate
Congress Faces 1956 Budget Battle And Next Year’s Stakes
The first session of the Democratic controlled Eighty Fourth Congress shows progress on new legislation, while both parties anticipate next year’s battles over farm issues taxes and inflation. Republicans say Congress preserved Eisenhower’s balance and silenced critics. A for sale sign near the Capitol misled buyers but was removed. The White House aims to balance the 1956 budget by June 30 1956, likely delaying a tax cut. Congressmen return home confident amid prosperity and no war, though farm areas may face unemployment troubles.
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Ayashington
Dixon-Yates
Air Force
Harold E. Talbott
Dha
Congress
Joseph R. McCarthy
White House
Capitol Hill
Hein
Pista
Hammer and Tongs
House of Representatives
Capitol
National Fine Arts Commission
United States
Eisenhower
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