West Europe rearmament lags schedule across nations
Western Europe faces slow rearmament with Britain unable to meet peacetime targets and fiscal strain threatening survival. France, Germany, and others grapple with manpower, inflation, and budget strains while plans for a continental army face political gridlock and reluctance to cede sovereignty. The Atlantic pact defense is at risk.
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Europe
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Winston Chuttehill
U. S
France
Germany
Russia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Channel
British Isles
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Spain
Eisenhower
Strasbourg
United States
New Danville Store With Zig Zag Aisles Sparks Curiosity
A Danville store features zig zag aisles to disrupt direct lines to departments while shoppers linger amid a dense display of merchandise. The scene prompts thoughts on layout effects and consumer attention in a busy retail environment.
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Danville
University of Rochester
Waterbury
Gomez
New York Stock Exchange
Mt Airy Woman Fears Curve Near Her House
Mt. Airy North Carolina Mrs Robey Culler says her house sits too close to a highway curve and attracts truck crashes. Posts on the curve were knocked down while trucks repeatedly struck the front yard causing damage and junked cargo. She jokes about trucks delivering every edible item including eggs candy bars and steaks.
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Mt. Airy
N. C
Robey Culler
Religion Gives Cons New Slant on Life
The South Rosemary Methodist Church in Roanoke Rapids North Carolina started a revival in the county prison camp among six long term felons. Seventy prisoners have been converted and are attempting to convert the remaining sixteen. The prison director F Anderson says the camp’s behavior has changed and does not feel like a prison camp anymore. Guards report better attitude toward work and discipline with less grousing.
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Roanoke Rapids
N.C
South Rosemary Methodist Church
F. Anderson
Gulf States Battle Over Whooping Cranes
Corpus Christi reports a dispute between Texas and Louisiana over a pair of whooping cranes named Jo and Crip. Louisiana seeks the loaned crane from Texas for its state bird, while Texas defends keeping them. Officials clash as, in this fragile saga, a second crane frightens naturalists with its uncertain fate.
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Textaei
Gulf Coast
Texas
Lousiana
Louisiana
Buckingham Palace
England
New Orlleans
Audubon Park Zoo
U. S. Wildlife Refuge
Austwell
Tex
Audubon Zoo
George Douglass
Julian Howard
Austrell Wildlife
Douglass
U. S. Wildlife Service
Washington
Howard
New Orleans
Gophers Use Teeth for Digging and Fighting
DAVIS California UP The pocket gopher of California likely has minimal tooth trouble for its size. Measuring six inches, it grows 46 inches of teeth yearly more than seven times its body length. Dr Melvin E Smith UC College of Agriculture notes constant wear keeps cuspids sharp like chisels. Gophers dig up more soil than any other California rodent and use teeth to pry rocks cut roots dig and fight.
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Davis
Calif
California
Melvin E. Smith
University of California College of Agriculture
McCloy Criticizes Germans for Occupation Fatigue
U S High Commissioner John J McCloy told reporters in Frankfurt that West Germans exaggerate burdens and push for more sovereignty amid occupation fatigue He predicted near sovereignty could come by year end and urged Germans to join democracy against Communist indoctrination of East German youths and the Nazi era danger.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S
John J. McCloy
Hie
McCloy
West Germany
Democratic Peoples of
Europe
Adolf Hitler
U P Selects Top Stories For 1951
New York UP lists the ten biggest news stories of 1951. Topping the list are Truman firing MacArthur, Korean armistice talks, Kefauver hearings, inflation controls, and war atrocity reports. Other nominees include the Japanese peace treaty and the Woodbridge train wreck.
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New York
United Press Today
Truman
MacArthur
Churchill
Missouri-Kansas
Woodbridge
N. J
William Oatis
Robert Vogeler
Congressional
RFC
Eisenhower
NATO
Suez
Sudan
Accused Thief Wins Deferred Sentence in Mercy Court
James A. Cute, accused of stealing an automobile in Providence, R. I., secured a deferred sentence after presenting a plea for mercy. The judge granted the delay contingent on future conduct.
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Providence
R. 1
James A. Cute
Bronze-Age Spears Found on Crete near Minos Palace
Archaeologists in Crete uncover Bronze-Age battle spears and weapons dated over 3,500 years old in tombs opened by bulldozers for a sanatorium project. The find includes spear heads swords daggers bronze helmet fragments and pottery from Minoan warriors.
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Knossors
Crete
Minos
Nebraska bees suffer 19 percent drop in honey output
Wet weather across Nebraska hindered bee activity this year, according to the state federal division of agricultural statistics, resulting in an estimated 1951 honey production decline of 19 percent.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
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