High Point Youths Prepare for July Soapbox Derby
Buddy Ridge, 11, races in High Point Derby 1954 as some 30 entrants prep for the July 30 event. His car is sponsored by Clover Brand Dairies, with final heats at night and a chance to advance to Akron for national competition. Local sponsors include The High Point Enterprise WHPE Lions Club and Lyles Chevrolet.
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H. M. Ridge Jr
Weatwood Ave
Homer Meade Ridge III
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Clover Brand Dairies
Clover Brand
Kenneth Hedrick
High Point
Ridge
Sears
Church St
Main St
Lindsay St
Akron
Ohio
High Point Enterprise
WHPE
High Point Lions Club
Lyles Chevrolet Co
Pilgrims Flock To An Najaf
Pilgrims from Iran and across the Shiite world travel to An Najaf to bury the dead near the tomb of Ali and to study at its Shiite learning center. Temporary marriages are practiced for pilgrims, with payments and time limits set by Shiite clerics.
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Wilton Wynn
Baghdad
Iraq
An Najaf
Iran
Bin
An Najab
Ali
Mohammed
Mecca
Lebanon
Kerbela
McCarthy Skips Wisconsin GOP Fundraiser With Nixon
About three thousand Wisconsin Republicans will attend a $100 box supper with Vice President Richard Nixon in Milwaukee. Senator McCarthy is absent, resting at an undisclosed vacation site, and Nixon plans an 8 30 p m CST address with no stated topic.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Richard Nixon
Sen. McCarthy
Emergency Polio Fund Drive Set
NEW YORK The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announces an emergency March of Dimes from Aug 16 to 31 to raise 20 million dollars. Basil O'Connor, foundation president, says the regular drive last January raised 5.5 million but fell short, needing funds to evaluate Salk polio trials and supply gamma globulin vaccine.
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New York
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Basil O'Connor
RCA-Victor Caine Mutiny album delayed by Wouk objection
RCA says the The Caine Mutiny soundtrack album is postponed indefinitely after Herman Wouk objected to its release. The move follows his warning that a release would deter him from future collaborations with the studio. The piece also surveys Eartha Kitt’s changing mood and stage persona, her upcoming varied work, and notes on Tony Bennett and Merv Griffin.
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RCA
Kesman
Herman Wouk
Columbia Pictures
Guthri McClintic
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