Eighty-Second Proves Costliest Peacetime Congress
Washington reports the 82nd Congress ran up about 100 billion dollars in appropriations and raised taxes by 54 billion in peacetime. Despite large spending, enactment of Fair Deal measures was sparse and many key projects and reforms were shelved. The session focused on foreign aid, military funding, and investigations amid Cold War pressures.
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Power Dam Plan Faces Opposition at FPC Hearing
Industrialists in Virginia and West Virginia oppose North Carolina Electric Cooperative’s bid to divert the New River at Glendale Springs to form an 8000 acre reservoir for a generating plant. Chambers of Commerce and civic groups warn the move could deter regional industrial growth and cost jobs. Virginia and West Virginia attorneys argue the project mainly benefits a few counties with cheaper power, funded by taxpayers through REA. The packed West Jefferson hearing before FPC examiner Glen Law will not yield a decision before March. Mules can go longer without food than horses.
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Federal Power Commission
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Blue Ridge Electric ‘Membership Corp
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Co-Op
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West Jefferson
N. C
Glen R. Law
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Chamber of Commerce
Richard C. Herrmann
New York
Celanese Corporation of America
Giles County
Herrmann
North Carolina
Kanawha River
First Woman Ambassador Ruth Bryan Owen A Historic Figure
Ruth Bryan Owen, a former Democratic national committeewoman from Minnesota, served as the United States ambassador to Denmark since 1949. She broke barriers by becoming the first woman to sign an international treaty for the United States and to hold ambassadorial rank, with a recent US visit after two years in Denmark.
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Europe
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Denmark
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Diabolique defined as devilish in origin and usage
The term diabolique describes things relating to the devil or fiendish qualities. Derived from French and Latin roots with Greek influence, it traces through history to convey demonic, wicked, or sinister characteristics.
Mind Is Its Own Place Says John Milton Fragment
Fragmentary OCR cites John Milton on the mind making heaven or hell within itself, reflecting a referenced quotation about inner sovereignty and perception.
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Narcotics Case Defendants Get Prison Terms
Four men received prison terms in U S District Court Winston-Salem for narcotics charges. Fred Carswell and John Waters, co owners of Waughtown Drug Store, each got three years and five years probation. James Rhodes Jr., a pharmacist, two years and five years probation. Dr M A Bowers, a physician, fined 1000 and 18 months plus three years probation. Freeman of Raleigh had venue change. Tickle faces trial in Greensboro next week. Federal agents described the store as a major South regional drug outlet.
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U. S
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Clarence Tickle
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Leader Claims Reds Can't Get Negroes
Roy Wilkins of the NAACP said in American magazine that Communist recruitment of U S Negroes has failed, with about 15 million Negroes in the nation and not more than 500 Communist Party members. He called Negroes loyal Americans under royal democracy.
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Notable Births and Deaths Across History
Timeline highlights include 554 born Sir Philip Sidney, English courtier and poet. 1628 birth of John Bunyan author of Pilgrim's Progress. 1839 misdated event noting Russia attacked Finland. 1941 Ernest Lubitsch, film producer, dies.
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Finland
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Fragmented OCR list puzzle hints and garbled entries
A damaged OCR passage presents a constellation of stray words and stray numbers including references to statues language terms and random phrases. The text resembles a messy word puzzle or catalog of mismatched clues with no coherent event or names.
Millionaire Prince Captures Torrance Teen In Soda Fountain Romance
In Torrance California a 16 year old high school girl Martha Morris of St Anthony's Roland Devigier a Swiss born millionaire and Acton Inc executive pursued her from a Los Angeles drug store romance to a civil wedding in Quartzite Arizona and a ceremonial Notre Dame Cathedral vow. The couple then traveled to San Francisco and planned a South American Italian Swiss honeymoon while the girl studies life in the Devigier family circle.
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Geneva
Balance Sheet Of Good News And Bad In Cold War
A weekly balance sheet notes three bright points including an atomic artillery shell readiness, Czech unrest with Slansky’s arrest, and Eisenhower’s pledge of a gallant response to a Russian attack. It also flags three troubling items: stalled armistice talks over inspection behind lines, Iran oil talks fading, and a misread order by US Eighth Army potentially misreading the Korean war status.
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Czechoslovakia
Rudolf Slansky
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rome
Iran
Mossadegh
Tehran
Washington
8Th Army
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