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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1955
Page
6
Davy Crockett memorabilia and skins drive demand among local dealers, clearing warehouse stock. Dealers report selling longtime items and raccoon tails fetched 4 to 5 dollars a pound as the craze spreads through raw durables.
Fourteen prisoners in the city workhouse started a disturbance last night but Warden Harold E. Baynes quickly stopped it. Earlier, police quelled a riot of about 50 prisoners with tear gas. The outbreak, linked to a visitors policy change, burned mattresses and caused damage estimated under 1000 dollars. Prisoners were confined and privileges denied as investigators hunt the culprits.
A Missouri VFW committee report released May 25 on allegations about the State Federal Soldiers Home at St James finds dissatisfaction largely tied to the discharge of 25 home members. It commends facilities and care, notes some board dissension, urges dormitory repairs, and calls for admissions law changes to remove indigent qualifications while stressing merit-based reconsideration.
DETROIT H At 10, Jack Clapp, a painter for Detroit's public grant downtown Cleveland for schools, contends retirement age of seventy is arbitrary. He plans to jump from an airplane into Lake Free Lunch St Clair Sunday to prove he is still capable and full of pep, challenging the retirement rule.
In Edmonton Alberta a hospital scene shows partial language gaps as a credit manager speaks only English while an outgoing patient speaks Italian. A nearby painter speaks Italian and French, but not English, and a cashier uses English and French but not Italian. B tells C who informs D who informs A the bill amount.
Helen Keller aged nearly 75 ends a 48 000 mile international tour in New York Idlewild Airport with companion Polly Thompson. She visited India Pakistan Burma and the Philippines to promote problems of the blind and handicapped under the American Foundation for Overseas Dlvid Inc. She was greeted by Erle Y Holter and Katharine Cornell. In Waynesburg Pa movers shuttle 30 000 volumes as Waynesburg College library is moved to new quarters by 500 students.
Irving Kline, a Subomobile dealer, tried to speak before the Norfolk Advertising Club as piped-in music wouldn’t be cut off. He quipped about a fourth dance, but the music stopped. An ad for Bezema itch remedies and ITCH-ME-NOT appears from A Brandenberger Drug Co.
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