Drouth and Export Boost Trim U S Farm Surplus
New York reports that drought and rising farm exports cut into U S surplus stocks. Exports rose four percent in a year, but price cuts and government price support burdens persisted. July saw higher consumer food prices while farmers received about three percent less for crops and paid roughly one percent more for purchases.
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Drouth
Agriculture Department
Buick
America
Markets: vegetable price rise vs meat and poultry gains
Fresh vegetables face higher per capita demand while frozen and canned varieties capture larger markets. Meat eaters gain due to cheaper poultry and eggs today. Farmers push for government purchases to prop up prices as turkey production hits a new high.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Buick
Scotch Tape Used For Sutures In Surgery
Washington reports Colorado doctor Dr. Paul Williamson used Scotch tape as a painless substitute for stitches in closing minor cuts. He treated 104 lacerations with 91 deep enough to reach deep fascia, and his Walsh clinic has avoided skin stitching in over 5 percent of laceration cases, per GP journal.
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Colorado
Paul Williamson
Walsh
Colo
American Academy
Korean Boy Nine Drifts Two Nights in Sea Storm
Seoul police reported a nine year old boy drifted for two nights and a day in storm tossed seas after his fragile craft was swept away by a strong wind. He grabbed wreckage and held on until reaching shore.
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Seoul
Ahn Yong
Los Angeles' Smallest Parents Take Child Home From Hospital
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Dixon of Los Angeles, the citys smallest parents, took their first child home from Inch Hospital. Debra Jo weighed 5 pounds 14 ounces at birth by Caesarean on Aug. 10. Both parents stand 3 feet 11 inches. The hospital discharged mother and baby yesterday.
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Los Angeles
Floyd Dixon
Debra Jo
Dixon
Southbury
Conn
U.S
Grass Fires Extinguished in City Neighborhoods
Lawton firemen today extinguished two grass fires in residential sections. The first started at 10:42 a.m. in the 400 block on Gore and was quenched. A second blaze in the 1600 block on Jefferson was also put out after a 12:32 p.m. call.
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Lawton
Gore
Jefferson
All-Out Formosa Defense Planned
A high ranking US military source says Washington would back the 7th Fleet with all forces if Communist China attacks Formosa. The source notes the Communists would be unwise to strike, and that US forces would assist the fleet in carrying out its mission. The talk follows Dulles’s suggestion that the fleet could defend some Nationalist islets off the China coast.
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United States
7Th Fleet
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Formoa
Formosa
Eisenhower
Taipei
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Quemoy
Amoy
Matsu
Tachens
Southeast Asia
State Jaycee Presidency Bid Outlined
Ewing Gafford was principal speaker at a Wednesday Jaycee luncheon outlining his 1955 campaign for state Junior Chamber of Commerce president. Two Jaycees helped map the plan. he will also chair the state leadership training program. Lawton was chosen to host the 1956 state convention. Committee chairs for 1954-55 were named, covering Americanism, governmental affairs, rural acquaintance, Christmas activities, safety, public health, youth welfare, sports, personnel, publicity, leadership training, social affairs, and other duties.
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Whit Ozier
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Jim Cottingham
Nes Brauer
Harold Wilson
Victor Mature Sued For Divorce
Dorothy J Mature sues Victor Mature for divorce in Santa Monica charging cruelty. She alleges he earns about 1 000 a year from films and 450 000 from business ventures. She seeks 2 280 monthly temporary alimony and support for her 11 year old son Michael Berry. They separated on Aug 13 after marriage.
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Cal
Victor Mature
Dorothy J. Mature
Mature
Michael Berry
Dutch airliners wreckage found off Holland coast
Wreckage of a Dutch airliner DC-6B was found in 65 feet of water off Holland’s North Sea coast early Wednesday. Salvage vessels located the shattered fuselage and recovered debris and some mortal remains. One body, that of a five year old Yarrow child from Woodbury Connecticut, had been recovered previously. Twenty one persons died in the Monday crash about 17 miles from Ijmuiden.
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Holland
North Sea
KLM Airlines
Joseph Yarrow
Woodbury
Conn
Ijmuiden
Tito Accepts Share In U S Flood Relief
Denver report states Communist Yugoslavia has accepted President Eisenhower's offer of a share in a four million dollar U S flood relief program for European flood victims. Hagerty said the U S asked the League of Red Cross Societies to coordinate with Yugoslav Red Cross. President Eisenhower, on vacation at Lowry Field, continues to work amid a light day as the Japanese population grows by over one million annually.
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Yugoslavia
Nhower
White House
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Sovieae Ceed
Germany
Hunary
Czechoslovakia
West Rmat
Austria
James C. Hagerty
United States
League of Red
Eisenhower Faces Busy Day Before Golfing On Vacation
President Eisenhower, at the summer White House in Colorado, started with a full morning schedule as bills from the third Congress await his attention. Mrs. Stockton, Hawaii’s new delegation member, and Frank Leahy were among early callers, with discussions on statehood and other measures. He has signed 154 bills, vetoed two, and left about 300 unsigned as he plans morning office hours and golf in the afternoons.
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White House
Lowry Air Force Base
T. A. Stockton Jr
Colorado
Betty Harington
Hawaii
Frank Leahy
Notre Dame University
Eisenhower
L3rd Congress
Price rule set on coffee futures amid Brazil turmoil
Coffee and Sugar Exchange will allow price changes of only one cent per pound per day until conditions in Brazil settle after the death by suicide of President Getulio Vargas. The limit was previously cent.
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New York
Brazil
Getulio Vargas
American Airlines Resumes Flights After Strike
New York August 3 UP American Airlines resumed flight operations after nearly four weeks of strike disruption. The first plane departed LaGuardia at 5:09 a.m. bound for Buffalo with 22 passengers and a crew of three. Coast to coast service will continue pending the referee’s findings.
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New York
American Airlines
LaGuardia
Buffalo
N. Y
British Two Air National Guard Jets Damaged in Collision
In Hominy Oklahoma on August 5 a British Two Air National Guard trainer and a jet from the Shooting Stars team touched in midair at about 14 000 feet. The trainer suffered major damage while the trainer aircraft was only slightly damaged. Stevenson reported the trainer was on a local flight when the incident occurred and Abrams learned of no injuries after landing.
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B.C
Vancouver
Hominy
Okla
Air National Geardia
Ater
Stevenson
F&c
Shooting Stars
Abrams
Stev
Enson
Monastic Reform Talk Reported as Renewal Effort
A fragment notes bachelor monks declaring readiness to replace married brothers in temples to renew faith and refresh religious practice. The statement signals a potential reform move within a monastic community.
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