Benson scrubs tough farm control program in shift to flexible supports
Secretary Ezra Benson announced the final scrap of the cross compliance and total allotment provisions of the farm control plan. He cited the new flexible support law and reduced drought impact, moving 1955 price supports to 70 percent of parity for oats barley sorghums and rye. Allotments will apply to six basic crops plus sugar and beets, with rice controls pending.
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Washington
Ezra T. Benson
Dreuth
Benson
Congress
Fnnd Guthrie Bus Service To Cease
Oklahoma City December 14 The State Corporation Commission authorized Mid Continent Coaches Inc to halt daily bus service between Enid and Guthrie and for trains to suspend all runs not financially supported. The railroad guaranteed 27 cents per mile while Santa Fe previously paid up to 1000 dollars monthly for limited passenger traffic. The route includes Crescent Lovell Marshall Douglas and Fairmont and can end with one day notice.
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Oklahoma City
Mid - Continent Coaches Inc
Enid
Guthrie
State Corporation Commission
Fe Railway
T. Earl Curb
Mid- Continent
Santa Fe
Crescent
Lovell
Marshall
Douglas
Fairmont
Submarine Sighted Near Midway Island by Patrol Plane
A Navy spokesman said a patrol plane sighted visually and by radar a vessel that appeared to be a submarine in the Midway Island area about 1,000 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor. The nationality of the vessel was not given.
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Pearl Harbor
Navy
Midway Island
Greenwich Village Faces New Threat From School Playground
Hal Boyle laments renewed danger to Greenwich Village as the City Planning Commission selects a site for a new junior high school playground in Bedford Street risking three historic dwellings. He recalls Village lore and its bohemian heritage while noting rents and time erode its character.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Bronx
Brooklyn Bridge
City Planning Commission
Bedford Street
San Francisco
New Orleans
New York City
Palm Beach
Speakeasy
Arcady
Accused Killer To Fight To Stay In Mental Ward
Galveston hearing outlines Alabama case against Silas Garrett charged with murder and lunacy offenses in Phenix City. Garrett remains in a Galveston mental hospital and will resist moves to transfer him before doctors deem him fit.
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Galveston
Alabama
Silas Garrett
Garrett
Albert L. Patterson
Patterson
Phenix City
Ala
E. H. Thornton Jr
Thornton
Albert Fuller
Arch Ferrell
Hamilton Ford
John Sealy Hospital
Elec
Henson
Galveston County
Jules Damiano
Lamar Murphy
Justice of the Peace
J. L. McKenna
McKenna
Ford
Flying saucers spark new European craze talk
New York echo reports analyst Sun says sightings since 1947 stir debate. He notes rapid knowledge growth could mean visitors arrive before their nature is understood.
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New York
Ana
Ace Sun
Europe
Man Pleads for Release After Wife Beating Arrest
Edward Phillips, arrested again for wife beating in Van Nuys California, pleaded with jailers to release him offering to divorce his wife. He made the request during his second arrest for the same offense.
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van Nuys
Calif
Edward Phillips
Phillips
Iowa Teachers Then and Now Salaries Revealed
The Iowa historical society reports that today’s teachers earn well compared with 1854 wages. Men averaged 19.73 dollars per month and women 9.79 dollars per month a century ago.
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Iowa City
Iowa Historical Society
Teens Admit Car Theft Blame A Mysterious Hoodlum
In Myrtle Point Oregon two teen suspects confessed to stealing a car and told Police Chief Richard Vines that a “dirty crook” stole the wheels from a highway hiding place.
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Myrtle Point
Ore
Richard Vines
State Solons Ask Emergency Hay Program Extension
Reps Ed Edmondson and Carl Albert of Oklahoma asked the Agriculture Department to extend the emergency hay program by 60 days. The program, offering freight rates at 50 percent of normal for hay shipments to drought areas, was due to expire today. Edmondson called the situation critical.
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Washington
Ed Edmondson
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Agriculture Department
Drouth
Edmondson
Two Air Force Men Jump From Jet Before Crash
NORWELL Mass two Air Force men parachuted from a burning jet seconds before it crashed and exploded in woods Lt Alfred M Yahanda 25 Minneapolis Minn guided the plane away from a residential area before jumping from about 2000 feet Lt Herbert W Foreman 23 Philadelphia radar observer leaped as the aircraft caught fire at about 14000 feet Neither was injured
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Norwell
Mass
Air Force
Woods
Alfred M. Yahanda
Minneapolis
Minn
Herbert W. Foreman
Philadelphia
Enid Pilot Killed in Jet Trainer Crash
Enid native First Lt. George Ball Jr. was killed when his jet trainer crashed near Craig AFB Alabama while on temporary duty. He was based at Vance AFB Enid and is survived by his wife daughter and his Bartlesville father.
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Enid
Okla
Kur Fane and Gademie
Alabama
George Ball Jr
Ores B. Ball Sr
Bartlesville
Ball
Craig Afb
Ala
Vance Air Force Base
Cities Service Oil Co
Grace Hysong charged with auto theft in Frankfort
Grace Hysong a 40 year old woman was charged with auto theft after taking a car left by Alva M. Rogers on a Frankfort street She said she was rushing to Lebanon 17 miles away to pay a traffic violation fine and police questioned her actions
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Frankfort
Ind
Grace Hysong
Alva M. Rogers
Lebanon
Thornton Minor Clinic Pile Ointment Aids Relief Without Surgery
Thousands report relief from piles using the Thornton Minor Ointment approved by the clinic. The formula is a specialized pile remedy not just a skin salve and comes in ointment or suppository form for one dollar at all druggists.
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Thornton Minor Clinic
Thornton Minor
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