Benson laments dwindling farmer freedom under price supports
Secretary Ezra Benson told memorial services at the George Washington Carver monument in Diamond Missouri that government crop control programs shrink market options and depress prices for small farmers. He warned soil loss from price supports and said many smallholders remain poor despite subsidies, pledging continued focus on reducing dependence on government aid.
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Ezra T. Benson
Benson
National Monument
George Washington Carver
Missouri
Carver
Tuskegee Institute
Alabama
Clark Gable Weds Kay Williams Spreckels in Surprise Ceremony
Clark Gable, 54, and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, married in a double ring ceremony at Justice G. Walter Fisher's home in Minden Nevada. It is Gable's fifth marriage and Spreckels' third. Guests included Albert Menasco and Elizabeth Nessor.
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Kay Williams Spreckles
Clark Gable
Minden
New
Thunderbird Country Club
Palm Springs
Calif
Nev
Kay Williams Spreckels
California
Adolph Spreckels II
Miss Williams
Justice of the Pace
Albert Menasco
St. Helena
Elizabeth Nessor
Los Angeles
Siamese cat survives 10 days lost after highway crash
A Siamese cat went about 10 days without food or water after a car driven by Mrs. Mary Fiteborge overturned on the Oklahoma toll road killing Thomas Eiteljorge. Found by turnpike workers near the fence, the cat was thin and hungry. It will be shipped back to Indiana to its owner.
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Okla
Indiana
Mary Fiteborge
Greencastle
Ind
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Eiteljorge
Thomas
H. C
Duckworth
Georgia Board of Education Bans Mixed Classes for Life
The Georgia Board of Education voted to revoke for life the license of any teacher who teaches both Negro and white pupils in the same classroom. The measure strengthens segregation enforcement and holds teachers who refuse to teach nonsegregated classes to the full salary term.
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Atlanta
Georgia Board of Education
Second Ex-Con To Win Release From Vegas Jail
In Las Vegas the second of two ex-convicts tied to a cash haul of 87,000 dollars faced habeas corpus hearings. James Ellsworth, 36 of Omaha, won freedom and kept the money after authorities could not prove it taxable. Raymond Wilson, 33 of Tulsa, scheduled for a hearing, claimed the cash as his. Authorities did not connect the funds to the Queens bank robbery.
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Vegas
Las Vegas
Raymond Wilson
Tulsa
James Ellsworth
Omaha
Neb
Ellsworth
Treasury
Chase National Bank
Queens
N.Y
Communist China and North Korea Sign 1956 Pact
Pyongyang radio announced that Communist China and North Korea signed an economic and cultural pact for fiscal 1956, outlining collaboration in trade and cultural exchanges.
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Tokyo
China
North Korea
Pyongyang
Stump Flies to Washington After Bangkok Trip
Admiral Felix P. Stump commander of the Pacific Fleet flies to Washington just 36 hours after returning from a Southeast Asia Defense Treaty conference in Bangkok.
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Stump
Pearl Harbor
Felix P. Stump
Pacific Fleet
Washington
Bangkok
Capital Transit Board Considers 120 Day Truce Plan
Capital Transit Board to meet in Washington to discuss a 120 day truce amid a 12 day strike. Louis E. Wolfson backs a proposal from Representatives McMillan and Broyhill offering a 10 cent hourly wage raise and immediate fare hikes. About 2,400 workers, including operators and mechanics, seek higher pay. Union cites lack of notice and ongoing bargaining.
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The
Capital Transit Co
Louis E. Wolfson
McMillan
DSC
Broyhill
D-Va
Virginia
AFL
Wolfson
Walter J. Bierwagen
Montgomery Ward & Co
Roller Coaster Kills Man On Coney Island Catwalk
Edward C. Santo a 43 year old roller coaster repairman at Coney Island was struck by a three car train while inspecting tracks about 35 feet above ground. He was knocked 10 feet onto a catwalk and died later at Coney Island Hospital. His son Edward Jr. was at the ride entrance assisting passengers.
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New York
Edward C. Santo
Coney Island
Santo
Edward Jr
Coney Island Hospital
Big Three Propose Peace Plan for German Elections
Western leaders advise a Geneva summit with Soviet Premier Bulganin to back free elections in Germany and a step by step settlement. Proposals include reunification, a regional security system, arms limits, expanded East West trade, and an end to radio propaganda.
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Geneva
Europe
Germany
Eisenhower
Eden
Faure
Bulgania
Berlin
West Germany
Paris
East Germany
Soviet Bloc
Poland
Hungary
Romania
NATO
Warsaw
Big Blow Spares Base On Okinawa
A huge typhoon, the season’s seventh, smashed into the southern Ryukyu Islands but spared the U S base on Okinawa. Weather spotters say Clara, near Ishigaki Island 220 miles southwest, weakened with 100 knot winds and torrential rain. Japan news reports say no U S forces are stationed there as Clara moves toward the Chinese coast at 10 knots.
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Tokyo
Ryukyu Archipelago
U.S
Okinawa
U.S. Air Force
Ishigaki Island
Sakishima
Clara
China
Murderer Executed at Connecticut Electric Chair
William J. Lorain, 34, an ex convict from Providence Rhode Island, was executed in Connecticut at Wethersfield state prison becoming the 13th man electrocuted in the state. He was convicted of a holdup murder three years prior.
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Wethersfield, Conn
Providence, R.I
Connecticut
Wethersfield State Prison
William J. Lorain
Sinking Fund Balance Sheet and City Certification 1955
A 1955 municipal financial statement from Chattanooga Oklahoma lists assets, liquid assets, and accrual figures for the sinking fund. It includes certificates by the governing board, town clerk and treasurer, dated July 8, 1955, asserting the current expenses estimate for FY July 1 1955 to June 30 1956 is reasonably necessary and that non ad valorem revenues are not over 90 percent of the prior year. The document cites officers Etta Lee Stimpson, J S Humble, and Billy D Cawthon.
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Lawton Constitution
Chattanooga
Comanche County
Oklahoma
General Fund
Governing Board
State OF
Okla
Etta Lee Stimpson
J. S. Humble
Man Jumps to Death Over Executions in Kwangtung
Taipei Formosa police report a man leaped from a downtown building on Saturday night after learning his family in the Chinese province of Kwangtung had been executed by Communists.
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Taipei
Formosa
South China
Kwangtung
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