Ag Department Won't Buy Eggs in Price Support Move
The Agriculture Department will not begin egg purchases to bolster prices despite GOP requests. Instead the Foreign Operations Administration is arranging sales of U S poultry to foreign buyers at low prices to curb surpluses.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Thegee
Foreign Operations Administration
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
FDA
Great Britain
West Germany
Custody Battle Ends In Street Gunfight In Haskell
In Haskell Oklahoma a custody dispute over a 9 year old girl led to a Main Street gun battle between Garland Kirk the maternal grandfather and Landis Gross the father from San Pablo California. Kirk was wounded in the arm and Gross was unhurt. The shooting followed a court order delivering custody to the father. The girl had been living with the grandparents after her mother died in childbirth.
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Haskell
Okla
Garland Kirk
Landis Gross
San Pablo
Calif
Jim Jobe
Kirk
Gross
Jobe
Paul Gotcher
Muskogee County
Phffft Title Gimmick Mirrors Brain Strain Of Filmmakers
Hal Boyle reports Columbia Pictures faced a naming puzzle for the Judy Holliday Jack Lemmon comedy Phffft as producers weighed spellings and pronunciations with experts and even a joke idea about theater lighting. The piece notes the length of the title and the public cue to expect odd future titles like Ugh and Ho Hum.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Columbia Pictures
Judy Holiday
Jack Lemmon
Jack Carson
King Novak
Broadway
Walter Winchell
Walter
Texas Guinan
Winchell
So-and-so
Jerry Wald
Judy Holliday
D. E. Bangham
University of Florida
Black Tigers Among Rare Striped Counterparts
Reports note rare tiger specimens that are black instead of striped, highlighting unusual pigmentation and the rarity of such individuals among the species observed by researchers.
Reds Give Report On Chiang's Raids
London dispatch says 523 waves of Nationalist planes bombed the Chinese mainland between Sept 1 and Oct 10, killing and wounding inhabitants. In September Chiang Kai Shek’s ships made 26 sorties, firing over 1,200 shells at Amoy Haiteng and Tsinkiang. Radio Peiping claims anti aircraft shot down 17 Nationalist planes and that Chiang's planes flew 1,270 sorties in 40 days to Oct 10. The broadcast reports bombardments on Quemoy and Little Quemoy Island and sinking one gunboat, one tugboat, plus damage to destroyers and other vessels.
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London
Red China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Amoy
Haiteng
Tsinkiang
Radio Peiping
Peiping
Chiang
Quemoy
Little Quemoy Island
Leaking Tulsa Well May Be Producer
In Tulsa Oklahoma an old gas well under the Lee Miller home is being plugged after spewing gas and causing explosion concerns. The Millers were displaced last month as crews work to seal the bore and an official noted oil showing on drilling mud.
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Tulsa
Okla
Lee Miller
Oklahoma Na— Gas Co
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