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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1955
Page
2
Opal Crockett of the Indianapolis Times notes a caller repeatedly asks for Davy, phrased as Is Davy there, then hangs up, illustrating the craze over a popular frontier song in Indianapolis.
Lea County New Mexico district court schedules hearing for probate of William Arthur Janes also known as W A Janes will. Sleete Jones petitions probate and asks for appointment of an executrix. hearing set for October 21, 1955 at 9 A.M. in Lovington Court House.
Denny Duncan of River Edge New Jersey won the Miss Wool Sweater Girl 1955 title as the Sweater Week pageant crowned a queen amid a sponsor driven event. Toni King and Dorothy Rowand placed second and third as finalists from New York and Pennsylvania.
United Press reports Mexico expects imports of agricultural products in 1955 to fall to the lowest level in ten years due to widespread harvests. Wheat may be the only major crop to drop below 1954 yields, frost reducing the wheat crop while corn and beans may not be needed from abroad. The commerce ministry seeks guidance from wheat producers to determine import needs, with good yields anticipated for corn, rice, oats, barley, citrus, and sugar. Cotton growers predict a near record crop, but warn of possible surplus and call for reduced acreage and abolition of a 22 percent export tax to boost home use and foreign markets.
Hong Kong dispatch reports Peiping's Aug 25 grain rationing amid shortages blamed on distribution faults. Chen Yun warned of hoarding. production rose but lagged demand as floods and drought strain supply. rations set by labor level from 447 to 798 pounds per person annually.
A gray haired man, Paul Romanowsky, recounts his 1946 arrest in East Germany as a war criminal. He describes a Soviet panel trial with no lawyers, a slave labor camp in Central Asia, scarce food, and a forced coal mine assignment after his 1949 release, marking a first for a German prisoner to pass Moscow amid Russia’s claims of freeing German inmates.
The calliope also known as steam piano marks its 100th birthday this year. Joshua Stoddard unveiled the invention in Worcester and his daughter Jennie wowed crowds when she played it at the Fourth of July celebration in 1855.
Khomanowsky remains perplexed by his imprisonment by Soviet authorities. He insists he never saw himself as a war criminal. He seeks to reunite with his wife and three children in West Germany as the central aim of his case.
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