Magsaysay Bans Carabao Slaughter To Protect Food Program
President Ramon Magsaysay ordered action against carabao rustling after reports of cruel maiming and theft. He banned carabao slaughter for a year, considered frozen meat imports, and authorized up to five million dollars for supply, while inspectors traced a shrinking carabao stock crucial to rural economy.
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Philippines
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Navy
Arsenio Lacson
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Civil Defense Sky Watcher Takes Break After Seven Months
Uniontown Pennsylvania reports Joe Durant a 48 year old disabled miner will take a night off from air raid spotting duties after seven months of seven nights a week. Durant will receive a free trip to Pittsburgh this week as a guest of the Army to observe a filter center in operation. Durant mans a cupola atop a bank building from midnight to 6 am and explains his dedication, noting no planes today is good news.
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Uniontown
Joe Durant
Joe
Pittsburgh
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Nine Year Old Narrowly Escapes Injury in Driveway
In Wichita Kansas nine year old Phyllis Maced ran across a yard and fell into a cardboard box in the driveway. Her uncle George E Hull 24 failed to see her and drove over the box before she could crawl out. Phyllis suffered a sprained right ankle and bruises on the left ankle.
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Wichita
Kan
Phyllis
George E. Hull
Pierced Pigeon Spotted on Memphis Roof
A pigeon with an arrow through its body was seen on a Memphis roof. Walter Adams of the Humane Shelter caught the bird, removed the 24 inch arrow, and took it to the shelter for observation in apparently good condition.
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Memphis
Tenn
Walter Adams
City Humane Shelter
Adams
Easy-To-Add Shelves For Kitchen Base Cabinets
Extra shelves increase usable space in base cabinets by holding shallow utensils platters lids and cookie trays. Cut from %-inch hardboard Mason or quarter-round wood and edge finish with glue. Edging acts as a stop to keep items from sliding off and makes pulling the shelf easier.
Farm Worker Dies After Bulldozer Accident at Sapling Stairs Farm
In Broken Arrow Oklahoma a 22 year old farm worker named Jess Lee Henry was crushed by a bulldozer while clearing brash on Sapling Stairs Farm. The machine operator was Henry's father. Henry died en route to a hospital.
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Okla
Jess Lee Henry
Henry
Trouble Piles Up For Jailed Man
Robert F. Connally was jailed in Baltimore on a disorderly conduct charge and fined 25 dollars. Police found seven traffic tickets consolidated into four warrants, leaving him jailed until the outstanding fines are paid.
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Baltimore
Robert F. Connally
McCarthy Attacks Peress Case in New York Hearing
Senator McCarthy said the reserve major was commissioned and awarded an honorable discharge despite open Communist membership. He summoned Brig Gen Zwicker to testify and accused Stevens of blocking army officials from appearing while calling Stevens a dupe of previous admin holdovers.
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New York
Irving Peress
Ae Dent
Peress
Ralph W. Zwicker
Camp Kulmer
N.J
Subcommittee
Zwicker
William Bergin
Army Adjutant General
Stevens
McCarty
Exercise Before Meals
A patrolman reports police responded to a 3 am pursuit on a street in East Hartford, linked to a husband chasing his wife over breakfast earlier. The piece also notes the British imperial gallon is a pint larger than the American gallon.
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East Hartford
Conn
Minnesota Jobs and Income Rise But Year End Dip Seen
Minnesota posted a 1953 average of 834,359 nonfarm jobs with income about 8 percent above 1952 at 4.8 billion dollars. Iron ore production yielded nearly 50 million dollars in taxes for the state and its subdivisions, though year-end activity softened.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Flying object sighting near Arras in medieval record
A 1461 archival report from Arras describes a bright object in the night sky seen for about 15 minutes. It appeared like a long iron bar half the moon in size, rose in spirals, twisted, and vanished.
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Arras
France
Archieves
Response Times to Sound Versus Light in Experiments
Experiments show humans react faster to sounds than lights with responses averaging a hundredth of a second for sound and about twenty hundredths of a second for light. The results highlight sensory processing differences between auditory and visual stimuli.
Judge rules butcher not liable for trichinosis from pork
In New Haven a superior court judge ruled a butcher cannot be held responsible when a customer contracts trichinosis from pork that was not cooked properly. The decision centers on duty of care and consumer cooking practices.
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New Haven, Conni
Burglars Leave Contented Cat After Johnson Bros Heist
Burglars stole 1400 dollars from the Johnson Bros Store and left a cat fed on ice cream. The unusual detail highlights a curious twist in the case as investigators work to identify suspects.
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Johnson Bros
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